Excerpt from The Life of William Dewsbury, an Early and Eminent Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends: Interspersed With Many Particulars Relating to the Peculiar Views of That Society, and the Sufferings of Its Members for the Testimony of a Good Conscience Tm: Author of this volume having gone the way of all the earth, and yielded up his spirit to the God of the spirits of all flesh, it becomes my duty, as the individual into whose hands the manu script was by him ia a very peculiar manner con signed, not only to lay before my readers some of the circumstances under which the work now makes its appearance; but also to give some brief account of my beloved and lamented Friend, whose nu looked-for translation from this state of being to a better, I trust will prove on the minds of many as a seal to his labour of love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.