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ogress of the reformation, the tardy advances of intellectual liberty. A better opportunity will offer for explaining its influence Chap. X.} 1656. July. on American institutions. It was in the month of July, 1656, that two of its members, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, arrived in the road before Boston. I compose the narrative from comparing the Quaker accounts, by Gould, and Sewell, and Besse, full of documents, with those of the colonial historians. There is no essential difference. Ev. their persons were examined in search of signs of witchcraft; and, after five weeks close imprisonment, they were thrust out of the jurisdiction. Eight others were, during the year, sent back to England. The rebuke enlarged the ambition of Mary Fisher; she repaired alone to Adrianople, and delivered a message to the Grand Sultan. The Turks thought her crazed, and she passed through their army without hurt or scoff. Yet the next year, although a special law now pro- 1657. hibited the in