A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…

R. B. Here he untruly intimated that I said more, who never said so much; but only that she thought they lived strictlyer than we, and fell in among them. And ⟨p. 180⟩now Reader I shall again tell thee my reasons for all that I said of her.

Mr. Joseph Baker then Preacher in Worcester (a man of unquestionable Prudence and Credit, now with Christ) told me all that I have said of this Woman, and that she had not been at Church of a long time before, and was passing along the Streets, and was suddenly moved to go in to the Church at Lecture time; and that she was struck as aforesaid at the hearing of the Text, and before Sermon was done could hardly forbear crying out in Church; and that she had on the conceit of their strictness fallen in among the Quakers; and been often at their meetings; but hearing them speak against Scriptures and Ministers was troubled, and thought that they spake that which her experience would not suffer her to consent to: and that she was like in these perplexities to fall into great Melancholy, and her body also to be weakened by the troubles of her mind, and that through his motion or persuasion she was desirous to speak with me: I had no reason to deny belief to him: When I came next to his house the Gentle-woman came to me, and he and she together repeated the substance of all this again, and she spake not a syllable against it: And speaking a few words to dissuade her from the Quakers in haste, I never saw her more: The said Mr. Baker told me after of all her sad and Melancholy