"Making a difference," as by the injunction in Jude's epistle, was, as we know, Cromwell's own great rule in all cases where complete toleration was impossible, and he does not seem to have been able to do more for the Quakers.

He had not, however, forgotten his interview with their chief, and may have been interested in knowing more especially what had become of _him_ .-- Fox, after much wandering in the West without serious mishap, had fallen among Philistines in Cornwall early in 1656, and had been arrested, with two companions, for spreading papers and for general vagrancy and contumacy.

He had been in Launceston prison for some weeks, when Chief Justice Glynne came to hold the assizes in those parts.

There had been the usual encounter between the Judge and the Quakers on the eternal question of the hats.

"Where had they hats at all, from Moses to Daniel ?" said the Chief Justice, rather rashly, meaning to laugh at the notion that Scripture could be brought to bear on the question in any way whatever.