This he did in his own person, wherever he went, and in all the works which he published.

All his followers did the same.

And, from his time to the present, the pronoun thou has come down so prominent in the speech of the society, that a Quaker is generally known by it at the present day.
The reader would hardly believe, if historical facts did not prove it, how much noise the introduction or rather the amended use of this little particle, as reduced to practice by George Fox, made in the world, and how much ill usage it occasioned the early Quakers.

Many magistrates, before whom they were carried in the early times of their institution occasioned their sufferings to be greater merely on this account.

They were often abused and beaten by others, and sometimes put in danger of their lives.