[20] Turner ran no serious risk; for the government was most unwilling to send to the scaffold one of the Seven who had signed the memorable petition.

A warrant was however issued for his apprehension; and his friends had little hope that he would escape; for his nose was such as none who had seen it could forget; and it was to little purpose that he put on a flowing wig and that he suffered his beard to grow.

The pursuit was probably not very hot; for, after skulking a few weeks in England, he succeeded in crossing the Channel, and remained some time in France.
[21] A warrant was issued against Penn; and he narrowly escaped the messengers.

It chanced that, on the day on which they were sent in search of him, he was attending a remarkable ceremony at some distance from his home.

An event had taken place which a historian, whose object is to record the real life of a nation, ought not to pass unnoticed.
While London was agitated by the news that a plot had been discovered, George Fox, the founder of the sect of Quakers, died.
More than forty years had elapsed since Fox had begun to see visions and to cast out devils.