[34] and that another was divinely moved to go naked during several years to marketplaces, and to the houses of gentlemen and clergymen.

[35] Fox complains bitterly that these pious acts, prompted by the Holy Spirit, were requited by an untoward generation with hooting, pelting, coachwhipping and horsewhipping.

But, though he applauded the zeal of the sufferers, he did not go quite to their lengths.

He sometimes, indeed, was impelled to strip himself partially.
Thus he pulled off his shoes and walked barefoot through Lichfield, crying, "Woe to the bloody city." [36] But it does not appear that he ever thought it his duty to appear before the public without that decent garment from which his popular appellation was derived.
If we form our judgment of George Fox simply by looking at his own actions and writings, we shall see no reason for placing him, morally or intellectually, above Ludowick Muggleton or Joanna Southcote.

But it would be most unjust to rank the sect which regards him as its founder with the Muggletonians or the Southcotians.