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He had even the boldness to go into Litchfield, because he imagined it to be his duty, and, with his shoes off to pronounce with an audible voice in the streets, and this on the market-day, a woe against that city.
He continued also to visit the churches, as he journeyed, in the time of divine service, and to address the priests and the people publicly, as he saw occasion, but not, as I observed before, till he believed the service to be over.
It does not appear, however, that he suffered any interruption upon these occasions, in the course of the present year, except at York-Minster; where, as he was beginning to preach after the sermon, he was hurried out of it, and thrown down the steps by the congregation, which was then breaking up.
It appears that he had been generally well received in the county of York, and that he had convinced many. In the year 1652, after having passed through the shires of Nottingham and Lincoln, he came again into Yorkshire.
Here, in the course of his journey, he ascended Pendle-Hill.
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