It is true indeed, that there were persons, high in civil offices, who, because he addressed the people in public, considered him as a disturber of the peace.

But none of these ever pretended to cast a stain on his moral character.

He was considered both by friends and enemies, as irreproachable in his life.
Such was the character of the founder of Quakerism, He was born in July 1624, and died on the thirteenth of November 1690, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.

He had separated himself from the word in order to attend to serious things, as I observed before, at the age of nineteen, so that he had devoted himself to the exercises and services of religion for no less a period than forty-eight years.

A few hours before his death, upon some friends asking him how he found himself, he replied "never heed.