Excerpt from For a Free ConscienceThe soldiers! Don't ye hear 'cm clattering on the bridge? Run, I tell ye and give the Quakers warning. There'll be bloodshed else, for Old Briggs said the next time the soldiers found 'em holding a meeting they'd be pounded into jelly. Get out Of my way, Pete, ye near threw me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.