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'The Baptists used to meet in garrets, cheese-lofts, coal-holes, and such like mice walks, 'theses tumultuous, blood-thirsty, covenant-breaking, government-destroying Anabaptists. The offence that called forth these epithets was, that in addressing Charles II on his restoration, they stated that "they were no abettors of the Quakers."
Not so the Baptists; they met in woods and caves, and with such secrecy that it was not possible to detect them, unless by an informer. William Penn taunted them in these words: 'they resolve to keep their old haunt of creeping into garrets, cheese-lofts, coalholes, and such like nice walks. And so would I, rather than be disturbed by constables. Ed.
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