broke his Leg; and foon after his Leg was well, 1726. • he met with another Accident by a Fall, which dif• abled him, and made him lame to his Death, never

recovering the Hurt he had by that Fall, which was ⚫ after this Manner; he was fitting in a Chair by his • Door on a Plank, which not being fet faft, it fell, • and he, to fave himself from the Stroke of the Plank, fell with his Hip on the Stones, and got hurt exceedingly, notwithstanding he was remarkable for his Activity; he would walk (tho' fo aged, and also lame) as far as the Work-boufe, Devonshire-boufe, ⚫ and Bull and Mouth Meetings [two or three Miles 'from Home.] The laft bad Accident that befel him was about three Weeks before his Death, when, being walking in the Timber-yard, a fingle Plank, which stood against a Pile, fell down, and ftriking ' him on the Side, threw him down; he complained not much of the Blow till about a Week after, when he was taken with a violent Pain in his Side, on the very Place where he received the Stroke, and, when his Cough took him (with which he was often troubled) the Pain was very great; howbeit, thro Means of a Sear-cloth he received fome Eafe, and ⚫ the Pain of his Side abated, and the Cough went off, • but a violent Flux followed, and it brought him very low, and extream weak; fo that it was thought he • could not continue long; upon which, Notice was fent to me, and I went to fee him, and found him very • low; but he revived, and changed often in this last • Illness; I having been to fee him five or fix Days before, having an Account he was ill, I then found him chearful, and thought he might recover. He con'tinued all the Time of his Illness in a patient and refigned Frame of Mind; on a First-day, in the Afternoon, he took his Bed, being the 6th of the First Month, and in the Evening, after the Afternoon-meeting (which was the Day before his Death) feveral Friends came to vifit him, who, finding him very

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weak, after a little Stay, went to take their Leave of him, whom he defired to fit down, and after some • Time of Silence, he broke forth in Declaration in an "'intelligible and lively Manner, to this Effect, faying; • We bave no continuing City here, but feek one to come, • which bath Foundations, whofe Builder and Maker is God: Friends, that we may all labour to be prepared for our last and great Change, that when this earthly • Tabernacle fhall be diffolved, we may have an Habitation with the Lord, a Building not made with Hands, eternal in the Heavens, and that it might be thus, the Lord bath fhewed thee, O Man, what is good, viz. To do justly, love Mercy, and walk bumbly with thy God. I do not expect but this will be the last Night 1 fhall have in this World, and I defire it may be remembered, as the Words of a dying Man (which came to pass, for he died the next Day) O that we may labour to be • clothed upon with our Houfe that is from Heaven, so • that when the finishing Hour comes, we may bave

nothing to do, but to die. About one or two a Clock ⚫ the next Morning, he began to change, and defired to see me; I came to him, and found him very • fenfible, but expected his End quickly to approach; he faying, he was waiting for his Change. My Sonin-law, Samuel Thornton, being with me, and we fitting by the Bed-fide, with his Nurfe, his Housekeeper, and his Man, about the fourth Hour in the Morning he prayed fervently after this Manner : Lord, now letteft thou thy Servant depart in Peace, for mine Eyes have feen thy Salvation, which thou haft prepared before the Face of all People (thou haft given thy Son) a Light to enlighten the Gentiles, and to be the Glory of thy People Ifrael; and now, Lord, be with thy People and Servants, and preferve my near and dear Relations, and keep them from the Snares and • Temptations of the Enemy, that in thy Truth they may fear thy great Name.

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After a little Time of Silence, he defired me to 1726. • remember his dear Love, in the Life of Chrift Jefus, to my dear Brother Thomas Chalkley, in Penfylvania, and to all his old Friends and Acquaintance.

• About the eleventh Hour in the Morning he enquired how the Tide was, which no Body prefent • could exactly tell; fome Time after he asked again; ⚫his Man then went out to fee; returning, he told him,

it would be High-water about three a Clock in the • Afternoon; he then lay ftill a while, and after fome • Pause spoke chearfully out aloud, fo that all in the

Room might hear him, I fhall go off about Five; his • Man faid, Mafter how do'ft know? To which he anfwered, Know, I do not know, but I believe it. After this the Apothecary, one of his Neighbours (among ⚫ whom he was well beloved) about Noon came to fee • him, and asked him how he was? Father anfwered,

that for three or four Hours in the Night he ⚫ thought he should have gone. Why, faid he, Sir, it will be no Surprise to you, I hope. No, no, faid my Father very chearfully. He taking Leave of Father, faid, The Lord be with you. To whom Father anfwered, And with thee alfo: The Doctor having or⚫dered him a comfortable Cordial to drink, he drank it willingly, and then faid, I don't think to drink any • more in this World; but I hope I shall drink plentifully of the River of Life: Then drawing near his End, finding his Strength fail, there being a Cord by his Order at the Bed's Feet, he raised himfelf up ⚫ thereby as long as he had any Strength left in his Hands, and when his Hands and Shoulders fail'd, and his Head, when laft lifted up, he spoke very low and faultering, yet fo as I could understand, and faid, Now I am a going, and about an Hour after, laying all the while without Sigh or Groan, de• parted this Life as in a Slumber in sweet Peace, ac⚫cording as he had foretold, juft as the Clock ftruck Five, in a perfect Enjoyment of that Legacy our

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Saviour left his Followers; My Peace I leave with you, &c. leaving us of the fucceeding Generation, a good Example to follow; who, as he lived, fo he died, like a Lamb, in the eighty-fourth Year of his Age, the feventh Day of the First • Month, 1725.

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GEO. CHALKLEY.

To which Account I fhall add the following fhort Teftimony concerning my dear and greatly beloved Father, George Chalkley, viz.

I have a great deal in my Heart, more than I ⚫ can write concerning my dear Father's Life, it having been a wonderful Life to me from my Youth up; his early Care of me, and Counsel to me, when I was too thoughtless and wild, melts me into Tears now in the Remembrance of it; and my tender Mother was a Partner with him in the fame Exercise, and fhe died in like Peace: The laft • Words I heard her fpeak, were, I long to be diffolved. And as to my tender Father, I would record a little briefly in Memory of him, that he was

ift. A true and faithful Servant of Chrift.

2d. A tender and affectionate Hufband: I lived at Home with my Parents about twenty Years, and I never heard (that I remember) an angry Expref• fion between them, only once fomething had trou• bled them, and they both wept, my Father faying, I have been an indulgent Hufband unto thee, and my Mother answered, I have not been one of the worst of Wives to thee; which were the harfheft Words, and the greatest Difference that I obferved between them; for their Life was a Life of Peace and Love, and they were an excellent Example to us their Children. Oh! May we follow them therein to the End!

3d. He had a fatherly Care for his Children, in tender Prayers for us, and in good Advice to us, and

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⚫ and in giving us Learning according to his Ability, 1726.
and teaching us (by his Example, as well as Precept)
Industry, Humility, and the true Religion of our
our bleffed Saviour, endeavouring to plant it in us
• betimes, and to destroy the evil Root of Sin in us,
while young.

4th. I was his Servant, as well as his Son, and I
• can truly say, his Service was delightful, and his
• Company pleafing and profitable to me; and he was
⚫ alfo beloved much by his other Servants.

5th. He was univerfally beloved by his Neighbours, and I do not remember any Difference be← tween him and them, in the many Years I lived with him; but all was Peace and Love.

6th. He was very loving to his Relations, and < true to his Friends, and a hearty Well-wisher and • Lover of his King and Country.'

T. C.

Our General-meeting at Frankfort, the 30th of the Fourth Month was large, our Friend William Piggot, from London, being there (in the Course of his Vifit to Friends in America) and had close Work and good Service in this Meeting.

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In the Fifth Month 1726, I visited the Meetings of Friends at Philadelphia, German-town, and Bybury, Philadel in fome of which Meetings, as alfo at our own at GermanFrankfort, I had very comfortable Satisfaction: My town, &c. Teftimony was pretty fharp fometimes to Tranfgref fors, and therefore fome of them hate me, as the Jews did my great Master: Because I was concerned to teftify, that their Deeds were evil, and to excite my Friends to manifeft a Chriftian Zeal, by openly denying ungodly Men, while they continue in their ungodly Works; but when they become truly penitent, and reform their Lives, the Arms of Chrift, and his Church, will be open to receive them:

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