186:. Four more tours of England and Wales followed in 1687–1695. In about 1695, he moved to Quaker Cottage in Hutton Le Hole – a datestone in the house has his initials – and married Priscilla Canaby (c. 1672 – c. 1700), a baker's daughter, who also began preaching about 1698. Further tours of Southern England and of Scotland followed. He was left with three children under the age of five when his wife died, but the youngest also died less than a year later.
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