{Fifth Part 10}
Bristol the 1st of the 12th Mo. 77.
Propositions agreed between ——— and William Rogers on behalf of themselves and others concerned, in order to a Meeting for the ending some differences depending between them; and also others in the City of Bristol and elsewhere interessed; and for Satisfaction of any friend or friends in the things they are dissatisfied.
1st, It is agreed, by and between the persons above mentioned, That each may have a Scribe to take all those Passages in the conference which to them severally shall seem meet; and that before any one Head be left, or a new Matter begun, all that each Party have thought fit to have written be first read; if in any thing defective, amended; and finally agreed by persons to be a true Record, Minute, or Memorial of the Conference; and if any thing be written or exprest short (or beside the Meaning of the Speaker) that the said Speaker hath Liberty to correct and help the said Expression.
2ly, That all things so written by both Scribes, and so agreed upon to be recorded, shall be at the end of every meeting subscribed by both Parties and by at least six credible persons of each side, and by as many more as shall please to sign the same as Witnesses of What is so recorded; and the said Six respectively to be named before the Meeting begin, and they then to declare that they are free to it; but if in any thing they are dissatisfied with what there passeth , that though they {Fifth Part 11} subscribe the Narrative as Witnesses, that the same is a true Narrative, yet that they have Power and Liberty (in case of dislike) to declare or write their Protestation against the same.
3ly, That if any Friend present hath any thing upon him or her to say, or offer to the matter in hand, that such hath his or her Christian Liberty to speak his or her Mind; and that every such thing laid by Friends on either side (if the Friends that speak, or either of the two persons whose names are hereunto subscribed, shall desire it) be also recorded.
4ly, That Matters of Subjects to be debated on by each party, be first written down, and respectively delivered to each other.
5ly, That the meeting begin, and be held at the 9th hour in the morning, on the fourth day of this instant, being the second day of the week, and at the house of Richard Sneed.
6ly, That this Agreement be written in the head of the Narrative to be made in pursuance of this Agreement.
William Rogers on behalf of himself and other Friends concerned.
The above Agreement was also sign’d by another Person on behalf of himself and other Friends concerned.
On the foot of this Agreement there were three meetings, consisting of about twenty hours, had in the City of Bristol, wherein the aforesaid Dissatisfactions relating to G.F. were delivered in the Meeting.
‘Tis further observable, that inasmuch as nothing was agreed upon to be recorded according to the Articles of {Fifth Part 12} Agreement and that the Meeting broke up, and the dissatisfactions of friends were not read thorough, William Ford, and my self sent abroad all the said Dissatisfactions that were prepared, whereof those already mentioned were but a part, with an account of some other Passages concerning Meetings and other Matters that the Agreement related not to: the Rumor whereof (as I suppose) coming to G.F’s Ears, I was informed by several, that he render’d the givers forth thereof, or at least one of them, Covenant-breakers, and 'tis credibly reported, that G.F. is the Person who industriously spreads the same amongst friends (of which more anon) as an Evidence that Thomas Gouldney, William Ford, and William Rogers are accused on this score, for Covenant-breakers: we think it necessary to recite a Letter written unto them on that behalf, the copy whereof doth follow.
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