ollege as a "gentleman commoner"#. However, being that his views were more of a puritan form, William grew much of a disliking to the Christian ways of Oxford.
             "Admiral Penn reacted to William Penn's expulsion from Oxford in a way that we might expect of an upper-class, seventeenth century Englishman: he sent his son to France in the hope that he would come to his senses and prepare to live, work, and worship within the established social order."# This seemed to work very well and soon took up law back in Italy at Lincoln's Inn. There he subsequently joined his father aboard his ship to carry goods back to England for King Charles II. Unfortunately, the plague began to spread and his father sent William up to Ireland, where he would stay until 1667. During his stay in Ireland, he took up the military life under Lord Arran.
             William soon began preaching Thomas Loe's sermon and not long after, was arrested. He later returned to London and began writing and speaking freely on religion. This landed him in a tower for one year. During this imprisonment, he wrote his most famous work, No Cross, No Crown. After this, William sailed back to Ireland where he took up his father's dealings and found that most of his colleagues were arrested as well. He stayed in Dublin until 1670. He returned immediately to London, where his father was declining in health.
             A year after his father's death, William married Gulielma Maria Springett. Shortly after, William was again imprisoned because he spoke at a friend's meeting and failed to take an oath of allegiance. He wrote several more religious pamphlets and then made several visits to Holland and Germany. "He became a part of the inner circle of the society of Friend's; and with George Fox, George Whitehead, Alexander Parker, and other Quaker leaders, repeatedly petitioned Parliament for religious toleration."#
             Penn's first experience with...