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Moved by God: mobility and agency in Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea

In March of 1654 and just shy of thirty-two years old, Anna Trapnel journeyed more than 280 miles across the south of England. More remarkable still, she set off from London to Cornwall alone – and reluctantly. Members of her Fifth Monarchist congregation had encouraged, if not directly engineered, the venture: ‘Pray go down with us to Cornwal [sic]’ they implored, ‘there you may do good to poor souls, with the variety of Experiences God hath given you’. Trapnel’s recent ‘experiences’ were, indeed, quite notable. Just a few months earlier in December 1653, Trapnel had fallen into a prophetic trance at Whitehall after witnessing the testimony of Vavasor Powell, a preacher and fellow Fifth Monarchist who was accused of sedition. It is in the wake of this episode and the subsequent publication of her visions in The Cry of a Stone (1654) that Trapnel agreed to set off for Cornwall, though she was ‘strongly bent against that journey’ (459). This apprehension was justified: a journey of that sort, even domestically, would involve real hardships for any traveler but especially for a solitary, non-aristocratic female traveler without access to a private coach. In Trapnel’s self-authored account of the experience, Report and Plea, or, A Narrative of her Journey from London into Cornwal [sic]...Whereto is annexed a Defiance, published just a few months after she returned, references to these dangers pepper the narrative: precarious river passages, tiresome horseback rides, stormy sea voyages, and lengthy stage coach journeys. Trapnel’s account also makes clear that the greatest single source of difficulty for her was not the arduousness of the journey itself but what transpired after. Within two weeks of arriving in Cornwall, Tranpel was arrested and forced to endure a two-month return journey to London where she was imprisoned in Bridewell for an additional eight weeks, all without a definitive sense of her