In Thomas Wright's Life of Daniel Defoe we find the following statement:
During this illness [i.e., of the ‘apoplexie,’ 1715] Defoe was visited by a Quaker whose kindness made a great impression on him, and he never after neglected an opportunity of speaking well of the religious body to which the good man belonged. And they deserved to be well spoken of, for at this exciting period, when all England was in a ferment, when even the pulpits were made to answer the purpose of hustings, the Quaker body alone advocated temperance and Christian charity. Like Defoe, they cried ‘Peace, peace!’