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Philadelphia: HERMAN NEWMAN, 1010 ARCH STREET VoL VI. No. 3. Price per number 2/- (50 cents.); for the year, payable in advance, 5/- ($1.25). THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SEVENTH MONTH (July), 1909. London: HEADLEY BROTHERS, 14, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT, E.G. Philadelphia: HERMAN NEWMAN, 1010 ARCH STREET. New York: DAVID S. TABER, 144 EAST 20th STREET THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME J, J 903-1904. CONTAINS : The Handwriting of George Fox. Illustrated. Our Recording Clerks : (i.) Ellis Hookes. (2.) Richard Richardson. The Case of William Gibson, 1723. Illustrated. The Quaker Family of Owen. Cotemporary Account of Illness and Death of George Fox. The Wilkinson and Story Controversy in Reading. Early Records of Friends in the South of Scotland. Edmund Peckover's Travels in North America. County Tipperary Friends' Records. VOLUME 2, J905. CONTAINS : Deborah Logan and her Contributions to History, Joseph Williams's Recollections of the Irish Rebellion Old Style and New Style. William Penn's Introduction of Thomas Ellwood. Meetings in Yorkshire, 1668. Letters in Cypher from Francis Howgill to George Fox. The Settlement of London Yearly Meeting. oseph Rule, the Quaker in White. Edmund Peckover, Ex-Soldier and Quaker. Illustrated. 11 William Miller at the King's Gardens." Springett Penn to James Logan, 1724. VOLUME 3, 1906. CONTAINS : Words of Sympathy for New England Sufferers. David Lloyd. Illustrated. King's Briefs, the Forerunners of Mutual Insurance Societies. Memoirs of the Life of Barbara Hoyland. 44 Esquire Marsh." Irish Quaker Records. VOL. VI. No. 3. Seventh Month (July), 1909 THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PAGE Decease of the President - - - - - - 97 Notes and Queries : Meeting House Court The Father of Benjamin West The Family of Benjamin West, P.R.A. " Repentance beyond the Grave " Bingley, Yorks., and the Quaker Family of Lister Early Needlework Norman Penney, F.S.A. 4< Annals of the Pemberton Family " - - - - 98 Obituary - - - - - - - -102 Extracts from Presidential Address at Annual Meeting. "By Joseph J. Green - - - - - - -103 A Rare Tract on Persecution in Scotland - - - - 108 Incidents at the Time of the American Revolution, connected with some Members of the Society of Friends. By George Vaux - 109 A Short Account of John Reckless and his Family, II. Illustrated. By Emily Manners - - - - - - 115 Sheriff Court Decrees against Barclays of Ury. By II7. A. Mac- naughton, M.D., D.P.H. - - - - - - 122 Early Quaker Finance, III. - - - - - 127 " The Orders Touching Qvakers," 1661 .... 128 The Somerby Estate, Leicestershire, III. By (the late) Mary Radley and Henrietta Ellis - - - - 129 The Journal of Esther Palmer, III. With Notes by Gilbert Cope 133 Meeting Records - - - - - - - J 39 George Fox's Knowledge of Hebrew. By Mary G. Swift - - 140 Vagrancy. - - - - - - -146 The Quakers in Greystoke Parish, Cumberland. By (Rev.) /. Hay Colligan - - - - - - -147 Friends in Current Literature. By Norman Penney, F.S.A., Isaac Sharp, B.A., and Edward Wathins - - - 153 Officers for the year 1909-10 - - - - - 159 Balance Sheet for the Year 1908 - - - 160 D.=The Reference Library of London Yearly Meeting, Devonshire House, 12, Bishopsgate Without, London, E.G. F.P.T.="The First Publishers of Truth," published by the Friends' Historical Society. of tfy We regret to announce that a few days after his election, our new President, Frederick Goodall Cash, died at the residence of his son-in-law at Middlesbrough, Yorks, aged eighty. A brief obituary and some Notes from his pen appear on later pages. Vol. vi.—59. (Hofe0 Queriee* MEETING HOUSE COURT (vi. 4, of the Bible, who was Rector of 54). Referring to the above, I St. Magnus, a church hardly a should have said,* till a few davsj stone's throw away on the eastern ago, that there was no such locality side of the bridge. On the " near London Bridge," unless west side of this little-known Lane the Old Jewry were called so, is the tiny Court in question. It (which it manifestly isn't). A has just space enough for three Meeting House Court existed there tiny shops or stores. The houses, till a few years since, as I can old and rather tumbledown, were testify. probably one structure formerly, However, the one about which and are thought locally to have the Editor seeks information, and escaped the Great Fire, which, which I have now traced, is in, or however, raged furiously close by. rather just out of Miles Lane, It is also said locally to have been Arthur Street West. If my a " Quakers' Meeting House." A readers know Crooked Lane1 tenant of the Lane, to whom I which is one of the straightest in spoke, said he had been there fifty London they will know that it years, and the place was the same leads from King William Street fifty years since as now. It was and Cannon Street into Arthur probably " the Quakers' Meeting Street. Immediately opposite, House.'' The corner house, he through an archway, is a flight of added, leading to the Court, as I steps which take the wayfarer into understood him, was at one time Miles Lane. In passing, I may occupied by a Quaker hatter named remark that this Lane in all proba­ Noble. I went up the little, old, bility took its name from Miles dark staircase of one of the stores, Coverdale, 2 the eminent translator almost sheds, as far as the second storey, and found it and its outlook 1 The name probably arose desolate though, long before the Great Fire, when withal, interest­ this lane used to curve round and ing a veritable " bit of old over what is now the approach to London." the present London Bridge, into Subsequent search at the British Fish Street Hill, where Edward Museum through several London the Black Prince had a mansion, Directories of the eighteenth cen­ close to the spot where the Monu­ ment now stands. Fish Street tury, beginning with 1738, an Hill was for centuries the chief insignificant volume of less than approach to Old London Bridge. 100 pages, revealed no proof nor disproof of the above theory. 2 Mention has been made of Miles Coverdale. It is a remark­ removed to the crypt of St. able fact that his remains were Magnus, London Bridge, where interred three times, once in a he had also filled the pulpit. Moorfields church, where he had Finally, when these vaults were been Rector, and when that build­ cleared a few years since, his coffin ing was demolished many years was again removed with all the ago to make room in a growing others, and deposited in a suburban neighbourhood, his body was cemetery. 98 NOTES AND QUERIES. 99 Many lists of " Quakers' Meeting tion with Meeting House Court. Houses" appear from time to It appears certain that in early time, but there is no mention of days Friends met for Divine this one unless the frequent men­ Worship in this little cribbed and tion of " Michael's Lane " gives confined place. FREDERICK G. the clue. St. Michael's Church, CASH. destroyed by the Fire, was close to Crooked Lane, and " Michael's THE FATHER OF BENJAMIN Lane " may have existed as part of WEST. In Woodfall's Public or side by side with the former. Advertiser, i/th October, 1776, On the evening of the very day we read : on which I wrote the above, I "On the 5thof this Month died most unexpectedly came upon a at Warborough in Oxfordshire, complete confirmation of my Mr. John West, Father of Mr. theory that Michael's Lane was West, the Historical Painter. He the same as, or was in the im­ was born at Long Crandon in mediate neighbourhood of Miles Buckinghamshire in 1690, and in Lane. This therefore also confirms 1715 he went to Pennsylvania in my belief that the above-named America, where he had three Court contained a meeting-house brothers settled, who went there of the Society of Friends. For with William Penn. He married, Michael's Lane is given year after and raised a family of ten children year in the old Directories in the in that Province ; and in 1764 he lists of " Quakers' Meetings." returned to England to visit his Three quarters of a century native Land, and see his youngest ago St. Michael's Church (which Son (the Painter), who at that Time was settled in London. had replaced an earlier one des­ troyed by the Great Fire) was He was one of the People called demolished to make room for the Quakers, a Man of a pious, humane approach to " new" London Mind, impressed with a due Bridge, which was opened by Sense of Religion without Bigotry William IV. and Queen Adelaide or Superstition. He was just, in 1831. These alterations charitable and upright in all his " necessitated the removal of Dealings with Men, beloved and all the houses," I read, " in the respected by them when living, parish east of St. Michael's (or, and at his Death lamented by all Miles' Lane) " etc. " Various who had the Happiness of his little courts and passages branched Acquaintance." out of these two lanes " (Michael's and Crooked) and " these have THE FAMILY OF BENJAMIN WEST, all disappeared except two or THE ARTIST, P.R.A. Benjamin three on the west side of Miles' West's father, John West, born Lane." 10 mo. 28, 1690, at Long Crandon, I need not quote more. Much of Bucks (Upperside Mo. Mtg.), was additional interest I could have a son of Thomas and Rachel given about this locality in the (Gilpin) West and a grandson of earlier remarks, but such has no Thomas Gilpin (my ancestor), the reference to our Society's connec­ Cromwellian soldier and Quaker IOO NOTES AND QUERIES.
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