Qflofee Quertee KEY to ABBREVIATIONS D.—Friends' Reference Library, Devonshire House, 136, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2

Qflofee Quertee KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS D.—Friends' Reference Library, Devonshire House, 136, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2. Camb. Jnl.—The Journal of George Fox, published by the Cambridge University Press, 1911. D.N.B.—The Dictionary of National Biography. F.Q.E.—Friends9 Quarterly Examiner. M.M.—Monthly Meeting. Q.M.—Quarterly Meeting. Y.M.—Yearly Meeting.

UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD.— search they went away and con "1 will take the liberty to cealed themselves in order to mention one circumstance, as watch the movements of the work- near as I now remember, without hands at the barn, thinking they again consulting my generous and were not seen themselves. Im ingenuous friend, G. W. Hull, mediately a wagon and horses then living in Delaware county, O. were placed at the barn, with The occasion was this : A com quilts and other equipments pany of runaway men, women and much like as if the fugitives were children were directed to his to be conveyed to some other care, with information that their place. pursuers were near at hand, and " When ready to leave, the on learning the fact, he took them driver was directed to move off to the barn and, removing some quietly in a southerly direction, of the underpinning stones, had and, if they pursued him, to let his visitors placed under the floor, them come within reasonable with strict orders to observe distance, and then apply the whip the most profound silence, and to the horses, as if fearful of ordered his men to throw down a being overtaken, which was flooring of grain and place the strictly observed by the driver. horses immediately upon it, with They pursued, as was expected, orders to keep them moving, and and were taken far away from not to be sparing of noise. the object of their search. " After the arrangement was in Another team was in readiness, good order their masters, or their which conveyed the visitors to agents, arrived and demauded to another distant underground know the place of their conceal station, from whence they ment. They were told that if such escaped to Canada/' a thing existed they must find that From Reminiscences of Joseph out for themselves. Meanwhile the Morris, Ohio, 1881, p. 181. horses were kept moving and no little noise made by the hands THE END OF GRACECHURCM thus employed. The slave hu nters STREET MEETING HOUSE, 1862.— were sure that they were • John L. Eddy (1798-1867), of about the barn, and after diligent America, writes in his Tournal: 185 186 NOTES AND QUERIES

" Fourth day, 28th of 5th mo. The former had long been recog 1862. This morning was devoted nized by the Yearly Meeting, to worship in the several meeting the latter not at all. . . The houses of London and I went to Meeting on African Instruction the old Grace Church street was held after the Yearly Meeting meeting-house, in White Hart —the great Meeting House nearly Court, where George Fox preached filled. Wm Alien & Hannah his last sermon. The situation of Kilham were, I suppose, two of Friends in the city is such that the principal Speakers. they no longer need this house, 44 There was an unusual number* and they have sold it, 1 and do not of Visits paid by Men friends to again intend to hold meetings the Women's Meeting this year. there. ... I told Friends I I was not of the Number. The hoped our minds might be so following were some of them, viz., affected on the present occasion, J. J. Gurney & W«n Alien— that we may never forget the last Richard Phillips & Sylvanus meeting held in Grace Church Fox, Edwd Carroll & James meeting-house." Marriage. . . . Sam1 Fox, Memoir of John L. Eddy, 1875, brother to Sylvanus, proposed to p. 142. go, but as he is not yet recorded Benjamin Seebohm was also as a Minister, it was thought largely engaged in the ministry premature, and Wm Alexander on this memorable occasion. asked leave to go, but as he is an Elder, the Meeting hesitated, but YEARLY MEETING, 1825 (xiv. a young Man named Weatheral 101).—Interesting corrobation of from Yorkshire, a Minister, pro the account of this Y.M., given posing to go, W. A. was sent with him as an Elder, so the end seemed in our last number,9 and written bv* J. H. Bowen, comes from the pen answered. of John Grubb (1766-1841), in a " Martha Smith2 and my Sally* letter to his brother, Joseph Grubb 2 This was doubtless Martha (Benj.), of Clonmel, Ireland, dated Smith of Doncaster (1763-1832) from Chelmsford, 3Oth of 5th mo.: nke Ecroyd, of Edgend in Marsden, " The Meeting was large, but wife of William Smith, of Don- as is usual in London caster. She was a Minister for it was forty-two years. much larger the second Week. See testimony of Balby M.M. ; The whole of one sitting & the Annals of Smith of Cantley, 1878 ; greater part of two others Memorials of Friends, by S. Corder, were occupied about Negro e 1845; etc. Slavery & what is called African 3 Wife of the writer—Sarah Instruction, or, as some would Grubb, nke Lynes (1773-1842), a say, * Hannah Kilham's plan/ Minister for fifty-two years. After some time at the Friends' 1 The freeholders were the School, Clerkenwell, she went to Fishmongers' Company. The Ireland and lived nearly ten years Company gave Friends ^6,000 in the family of a Friend at for their interest. For a short Clonmel. She married John time the building was occupied by Grubb in 1803, at Isleworth, near the banking firm of Barclay, London. Towards the close of Sevan, Tritton & Co. the meeting at the wedding she NOTES AND QUERIES 187 paid, I think, a very extra publication of the Life of her ordinary visit to the Men's Meet Mother."4 ing. M. S. looks very badly, she Information from J. Ernest speaks sitting, with her head Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir. leaning back, resting on a cushion. very She seems full of Love & CHRISTIANA RIOTS, 1851 (xiv. of her beautiful in the exercise 55).—See A True Story of the The [Fry- Gift. . . . Christiana Riots, by David R. Gurney] meeting was very large Forbes, Quarry ville, Pa., 1898, —some hundreds I believe, went dedicated to the Society of away for want of room. Friends. Copy in D. " In the last sitting we were informed that a Woman friend wished to sit with Men friends ABRAHAM BEALE, 1793-1847.— near the Close of their Meeting. Abraham Beale, iron merchant, 5 After some consideration this son of Thomas Beale and Eliza was agreed to, and my Sally was beth Abell, was born in Cork, introduced, when after a time of Eighth Month i6th, 1793, and solemn silence, she had a very died at Patricks Quay, Cork, extraordinary testimony to Eighth Month 22nd, 1847. He deliver. She soon after left the was a brother of Mary Beale Meeting & nothing further took (1799-1870) and Sarah Beale place, but the Clerk in a solemn (1800-1885). He was one of the manner reading the concluding many members of our Society in Minute, when after a time of Ireland who devoted time and silence that could be almost felt, property to alleviate the bitter we separated." sufferings of famine and disease J. H. Bowen's account does not which followed the failure of the present quite the same feeling potato crop 1845-1847 (see regarding the last sitting. John biographical notice in Annual Grubb adds : Monitor, 1848), and he gave his " I think I heard there were 30 life for his fellows, dying of famine friends from Ireland in London." fever contracted in his work. Hymns by him are to be found In the same letter occurs the printed in The Annual Monitor, very interesting statement : 1848, and in Martha Braithwaite's " I understand that Betsy Fireside Hymn Book, 1865, and *n Dudley has made ^300 by the a manuscript, in D. Information from J. Ernest Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir. up into the left her husband, went 4 The Life of Mary Dudley gallery, addressed the company, (1750-1823) edited by Elizabeth sat down for a short time in the printed for the to her Dudley (1779-1849) gallery, and then returned in 1825, 380 pages. seat by her husband. After Editor fifteen years residence in Ireland, s The firm was Abraham Beale J. and S. Grubb removed to & Co., later Beale, Scott, & Co., Bury in Suffolk and later nearer and now Sir Robert Scott & to London. There are numerous Co. ; one of the Scotts is named records of her striking ministry. Abraham Beale Scott. i88 NOTES AND QUERIES

BARTON ON THE HEATH (WAR Rickman. S. Grellet had a WICKSHIRE) REGISTERS.—Bap good deal to say in the Select tisms. " 1698, Apl. 3. Richard Meeting. Cornelius? was silent, yc son of Edward Deen (a In the Meeting for Worship Quaker) nigh two years old." on 3rd day, after a consider " 1714, Sept. 19. Jane Dun, an able time of silence, Sally Orphan, born of Parents that stood up & had a very extra were Quakers." ordinary testimony to deliver. I Information from Richard think the Members of this Q. Savage, Stratford-on-Avon. Meets must surely feel the force of such a warning & MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION.— arousing testimony. Thos Shillitoe In a long inscription to one of followed at considerable the Blake family in the church length, and then Stephen Grellet, yard at Nether Stowey, Somerset, who, in the occurs the couplet: course of his testimony, expressed his cordial " Better in reverential awe to sit, unity with first (Sally's) testimony. And, Quakerlike, in silence view Sally followed the pit." in supplication. Christopher Healy was silent. Copied by John Morland, 1917. That meeting held about 2 hours & half. The Meeting for Discipline LONDON AND MIDDLESEX Q.M., concluded about £ past 3 o'clock. 1831.—The following is copied S. Grellet & W. Alien paid a long from a letter from John Grubb, Visit to the Womens Meeting. husband of Sarah (Lynes) Grubb Christopher Healy spoke once, in (1773-1842), to his brother, a very impressive manner on Joseph Grubb (Benjamin), of the neglect of attending Week Clonmel, dated from Stoke New- day meetings. I liked his manner ington, 29th of Ninth Month, & language very much. His 1831 (in the possession of J. services seem to be much more Ernest Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir): with those of other Societies than " Our Q.M. was held last 3rd in our own—he frequently has day, the Select Meeting the day two public meetings in the day, before. The Q.M. was very large. several miles apart, and where . We had the company of there are friends, will have all Stephen Grellet and Christopher meet together, without having Healy—also Nich. Naftel6 and old a separate meeting for each. He 6 Nicholas Naftel (c. 1762-1842) is very diligent & anxious to get lived in the Island of Guernsey in through his Work—need we early life. He married Mary Higman (1756-1820) of St. Austell, wonder at this when he has left in 1789, and in 1804 they quitted Guernsey and resided successively at Colchester, Southwark and Of their children, two sons and Chelmsford. Mary Naftel travelled their daughter Mary emigrated, much in the ministry and spent but one son was lost at sea. Mary two years visiting Friends in North died in Philadelphia in 1827. America, beginning in the year 7 This is probably a slip of the 1816. Nicholas was also a Minister. pen for Christopher. J. Grubb's After his wife's death, he returned mind may have been running on to his island-home and died there. Cornelius Hanbury. NOTES AND QUERIES 189

17 Children behind—what a num ERRATA.—For Harvard, Conn. ber 1 He is, I suppose, a very poor read Harvard, Mass., xiv. 54. farmer, and I heard as if he said For Columbus College, read in one meeting that his family has Columbia University, New York, sometimes been in want of a Meal xiv. 79. of Bread.0 For 1817, read 1877, xiv. 134. In another letter, the same to the same, dated a month later, "THE FRIEND/'—In William John Grubb writes : Wordsworth, his Life, Works and " I have no reason to think I Influence, by Prof. George McLean was mistaken in what I mentioned Harper, of Princeton University, respecting what I heard 1916, i. 362, there is a refer Christopher Healy said at a public ence to a publication called " The meeting at Croydon, as to the Friend," which may have arrested poor condition he was once in. I the attention of some of our did not suppose he said that was readers. As explained later in the his condition at present. He has above work (ii. 172, 173), " The a remarkably forcible, impres Friend " was a venture of Samuel sive & moving manner of speak Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), ing, tho' not always in the strict undertaken against the advice of rules of Grammar. . . .8 It his friends, and ending in failure. was rather amusing, the evening of It was published fortnightly, at the public meeting [at Stoke Penrith, from August, 1809, to Newington] ; I was in company March, 1810, when, with the with Christopher, he asked the twenty-seventh number, dated friends present, If Sarah Grubb I5th March, 1810. it expired. was a married Woman—it caused SeeD.JV.J5.; Rawnsley's English a general smile, & a friend pointed Lakes. to me, saying that was her husband. He said he thought " four small children," leaving his she was a single Woman, daughter first family behind. of Sarah Grubb, whose Journal we C. Healy wrote of his early life. " Was there ever a poorer Quaker have." than I was ? ... I remem 8 A Memoir of Christopher ber that at one time my doctor's Healy (1773-1851) was published bill was so large that I had to hire in Philadelphia in 1886. From myself out for eighteen months to this we obtain glimpses of his get money enough to pay for it." family life. In 1793, he married He was a convinced Friend, and, Elizabeth Sheffield, who died in as often happens, very conserva 1813 during his absence from tive. He denounced " fast-days, home ; her " so large a family of the holding the office of special little ones " is mentioned in 1812. constable, and attendance of At her death he was left with ten missionary meetings etc.," he children under seventeen years of once quoted the text " Strangers age, but apparently they were have devoured his strength and placed under others' care while he he knoweth it not " as applicable lodged with friends. In 1814, to " the dangers which attended he married Sarah Miller, and in Friends joining with persons of 1820 he removed from the State of other religious denominations in New York to Bucks Co., Pa., with associations for promoting bene his wife and second family of volent objects." igo NOTES AND QUERIES

MlRABEAU AND NANTUCKET In 1819, there were 180 crimes FRIENDS.—" Mirabeau was elected punishable by death, but from president without opposition of 1838 the death-sentence in civil the National Assembly on January cases was executed practically for 2Qth, 1791. murder only. There are numerous " During his presidential fort references to the work of Friends night Mirabeau received various in the card-catalogue in D. deputations—notably one from the Quakers—and replied to them in the happiest of brief speeches." DICKINSON—FEARON EPISODE. —The Life of Mirabeau, by S. G. —The adventures of James Dickin- Tallentyre, p. 322. son (1659-1741) and Jane Fearon An account of the presentation (1675-1737), so vividly told by of the " Petition Respectueuse des L. V. Hodgkin, in F.Q.E., vol. 51, Amis de la Societe Chr6tienne have appeared, in various forms, appe!6s Quakers " may be read in in the following books : Memorandum written by William The Annual Monitor for 1816 Rotch (1734-1828), printed in 1916. (the Sarah Taylor version) ; Young's Monumental Pillars, 1818—"The Quakers Guided and CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. — Febr. Protected" ; Comly's Miscel loth, 1819. — " Wilberforce made a lany, vol. 5, 1834 I Armistead's speech last night which reminded Select Miscellanies, vol. 5, 1851 ; one of the better days of the House F.Q.E. 1873 and Annals of the of Commons. He presented a Early Friends, both by Frances petition from the Quakers against Anne Budge. The incident is the criminal Code, and introduced introduced into For a Free Con a compliment to Romilly." — science, by Lydia Cope Wood, Grey vi lie's Journal of the Reigns 1906, p. 46. A discussion of the oj George IV. and William IV., place is to be found in The British i., 16. 17. Friend, 1887, p. 303, 1888, pp. 20, In 1818, London Yearly Meeting 90, 196, and The Friend (London), " solidly considered the awful 1887, pp. 91, 105. subject of the Punishment of Death, as now practised in this Empire," and instructed the FRIENDS BURIED ON THEIR OWN Meeting for Sufferings to address LANDS. — The Wheeler family the Legislature on the subject. (from whom W.B. is descended This was done and the petition, through the Cadburys) lived for above presented, was the outcome. many generations on a small estate It expressed the " firm conviction at Cranfield, Bedfordshire (near that the frequency of this Punish Hitchin). Here they had their ment, extended as it is to crimes of own private burying ground in very different degrees of guilt, is which they were interred. repugnant to the ...... Joshua W. (born 1635) was in Christian Religion. ." Bedford Gaol with John Bunyan. The petition was " ordered to be The estate now belongs to the printed in the Appendix to the Seebohms, of Hitchin, their des Votes. " cendants.—WALTER BARROW.