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AMERICA with a fragment of paper listing English colonization of North the purchase money collected America. Edited by Louis B. from each hamlet by Richard Wright and Elaine W. Fowler. Robinson of Countersett and the (Documents of modern history.) expenses in negotiating the pur­ (London, Edward Arnold, 1968.) chase of the manor from the This volume of reprinted docu­ crown, completed in London in ments has the following items in 1663. a section on "Religion and The original trustees included education": Anthony Fothergill, and it was PERSECUTION OF QUAKERS JUS­ another Fothergill — Alexander TIFIED, 1659—the Massachusetts —who was appointed steward General Court statement against and treasurer over a century later William Robinson and Marma- in 1767. It is from the time of his duke Stevenson; stewardship and later that most QUAKERS OPPOSE SLAVERY, of the documents survive. The 1688—the Germantown declara­ author says that Alexander tion, reprinted from Pennsyl­ Fothergill "left many lively vania Magazine of History and accounts of his deeds. By birth Biography, iv (1880), pp. 28-30; he was a farmer but an extrovert WILLIAM PENN ON EDUCATION, personality drove him far beyond 1693—from Some Fruits of the confines of the yeomanry. Solitude ; He lived at and farmed Can- DIVERSITY OF RELIGIONS IN End and was employed as sur­ PENNSYLVANIA, 1750-1754—— veyor, solicitor and land agent, from the account written by clerk to Busk church, the Society Gottlieb Mittelberger in his of Friends and anyone else re­ Journey to Pennsylvania. The quiring a skilful pen.'1 extract ends with a quotation: "There is a saying in that coun­ BANBURY try: Pennsylvania is the heaven Supplement no. 4 to the of the farmers, the paradise of English Historical Review (Long­ the mechanics, and the hell of the mans, 1969) consists of Drink and officials and preachers/' sobriety in an early Victorian The section on "Plans for country town: B anbury, 1830—' Union" includes William Penn's 1860, by Brian Harrison and proposal for colonial unity, 1697. Barrie Trinder. Friends appear. Publicans and brewers were in­ BAINBRIDGE fluential among Liberals and "The Manor of Bainbridge", nonconformists in the 18305, by D. S. Hall, a paper in the even Quakers were only in the Annual Report, 1968, of the process of shaking oif their con­ North Riding Record Office, is nections with brewing—beer, written from a study of the ar­ before the rise of teetotalism, chives of the lords trustees of the being considered the temperance manor. The documents begin drink. During the period the only 141 142 NOTES AND QUERIES denominations not represented Robert Charleton's pin factory, in the licensed trade were the pottery, are all mentioned in Quakers and Primitive Method­ The industrial archaeology of the ists. Bristol region, by R. A. Buchanan Friends were prominent in the and Neil Cossons (David and Banbury Temperance Society. Charles, 1969). This study brings Samuel Beesley the maker of to notice the surviving monu­ Banbury cakes, Reformer (d. ments of past Quaker industrial 1843), John Head (draper, toy- enterprise in the district. dealer and woolstapler), Jere­ miah Cross (grocer) and James CAERNARVONSHIRE Cadbury (grocer) are among the A History of Caernarvonshire, Friends mentioned. Friends were 1284-1900, by A. H. Dodd also active in the Ladies' Associa­ (Caernarvonshire Historical tion for the Suppression of Society, 1968. 303.) provides us Intemperance. with meagre references to Friends noticed include Friends in the county. George Joseph, Charles and Jonathan Fox visited Caernarvon in 1657. Gillett,the bankers, Henry Stone, A tract in English by Evan bookseller, and John Harlock, Jones of Llanengan was pub­ draper and treasurer of the lished in 1672. A group from the Peace Society's Banbury branch. same parish emigrated to Penn­ Brian Harrison, fellow and sylvania in 1683, and one of tutor of Corpus Christi College, these Friends — John Roberts Oxford (the senior author re­ — became a magistrate and ferred to above) is engaged on a member of the legislative assem­ wider study of the nineteenth- bly of the province. There is century temperance movement. mention of a meeting at Pen- machno in 1731. BEDFORDSHIRE Joyce Godber's History of Bed­ CARLISLE fordshire, 1066-1888 (Bedford­ Library history: Journal of the shire County Council, 1969) is a Library History Group of the handsome one-volume competent Library Association, Vol. i, No. 5, work, worthy both of county and Spring 1969, includes (p. 170) the author. The book has scattered following note on accessions to references to Friends, and to Carlisle Record Office: other persons (like Bunyan) Carlisle Quaker Meeting with whom they were in contro­ House: the original library, of the versy from the days of John eighteenth-nineteenth centuries, Crook onwards. There is a consisting of about 300 volumes. mention of the visit to Becker- The books, in poor condition, ings Park by George Fox in were gathered from the floor of 1655- an old meeting house at Moor- The interior of Leighton Buz­ house, Burgh-by-Sands, and it zard meeting house is illustrated seems likely that books were from a photograph. present from both the Carlisle and the Moorhouse meeting BRISTOL houses. No assessment can yet be Abraham Darby, Fry's Choco­ made of the contents of the late, the Champion family, libraries. The Carlisle Prepara- NOTES AND QUERIES 143 tive Meeting minutes include a 1830, came from Marsden" (p. loan register of books, 1798- 73). c. 1824. Rowland Bretton's article on "Heath Hall, Skircoat" (pp. i- COALBROOKDALE 14, in the same volume) contains In ''The Coalbrookdale story: some notice of the Elams and facts and fantasies" (Transactions Hodgsons, and the meeting of the Shropshire Archaeological house (sold 1920). Society. Vol. 58, pt. 2, 1966 [issued December, 1968], pp. GLOUCESTERSHIRE 153-166), R. A. Mott examines The Victoria County History, critically the accounts which Gloucestershire, vol. 8 (1968), have been received up to the includes notices of Friends at present. the following places: Tewkes- The author's examination of bury; Corse (i7th-i9th century); the Coalbrookdale MSS. to check Ashchurch, Deerhurst, Kemer- the information given by Abiah ton (i8th century); Grafton, Darby, Hannah Rose, and Prestbury and Uckington (i7th Samuel Smiles, leads Dr. Mott to century). the conclusion that Smiles based his account of Abraham Darby I HAMPSHIRE MEETINGS and II on that of Hannah Rose, A Hampshire Miscellany. Ill— and: "He made but a sorry use Dissenters' meeting house certifi­ of his other material and it is cates in the diocese of Winchester, preferable to reject his account 1702-1844, by Arthur J. Willis as being completely misleading/' (1965) includes the following entries directly stated to be for "The mineral wealth of Coal­ Quaker meetings: Eling n Nov. brookdale/' by Ivor John 1710; Farnborough 30 April Brown, a pamphlet reprinted 1719; St. Peter, Cheesehill, from the Bulletin of the Peak Winton (Thos. Martin) 3 Aug. District Mines Historical Society, 1749. Vol. 2, pt. 5-6 (1965) includes Many entries lack any indi­ some illustrations of workings cation of the body of dissenters and machinery, and gives facts taking out the certificates. about the life of the miner in the Shropshire coalfield as well with­ HERTFORDSHIRE in as without the Darby period. ''Politics and religion in Hert­ fordshire, 1660-1740", by L. M. HALIFAX Munby, a paper in East Anglian "Halifax attorneys", by C. D. Studies (Cambridge, Heffer, 1968. Webster (Transactions of the 353,), includes several references Halifax Antiquarian Society, to Friends. The author has 1968, pp. 69-87) has mention of turned up some interesting "Quaker conveyancers, Jonas material, like Quakers voting for Stansfield of Shore in Stansfield a Jacobite in the county elec­ in the early eighteenth, and Caleb tions, 1727. Friends seem to have Howarth and John Ecroyd in the been influential in Hertford early nineteenth centuries'* (p. town and their names figure in 70). Howarth and Ecroyd, "who the elections at the end of the practised in Halifax from 1821- seventeenth century. Henry 144 NOTES AND QUERIES Stout at Hertford seems to have INDIA been active in the Whig Cowper The Lords of Human Kind: (Hertford Castle) interest. There European attitudes towards the is a family tree for the Dimsdale outside world in the Imperial family on the Tory side. A sec­ Age, by V. G. Kiernan (Weiden- tion deals with the trial of feld and Nicolson, 1969, 635.), Spencer Cowper for the murder includes a note quoting The of Sarah Stout, 1699. Friend, on the demands in England for vengeance in India HULL after the Mutiny of 1857. In an The Victoria History of the editorial for January, 1858, The County of York: East Riding, Friend called for wider promo­ Vol. i (Oxford University Press, tion in India of both Christianity 1969, £10.50) deals with the city and commerce; the author com­ of Kingston upon Hull. ments—"Even the best of Vic­ Index entries under the words torians were over-ready to regard FRIENDS, Society of (Quakers) these two as parallel roads to lead to various portions of the human felicity" (p. 63). work. The section on Protestant The author refers here, and nonconformity (pp. 311 ff.) be­ elsewhere, to J. H. Bell, British gins with the early 16405. Folks and British India Fifty Friends were not strong in the Years Ago: Joseph Pease and his district. A visit by George Fox Contemporaries (Manchester, in 1666 is noted. 1891). Hull meeting is estimated to have had about 20 members at IRELAND the end of the seventeenth cen­ Isolated incidents in the 1798 tury. The names of John Holmes, rebellion involving Irish Friends William Garbutt and Edward are quoted by Thomas Pakenham Crowther, the Ellerkers (of Sut- in The Year of Liberty (Hodder ton), and John Lyth (in Marfleet) and Stoughton, 1969. £3 153.) are noted. At a later period, mainly on the authority of Isaac Reckitt and Samuel Thomas Hancock's Principles Priestman are noticed as founders of peace exemplified in the conduct of two notable firms (p. 240). By . . . of Friends in Ireland . . . 1798 the local Act of 1810, Friends (1825), and The Leadbeater were made eligible for election Papers (1862) supplemented by to the corporation (p. 199). the Leadbeater MSS. (for these Meeting houses are listed (pp. papers, refer to Olive C. Good- 321-322). Average Sunday atten­ body's Guide to Irish Quaker dance at meeting was 150 (no Records, 1967). Sunday school) in 1834, and in Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Alien (morning) and 61 (afternoon) in Figgis, Dublin, 1968, £6) in­ the 1851 census. cludes an article by Olive Good- The volume makes extensive body on the Society of Friends, use of a wide range of source giving succinctly the salient facts material both national and local. of the historical outline and Brief notices appear of the Sir present position of Quakerism in James Reckitt charity (p. 339) the country. There is an illustra­ and of Friends' adult schools tion of the Shackleton school at (P- 355)- Ballitore. Two works appear in NOTES AND QUERIES 145 the bibliography: Grubb, I: of England has reached Lanca­ Quakers in Ireland. London, shire (North, 3os., South, 355. 1927, and Rutty, J. and Wight, 2 vols. Penguin Books, 1969). In T.: History of Quakers in Ireland. the Northern volume the meeting Dublin, 1751. houses at Height in Cartmel, Swarthmoor, Colthouse, Yea- IRISH FRIENDS land, Lancaster, Crawshaw- I booth and Brierfield (Nelson) Analecta Hibernica, no. 15 (1944) are noticed. Also mentioned is is now in print again with a John Wilkinson the ironmaster Dawson Reprint issue (1968). (see under Lindale); Robert The volume contains reports by Lawson and Sunderland Point Edward McLysaght. Among the (p. 153, under Lancaster); and Ussher papers (wills) we note: the mill in Calder Vale built by "13 Feb., 1815. Elizabeth Richard and Jonathan Jackson, Ussher (Quakeress). Codicil, 1835- unwitnessed, cancels all lega­ The volume on South Lanca­ cies to servants because of shire is perhaps not quite so unfaithfulness of one/' rewarding, but such is the nature Captain Stephen Rich is of the material. Meeting houses mentioned in the Common­ at Manchester, Penketh, Roch­ wealth state accounts. dale, St. Helens and Warrington The Brown (of Clonboy) papers appear, as also does Dalton Hall (report on pp. 81-91) include 1881-1882, by G. T. Redmayne). much of interest to Friends, It is with a little jolt that one and the editor notes that material sees John Bright's name linked from this collection concerning with Manchester's slums (p. 267). Friends in Limerick is now preserved at Eustace Street, LEIGHTON LINSLADE Dublin. "Friends' Meeting House, North Street. Of 1789, with wooden II cross-windows. Happily simple Anglo-Irish Trade, 1660—1800. interior with the usual seating/ 1 by L. M. Cullen (Manchester This entry appears (p. no) in University Press, 1968), includes N. Pevsner: The buildings of some material from Friends' England. Bedfordshire and the Historical Library, Eustace County of Huntingdon and Peter­ Street, Dublin, and from the borough (Penguin Books, 1968). Gurney Manuscripts, at Friends House Library, London. The LONDON COMPANIES author notes the close connec­ In Edward Mayer's The Curriers tions which Friends were able to and the city of London: a history maintain across the Irish Sea. of the Worshipful Company of The Gurney manuscripts in par­ Curriers, 1968, there are two ticular provide the author with references to Friends. On page information concerning the yarn 121 the Court minutes for ist trade between Munster and October, 1720, give order that Leinster and Norwich. no liveryman be admitted into the hall on Lord Mayor's day LANCASHIRE without his gown "except such Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings as are of people commonly

6B 146 NOTES AND QUERIES called Quakers". This rule seems the Friends' meeting in the to have held good in the 17603 town. Before 1849 Friends went when, except Quakers, no persons to Stockton; from 1849 to 1871 were admitted to walk without the meeting house and burial their gowns (p. 136). ground was in Wilson Street. That property was sold to the LIVERPOOL corporation, and in 1873 Friends "William Roscoe, the Roscoe built a meeting house to seat circle and radical politics in 400 together with other rooms Liverpool, 1787-1807", by lan and a caretaker's cottage. At Sellers (Transactions of the His­ the outbreak of war in 1939 this toric Society of Lancashire and property was requisitioned, and Cheshire, Vol. 120, 1969, pp. 45- Friends went to Cornfield Road. 62) includes a notice of the found­ In 1961 Friends took a large ing of the Liverpool branch of the house at the corner of Cam­ Anti-Slavery Society in 1788. "It bridge Road and Eton Road. was an act of considerable moral courage on the part of the four NlDDERDALE, YORKS. Quakers, Dr, Binns, Nathaniel The National Register of Daulby, the two William Rath- Archives, West Riding (Northern bones and the three Unitarians, Section) committee, has pro­ Roscoe, Wallace, and Yates who duced an inventory in five were the original members' 1 volumes of the Ingilby records, (P- 49). owned by Major Sir Joslan The author notes that in the Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley Castle, 17903 the "theological liberal­ Harrogate, in September, 1966. ism" of the Rathbones "proved The inventory is not indexed. finally incompatible with the The land records concern proper­ Quaker tradition"' (p. 54). ties in various parts of Yorkshire, including estates in Nidderdale. MASSACHUSETTS The Dacre deeds include a "On toleration in Massachusetts1 ' settlement before the marriage by E. Brooks Holifield, Depart­ of Elizabeth Buck and John ment of Religious Studies, Yale Fothergill, of Carr End, Ays- University (Church History, June, garth, yeoman, 1726 (605), and 1969, pp. 188-200) deals with the in the following deed (lease and situation in the colony in the release, 1726, no. 606) the name 16703 when Baptists and Quakers Bos vile Middleton of Borough- came at least to be tolerated bridge, yeoman, appears. 678- tacitly by some sections of the 80 concern Ann Ellis, of Ingleton, community. later 01 Clapham, widow, 1813- 17. John Jowitt, of Holbeck MIDDLESBROUGH (1661) (2152) leased closes in Wortley, Leeds, from Sir John The History of Middlesbrough, Ingilby, 1716 and 1732. by William Lillie (Middles­ An informed reading of the brough Corporation, 1968) is a inventory would doubtless re­ workmanlike official history of veal more Friends. the town up to the time of its incorporation in the new Tees- NORWICH side County Borough. It in­ A footnote to an article on "Nor­ cludes a paragraph concerning wich bills of mortality, 1707- NOTES AND QUERIES 147 1830", by J. K. Edwards, in the ing their welfare could be dis­ Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic cussed and appropriate action and Social Research, Vol. 21, No. 2, concerted. When a bill against November, 1969, p. 113, assigns the colonial charters was intro­ certain numbers to the member­ duced unexpectedly in the House ship of dissenting sects in the city of Lords in the spring of 1701, (of a probable total of 1,100 to Meeting for Sufferings was im­ 1,200, some 3 per cent to 3^ per mediately able to lobby support cent of the entire population to delay the bill (which would during the latter half of the have threatened to restrict the eighteenth century). "Members liberties of Friends in the Ameri­ of the Congregational sect prob­ can colonies) until more direct ably numbered 100 by 1770, instructions could be received those of Baptists, 55 by 1790; of from William Penn who was in Methodists, 160, by 1770; of the Pennsylvania. (See J.F.H.S., Society of Friends, 300-400 vol. 51, p. 229.) throughout the period 1750- 1800. The total was in the region SCARBOROUGH of 750, to which perhaps 100 An item on p. 22 of A descriptive could be added for Jews and catalogue of the records in the Catholics/' The author adds possession of the corporation of 40 per cent for persons under 16 Scarborough, by G. C. F. Forster years to reach his total estimate (Jan., 1968), reads: of 1,200. "J ii Quaker Papers 1661- The author has used the 1821: Cupboard G, Box 38", Friends' records at Norwich together with the note that the Record Office. item "includes lists of Quakers, proclamations and warrants OXFORD against them, summonses and prosecutions0 . In 1697 an(l J 7^9 Quakers were at 65 St. Giles, Oxford, according SUSSEX to the evidence gained from leases recorded (p. 214) in Survey The Penguin Buildings of Eng­ of Oxford, by the late H. E. land series volume on Sussex, by Salter. Edited by W. A. Pantin I an Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner and W. T. Mitchell, vol. 2, 1969 (Penguin Books, 303., 1965) (Oxford Historical Society. N.S. includes brief notices of meeting 20). houses and property connected with Friends at Ifield (Crawley); the Blue Idol; Horsham; PENNYSYLVANIA Brighton; Penn's Rocks, Lye Politics of colonial policy: the Green, Groombridge; Lewes; Board of Trade in colonial Saddlescombe (see A South Down administration, 1696-1720, by Farm in the Sixties, by Maude I. K. Steele, professor of history Robinson). in the University of Western Ontario (Clarendon Press, WENSLEY, YORKS. Oxford, 1968. 485.) illustrates The following entries appear the value to Friends of having in the parish register of Wensley, regular and frequent meetings vol. 2 (1701-1837) of which was in London where matters affect­ published by the Yorkshire 148 NOTES AND QUERIES Archaeological Society Parish Williams (Catholic Record Soci­ Register Section in 1967: ety publications. Monograph [P- i] series, vol. i), 1968, includes a March 5 1701/2 Anne Homer useful annotated alphabetical of Leyburn (a Quaker) bur list of Wiltshire names in the there Recusant rolls, 1664 to 1690 iP- 23] (P.R.O. E.377/82: 68-91)- In­ October 18 1721 Margareta cluded in this list of 624 persons Tennant Quaker de Leyburn are more than seventy who bapt probably were Friends, like October 19 1721 Geo. Warriner Arthur Eastmead (Ismeade), & Marg. Tennant prdict. Ambo Israel Noyes and John Tibboll. de Leyburn (Bannis Matrim Further search might identify Secun morem a Dom. Johan others. Clayton publi. Matrim Con ab eodem) WORCESTERSHIRE [P. 28] I May 17 1725 Henry lanson an The 23rd report of the County adult Quaker Husbandman Archivist, Worcestershire (Wor­ bapt cester 1967), contains the follow­ [P- 85] ing paragraph: May 27 1781 Ann & Deborah "One of the most interesting I'anson Adult Quakers bapt accessions which this Office has had was made initially in 1951 and has continued at intervals WHITBY until 1965. It comprises the Whitby inhabitants to the num­ archives of the Religious Society ber of 28 certified for Mr. of Friends and covers most of Christopher Stephenson, 4th the activities of that Society August, 1679, that he was not a from the i7th century in the "nonconformist, a Consorter Worcestershire, Shropshire and with quakers and phanaticks". Herefordshire areas. One of the Ever since he had arrived in the interesting aspects of the Quaker Whitby and Fylingdales district movement is that it has acquired he had been a constant Church over the years a terminology of man, and was a fit man to have a its own. For instance, the licence to teach school in Whitby. words 'concern', 'sufferings', The certificate is printed in 'queries' and 'inner light' facsimile (Document no. 9, from have a special significance for R.I.V.N 65, Borthwick Institute Quakers, and the situations of Historical Research) in a sheaf which led up to their use are of documents illustrating six­ to be discovered by a careful teenth and seventeenth century examination of the Society's handwriting, edited by Ann archives. So also are the con­ Rycraft. Series 2, 2nd edition, temporary references to George 1969, to be purchased from the Fox's visits to the County." Borthwick Institute. II Nikolaus Pevsner: The buildings WILTSHIRE of England—Worcestershire (Pen­ Catholic recusancy in Wiltshire, guin Books, 1968, 355.) includes 1660-1791, by J. Anthony brief notices of the Friends' NOTES AND QUERIES 149 meeting houses at Bewdley and 1772—Balby, House of Worcester (1701). Thomas Haigh (certificate 112); 1794—Quakers' Meeting YORK RACES House, Clifford, parish of Brain- An anecdote in Memories of ham (certificate 730). half a century (1899, 2nd ed. Doubtless others could be I 9°3)f by Richard W. Hiley, identified by a searcher with vicar of Wighill near Tadcaster, knowledge of the names of Yorks, an old Tory parson who local Friends of the period, for kept a school at Thorp Arch instance it would be tempting to Grange for thirty years in identify. Victoria's reign, may bear re­ 1783—Wooldale, Town End, peating. Unfortunately one parish of Kirkburton, House of character is not known to us. Jonathon Heap (certificate 364) The story goes (p. 320) that with the Wooldale meeting house the Archbishop of York from recorded (under 1784) in David 1807-47, Edward Vernon Har- Butler's list (J.F.H.S., vol. 51, court, used in his earlier years p. 210). to go to see York races, but, "As he advanced in years CLEANLINESS he was not seen on the course, "Be cleanly. In, this let Method­ but he got a glimpse from his ists take pattern by the own grounds, a particular spot Quakers." Thus, John Wesley to affording a view of the horses Richard Steel, one of his preach­ as they turned one corner. On ers in Ireland, 24th April, 1769. one occasion the spectator, ob­ The above is quoted (p. 210) serving two horses running neck in The Eighteenth-Century Pul­ and neck, became excited and pit: a study of the sermons of exclaimed: 'Two to one on Butler, Berkeley, Seeker, Sterne, brown jacket/ 'Done! your grace/ Whitefield and Wesley, by James exclaimed a voice from the Downey (Oxford University ditch below, much to the arch­ Press. 5 os.). The author also bishop's astonishment. The voice notes accounts of Rhode Island came from an old quaker who Quakers flocking to hear George had desired to be also an unseen Berkeley preach when he visited spectator of the race, but had the colony. also been unable to repress his excitement/' DIGGERS "Another Digger broadside", by YORKSHIRE Keith Thomas of St. John's The Borthwick Institute of College, Oxford (Past and Present Historical Research has issued a no. 42, February, 1969, pp. 57— "Summary list of certificates of 68) prints A Declaration of the dissenters meeting houses'" (1968) grounds and Reasons, why we the preserved in the York diocesan poor Inhabitants of the Parrish of archives for the years 1767-99, Tver in Buckinghamshire, have 1833 and 1836-52. begun to digge and manure the Positive statements in the common and wast Land, 1650, list makes it possible to identify from the only recorded copy in two certificates as concerning the Guildhall Library, London. Friends: The editor has used Beatrice NOTES AND QUERIES Saxon Sneirs edition of the issued by American Friends. The Upperside minute book (Buck­ Germantown document of 1688; inghamshire Archaeological George Keith's Exhortation and Society, 1937) "* his search to caution to Friends concerning identify the ten signatories of buying or keeping of Negroes the broadside. (I 693); and the works of John Hepburn, Elihu Coleman, Ralph LITERACY Sandiford, Benjamin Lay, John An article on "Literacy and edu­ Woolman and Anthony Benezet cation in England, 1640-1900", all figure in this useful compila­ by Lawrence Stone (Past and tion. The author is chairman of Present, no. 42, February, 1969, the Department of History at 69-139) notices the influence of the University of Massachusetts, the Puritan ideal in encouraging Boston, and has taught also at good education of children. The Smith College. author states (as a measure of success) on p. 80, that "in post- SPORT 1754 Quaker marriage registers, Sport and Society: Elizabeth to there is not a single mark to be Anne, by Dennis Brailsford seen, by either bridegroom or (Studies in Social History, Rout- bride". ledge, 1969) includes a chapter on "Sport and the Puritans". THE PLAGUE The author notes that George Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Fox rejected the notion that "the Plague Year has been re- outward body was the body of published by Oxford University death and sin", and points to Press (1969, 35s.) edited and with this as a "strain in Puritan an introduction by Louis Land a. thinking which generally kept The account, which is attributed the body free from deliberate to one, H.F., a Londoner who mortification". He goes on to witnessed the events of 1665, in­ quote from Roger Crab, the cludes mention of Solomon ascetic hatter of Chesham (who Eccles and his prediction of the gets the asterisk of a backslider plague as a judgement on the in Smith's Catalogue of Friends' city; and also mentions Friends' Books}. burial ground at Bunhill Fields: "The Quakers had at that time STEWED QUAKER also a burying Ground, set a- STEWED QUAKER, burned rum part to their Use, and which they with a piece of butter. An still make use of, and they had American remedy for a cold. also a particular dead Cart to (Francis Grose, A classical dic­ fetch their Dead from their tionary of the vulgar tongue. Houses" (p. 234). London, 1785.) SLAVERY TOLERATION, 1789 Racial Thought in America: Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope i—From the Puritans to Abraham (1753-1816), made his mark as an Lincoln. Edited by Louis inventor, man of science, and in Ruchames (University of Massa­ politics. An advocate of parlia­ chusetts Press, 1969. $8.00) mentary reform as early as 1781, includes the classic documents he was from 1786 in the House of NOTES AND QUERIES Lords on the death of his father, the social reformer. Entries in the the 2nd Earl. In the summer of book were made at least up to 1789 he introduced two Bills into 1760, and there are more than a the Lords, one to repeal obsolete score of names of the sources laws on ecclesiastical matters from whom the recipes came. restricting personal liberties, the These sources include Hanah other to relieve Quakers from Fream [of Winchmore Hill?] and some of the more annoying and "Esquire Sands of Miserdine". irksome features of recovery suits over tithes. Both Bills PRIEST BOYES OF GOATHLAND failed to pass the second reading. Joyce Dixon of Pickering meet­ (See The Stanhopes of Chevening: ing, and of the Goathland Local a family biography, by Aubrey History Group, working on Newman, Macmillan, 1969, pp. Goathland documents at the 148-149.) Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York, has found the ELIZABETH BATHURST following reference (York Dis­ The occasion when Elizabeth trict Probate Registry, Vol. 2, Bathurst interrupted the service p. 22) to William Boyes at his at Dr. Annesley's meeting house induction in 1626 [amend the in Spitalfields, 2oth October, note in J.F.H.S., xlix (1960), 1678, is recorded in Susanna 179 accordingly], as "a man Wesley and the Puritan Tradition known for his good life, conver­ in Methodism (Epworth Press, sation & behaviour, & for win­ 1968), by John A. Newton ning people to the Zeale of (p. 26). God's Worde". Before long, under his guid­ BELLERS FAMILY ance, the villagers had asked In an Eighteenth Century Kit­ and been given permission by chen: a receipt book of cookery, the Dean of York to bury their 1698. Edited, with an introduc­ dead at Goathland, instead of tion, notes and glossary by having to take them along the Dennis Rhodes; a preface by rough tracks over the moors to Beverley Nichols; and illustrated Pickering. (Archbishop Sharp's by Duncan Grant (Cecil and MSS.) Amelia Woolf, 1968. 255.), is a Joyce Dixon thinks it would be volume which reproduces a likely to be the little church at manuscript found by Beverley Goathland to which Fox refers Nichols when he took over the in his Journal. It was quite Huntingdonshire house which he literally in the moors, a little described in A Thatched Roof distance from the present building. (1933)- The introduction assigns the JOHN BRIGHT book to the Bellers family, on the John Bright and the Empire, by strength among other things of James L. Sturgis of Birkbeck the initials F B on the title-page. College, London (Athlone Press, The F.B. perhaps stands for 1969), surveys the subject under Frances (Fettiplace) Bellers, the headings of India, the Colo­ 1666-1716, or for Fettiplace nies, and Ireland (in which Bellers, born 1687, the wife and section the author has made use son respectively of John Bellers of the letters of John Bright to 152 NOTES AND QUERIES Jonathan Pirn in the Friends' The note records: Historical Library, Eustace "Lady D'arcy, who was the Street, Dublin). second wife of Sir William Bowes, of Biddic, and widow of JOHN D ALTON, F.R.S. Godfrey Foljambe, of Walton, The best brief biographical Co. Derby, Esq., on whose sketch of John Dalton, the estate she had a large jointure, Friend and Fellow of the Royal married thirdly, Lord D'arcy, of Society as Friend to appear Aston. She was a puritan, and recently is "Old Quaker Dalton", entertained many godly minis­ a lecture by John T. Marsh to ters. The next in the entail, who the Manchester Literary and thought she had lived long Philosophical Society (Memoirs enough, and proceedings, Vol. in, 1969, "The jointur'd widow long pp. 27-47). There is no mention survives," of the atomic theory. The author went to see her, and was invited deals with the background, up­ to dinner, when she desired him bringing and life of the scientist to say grace; and with the atti­ under the following heads: The tude of a starch'd puritan, after Quaker background; Cumber­ the usual pause, he expressed his land; Young Quaker Dalton; wishes graciously as above. The Quaker schoolmaster; Meteorology; Colour vision; EARLY OF WITNEY Grammar; The Manchester The Blanket Makers, 1669-1969: scientist; Quaker simplicity; a history of Charles Early & Smoking and drinking; Dalton Marriott (Witney) Ltd., by Hall; Death and funeral. Alfred Plummer and Richard E. An illustration shows the Early (Routledge & Kegan Paul, "General meeting of the British 1969), traces the development of Association for the Advancement the blanketmaking firm back to of Science", 1842, held in Man­ family roots in seventeenth cen­ chester Friends' Meeting House. tury Witney, when there lived Richard Early, "man-mercer" LADY D'ARCY (or men's outfitter), a Quaker, Sir Cuthbert Sharp's The Bishop- whose son Thomas was appren­ rick Garland, a collection of ticed at the age of 14 in 1669 to a legends, songs, ballads, etc., be­ blanketmaker named Silman. longing to the county of Dur­ Thomas succeeded to Silman's ham, first published in 1834, ^as business. Thomas Early's bro­ been reprinted (Frank Graham, ther John (1657-1733) was also Newcastle upon Tyne, 1969, a Quaker, but there is no further i os. 6d.)- It contains the follow­ mention of any of their succes­ ing: sors being of that persuasion. "A GRACE The book is well produced, and ''Good Lord of thy mercy, there are two family trees. 'Take my good lady D'arcy "Unto her heavenly throne; HENRY TOBIT EVANS "That I little Frank, "The Liberal Unionists in "May sit in my rank Wales", by Kenneth O. Morgan, "And keep a good house of my in The National Library of Wales own." Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter, NOTES AND QUERIES 153 , pp. 163-171, includes a from MacGill to Canon J. N. notice of the work of Henry Dalton inserted in it. It seems Tobit Evans of Llanarth, Aber- much more likely, however, that aeron, in the politics of the late the letter, which has no name of i88os and early 18903. Evans addressee, is to T. E. Harvey. reacted against Gladstone's Preserved with the letter is a Home Rule Bill and became printed extract from the Daily Liberal Unionist agent for Wales Express of 2gth November, 1911, in 1889. The writer comments containing a poem, "The Men of that Evans was "indeed a the Thames", by Patrick Friend with many foes". MacGill, which was recited at the great "Express" meeting JOHN HARRIS, 1812-1869 held at Greenwich to demand a "John Harris, Quaker engineer warship for the Thames. This & investor, 1812-1869°, by H. J. poem may, perhaps, explain why Smith ( Transactions of the Cum­ T. E. Harvey, then Liberal M.P. berland 6" Westmorland Anti­ for West Leeds and no Navy quarian (S> Archaeological Society, man, does not seem to have Vol. 69 N.S., 1969, pp. 330-343) opened up correspondence fur­ gives a brief sketch of the life and ther to assist the poet in his business activity of one who career. made some mark in the develop­ ment of Darlington and Teesside. JOSEPH LANCASTER John Harris transferred his mem­ M. H. Mackenzie in an article on bership from Pardshaw monthly "Cressbrook and Litton mills, meeting to Darlington in 1835, 1779-1835" (Derbyshire Archaeo­ and in 1836 became resident logical Journal, 88, 1968, pp. 23- engineer to the Stockton and 24) justifies Joseph Lancaster's Darlington Railway. There is a bizarre methods of keeping dis­ genealogical table, showing fam­ cipline in school without resort­ ily connections with the Dixon, ing to corporal punishment, Pease, Whitwell, Wilson and against the strictures of S. D. other families. Chapman in The early factory masters, 1967, p. 203. THOMAS EDMUND HARVEY Edmund Harvey is mentioned in THOMAS LAWSON the course of an article by A. E. "Puritanism and science: the Day entitled: "From Irish navvy anatomy of a controversy", by to Royal librarian" in The Richard L. Greaves of Eastern Library World, Vol. 71, No. 831 Washington State College, an (September, 1969), p. 70. The article in Journal of the History of article concerns Patrick MacGill, Ideas, Vol. 30, No. 3 (July/Sept., author of Songs of the Dead End, *969, pp. 345-368, mentions who was born in County Donegal Thomas Lawson the botanist. in 1891. The author argues that there is a Mr. Day raises the possibility relationship between Puritanism that the Leeds University Lib­ and science, but not a direct one. rary copy of Songs of the Dead End (1913), which was received JAMES LOGAN as part of the T. E. Harvey James Logan had a copy of the bequest in 1955, has a letter 1632 edition of Robert Burton's 154 NOTES AND QUERIES Anatomy of Melancholy, and library of "old Friends Books", Charles Heventhal, Jr. in an invitation to pay a visit. . . "Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy in early America" ROBERT OWEN (Papers of the Bibliographical Robert Owen Society of America, Vol. 63, pp. and the Owenites in I 57~I 75> Britain and America: the quest JQGQ) quotes Frederick for the new Tolles on the possibility of moral world, by Logan's J. F. C. Harrison (Routledge and own sufferings from Kegan black melancholy and despair Paul, 1969) is a hand­ having been some book. It is well written, and some explanation complemented for his interest in the book. with a hundred- page bibliography. The author is JOHN MAYOTT currently professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and John Mayott, gent, and Quaker, has brought to his assistance Chelmsford, 212 ER 35, indi­ material fully to illustrate his cates the will proved in the court subject from both sides of the of the Archdeacon of Essex in Atlantic. There is one picture of 1795. The entry occurs (p. 220) an idyllic scene at New Har­ in the Index to wills now pre­ mony, Indiana, across the Wab- served in the Essex Record Office, ash River from Morris Birkbeck's Chelmsford, Vol. 3, 1721-1858 settlement in Illinois. (London, British Record Society, 1969). WILLIAM PENN RICHARD MILNER "William Penn's English Liber­ ties: (Parish register of Braithwell, tract for several times", by Yorks.) Winthrop S. Hudson of the Colgate Rochester Divinity "1724 i July baptism of School, appears in The William Richard, s. of Richard Milner, and Mary Quaker." Quarterly, 3rd series, Vol. 26, No. 4 (October, 1969), [Entry printed, p. 58, of pp. 578-585. Yorkshire The author dis­ Archaeological Soci­ cusses the various editions, and ety: Parish Register Section. notes the possible Vol. 132. 1969.] influence of the book in preparing the minds of American colonists for the HENRY STANLEY NEWMAN American Revolution. Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, pt. 28 (The National Library of Wales Politics and the Public Interest in journal supplement. Series 2, the Seventeenth Century, by J. A. No. 28), p. 332, includes (among W. Gunn (Routledge, 1969) has miscellaneous correspondence a perceptive chapter on "Con­ 128716 (Gwern-y-pant 7),) the science and Interest after the following:? a reply to a query re Restoration". In it the author Quakers of the Dolgellau dis­ pays considerable attention to trict . . . Henry Stanley Newman, William Penn, and touches on Leominster, 1882 (? Quaker his views on civil rights and his schools at Penketh and Sidcot, attitude towards religion in poli­ the writer's interest in a new tics, the catholics, and a balance edition of Richard Davies . . . his of parties. NOTES AND QUERIES 155 William Penn's political activity and feaver... and my wife so very is mentioned in Richard E. ill these 9 weeks, and now dan­ Boyer, English Declarations of gerously relapst, so that she Indulgence, 1687 and 1688. can't come to me & I must not (Studies in European history, 15. goe to her (a most uncomfortable The Hague & Paris, Mouton, state) and my poor family and 1968.) affaires in so great disorder by these and other afflictions, that In Manuscripts and Men issued I beg leave to renew my last by the Royal Commission on request for my liberty." Historical Manuscripts on the occasion of the centenary of its JOHN RICHARDSON WIGHAM establishment, 1869-1969 (H.M. (1829-1906) Stationery Office, 1969. £i), "Science and government in item no. 68 (from the Finch Victorian England: lighthouse Papers) is a letter from William illumination and the Board of Penn to Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl Trade, 1866-1886", by Roy M. of Nottingham, 2ist November, MacLeod of Churchill College, 1692, praying that he might Cambridge (Isis, Vol. 60, No. 201, be released from his voluntary Spring 1969, pp. 5-38), deals in parole, there being no truth part with the efforts of John whatsoever in the charges made Wigham to have his gas light against him of plotting with the inventions used in the Irish Jacobites. lights adopted in the British Penn writes: "I am so much lighthouses and the political broaken in my health by a forces which eventually frus­ Rhumatisme, Imposthumation, trated this.