Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries 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.

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