Notes and Queries MEETING HOUSES Lamentation for the Loss of Her David M. Butler is preparing lists Husbands Jewels, begin: Oh of the Meeting houses of each Wretched Woman that I am. county, with their dates. He Pepys 111.302. would be glad to hear from any (Tune—Tom a Bedlam) "A Friend who has knowledge of the Relation of a Quaker", broadside Meeting houses of a particular of 1659, begin: All in the Land of area, and who might be willing Essex. Other editions entitled to fill in some of the gaps in his 'The Colchester Quaker". information. Facts or references required EDUCATION AND FACTORY include the location or address of "Education the house, date of acquisition and the factory in and building date industrial Lancashire, 1780- of disposal (if 1840", by Michael not still in use) and present state. Sanderson (Economic history review, 2nd series, vol. 20, no. 2, August BALLADS 1967, pp. 266-279) mentions The British Broadside Ballad and Jacob Bright, and the Ashworth, its Music, by Claude M. Simpson Dobson and Barlow, and the (New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers Waithman mills and their work University Press, 1966) contains in the educational field. the following references to ballads which introduce Quakers: IRON INDUSTRY (Tune—Cook Laurel) '' The Quakers Prophesie", begin: Come The Black Country iron industry: all my kind Neighbours and listen a technical history by W. K. V. awhile. Reprinted in Roxburghe Gale (Iron and Steel Institute, ballads, VI.6. 1966) deals briefly with the (Tune—Let Mary Live Long, contributions of the Darbys and 1692) "The Quaker's Wanton Lloyds to the development of Wife", begin: A Citizen's Wife I the iron industry in England. am, I declare it. Reprinted in Osterley Park Ballads, p. 25. RAILWAY BIBLIOGRAPHY Later editions mentioned, with A masterly Bibliography of title "A pleasant Discourse of a British Railway History compiled Young Woman to her Husband by George Ottley, published by the Quaker". Alien and Unwin (1965) in- (Tune—The Old Man's Wish, includes many references to by Walter Pope, 1684) "An Friends and Quaker families Excellent New Song, Call'd The who made their mark in railways, Quakers Lament ation", 1692, stretching through the alphabet begin: Dear friends behold a from Brother most sad. Pepys ¥.409. AGGS, William Hanbury, (Tune—The Spinning Wheel, Handbook on Railways and c. 1680-) "The Quaker's Wives through George Bradshaw, the -219 220 NOTES AND QUERIES Peases and the Pirns, right on to SLAVERY YOUNG, Thomas. The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, vol. 49, no. REGISTERS 2 (Spring 1967) pp. 271-2, National Index of Parish records the deposit in the library Registers, a guide to Anglican, of a collection of letters, letter- Roman Catholic and Noncom- books, diaries and printed works formist Registers before 1837, of and concerning the anti- compiled by D. J. Steel (Society slavery advocate George Thomp­ of Genealogists), of which volume son (1804-78) and his son-in-law, 5, dealing with the south Mid­ F. W. Chesson. Thirty-three of lands and the Welsh border the letters were written to Miss counties was published in 1966, E. Pease, later Mrs. Nichol. The promises to be a useful set even collection includes a letter-book before all eleven volumes plan­ of the Aborigines Protection ned are published. Society, of which Chesson was Each county is treated separa­ assistant secretary, for 1856-61 tely, parishes are listed alpha­ and original minutes of the betically after a section giving London Emancipation Com­ general information on record mittee for 1859-60. repositories, the whereabouts of registers, and the scope, where­ ARMFIELD'S OF RINGWOOD abouts and organization of the "Armfield's of Ringwood", by non-parochial registers. Sections Donald A. E. Cross, an article in dealing with the Society of Industrial Archaeology, vol 4, Friends are fully documented no. 2 (May 1067) gives a brief and the compiler has had assis­ history of the firm which Joseph tance from Edward Milligan at Armfield joined as partner in Friends House. A general article 1875, and which continued in on Quaker registers is promised engineering work until it was for volume i (not yet published). wound up in 1956.

SCOTCH-IRISH ROBERT ARTHINGTON Ulster emigration to colonial Eric Sigsworth's Borthwick America, 1718-1775, by R. J. paper (published by St. Dickson (a graduate of Queen's Anthony's Press, York) entitled University, Belfast) is the first The brewing trade during the volume in a new Ulster-Scot industrial revolution: the case of historical series published for the Yorkshire, 1967, has a footnote Ulster-Scot Historical Society (p. 22) on the Leeds Temperance (Routledge, 1966, 45s.). There Society. The Society held its are many references to Pennsyl­ inaugural meeting at the Leeds vania. This will be the authorita­ Friends' Meeting House, and in tive work on the subject for a 1836 the Society voted to be­ good time to come, and the come teetotal. This was not voted appendices and bibliography pro­ without controversy, and some vide information of value quite Friends did not approve. Robert apart from the author's narra­ Arthington, the brewer, owned a tive. copy of the tract Total Absti- NOTES AND QUERIES 221 nence Tried and Found Wanting, men, and of the differences in 1839, but he continued to supply their approach to problems and the beer for monthly meetings how far their identity of thought until 1850. In that year John and action extended. The author Priestman (1805-66), of Brad­ finds that where there were ford castigated the assembled differences it was Cobden rather Friends "in an address so ele- than Bright who was the more quent that the offending barrel radical of the two. was poured down the drain, while Arthington was so moved by the III censure that he at once closed The Bright Papers in the British down the brewery." Museum provided some source An account of this, differing material for John Alan Williams in some respects from the above, in his masterly M.A. thesis in the appears in H. R. Hodgson, The University of Leeds, 1966 en­ Society of Friends in Bradford, titled Manchester and the Man­ 1926, pp. 59-6o. chester school, 1830-57. He con­ cludes that John Blight's defeat JOHN BRIGHT at the polls in 1857 was due to I the opposition of the Manchester Trollope's Phineas Finn has long "school" to the Crimean War been taken to include in its and Palmerston's foreign policy, characters leading political a war and policy which had figures of the i86os. J. R. proved itself popular with the Dinwiddy, lecturer in history at Manchester middle classes. Makerere University College, in an article "Who's who in Trol­ IV lope's political novels' 1 in Nine­ "Cobden and Bright in politics, teenth-Century Fiction, June 1967 1846-1857", by N. McCord, (vol. 22, no. i, pp. 31-46) lecturer in history, University discusses at some length the of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the possible parallels in the charac­ volume of essays in honour of ters of John Bright and the George Kitson Clark (a don at Mr. Turnbull of the novel. Trinity College, Cambridge since Trollope denied having portrayed 1922) which is entitled Ideas and Bright, but the author con­ institutions of Victorian Britain cludes that "he must have (1967, Bell, 633.), deals with the enjoyed drawing these portraits political fortunes of Cobden and or caricatures (which were part Bright after the Corn Law of his 'fling' at contemporary Repeal success. politics); and within the limits of the genre they seem to me JAMES CLAYPOOLE (1634-87) distinctly realistic". The merchant's letter book of James Claypoole for the period II just before and after his emigra­ Cobden and Bright: a Victorian tion to Philadelphia in 1683, political partnership, by Donald has been published by the Read (London, Edward Arnold, Huntington Library, San Marino, 1967, 428.) is a penetrating study California, edited by Marion of the radicalism of the two Balderston, 1967 ($7.50). One 6x 222 NOTES AND QUERIES main interest is that the book MAY DRUMMOND provides a picture of the business Joseph Spence's Observations, (and to a certain extent the Anecdotes, and Characters of Quaker) connections of a London books and men, edited by James trader who was in commercial M. Osborn (Clarendon Press, contact with continental, Irish 1966. 2 vols. £j ios.), is a new and colonial merchants at a and much more enriched edition period when the imperial horizon of a basic source for the literary was expanding. Friends will be history of the age of Pope and his interested in this book because con temporaries. many of Claypoole's contacts, The anecdotes make mention both in London and elsewhere of Robert Barclay, Thomas in the British Isles, were Quaker Beaven, William Penn and merchants like himself. George Whitehead. There is a "The Claypoles of North- small group of notes concerning borough in America", by the May Drummond from a con­ editor of the foregoing Letter versation in early March 1746. book, an article in Northampton­ Anthony Purver's new trans­ shire Past and Present, vol. 4, lation of the Bible was expected no. 2 (pp. 121-124), 1967 in­ to be published soon—a reference cludes a family tree (up to 1706). to the work which did not appear complete until 1764, although Joseph Smith's Descriptive cata­ JOHN DALTON (1766-1844) logue assigns an initial beginning Arnold W. Thackray of Churchill in parts to 1741 or 1742. College, Cambridge, contributes Joseph Spence describes a "Fragmentary remains of John meeting at which May Drum­ Dalton. Part I. Letters", to mond "behaved with great Annals of Science, vol. 22, no. 3 steadiness and seriousness. No (Sept. 1966) pp. 145-74. Several whining when she spoke and hitherto unpublished letters are scarce any action/ 1 He says here printed in full. "Quakerism is by no means a proper religion for the pretty ladies of this world." JOHN FLOUNDERS DIXON John Flounders Dixon (1844- THE FALMOUTH FOXES 1921) emigrated from Great Ayton to Iowa in 1871, and the A history of tin mining and final issue of the Bulletin of the smelting in Cornwall, by D. B. British Association for American Barton (Truro, 1967, 6os.) is largely concerned Studies (no. 12, pp. 5-41, 1966, with develop­ published in 1967) prints a letter ments and vicissitudes from the from the emigrant which is now beginning of the nineteenth cen­ in the possession of Mr Eric tury until the present. The Rodway of Leeds. The letter volume includes some references describes the journey from York­ to the mining interests of the shire to Iowa. It is fully annota­ Fox family of Falmouth and ted, as well on family and bio­ Wadebridge. graphical points as on topographical and economic GALTON aspects. "The Galtons of Birmingham, NOTES AND QUERIES 223 Quaker gun merchants and HANNAH KILHAM bankers, 1702-1831", by Barbara The early study of Nigerian M. D. Smith, an article in languages, by P. E. H. Hair Business History, vol. 9, no. 2, (Cambridge University Press, July 1967, pp. 132-149, is 1967, 503.) treats briefly of particularly concerned with the the work of Hannah Kilham, business activities of Samuel one of the first Europeans to John Gait on (1753-1832). recommend the education of Africans in their vernaculars. The author mentions his own THOMAS HAMERSLEY article in Journal F.H.S., 49, Staffordshire and the Great Rebel­ 1960, pp. 165-8, and also lion. Edited by D. A. Johnson Ormerod Greenwood on "Han­ and D. G. Vaisey. Published by nah Kilham's plan 1 ', Sierra Staffordshire County Council Leone Bulletin of Religion, 4, County Records Committee 1962, pp. 9-22, 61-71, and he (1965), includes the following: notes that Friends failed to Item 43. One of the first accord much support to her Staffordshire Quakers calls a activities, and when Hannah meeting, [pp. 65-66]. Kilham travelled out to Free­ This little notice was produced town in 1830, she went with four in evidence when Thomas returning C.M.S. missionaries, Hamersley was bound over to but with no Quaker colleague. keep the peace, 1655. (S.R.O., Q/SR.M.I655, f.2). MARY LEADBEATER I give notice to all neighbors hereabout or else where that The 39th annual report of the there is a general meeting upon Huntington Library and Art Chedleton Heath the first day of Gallery, 1965-66, reports (p. 21) the next weeke called Thursday the acquisition by the library of where may be discovered the a number of Maria Edgeworth's deceipt of the preists and the letters, including letters addres­ truth made manifest to as man[y] sed to Mary Leadbetter, relating as can receive it. to the latter's Cottage Dialogues. (signed) by me: J. C. LETTSOM Thomas Hamersley. Leeke, A bibliographical note on 'The 26th of the 7th month. Westminster Library" in The Library, Sept. 1966, vol. 21, no. 3 (5th series), p. 243, mentions JOHN SCANDRETT HARFORD that John C. Lettsom "the most An autograph manuscript by versatile and devoted leader in Hannah More of her poem "Le public health movements of the Bas Bleu or the Progress of time" was a member of the Conversation: An Epistle to library. Mrs. Vesey" presented to John Scandrett Harford (1754-1815) COCKSURE TOM of Blaise Castle, 1783, was sold A. N. L. Munby's lecture on at Sotheby's, Tuesday i8th July Macaulay's Library (University 1967 (lot no. 540) by order of Sir of Glasgow, 28th David Murray Arthur Harford, Bt. Foundation lecture, 9th March 224 NOTES AND QUERIES 1965), published by the univer­ noticed in the same chapter is sity publishers at Glasgow, 1966, Edmund Rack (d. 1787) founder ranges widely through the read­ of the Bath and West Agricul­ ing and opinions of the historian tural Society, and author of as revealed by the books he Poems on several subjects (1775); owned (of which the catalogue "To Spring" "is full of cata­ survives) and read and anno­ logues of spring flowers". tated. The author notices that "The soubriquet 'Cocksure JOSEPH JOHN SEEKINGS Tom' was not applied for Joseph John Seekings, who went nothing and we can all remem­ into partnership with George ber some rather uncomfort­ Edward Belliss in engineering in able episodes in his career the i86os, appears briefly in a such as the 'complacent infalli­ paper on the history of G. E. bility', as Sir Charles Firth Belliss & Company in the Tran­ described it, with which he sactions of the Newcomen received the deputation of Society, vol. 37, pp. 87, 88. Quakers who came, with good When Belliss began to turn reason, to expostulate with towards naval work, Seekings him over his misrepresenta­ left the firm, set up near Glouces­ tion of the character of William ter and eventually took into Penn." partnership William Sisson, who GEORGE ROFE gave his name to the firm after Seekings' death. Felix Hull's Calendar of the White and Black books of the Cinque Ports, 1432—1955 (His­ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW torical Manuscripts Commission. Shaw on Religion. Edited by JP 5. H.M. Stationery Office, Warren Sylvester Smith (Con­ 1966) contains a note on p. 498 stable, 1967) includes extracts of a 1655 petition on behalf of from the writings of Bernard George Rofe, a Quaker, against Shaw dealing with many aspects Hythe, which is omitted. of religion. Quakers are men­ [K.A.O.: CP/Bp 124,125.] tioned in a hitherto unpublished essay "On ritual, religion, and SCOTT OF AMWELL the intolerableness of tolerance" (1922). Shaw declares "In essen­ of A brief notice of the poems tials I am Protestant and John, Scott of Amwell occurs in Quaker"; "There is room in the history a chapter on "Natural world for George Fox and the in English poetry, 1760-1800" in Pope". Shaw's interest in George The rhetoric of science: a study of Fox is noted, and the scene in scientific ideas and imagery in which Fox makes his appearance eighteenth-century English poetry in In Good King Charles's Golden by William Powell Jones (Rout- Days is reprinted in the volume. ledge, 1966, 405.). The author deals in this chapter with the poetry of the period influenced TACE SOWLE by Thomson's Seasons; he notices Tace Sowle appears in the reports the scientific exactness of descrip­ of Robert Clare, a printer who tive poems by John Scott on the kept an eye for the government garden at Amwell. Another poet on the activities of his fellow- NOTES AND QUERIES 225 printers during the reign of BECKINGHAM Queen Anne. Among gifts and deposits repor­ In October 1705 Clare sent a ted in Lincolnshire Archives list of London master printers to Committee archivists' report no. Secretary Harley. It included: 18 (1966/67) are documents re­ "Mrs. Sole In Leaden-hall- ceived through the British street/' Records Association (p. 58 of the In November 1705, the follow­ report), which include deeds of ing work was reported: cottages and closes in Becking- "A Letter from a Gentleman in ham [5 miles East of Newark], ye City to his Kinsman in the including former Quaker meet­ Country, Concerning ye inghouse, 1746-1828. Quakers"; authorship unknown [actually by Benjamin Coole]; printer, "Mr. Tacy Sowle". BRADFORD QUAKERS Politics and opinion in nine­ STURGE FAMILY teenth century Bradford, 1832- A Guide to records in the Leeward 1880 (with special reference to Islands, by E. C. Baker (Oxford, parliamentary elections] , by Basil Blackwell, 1965), includes David Gordon Wright, is a some details of family papers in massive i,ooo-page Ph.D. thesis possession of Mrs. E. P. Sturge, in the University of Leeds, 1966. of Hampstead, London, and also The writer thinks that of Sturge papers (including cor­ "Quakers . . . made little impact respondence from ^ oseph Sturge, as a body on the town's social 1840-1858) in "Tie Society of and political life after the last Friends Library, Marylebone quarter of the previous century, Road, London" (pp. 39-40). On with the exception of one or two p. 76 we find the Tortola individuals like . . . John Friends' records at "the Society Priestman" (p. 44). There is a of Friends' Library in Euston brief summary of the career of Road, London1 '. John Priestman (d. 1866) on pages 46-8. Faced with a work WlGHAM OF COANWOOD like this, the reader cannot help "Wigham of Coanwood", by but wish that theses accepted for L. C. Coombes (Archaeologia degrees were required to be Aeliana, 4th series, vol. 44, 1966, indexed before the degree was pp. 165-84) surveys the Wigham conferred. family from the seventeenth century onwards. There is a map BRISTOL of the Coanwood district, in Early Bristol Quakerism, by the angle made by the South Russell Mortimer (Bristol, His­ Tyne river as it flows north and torical Association, 1967) is an then turns eastward towards the account of early Quaker life in sea at Featherstone. There are the city from 1654 t° I 7°°> and valuable family pedigrees for touches on the main highlights the Wighams of Coanwood, the during that period. Illustrations Wighams in Scotland, the Wig- include one of James Nayler's ham Richardson s, the Wighams entry into Bristol, 1656 (from a in Ireland, and the Wighams of volume in Friends House Hargill House. Library), and Ernest Board's

6B 226 NOTES AND QUERIES painting of the marriage of numerous references to the De William Penn to Hannah Callow- Home, Van de Wall, Everett, hill in 1696 (Bristol City Art Fromenteel and Bloys families, Gallery). all of which were prominent members of the Dutch congre­ [From "The Flemish WAGGONWAYS gation/' COALBROOKDALE and Dutch community in Col­ In vol. 37 (1964-65) of the chester in the sixteenth and Newcomen Society's Transac­ seventeenth centuries', by L. F. tions there is a paper by R. A. Roker. (Proceedings of the Hugue­ Mott entitled "English waggon- not Society of London, vol. 21, ways of the eighteenth century", no. i, 1966 (for 1965), p. 29)]. which includes sections on the Coalbrookdale group waggon- ways, a detailed study based in CUMBERLAND part on the Norris MS. and AND WESTMORLAND Abiah Darby's Journal at MEETING HOUSES Friends House Library. Nikolaus Pevsner's Cumberland "Owen Bowen of Dudley, and Westmorland (Buildings of Bailiff of Coal pits, a Quaker, England), Penguin Books, 1967, and aged 49 in 1754" appears 255. notices Friends' Meeting (p. 60) in the course of another Houses at Alston, Burgh-by- article, on Newcomen engines, Sands, Caldbeck, Pardshaw Hall in the same issue, which also (Dean), Eaglesfield, Sikeside makes some use of the Coal­ (Kirklinton), Penrith, Wetheral, brookdale papers. Whitehaven and Wigton (all Cumberland), and at Kendal, COLCHESTER Preston Patrick and Tirril (West­ 4 'In the latter half of the seven­ morland). In a preliminary note teenth century, Colchester be­ on p. 35 the author notices that came a centre of the Quaker many of these Meeting Houses movement . . . the town had for are of the cottage type of the seventeenth century, and that many years housed a community is of ardent Protestant religious the first large meeting house that at Moorhouse (Burgh-by- refugees from the Low Countries, arched and its protestantism had been Sands) of 1733, seven a bye-word. The spiritual home windows long. of the Quakers in Colchester was the Dutch quarter, and members DERBYSHIRE GENTRY of the Dutch congregation, al­ "The gentry of Derbyshire in the though not among the first seventeenth century", by S. C. adherents, were soon to be found Newton, in Derbyshire Archaeo­ at Quaker meetings. John and logical Journal, vol. 86, 1966, Daniel Vandewall were early pp. 1-30, includes brief bio­ members . . . Many other graphical notes on Gervase Ben- Flemish families were repre­ net of Snelston, (son of Robert sented at the Quaker meetings; Bennet of Littleover) originator there are nineteen references to of the name "Quaker", Simon the Tayspill family in the . . . Degge (1612-1703) who wrote a Registers . . . between the years defence of John Gratton, Sir 1674 and 1780, and there are Henry Every of Egginton (1629- NOTES AND QUERIES 227 1700) who was reputed to be a son of his former steward. The defender of the Quakers when on Myers family were Quakers and the bench, and Thomas Woo- behind the hall is the Quaker house (or Wollas) of Glapwell, meetinghouse, 1689. who is listed as a Quaker in a 1662 list of gentry (reproduced GARGRAVE in the article]. History of the church and parish of Saint Andrew, Gargrave, by EDINBURGH Janet M. Dinsdale (Gargrave, The City of Edinburgh (The 1966) includes a couple of pages Third Statistical Account of on the Society of Friends. Scotland, vol. 15), edited by Quakers are also noted in the David Keir (Collins, 1966), in­ returns made to Archbishop cludes a brief summary account Herring's visitation, 1743, and of Friends in the city. Quakerism to Drummond's visitation in first reached Edinburgh in 1653, 1764. and meetings were held for a few The Craven deanery visitation years in the house of William of 1664 recorded nine Quaker Osborne, a former Parliamentary people in the parish, a figure Army officer. The Miller family which rose to twenty-three in is mentioned, and (in the twen­ 1683; families of the names of tieth century development) Tomlinson, Carr, Gill, Parkinson, Ernest Ludlam (183-4). Sedgwick, Tunstall and Wain- man. In 1686 Stainton Hall was being used for meetings. After ESSEX Toleration, meetings were licen­ Friends at Barking (from 1658, sed at Gargrave, Broughton and and including William Mead and Airton. "It is said that an old Richard Claridge), at Epping disused burial ground between (from 1667 or before, together Gargrave and Broughton belong­ with a school), at Waltham ed to the Quakers but no con­ Holy Cross, and one Dagenham firmation can be found/' Quaker of 1665, are mentioned in volume 5 of the Victoria LEEDS History of the County of Essex Leeds Quaker Meeting, by (1966), which covers parts of Wilfrid Allott (Thoresby Society, Becontree and Waltham hun­ Leeds, 1966) is an illustrated dreds. history of the Friends in the Facing p. 123 there is a repro­ town from the beginnings up to duction of a water colour draw­ 1962. This history is based on ing by A. B. Bamford, 1905, of the minute books of Leeds Barking Friends' Meeting House, meeting, and is the printed refronted 1758, demolished 1908. version, made permanently avail­ able above the imprint of the FARFIELD, YORKSHIRE Thoresby Society, the local his­ William Lemmon's Bolton Abbey torical society, of talks given at and the Wharfe (English Life Carlton Hill Meeting House in Publications, Derby), 1967, has 1963 and 1964. a note on Farfield Hall, erected 1728 by Richard, third earl of MANCHESTER COTTON Burlington for George Myers, Manchester men and Indian 228 NOTES AND QUERIES cotton, 1847-1872, by Arthur W. of the town from its establish­ Silver (Manchester University ment in 1830 by a Darlington Press, 1966, 56s.) includes a business group headed by Joseph chapter on the personalities of Pease. The name originally the leaders of the Manchester chosen for the district was "Port business men during the period Darlington", but this proved un­ when the cotton trade sensed popular with the Stockton people and experienced the dangers to who did not wish to be flanked their industry of being so closely by Darlingtons east and west. dependent on American raw This intense local patriotism and cotton imports and looked to rivalry, which is revealed in India for alternative supplies. many parts of the North, re­ John Bright emerges as a prime appears in the search for a force, and this volume throws neutral name for the new County new light on his wise guidance in Borough of Teeside. The author commercial as in political affairs. quotes from The Diaries of A plate of four presidents of the Edward Pease (1907). Manchester Chamber of Com­ merce, gives portraits of Henry NEW ENGLAND PERSECUTION and Edmund Ashworth (the Pilgrim Colony: a history of New latter kept a pack of hounds). Plymouth, 1620-1691, by George D. Langdon, (Yale Publications MANKINHOLES in American studies, 12. 1966) assistant professor of history at In Christopher John Wright's Yassar College, sheds light on A guide to the Pennine way the colonial establishment reac­ (Constable, 255.) Mankin holes tion to the coming of the Quaker (east of Todmorden) is men­ missionaries into the Massa­ tioned for its Youth Hostel near chusetts area in the 16508, and the Pennine Way. The author helps us to understand their also provides the information difficulties and the violence of that it was "one of the first their reaction to the threat meeting pi aces of the Quakers..." which they recognized in the The earliest record of their spread of Quakerism. meetings was in the house of one Joshua Laycock on 3rd Decem­ NOTTINGHAM ber, 1667. They rented a croft Economic and social change in a nearby as a burial ground for midland town: Victorian Notting­ "a twopence of Silver" yearly ham, 1815-1900, by Roy A. rent for a term of 900 years. This Church (Frank Cass, 1966, 758.) can be traced although it is built includes mentions of Friends of upon. There is a gravestone in the period and their contribu­ the wall of one of the buildings tion to the life of the town. with the inscription "J.S. 1685". Samuel Fox, grocer, appears several times, and Joseph MIDDLESBROUGH Sturge's narrow defeat in the The birth and growth of modern 1842 parliamentary election is Middlesbrough, by Norman also studied. Moorsom (the author, 5 Levi- sham Close, Acklam, Middles­ OXFORDSHIRE brough, 1967), covers the history The Oxfordshire Record Society NOTES AND QUERIES 229 publication no. 38 (1957) Colonial Charters, 1699-1702", Articles of Enquiry addressed to by I. K. Steele, of the depart­ the clergy of the Diocese of Oxford ment of history, University of at the Primary Visitation of Dr. Western Ontario, appears on pp. Thomas Seeker, 1738. Trans­ 596-619 of The William and cribed and edited by H. A. Mary quarterly, 3rd series, vol. Lloyd Jukes. 23, no. 4 (Oct. 1966). The volume includes notices of The author, in an interesting Friends at Alvescote (page 7), article, shows, with references to Bampton (13), Banbury (14), Meeting for Sufferings sources, Barford St. Michael (15), Bix and to the correspondence of (17), Bladen (Woodstock) (18), William Penn, the success of the Bloxham (22), Broughton (28), resistance to the Board of Trade's Burcester (30), Burford (32), demand that the charters of the Chadlington and Shorthampton proprietary colonies should be (36), Chalbury (37), Chipping recalled and the provinces vested Norton (44), Cropredy (49), in the crown. Dadington (53), Ewelme (59), Eynsham (61), Finmere (63), WHITEHAVEN Henley (78), Heyford at Bridge (80), Hook Norton (84), King- In 1716 Friends acquired land ham (94), Newton Purcell (107), in Sandhills Lane for the building Northleigh (109), St. Clements of a meeting-house. The house Oxon. (114), St. Mary Mag­ was erected in 1727. Friends dalen's Oxon. (118), St. Peter in continued to use it until 1931 the Bailey Oxon. (121), Rother- when it was sold to the Brethren. field Greys (126), Rowsham (128), This brief factual information Shipton under Whichwood (134), comes from Whitehaven, a short Soulderne (138), South Newing- history, by Daniel Hay, pub­ ton (139), Stanton-Harcourt lished by Whitehaven Borough (145), Steeple Barton (149), Council, 1966, price los. Stonesfield (153), Swailecliffe (155), Swereford (156), Tackley YORKS (N.R.) MEETING HOUSES (159), Tadmarton (160), Tainton Nikolaus Pevsner's The buildings (160), Great Tew (161), Watling- of England, Yorkshire the North ton (164), West Well (168), Riding (Penguin Books, 1966) Wiggington (171), Witney (174). mentions Friends' meeting Nowhere is it stated that houses at Carperby (1864), Quakerism is increasing. Malton (1825), Middlesbrough (c. 1877), Osmotherley (1733), PENNSYLVANIA Scarborough (St. Sepulchre 1801, "The Board of Trade, the York Place 1894), and the school Quakers, and Resumption of at Great Ay ton.