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.