Notes and Queries DANIEL AMES OF LAKENHAM rary quarterly, Nov. 1964, vol. The Ames correspondence, volume 28, no. i, pp. 45-57), includes 31 of the publications of the notice of tracts which were Norfolk Record Society (1962), purchased from the Barry Brown contains letters written by mem collection in Ireland in 1961. bers of the family of Daniel Ames Among these is one Proper of Lakenham, Norwich (1775- Lessons Written by a Quaker, To 1852), mainly to Mary Ames his Be Read throughout the Year wife during the 1830*5 and 1840*3. (Dublin, Re-printed by Thomas Daniel was a Quaker, the rest of Hume, over-against the Bible on the family were Methodists. the lower-end of Cork Hill). The Some of the family emigrated to caption-title on p. 3 is "Proper New York. Joseph Ames, one of Lessons for the Tories", under the sons, wrote from New York, which title the work had ap I2th June, 1839: peared in London in 1716. The "Our City is now quite busy author provides reason to think the Quakers holding their 'Yearly that the Dublin issue is a "re Meetings and J. J. Gurney is print of an earlier version of a high Stifler (sic) among them London tract which was re here, now wears quite the Old issued in London as Proper Fashion 'Penn Garment'. I heard Lessons for the Tories." him the other evening, he looks quite old and grey. Is much BENJAMIN FURLY among other Sects and criticised Peter Laslett, in an essay "John the Public Prints ridicule him." Locke and his books" prefixed to (P- 50) a catalogue of The Library of In 1840 Charles Fuller Ames, by John Harrison emigrated. In John Locke, another son also and Peter Laslett (Oxford Biblio comment on one of Charles's graphical Society publications, to letters home, his sister wrote N.S. 13, 1965) includes the her mother: following note on page 4: ''From "He seems to stick to the early in 1687 to early in 1689 Quakers. I do not altogether Locke lived in the household of of this, on account of approve Benjamin Furly, an English (so often) silent meetings their Quaker settled at Rotterdam, they may do very well for older who left some 4,400 books (titles) and more reflecting minds but when he died, see Bibliotheca dear Charles want oral instruc Fur liana, sive Catalogus Libro- and that in a plain manner, tion rum B. Furly, Rotterdam, 1714. these, I fear, he will among The overlap with Locke's final seldom en joy this/' (p. 68) library is interesting, and it seems that the drafts of the books DANIEL DEFOE which he brought out so soon "Defoe acquisitions at the Hun- afterwards were influenced by tington Library", by John what he could read in Furly's Robert Moore (Huntington Lib house except, of course, the 126 NOTES AND QUERIES 127 draft on government/' Locke restoring of a leaning tower to its had at least a dozen Quaker perpendicular at Yanwath Hall, books, among which it is inter contributed by W. Douglas esting to note John Anderdon's Simpson. Call to all bishops . . . to come to In the same volume there is a the way of the Quakers, 1670, for brief obituary notice of Kenneth he too had Somerset connections. Richardson Pumphrey of Preston One item which the compilers Patrick Hall, who died 8th have not been able to identify is : February 1964. Also there ap "2419. Caution to Quackery not pears a paper on "The Broad to be concerned in Government. Oak deeds" by Professor G. P. Jones, which mentions the Bur- rough and Halhead families. LUKE HOWARD AND THE BAROMETER COLONIAL DOCUMENTS The History of the Barometer, by The Fulham Papers in the Lam W. E. Knowles Middleton (Johns beth Palace Library. American Hopkins Press, 1964) notes that: Colonial section calendar and "In 1801 Luke Howard . . . con indexes. Compiled by William structed a linseed-oil barometer Wilson Manross. (Oxford, Claren outside his house and compared don Press, 1965.) £6 6s. od. it frequently with a mercury This calendar of documents barometer." resulting from the relationship The author also mentions that between the Bishop of London in 1814 Luke Howard purchased and the Church of England in the a barograph constructed by American colonies in the seven Alexander Gumming, and used it teenth and eighteenth centuries in London on his climatological has a good many references to investigations until 1828 "when Quakers in nine of the mainland it was moved to Ackworth, American colonies as well as in Yorks. This barograph is still in Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica and the Howard family, though only Tortola. Unfortunately, the in the clock was operating in 1962." dexes do not appear impeccable, (p. 289). but nonetheless it is most wel Also mentioned in the book is come to have a guide to this the work of John Dalton (1766- valuable collection. 1844), and John Gough (1757- 1825) of Kendal. WEST COUNTRY INDUSTRIES In the first of a projected series of books on the industrial arch THOMAS WILKINSON OF aeology of the British Isles, YANWATH Kenneth Hudson (The industrial The Transactions of the Cumber archaeology of southern England land & Westmorland A ntiquarian (Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Archaeological Society, vol. Somerset, and Gloucestershire east 64 new series, 1964, prints (pp. of the Severn), Dawlish, David 392-3) a copy of a letter from and Charles; London, Macdonald, Thomas Wilkinson to Mary 1965, 455.) includes references Leadbeater, dated Yanwath 2 of to industries in which Friends ii Mo. 1806, concerning the have been active. 128 NOTES AND QUERIES Among the industries reviewed thro' a greater plenty of are iron founding in Bristol and beaver, broad-brimmed hats district (with Harfords, Lloyds, become cheaper to that un Goldneys and Pearsalls engaged mannerly sect, the Quakers." in it); the brassworks, the glass houses and potteries, the cocoa (Printed in The Papers of manufacture, and the dock work Benjamin Franklin, viii. 450, of William Champion in the same from The London Chronicle, city. Further westward, mention Dec. 25-27, 1759-) is made of the Foxes at Welling ton and the Pittard firm at Yeovil. There is an illustration CHINA MISSIONS of the shoe factory at Street from A Guide to the archives and a painting of about 1845, showing records of Protestant Christian Cyrus dark's house, and this is missions from the British Isles to matched by a modern photo China, 7796-7974, by Leslie R. graph. A mile or so away is the Marchant (University of Western fifteenth century fulling house of Australia Press, 1966), provides a Glastonbury Abbey (now used as nearly alphabetical list of bodies a caretaker's residence by Mor- working in China, together with lands). addresses, lists of periodicals published, a brief summary of ACKWORTH SCHOOL details of the life of the society, a resume of the records preserved A 4O-page catalogue of Ackworth and the accessibility of the School archives, 1964, compiled material in the repository. The by James S. Lidbetter and fully Friends' Foreign Mission Associ indexed makes known the collec ation (founded 1866) occupies a tion of books and papers pre page, and the Religious Society of served in the School's collection. Friends (founded 1652) (alpha In addition to the School betized under R) nearly two minutes, reports and accounts, and plans of the estate, there are pages. relics of Dr. Fothergill, examples HOUSES of scholars' work, and books and COFFEE papers dating from the period of London Coffee Houses, by Bryant the Foundling Hospital. There is Lillywhite (Alien and Unwin, a copy in the Library at Friends 1963) is a list of references and House. notices of the London coffee houses of the seventeenth to nine BEAVER HATS teenth centuries. It is arranged in alphabetical order by title of Second among the "Humourous the establishment, supported by Reasons for Restoring Canada1 ' good indexes and street lists. to the French, written by Ben No. 204, Bull and Mouth Inn, jamin Franklin at a time when St. Martin's-le-Grand, has (as the victories of 1759 turned many expected) several references to thoughts towards the settlement Friends' occupancy up to 1740. to follow the Seven Years' War, No. 422, Four Swans Inn & is the following: Coffee House, Bishopsgate Street, "2. We should restore it [i.e. gives a note of Friends1 use of the return it to the French], lest, place as lodgings (c. 1809-11) NOTES AND QUERIES 129 "almost every street of that INSTRUMENT MAKERS district, fairly swarms with The mathematical practitioners of Friends" (Timbs, Curiosities of Hanoverian England, 1714-1840, London). No. 519, Half Moon by E. G. R. Taylor (Cambridge, Tavern & Coffee House, Cheap- University Press, for the Insti side; this house saw the first tute of Navigation, 1966. 845.). recorded meeting of the London This work consists largely of (Quaker) Lead Company, 1692. biographical notices of the teach No. 748, London Assurance ers of mathematics and naviga Coffee House, Birchin Lane, was tion and makers of instruments entered by William Gibson in for the physical sciences and 1727 when not in unity with nautical use during the period London Friends. No. 772 & 773, covered. The notices are brief Mackerell's Quaker Coffee House, and restricted to the interests Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, covered by the work. A glance c. 1702-35. No. 1517, The White through reveals the following Hart Without Bishopsgate, used (among others): Richard Abbatt, by Friends for lodgings, 1680- William Alien, John Churchman, 9o's. John Dalton, Jeremiah Dixon, Samuel Fuller, Robert Were Fox, Luke Howard, J. J. Lister, FRIENDS AND MENNONITES William Pengelly, Thomas "Relationships of the Brethren Young. with the Mennonites and Quakers, 1708-1865,'' by Donald MANUSCRIPTS IN EDINBURGH F. Durnbaugh, Associate Pro "A testimony in uprightnes to all fessor of Church History, Beth- people of a part of the travel of any Theological Seminary, my Soul within thy borders, O appears in Church history, vol. Scotland, these many days," by 35, no. i (March 1966), pp. 35-59- A. Robeson, a Quaker, Duns, The author quotes the Latin 1662. MS. 2201, f.g8. This work verse: forms portion of the manuscript Papa, Moses, Pennus, collection of the Society of Calvinus, Menno, Lutherus Antiquaries of Scotland, depos Una in Creyfelda, ited in 1934 in the National varium cantant alleluja. Library at Edinburgh. Among the Raeburn papers, The relationship with Friends purchased by the National Lib is largely illustrated from Penn- rary, in 1936, there is included a sylvanian sources, for the Breth collection (MS. 2889) of "Corres ren mostly came to Germantown pondence, etc., 1660-1822. It and from there spread out as the includes religious writings of the eighteenth century progressed. seventeenth century, by George The author finds that the Brethren Fox, "the younger in the truth/' were content to follow Quaker George Keith, Walter Scott, the political leadership in the early Quaker laird of Raeburn, and period, and he thinks that in the others. .. later period there was further In the collection of letters to Quaker influence, even to the Sir Walter Scott (MS.3I9I, £25) point of the Brethren adopting There is one from John Barclay, the plain dress. dated 1831. SB 130 NOTES AND QUERIES The above come from the QUAKER DRESS, 1862 National Library of Scotland: A Costume "that is more Hon Catalogue of manuscripts ac oured (now) in the Breach than quired since 1925, vol. 2 (Edin in the Observance/' The Quaker burgh, H.M. Stationery Office, costume. 1966). (Punch,2j.ix.i862, p. 129,) THE MILITIA QUAKER GRAMMARIANS The English militia in the eight Readers of Dr. R. C. Alston's eenth century: the story of a review of You und Thou in our political issue, 1660 1802, by J. last issue (pp. 61-62) may be R. Western (Routledge, 1965, interested to see that the first 705.) includes some brief notices portion of his A bibliography of of the use of the militia under the the English language from the Restoration to discourage dis invention of printing to the sident political movements ven year 1800 has appeared. In addi turing into armed insurrection. tion to works by E. P. Bridel, It also, in this connection, men James Gough, Lindley Murray tions some cases of disturbance and William Sewel, there appears of Quaker meetings. In the eight the Prittle prattle. Or, a familiar eenth century statutory allow discourse on the persons I, Thou, ance was made for Quakers to He or She. We, Ye or You, and provide substitutes, or to have They. Designed for the use and them hired for them, when they benefit of the people called Quakers, were required for militia service. 1752. This is catalogued under J. J. on the strength of an inscription in the Woodbrooke PHILANTHROPY copy of the pamphlet. A chapter on George Cadbury, notices of such Quaker enter RAIN prises as the Retreat, the work of Joseph Lancaster, the Frys, and A History of the Theories of Rain the Rowntree trusts, all grace the and other forms of precipitation, solid history English Philan by W. E. Knowles Middleton thropy, 1660-1960, by Professor (London, Oldbourne Book Co. David Owen of Harvard (Oxford Ltd., 1965) includes an extended University Press, 705.) published chapter on "Water vapour in the in 1965. With so large a field to nineteenth century/' which deals cover the author has not been among other things with the able to give much space to any theory of John Dalton (1766- one subject (Richard Reynolds, 1844), and the climatological work the most considerable philan of Luke Howard (1772-1864) in thropist among Friends under cluding his classification of cloud the Georges, is dismissed in little forms. over a page) but the historical material is well documented and REGISTERS the footnote leads to sources An introduction to English histori and further reading will make cal demography from the sixteenth this an indispensable work to the to the nineteenth century, under student in these fields. the editorship of E. A. Wrigley NOTES AND QUERIES (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), 1966, brings the development in the contains papers by D. E. C. registration service up to modern Eversley, Peter Laslett, the times and cites the most recent editor, and contributions by W. Act of 1953 on the subject. A. Armstrong and Lynda Oven- all. The volume covers the THE RESTORATION, 1660 period roughly from the begin ning of English parish registers George R. Abernathy, Jr. in in 1538 up to the registration of "The English Presbyterians and 1837. The writers show what new the Stuart Restoration, 1648- methods can do to assemble 1663" (Transactions of the Ameri from parish registers and else can Philosophical Society, vol. where a picture of the structure 55, pt. 2, 1965 New Series) men of society in the period. Friends' tions Quakers at four points. He registers are mentioned, as also notes that William Prynne, writ is the fact that the Digests at ing in the Spring of 1659, Friends House which were pre demanded that the laws against pared before the surrender of the Catholics be executed and that originals to the government last no arms be put into the hands of century, may not reproduce all Anabaptists or Quakers "lest the information in the originals. London become another Munster, Mention is also made of the family and England another Germanie." reconstitution methods used by (Prynne, A true and perfect Irish Friends in their records at Narrative, pp. 58-9). Eustace Street, Dublin. In the summer in London some Presbyterians, Independents and Anabaptists had held a meeting REGISTRATION for reconciling their differences "The Registration of Meeting and co-operating against the Houses," an article by Edwin Quakers (Sir Archibald Johnston, Welch in the Journal of the Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston Society of Archivists, vol. 3, no. 3 of Wariston, 1655-60, ed. (April 1966), pp. 116-20, includes James D. Ogilvie (Edinburgh, a few brief notes on the registra 1940), pp. 134-5)- tion of Friends1 meeting houses In January 1660 the London after 1689. The author points Presbyterian ministers in A out that: seasonable exhortation of sundry "Registration was voluntary. ministers in London to the people ... Of the older denominations of their respective congregations the Baptists, Congregational- said that (whereas in 1640 the ists and Presbyterians usually Romish church had hidden be registered and the Quakers hind the skirts of the Anglican usually«/ refrained. There are,* Church) Rome since 1640 had however, a number of exam found refuge among the sectaries, ples of Quaker licences/' especially the Quakers. A footnote records that in 1729 the Devon Quakers tried to get a THE SPECTATOR licence from the archbishop of The new edition of The Spectator, Canterbury (Devon Quarterly edited by Donald F. Bond Meeting minutes, loth May 1729). (Oxford University Press, 21 This comprehensive account gns.) brings to notice again the 132 NOTES AND QUERIES references to Friends in that GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIENDS periodical. Often in the situation Volume 6 of the Gloucestershire of a coach journey, the Quaker is series in the Victoria History of usually presented with sarcasm, the counties of England (Oxford sometimes amused. In the issue University Press, 1965, £j js.) of igth March 1711, there is the covers parishes in the northern "Quaker . . . trimmed close and part of the county on the Cots- almost cut to the Quick." wolds. The volume contains refer Ephraim the Quaker (ist August ences to Friends in the district as 1711) and Hezekiah Broadbrim follows: seventeenth-eighteenth (i6th January 1712) also appear. centuries Lower Swell; seven The only note of sympathy comes teenth century Great Barring- in depicting the pretty young ton; eighteenth century Quaker woman (also in a stage Adlestrop, Broadwell,Oddington, coach) (loth December 1714) Bourton on thr Hill, Todeiiham; "The Plainness of her Dress was and Stow on the Wold (seven very well suited to the Simplicity teenth-twentieth centuries, in of her Phrases." cluding a burial ground still existing). BIRMINGHAM FRIENDS Some indication of the cultural KENT QUAKERS interests of Birmingham Friends, Seventeenth-century Kent, a social including the Lloyd and Sturge and economic history, by C. W. families, is revealed in Charles Chalklin (Longmans, i
WARWICKSHIRE MEETING YORKSHIRE RECORDS HOUSES The National Register of Arch Warwickshire by Nikolaus Pevs- ives, West Riding (Northern ner and Alexandra Wedgwood section) committee has produced (The Buildings of England. in 1965 inventories of the records B.E.3I. Penguin Books. 303. of Settle Monthly Meeting (includ 1966) includes notices of meeting ing Lothersdale, Settle and houses in the county dating from Skip ton preparative meetings and the seventeenth century to the Keighley adult school) and of twentieth. Information will be Pontefract Monthly Meeting found on pages 46, 73 (Armscote), (including Ackworth, Burton and 77 (Atherstone), 113 (Bull Street, Barnsley, Pontefract and Wake- Birmingham), 157 (Bournville), field preparative meetings, and 189 King's Norton, 291 (Etting- Castleford adult school). These ton), 342 (Long Compton), 395-6 latter records date from the (Shipston-on-Stour) and 452 1670*3 onwards and are housed at (Warwick). Ackworth School in the joint custody of the clerk to Ponte WILTSHIRE fract M.M. and the bursar of Wiltshire VIII in the Victoria Ackworth School. NOTES AND QUERIES 135 YORKSHIRE DOCTORS found some worthy Quaker Among the most valuable feat Friends of his who had journeyed ures of the second and final from Oxfordshire to spend the volume of S. T. Anning's history holidays under the paternal roof- The General Infirmary at Leeds tree and a ready welcome for (E. & S. Livingstone, 1966) is a his sightseeing in the dale and biographical appendix. Among work in the hay field. the persons appearing there are Walter White records that he Harold Collinson, C.B., C.M.G. hoped to be buried in a little (19.viii.1876-25.!.1945) son of a Quaker burial-ground in Oxford wool merchant at Halifax and shire "on the brow of a hill educated at Ackworth and looking far away into the west Bootham before attending the country . . . that is, if the sedate Leeds Medical School; Benjamin folk will admit among them even Hird, M.D. (3o.xiii. 1763-11.hi. a dead Philistine/' The author's 1831); William, Hird, M.D. (28th thoughts on the causes of the December i728/9[sic]-23.viii. decline of Quakerism, anent the 1782) who took on Dr. John recently advertised essay com Fothergiirs London practice after petition on the subject, are dis Fothergill'sdeath; Robert Benson cerning. Jowitt, J.P. (1841-9. xi. 1914), from 1882-1900 chairman and BRIEF BIOGRAPHY treasurer of the Infirmary; and Who's Who in History, vol. 3 Joshua Walker, M.D. (i4th Oct England, 1603 to 1714; by C. P. ober 1746-12th February 1817) Hill (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, who married into the Arthington 1965. 42.), includes brief bio family, and was physician at the graphies (and a note of one or Infirmary from 1782 until 1806. two main sources) for Robert Barclay (1648-90), John Bellers YORKSHIRE FRIENDS, £.1850 (1654-1725), Colonel Thomas Blood (i6i8?-8o), Sir Ambrose A Month in Yorkshire, by Walter Crowley (1658-1713), Abraham White (Chapman and Hall, 2nd Darby (1678-1717), Margaret edition, 1858), is an account of Fell (1614-1702), George Fox the author's summer walking (1624-90), Lodowick Muggleton tour in the eastern seaboard and (1609-98), James Nayler in the northern half of the (c. 1618-60) and William Penn county. Visits to Scarborough (1644-1718). and Whitby draw from the author accounts of George Fox in Scarborough Castle, and thoughts HANNAH BARNARD'S Cows on the decay of Quakerism in The Yale edition of Horace Whitby, repeated later in other Walpole's Correspondence pro places. Ayton School, the Peases ceeds on its magisterial way. and their railways, Carperby in Volumes 32-34 (1965) contain Wensleydale ("where dwells a the correspondence with the Quaker who has the best grazing Countess of Upper Ossory. On farm in the North Riding"), 6th September 1787, Walpole George Fox's well on the side of wrote to Lady Ossory: Pendle Hill, all find a mention. "There lives at Kingston a At Bainbridge the author Mrs. Barnard, a very wealthy 136 NOTES AND QUERIES hen-Quaker: she has a passion JOHN BRIGHT for beautiful black and white Letters to and from John Bright cows, never parts with a pretty calf, and other members of the Bright and consequently has now family, Henry a hecatomb as Ashworth, the striped and Peases, Joseph Sturge, spotted as leopards and and others tigers. of like interests are preserved The Queen happened to see among this the Cobden papers, cata ermined drove, and being logued by Francis struck with the W. Steer of the beauty of their West Sussex County robes, sent a page to archive desire to office, County Hall, Chichester. purchase one. Mrs. Barnard replied, The catalogue was published in she never sold cows, 1964, and among but would lend the many other her Majesty her documents listed are the bull with all her heart. . . " Mem orandum by John Bright on the (vol. 32, p. 568). The editor notes Irish land question, 1869 (no. that "Mrs. Anna Barnard 492), and the 1908 reprint of the (d. 1792)" visited Strawberry Hill, account of the Penn-Mead trial 22nd September 1786. (no. 815). In a letter of 2yth October 1774, « Walpole told the Countess a JOHN DALTON story of an unidentified Quaker who dined with the Comtes de John Dalton, 1766-1844: a bib Provence and d'Artois, brothers liography of works by and about of Louis XVI. "He would not him, by A. L. Smyth. (Manches pull off his hat: they admitted ter University Press, 1966, 423.) him with it on; and then made This includes printed works and him sit down to table with them. manuscripts, separate mono Charles II could not have been graphs and periodical articles, better humoured." press-cuttings and references and '' Daltoniana.'' This is an essential JOHN BRIGHT work for the student of Dalton and his place in the history of John Bright, Victorian Reformer, science. The indexes are not so by Herman Ausubel, professor of full as one would have wished. history at Columbia University Only by reading the text does (John Wiley, 1966) is a political one come upon the Annual biography in the best tradition. monitor notice (item 505). It is It has a slightly astringent unfortunate that Friends House flavour which adds piquancy to Library does not figure among the author's judgments. This the locations assigned to entries. book does not supersede G. M. Trevelyan's classic work on Bright, but it has an importance JONATHAN DENT and readability which should Lincolnshire Archives Commit ensure a wide circulation. The tee: Archivists' report 17, ist author's learning sits lightly on April 1965-31st March 1966, in him, but the references are there cludes (pp. 14-15) a report on a at the end of each chapter collection of deeds and papers (including many letters at deposited by Major G. Dent of Friends House Library), and the Ribston Hall, Wetherby, York political cartoons illustrating the shire. The summary account work are a great pleasure. recalls a paper by the late NOTES AND QUERIES 137 Howard Brace on Jonathan Dent HENRY TOBIT EVANS in the Reports and Papers of the The Annual report, 1964-5 of Lincolnshire Architectural and the National Library of Wales, Archaeological Society, vol. 5, Aberystwyth, includes among part 2, [1954]. Jonathan Dent the purchases for the library a eventually was disowned by collection of letters to Henry Friends. The papers deposited Tobit Evans (1844-1908), school throw some light on his money master, journalist and author. lending activities. The collection includes "a cer tificate of the admission of Henry Tobit Evans to membership of THOMAS ELLWOOD the Herefordshire and Radnor A reassessment of the influence shire Meeting of the Society of of Thomas Ellwood upon John Friends, 1879" (p. 45 of the Milton, and also a consideration Annual report). of Ellwood's own Davideis, is contained in "The influence of Thomas Ellwood upon Milton's GRACE, DARBYSHIRE & TODD epics/' by J. Max Patrick of New The History of the Institute of York University in the Fest Chartered Accountants in Eng schrift Essays in history and land and Wales, 1880-1965, and Literature, edited by Heinz of its founder accountancy Bluhm, and published by the bodies, 1870-80 (Heinemann, Newberry Library, Chicago, in 1966) includes a section devoted honour of Stanley Pargellis, to brief sketches of founder Newberry Librarian, 1942-62. firms. One such account (p. 235) is given of the firm of Grace, Darbyshire & Todd, Bristol, DAVID EVANS, M.A. founded by John Moxham in 1818. In 1822 Moxham married A verse autobiography of David into the Quaker community and Evans (1681-1750), a native of the partnership brought in the Carmarthenshire, who emigrated Grace family. From 1857 to 1861 to Pennsylvania, is edited and it was known as James Grace & printed by Dr. Gareth Alban Son, and from 1861 until the Davies in The National Library present name was assumed in of Wales Journal, vol. 14, no. 1920 as James & Henry Grace. i (Summer 1965), pp. 74-96. There is a summary in English. Evans graduated M.A. at Yale in 1714 and became an independent HANBURY FAMILY minister. He held pastorates at ArchaeologiaCambrensis, vol. 113 Pencader, at Tredyffrin, and at (1964) includes at pages 129-49 Pilesgrove, N.J. Dr. Davies has an article by D. Morgan Rees, used works on Friends in Wales entitled: "Industrial archaeology and Pennsylvania, including in Wales: an introduction/1 It Evelyn Whiting's "The Yearly includes a notice of an iron fur Meeting for Wales, 1682-1797" nace in the Llanelly district (Jnl. F.H.S., xlvii, 57-70). There which belonged to the Hanbury is a copy in the Library at family and was in operation from Friends House. 1690 until the 1860*8. 138 NOTES AND QUERIES R. L. HINE HANNAH (CALLOWHILL) PENN W. Branch Johnson writes on 1671-1726 "Reginald Leslie Hine of Hit- The American Philosophical Soc chin, Hertfordshire, 1883-1949° iety and Yale University are in The Amateur Historian, vol. sponsoring a magisterial edition 7, no. i (1966), pp. 28-32. of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin edited by Leonard W. Labaree (Yale University Press). JAMES NAYLER Volume 9, covering the years 1760 and 1761 was published in "Naylor's case and the dilemma 1966. This will provide material of the Protectorate," by Theo for eighteenth-century historians dore A. Wilson and Frank J. for many decades to come, so it is Merli, is an article in the Uni unfortunate that Hannah Callow- versity of Birmingham historical hill's date of birth is given as journal, vol. 10, no. i, 1965, pp. 1664 (p. 261) when the most 44-59. The authors deal mainly probable and now accepted date with the constitutional difficult is 1671. ies and the differences between the wishes of the parliaments PENN IN HIDING which Cromwell summoned dur ing the Interregnum and his Two letters from William Penn hopes for a settled constitutional to the Earl of Nottingham, i2th framework within which Parlia June and 2ist November 1692, ment and Protector could work. are quoted in the recent Report on The conflict of aims was brought the Finch Manuscripts (Historical out in the consideration of the Manuscripts Commission, 71), case of James Nayler and his vol. 4 (H.1\I. Stationery Office, entry into Bristol on horseback 1965). They show Penn asking which occupied much of Parlia no more than liberty to live in ment's time at the end of 1656. peace: "let not, pray, the vulgar opinion of my sentiments or obligations have any longer pre- PENN FAMILY valency to intercept my deliver ance ... I am sure I shall never "Pedigree of Penn of co. Wiltshire I humbly and of Bristol," by O. F. G. misuse the liberty leaf crave/ 1 ]n November he reports Hogg, appears on a folding in health, p. 130 of The Wiltshire that he is much broken facing wife so very ill these archaeological and natural history "and my magazine, vol. 60, 1965. It is 9 weeks, and now dangerously (and casts a shadow relapst, so that she cant come unfortunate not goe to her." over the whole work) that the to me and I must information on Hannah Callow- 1777-1862 hill Penn should be misleading. JAMES PENNINGTON, From the information given here Professor R. S. Sayers has edited, it would be difficult to believe with an essay on the life and the usually accepted chronology, work of the author, a volume of i.e. Hannah Callowhill b. nth Economic Writings of James February 1671; m. William Penn, Pennington in the series of at Friars, Bristol, 5th March 1696; Reprints of scarce works on d. 2oth December 1726. political economy issued by the NOTES AND QUERIES 139 London School of Economics, Morcom Ltd/' In 1866 George 1963. Born at Kendal in 1777, Edward Bellis (1838-1909), to third child of William Pennington gether with Joseph John Seek- and Agnes Wilson, James Pen ings, took over the business nington migrated to London, founded by Bach Bros, of Broad made a career for himself in Street, Islington, Birmingham, in commercial life in the city, and 1852. The partnership developed then wrote and advised the steam engines for launches, and government on monetary and the work was taken up by the currency problems. He appears Royal Navy, "but Seekings as a to have left Friends before his Quaker had no wish to deal with marriage. the armed Services/' and the partnership was dissolved. JOSEPH TREGELLES PRICE "The insurrection at Merthyr Tydfil in 1831,'' the Cecil- RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Williams memorial lecture, 1965, The Letters of Richard Brinsley is printed in the Transactions of Sheridan. Edited by Cecil Price the Honourable Society of Cym- (3 vols. Oxford, Clarendon Press, mrodorion, session 1965, pp. 1966) include two unexplained 222-43. It contains a mention of notices of the word Quaker. the efforts of Joseph Tregelles In a letter of January 1801, to Price to secure the reprieve of William Adam, Sheridan says Richard Lewis (known as Die "I send also ^100 (my Quaker's Penderyn) condemned to death. Legacy)/' and in another of the No record is known of his part in same month, to Richard Peake, the riots, if any. He was con there is a postscript "Burgess demned for wounding a High has only the nest egg of my lander outside the Castle Hotel, Quakers ^100" (II. 145, 147). and executed at Cardiff, i3th The final volume includes a August 1831. list of summaries of other letters. No. 145, p. 281, is an undated JANE RAINE letter: "Jane Raine, a Quaker, baptized "Locking up a Quaker Farmer 7th January 1726." The above in Prison is a curious way of entry appears in the Rokeby, admitting a Dissenter into a Yorks, parish register, printed place of Trust and Power." for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Parish Register Section, vol. 128, p. 29. JOSEPH STURGE "Arthur O'Connor" by Frank JOSEPH JOHN SEEKINGS McDermot, an article in Irish The Newcomen Bulletin, no. 75, Historical Studies, vol. 15, no. 57 March 1965, records a meeting of (March 1966), includes the follow the Newcomen Society on 3rd ing mention of the relations of February 1965, at which a paper the old United Irishman and was read by J. Edward Belliss Joseph Sturge. Arthur O'Connor on the "History of G. E. Belliss lived the second half of his life & Company and Belliss & in France. 140 NOTES AND QUERIES "In the 1840*8 he declared him- though pacifist views came oddly self a pacifist and became a from one who attacked Louis friend and correspondent of the Philippe for not giving military well-known Quaker and right- aid to the Poles/1 (I.H.S. xv, wing chartist, Joseph Sturge, p. 67.)