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WILLIAM ALLEN, F.R.S. the first floor balcony of 108 The friendship of William Alien, Cheapside, and this continued Robert Barclay (1751-1830) and after it had come into the others for John Norton the possession of a Quaker family. Cherokee Indian adopted into In 1761, David Barclay enter­ the Mohawk tribe, is noticed in tained George III and Queen the Champlain Society's publica­ Charlotte with other members tion, vol. 46, The Journal of of the Royal family. Major Norton, 1816, edited from One hundred years later in the Alnwick manuscript by Carl 1861 the premises were pulled F. Klinck and James J. Talman down, and among the lots sold (1970). was the wainscoting from the first floor room, described in an WILSON ARMISTEAD advertisement in The Times, Christine Bolt's Victorian atti­ June 10, 1861: "A fine old oak tudes to race (Studies in social panelling of a large dining room history, Routledge, 1971, ^3.00) with chimney-piece and cornice covers many aspects of the to correspond, elaborately carved subject. There is an appendix in fruit and foliage, in excellent "Some notes on Abolitionist preservation, 750 feet super­ attitudes to race" which men­ ficial, from 107 and 108 Cheap- tions the work of Wilson Armi- side, immediately opposite Bow stead, the Leeds Friend who Church." was the author of a number of This lot was purchased by remarkable books on the Negro, Mr Morris Jones who used it anticipating twentieth-century to cover the walls of his dining scholarship and seeking to prove room at Gungrog near Welsh- that Africans had long contribu­ pool. Barclay's Bank has recently ted to the civilization and purchased this panelling and used progress of the world, (p. 228) it to line the walls of their DAVID BARCLAY (d. 1768) Board Room at the headquarters David Barclay traded as a linen of the Bank in Lombard Street, draper at 108 Cheapside in the London. City of London; he married as GEORGE W. EDWARDS his second wife Priscilla Freame, THOMAS BRADFORD, Carpenter daughter of John Freame, Thomas Bradford, carpenter, of banker, of Lombard Street: their Bristol (Bristol Record Society's son John later became a partner publications, vol. 26, p. 195), in the Freame Bank, and even­ shipped iron, nails and lead, on tually gave his name to the Bank. the Society of Bristol, May 2, After the Great Fire of 1666 1682, and he doubtless sailed in it had become customary for the that ship to Pennsylvania. A note King of England during the first in Publications of the Welcome year of his reign to view the Society of Pennsylvania, no. i, Lord Mayor's Procession from p. 43 gives further information. 316 NOTES AND QUERIES 317 JOHN BRIGHT edition which never appeared. The Sir Isaac Holden (Sir Isaac The Huntington Library Quar­ Holden, ist bait., 1807-1897, terly, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 368 D.N.B.) collection of business (August 1971) suggests that the and family papers, c. 1840-1897, time may be ripe for the publica­ in the University of Bradford tion of a new edition, particularly Library, includes letters from as many of the letters reflect on John Bright in 1867 (Bundle conditions at the time of the numbered 5), and August 1868 American Revolution. (Envelope 53). The Library has issued a CLARKS OF STREET brief inventory of the contents Bancroft Clark of Street, writes of the collection, April 1971. in amendment of the note which appeared on p. 226 in our last As would be expected, John issue, that the firm's history Bright (along with other Friends) was edited by L. H. Barber and appears prominently in P. F. published in 1951, and that Clarke's Lancashire and the New William dark's invention should Liberalism (Cambridge Univer­ be dated in the i86os. sity Press, 1971)—the "New Liberalism11 of the title filling WILLIAM COLLINS the forty years up to the 1914 In "A Northampton Joke, c. War. 1900" which concerns Sir Henry Randall and his home at Monk's CANANUEL BRITTON Park on the east side of North­ One Kendall Britain has 2 cwt. ampton town, a little to the wrought iron, and 7 cwt. nails north of the Wellingborough loaded on the ship Society of Road, it is mentioned that the Bristol (Thomas Jordan, master) house ("a dignified 'Regency' on May 2,1682, for Pennsylvania. structure") "was built c. 1835, A note to the entry in Publications by William Collins, a prosperous of the Welcome Society of Penn­ draper in Northampton who sylvania, no. i, p. 43, states that was also a Quaker". (Northamp­ he was probably Canawell Brit- tonshire past and present, vol. 4, ton who had died intestate by no. 6, I971 /2* P- 378-) February 27, 1682/3; see Chester Court Records (Philadelphia, HENRY COMELY (d. 1684) 1910), 25, 56, 68, 140. This The appearance of George E. information supplements that McCracken's Welcome claimants, given concerning him in Bristol 1970 (Welcome Society of Penn­ Record Society's publications, sylvania, Publications 2) prompts vol. 26, p. 195. a correction to the note on Henry Combly in the Bristol RICHARD CHAMPION (1743-1791) Record Society's publications, Richard Champion's Comparative vol. 26, p. 197. The date of death Reflections on the . . . State of of Henry Combly (Comly) should Great Britain, 1787, has come be 1684 and not as given. into the possession of the Henry Combly died in Bucks Huntington Library, San County, Penna., and was buried Marino, California, in the shape at Middletown, May 14, 1684 of a copy annotated for a new (will, dated April 26, 1684, NOTES AND QUERIES Bucks County Wills, Register of Mr. Dargan a baronetcy, but he Wills Office, Court House, Doyles- and his wife were Quakers, and town, Pa., A-i: 8). declined, being satisfied with the Henry Combly's widow, Joan, success of their efforts. When married Joseph English (d. Octo­ Mrs. Dargan was asked by a ber 10, 1686) April 26, 1685, friend why her husband had Middletown Monthly Meeting; turned down the honour, she she was buried at Middletown, replied that "the fount of all true December 20, 1689. honour is within oneself' (p. 146). It may be noticed that there is no Bristol burial record for ROBERT DAY, TAILOR ohn Combly, son of Henry and "The seventeenth-century token udith, b. October 14, 1661; he issuers of Gravesend and Milton- did not go to Pennsylvania. No next-Gravesend", by Ernest W. Bristol birth register entry has Tilley (Archaeologia Cantiana9 come to light for Henry (1674- vol. 85 for 1970, pp. 149-74) 1727), son of Henry and Joan, mentions a halfpenny token of who went across the Atlantic with Robert Day a Gravesend tailor his parents and who had eleven (G295). It had the obverse of a children and more than 70 pair of scissors. Robert Day lived grandchildren. in a small house in West-street. He was a Quaker, and "with a WILLIAM DARGAN (1799-1867) relative, Thomas Day, was im­ Victoria Travels: journeys of prisoned in Maidstone jail for . . . Queen Victoria between 1830 and not swearing" (p. 164). (Besse, igoo, with extracts from her Sufferings, i.2go places the im­ journal, by David Duff (London, prisonment at January 1660/61.) Frederick Muller, 1970. ^5) is an opportunity for a wealth of EZEKIEL DlCKINSON (l711-1788) illustrations, including many "Bowood, Friday, August 31, photographs taken about the 1781", Jeremy Bentham to time. Jeremiah Bentham, letter no. 405 At the end of August 1853 in The Correspondence of Jeremy the royal family visited the Bentham, vol. 3, edited by Dublin exhibition, mounted two I an R. Christie (Athlone Press, years after the Great Exhibition 1971), includes the following in Hyde Park in 1851 with the passage: aim of assisting Irish industry. "Oh yes: on Friday we had a They stayed at the Viceregal Mr. Dickinson, a rich old Quaker Lodge in the Phoenix Park and in the neighbourhood, who called visited the exhibition each morn­ here and drank tea/' ing of their stay. One afternoon Although the editor of the they drove to Mount Annville, Correspondence has not identified the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Dickinson, he is doubtless Dargan. William Dargan, the Ezekiel Dickinson, son of Caleb Irish railway promoter, had been and Sarah Dickinson of Monks, a moving spirit behind the parish of Corsham, born exhibition, and he had guaran­ 28.v.i7ii, died 2i.v.i788 (age teed ;£i00,000 to cover the cost given as 77) at Bowden Hill, of the erection of the exhibition near Lacock, and buried in the building. 'The Queen offered family vault at Pickwick. (See NOTES AND QUERIES 319 Jnl. F.H.S., vol. 50, no. 3, quaker physician to the Bristol P- I55-) infirmary and sire of a long line Ezekiel and Caleb Dickinson of 'mad-doctors' who sent the also figure in the letter book of an York Retreat its first matron." attorney in the Jamaica trade The quoted words come from between March 1762 and 1763, R. Hunter and I. Macalpine, which has been acquired recently Three hundred years of psychiatry > by the manuscripts department 1963, p. 631, and the reference of the Guildhall Library, London to the matron is to Katharine (reported by C. R. H. Cooper, Alien, who in 1806 married Journal of the Society of Archivists, George Jepson (i 743-1836) vol. 4, no. 4, October 1971, superintendent at the Retreat P- 334)- (see W. K. & E. M. Sessions, The Tukes of York, 1971, p. 66). Fox OF WELLINGTON If the guess is correct, then The woollen industry of south­ Edward Long Fox, second son west England, by Kenneth G. of Joseph and Elizabeth (King­ Pont ing (Bath, Adams & Dart, ston) Fox of Falmouth, may 1971. ^5.25) in the Origins of have been going north to begin Industry series, includes a note his studies at Edinburgh. He (p. 175) on the mills of the Fox matriculated at Edinburgh in family at Wellington. The author 1779, and graduated M.D. on says: "The industrial buildings June 24, 1784 (with dissertation of this long-established and de Voce Humana) [see J. Smith, famous firm are a little outside Descriptive catalogue of Friends9 the town at Tonedale. Not as books, 1867, i.644J. William important architecturally speak­ Munk's Roll of the Royal College ing as their literary documentary of Physicians of London, 2nd ed., material/' 1878, ii.376-377, records that he was admitted an extra-licentiate "MR. FOX, FROM CORNWALL1 ' of the College of Physicians, Edward Long Fox is brought to June 26, 1787. Before that time, mind in the following passage in April 3, 1786, Dr. Fox had been Boswell in extremes, ifj'j6-ijfj8 elected a physician at the Bristol (Edited by Charles Weis and Infirmary, a post which he held Frederick Pottle, Heinemann, until 1816 (see also A. B. 1971. £j), p. 186. Boswell was Beavan, Bristol lists, 1899, travelling northwards to Edin­ p. 257). He died at Brislington burgh. He set out from New­ House in June 1835, aged 74. castle upon Tyne in the diligence Another possible candidate for on Saturday, September, 27 the seat in Boswell's diligence is 1777, "with an elderly female indicated in Munk's Roll, ii.39O, Quaker ... At Kelso in place of in the person of Joseph Fox, the female Quaker there came in M.D., born in Cornwall, educated Mr. Fox, a young Quaker student as an apothecary, who went to of physic from Cornwall." Edinburgh and studied for some We may hazard a guess that time, and on February i, 1783 the traveller who entered the became a doctor of medicine in chaise at Kelso was Edward the University of St. Andrews. Long Fox, M.D.(Edin.), L.R.C.P. He settled in London; admitted (1761-1835), "the colourful L.R.C.P. September 30, 1788; 320 NOTES AND QUERIES physician to the London hospital land" visited Scottish meetings 1789-1800; retired to Falmouth; in company with Thomas Grier, died at Plymouth February 25, 1713 (Journal F.H.S., xii (1915), 1832, aged 73. 175). In Joseph Smith's Descrip­ tive Catalogue of Friends9 Books, KATHARINE BRUCE GLASIER 1867, I-932> he is distinguished The Enthusiasts: a biography of with an asterisk to indicate those John and Katharine Bruce individuals who at some time Glasier, by Laurence Thompson were disunited from the Society, (Victor Gollancz, 1971. ^3) gives and not known to have returned. documentary evidence to fill out the history of the Labour move­ DENNIS HOLLISTER ment around the turn of the Dennis Hollister is mentioned century and up to the twenties. in an article by Tai Liu, assist­ Katharine Bruce Glasier died ant professor of history, Univer­ a Friend in 1950. sity of Delaware, U.S.A., in the Journal of ecclesiastical history, JOHN GRISCOM, LL.D. vol. 22, no. 3, July 1971, pp. 223- " Humanitarian ism in the pre- 36, entitled "The calling of the industrial city: the New York Barebones Parliament recon­ Society for the Prevention of sidered". The author essays to Pauperism, 1817-1823", by Ray­ establish the allegiance of this mond A. Mohl, assistant profes­ man who became one of the sor of history in Florida Atlantic founders of Bristol Quakerism University (Journal of A merican by reference to the Broadmead history, vol. 57, no. 3, December (spelled Broadmeat) Records. 1970, pp. 576-99) pays some Alexander Jaffray is also men­ attention to the work of Thomas tioned. Eddy (b. Philadelphia, 1758) The same review of the Journal and John Griscom (b. New includes a sage review of Vic­ Jersey, 1774, and settled in New torian Quakers, by Elizabeth York as Friends' schoolmaster in Isichei (Oxford University Press. 1807) two Friends who were £3-25)- instrumental in establishing and guiding the work of a pioneer PHILIP JAMES society aiming to ameliorate Philip James, cooper, of Bristol, poverty and poor social con­ and later of Pennsylvania (Bristol ditions in New York. Record Society's publications, vol. 26, p. 205) is mentioned as WILLIAM HENDERSON loading goods for America on the "New light on Smollett and the ship Bristol Factor (Roger Drew, Annesley cause", by Lillian de la master), July 26, 1682 (Publica­ Torre (Review of English studies, tions of the Welcome Society of New series, vol. 22, no. 87, 1971, Pennsylvania, no. i, p. 95). pp. 274-81) brings to notice Some details of his career in again William Henderson "the Pennsylvania are given in the treacherous Quaker", whose volume. name appears in the 17405 in connection with the claimant to JOSEPH LANCASTER the Annesley peerage. An interesting chapter on "Reli­ William Henderson "of Ire- gion and the Churches" in NOTES AND QUERIES 321 George Rude's Hanoverian because the emigrants had to London: 1714-1808, the first live in Bristol until their ship published volume of Weidenfeld was ready to sail (the ship, the and Nicolson's projected eight- Bristol Factor, arrived in the volume History of London (1971. Delaware in the last week of ^3.50) closes with a couple of October 1682). See also note 104 pages on the charity school on pp. 55-56 with a reference to movement, and notes the A. C. Myers, Quaker arrivals, 5. establishment of the first of the Not mentioned, however, is Lancasterian schools in London the fact that August 26 was not in 1798—"The Bible was still a regular meeting day, that obligatory, but the catechism Bristol Monthly (recte Two- dropped out of the curriculum. weeks) Meeting did not record In James Mill's phrase, they were any delegation of powers to 'schools for all, not for Church­ grant removal certificates to men only', it was quite a big emigrants, and that the Meeting step forward." has no record of Evan Oliver and his party. It is true, of WILLIAM AND EMMA NOBLE course, that Friends emigrated The work of William and Emma without certificates and that Noble at Maes yr haf in the records of the granting of certifi­ 19205 is mentioned in Brasilia cates are incomplete. Scott's engrossing biography of her father entitled A. D. Lindsay MARY (LANGFORD) OLIVER (Oxford, Blackwell, 1971. £4.20). "Planters and merchants: the Oliver family of Antigua and EVAN OLIVER London, 1716-1784", by Richard The publication of Passengers B. Sheridan (Business History, and Ships prior to 1684, the first vol. 13, no. 2, July 1970, of the Publications of the Wel­ pp. 104-113) has a note that come Society of Pennsylvania "In 1724, Richard Oliver IV (edited by Walter Lee Sheppard, married Mary, elder daughter of Jr.), 1970, brings to notice a gap Jonas Langford, a well-to-do in records of removals among Quaker planter of Antigua. 11 Friends which presents difficulties to searchers wishing to trace the SIR ALFRED PEASE movements of members between J. Fairfax-Blakeborough, in his meetings. "Yorkshireman's Notebook" (a On p. 14 of the book we read: weekly miscellany on country "A note in the early records of topics) in The Wetherby, Tad- the Philadelphia Meeting reads, caster & Boston Spa News, 'Evan Oliver ROCF [received on Friday, October 15, 1971, men­ certificate from] Bristol Monthly tions the plain country speech Meeting, dated 1682-6-26', that of "thee and thou" meaning no is, August 26.'' The author notes disrespect. He describes a manu­ that Evan Oliver and his family script containing memories of came from Radnorshire, and so early Quakers in Yorkshire which the certificate should have come the late Sir Alfred Pease gave from Wales, and goes on to say him many years ago. The manu­ that the certificate must have script has a lot to say about been a temporary one, granted Friends' forms of address. 322 NOTES AND QUERIES JOHN PHILLEY The volume receives a place At the risk of boring readers, I in Dr. Alston's series because it venture to bring forward yet was printed in a semi-phonetic another contemporary notice of spelling, in an edition of about John Philley's sojourn in Turkey! 1,000 copies produced in Holland. Cf. my previous notes, Jnl. F.H.S., vol. 52, no. i, pp. 62-63; HENRY RICHARDSON PROCTER, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 131-134. F.R.S. The account, which does not Notebooks of experiments in name the Quaker, though his tanning, lecture notes, and cog­ identity need cause us no worry, nate material (c. 1898-1918) appears in Bernard Randolph's: made by Henry Richardson The present state of the islands in Procter (1848-1927) professor the Archipelago, Oxford, 1687, and head of the Department of pp. 68-69: "In the year 1665 a Leather Industries in the Univer­ Quaker who lived in Dover, was sity of Leeds (1891-1913) have perswaded to come to Con­ recently been transferred within stantinople to convert the Grand the University from the Procter Signior; those who set him on the Department of Food and Leather design, perswading him, that Science (as the Department has he should have the gift of in recent years become) to the Tongues: but he was disappointed Brotherton Library, where they in that, and all other his expecta­ have been allotted Manuscript tions, and without seeing the numbers 285, 290-292. H. R. Grand Signor, or Vizier, by the Procter was born at Lowlights Right Honorable the Earl of Tannery, North Shields, son of Winchelsea's order, was shipt John R. Procter (for whom see aboard the ship Sun, and sent Records of a Quaker family, by for Legorn. I have since seen Anne Ogden Boyce, 1889), and him in Kent, he being now of went to Bootham School. See another perswasion." [The italics Who was who. are mine.] Among the papers in Leeds While most of the information University MS. 290 is a letter repeats that found in the accounts from Joseph Clark & Sons of Frampton and Winchilsea, we tanners, curriers & leather mer­ are here presented with a sug­ chants, Low Fisher gate & n St. gestion that Philley left Friends Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster, con­ after his return to England. If cerning their hides and methods he did, I should like to know of of tanning, addressed to J. R. corroborating evidence. Procter & Son, July 27, 1876. WILLIAM ASHFORD KELLY, MS. 290 records H. R. Procter's 26 Montpelier Park, experiments in tanning at Low- Edinburgh, EHio 4NJ lights, June 1877 to October The Arrainment of Christendom, 1887. 1664, by John Philly (Wing P 2127) is printed in facsimile from MARY SEWELL (1797-1884) one of the three copies at Friends "A Victorian Quaker writer— House Library, as no. 293 of the Mary Sewell", by A. G. Newell, series on English linguistics, of Liverpool University Library, 1500-1800 (Scolar Press, Men- appeared in The Witness (Picker- ston, 1971). ing & Inglis), March 1971, NOTES AND QUERIES 323 pp. 85-87. It recalls the literary shire of Quaker parents in 1703". work—poems and tracts—of Mary (Wright) Sewell, wife of THOMAS WELD (1595-1661) Isaac Sewell, and mother of Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th series, Anna Sewell (1820-1878) the vol. 48 (i97°)> PP- 3°3-332, author of Black Beauty, the includes an article "Thomas autobiography of a horse. Isaac Weld of Gateshead; the return of Sewell remained a Friend, but a New England Puritan", by his wife left the Society and is Roger Howell. It brings to mind indicated with the asterisk of Thomas Weld's arguments with "some time . . . disunited1' in Friends in the 16503. The author Joseph Smith's Descriptive Cata­ says Weld's dispute with the logue, 1867. Quakers did not prosper him as much as his controversies with THOMAS STORY the Baptists, "in part because he "In the journal of the life of faced a more formidable anta­ Thomas Story, a Quaker, under gonist in James Nayler, in part the year 1739, there is probably because the Quaker community one of the earliest literary struck more permanent roots, references of any importance to aided in this by the patronage of Methodism: 'We called at Low- Sir Arthur Hesilrige's crony and ther Hall to pay our regard to secretary, Anthony Pearson'' Lord Lonsdale . . . we had (pp. 326ff). Weld was appointed agreeable conversation on divers in 1657 one of the first visitors Subjects; and a People of late of the newly-founded Durham appearing in this Nation, to College. which the name of Methodists is given'." (Proceedings of the Wesley WALT WHITMAN Historical Society9 vol. 9, p. 141.) "The Quaker influence on Walt The above incident is recalled Whitman", by Lawrence Tem- in David Frederick Clarke: plin, of Bluffton College, an "Benjamin Ingham, 1712-1772, article in American Literature, with special reference to his vol. 42, no. 2 (May 1970), relations with the churches pp. 165-180, aims to summarize (Anglican, Methodist, Moravian the facts of Whitman's relation­ and Glassite) of his time", ship to Quakerism (among factors unpublished M.Phil, thesis, Uni­ influencing Whitman he recog­ versity of Leeds, 1971. nized the inspiration that his family received from Elias Hicks) ISAAC THOMPSON (b. 1703) and the light it sheds on Whit­ "A philosophic war: an episode man's work as a creative artist. in eighteenth-century scientific lecturing in north-east England", ADULT EDUCATION by F. J. G. Robinson (Transact- In the course of an article tions of the Architectural and entitled: 'The sociology of adult A rchaeological Society of Durham eucation in Britain and America", and Northumberland, vol. 2, by Donald Garside (Memoirs and 1970, pp. 101-108) deals with the proceedings of the Manchester lecturing activities in Newcastle Literary and Philosophical and the Durham county area of Society, vol. 113, 1970-1971, Isaac Thompson, "born in Lanca­ pp. 44-58), mention is made of 324 NOTES AND QUERIES the work of the adult schools wrote to his Banbury agent: after the 1870 Education Act "Pray do something to satisfy had made dealing with the Mrs. Bigg. I never in my life problem of illiteracy unnecessary. heard of a Dorcas society; but This was the time of "the . . . the name of Mrs. Bigg as a leadership of the 'Chocolate patroness is a guarantee to me Quaker' families of Rowntree, that all is right. 11 Cadbury and Fry", and the It is noted that Joseph Ashby developments at Woodbrooke, Gillett (1795-1853), the Quaker Fircroft and Scarborough early banker who was usually reckoned in this century. a Conservative, gave £100 like the leading Liberals (and Tancred AMPLEFORTH himself) to the British Schools Local Population Studies maga­ Society, which the editor deems zine and newsletter, no. 3 (Autumn "the most important of the 1969) contains (p. 53) a letter outwardly non-political organiza­ from the Vicar of Ampleforth tions in which the Banbury commenting on the social history Liberals came together1' (p. xxi). of the village as a squire-less village. He notes, "In the seven­ BIRMINGHAM teenth century, Quakers, who In Bryan Little's Birmingham were not acceptable on many Buildings: the architectural story estates, found refuge here, and of a midland city (David & there was quite a sizeable settle­ Charles: Newton Abbot, 1971. ment of them, complete with £3.50) there is a brief column on their own meeting house . . . For the architectural work of Thomas the same reasons, Roman Catho­ Rickman (1776—1844), particu­ lics ... found a refuge here too larly in the Birmingham district. ... This well produced and fas­ In the previous issue (No. 2, cinating book includes notices Spring 1969, p. 10) "News from of work at Bournville and many the Cambridge Group for the illustrations. History of Population and Social Structure", mentions the work BROMYARD of Dr. Eversley and Professor Bromyard: a local history. Edited Vann on family reconstitution by Joseph G. Hillaby and Edna forms for Quaker families. G. Pearson (Bromyard and Dis­ trict Local History Society. 1970. BANBURY ^1.25), This volume has a photo­ A Victorian M.P. and his con­ graph of the former Friends1 stituents: the correspondence of Meeting House (eighteenth cen­ H. W. Tancred, 1841-1859. Edited tury), and a useful 4-page sum­ by B. S. Trinder (Banbury mary of the history of Friends Historical Society, vol. 8, 1969. in the market town from 1668 ;£i.8o) has some notice of three until the present century. Friends, James Cadbury the Deborah Waller, the author of temperance advocate, John Pad- this account, acknowledges assis­ bury, tailor, and Mrs. Bigg, wife tance from Mrs. E. S. Whiting of William Bigg, hatter, promi­ of Leominster, and quotes from nent liberal and partner in the Herefordshire Q.M. records at Banbury Guardian. Tancred Worcester and Hereford county NOTES AND QUERIES 325 record offices, and Leominster Matthew Bridges, a Bristol attor­ M.M. minutes. ney pledged to vote by ballot, triennial parliaments and repeal CHESHIRE of the Corn Laws. Bridges was The Buildings of England: defeated in a lively election and Cheshire, by Nikolaus Pevsner the iron masters were again and Edward Hubbard (Penguin unsuccessful in their last attempt Books, 1971. £2.25) includes to return a candidate in 1835 mentions of Friends' Meeting (pp. 221, 224, 233). Houses at Antrobus (1726), Heswall (Telegraph Road, 1961- D.N.B. 1962, by Dewi Prys Thomas and The Dictionary of National Bio­ Gerald R. Beech), and Wilmslow graphy, ig5i-ig6o. Edited by (1830), and a brief note of the E. T. Williams and Helen M. existence of a Quaker burial Palmer. With an index covering ground at Eaton, near Congleton. the years 1901-1960 in one alphabetical series. (Oxford Uni­ COALBROOKDALE versity Press, 1971.) "A description of Coalbrookdale Notables included are Bishops in 1801", by B. S. Trinder Barnes (Birmingham) and Bell (Transactions of the Shropshire (Chichester), Ernest Bevin (men­ Archaeological Society, vol. 58, tioning the "Quaker Adult pt- 3, 1970, pp. 244-258) includes School'' of his Bristol years), among other passages a descrip­ H. N. Brailsford, Patrick Alfred tion of the view from "Sunniside, Buxton, medical entomologist, a very pleasant Seat belonging Sara Margery Fry (by Thomas to the family of the Darby's the Hodgkin), Tom Goodey (nema- proprietors of the works . . . tologist, and clerk of Bedford­ The garden is laid out with taste shire Quarterly Meeting), Henry and ingenuity ... at the bottom Wilson Harris (of The Spectator], of which is a Meeting house the diplomat Sir Reginald Hervey belonging to the people called Hoare, and Viscount Temple- Quakers, the proprietors of the wood (Sir Samuel John Gurney works & some of the inhabitants Hoare), Laurence Housman (by being members of that society" Roger Fulford), George Barker (P- 253)- Jeffery, A. D. Lindsay (Lindsay In the same issue of the of Birker), Gilbert Murray, Fran­ Transactions is an account by cis Wall Oliver (palaeobotanist J, D. Nichol of the parliamentary and ecologist, son of Daniel history of the borough of Wen- Oliver, F.R.S., and educated at lock in the half century up to the Kendal and Bootham schools), Reform Bill of 1832. The Quaker Edward Reynolds Pease (of the ironmasters of Coalbrookdale Fabian Society), Sir George supported the Forester family Lionel Pepler (town planner, (Whig) during most of the educated at Bootham, and first period; they played an active married (1903) to Edith Amy part in local politics during the (d. 1942) daughter of Alfred E. reform agitation of the late Bobbett of Bristol), Arthur Cecil 18205. In 1832 they brought Pigou (economist, in the Friends' forward an independent radical Ambulance Unit in the 1914 candidate in the person of war), Lewis Fry Richardson, 326 NOTES AND QUERIES Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree to England by John Warner and (by Lord Simey), George Tomlin- grown by him in his garden at son (Labour Minister of Educa­ Rotherhithe in south east Lon­ tion, a Methodist and a conscien­ don. In 1758 John Warner gave tious objector in 1916), Sir a cutting of his vine to Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Charles Raymond at "Valen­ baronet, of Wallington, and tines" near Ilford. Ten years Geoffrey Winthrop Young later Sir Charles Raymond gave (mountaineer, and member of a cutting of his vine to Capability theF.A.U.)- Brown, who planted it at Hamp­ ton Court Palace where it still DOVER flourishes. John Warner was a 'The Divine Durant: a seven­ prominent member of Horsly- teenth century Independent0, by down Monthly Meeting. Madeline V. Jones, an article in GEORGE W. EDWARDS Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 73, for 1968, tells (p. 201) how John LAW REFORM Durant (1620-1689) "hastened Parliament and Conscience, by to Dover in 1656 to sustain the Peter G. Richards, professor of Independent congregation there British government at the Uni­ in the face of a powerful Quaker versity of Southampton (Alien movement in the town, and to & Unwin, 1970. ^2.75) gives an remind them of the essential account of moves for the reform tenet of their belief, that Christ of British laws in the fields of did not die for all 'but only for capital punishment, homo­ those elect ones'/' sexuality, abortion, censorship, divorce and other fields. Mainly GRANGE-OVER-SANDS concentrated on events in and W. E. Swale: Grange-over-Sands: out of Parliament in the last the story of a gentle township decade, the book also includes (Grange-over-Sands, 1969. 50p), some historical material, and page 78, contains the following: notes the activity of John "The nearest Friends Meeting Bright against capital punish­ House is that in Cartmel, built ment more than a century ago. in 1859; but it seems that a Quaker chapel was put up in LEEDS Grange at the back of Prospect R. G. Wilson's study of the House. It was built by a Quaker, merchant community in Leeds J. H. Midgley, who had converted 1700-1830, has been published Burners' Close into a hotel, under the title Gentlemen Mer­ around 1883." chants (Manchester University Press, 1971. £3.60). The author HAMPTON COURT GRAPE VINE remarks that he had been The rebuilding of the Vine House unable to see the minutes of the at Hampton Court Palace in the "Leeds and Brighouse Meeting", autumn of 1969 evoked some but Friends will remember from interesting correspondence in the a previous note (Jnl. F.H.S., Journal of the Royal Horticultural vol. 50, pp. 258-259, 1964) on Society. Dr. Wilson's work that he It was in 1720 that the Black mentions the Elams. The biblio­ Hamburg vine was first brought graphy includes Dr. A. T. Gary's NOTES AND QUERIES 327 thesis on "The political and produced in the Transactions of economic relations of English the Society of Friends Central and American Quakers, 1750- Relief Committee during the famine 1785° (Oxford D.Phil., 1935). in Ireland, 1846-1847, concerning conditions among the makers of MIDDLESEX lace. The Relief Committee The Victoria History of Middle- helped to support one lace sex, vol. 4, edited by J. S. manufactory and gave £500 to a Cockburn and T. F. T. Baker Belfast association promoting (Oxford University Press, 1971) needlework schools in Connacht includes various notices of famine areas. Friends in Edgware, Longford (Harmondsworth parish), Pinner NATURALISTS (Harrow), Ruislip and Uxbridge. A short history of the libraries and The account of Friends in list of MSS. and original drawings Uxbridge has material supplied in the British Museum (Natural by Celia Trott, and there is an History], by Frederick C. Sawyer illustration of Uxbridge meeting (Bulletin of the British Museum house (1818). Richard Taverner (Natural History), Historical: (vicar of Hillingdon) and his vol. 4, no. 2, 1971), includes dispute with Friends at West notice of drawings and manu­ Drayton in 1658 is mentioned, scripts by John Gilbert Baker, and there is also a note about a the Bartrams, Peter Collinson, Quaker school at Mill Hill Richard Beck, J. H. Gurney, (p. 164). Sydney Par kin son, Edward Rob- son, Henry Seebohm and others. MISSIONS In the Concise Dictionary of the NEW-ENGLAND JUDGED Christian World Mission, edited The impact of George Bishop's by Stephen Neill, Gerald H. New-England Judged (1661) in Anderson, John Goodwin publicizing the anti-Quaker mea­ (Lutterworth Press, 1970. £5.50) sures taken by the Massachusetts there is a brief survey by government and bringing about a Blanche Shaffer of the organiza­ change of face in the colony is tions set up by Friends in the mentioned in T. H. Breen's mission field. The character of the good ruler: a study of puritan political ideas MOUNTMELLICK SCHOOL in New England, 1630-1730 The Irish flowerers, by Elizabeth (Yale University Press, 1970). Boyle (Ulster Folk Museum and The author recalls that "the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's Quakers refused to accept their University, Belfast, 1971. ^2.50) banishment, returning to Boston includes a note (p. 12) "when the as fast as they were sent away. Society of Friends opened Mount- More out of frustration than mellick school in Queen's County, fanaticism the Puritan authorities in 1786, they arranged for the finally executed several of them. girls to earn money for their John Hull, the colonial mint textbooks by taking in needle­ master and a deputy, described work". the incident in his diary: 'These For the famine period, the three persons had the sentence of author makes use of evidence death pronounced against them 328 NOTES AND QUERIES by the General Court. .. and well graphical and bibliographical they deserved it. Most of the dictionary of Irish writers of godly have cause to rejoice, and English verse, by D. J. bless the Lord that strengthens O'Donoghue (Dublin, Hodges, our magistrates and deputies Figgis; reprinted 1970 by John­ to bear witness against such son Reprint Co.) brings to notice blasphemers'." (p. 92). the following: Mary Birkett; Gershon Boate; Edward Clib- NORTHAMPTONSHIRE born, M.R.I.A.; M. E. Dudley; Entries under the word QUAKERS Lydia Jane Fisher; Sarah D. in the index to The letters of Greer; Thomas Hancock (1783- Daniel Eaton to the third Earl of 1849); Joseph Humphreys; Cardigan, 1725-1732. Edited by Douglas Hyde; Mary Leadbeater; Joan Wake and Deborah Cham­ John F. McArdle ("Mr. Quips pion Webster (Northamptonshire was a Quaker"); Thomas Makin Record Society. Publications. 24) (an early settler in Pennsyl­ 1971, lead to a letter of 1725 vania); Joseph John Murphy; in which an un-named Friend is A. Neale; Sophia S. Pirn; Abigail named, who "has always been a Roberts; William Robinson; very great friend to [his appren­ members of the Shackleton tice, the son of the widowed family; John Todhunter; George housekeeper at Deene Hall! but Webb; Richard Davis Webb; since he is a Quaker and a Thomas Wilkinson (of Yanwath, creditor, he may perhaps, if he Cumberland). could get mony into his hands, pay himself in full, tho' he pays POPULAR BELIEFS the others but in part. He is a Religion and the decline of magic: man of very good substance & studies in popular beliefs in promises very fair". It is not sixteenth and seventeenth century difficult to see that Lord Cardi­ England, by Keith Thomas gan's land agent did not entirely (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971) trust the Quaker. is a massive book, well-presented and a valuable contribution to a NOTTINGHAM subject which cuts across many Duncan Gray's Nottingham: fields of study. settlement to city (1953) was Friends appear in this work republished in 1969 by S. R. many times. Meeting houses, Publishers Ltd., East Ardsley. Friends1 attitude to oaths, to The author notices the imprison­ miracles and the workings of ment of George Fox in the town, divine providence against perse­ and the consequent conversion cutors, to prophesying and to the of John Reckless the mayor to practice of astrology, are all Quakerism. In the eighteenth dealt with. One may sometimes century Friends had a meeting suspect the reliability of the house in Spaniel Row, and the sources quoted; for instance the nineteenth saw them concerned ascription to "a Quaker" in in the dispute over payment of p. 598 seems to rest on a church rates. questionable endorsement on a document in the Domestic State POETS OF IRELAND Papers. The Poets of Ireland: a bio­ Among other Quaker names NOTES AND QUERIES 329 appearing in the index we note a good map section showing the those of Solomon Eccles, George distribution of various major Fox, James Nayler, John Raunce denominations at different and Susanna Pearson. periods. There is a page of information on the Society of POPULATION Friends, not all of it trustworthy "Family size and fertility control —for instance, "The great suc­ in eighteenth-century America: cess of Fry's and Cadbury's a study of Quaker families", by established Bristol as an impor­ Robert V. Wells (Population tant Quaker centre." There is a studies, vol. 25, no. i, March table (p. 226) of percentages of 1971, pp. 73-82) deals with 276 total Quaker membership for Quaker families in New York, England in 1967. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It finds that the fertility rates RHODE ISLAND FRIENDS of the Quakers studied were Accusations of Toryism were considerably lower than those levelled against Friends in Rhode found in the general American Island when they refused to take population at the same time. up any other stand than neutral­ ity in the War of Independence. QUAKER LEAD COMPANY A Quaker petition of 1788 against the paper money system Industrial archaeology of the then in operation in the colony Peak District, by Helen Harris enabled opposition to it to (David & Charles, ^3.15. 1971) crystallize, so that it was aban­ includes a brief notice on p. 49 doned within a year. when dealing with the smelting Rhode Island had prohibited process: the slave trade in 1786, and 4 The cupola is said to have prominent Friends in the colony been introduced into Derbyshire were unenthusiastic for the from Wales by a company of federal Constitution of 1787 Quakers in about 1747 when the when it provided for the con­ first one was constructed at tinuance of slavery (and tolera­ Kelstedge, Ashover, by the Lon­ tion of the slave trade until don Lead Company/' 1808). The above are among points READING, BERKS. covered in Irwin H. Polishook, Reading, a biography, by Alan Rhode Island and the Union, Wykes (Macmillan, 1970. £2.75) 7774-7795 (Northwestern Uni­ includes a couple of pages con­ versity Press, Evanston, 1969). cerning Friends in the town during the reign of Charles II, SANDY FOUNDATION and gives a stirring paragraph to The Journal of Giles Moore. Sir William Armorer, equerry to Edited by Ruth Bird (Sussex the king, and persecutor of the Record Society, Lewes. P'ublica- Quakers (p. 106). tion vol. 68. 1971) prints the accounts of Giles Moore (1617- RELIGIOUS GEOGRAPHY 1679) rector of Horsted Keynes. The Geography of Religion in Here (p. 191) we find that on England, by John D. Gay April 20, 1669 he purchased (Duckworth, 1971. £3.95), has "Pens Sandy foundation, & 330 NOTES AND QUERIES Dr Owens Answere—2s. od." 'favoured' used in that way No other identifiable work con­ now-a-days." cerning Friends is noted. SHEFFIELD SCOTLAND Books printed by John Garnet, Sources for Scottish genealogy and Sheffield's first known printer family history, by D. J. Steel, (Sheffield City Libraries, Local assisted by the late Mrs. A. E. F. history leaflet no. 13, 1969), Steel (National Index of Parish includes as item no. 5, a work of Registers, vol. 12. Published for which no copy has been traced, the Society of Genealogists by and which is listed on the last Phillimore, London and Chi- page of A new historical catechism, chester, 1970) includes a useful by W.L., S.P., as "Shortly 7-page survey of Scottish will be Published", the following: Friends1 history and records A Dialogue between a Pupiple likely to be used in genealogical [sic] and his Tutor, wherein is searches. finally overthrown the Quakers On p. 210 John Wigham pretences to Infalability [sic], suffers from an intrusive aitch Loyalty and Unity; and in fine, a which puts him wrong in the Demonstrative Proof of Quaker­ index. ism being worse than Atheism. Printed by John Garnet. 1737. A SHAKEN QUAKER The Yorkshire Dialect Society SOCIOLOGY summer bulletin, no. 18, June Some of the material about I97I > PP- 12-13, contains the Friends in The London Heretics, following anecdote contributed 1870—1914, by Warren Sylvester by Fred Brown: Smith (London 1967) has al­ "An old Quaker lady was ready appeared in Quaker History. telling how in the old days The author describes the period Friends used to go to meetings as one of quietism for Friends. on horse-back, or on horse- He thinks Rufus Jones "perhaps drawn vehicles, if they came from the greatest legacy (John Wil- any distance. helm) Rowntree left". London She told about one couple Yearly Meeting is called "the who usually rode to meetings Quaker designation for the in­ in a high dog-cart, and on one clusive membership of all the occasion the horse shied and smaller meetings in the London threw the pair out onto the road. area". A quotation from Harriet When they arrived at the Law, "The Christian Life", in meeting, bruised and shaken, The Secular Chronicle (X, 6., and related their mishap, another August n, 1878, p. 65) may not old Quaker asked in the quaint be well known: "The Quakers, it vernacular, 'An* wer' ye much is true, have tried to put into hurt?' force a modified form of the oft- 'Noa,' replied the trembling repeated injunction 'Resist not man, 'I favoured; I fell on my evil'; and by systematic contra­ wife/ vention of another less authorita­ With a twinkle in her eye, tive command ('Lay not up for the old Quaker lady remarked yourselves treasures on earth') that one never heard the word have managed to keep themselves NOTES AND QUERIES 331 in existence; but they exist the front rank of liberal arts (like the smaller European colleges. The book was written nationalities) under the protec­ by Frances Blanshard, who tion, and for the convenience of shared Frank Aydelotte's work the more efficient members of in serving for many years as the body politic, who act upon Dean at the college; she herself an entirely different principle'1 receives a fitting tribute from (pp. 238—239). The social involve­ Brand Blanshard, her husband, ment of Friends in his period is who edited and completed the the author's main concern. work after her death in 1966. DAVID J. HALL STAFFORDSHIRE TEMPERANCE There is a substantial and Drink and the Victorians: the informative account of Friends temperance question in England, in Staffordshire in the chapter 1815-1872, by Brian Harrison on "Protestant nonconformity" (Faber, 1971. ^5.50) is likely to in the Victoria County History: stand as the definitive work on Stafford, volume 3 (Oxford Uni­ the subject for a long time. versity Press, 1970. £10.50). The participation of Friends The author (the Rev. R. Mans­ in the various (and sometimes field) acknowledges help from conflicting) societies in the field notes on Staffordshire Quakerism is well covered. The first British from Mr. D. G. Stuart, Depart­ anti-spirits society, requiring ment of Adult Education, Keele abstinence from spirits and University. moderation in other drinks, was founded at a Bible Society SWARTHMOOR gathering in the Quaker meeting The 1970 summer meeting of the house at New Ross, co. Wexford, Royal Archaeological Institute in 1829. was based on Lancaster, and "The pillars of teetotalism in The Archaeological Journal, vol. rural areas were . . . often eccen­ 127 (1970) includes a brief trics or Quakers who had little account of Swarthmoor Friends' to lose by an additional eccen­ Meeting House by C. F. Stell tricity, and whose income could (pp. 269-270) which the Institute not be threatened by squires and visited on Tuesday, July 7, 1970. parsons" (p. 149). Friends produced 24 per cent SWARTHMORE COLLEGE of the teetotal leaders whose Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore, religious allegiance is known by Frances Blanshard (Wesleyan (p. 165). University Press, 1970) tells the Well before the rise in cocoa life story of the Rhodes Scholar consumption in the 18403, (and later the influential Ameri­ '' Eighteen th-cen tury Quakers can secretary for the Rhodes were prominent for manufactur­ Trustees) who introduced ideas ing beer, the eighteenth-century for university education which temperance drink; likewise nine­ he had been exposed to during teenth-century Quakers—Tuke, his time at Oxford into the Mennell and Horniman—were American university field, and prominent in distributing tea, as its president brought the the nineteenth-century temper­ Quaker Swarthmore College into ance drink11 (p. 302).

6B 332 NOTES AND QUERIES TOLERATION centre movement, 1932-1939* ', "The Cromwellians could satisfy by Ralph H. C. Hayburn (Journal neither Quakers who wanted of contemporary history, vol. 6, universal toleration, nor Presby­ no. 3, 1971, pp. 156-171) has terians who pressed constantly mention of the pioneering efforts for greater rigidity." The govern­ of the Friends at Maes-yr-Haf, ments of the Interregnum were Trealaw (1927) and at Bryn- constantly beset with the diffi­ mawr (1928) in the field of culty (which proved itself an organizing and assisting self- impossibility) of finding any help among the unemployed in firm middle ground on which the the depression years. country could agree to be The article gives a useful governed. David Underdown's synopsis of the organization Pride's Purge: politics in the which sprang up from the begin­ puritan revolution (Clarendon ning of these efforts, and the Press, 1971. ^4.75) sums up in regional organizations spreading this way one of the problems over the country—like the Tyne- facing Whitehall in the period side Council of Social Service, which saw the rise of Quakerism and the Friends Unemployment (P-348). Committee in west Cumberland The book goes searchingly (the only such bodies existing in into the political scene and gives 1932). much information (some in The author thinks that more tabular form) concerning the might have been expected from political figures of the period. the Church. Friends did a great Names such as those of Jasper deal. "There was never any Batt, George Bishop, Dennis collective response from the Hollister, Anthony Pearson and Church, however, nor, apart Morgan Watkins appear, to­ from the Quakers, from any one gether with names of representa­ denomination.'' tives of families (like Pittard of Martock) found later among THE VICTORIANS Friends of the areas concerned. Professor Owen Chadwick in The author is not afraid to The Victorian Church, Part II give his opinions. He concludes a (London 1970) makes few specific paragraph concerning Anthony references to Friends. The reli­ Pearson, with the remark: "The gious census of London published combination of high-flown Puri­ in George Cadbury's Daily News tan zeal with a careful eye to the in 1902 and Seebohm Rowntree's main chance was a common religious census of York in 1901 feature of the 16508." Perhaps of are discussed. other times, too. DAVID J. HALL Concerning the turbulent year of 1659, the author cites in WELCOME, 1682 evidence J. F. Maclear's article on The Welcome Claimants, proved* "Quakerism and the end of the disproved and doubtful, with an Interregnum" (Church history, account of some of their descen­ xix, 1950, pp. 240-270). dants; by George E. McCracken (Publications of the Welcome UNEMPLOYMENT Society of Pennsylvania, no. 2. "The voluntary occupational Baltimore, Genealogical Pub- NOTES AND QUERIES 333 lishing Company, 1970. $22.00) and Wootton Bassett are men­ is packed with information con­ tioned in the Victoria County cerning the earliest settlers in History: Wiltshire, vol. 9 (Oxford Penn's province for whom a claim University Press, 1970. ^8.50). has been made that they sailed with Penn on the Welcome. YEALAND FRIENDS Of the 304 claimants listed by the "The historical demography of author, he rates 180 as disproved Warton parish before 1801", or mythical, and only 72 as by R. Speake (Transactions of proved or highly probable. the Historic Society of Lancashire More than 100 pages are and Cheshire, vol. 122, 1970, devoted to the family of William pp. 43-65), contains material Penn. In a sentence closing the from seven scattered townships, biographical notes about William including Yealand Conyers and Penn the Founder, the author Yealand Redmayne. says: ''Before listing the children, Friends of Yealand provide an I should like to remark that as the untypical picture. Whereas most result of considerable study of brides came from places less than the life and career of William twenty miles away, the marriages Penn the Founder, I have reached of Friends were mostly of stran­ the firm conclusion that he was gers ("21 of their 26 marriages the greatest single man who involved partners both of whom participated in the settlement of were from outside the parish any of the colonies of North area11). Friends registers "show America/' a large proportion of wealthy A British editor might have merchant and middle-class fami­ assisted in sharpening some of lies'1 (p. 52). the material (like verifying place- In round figures, Quaker regis­ names quoted from documents) trations in the half-century on this side of the water, but one periods 1655/1700, 1701/50,1751; cannot withhold admiration for 1800 provide 8, 9 and 2 per cent the zeal and good sense which of the baptisms (births); 5, 6 the editor displays throughout. and 4 per cent of the burials; But how ungallant of Professor and 12, 9 and i per cent of the McCracken to add a year to the marriages. age of Mary (Jones) Penn at her marriage. YORK The first volume of the Wel­ Catholic recusancy in the city of come Society's publications is York, 1558-1791, by J. C. H. entitled Passengers and ships Aveling (Catholic Record Society prior to 1684, by W. L. Sheppard, publications: Monograph series, Jr. (Baltimore, Genealogical Pub­ vol. 2), 1970, includes notices lishing Company, 1970, $14.50). of documents which contain Information from this volume material relevant to Friends' concerning various emigrants history, such as the Archiepis- appears elsewhere in these Notes copal Visitation Book 1764 which under their names. lists by parishes the total number of families, and the number of WILTSHIRE non-conforming families, includ­ Friends at Chiseldon, Goatacre ing the Quaker ones (pp. 275- (in Hilmarton parish), Swindon 276).