Notes and Queries

Sir PERCY ALDEN (1865-1944) FRANCIS BUGG A biography of Sir Percy Geoffrey Nuttall has drawn Alden, Christian socialist and attention to a letter from Hum- M.P., appears in the Dictionary frey Wanley at Oxford to Francis of Labour biography, vol. 3, by Bugg the energetic controver­ Joyce M. Bellamy and John sialist with Friends, in which Saville (Macmillan, 1976). Percy Wanley invites the author to Alden joined Friends in 1901. present his books to the Bodleian This volume of the Dictionary Library. The letter is printed in also includes articles on the an article by P. L. Heyworth pacifist Frederick George Bing entitled "Humfrey Wanley and 1870-1948), and the artist Jessie 'Friends' of the Bodleian, 1695- 3olliday Dana (1884-1915) who 98" (Bodleian Library record, was educated at Polam Hall. vol. 9, no. 4, June 1976, pp. 219- 30). BERNARD BARTON The letter from Wanley is dated 6 April 1696, and reads The sale catalogue of Bernard ". . . I have seen your Book Barton's library is in vol. 9 of the called The Quakers set in their series Sale Catalogues of the true Light at the End of which is Libraries of Eminent Persons, a Catalogue of 15 books more all 1974. In the sale were approxi­ written by you. The Quakers mately 290 works in some 550 have allready presented us with volumes, plus unbound periodi­ Foxes Journal Barclays Works cals and parts of illustrated &c. [well] bound in the best books issued in parts. About Paper; I'me certain it would be thirty-five Friends' books can extreamly well taken, if you be identified from the catalogue, would be pleased to send us your and there are another fifty or so own Works, which are so capable of a religious nature. Most books of Instructing those who are in these categories are by familiar desirous of hearing what can be authors. Barton's wide literary said on both sides. Here they wil connexions, and his great feeling be for ever preserved, & your for Wordsworth, Cowper, Scott Donation shal be particularly and Crabbe, are not borne out registred among the other Bene­ by this catalogue which is thus factions." something of a disappointment The letter produced the de­ as a source of biographical sired results. More than a score material, as its editor, Roy Park, of Bugg's works are listed in the is ready to admit. A list of the folio Bodleian Library catalogue books kept back from the sale of 1843. Similar appeals from by Barton's daughter Lucy is Wanley to Thomas Crispe and now needed to complement the George Keith were also success­ catalogue. ful. NOTES AND QUERIES PETER COLLINSON Storrs of Stockport. Achsah's A chapter on "The Royal birth was registered in Friends' Society in America" in Alex­ Cheshire registers 22 June 1711. andra Oleson and Sanborn C. She was baptized into the Church Brown: The pursuit of knowledge of England the day before her in the early American republic: marriage. Joseph Marshall, a American scientific and learned Doncaster Friend, was one of the societies from colonial times to the legal guardians for her son civil war (Johns Hopkins Uni­ William after her husband's versity Press, 1976), has material early death. concerning Peter Collinson the The Hall was occupied by Quaker naturalist. Wakefield Christy between 1869 and 1876, and a memorable fete in August 1872 celebrated the ISAAC CREWDSON (1780-1844) marriage of Wakefield Christy A letter from Isaac Crewdson, and Mary Elizabeth Richardson Ardwick, 5 i. 1835, to Jabez (dau. of Jonathan Joseph Rich­ Bunting, asks him the favour of ardson of Ireland). a review of his Beacon in the Methodist Magazine. The aim of FRANCIS WILLIAM Fox the Beacon is described as being (1841-1918) to promote amongst Friends A letter from Francis William recognition "of the paramount Fox seeking "some suitable Am­ authority of the Holy Scrip­ erican who could undertake the tures1 '. The letter is printed in superintendence & manage­ Early Victorian Methodism: the ment of our agricultural Indus­ correspondence of Jabez Bunting, trial Mission which it is proposed 1830-1858, edited by W. R. to establish in one of the Islands Ward (Oxford University Press, of Zanzibar or Pemba", West­ 1976), pp. 120-1, and it was minster, 6 July 1896, is printed brought to our attention by in The Booker T. Washington Geoffrey F. Nuttall. Papers, vol. 5, pp. 187-8. The editor does not mention "Being of Quaker descent, whether or not a review appeared when the spirit moves, I must in response to the author's speak", so wrote Caroline H. application. Pemberton in 1897 (p- 2^8 in the same volume), conjuring up a ACHSAH (SXORRS) DAVENPORT vision of a well-concerned social Bramall Hall: the story of an worker. Elizabethan manor house, by Eveline Barbara Dean (Stock- HADWEN FAMILY port, 1977. £2.95) is a study of Brian Loomes in his Westmor­ one of the most famous of land clocks and clockmakers Cheshire black and white houses, (David & Charles, 1974. ^3.25) and the Davenport family which pp. 95-96, mentions the Hadwen for centuries owned the property. family of clockmakers. They are In the course of the narrative traced back to Thomas Hadwen the author mentions the marriage of Sedbergh in the I7th century". of the Rev. Warren Davenport In i737~Isaac Hadwen went to (d. 1749) who married Achsah America on a visit, and died daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth there. NOTES AND QUERIES F. M. VAN HELMONT (September 1976), pp. 581-610, "A Quaker-Kabbalist contro­ entitled "James Tyrrell, whig versy: George Fox's reaction to historian and friend of John Francis Mercury Van Helmont", Locke", by J. W. Gough (Oriel by Allison Coudert (Journal of College, Oxford). James Tyrrell the Warburg and Courtauld Insti­ wrote, "I never thought good tutes, vol. 39, 1976, pp. 171-89) morality or good manners can studies aspects of van Helmont's be suspected of Quakerism: and relations with Friends. The as for dresses and Anodes of author concludes: "van Hel­ clothes I think you are ~~[too] mont's conversion to Quakerism much philosopher to think there was only an episode, albeit an is any morality or" religion in important one, in his life." thenfone way or anpther." The author suggests that CHARLES LAMB Locke might have been afraid that his "light of nature" might Charles Lamb's poem on the be confused with the "inward death of "a young Quaker 1(Hester light" of George Fox. Savory) is reprinted (witK the letter to Thomas Manning of 23 March 1803, with which it was LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT sent) in the second volume of "Lucretia Mott is the flower of The letters of Charles And Mary Quakerism . . . She brings Anne Lamb (Cornell University domesticity & common sense, & Press, 1976), pages 107-8. that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly- JOEL LEAN burly . . ." (The journals and "Two vanished Fishponds Miscellaneous notebooks of Ralph houses: a follow-up study", by Waldo Emerson, vol. it, 1975, H. Temple Phillips and C. Roy p. 249. Anno 1850.) Hudlestori (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch­ PEASE FAMILY aeological Society, vol. 94, 1976, Robert Moore's Pit-Men, pp. 136-140) includes references Preachers 6- Politics (1974) is to Joel Lean (d. 1856) and his about Methodism in a Durham school Which he conducted from mining community in wHich the 1816 to 1837 at Upper Fishponds Peases were major employers. House, near Bristol. He gives an account of the There is a plate of the Schbol. family's ideas of the employer's Bevan Lean said in 1931 that responsibilities in running Pease the school was wound up re­ and Partners, their attitudes putedly after an incident in towards unions and the edu­ which Joel Lean had boxed a cation of workers, their belief in boy's ear and inadvertently arbitration and their encourage­ ruptured the drum. ment of temperance and religion, whether Wesleyan, Methodist JOHN LOCKE New Connexion or Baptist. The John Locke's hostility towards period especially covered by Friends is touched upon in an these references is between 1870 article in The historical journal and 1900. (Cambridge), vol. 19, no. 3 DAVID J. HALL NOTES AND QUERIES 43 DAVID RICARDO Many letters go to London, but Chapter IV "Love and mar­ one to Bristol is addressed to riage" in David Weatherall's Cornelius Sarjeant [see Bristol David Ricardo, a biography (Mar- Record Society, xxvi. 214-5] tinus Nijhoff, 1976) deals with with a good opening compliment Ricardo's marriage to Priscilla, inviting trading relations: daughter of Edward Wilkinson, "Sr. Hearing so fair a Char­ the Quaker surgeon of Bow in acter of your honest & punctuall Middlesex. The marriage resulted dealing, by Capt. Jno. Moore in the disownment of Priscilla Commander of the good Ship the Ricardo, although she main­ Assurance of Bristol, in which tained contacts with the Society you are a Considerable Owener and births of children were both of Ship & Cargoe, & with all registered with Friends. In six considering your present trade short pages we have the sketch of a Tobacconist, I have sent of the marriage of Jew and you three hhds. [hogsheads] Quaker at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Sweetscented Tobo. all ready on 20 Dec. 1793, which has the stemmed & fit cutting without ring of truth and which one can any manner of loss or trouble ..." feel confident is correct without In return Fitzhugh wished to the need of referring to the receive "Kerseys Cottons & details of records and documents. Bedminster Cottons, coarse Can­ vas, Ironware & shoes, thread ALYS RUSSELL silk, also a hundred of Gloucester­ shire Cheese, & what else you Ronald W. Clark's The life of think convenient for this Coun­ Bertrand Russell (Jonathan Cape, try's use", and four spinning 1975) includes an account of wheels. [Letter of June 2ist Russell's first marriage, to Alys 1692.] Pearsall Smith, which took place House at Westminster Meeting PEREGRINE TYZACK (1706 70) on 13 December 1894. After the ceremony Russell settled down Dr. O. S. Pickering brings to to "satisfying intellectual pur­ notice a series of i8th century suits", while "Alys had her manuscript poems in a volume good causes: the emancipation in the Bowes Museum at Barnard of women, teetotalism, and a Castle, and identifies the author variant of Quakerism which, as the Friend Peregrine Tyzack, harking back to its ancestry in who was born at Norwich in Anabaptism, included advocacy 1706, and who died "greatly of free love". lamented" a respectable mer­ chant at Newcastle upon Tyne CORNELIUS SARJEANT (d. 1726) in 1770; Notes and queries, Nov. 1976, pp. 497-5°°- Letters from Colonel William Fitzhugh (1651-1701), Virginia tobacco planter and exporter, ADDINGHAM, YORKS. are printed in Stuart Bruchey's Richard Smith, labourer, Eb- The colonial merchant, sources enezer Lister, farmer, Marshall and readings (Forces in American Lister, farmer, George Scott, economic growth series: Har- towspinner, and Joseph Smith, court, Brace & World, 1966). yeoman, are five inhabitants of 44 NOTES AND QUERIES Addingham who are named as (Routledge, 1976) is a study of Quakers in The Craven muster Bristol based on the author's roll, 1803 (North Yorkshire doctoral dissertation of 1968. It County Record Office publi­ uses Friends' records deposited cations, no. 9. Northallerton, in the Bristol Archives Office and 1976). a multitude of other documents, BAPTISTS both manuscript and printed, to survey a large part of the social "Quakers and Baptists, 1647- and socio-religious work which 1660", by Craig W. Horle (Bap­ took place in the city in the half tist quarterly, vol. 26, no. 8, Oct. century up to the First World J 976, pp. 344-62) is a rapid War. survey of the difficult terrain Friends' activities in First-Day which the student of Quakerism Schools, Adult Schools and social has to negotiate in surveying the work are noticed, as is also the relations which early./ Friends development from 1910 of Bristol had with the Baptists. The four University settlement (which pages of close-packed notes, grew from work Marian Fry and the timely use of the telling Pease began in the i88os). quotation in the course of the Under Hilda Cashmore the article shows that Craig Horle Settlement continued active has used his time in Friends through the inter-war period. House Library to good effect, and has come to know well both CATHOLICS & QUAKERS the secondary and the Quaker John Bossy's The English primary sources which will have ^J ** ' "»*-! ' ...-.< » .,-,.. t : "... / !>.,* ,,, , V-.».«*M, . . t . V I-*** fc -^^ to become familiar to anyone Catholic Community 1570—1850 who essays to follow him in the (1976) argues strong parallels field. between the histories of English Catholicism and of Friends and BOOK LABELS the Presbyterians. The author Brian North Lee: Early printed suggests that Friends possess a book labels (Private Libraries "special historical link with the J. » ...... ,.„.,,.. „ Association, 1976) includes notes Catholic community", saying on half a dozen book labels for that they bore little direct Friends: relation to other English Protes­ Thomas and Ann Cox (Lon­ tants; he quotes an Irish Fran­ don, 1706); John and Rebecca ciscan: "none came so near him Walker (1713); William Aldam as the Quakers". "Geographf- (1718); John Backhouse (1718); cally, the Quaker community Anne Fothergill (Leeds, 1737) was a product of the northern [Query: was this last item printed uplands, and it has already been by William Lister, the Leeds suggested that the success of printer?]. Fox's mission here may be seen There is also a label for as a consequence of the failure of Richard Backhouse, 1755, nearly the Catholic clergy to take at the end of the period covered advantage of its missionary op­ by the book. portunities in this region. The Quakers, it may be argued, were BRISTOL the body which most success­ Leisure and the changing city, fully filled the vacuum created by H. E. Meller by the geographical and social NOTES AND QUERIES 45 indrawing of Catholicism in the James, William and George seventeenth century" [p. 393]. Logan and notices the assist­ The suggestion is made that ance and goodwill which they various aspects of Quakerism could call upon from Friends and have more in common with pre- particularly from Dr. Fothergill than post-Reformation Christi­ and J. C. Lettsom. anity. DAVID J. HALL FIFTH MONARCHY BROADSIDES An article on "Illustrated EARLS COLNE German broadsides of the seven­ The Diary of Ralph Josselin, teenth century" by D. L. Paisey, 1616-1683. Edited by Alan Mac- appears in the British Library farlane (Oxford University Press, journal, vol. 2, no. i, pp. 56-69. 1976. £20). Two of the items (nos. 25 and 26) Ralph Josselin was vicar of mention Quakers in their titles, Earls Colne, Essex, from 1641 but are in fact concerned with the until his death in 1683. suppression of the Fifth Mon­ The diary includes references archy Men, 1661. to Quakers in the district under 25. Abbildung der zu London various dates between 1655 vorgangenen Execution wider (James Parnell at Coggeshall) die rebellirende Quackers, und and 1674. These have been dess Cromwels, Jretons und noticed on pages 349, 350, 366-7, Brandschauens ausgegrabene 373. 377> 38o, 388, 397, 399, 4 1 ?, Corper; sampt beygefiigter 418, 422, 426, 450, 459, 481, 504, Relation. 529, 554 and 581. 26. Relation auss Londen vom One of the appendixes includes 4. Febr. 1661. Die Examination notes on various Earls Colne Verurtheilunge vnd Execution families, some of which have der Gefangenen Quackers . . . close Quaker connections. betreffend.

EDINBURGH MEDICINE KENDAL transition in Kendal "The influence of the Edin­ "Social and Westmorland, c. 1760-1860", Medical School on America burgh by J. D. Marshall and Carol A. in the eighteenth century", an vol. Depart­ Dyhouse (Northern history, article by Dr. J. Rendall, 127-157) uses to University of 12, 1976, pp. ment of History, good effect extensive material in the symposium volume York, available to assess the influence The early years of the Edinburgh of the various (Royal Scottish and importance Medical School groups and classes in the town, £3) Museum, Edinburgh, 1976. including Friends. lists more than one hundred medical students from the Am­ erican colonies who studied at LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Edinburgh between 1770 and Dr. John S. Andrews has 1795- written on "Some early Quaker The author identifies a hand­ material in the University of ful of the students as Quakers Lancaster Library" (Gutenberg Thomas Parke, John Hannum Jahrbuch, 1976, pp. 333~339)- Gibbons, S. P. Griffith, T. C. The Quaker collection now num- 46 NOTES AND QUERIES bers some 2,000 volumes and Joseph Pease (d. 1872; M.P. includes books given or deposited 183^2-41; president of the Peace from meetings and libraries near Society, 1860-72) and John (like Brigflatts and Yealand) and Whitwell (1812-80; M.P. 1868- far (like Swarthmore College, 80; of Kendal, who married Pennsylvania). Anna Maud in 1836).

LEEDS (CARLTON HILL) MIDDLESEX OLD LIBRARY A history of Middlesex. Edited The deposit of over 400 vol­ by T. F. T. Baker. Vol. 5 umes, being the older books (of (Victoria History. Oxford Uni­ the i yth to i Qth centuries) from versity Press, 1976. £35) includes the Old Library at Carlton Hill references to Friends at Winch- M.H., Leeds, is reported in the more Hill, Hendon, Edmonton Annual report of the Librarian, (and Christopher Taylor's University of Leeds, 1975-76. school), Enfield, South Mimms, In recent years the books have and Tottenham (including a not been much consulted, and paragraph on Grove House the Meeting decided to offer School and its distinguished them on deposit to the University pupils). Library where, after cataloguing has been completed, they will be housed in the Special Collections MONK BRETTON FRIENDS and available to a wide circle of "The early Quakers of Monk scholars. Bretton, 1657-1700: a study of Leeds Meeting had a Library dissent in a south Yorkshire at least as far back as 1720, and village", by Brian Elliott (Trans­ the books have been well-used actions of the Hunter Archaeol­ in earlier centuries. The collec­ ogical Society, vol. 10, part 4, tion includes over a hundred 1977, pp. 260-272) is an account small-quarto pamphlets by of the early "Burton" Friends. Burrough and Howgill and The author uses to good effect George Fox of the 16503, bound documentary evidence from the in two portly volumes and Borthwick Institute of Historical indexed for Anne (Yeamans) Research in York, as well as Curtis of Reading in 1660. local material and records at Friends House, London. It is M.P.s illustrated with two full-page maps. Michael Stenton's Who's who of British Members of Parliament, vol. i, 1832-1885 (Harvester THE MOUNT SCHOOL, YORK Press, 1976) includes brief notices The Mount School annual on John Henry Gurney (1819-90; report for 1976 records the M.P. 1854-65; only son of establishment of an Archives Joseph John Gurney, of Earl- Room at the School. There is a ham), Samuel Gurney (1816-^82; paragraph briefly enumerating M.P. 1857-65; second son of some of the records still preserved Samuel Gurney of Upton, Essex), at The Mount. These documents Henry Pease (1805-81; M.P. date back in the Admissions 1857-65; son of Edward Pease), registers to 1831. NOTES AND QUERIES 47 MOUNT STREET, MANCHESTER as a meeting place in 1746 ready Leon Faucher in Manchester in for the Western Circular Yearly 1844: Its Present Condition and Meeting at the end of August Future Prospects (English trans­ that year); Nailsworth itself; lation, 1844) wrote: "Many of Rodborough; Tetbury (with Up- the Independent and Baptist ton House Nathaniel Cripps's chapels have exchanged the estate the house is i8th cen­ plain meeting-house of the last tury); Westonbirt; and Wood- century for imitations of Gothic chester. architecture, and diminutive Grecian porticoes even the PEACE MOVEMENT, 1914-18 Quakers have been infected with "The pacifists of the First the prevailing fashion; and al­ World War did little to influence though their consciences refuse the course of the fighting . . . The the ordinary nomenclature of peace societies preached the the days and months, yet the possibility of permanent unity Spirit moves them in a building, and concord on a universal so heathen by its architecture, scale, yet on their own small that Jupiter or Bacchus would scale exhibited few signs of not be disgraced by it." co-operation between themselves The above quotation is re­ ..." So sums up Professor Keith produced in Valentine Cunning- Robbins in his study of British ham's Everywhere Spoken politics and war's impact on the Against, Dissent in the Victorian various anti-war movements en­ Novel, 1976, p. 88. In his study titled The abolition of war: the Cunningham notes the relative "peace movement" in Britain, absence of Quakers from Victor­ 7974-1979 (Cardiff, University ian fiction, and that they are of Wales Press, 1976). generally approvecl_of when they do appear; although Thackeray's PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH The Newcomes is the exception in this regard. The Pennsylvania Dutch: a DAVID J. HALL persistent minority, by William T. Parsons (Twayne Publishers, 1976) gives an extended study NAILSWORTH M.H. of the Germans from the Rhine- A photograph of Nailsworth land and elsewhere who made Meeting House by Lilywhite & their home in Pennsylvania and Co., c. 1960, faces p. 192 in the influenced Commonwealth life Victoria History volume n for there right from the time when Gloucestershire (Oxford Univer­ Francis Daniel Pastorius estab­ sity Press, 1976). The volume lished his settlement. also includes notes on Friends in various parishes in Bisley and PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS Longtree hundreds, as Bisley; A fair, if unsympathetic, sum­ Miserden (marriage of Richard mary of the problems which Pinchin of Miserden at Pains- faced peaceable Friends in Penn­ wick, 1684); Painswick (a meet­ sylvania in the eighteenth cen­ ing reborn in the last half cen­ tury is to be found in Douglas tury) ; Minchinhampton (where Edward Leach's Arms for empire: the market-house was licensed a military history of the British NOTES AND QUERIES colonies in North America, 1607- original documents (Alien Lane, ^783 (1973), a volume in the 1975) presents nothing new con­ Macmillan Wars of the United cerning Friends to those who are States series. familiar both with Norman Hunt's Two early political associations (1961) and the main Empire or independence, 1760- outline of the campaign for the 1776: a British-American dia­ abolition of the slave trade. logue on the coming of the Ameri­ The introduction is substantial, can revolution, by lan R. Christie and the documents illuminating. and Benjamin W. Labaree These latter, although predomi­ (Phaidon, 1976) has many valu­ nantly economic in character, able points made cogently, and include recent items concerning sheds new light on politics a the Howard League for Penal couple of centuries old. Reform, the Campaign for The cautious behaviour of the Nuclear Disarmament, and the Philadelphia merchants during peace movement. the crisis on the duties on tea and other commodities led to a PRINTERS shift in political alignments in "Congreve and control of the the province. Popular support printed text", by Nicolas ebbed from the Quaker party as Barter, an article in The Times the tide for "no taxation with­ literary supplement, 24 Sept. out representation" began to J 976, p. 1221, deals with Pro­ flow strongly in the early 17705. fessor D. F. McKenzie's Sandars lectures on the London book PREACHING trade in the later seventeenth century. The careers of the A passage from Immanuel Quaker printers Giles Calvert, Bourne's A Defence and justifi­ Thomas Simmonds, Andrew and cation of ministers maintenance Tace~ Sowle are brought under by tythes (1659), in which Bourne review, and the workjof_Mark instances the Puritan practice of Swanner in Friends' care for the giving lectures and preaching press is noticed. freely in market towns and other * * * places, is quoted in a footnote The London book trades, 1775- to Patrick Collinson's "Lectures 1800: a preliminary checklist of by combination: structures and members, by lan Max ted (Daw- characteristics of church life in son, 1977), *s based on the 17th-century England" (Bulletin author's librarianship degree dis­ of the Institute of Historical sertation. Research, vol. 48, no. 118, Nov. Among those noticed as having 1975, p. 182). Immanuel Bourne Friendly connections (and some was writing against Anthony of these are dealt with in Jnl. Pearson's Great case of tithes, F.H.S., 50 (1963), pp. 103-115) first published in 1657. are: John and Arthur Arch, Stephen Couchman, William PRESSURE GROUPS Curtis, William Darton, the Graham Wot ton's Pressure Frys, Joseph Harvey, Samuel groups in Britain, 7720-1970, Clarke, James Phillips, William an essay in interpretation with Richardson and Thomas Tegg.