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Our Readers Are Invited to Assist in Replying Our readers are invited to assist in replying" to the Queries appearing from time to time in these columns. We shall also welcome short paragraphs on historical and bibliographical subjects of Quaker interest " THE UNIVERSAL FRIEND'S or direction. I think that the ADVICE."—A curious eight-page implicit submission to his views tract has recently been added to eventually proved a serious injury the Devonshire House collection, to him, and a disadvantage to entitled, " The Universal Friend's Friends, yet I believe he was at Advice, to those of the same that time a minister of the Religious Society. Recommended gospel" (page 15).] to be read in their Public Meetings for Divine Worship. Penn-Yan, FRIENDS IN FICTION. — The [New York State] Printed by events narrated in A Day of Fate, A. H. Bennett, at the Democrat by Edward Payson Roe (1838- Office, 1833. 1888), published N.Y. 1880, centre The preface, signed C. M.f con­ in a Quaker household in New sists mainly of Scripture. The York State. burden of the writer appears to be the need of an orderly obser­ There are a few references to early vance of public worship, but he Quaker preachers in Cumberland also addresses Parents, Children, in Hall Caine's Shadow of a Crime,. Masters, and Servants. It is curious to read in the latter Is more known of either writer book of Quakers at an open-air or tract ? meeting singing hymns "in a [John Cox, Jun., of New York chaunting measure, with a chorus City, writes: " I have not hitherto that danced to a spirit of joyful- heard of the pamphlet. There was ness " (chap, xl.), and, " a simple no Meeting at or near Penn Yan, Quaker hymn— which is in Yates Co., N.Y. From ' Though your sins be red as what I can learn from an elderly scarlet, Friend in that region, Caleb He shall wash them white as wool.1 " Macomber was doubtless the author. See a sidelight on his (chap, xliv.) character in Memories of Sunder- land P. Gardner, a Hicksite min­ LAURA S. HAVILAND.—What ister of note (1802-1893): " Caleb was the exact date and the place Macomber was the only minister so of death of Laura S. Haviland ? far as I recollect in Farmington Monthly Meeting [c. 1814], and had JOHN LANGSTAFF.—One of the great influence in transacting the early Friends in Durham County business of the Society; great was John Langstaff, who was con­ * deference was paid to his judgment, vinced at a meeting at Rampshaw and matters were generally dis­ Hall, with others, at which James posed of according to his choice Nayler was present, in 1653. It is 170 NOTES AND QUERIES. 171 said that one of the early meetings entry :—" Voss (Miss—Daughter was held for a time at J. L.'s house. of Kneller the painter and Mrs. Can any reader confirm this, or Voss, wife of a quaker in Austin name the residence ?—JOHN W. Friars). Mezzotint by STEEL, Darlington. J. Smith after Kneller, 1705." Is there any foundation for this reference to Friends ? FRANCIS HOWGILL AND APPLEBY [The following appears in the JAIL.—Ernest E. Taylor has sent us account of Sir Godfrey Kneller a photograph of the lock and key (1646-1723) in D.N.B. :—" Early of the prison on the old bridge at in life, according to some Appleby, in which Francis How- accounts before he left his native gill died, A.D. 1668/9. He writes, land [Germany], he had a mis­ " The chain of evidence is not com­ tress, a Mrs. Vos, who is stated plete, but the late Charles Thomp­ elsewhere to have been the wife son, of Morland, was absolutely of a Quaker in Austinfriars, and to certain that the lock and key were have served him as a model. By authentic." her he had an illegitimate daugh­ ter, Agnes." In the beginning of Quakerism in London there lived, INDEX TO BOWDEN'S " FRIENDS in Basinghall Street, a man named IN AMERICA."—The value of this Samuel Vosse (Vasse, Vaux), at book as a work of reference has whose house meetings were held. ever been lessened for lack of an See Camb. Jnl. He died in 1696, index. This want has now been and the Burial Registers give his supplied by Evelyn Roberts, of name—" Samuel Voss, senior.'9 London, who has prepared and Basinghall Street is in the neigh­ presented to D. a full index, con­ bourhood of Austin Friars. There taining some 3,400 entries. are no further particulars at hand respecting this family.—ED.] CAREY — CAREW. — In 1655 George Fox was at the house of WEARING HATS IN CHURCH.— Robert Carey in Plymouth and One of the panels in the title page there met Elizabeth Trelawney. of the " Didactica opera omnia " Was Robert Carey connected with of J. A. Comenius [i.e. Komensky], the family of Pole Carew ? Carew published at Amsterdam in 1657, used to be pronounced Carey, and contains a picture of a man in a perhaps is so still, especially in pulpit, who wears his hat, and Cornwall. The seats of the fam­ is addressing a congregation all ilies of Trelawney at Coldrenick of whom are equally covered.— and Carew at Anthony would be WILLIAM E. A. AXON, 42, Rich­ barely ten miles apart.—ALFRED P. mond Grove, Manchester. BALKWILL, Lydgate, Princetown, Devon. "HAT WORSHIP/*—That the KNELLER AND MRS. Voss.— dislike to " hat worship" was In a recent sale catalogue of not confined to Friends may be pictures there is the following gathered from a Welsh ballad 172 NOTES AND QUERIES, which has been printed in the Macnaughton, of Stonehaven, 44 Journal of the Welsh Folk- writes :— Music Society/* 11 It is apparent that Robert- The English version runs thus : son's ' Mad Priest' was Professor William Jameson, Lecturer on One day a learned bishop, History, Glasgow University— In measured voice and deep, born blind—educated at the Pronounced the benediction University—attained to great Above his gathered sheep ; learning—became well-skilled in And listening with attention history, both civil and ecclesiastic. To what his Lordship said, On 3oth May, 1692, the Senate, He noticed there a peasant, taking into consideration the His hat upon his head. blindness and great learning of The Bishop when he saw him, Jameson, who had no estate to live In anger did call out, by, allowed him 200 merks Scots " Now there, while I am speaking, for two years, for which he was to Take off thy hat, thou lout! " give instruction according to his " I won't," the peasant answered, capacity in civil and ecclesias­ " The merit must be small tical history. Jameson published Of words that will not enter at Edinburgh in 1689 'Verus The brain through hat and all." Patroclus; of The Weapons of The Welsh text will be found in Quakerism, The Weakness of the publication, already named, Quakerism.' I have extracted the of the Welsh Folk-Music Society, above notes from the Dictionary which is doing so much good work of National Biography. Later he in the gathering and recording of wrote a number of pamphlets the fast-fading melodies of the violently upholding the Presby­ people.—WILLIAM E. A. AXON, terian view as opposed to Episcopal Manchester. Church government, and, though blind, he must have been a great controversialist." DAVID FALCONAR (viii. 42 n.). Dr. Macnaughton adds:— —The date when David Barclay appointed David Falconar his " There is a notice of John factor should be 25th of Tenth Robertson in Scottish Notes and Queries, xi. Month, 1666. The " him " on the 22, in which the writer remarks ninth line refers to D. Falconar, :—' It is difficult to decide which not to his son, John.—W. F. of the parties to this theo­ logical MILLER. discussion bears the palm for the employment of abusive epithets. Robertson's title pages THOMAS CLARKSON.—Can any alone contain enough libel to frame reader inform us of the name of a strong criminal indictment. the mother of Thomas Clarkson ? Although Robertson describes himself as an Agriculturalist, his knowledge of classical lan­ guage and acquaintance with the JOHN ROBERTSON AND WlLLIAM ancient literature of Greece and JAMESON (vii. 105).—Dr. W. A. Rome were gained at Marischel NOTES AND QUERIES. 173 College, which he entered in 1668. QUAKERS INCREASING.—A par­ His works are written in vigorous agraph headed " Quakers Increas­ English, garnished with Scottish ing " has been going the round idiom, strengthened by the most of many papers, since first powerful arguments from Barclay's set going at Manchester Y.M. Apology.9 "—W. F. MILLER. Durrant's Press Cutting Agency has sent it to Devonshire House DANIEL QUARE AND THE BARO­ from papers such as The Christian METER.—In the course of some World, The Christian, Westminster recent investigations into the early Gazette, Oldham Evening Chronicle, history of the barometer I have Bristol Evening News, Shields come across the mention of the Daily Gazette and Christian Age. name of " Mr. Quare," and I am The paragraph is as follows : interested to know whether this " While so many of the Churches would be the Quaker horologist, are deploring a falling off in mem­ Daniel Quare. Towards the close bership, the Society of Friends of the seventeenth century much in this country has been increasing work was done in determining for many years past, and now, for the exact relation between the the first time in many generations, height of the barometer and its the increase is at a greater rate elevation above sea level.
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