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James Nayler S .Ball The Journal of the Friends' Historical ociety VOLUME 53 NUMBER 2 FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY FRIENDS HOUSE EUSTON ROAD LONDON NWi 2BJ also obtainable at Friends Book Store : 302 Arch Street, Philadelphia 6, Pa., U.S.A. Contents PAGL Editorial 97 Narrative Papers of George Fox. Edited by Henry J. Cadbury. [Book Notice.] Paradise Lost and James Nayler s .ball. Andrew W. Brink 99 Henry Fell, earlv Publisher of Truth. Kenneth L. Carroll A History of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. By Bliss Forbush. [Book Notice.] 124 An early Quaker poet: Mary (Southworth) Mollineux. Jean E. Mortimer. 125 Friends in Admiral Rodney's Squadron. A. Day Bradley 148 The Birkbeck Library,*.- York. R. S. Mortimer 152 Records of Quaker interest in Lambeth Palace Library. Melanie Barber Historical Research 170 Where are the Amelia Opie Paper^ Richard A. G. Dupuis 171 Notes and Queries 174 Friends' Historical Society President: 1972 Christopher J. Holdsworth 1973 Stephen S. Wilson 1974 Mary Hoxie Jones Chairman: Elfrida Vipont Foulds Secretary: Edward H. Milligan Joint Alfred W. Braithwaite and Editors: Russell S. Mortimer Annual Membership Subscriptions: (Personal) £1.00 ($3.00); (Institutional) £1.50 ($4.00). Personal Life Membership £20. Subscriptions should be paid to the Secretary, Friends' Hist­ orical Society, c/o The Library, Friends House, Euston Road, London NWi 2BJ. T • . .-.pi- fc-rfc."'.»., i- Vol. 53 No. 2 1973 THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY Publishing Office: Friends House, Euston Road, London NWi aBJ Communications should be addressed to the Editors at Friends House Editorial HE Society's Presidential Address for 1973 by Stephen S. Wilson will be published separately. T This issue of the Journal opens with two articles from across the Atlantic. Andrew W. Brink studies aspects of Milton's connection with Friends in his paper entitled "Paradise Lost and James Nayler's Fall". Kenneth L. Carroll presents a study of Henry Fell, a First Publisher of whom comparatively little is known. Jean Mortimer surveys Mary Molh'neux's work the poems of a Lancashire Friend and sufferer, which went through six editions before the end of the eighteenth century, and none afterwards. As London Yearly Meeting is to meet in 1974 in York it is perhaps appropriate that we include a description of the Birkbeck Library, a comprehensive collection of early Friends' works formed by Morris Birkbeck the bibliographer and by him bequeathed to Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting. A. Day Bradley, member of the Records committee of New York Yearly Meeting, brings to light records concerning two Cumberland Friends who were pressed into British naval service in 1781 in "Friends in Admiral Rodney's Squadron". Melanie Barber enumerates items of interest to Friends in the records preserved in Lambeth Palace Library. The issue includes the usual features, and (in particular) a Query concerning papers of Amelia Opie, and a brief note concerning the Narrative Papers of George Fox, the latest in 97 98 EDITORIAL the long line of contributions to scholarship from Henry J. Cadbury. The 1973 Spring meeting of the Society was held on 4 May, when Edwin B. Bronner, of Haverford College, delivered an address on 'The Evolution of a Yearly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly Meeting before the crisis of 1755". Edwin Bronner is one of three American historians currently engaged in re-writing the story of American Quakerism during the colonial period, and his address, based on his "work in progress", gave his audience a foretaste of the new light that the forthcoming volumes will shed on this period of history. Narrative Papers of George Fox, unpublished or uncollected. Edited from the manuscripts, with introductions and notes by Henry J. Cadbury. Richmond, Indiana, Friends United Press, 1972. pp. xii, 249. (Available at Friends Book Centre, Friends House. £3.50). This welcome volume deals with, and reproduces some of the preserved or recoverable manuscript material which preceded the three folio volumes of George Fox's works published in the two decades following his death namely, the Journal, 1694, the Epistles, 1698, and the Doctrinals (Gospel-truth demonstrated) 1706. No one else could have attempted, much less carried this work so successfully though, and it falls naturally into place after Henry Cadbury's other works on The Annual Catalogue of George Fox's Papers, 1939, and George Fox's Book of Miracles, 1948. By its nature this is not an easy book, but it is one which it is good to have available, and which will not be ignored. Henry Cadbury has arranged his material under nine chapter headings: The rise of Friends and Truth, Fragmentary Journal sources, The Great Journal, Letters to Margaret Fell (later Fox), Letters concerning passages, Lives of Friends in the ministry, Sufferings, Examples of judgments upon persecutors, Visions. Each chapter brings to light eligible material which earlier editors of George Fox had decided to reject. This volume reminds me of the descriptive title of Richard Samble's Works (1684) A handful after the Harvest-Man, for this is truly a collection illustrating the work of Henry J. Cadbury who has long been occupied with various manuscript sources on the early history of Friends closely linked with George Fox, and many in Fox's own hand. R.S.M. Paradise Lost and James Nayler's Fall "Let such that think they stand, take heed least they fall." James Nayler1 S it possible that John Milton's portrayal of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost draws more on contemporary sources, on I Quaker sources in particular, than has been recognized? When Milton constructed the epic fall of Adam and Eve he did so using highly developed characters who might occur amidst the religious excitement in Cromwell's unstable England just prior to the Restoration. Milton's Adam and Eve are characters who could not have existed at any other time, faced as they are with a lonely search for inward religion when the security of Eden was sacrificed to forbidden knowledge. Theirs is the separatist predicament in essence: rebelliousness finding out its frailty by asking for knowledge too high for man. Expecting to become "A Goddess among Gods", as Satan suggests to Eve (IX, 547), she and Adam soon find themselves reduced to total dependence on their forsaken God. To discover his love afresh through Christ's renewal of conscience is a task that Milton knew to be essential for those separatists who had sought, only to transgress, the highest spiritual knowledge. Where is the boundary between man and God? How far may he go toward becoming Christ, having measured access to God's inmost mind? Failing like Satan in his proud attempt to become God, how is the self-damage done by Adam and Eve to be repaired? This was a living issue for Milton in a perilous time of prophetic drive for ultimate justification by sects and by individual prophets. Adam and Eve show the unwanted effects of each man becoming his own church. Unlike their portrayals in Milton's most likely literary sources, Hugo Grotius's Adamus Exul (1601) and Giambattista Andreini's L'Adamo (1613) the first humans in Paradise Lost are marked by mid-seventeenth- century English Protestant separatism. Their individuality is 1 James Nayler, How the Ground of Temptation is in the Heart of the Creature. Quoted by Emilia Fogelklou in James Nayler the Rebel Saint (London, 1931). P- 3°9- 99 IOO PARADISE LOST AND JAMES NAYLER'S FALL heightened, like the artist Rembrandt's grotesque Adam and Eve, when contrasted with their medieval prototypes. 1 Milton's figures have become similarly complicated, psycho­ logically impenetrable to each other and puzzling to the reader who is expected to discern a meaning in this. Each is self-concerned, proud and distant, or after the fall hotly familiar in a sensual way. They are creatures of extremes, so fervent and inward that they are prone to lose the sense of common obedience with which they were charged. Milton portrayed his characters' spirituality to make them immediate for readers who knew first-hand the lonely, conflicted and often unpredictable search as it was for many Puritans. Adam and Eve as separated man and woman, are rebels against God's authority, ambiguously held by the bonds of matrimony while disentangling from the guilt of breaking his decrees. Few separatists went so far as they, but some realized that the most intricate emotions of personal relationship might be involved in religion. The simple characters of Grotius and Andreini discuss their precarious positions more fully than do Milton's, but they experience less of its anguish. We are continually reminded that Milton's figures were conceived in the period of George Fox and the early Friends, whose spiritual searches take individuality into account to a degree seldom seen before. The spiritual status of Adam and Eve is conditional upon autonomous personality, whose development is an issue in the poem. The individual was emerging with a definition new in literature, a definition clearly found in such Elizabethans as John Donne that by mid-seventeenth century was pervasive. Milton gave Adam and Eve dramatically separate and opposed personalities, which are developed beyond what seemed necessary to his predecessors in the hexameral tradition (writings about the six days of creation). By doing so the woman's iniquity and the man's impossible dilemma of loyalties are heightened. Adam speaks honourably of accepting God's prohibition not to touch the tree of knowledge (IV, ^23), while his partner, in a quite different frame of mind, t links admiringly of her mirrored image on the day she was shaped from Adam's rib. Thus early in the poem, the hierarchical principle of "Hee for God onely, shee for God in him" (IV, 299) is infringed, from which follows conflict over gardening duties and from 1 Rembrandt's "Adam and Eve" is an etching of 1638.
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