Vol. III. No. 3. Price to Non-members, 2/- net. (50 cts.) THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SEVENTH MONTH (July), 1006. London : HEADLEY BROTHERS, 14, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT, E.G. Philadelphia: HERMAN NEWMAN, 1010 ARCH STREET, New York: DAVID S. TABER, 51 FIFTH AVENUE. THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 1, 1903-1904, CONTAINS I Foreword. Notes and Queries. The Handwriting of George Fox. Illustrated. Our Recording Clerks : (i.) Ellis Hookes. (2.) Richard Richardson. The Case of William Gibson, 1723. Illustrated. The Quaker Family of Owen. Letters of William Dewsbury and John Whitehead. Cotemporary Account of Illness and Death of George Fox, Friends' Library, Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. Book Notes. Daniel Quare. The Wilkinson and Story Controversy in Reading. Early Records of Friends in the South of Scotland. An Appeal from Ireland, 1687. Edmund Peckover's Travels in North America. Gleanings from Friends' Registers at Somerset House. County Tipperary Friends' Records. Awbrey, of Breconshire. Inscriptions in Friends' Burial Ground, Bowcroft. Index. Price Five Shillings ($1.25), post free. VOL. III. No. 3. Seventh Month (July), 1906. THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Confente. «^ PAGE Notice -------- 81 Notes and Queries :— Meeting Records—Lundy Family—English Friends atEdinburgh Y.M., 1708—Abstract of the Will of Francis Fox, of Plymouth— *• • Dutch Quaker from Ireland—Strangman and Wesley—Quaker Relics—Bayard Taylor—James and Ann King—Mislet— . Friends' Registers—Barclay's " Letters, etc. of Early Friends "—* Registers of Wills—MS. " Journal of George Fox "—Obituary— William Alien Portraits—Canon, of Manchester and Phila­ delphia—Motto and Monogram—James Goad, of Mountmellick 82 Letter from William Penn. Edited by Isaac Sharpless, Sc.D.; LL.D. -------- 93 David Lloyd—II. By Joseph S. Walton - - - 96 Friends on the Atlantic - - - - - -105 King's Briefs the Forerunners of Mutual Insurance Societies. By Joel Cadbury - - - - - - 106 Whitefield's Estimate of Quakerism - - ,- 112 Earlham College Library, Richmond, Ind. By Harlow Lindley, A.M. 113 Editors' Notes - - - - - - -117 Large Gatherings of Friends. By John W. Graham, M.A. - 118 Meeting Records—I. - - - - - -119 Friends in Current Literature. By Norman Penney - - 120 A Quotation in the London Y.M. Epistle - - - 126 List of Officers for 1906-7 - - - - - 127 Accounts and Balance Sheet for 1905 - - - 128 D.=The Reference Library of London Yearly Meeting, Devonshire House, 12, Bishopsgate Street Without, London, E.C. Qfloftce, The third annual meeting of the Friends' Historical Society was held at Devonshire House, London, E.G., on the 24th of Fifth Month, about 100 members and others being present. William Charles Braithwaite presided. A special feature of interest was the public exhibition, for the first time, of the MS. Journal of George Fox, which had arrived the previous day for deposit in D. For list of officers of the Society, accounts, and balance sheet, see pp. 127, 128. Vol. iii.—19. Qtofes an& Oueriee. MEETING RECORDS.—The Re­ 1672 to 1735, °f Meetings at cord Books and Papers relating to Matlock, Baslow, Ashford, Mony­ Shropshire Monthly Meeting which ash, Peasenhurst, Smerrill, One are existent, are preserved at Ash, Elton, etc., has just been Coalbrookdale, chiefly in a safe at deposited in D. The first page the Meeting House, the key being is occupied by the following in my care. The earlier books, inscription in the handwriting when Shrewsbury was the central of John Gratton : x Meeting, have long since dis­ This booke Was bought the appeared. 21 day of the 12 month, 1672. The Book of earliest date is a The prise was 0-2-10, and is for Record of Sufferings, Epistles, the use of the church and people etc. from 1660 to 1682. of god, called by his grace, and Of Minute Books, the earliest gathered and knit together by and relates to the Meeting at Broseley, in his spirit of light, life, and loue, afterwards absorbed in Coalbrook­ in which wee now nieett and dale, from 1690 to 1747, and in asemble together to wait upon the later years chiefly relates to and worship the god and father collections. of our lord Jesus Crist, who The Books of Coalbrookdale freely hath giuen unto euery Meeting run from 1741. one of us a measure of the holy Those of the Monthly Meeting, ghost, by which wee come and which comprised Meetings at are in measure comn unto the Shrewsbury, Coalbrookdale, and New Dale, go from 1768 to the 1 John Gratton's life was mostly spent in the Midlands of time of its junction with Worces­ England. After upwards of forty tershire. years' residence at Monyash, his The Minute Book of the N. wife and he removed, in 1707, Wales Quarterly Meeting, which to Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire, comprised Merionethshire, Mont­ [incorrectly given as Transfield in from some editions of his Journal], gomeryshire, and Shropshire, where he died in 1711/12, at the 1668 to 1752, is preserved at residence of his daughter, Phebe Worcester. Bateman. He visited Friends The original Books of Registers in several parts of England, and were sent to London in 1841 ; also in Wales and Ireland, but his digests were made of these, and principal work appears to have been done in the districts surround­ they were deposited in the care of ing his home. His Journal, first the Registrar General, at Somerset published, with his works, in House, where they remain.—WM. 1720, and several times re-issued, GREGORY NORRIS, Coalbrookdale, is well worth perusal for its vivid Shropshire. pictures of early spiritual strug­ gles and later persecution and suffering. Dr. Spencer T. Hall, The Minute Book of Monyash in his brief memoir, dated 1885, Monthly Meeting, Derbyshire, calls him, " The Quaker Apostle containing minutes/ dated from of the Peak." NOTES AND QUERIES. true knowledg of the mynd and ism, and notes on the associated will of god, tho wee are a poore, families of Adams, Armstrong, unworthy, and dispised people, Buckley, Dennis, Dilts, Foss,. scattered amongst the rocky Gibbs, Laing, Large, Lenher, mountains and derk ualleys of Lewis, Lundy, Parker, Patterson^ the hy peak Country ; and \Vere Schmuck, Schooley, Shotwell,. many of us conuinced of gods Stockton, Van Horn, Willets> light, way, and truth in this and Willson. There are thirty- same year abouesaid. Glory, three illustrations. glory, glory, to the lord god of Jsaraell, who keeps Couenant, and his mercys endure for euer. ENGLISH FRIENDS AT EDIN­ Praises to his name for euer, saith BURGH Y.M., 1708 (ii. 109).— the soulle of one of the poorest William F. Miller sends the and unworthyest of his little following list of these " publick remnant.—J.G. frinds " :— The names of Bunting, Hall; Joshua Middleton. — He had Bowman, Shakerly, Bower, Sikes, already attended Edinburgh Low, etc., appear frequently. Yearly Meeting in 1700 and 1705. James Halliday.—He was of A minute book, entitled, " A Allartowne, Northumberland, Book of Record for the Trent and seems to have been often in Side Mo. Meeting," Nottingham­ Edinburgh. His name is of shire, containing minutes from frequent occurrence in the 1726 to 1749 was recently minutes from 1669 to 1709. offered for sale in an English Jonathan Burnyeat.—He was also provincial town. The owner at an Edinburgh Quarterly said he bought it from a house Meeting in 1703. occupied by Friends. formerly Jeremiah Hunter.—His name is of the district were The Friends recorded again as at Edinburgh not prepared to purchase this Yearly Meeting, 1732. ancient record at the price asked, Jonathan Bowman.—No further so the book has, apparently,- mention of this Friend in the disappeared again into private Scottish meeting minutes, nor hands. have I met with any notice of him elsewhere. LUNDY FAMILY. — Valuable John Doubleday.—He seems alsa information respecting this family, to have attended Edinburgh of Axminster,- Devonshire, and Yearly Meetings for 1700, 1705, later; of Pennsylvania, is to be 1709 and 1726. found in William Clinton Arm­ John Hudson.—He seems also to strong's Lundy Family and their have visited the south of Descendants of Whatsoever Sur­ Scotland in 1727. name, printed at New Brunswick, James Wilson.—The only men­ N. J., in 1902, in large 8vo, pp. 485. tion of him in Edinburgh Meet­ The book contains a biographical ing minutes, but I have a long sketch of Benjamin Lundy, the letter from May Drummond, Founder of American Abolition­ written in 1759 to " My .VOr£S AND QUERIES. worthy, fatherly friend, James Lydia Prideaux, of Plymouth, Wilson "—probably the same widow, but not to be paid her individual. until twelve months after the decease of my mother, Sarah ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF Fox. FRANCIS Fox, OF PLYMOUTH, DRUGGIST. 2 To my cousin, Frederick Cook- 1 give & bequeath ^300 to worthy, of Bristol, 2 Francis Fox, of Plymouth, filled a vacancy as Superinten­ 1760-1812, a favourite grandson dent of the Girls' School at of William Cookworthy, the Ackworth, where she exercised a chemist, and founder of the Brit­ powerful influence for good, as ish porcelain manufacture, was testified to by a minute of the born in that town. On his Committee. father's side he was the grandson Their married life was of about of George Fox, of Par, by his thirteen years' duration. She second wife, Anna Debell. George died on the 3Oth of 10 mo., 1833, Fox was the grandson of Francis aged seventy-two, having survived Fox, who married Dorothy Keke- her husband twenty-one years, wich, and resided at Catchfrench, a Minister about forty-two years. St. Germans, Cornwall, when One daughter, Sarah, was the Friends were first gathered in that only issue of the marriage. She county. They were the first of became the wife of the late William the family now so widely spread Crewdson, of Kendal, but died amongst us to unite themselves without children.