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KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS —Friends' Reference Library, Devonshire House, 136, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2. Camb. Jnl.—The Journal of George Fox, published by the Cambridge University Press, 1911. F.Q.E.—Friends' Quarterly Examiner.

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO said, it must have been his father QUAKER BURIAL GROUNDS,— that first came to live in England Tyddyn y Garreg and Llwyndu, and was convinced of our in Merionethshire, are printed in principles/ the Montgomeryshire Collections of " Also in vol. xiii. p. 73, the Powys Land Club, 1882, vol. 4 Notices relating to Friends in xv., pp. 415-420.—G. E. EVANS. the Gentleman's Magazine,' this Barnard Dickinson was, I believe, not connected with Friends. He ERRATA.—Vol. xiv. page 179, belonged to the Wilts and line u, for niece read daughter] Somerset family and I think has p. 190, col. 2, 1. ii for 1675 read a monument in Lay cock Church, "5J5- Wilts. He was not connected with my grandfather, Barnard ISAAC HADWEN (xv. 10).— John Dickinson, who married, 1805, D. Crosfield reminds us that his Ann Darby." uncle, Isaac Hadwen (1824-1876), was the fifth of the name. TACE (xiv. 94).—" I have found the name Tacey Tacy, Tacey, to be John T. Dickinson, of Bloxham, variations of the name Eustatia." Oxon, writes : —JOHN Cox, Jr. " Isaac Hadwen, the third, married Susanna Gaylard not SALE OF QUAKER LITERATURE. Gayland (xv. 10). Andrew —The Friend of 3ist May, reports Gaylard married, 1700, Mary that Ernest E. Taylor, speaking Smith. Their son Andrew married, at Yearly Meeting, upon the co­ 1749, Susanna Serjeant. Their ordination of literature distribu­ daughter, Susanna, married Isaac tion, says : " In former times, Hadwen. The Gay lards were of Friends cried their literary wares Bristol. One of the Serjeants is in the market place." This spoken of as a ' Whitener of Wick reminds me that some time in Yarn/ In her journal, Susanna the eighties, I was walking in the Hadwen says: ' My father's neighbourhood of the Strand, family came from France. From when in a shop window I saw a what I recollect my father to have fine and large oil painting, admit- 157 158 NOTES AND QUERIES

ably painted and containing able God " etc., and the Hebrew many figures, the scene of a fair words have been put right, viz., at Bristol, probably in the early Melech, a king, and Tsedech, just part of the nineteenth century. or righteous (p. 973). In each What struck me particularly was case the words are printed in that upon the left-hand side of the English letters. In the same picture was a Quaker bookstall volume (p. 456) appear the four with the commanding figure of a Greek words found in Camb. Jnl. Friend in antique drab Quaker ii. 170, but (rradLovs is given as costume, with, I think, one or two sadiois- This is sadlovs in the Friends with him, engaged in selling original edition of the tract in Quaker books as exhibited on his which it occurs, A Testimony of stall. I regretted afterwards that what we believe of Christ, etc. I did not make a special note of the (p. 66). My suggestion (ante, picture or arranged for its pur­ p. 31) as to Fox's reference to chase, quite a moderate price Aaron's linen breeches occurring asked, I believe—and when I in The Great Mistery, is probably passed again, this interesting wrong ; it is likely that it comes picture had disappeared. I in his " book of the signification wonder whether any Friend has of the types and figures of Christ," known of this picture or of any of which no copy is known to exist engraving or other reproduction (Camb. Jrl. ii. 313, 379). of it.—JOSEPH J. GREEN. Fox (Epistles, p. 208) rightly derives Bethlehem from Beth, house (of), and lechem (ch as in GEORGE Fox's KNOWLEDGE OF loch), bread; but he spells lechem, HEBREW.—(vi. 140, 162 ; xv. lathem. In his will he mentions 31). I have come on another his " great book of the signifying scrap of Hebrew in Fox's writings, of names," and his "book of the furnishing evidence of the fact New Testament in eight lan­ that his knowledge of the lan­ guages"; Camb. Jnl. ii. 355, 357. guage was inaccurate and slight. A. NEAVE BRAYSHAW. In What the Unchangeable God is and how all People may know him, and in what he is worshiped Two QUAKERS IN RUSSIA.—" and served, dated from Worcester will relate an anecdote which was prison, January, 1674/5, he gives told me by J. Kornies. In the the Hebrew words from which year 1816, two Quakers were in " Melchisadeck" is derived as Russia—Alien from England, and Malack, a king, and Chis-adeck, Grillet from Pennsylvania. A just or righteous. This short belief has arisen that the Dukho- tract is reprinted in Gospel Truth bortzi held the same religious Demonstrated (p. 972), a collection principles as the Quakers. The of Fox's doctrinal works published Emperor Alexander, to whom officially by the " Morning Meet­ these two worthy men were intro­ ing " of the Society of Friends duced, encouraged them to inves­ in 1706. Some slight editorial tigate the matter, and they in changes have been made; the consequence went to the Molotch- title is given " How the Unchange­ naza : the Director of the NOTES AND QUERIES 159

Menonite Colony, state councillor escaped to their roof, thence down Contenius, accompanied them from the roof of the adjoining and arranged a kind of religious residence of Joseph H. Choate colloquy between them and some (since Ambassador to England, of the best informed Dukhobortzi. and lately deceased), who assisted Rapustin was then dead or in them away in a carriage. The concealment. The conversation house of Isaac's daughter, Abby was of course carried on by inter­ (Hopper) Gibbons, was also preter, and lasted half a day; it sacked. (See Life of Abby was conducted on the part of the Hopper Gibbons, (in D.) by her Dukhobortzi by a clever and elo­ daughter Sarah Hopper Emerson, quent man named Grishki. The 1896, vol. ii. p. 43.) Dukhobortzi spoke in an evasive " The riots were started by Irish and ambiguous manner, in which and others who did not wish to be art they have great dexterity, killed in battle for the ' Niggers,' but the Englishmen kept firmly and the hoodlum element, as to the point, and at length the always, seized the occasion to loot Dukhobortzi could elude their and destroy. Hence this attack question no longer. When to on the house of a noted Abolition­ the peremptory interrogation, ist. To-day, the descendants of " Do you believe in Christ, the only those Irish and of those negroes, begotten Son of God, the second are fighting together in France.' person in the Trinity ? ' they replied : ' We believe that Christ was a good man and nothing ALCOMBE FRIENDS' BURIAL more/ Alien covered his eyes GROUND, SOMERSETSHIRE.— with his hands, and exclaimed, Henry Whitwell, of Winchmore * Darkness ! ' The two English­ Hill, sends us the following men then immediately took their account of the above : departure." " When staying at Minehead in From The Russian Empire, by May, 1918, I walked over to the Baron Haxthausen, translated by village of Alcombe, about one-and- R. Faril, 1856, vol. i., pp. 297-8. a-half miles away on the main road to Dunster and Washford, to inspect the little old Burial ISAAC HOPPER AND HIS LIBRARY Ground spoken of in Ward, Lock {xv. 4/j).—John Cox, Junr., writes and Co.'s Guides to that neighbour­ from New York City : hood. I should judge that it was " At the time of the Draft Riots originally a square plot of land, in New York City, in 1863, during about a quarter-of-an-acre in our Civil War, the house of Isaac extent, abutting upon the main T. Hopper was sacked, and nearly road, and surrounded by a plain every thin g in i t destroyed. Of the brick wall. There is no evidence large and fine library a few whatever of any graves, and the volumes were afterwards picked only thing to connect it in the up on the adjacent streets, more or public mind with the Society of less injured, but the bulk of the Friends is a plain oval iron plate library was lost in the burning of affixed to the wall on the western the house. The Hopper family side bearing the inscription, i6o NOTES AND QUERIES " Friends' Burial Ground, 1717." LONG SERVICE.—North Carolina An unusual feature in connection Y.M. has lost the services as its with the Burial Ground is that clerk of Lewis Lyndon Hobbs after about one half of the land has been thirty-one years in this position. sold to the Wesleyan Methodists, (The statement in the printed who have erected a chapel thereon. Minutes is said to be incorrect as The caretaker of the chapel L.L.H. was appointed clerk in informed me that a Friend from 1886.) one of the Bristol Meetings, who Alien C. Thomas informs us that usually spends his summer holiday he has for forty-one years faced in that neighbourhood, renders Baltimore Y.M., as assistant clerk help with the Wesleyan Sunday 1875 to 1884, both inclusive, and School, when down there. 1888 to 1897 inclusive, and as clerk " The Guide to Minehead states 1897 t° 1918. that the Quakers were numerous Edmund Stanley, of Wichita, in that district in the early part of Kansas, ex-president of Friends' last century." University, has attended each of the forty-seven sessions of Kansas Yearly Meeting. He has acted as " PLASTER AND SORE."—" A Clerk thirty years and still holds very pernicious work against that office. Friends is published by a Presby­ terian Minister in Philadelphia by the name of Wm. Craig Brownlee, entitled A Careful and Free WILLIAM TUKE AT Y.M. (xiv. Inquiry into the nature and 101, 138).—" From about the Tendency of the Religious thirty-seventh year of his age to Principles of the Society of Friends, within a few years of his death, he commonly called Quakers. attended the Yearly Meeting in Brownlee appears to be under­ London, with scarcely an excep­ going a very caustic and thorough tion " (Memoirs of Samuel Tuke, review in a periodical work called i. 10.) The Berean9 and the plaster " 1820. smo. 27. William Tuke appears to be in equal dimensions was not present at Yearly Meeting, with the sore."—STEPHEN GOULD, being the first Y.M. that he could of Newport, R.I., to Thomas not attend from extreme old age " Thompson, Liverpool, 22 vii., (" Diary of John Perry, of 1824, original in D. Both publi­ Ipswich," MS. in possession of cations are in D. J. J. GREEN.")

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