Vol. V. No. 4. Price per number 2/- (50 cts.) net ; for the year, payable in advance, 5/- ($1.25). THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. TENTH MONTH (Oct.), 1908. London: HEADLEY BROTHERS, 14, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT, E.G. Philadelphia: HERMAN NEWMAN, 1010 ARCH New York: DAVID S. TABER, 51 FIFTH AVENUE. THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOLUME J, \ 903- \ 904* CONTAINS : Foreword. 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, The Wilkinson and Story Controversy in Reading. Early Records of Friends in the South of Scotland. Edmund Peckover's Travels in North America. County Tipperary Friends' Records. Etc., etc. VOLUME 2, J905. CONTAINS : Deborah Logan and her Contributions to History. Church Affairs in Gaol. Joseph Williams's Recollections of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Letter of Margaret Fox, 1677. Old Style and New Style. Thomas Hancock, author of a The Peculium." William Penn's Introduction of Thomas Ellwood. Meetings in Yorkshire, 1668. Letters in Cypher from Francis Howgill to George Fox. The Settlement of London Yearly Meeting. Joseph Rule, the Quaker in White. Edmund Peckover, Ex-Soldier and Quaker. Illustrated. The Will of Margaret Fox. 44 William Miller at the King's Gardens." Springett Penn to James Logan. Etc., etc. VOL. V. No. 4. Tenth Month (Oct.), 1908. THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PAGE Notices - - - - - - - -169 Notes and Queries :— George Fox Holographs—The Slone—On Ventilation and its Absence—Preservation of Historical Documents—Wavendon, Bucks—Irish Records—Ossinbrigs—All Hallows Barking— William Alien Miller—Richard Champion—Sarah Fox, nke Champion—William Penn's Maternal Ancestry—Where are the Caton MSS. ?—Early Needlework—Persons and Places in George Fox's Journal Laugharne - - - - - 170 Friends' Reference Library (D.)- - - - -176 The Defection of John Scanfield - - - 177 Presentations of Quakers in Episcopal Visitations, 1662-1679. By G. Lyon Turner, M.A. - - - - - -188 The Purchase of a Horse for Agnes Tomlinson, 1728. By Dilworth Abbatt ....... xpo Friends' School and Workhouse. By Joseph J. Green - - 192 Friends in Current Literature. By Norman Penney - - 193 Committal of David Barclay to Edinburgh Castle - - - 199 Anecdote respecting Dr. Fothergill - - - - 199 Dr. Pope and the Highwayman ..... 200 Obituary - - - - - - -201 Editors' Notes - - - - - - -2OI Fire in Gracechurch Street, 1821 - - - - 203 Notice of Escape from Prison ..... 204 Anecdotes of John and Elizabeth Wigham ... 204 Index to Volume V. ------ 205 D.=The Reference Library of London Yearly Meeting, Devonshire House, 12, Bishopsgate Without, London, E.G. F.P.T.="The First Publishers of Truth," published by the Friends' Historical Society. Qtoftce. The co-operation of members of the F.H.S. is desired in the preparation of notes biographical and topo­ graphical to The Journal of George Fox, for an edition of this work to be printed, from the original manuscript, by the Cambridge University Press. See page 175 of this issue. Vol. v.—48. GEORGE Fox HOLOGRAPHS (ii. perfet be for he fell & all godes 2, 123 ; v. 2).—Ell wood and workes was. they not parfit, & Maria Brockbank, of Southport, the prest said yes. bvt the prest have in their possession a folio said wee might all wayes be striv­ sheet in the handwriting of George ing; & this was a sad striving Fox. In order to preserve it, it & never over come ; bvt j tovld has been mounted, and on the him that pole [Paul], that cryed back is written, in a modern hand, ovt agenest the pody of death, " Leaf out of George Fox's Original after thankd god, throw iesvs Journal." We do not know if christ, whoe gave him the victory, the last two words refer to the & ther was noe condamnashen MS. Journal ; and we are not to them that was in christ iesvs, able, at present, to assign to this soe ther was a time of cryeing fragment a definite place among ovt & a time of prasing. & the the documents composing the prest said that ther might be a MS. Journal (Spence MSS. in D.). perfection as adam & afaling It will be seen on reference to the from it & j said ther was a per­ printed Journal (Bicentenary edit., fection in Christ be yond adam ii. 217), that the two narratives that shovld never fall. & it follow one another fairly closely. was the worke of the minesters of We give below a transcription of christ to present every man parfet this paper, as we think our readers in christ, & for the parfeting of will be interested in a statement them the[y] had ther gifts from of George Fox's views on per­ christ, & the[y] that denyed per- fection, from a document in his fictionthe[y] denyed the worke of own handwriting:— . [illegible], the giftes of " On the 4 day of the 2 month, christ which was for that end, for 1675, ther came a prest & som the perfeting [broken].'* people with him to mee & he asked mee if i was groen vp to per[fe]ction & j said iwas what THE SLONE.—A place, so called, i was by the grace of God ; & the occurs in The Journal of George comon prayer prest said it was a Fox (ii. 360), and has been sivell aneser. & he said that if hitherto unidentified. When look­ we doe say that we have noe sin, ing through Francis Gawler's the trovth is not in vs, what did j Record of Some Persecutions, 1659, say to this ? & j sade, if wee say we noticed the following:— that wee have not sind, wee make " Thomas Holmes and John him a lier, whoe came to destry Brown being in Monmouth Shire sin & take away sin & soe at a place called the Slow, near ther is a time to see that people Curwent," etc. Correspondence have sined & that the[y] have followed with John Ballinger, of sinn, & to confes ther sin, & to the Central Library, Cardiff, and for sake it, and the blvd of christ we give below portions of his letter to clenes from all sin. & it was and also that of the vicar of asked him whether adam was not Caerwent. J. Ballinger writes :— 170 NOTES AND QUERIES. 171 " There is a farm called Slough early one, as the word is clearly in the parish of Caerwent, Mon­ Slone in the MS. Journal. mouthshire, not far from Port- skewitt, which would exactly fulfil ON VENTILATION AND ITS the conditions of the entry in ABSENCE.—The following is from Fox's Journal, as regards the the pen of John Scott (1730-1783), crossing of the passage and coming the Quaker poet, of Amwell. It is to the Slone in Monmouthshire. clear that it refers to the old In a Monmouthshire Directory of Meeting House in White Hart 1852 the same farm is called the Court, not to the new one built in ' Slow/ It is a few miles west of 1774. The subject is dealt with Chepstow on the main road between more fully in The Monthly Ledger, Chepstow and Newport. This edited by . Thomas Letchworth, road did not exist in Fox's time; vol. i., p. 588, vol. ii., p. 215. the main road then went somewhat " Yearly Meeting, 1774 (June). to the North across the forest of " Of all the places wherein I have Wentwood. I am not quite sure, suffered injury from that per­ but I think from the map which I nicious heat produced by a croud have before me that three or four of human bodies, the very worst is houses on the main road between the Meeting-house of the people Crick and Caerwent may be called Quakers, in White-hart- known as the ' Slow' or the court, Grace-church-street [Lon­ ' Slough.' I am writing to the don]. The situation of this Vicar of Caerwent to ask him building is the most improper whether this is so, and will let you imaginable ; it is almost sur­ know what he says." rounded with high houses which W. A. Downing, M.A., wrote preclude the access of fresh air. from Caerwent Vicarage, shortly The construction of it is yet before his decease a few months worse ; its dimensions are so ago: small that many of the assembly " What is now known as Slough are almost always indecently kept Farm was originally a manor standing, or, by changing places, belonging to the Kemeys family. occasion a perpetual interruption; In some documents the Kemeys and a double projection of wide family are described as of Slough galleries and the flat part of the or Slow, and, sometimes, of roof, confine the air in a most Islaw Gwent or Slow. In Runston disagreeable manner. During the Church, which is a ruin, is to be time of the national yearly meet­ seen a tombstone with this in­ ing, the doors of this meeting are scription :—' Here lieth the body constantly, and the windows of David Jones, of Slow, who mostly, kept shut; and as the departed this life the 6th day of season is usually warm, and the December, 1719.' There are no meetings are continued day after cottages near Slough Farm which day without intermission, it at could be described as a hamlet." length resembles a heated oven. The spelling Slone might easily An ingenious physician, whose have resulted from a mis-reading curiosity induced him to ascertain of Slow. The mistake was an the difference between the air of 172 NOTES AND QUERIES. this room and that of the adjacent ing that the present Head of streets, found it no less than 17 Magdalen College, Oxford, Dr.