Vol. IX. No. 2. Price per number 2/- (50 cents.); for the year, payable in advance, 5/- ($1.25). THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. FOURTH MONTH (APRIL), 1912. London: HEADLEY BROTHERS, 140, BISHOPSGATE, E.G. Philadelphia: HERMAN NEWMAN, 1010 ARCH New York: DAVID S. TABER, 144 EAST 20TH j VOLUME J> J903-J904 CONTAINS : 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. Cotemporary Account of Illness and Death of George Fox. Early Records of Friends in the South of Scotland. Edmund Peckover's Travels in North America, 1745 VOLUME 2, 1905. CONTAINS : Deborah Logan and her Contributions to History. Joseph Williams's Recollections of the Irish Rebellion. 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. u William Miller at the King's Gardens." VOLUME 3, J906. CONTAINS : Words of Sympathy for New England Sufferers, David Lloyd. Illustrated. King's Briefs, the Forerunners of Mutual Insurance Societies. Memoirs of the Life of Barbara Hoyland. 41 Esquire Marsh." Irish Quaker Records. VOLUME 4, J907. CONTAINS : Our Bibliographers John Whiting. Presentations in Episcopal Visitations, 1662-1679. Episodes in the Life of May Drummond. The Quaker Allusions in u The Diary of Samuel Pepys." Illustrated. Personal Recollections of American Ministers, 1828-1852. Early Meetings in Nottinghamshire. Vol. IX. No. 2. Fourth Month (April), 1912. THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Content** PAGE Notes and Queries : Laugharne, Wales Carlyle and Fox Friends in the West Indies " Remarkable Providences" - - - - - 82 Some Account of the Rebellion in Ireland - ... g^ Two Logan Letters, with Introduction by Amelia Mott Gummere 85 The Thirnbeck Manuscripts. II. iv. Henry Fell to Margaret Fell, 1666 ----- 94 v. Ellis Hookes to Margaret Fell, 1666 ----- 96 vi. The Same to the Same, 1666 ...... 97 vii. Certificate of the Marriage of George Fox and Margaret Fell, 1669 -.-.-.--.99 viii. George Fox to Margaret Fox, 1669 ----- 105 ix. John Rous to Margaret Fox, 1669 ----- 105 x. The Will of George Fell, 1670 ----- 106 xi. John Rous to Margaret Fox, 1672 - 106 xii. Robert Barclay to the Fell Sisters, 1676 - 107 Elisha Tyson, Philanthropist and Emancipator, c. 1749-1824 By Ella Kent Barnard 108 American Friends in Dunkirk - - - - - - -112 Journal Supplement, No. 9, reviewed by W. G. Collingwood, M.A., F.S.A. - - - - - - - - - - - - 113 Friends in Current Literature. By Norman Penney, F.S.A. - 115 D.=The Reference Library of London Yearly Meeting, Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, London, E.G. F.P.T.=" The First Publishers of Truth," published by the Friends' Historical Society, 1907. Camb. Jnl.= The Journal of George Fox, published by the Cambridge University Press, 1911. Ell. Jnl.=The Journal of George Fox, edited by Thomas Ell wood, 1694. Qtofice* The Annual Meeting of the Society will be held in Manchester, on the 23rd of Fifth Month, at 2 p.m., in Room 12. The chair will be taken by A. Neave Brayshaw, B.A., LL.B. A letter from the President, Amelia Mott Gummere, of Haverford, Pa., will probably be read. Vol. ix.—98. (ttofee an& Queriee. LAUGHARNE, WALES. " There +own in unity with Friends, and were Quakers formerly residing he seemed near his end, whom in Laugharne. Their burying- I visited." place was the part still called ' The Quaker Yard/ a field near Ants' Hill, on the opposite side of " The Independents of Laugh­ the road to it." Antiquities of arne trace their origin to the Laugharne, by Mary Curtis, 1880, labours of the Rev. Stephen Hughes, etc. They are p. 102. next found at the Mwr near " Several families of the Morfabach in 1704; they con­ Quakers resided here formerly. tinued there till 1750, when they In a field belonging to Horse Pool migrated to the town of Laugh­ Farm they had their burying- arne, settling at ' The Bachs' ground ; it is entered by a gate till 1850, when a disused old on this side of the upper gate of meeting-house of the Quakers Ants' Hill House, and opposite to was given them on the cliff where it. From the gate you pass down the present chapel stands." [Hist, a narrow path with trees on each of Independents in Wales, by Drs. side ; at the end of it, and on the Rees and Thomas.] ELLA K. right, is an opening into a square BARNARD, 1750, Park Avenue, plot of ground closed in on all Baltimore, Md. sides but one with a hedge and trees; it is the ' Quakers' Yard.' CARLYLE AND Fox. In Sartor It dates from about 1660. Some Resartus Carlyle writes regarding poplar trees then stood here. Fox's consultations with clergy­ Here passed the old road from men, "The Clergy of the St. Clears. It turned first into neighbourhood, the ordained the Llanddowror road, just past Watchers and Interpreters of that Cross Inn, then by Ants Hill; same holy mystery, listened passed by the ' Quakers' Yard ' with unaffected tedium to his to Horse Pool and the bottom of consultations and advised him, the Holloway Fields; ending at as the solution of such doubts, to the ruined inn called ' The Dials ' 1 drink beer and dance with by the Laques." (ibid., p. 160.) the girls.'" Where in Fox's Journal do the words here quoted In 1753 John Churchman occur ? writes (Life, 1779, P- *53) '— [The nearest approach to the " Next meeting was at James­ words quoted is the following : town, and in the evening of the " I went to another Ancient day following at Larn [Laugharne] Priest at Mancetter in Warwick­ with the people of the Town, shire, and reasoned with him who behaved civilly, but seemed about the Ground of Despair and barren as to religion in a right Temptations ; but he was ignorant sense. There is but one in this of my Condition; And he bid me NOTES AND QUERIES. Take Tobacco, and sing Psalms. Walberton, in Sussex, and pub­ Tobacco was a thing I did not lished in London in 1697. The love; and Psalms I was not in an slightly more than six hundred Estate to Sing: I could not Sing.'9 pages of this book are full of We do not recall to mind in the recitals of extraordinary events Journal the words here quoted: of many kinds illustrating such 41 drink beer and dance with the subjects as faith, courage, tem­ girls." ED.] perance, chastity, gratitude, retri­ bution, witchcraft, sabbath- breaking, and of Divine judgments FRIENDS IN THE WEST INDIES upon superstition, murder, un­ (ix. 2). An outline history of faithfulness, gluttony, etc. Quakerism in the West Indies Chapter 86, titled " Satan per­ can be found in The Friends' mitted to Hurt the Good in their Quarterly Examiner, 1892 and 1894, Souls," gives several " passages " and also in THE JOURNAL, 1908. relating to Friends. One con­ The Friend (Phila.), of 1898 con­ cerned Robert Churchman1 and tains a full account of the his wife, of Balsham near Cam­ dissolution of Friends' Meetings bridge, in 1661, " Persons of a in Barbados. In Antigua there very good Life and of a plentiful was only one Friend left in 1748. Estate,'' who had " departed from There was never any meeting on the Church." One night " a Montserrat, but Robert King, violent storm came down upon a Philadelphia Friend, had a the room where he lay when it trading establishment there in was very calm in all other parts 1763. The Journal of Thomas of the town," and " a glimering Chalkley gives a considerable light appeared. A voice com­ amount of information about manded him to go out of his bed Friends in the West Indies, 1706- naked, with his wife and children," 1741. C. DICKINSON STURGE, etc., with the result that he re­ Harborne, Birmingham. turned to the Church. The case of John Gilpin, of Kendal, also receives notice, 1653, and several 11 REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES." instances of " shaking, shrieking, A curious old folio has recently yelling, howling and roaring" found a temporary home in D.f of Quakers in their meetings entitled " A Compleat History William Spencer, of Wrexham, of the most Remarkable Provi­ North Wales, 1653, John Hunter, dences, both of Judgment and of Benfieldside, Co. Durham, 1654, Mercy, Which have Hapned and John Toldervy, of London. in this Present Age, extracted For the subject of Judgments, from the Best Writers, the see Camb. Jnl.9 i. 394; F.P.T.9 Author's own Observations, and p. 8pn ; Beginnings of Quakerism^ the Numerous Relations sent p. 276. him from divers Parts of the Three 1 Robert Churchman's name Kingdoms/* etc., compiled by appears in Besse's Sufferings, William Turner, M.A., Vicar of under Essex, in 1660. dRccounf of t$t QJeBeffion in Limerick, June 4th, 1799. I will now give you some account of the visitation of the Lord in this Country. The Rebellion was chiefly Confined to the Countys Wexford, Wicklow & Kildare, more particularly Wexford. Indeed that Country may well be said to be drenched in Blood. The rebels had entire posses­ sion of that Country for a long Time, & exercised such horrid acts of cruelty as is shocking to Humanity, especially against the Protestants of that Country. Odds of a Hundred together would be put into a Barn and it Burnt about them, & when any would attempt to escape through the windows or Doors, they were immediately stabbed with pikes outside by the rebels under a priest of the name of Murphy.