Notes and Queries HENRY ECROYD'S WATCH 1. Tobias Gowell, 1883. "I For many years I have had send thee once more my in my possession a copy of a erroneous watch . (for which) humorous letter about a watch thou demandest the fourth part needing repair, said to have of a pound sterling/' The been written by my great great watchmaker was clearly British, grandfather in 1816. but the letter appeared in print The writer, Henry Ecroyd of in the American Farm Edgend (1765-1843), began his Implements Magazine, 1883. letter to Henry Spencer, Subsequent publications: Amer­ Watchmaker, Burnley, as ican Heritage Magazine [c. 1961]; follows: American Horologist and Watch­ "Friend, I have sent thee maker of Denver, Colorado, May my pocket companion which 1975; British Jeweller and Watch greatly stands in need of Buyer, May 1976; and The thy kind care and correction. Friend, 10 Sept. 1976, p. 1068. The last time he was at thy 2. [Unsigned.] "I herewith school he was no ways send thee my pocket clock ..." benefitted by thy discipline— Printed in Richard Pike, Quaker nor in the least reformed anecdotes, 1880, pp. 54-55. thereby ..." 3. John H. Giles, Leman The letter ends with: Street, Goodman Fields, 11 Do thou regulate his conduct [London], to Ezra Enoch, watch­ for the time to come by the maker, London, [c. 1827-32]. motion of the luminary that 4 'Friend Enoch: I have sent thee rules over the day, and let my erroneous watch ..." [Infor­ him learn of that unerring mation from George Edwards.] guide the true calculation 4. P. H. Little Dale, 19 ix 1759, of his table and the equation to "Friend Joseph, I desired of time, and when thou finds Christopher Hopkins, who sells him converted from the error the dead letter, and gains much of his ways and conformable by trading in such books, to to the above mentioned rules, bring to thee an erroneous do thou send him with a movement, called a watch . ." true bill of charge drawn in From The Lady's Magazine for the spirit of moderation, and May 1796. it shall be faithfully remitted HENRY ECROYD, 2 Benhurst to thee by thy true friend, Gardens, South Croydon, Surrey on the second day of the CR2 8NS. week commonly called Monday . ." RICHARD CLARIDGE I would be pleased to hear A 17th-century volume of of the existence of similar Francis Bacon, with flyleaf letters. The following different inscribed: "Ex Libris Richardi versions have come to my notice Claridge", in Isaac Norris's up to now: library, is recorded in Marie 158 NOTES AND QUERIES 159 Elena Korey's catalogue of The bizarre and sometimes books of Isaac Norris (7707-7766) dangerous" (p. 14). at Dickinson College (Carlisle, The author poses the question Pennsylvania, 1976). The editor whether Macaulay's attitude suggests that the owner concerned mayV* have been a reaction from may possibly be Richard Claridge his upbringing—his father, the Quaker schoolmaster (1649- Zachary Macaulay, was an active 1723) who was educated at and prominent member of the Oxford and figures prominently evangelical Clapham sect who as an author in Joseph Smith's had married Selina Mills, a Descriptive catalogue of Friends9 Quaker. books (1867). A footnote quotes Macaulay's letter to his brother Henry FOTHERGILLIANA (May 26th 1824) when the latter was in Liverpool working in Can any reader inform me of: James Cropper's counting house, (i) The present whereabouts and apparently considering of Dr. John Fothergill's hat- whether to turn Quaker: box, bearing his initials in "the drab will become you. brass studs on the lid (sold And you have already the by John Brigham, Darlington demure look—the sharp eye bookseller, perhaps to an to the main-chance, and the American purchaser)? coolness—aye Hal, and, if I (ii) Any details of the origins remember right, the obstinacy and history of the Richardson- too" (see Letters of T.B.M., Currer-Roundell Collection, ed. Pinney, 1974, *• J 97)- which included Dr. Fothergill's watch and strap? BRIAN ARUNDEL, Ackworth WILLIAM PENN School, Pontefract WF7 7LT. We are grateful to Frank M. Wright, 16 Rosedene Avenue, T. B. MACAULAY Croydon CRO 3DN, for bringing For one who established the to our notice references to Whig view of history as William Penn and Warminghurst respectable, Macaulay has not which appeared in the had a good Quaker press— Pharmaceutical Journal, 1976, overtly because his obstinate vol. 217, no. 5876, p. 3, under misreading of sources did not title "An Onlooker's Notebook. allow him to correct demonstrated Sussex and the New World". inaccuracies in his account of Penn moved to Warminghurst William Penn. in 1677 where he had considerable In Macaulay and the Whig land. In 1684 the Sheriff of tradition (University of Chicago Sussex was given a direction Press, 1976) Joseph Hamburger to apprehend him as "a factious draws attention to Macaulay's and seditious person . [who] distrust of religious fervour, doth frequently entertaine and and how the historian observed keepe unlawfull Assemblyes and a connection between religious Conventicles in his dwelling extremism and civil conflict— house at Worminghurst [sic] "Bunyan and Fox and many to the terror of the Kings leige others he described as being people". i6o NOTES AND QUERIES FRANCIS RICHARDSON (d. 1688) CHESHIRE SUFFERINGS "Up from the bottom in A chapter by T. C. Curtis Franklin's Philadelphia", by entitled "Quarter Sessions Gary B. Nash of the University appearances and their back­ of California, Los Angeles (Past ground: a seventeenth-century and Present, no. 77, November regional study", gives a few *977> PP- 57-83) opens with a pages (pp. 143-52) to Cheshire reference to Francis Richardson Friends' concerns with the law (d. 1688) an emigrant from during the persecutions at the County Durham in 1681, whose end of the reign of Charles II family rose to affluence in the in the volume edited by J. S. mercantile society of pre- Cockburn, Crime in England, revolution Pennsylvania, which 1550-1800 (Methuen, 1977. this paper studies. CUMBRIAN IRON BARTON HILL, BRISTOL "The Cumbrian iron industry" University & community: essays by C. B. Phillips (University of to mark the centenary of the Manchester) is the first essay founding of University College, in Trade and transport: essays Bristol, edited by J. G. Macqueen in economic history in honour and S. W. Taylor (University of T. S. Willan (Manchester of Bristol, 1976) includes an University Press, 1977). It article by T. K. Ewer entitled includes details about the 'The University Settlement", Rawlinson and Fell forges, an which outlines some of the alphabetical list of sites referred social and educational work to, and a useful battery of carried on at Barton Hill by, references. among others, Hilda Cash more (the first warden), Lettice Jowitt, MADAGASCAR Marian Fry Pease and Mabel Quaker History, vol. 66, no. 2 Tothill. (Autumn 1977) includes (pp. 87- Elsewhere in the volume the 97) a brief survey by Bonar A. active part played by the Fry Gow of "The Quaker contribution family in the foundation of the to education in Madagascar, College is noted, and the involve­ 1867-1895". He shows how ment of Marian Frv«/ Pease Friends led by Joseph S. Sewell (first Mistress of Method in the cooperated at first in the running Bristol Day Training College, of Congregational schools under 1892) also went right back to the London Missionary Society the first day the College opened, until after a few years it was "when on a September morning agreed that Friends should set in 1876, [she] walked across up a completely separate Quaker Durdham Down, took a horse mission establishment, with its tram down Blackboy Hill and own schools and churches. The presented herself at the doors high quality of the education of 32 Park Row ... to compete, given in the F.F.M.A. schools successfully, for one of the was recognized as giving the three scholarships offered for students a passport to a job women" (p. 41). in the administration; and the NOTES AND QUERIES 161 educational work of the Friends' the names of Sir John Finch, mission also fostered the growth Anthony Lowther and Richard of reading and an indigenous Lower from the list of Quaker literature. Though Quaker Fellows or those of Quaker influence began to decline after descent—Richard Lower, F.R.S. the French invasion in 1895, (1631-91) being ineligible because the early start given to Malagasy he was already grown up when education by the Quakers & the Humphrey Lower his father Congregationalists had great became a Friend. impact on the island, and in the According to the list of elected area of literacy Friends helped members (p. in of the same to transform Madagascar into issue of Notes and records], one of the most advanced of William Penn, elected 9 Nov. all the pre-colonial African 1681, was inactive (never ad­ states. mitted, no payments of sub­ scriptions, name never appeared NORTHERN FRIENDS in membership lists). DONALD ROOKSBY, 7 Park EARLY QUAKERISM Street, Millans Park, Ambleside, is collating an index system "Overcoming the world: the listing references to meeting early Quaker programme", by houses, burial grounds, houses Geoffrey F. Nuttall, the presi­ and other sites of historical dential address delivered to interest, biographical notes on the Ecclesiastical History Society Friends of all periods, and other is published in Studies in church material relevant to Quaker history (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, history in Cumbria, North 1973) vol. 10, pp. 145-164. Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales, the northern Pennines and the QUAKERS YARD Border Country. Handlist of manuscripts in The loan of press cuttings, the National Library of Wales, unpublished material, personal part 31 (The National Library of observations &c., would be Wales journal, supplement, particularly appreciated.