Notes and Queries STATE PAPERS there was no single religious The 2nd volume of the Calendar denomination behind Sabbat­ of State Papers . Domestic arianism in the area, but that series, James II (H.M. Stationery Quakers were in the lead in south Office, 1964) covers the period Durham. from January 1686 to May 1687. The volume records various war­ THE APOTHECARIES' COMPANY rants, petitions and accounts A history of the Worshipful Society concerning the imprisonment of of Apothecaries of London, vol. i, Friends and orders for their 1617-1815. Abstracted and ar­ release, the King "being pleased ranged from the manuscript to extend his favour to those of notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles that persuasion." Among the Cameron. Revised, annotated, cases recorded is a petition from and edited by E. Ash worth Mary, Lady Rodes, of Barl- Underwood (Oxford University borough Hall for the release of Press, 1963, 555.) contains some her Quaker steward, and the brief mention of Dr. Fothergill, of petition from John Osgood, Wil­ William Cookworthy of Ply­ liam Ingram, George Whitehead mouth who broke the company's and Gilbert Latye on behalf of monopoly and supplied drugs to over 100 Bristol Quaker prisoners the naval hospital ship Rupert, (April 1686). 1755, and William Curtis (1746- 1799) founder of the Botanical REGISTERS magazine who for five years from '' Nonconformist registers,'' by 1772 served at the Physic Garden Edwin Welch, an article in the at Chelsea as Demonstrator of Journal of the Society of Archivists, Plants. vol. 2, no. 9 (April 1964), pp. 411- 417, includes an historical BIRMINGHAM FRIENDS account of the various registers The Victoria History continues compiled by bodies not in its measured way. A recent unity with the established church volume, Warwick, vol. 7 deals from the sixteenth to nineteenth with the City of Birmingham centuries. References to Friends' (1964), and contains (pp. 455-58) registers are backed by the three pages of lists of Friends' authority of William Charles meeting houses and adult schools, Braithwaite's Beginnings of and historical notes concerning Quakerism. them. In the general sphere this volume has considerable wider SUNDAY TRAVEL interest for Friends as the sec­ "The opposition to Sunday rail tions on economic and social and services in north-eastern England political and administrative 1834-1914," an article by David history take note of the contribu­ Brooke in The journal of trans­ tions of the Cadbury and Sturge port history, vol. 6, no. 2 (Nov. families to the development of pp- 95-109, notes that the city. 253 254 NOTES AND QUERIES CORNISH QUAKERS might well serve as a pattern for Mary Coate's Cornwall in the similar publications. Four great civil war and interregnum, illustrations from the National 1642-1660, reprinted in 1963 Buildings Record photographs (Truro, D. Bradford Barton Ltd.) show the exterior and interior of after thirty years, includes a solid the present meeting house (built well-documented six-page 1809, with additions in 1814). account of the rise and persecu­ This building replaced an original tion of Friends before the Stuart one built in 1673, just short of Restoration. twenty years after the first Friends came to the hamlet. BRISTOL QUAKER MERCHANTS A register of the members of the HANGLETON, Sx. Bristol Society of Merchant Sussex archcsological collections, Venturers appears in W. E. Min- vol. 101 (1963) includes the first chinton's "Politics and the port part of a paper on "Excavations of Bristol in the i8th century" at the deserted medieval village (Bristol Record Society, vol. 23, of Hangleton." In the course of 1963). It includes the names of the historical introduction, which members of the families of traces the development of the Harford (although Charles Har- settlement and its growth until ford was rejected as a member in the beginning of the 14th century 1711 "he being a professed and decline thereafter, reference Quaker"), Jones, Hort, Coys- is made to HorsfiekTs History and garne, Lloyd, Rogers, Champion, antiquities of Sussex, 1835, to Day, Graffin Prankard, William support the statement that ''In Reeve. 1724, five families are recorded as living in the parish of Hangleton, FENNY DRAYTON most of them Quakers." "Early nonconformity in Leices­ tershire/' an article by C. E. HELMSLEY AND BILSDALE, Welch in the Transactions of the YORKS. Leicestershire Archceological and Ten pages in a locally produced Historical Society, vol. 37, 1961-2, local history are devoted to the pp. 29-43, has notice of traces of rise and fall of the Quaker move­ nonconformity in the parish of ment. The meetings concerned Fenny Drayton which had a long were those of Helmsley (in the tradition of puritanism. The valley of the Rye in the North rector during George Fox's early Riding of Yorkshire) and Bils- years was Robert Mason, one dale (Laskill). The members of suspected of Presbyterian sym­ the Helmsley and Area Group of pathies, and he was succeeded in the Yorkshire Archaeological 1638 by Nathaniel Stephens—the Society have used the local Priest Stephens of Fox's Journal. documents (both Quaker and non-Quaker) and are to be FRENCHAY FRIENDS congratulated on producing a Dorothy Vinter has produced a fully documented local history of pamphlet history of The Friends' which the inhabitants can be Meeting House, Frenchay (1963, proud. (York, Stonegate Press, paper covers, 16 pages) which 1963). NOTES AND QUERIES 255 KENT FRIENDS places of worship which did not In the course of an article belong to the Church of England entitled "Dissenting churches in in every parish, as recorded in Kent before 1700," (Journal of letters from incumbents pre­ ecclesiastical history, vol. 14, no. 2, served in the Radnorshire Oct. 1963, 175-189) Dr. Geoffrey Quarter Sessions records at the Nuttall uses evidence from National Library of Wales. Quaker sources to fill in his The following items mention picture of the I7th century Quakers. nonconformist bodies in the Cascob. county. Records of the minis­ No meeting house. Two parish­ terial work of William Caton, ioners who were Quakers attend­ John Stubbs, Ambrose Rigge and ed a place of worship in the Luke Howard are mentioned, and parish of Llandegley. at one point Dr. Nuttall notes Llandegley. that First Publishers of Truth "One place of worship . which provides a record of two Congre­ belongs to the Quakers; the gational churches not otherwise number of that sect in our parish known. is eight persons . ." QUAKERS IN NORWICH DIOCESE, 1669 SHROPSHIRE REGISTERS C. B. Jewson's "Return of "Aspects of the demographic conventicles in Norwich Diocese, situation in seventeen parishes in 1669—Lambeth MS. no. 639" Shropshire 1711-60. An exercise (Norfolk archeology, vol. 33, based on parish registers/1 by pp. 6-34, 1962) is accounted to S01vi Sogner, an article in include notices of 21 Quaker Population studies, November meetings, a quarter of the total 1963 (vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 126-146), number returned. Norfolk and is based on registers of Coalbrook- Suffolk did not necessarily dale (the parishes of Barrow, include that number of weekly Benthall, Broseley, Buildwas, Friends' meetings however, since Dawley, Kemberton, Leighton, some are specifically noted as Lilleshall, Madeley, Shifnal, being held at longer intervals. Stirchley, Sutton Maddock, Wil- The editor has used A. J. Edding- ley, Little Wenlock, Wellington, ton's First 50 years of Quakerism Wombridge, and Wrockwardine). in Norwich to good effect in his It is unfortunate that the author notes. found Quaker registers (PRO. Shropshire Monthly Meeting. No. 7°3> 7°5> 7°7) "so scanty, and RADNORSHIRE QUAKERS, 1829 the geographical location of the The National Library of Wales entries so dubious, that they have Journal, vol. 13, no. 2 (Winter been excluded/' The author 1963), pp. 204-208, includes a assumes that 84 baptisms(I), 2 note by G. Milwyn Griffiths, in marriages and 39 burials are from which he recites the returns the chosen district in 1711-60; made in answer to a resolution of the majority from Coalbrookdale the House of Commons of 19 June —75 baptisms and 35 burials in 1829 to compile the number of Madeley. 256 NOTES AND QUERIES YORK RETREAT CORK FRIENDS AND SOCIAL Three hundred years of psychiatry, WELFARE 1535-1860 a history presented in "Some chapters of Cork medical selected English texts, by Richard history/' by N. Marshall Cum­ Hunter and Ida MacAlpine mins (Cork University Press, (Oxford University Press, 1963), 1957), includes some references to includes (as well as the predict­ Friends. As early as 1836 the able Samuel Tuke) passages by temperance movement in the Francis Mercurius van Helmont city of Cork was headed by on shock treatment by ducking, Quaker William Martin "an Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania elderly and eccentric shopkeeper" Hospital, accounts of various but the work made little headway local asylums like Dr. Fox's at until Father Mathew took up the Bridlington, and the work of cause and founded the Cork doctors like James Cowles Total Abstinence Society. Prichard. A seven-page account There is some horrifying and extract from the Description evidence of conditions in and of the Retreat (1813) sets the around Cork during the Famine, work there in its background, and and in one quotation the death is gives reference for any who wish mentioned of Abraham Beale on to go further. 12 August, 1847. He died of a fever. "He was Secretary to the THE LINEN INDUSTRY Friends' Relief Committee in Cork and had travelled through­ The industrial archeology of out the county distributing relief County Down, by E. R. R. Green in money and food/ 1 (Belfast, H. M. Stationery Office, The name of Cooper Penrose 1963), deals with old linen sites, (married Elizabeth Dennis at mills of other sorts, windmills, Cork, 1763) appears as a vice- the Newry and the Lagan naviga­ president of the first committee tions, harbours and lighthouses of the Cork Fever Hospital, and railway stations.