Notes and Queries DANIEL AMES OF LAKENHAM rary quarterly, Nov. 1964, vol. The Ames correspondence, volume 28, no. i, pp. 45-57), includes 31 of the publications of the notice of tracts which were Norfolk Record Society (1962), purchased from the Barry Brown contains letters written by mem­ collection in Ireland in 1961. bers of the family of Daniel Ames Among these is one Proper of Lakenham, Norwich (1775- Lessons Written by a Quaker, To 1852), mainly to Mary Ames his Be Read throughout the Year wife during the 1830*5 and 1840*3. (Dublin, Re-printed by Thomas Daniel was a Quaker, the rest of Hume, over-against the Bible on the family were Methodists. the lower-end of Cork Hill). The Some of the family emigrated to caption-title on p. 3 is "Proper New York. Joseph Ames, one of Lessons for the Tories", under the sons, wrote from New York, which title the work had ap­ I2th June, 1839: peared in London in 1716. The "Our City is now quite busy author provides reason to think the Quakers holding their 'Yearly that the Dublin issue is a "re­ Meetings and J. J. Gurney is print of an earlier version of a high Stifler (sic) among them London tract which was re­ here, now wears quite the Old issued in London as Proper Fashion 'Penn Garment'. I heard Lessons for the Tories." him the other evening, he looks quite old and grey. Is much BENJAMIN FURLY among other Sects and criticised Peter Laslett, in an essay "John the Public Prints ridicule him." Locke and his books" prefixed to (P- 50) a catalogue of The Library of In 1840 Charles Fuller Ames, by John Harrison emigrated. In John Locke, another son also and Peter Laslett (Oxford Biblio­ comment on one of Charles's graphical Society publications, to letters home, his sister wrote N.S. 13, 1965) includes the her mother: following note on page 4: ''From "He seems to stick to the early in 1687 to early in 1689 Quakers. I do not altogether Locke lived in the household of of this, on account of approve Benjamin Furly, an English (so often) silent meetings their Quaker settled at Rotterdam, they may do very well for older who left some 4,400 books (titles) and more reflecting minds but when he died, see Bibliotheca dear Charles want oral instruc­ Fur liana, sive Catalogus Libro- and that in a plain manner, tion rum B. Furly, Rotterdam, 1714. these, I fear, he will among The overlap with Locke's final seldom en joy this/' (p. 68) library is interesting, and it seems that the drafts of the books DANIEL DEFOE which he brought out so soon "Defoe acquisitions at the Hun- afterwards were influenced by tington Library", by John what he could read in Furly's Robert Moore (Huntington Lib­ house except, of course, the 126 NOTES AND QUERIES 127 draft on government/' Locke restoring of a leaning tower to its had at least a dozen Quaker perpendicular at Yanwath Hall, books, among which it is inter­ contributed by W. Douglas esting to note John Anderdon's Simpson. Call to all bishops . to come to In the same volume there is a the way of the Quakers, 1670, for brief obituary notice of Kenneth he too had Somerset connections. Richardson Pumphrey of Preston One item which the compilers Patrick Hall, who died 8th have not been able to identify is : February 1964. Also there ap­ "2419. Caution to Quackery not pears a paper on "The Broad to be concerned in Government. Oak deeds" by Professor G. P. Jones, which mentions the Bur- rough and Halhead families. LUKE HOWARD AND THE BAROMETER COLONIAL DOCUMENTS The History of the Barometer, by The Fulham Papers in the Lam­ W. E. Knowles Middleton (Johns beth Palace Library. American Hopkins Press, 1964) notes that: Colonial section calendar and "In 1801 Luke Howard . con­ indexes. Compiled by William structed a linseed-oil barometer Wilson Manross. (Oxford, Claren­ outside his house and compared don Press, 1965.) £6 6s. od. it frequently with a mercury This calendar of documents barometer." resulting from the relationship The author also mentions that between the Bishop of London in 1814 Luke Howard purchased and the Church of England in the a barograph constructed by American colonies in the seven­ Alexander Gumming, and used it teenth and eighteenth centuries in London on his climatological has a good many references to investigations until 1828 "when Quakers in nine of the mainland it was moved to Ackworth, American colonies as well as in Yorks. This barograph is still in Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica and the Howard family, though only Tortola. Unfortunately, the in­ the clock was operating in 1962." dexes do not appear impeccable, (p. 289). but nonetheless it is most wel­ Also mentioned in the book is come to have a guide to this the work of John Dalton (1766- valuable collection. 1844), and John Gough (1757- 1825) of Kendal. WEST COUNTRY INDUSTRIES In the first of a projected series of books on the industrial arch­ THOMAS WILKINSON OF aeology of the British Isles, YANWATH Kenneth Hudson (The industrial The Transactions of the Cumber­ archaeology of southern England land & Westmorland A ntiquarian (Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Archaeological Society, vol. Somerset, and Gloucestershire east 64 new series, 1964, prints (pp. of the Severn), Dawlish, David 392-3) a copy of a letter from and Charles; London, Macdonald, Thomas Wilkinson to Mary 1965, 455.) includes references Leadbeater, dated Yanwath 2 of to industries in which Friends ii Mo. 1806, concerning the have been active. 128 NOTES AND QUERIES Among the industries reviewed thro' a greater plenty of are iron founding in Bristol and beaver, broad-brimmed hats district (with Harfords, Lloyds, become cheaper to that un­ Goldneys and Pearsalls engaged mannerly sect, the Quakers." in it); the brassworks, the glass­ houses and potteries, the cocoa (Printed in The Papers of manufacture, and the dock work Benjamin Franklin, viii. 450, of William Champion in the same from The London Chronicle, city. Further westward, mention Dec. 25-27, 1759-) is made of the Foxes at Welling­ ton and the Pittard firm at Yeovil. There is an illustration CHINA MISSIONS of the shoe factory at Street from A Guide to the archives and a painting of about 1845, showing records of Protestant Christian Cyrus dark's house, and this is missions from the British Isles to matched by a modern photo­ China, 7796-7974, by Leslie R. graph. A mile or so away is the Marchant (University of Western fifteenth century fulling house of Australia Press, 1966), provides a Glastonbury Abbey (now used as nearly alphabetical list of bodies a caretaker's residence by Mor- working in China, together with lands). addresses, lists of periodicals published, a brief summary of ACKWORTH SCHOOL details of the life of the society, a resume of the records preserved A 4O-page catalogue of Ackworth and the accessibility of the School archives, 1964, compiled material in the repository. The by James S. Lidbetter and fully Friends' Foreign Mission Associ­ indexed makes known the collec­ ation (founded 1866) occupies a tion of books and papers pre­ page, and the Religious Society of served in the School's collection. Friends (founded 1652) (alpha­ In addition to the School betized under R) nearly two minutes, reports and accounts, and plans of the estate, there are pages. relics of Dr. Fothergill, examples HOUSES of scholars' work, and books and COFFEE papers dating from the period of London Coffee Houses, by Bryant the Foundling Hospital. There is Lillywhite (Alien and Unwin, a copy in the Library at Friends 1963) is a list of references and House. notices of the London coffee houses of the seventeenth to nine­ BEAVER HATS teenth centuries. It is arranged in alphabetical order by title of Second among the "Humourous the establishment, supported by Reasons for Restoring Canada1 ' good indexes and street lists. to the French, written by Ben­ No. 204, Bull and Mouth Inn, jamin Franklin at a time when St. Martin's-le-Grand, has (as the victories of 1759 turned many expected) several references to thoughts towards the settlement Friends' occupancy up to 1740. to follow the Seven Years' War, No. 422, Four Swans Inn & is the following: Coffee House, Bishopsgate Street, "2. We should restore it [i.e. gives a note of Friends1 use of the return it to the French], lest, place as lodgings (c. 1809-11) NOTES AND QUERIES 129 "almost every street of that INSTRUMENT MAKERS district, fairly swarms with The mathematical practitioners of Friends" (Timbs, Curiosities of Hanoverian England, 1714-1840, London). No. 519, Half Moon by E. G. R. Taylor (Cambridge, Tavern & Coffee House, Cheap- University Press, for the Insti­ side; this house saw the first tute of Navigation, 1966. 845.). recorded meeting of the London This work consists largely of (Quaker) Lead Company, 1692. biographical notices of the teach­ No. 748, London Assurance ers of mathematics and naviga­ Coffee House, Birchin Lane, was tion and makers of instruments entered by William Gibson in for the physical sciences and 1727 when not in unity with nautical use during the period London Friends. No. 772 & 773, covered. The notices are brief Mackerell's Quaker Coffee House, and restricted to the interests Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, covered by the work. A glance c. 1702-35. No. 1517, The White through reveals the following Hart Without Bishopsgate, used (among others): Richard Abbatt, by Friends for lodgings, 1680- William Alien, John Churchman, 9o's. John Dalton, Jeremiah Dixon, Samuel Fuller, Robert Were Fox, Luke Howard, J.