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Obituary - Isaac Sharpless

CONTENTS.
Our Quotation— VI . .
The Remarkable Religious Experience of Edmund 
Gurney, of Norwich. By Joseph J. Green •.
Elizabeth Fry's last Yearly Meeting 
History of the Reference Library
The Convincement of R emington Hobbie 
A Quaker Bible, and some of its Associations
"The Household Account Book of Sarah Fell, of 
Swarthmoor Hall"
Lord North and the Quaker
Quakers in Cambridgeshire, 1685
Crossing the Atlantic
London Yearly Meeting, 1836 ..
Rochester School
The J. J. Green Collection
Friends and Current Literature
Notes and Queries :—
Royalty at Devonshire House—" Mushroomes 
of Christianity "—Arrow, Co. Warwick—Robert 
Proud's History of Pennsylvania—Conventicle 
Act, 1664—A Quaker and William Pitt the 
Elder—" Quaker Guns"—George Fox Monu­ 
ment—Benjamin Furly and his Wycliffe Bible 
—Register of Meeting Events—Preaching to 
Nobody—Conscientious Objectors in Prussia— 
Lindley Murray Hoag—John Thomas, of 
Bristol—Benjamin Rotch—Isaac Hammer
The Bible in Meeting
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A Quaker Bible, and some of its Associations

Books Wanted

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3N addition to the unstarred literature introduced under the heading "Friends and Current Literature/ 1 the following items have been 
added to D during the last few months :
Accounts of London Y.M., 1856, 1859, 1863, 1872, 1880, written 
by William Rowntree, of Scarborough, presented by Allan Rowntree.
" George Fox" and " John Woolman" in Dutch translations, 
presented by Cornelis Boeke.
Pedigree of the Family of Fry, of Corston and Sutton Benger in the 
County of Wilts, mounted and bound. Prepared by Sir John Pease Fry, 
Bart., in 1906, and presented by him.
Analyses of the Waters of the Rivers and Springs of York and the 
Neighbourhood, etc., by Joseph Spence, York, 1843, and other items from 
the library of the late Dr. John Willis, of Bradford. Joseph Spence 
(1804-1872) was an analytical chemist in The Pavement, York. He was 
also a partner in the York Glass Company, a flourishing concern. He built 
a house on Holgate Hill (commonly called by local Friends " The 
Fortress ").
He twice analysed the water at Ackworth School (" History " 1879, 
p. 258). See " History of the Spence Family/ 5 by J. J. Green, typescript 
in D. _ __ ___
Daniel Gibbons, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has presented a copy of Penn­ 
sylvania Dutch and other Essays, written by his mother, Phebe Earle 
Gibbons (1821-1893), Philadelphia, 1872, 207 pp. The donor has kindly 
added notes, giving real names of Friends mentioned in the book under 
assumed names.
Edward G. Brockbank, of Manchester, has presented printed copies 
of marriage certificates—Thomas Ellwood (of Cumberland) and Mary 
Ritson, dated 24 iii. 1665, and Thomas Brockbank and Elizabeth 
Dockerey, dated 5 v. 1716.
Five ancient broadsides have been presented by the exors. of Thomas 
William Backhouse, of Sunderland, per Irwin Sharp.
Joseph J. Green, of Hastings, has made a valuable addition to the 
Quakeriana at Devonshire House, by the presentation of a silver table- 
spoon of letter-date 1782-3, once belonging to Joseph Thresher (c. 1750- 
1786) and his wife, Jane Harry (c. 1756-1784), of both of whom there is 
a long account in the Friends 1 Quarterly Examiner, 1913, 1914. From the
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Thresher family, the spoon passed to the Perry family and thence to the 
Poulter family. It was given to J. J. Green by his father-in-law, Daniel 
Perry Poulter. The spoon is inscribed " I.LT."
Three small volumes of script have been presented by Georgian a 
Crosfield, of Liverpool. One contains an early portion of the original 
Journal of John Kelsall, of Dolobran, Wales, commencing with 1650, 
the date of the birth of his father, John Kelsall, and continuing to the year 
1736. A copy of this portion of the Kelsall Journal has been in D for 
some time, but the location of the original remained hidden after various 
attempts to discover it. Now from an unexpected source arrives the said 
original I It is inscribed : " Geo. Crosfield, Liverpool, the gift of Charles 
Bell, of Whitehaven, 5 mo., 1834 " ; the previous history of the book is 
unknown.
The other volumes are copies of letters—one book (written 1716) of 
letters received by the copyist, and the other (written 1735) of letters sent 
by him.
By the kindness of Ella Kent Barnard, of West Grove, Pa., a copy of 
What Answer ? by Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, has been added to Ameri­ 
cana in D (301 pages, Boston, 1868). It is an anti-slavery story of the 
time of the Civil War. The author is thus described by E. B Chace in 
1862 (" Elizabeth Buffum Chace/' 1914, i. 234 flf.) :
" That brilliant young creature was then at the beginning of her 
brief but marvellous career as an orator. She was nineteen years old, 
a Pennsylvania girl who had been reared by a Quaker mother, but who 
early broke through the Quaker bonds in which that mother would fain 
have held her. She made an address at a meeting of the Progressive 
Friends which attracted attention/'
There is a portrait of her (ibid.). Whittier refers to her in his " Lines 
on a Fly-leaf," and she is also mentioned in " Abby Hopper Gibbons " 
(ii. 81). _________
" Articles taken upon Oath (before several of his Majesties Justices 
of Peace) against the most Montrous QUAKER the World ever yet knew, 
called JOHN TAYLOR. Wherein such Blasphemie is contained, as before 
was never heard in any Christian Government. For which he remains 
in Goal, to be proceeded against according to Law." London : Printed 
in the Year 1675.
An eight-page tract bearing above title has just been purchased. 
It has not been found in the Catalogue of Joseph Smith or elsewhere and 
nothing outside its pages is known of John Taylor. His address is given 
as " Cursitors Alley in the County of Middlesex." His examination 
took place at Guildford, whither he came from London and " hath ever 
since lain at Rebecca's Sisters House, in the Angel in Guldeford, and 
emploied himself in visiting Friends ; but knoweth none of their Names."
The nature of the contents may be gathered from the opening words :
" He pretends to be so fully inspired, that he hath attained to 
perfect perfection ; therefore doth not, nor cannot commit the least sin."
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99 TYD des EINDES uitalle de TYD-BESTEKKEN, van alle de dagen 
des nieuwen Testaments in de REGERING GODS, over Syn KERK en der 
selver VYANDEN, van den Doop Christi tot den einde der Werelt. Door 
THEODORUS WILMAN. t'Amsterdam, by GERARDUS BORSTIUS, 1696."
This little volume of 688 numbered pages came to hand from the 
library of the late Dr. John Willis, of Bradford. Information respecting it 
is desired.
Sunshine and Roses, by Edwin P. Haworth, of Kansas City, Mo., 
is a book of verses on various subjects, with a frontispiece of the author 
and " My Baby." Kansas City, 1914, 104 pages. Presented by the 
author, while in London attending the All Friends Conference.
A very rare tract has lately been acquired for the Reference Library, 
viz. : A Short Testimony concerning Catherine Allardcs, late Wife to John 
Fullertowne, of Kin neb ar . " who departed this Life, the last day of the 
last Moneth called February , Anno 1670." Printed Anno 1671 but 
without name of printer or place, 4 to, 16 pages.
William F. Miller wrote in his " Dictionary of all the Names of 
the Persons belonging to Edinburgh Yearly Meeting etc., 1656-1790" 
(MS. in D.) : " John Fullerton, ' Elder,' was married about 1647 to 
Catherine daughter of Sir John Allardice. Both were ex-communicated 
for adhering ' to the scandalous errors of quakerism.' "
On 8 Feb., 1908, the late W. F. Miller wrote to Dr. W. A. Mac- 
naughton, of Stonehaven :
" John Fullerton of Kinaber had joined the Society before 1669. 
In 1671 he married at Edinburgh Elizabeth Burnet, relict of Robert 
Douglas, of Tilquhillie. . . . He ' fell from the Truth/ however, 
and in May, 1677, Edinburgh Q.M. directed ' Friends at Montrose no 
longer to hold their meetings at his house at Kinnaber as they had been 
wont to do.' "
A photograph of the house at Kinnaber, presented by M. Christabel 
Cadbury, is in D.
See Jaffray's " Diary," 2nd ed., 1834, p. 311.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Arthur Leetham, Kt., F.S.A., etc., secretary 
of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, has presented a copy 
of his Origin and Lineage of the Leetham Family, with Some Personal 
Notes, dated September ist, 1919, pp. 76, with " Pedigree of Leatham of 
Hemsworth " on a folding sheet. The compiler traces back to Robert 
Leatham, of Barnsley, one of the first Quakers ( -1681), who was 
imprisoned in York Castle in 1665, and was buried at Burton. Following 
him came a second Robert (1657-1707), of Barnsley, who also suffered as 
a Quaker, 1690 and 1691. This information was obtained from " The 
Record of the Sufferings of the People of God called Quakers, belonging 
to the Citty of York."
Robert Leatham (tertius) (1691-1734) married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Boswell Middleton, of Boroughbridge. Descendants of William
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(1701-1779), brother of Robert (tertius), married into the Quaker families 
of Gurney, Fowler, Bright, Barclay and Pease. The compiler of the 
record descends from John (1703-1793), brother of Robert and William, 
whose son William (1765-1854) changed the spelling of the name to 
Leetham. The book is largely occupied with the military record of 
various members of the Leetham family.
A Sharp Rebuke from one of the People called Quakers to Henry 
Sacheverell, the High-Priest of Andrews Holbourn. By the same Friend 
that wrote to Thomas Bradbury. London, 1715. Said to have been 
written by Daniel Defoe (Smith, Cata. i. 51).
A Theory of Interest, by Clarence Gilbert Hoag, A.M., New York, 
1914, 240 pages. Presented by the author, while attending the Ail 
Friends Conference in London.
By the kindness of Martha H. Garrett, of 5353 Greene Street, German- 
town, per Alien C. Thomas, a complete set of The Student, a monthly 
Journal devoted to the educational interests of the Society of Friends 
in School and Home, has been presented to the Reference Library.
The Student was first issued in Ninth Month, 1880, under the editor­ 
ship of Isaac Sharpless, of Haverford and Watson W. Dewees, of 
Westtown, at the price of one dollar for a year (twelve numbers). In 
July, 1884 (vol. iv. no. n), the management resigned and the paper was 
suspended for a short time.
In October, 1884, the magazine was revived as the organ of the 
Educational Association of Friends in America, edited and published by 
Martha H. Garrett, and Davis H. Forsythe, of Philadelphia, other Friends 
becoming Associate Exiitors. Two years later Isaac M. Cox became 
Business Editor, with M. H. Garrett as Corresponding Editor. At the 
commencement of volume ix (x. 1888), the latter took over both offices, 
being joined by Lloyd Balderston, Jnr., a year later. In Midsummer, 
1892 (xii. 10), the periodical was discontinued. Isaac Sharpless wrote a 
valedictory article.
R. H. Fox, M.D., author of "John Fothergill," has presented a copy of 
of the Memoirs of Samuel Fothergill, published in New York, in 1844, that 
year in the possession of Charles C. Cresson, of Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA M.M., 30 x. 1720.
" The friends appointed to let Richard Robinson know the resent­ 
ment of this meeting on the report of his speaking slightingly of the 
King informs the meeting that Richard acknowledged himself sorry 
for what he had said."
Proceedings of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. vii. 
p. 253 (March, 1920).


Recent Accessions to D

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SECOND LIST OF BOOKS WITH NOTES ON SOME OF THEM
Memorials of an Ancient House, a History of the Family of Lister or 
Lyster, 1913, 400 pages. On page 285 begins the " Pedigree of the late 
Lord Lister."
A Memoir of Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886), Fellow of King's College, 
Cambridge and University Librarian. London, 1888, 447 pages.
Henry Bradshaw was a son of Joseph Hoare Bradshaw, a member 
of the firm of Barnett, Hoare & Co., bankers, who was by birth a Friend. 
Henry's great-grandfather, Thomas, married in 1777, Sarah, daughter 
of Samuel Hoare. The family estate was at Milecross, Co. Down. 
41 Henry Bradshaw himself never lost sight of his Quaker connections 
and treated any Friends whom he came across as in some sort relatives of 
his own." On p. 366 there is a long and characteristic letter to Joseph J. 
Green.
Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind on the Body, by Daniel Hack 
Tuke, second edition, 1883, 482 pages.
Letters from an Architect, by Joseph Woods, F.A.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
London, 2 vols., 4-to., 1828. Joseph Woods (1776-1864) was a son of 
Joseph Woods (1738-1812), who married Margaret Hoare (1748-1821).
Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Thomas Orger, with the Latin 
Text. London, 1814, 6°2 Pages > a verY rare book. Thomas Orger, LL. D. 
(c. 1777-1853) was the son of George Orger (c. 1749-1829) of Hertford and 
High Wycombe, and of Sarah Poulter (1752-1823) of Ramsey, Hants. He 
was in business as a "mealman" when he married, in 1799, Sarah 
Johnson (c. 1778-1803). In 1803 he was a printer. In 1804 Orger 
married Mary Ann Ivers (1788-1849), of the Windsor Company of 
Comedians, and left Friends.
Groot Wordenboek der Nederduytsche en Engslsche Taalen, by 
William Sewel. Second edition. Amsterdam, 1708, 608 pages.
Recollections of the Life of Countess Matilda vonderRecke Volmerstein, 
by her daughter, translated from the German, 342 pages, 1873. The 
author was Maria ( -1885), who in 1861, married William Alien 
Hanbury (1823-1898), only child of Cornelius Hanbury and Mary Alien, 
who was the only child of William Alien, F.R.S. The Count Adelberdt 
von der Recke Volmerstein. and his wife, Matilda, Countess von Pfeil 
(1801-1867), were earnest Christian philanthropists and established a 
home for poor children at Diisselthal in the Rhineland. They originated 
the idea of Deaconesses Institutions, afterwards carried out at 
Kaiserswerth. Later, their residence was at Craschnitz, near Breslau, in
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Silesia, where they were visited in 1860 by W. A. Hanbury and his half- 
sister, Charlotte (who was much interested in the Count's work), and 
where a year later, the former was married to Maria von der Recke, the 
eldest daughter. Their only child, Adelbert William Alien de Hanbury, 
was born in 1863, the only descendant of William Alien, F.R.S. W. A. 
Hanbury took great interest in the history of his family, which, with the 
work of others in the same field,resulted in the two fine volumes of "The 
Hanbury Family." He died in Paris where he had resided for some time.
Mrs. Hanbury, in the Life of her mother, records the visit to Diissel- 
thal [in 1840] of "the pious evangelical members of the * Society of 
Friends,' William Alien, with whom she [the Countess] exchanged many 
letters, Samuel and Joseph Gurney1 and Mrs. Fry, which afforded her 
much pleasure. She writes about it:
" € We have had a great pleasure the last few days ; the celebrated 
Elizabeth Fry, who since 1819 has accomplished such an incredible amount 
of good in the prisons, and who properly speaking gave the first idea for 
the improvement of prisoners by instruction and employment, was with 
us here, and we twice with her at Diisseldorf. Her external appearance 
is uncommonly imposing from her great dignity, with the expression of 
the deepest humility and the greatest love with which she receives every­ 
body, meeting even the worst criminal with this deep, holy love, and 
expressing the longing of her heart to see him happy now and blessed here 
after.
"' She was five days in Dftsseldorf, and spoke several times to the 
prisoners, who listened with great eagerness to her words and were deeply 
moved. On Sunday evening we attended a very large meeting, which 
with the help of her dear brother and a venerable friend she made a time 
of true blessing. After the brother had read the seventh chapter of 
Matthew with much solemnity and impressiveness, a silent pause followed 
after which she began to speak, and with great unction admonished us all 
to live in accordance with the chapter—no word was without value and 
many were deeply impressed. Then came another pause and then her 
friend, the venerable Alien, spoke of the happiness of the children of 
God here below . . . After a pause the worthy Mrs. Fry again rose, 
and kneeling down, while all, even the great and distinguished people 
present, knelt with her, she prayed for us all that we might endeavour to 
become entirely the Lord's own. Oh, it was deeply impressive! and 
the fruit will certainly not be wanting. It was a wonderful evening in 
the midst of the bustle of the world, and, certainly, for some present, 
the first Sunday evening of the kind f " (page 168).
In 1847, Peter Bedford remitted £53 for the work at Diisselthal (page
24*)- __________
The Parents of a Quaker Race, being some Account of Isaac and 
Elizabeth (Maire) Stephenson, of Bridlington Quay, Yorks, and some 
Particulars of their Ancestors and Descendants. In ms.
1 Not Joseph John Gurney—he was then in the Western World. 
William Alien published in 1840 in his Lindfield Reporter an account 
of Count von der Recke's work at Diisselthal.


The J.J. Green Collection II

Allen C. Thomas, A.M.

Bonfcon Q)*at% (meting, 1838
AST year we printed (vol. xvii., pp. 82-89) an 
account of Y.M. 1836, written by John Southall 
(1788-1862), of Leominster, to his wife, Hannah, 
daughter of John Burlingham, of Worcester. We 
now present further notes from the same Friend of 
Y.M. 1838, which give a report of remarkable addresses 
delivered by Sarah Grubb during the course of the 
proceedings.
7th Day Evening, 6mo. 3. 1838.
My last account was I think, brought up to 4th day 
evening or rather afternoon. I cannot very well recollect 
what passed at this distance of time at the evening 
sitting.—I think it was occupied by reading papers from 
the Select Meeting; and afterwards, at the Large Com­ 
mittee, where I was present, the new rules respecting 
Marriage as connected with the new Registration law 
were discussed.
It appears that the alternative in the law has in 
some instances proved troublesome to friends, in as 
much as the female friend giving twenty-one days' 
notice of an intention of marriage, has sometimes found 
it necessary to appear in person before the registrar.
Next morning, 12 o'clock, being appointed for 
Sarah Grubb's meeting with men friends (10 o'clock 
for that of woman friends) . . . the Committee 
sat two hours. The principal subject was one which 
had been previously discussed in the Y.M., " the 
municipal declaration and the suitability of friends 
acting as magistrates." 1 Several members of our Society 
who had swallowed the declaration, and one who was 
acting magistrate (Edward Backhouse), were present.
The skill, the sophistry, the eagerness to speak again 
and again to the exclusion of others—in this small body 
was remarkable, and they wrre joined by some from 
whom better things ought 10 have been expected; 
nevertheless, I think if the meeting had been polled, 
nearly nine out of ten would have decided that no friend
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could honestly take the declaration. John Pumphrey 
is one of those who see no objection to it.
Sam Lucas2 , a very clever man, not I suppose quite 
a " friend " in all respects, made a very clear and forcible 
speech against it.
A Committee was appointed to draw up a minute 
of " Caution " on the subject, into which Committee, 
alas, several of the interested got.
The result was a tolerably good minute, barring some 
equivocal phrases, but not at all going beyond the negative 
standard, i.e., not going nearly so far in plain speaking 
as the petition to Parliament which we noticed when 
presented.
At 12 o'clock we found the women friends were still 
occupying our Meeting House. S. Grubb not having 
yet released them.
It was quarter to one when our meeting settled 
down and we broke up at quarter to 3. S. G. is altered 
in appearance, she is much, very much thinner, but her 
eye has its wonted brightness, her manner is lively and her 
voice good, her address was perhaps even more than 
usually plain spoken, though it was not such as ought to 
have given offence to a single human being.
She spoke of the time of trouble to our Society as 
near at hand, if not as already begun. She denounced 
more strongly the pharisaical spirit, the disguised pride, 
the fair covering of external devotion, than the infirmities 
of human nature. She said we were still " in the 
mixture " and until we come out of it, the society could 
never shine in its proper brightness. She dwelt strongly 
on the feelings excited in the community by seeing that 
friends come up so little to the true standard, but the 
Almighty will have a people sanctified unto Himself, 
and if the members of our society draw back He will 
call in others professing their original principles. Look 
at the contrast between the early friends and their 
modern descendants. The first repudiating the fear of 
man, and even when imprisoned in noisome dungeons 
amongst the filthiest of mankind, singing praises to the 
God of their salvation.
Then came the age of formality, and now we have 
the age when the Society is suffering from riches of its
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members, when men pursue money-getting as if it were 
the very end and object of their existence.
Oh ! the deadening and darkening influence of the 
money getting spirit ! Ah ! though you may be the 
richest body in existence, for your numbers, will your 
wealth save you, or avert the displeasure of an offended 
God ? Ah ! no, I fear the contrary. Look at the grave 
and influential amongst us, alas ! It is these that like 
false shepherds have caused the sheep to go astray..
After adverting to the blessedness of entire dedi­ 
cation of heart in its eternal consequences, she concluded 
by an aspiration of praise, most beautifully expressed 
in a strain highly melodious.
I forgot to mention the high ground of divine inspira­ 
tion which she (I doubt not with authority) maintained 
and that at one time she said : "I feel that a disposition 
exists in this room, to oppose and reject what I say. 
You may perhaps be thinking it is only a poor, insigni­ 
ficant woman who is telling you what she thinks, and you 
will not receive it, but it is not the instrument, but 
the power from whom the words proceed that ought to 
be looked up to and assuredly it is not safe to condemn 
the divine Power/'
After she had taken her seat, she rose again repeating 
emphatically : " farewell," " farewell," and with some 
little addition concluded, and the meeting soon broke 
up. It was worth a journey to London to participate 
in the feelings excited by this address,3 to one fully con­ 
vinced as I am that true Christianity as professed by the 
early friends is founded upon an immutable rock.
I could not but rejoice to hear it thus set forth in 
truth, and simplicity, and can I be blamed as a lover of 
immutable justice and I trust a friend to my fellow men, 
if I do rejoice in it even though bowing under the weight 
of my own omissions and commissions and their con­ 
sequences.
Of course the above cannot be considered a report 
of S. Grubb's address. I have merely put down as well 
as I could, a very compressed abstract of a long and 
valuable discourse.
At dinner at Bro. Hunt's there was a table full of 
friends including Cousin M. Bradley.
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In the evening several epistles passed the large 
committee. Next morning we were in committee till 
ii o'clock. The routine business of the meeting after­ 
wards proceeded without much debate. Epistles occupied 
the Committee at night.
Next morning the minute on the " declaration " 
passed thro' the Committee, also the General Epistle, 
a long and wordy document but containing some good 
points and striking exhortations. Josiah Forster said 
to be the author.
NOTES
1 This subject was brought into prominence by the recent passing 
of two Acts (i Vict., c. 5, and i Vict., c. 15) and the Y.M. of 1838 sent 
out a long minute on the subject, citing some of the " difficulties to which 
Friends are liable in taking office in Municipal Corporations and also 
accepting Magisterial and other offices under the Crown, more especially 
with reference to one of the declarations," though a form of affirmation 
was provided for " the people called Quakers." Friends were " affec­ 
tionately, but earnestly cautioned " against accepting office.
Edward Backhouse (1781-1860) is cited as one of the Friends who 
had " swallowed the declaration." Another early holder of the office 
was Samuel Hayhurst Lucas (1786-1873) (son of Samuel and Ann Lucas 
of Westminster), of whom, in this special connection, there is a record in 
the Annual Monitor for 1874. Weighty Friends were uneasy as to his 
position—Peter Bedford wrote to John Hodgkin (then Junior), 20. 4. 41 :
" I duly received thy kind note mentioning thy endeavour to meet 
oui friend S. H. Lucas, who is now one of the Justices of the Peace for 
the County of Surrey, at my house. He sent his carriage to the rail road 
Station to bring thee here but as thou came not with it he went off 
in a haste by the next train to London, and I advised him to call upon 
thee, which I found he has done.
" It is pleasant that apart from each other, we have similar views 
and sentiments on the subject.
" To me it is evident that the subject had claimed our friends very 
serious consideration, and I do believe he is desirous to acquit himself 
in the station conscientiously as a Friend, and that where our religious 
principles are likely to be compromised, he will decline to act" (from 
original in D). The changed attitude in the Society towards civic work 
is remarkable. In 1916, Isaac Sharp compiled a list of no Friends 
holding the office of J.P. (MS. in D), and a report to the Y.M. of 1921 
gives the figure as 107, six of whom were women.
2 Probably, Samuel Lucas (1805-1870), the artist, of Hitchin, who 
shortly after this painted a number of prominent Friends of the early 
nineteenth century, sitting in Y.M. See frontispiece to London Y.M. 
during 250 Years.
3 Compare " My friend Wra Casson, of Thorne, is the Friend con­ 
cerning whom Rob* Charleton said it was worth coming all the way 
from Bristol to Ackworth to hear his offering in prayer, and his exhorta­ 
tion, in the prayer meeting held there at the Gen1 Meet* time. 55— 
HENRY HOPKINS to J. and E. Green, 8 x. 1865.


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Obituary - Isaac Sharpless

Contents

A Quaker Bible, and some of its Associations

Books Wanted

Recent Accessions to D

The J.J. Green Collection II

Allen C. Thomas, A.M.

London Yearly Meeting, 1838

Warner Mifflin refused Certificates for London Yearly Meeting

Edward Haistwell's Diary of the Travels of George Fox, 1677, 1678

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