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KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS 
D.—Friends' Reference Library, Devonshire House, 136, Bishopsgate,
London, E.C.2. 
Camb. Jnl.—The Journal of George Fox, published by the Cambridge
University Press, 1911.
D.N.B.—The Dictionary of National Biography. 
F.Q.E.—Friends 9 Quarterly Examiner. 
M.M.—Monthly Meeting. 
Q.M.—Quarterly Meeting. 
Y.M.—Yearly Meeting.
UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD.— 
"1 will take the liberty to 
mention one circumstance, as 
near as I now remember, without 
again consulting my generous and 
ingenuous friend, G. W. Hull, 
then living in Delaware county, O. 
The occasion was this : A com­ 
pany of runaway men, women and 
children were directed to his 
care, with information that their 
pursuers were near at hand, and 
on learning the fact, he took them 
to the barn and, removing some 
of the underpinning stones, had 
his visitors placed under the floor, 
with strict orders to observe 
the most profound silence, and 
ordered his men to throw down a 
flooring of grain and place the 
horses immediately upon it, with 
orders to keep them moving, and 
not to be sparing of noise.
" After the arrangement was in 
good order their masters, or their 
agents, arrived and demauded to 
know the place of their conceal­ 
ment. They were told that if such 
a thing existed they must find that 
out for themselves. Meanwhile the 
horses were kept moving and no 
little noise made by the hands 
thus employed. The slave hu nters 
were sure that they were
•
about the barn, and after diligent
search they went away and con­ 
cealed themselves in order to 
watch the movements of the work- 
hands at the barn, thinking they 
were not seen themselves. Im­ 
mediately a wagon and horses 
were placed at the barn, with 
quilts and other equipments 
much like as if the fugitives were 
to be conveyed to some other 
place.
" When ready to leave, the 
driver was directed to move off 
quietly in a southerly direction, 
and, if they pursued him, to let 
them come within reasonable 
distance, and then apply the whip 
to the horses, as if fearful of 
being overtaken, which was 
strictly observed by the driver. 
They pursued, as was expected, 
and were taken far away from 
the object of their search. 
Another team was in readiness, 
which conveyed the visitors to 
another distant underground 
station, from whence they 
escaped to Canada/'
From Reminiscences of Joseph 
Morris, Ohio, 1881, p. 181.
THE END OF GRACECHURCM 
STREET MEETING HOUSE, 1862.— 
John L. Eddy (1798-1867), of 
America, writes in his Tournal:
185
186 NOTES AND QUERIES
" Fourth day, 28th of 5th mo. 
1862. This morning was devoted 
to worship in the several meeting­ 
houses of London and I went to 
the old Grace Church street 
meeting-house, in White Hart 
Court, where George Fox preached 
his last sermon. The situation of 
Friends in the city is such that 
they no longer need this house, 
and they have sold it, 1 and do not 
again intend to hold meetings 
there. ... I told Friends I 
hoped our minds might be so 
affected on the present occasion, 
that we may never forget the last 
meeting held in Grace Church 
meeting-house."
Memoir of John L. Eddy, 1875, 
p. 142.
Benjamin Seebohm was also 
largely engaged in the ministry 
on this memorable occasion.
YEARLY MEETING, 1825 (xiv. 
101).—Interesting corrobation of 
the account of this Y.M., given 
in our last number, and written bv9 *
J. H. Bowen, comes from the pen 
of John Grubb (1766-1841), in a 
letter to his brother, Joseph Grubb 
(Benj.), of Clonmel, Ireland, dated 
from Chelmsford, 3Oth of 5th mo.: 
" The Meeting was large, but 
as is usual in London it was 
much larger the second Week. 
The whole of one sitting & the 
greater part of two others 
were occupied about Negro e 
Slavery & what is called African 
Instruction, or, as some would 
say, * Hannah Kilham's plan/
1 The freeholders were the 
Fishmongers' Company. The 
Company gave Friends ^6,000 
for their interest. For a short 
time the building was occupied by 
the banking firm of Barclay, 
Sevan, Tritton & Co.
The former had long been recog­ 
nized by the Yearly Meeting, 
the latter not at all. . . The 
Meeting on African Instruction 
was held after the Yearly Meeting 
—the great Meeting House nearly 
filled. Wm Alien & Hannah 
Kilham were, I suppose, two of 
the principal Speakers.
44 There was an unusual number*
of Visits paid by Men friends to 
the Women's Meeting this year. 
I was not of the Number. The 
following were some of them, viz., 
J. J. Gurney & W«n Alien— 
Richard Phillips & Sylvanus 
Fox, Edwd Carroll & James 
Marriage. . . . Sam 1 Fox, 
brother to Sylvanus, proposed to 
go, but as he is not yet recorded 
as a Minister, it was thought 
premature, and Wm Alexander 
asked leave to go, but as he is an 
Elder, the Meeting hesitated, but 
a young Man named Weatheral 
from Yorkshire, a Minister, pro­ 
posing to go, W. A. was sent with 
him as an Elder, so the end seemed 
answered.
" Martha Smith2 and my Sally*
2 This was doubtless Martha 
Smith of Doncaster (1763-1832) 
nke Ecroyd, of Edgend in Marsden, 
wife of William Smith, of Don- 
caster. She was a Minister for 
forty-two years.
See testimony of Balby M.M. ; 
Annals of Smith of Cantley, 1878 ; 
Memorials of Friends, by S. Corder, 
1845; etc.
3 Wife of the writer—Sarah 
Grubb, nke Lynes (1773-1842), a 
Minister for fifty-two years. 
After some time at the Friends' 
School, Clerkenwell, she went to 
Ireland and lived nearly ten years 
in the family of a Friend at 
Clonmel. She married John 
Grubb in 1803, at Isleworth, near 
London. Towards the close of 
the meeting at the wedding she
NOTES AND QUERIES 187
paid, I think, a very extra­ 
ordinary visit to the Men's Meet­ 
ing. M. S. looks very badly, she 
speaks sitting, with her head 
leaning back, resting on a cushion. 
She seems full of Love & very 
beautiful in the exercise of her 
Gift. . . . The [Fry- 
Gurney] meeting was very large 
—some hundreds I believe, went 
away for want of room.
" In the last sitting we were 
informed that a Woman friend 
wished to sit with Men friends 
near the Close of their Meeting. 
After some consideration this 
was agreed to, and my Sally was 
introduced, when after a time of 
solemn silence, she had a very 
extraordinary testimony to 
deliver. She soon after left the 
Meeting & nothing further took 
place, but the Clerk in a solemn 
manner reading the concluding 
Minute, when after a time of 
silence that could be almost felt, 
we separated."
J. H. Bowen's account does not 
present quite the same feeling 
regarding the last sitting. John 
Grubb adds :
" I think I heard there were 30 
friends from Ireland in London."
In the same letter occurs the 
very interesting statement :
" I understand that Betsy 
Dudley has made ^300 by the
left her husband, went up into the 
gallery, addressed the company, 
sat down for a short time in the 
gallery, and then returned to her 
seat by her husband. After 
fifteen years residence in Ireland, 
J. and S. Grubb removed to 
Bury in Suffolk and later nearer 
to London. There are numerous 
records of her striking ministry.
publication of the Life of her
Mother."4
Information from J. Ernest 
Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir.
CHRISTIANA RIOTS, 1851 (xiv. 
55).—See A True Story of the 
Christiana Riots, by David R. 
Forbes, Quarry ville, Pa., 1898, 
dedicated to the Society of 
Friends. Copy in D.
ABRAHAM BEALE, 1793-1847.— 
Abraham Beale, iron merchant, 5 
son of Thomas Beale and Eliza­ 
beth Abell, was born in Cork, 
Eighth Month i6th, 1793, and 
died at Patricks Quay, Cork, 
Eighth Month 22nd, 1847. He 
was a brother of Mary Beale 
(1799-1870) and Sarah Beale 
(1800-1885). He was one of the 
many members of our Society in 
Ireland who devoted time and 
property to alleviate the bitter 
sufferings of famine and disease 
which followed the failure of the 
potato crop 1845-1847 (see 
biographical notice in Annual 
Monitor, 1848), and he gave his 
life for his fellows, dying of famine 
fever contracted in his work.
Hymns by him are to be found 
printed in The Annual Monitor, 
1848, and in Martha Braithwaite's 
Fireside Hymn Book, 1865, and *n 
a manuscript, in D.
Information from J. Ernest 
Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir.
4 The Life of Mary Dudley 
(1750-1823) edited by Elizabeth 
Dudley (1779-1849) printed for the 
Editor in 1825, 380 pages.
s The firm was Abraham Beale 
& Co., later Beale, Scott, & Co., 
and now Sir Robert Scott & 
Co. ; one of the Scotts is named 
Abraham Beale Scott.
i88 NOTES AND QUERIES
BARTON ON THE HEATH (WAR­ 
WICKSHIRE) REGISTERS.—Bap­ 
tisms. " 1698, Apl. 3. Richard 
yc son of Edward Deen (a 
Quaker) nigh two years old."
" 1714, Sept. 19. Jane Dun, an 
Orphan, born of Parents that 
were Quakers."
Information from Richard 
Savage, Stratford-on-Avon.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION.— 
In a long inscription to one of 
the Blake family in the church­ 
yard at Nether Stowey, Somerset, 
occurs the couplet: 
" Better in reverential awe to sit,
And, Quakerlike, in silence view 
the pit."
Copied by John Morland, 1917.
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX Q.M., 
1831.—The following is copied 
from a letter from John Grubb, 
husband of Sarah (Lynes) Grubb 
(1773-1842), to his brother, 
Joseph Grubb (Benjamin), of 
Clonmel, dated from Stoke New- 
ington, 29th of Ninth Month, 
1831 (in the possession of J. 
Ernest Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir):
" Our Q.M. was held last 3rd 
day, the Select Meeting the day 
before. The Q.M. was very large. 
. We had the company of 
Stephen Grellet and Christopher 
Healy—also Nich. Naftel6 and old
6 Nicholas Naftel (c. 1762-1842) 
lived in the Island of Guernsey in 
early life. He married Mary 
Higman (1756-1820) of St. Austell, 
in 1789, and in 1804 they quitted 
Guernsey and resided successively 
at Colchester, Southwark and 
Chelmsford. Mary Naftel travelled 
much in the ministry and spent 
two years visiting Friends in North 
America, beginning in the year 
1816. Nicholas was also a Minister. 
After his wife's death, he returned 
to his island-home and died there.
Rickman. S. Grellet had a 
good deal to say in the Select 
Meeting. Cornelius? was silent, 
In the Meeting for Worship 
on 3rd day, after a consider­ 
able time of silence, Sally 
stood up & had a very extra­ 
ordinary testimony to deliver. I 
think the Members of this Q. 
Meets must surely feel the force 
of such a warning & arousing 
testimony. Thos Shillitoe 
followed at considerable length, 
and then Stephen Grellet, who, 
in the course of his testimony, 
expressed his cordial unity with 
first (Sally's) testimony. Sally 
followed in supplication. 
Christopher Healy was silent. 
That meeting held about 2 hours & 
half. The Meeting for Discipline 
concluded about £ past 3 o'clock. 
S. Grellet & W. Alien paid a long 
Visit to the Womens Meeting. 
Christopher Healy spoke once, in 
a very impressive manner on 
the neglect of attending Week­ 
day meetings. I liked his manner 
& language very much. His 
services seem to be much more 
with those of other Societies than 
in our own—he frequently has 
two public meetings in the day, 
several miles apart, and where 
there are friends, will have all 
meet together, without having 
a separate meeting for each. He 
is very diligent & anxious to get 
through his Work—need we 
wonder at this when he has left
Of their children, two sons and 
their daughter Mary emigrated, 
but one son was lost at sea. Mary 
died in Philadelphia in 1827.
7 This is probably a slip of the 
pen for Christopher. J. Grubb's 
mind may have been running on 
Cornelius Hanbury.
NOTES AND QUERIES 189
17 Children behind—what a num­ 
ber 1 He is, I suppose, a very poor 
farmer, and I heard as if he said 
in one meeting that his family has 
sometimes been in want of a Meal 
of Bread.0
In another letter, the same to 
the same, dated a month later, 
John Grubb writes :
" I have no reason to think I 
was mistaken in what I mentioned 
respecting what I heard 
Christopher Healy said at a public 
meeting at Croydon, as to the 
poor condition he was once in. I 
did not suppose he said that was 
his condition at present. He has 
a remarkably forcible, impres­ 
sive & moving manner of speak­ 
ing, tho' not always in the strict 
rules of Grammar. . . . 8 It 
was rather amusing, the evening of 
the public meeting [at Stoke 
Newington] ; I was in company 
with Christopher, he asked the 
friends present, If Sarah Grubb 
was a married Woman—it caused 
a general smile, & a friend pointed 
to me, saying that was her 
husband. He said he thought 
she was a single Woman, daughter 
of Sarah Grubb, whose Journal we 
have."
8 A Memoir of Christopher 
Healy (1773-1851) was published 
in Philadelphia in 1886. From 
this we obtain glimpses of his 
family life. In 1793, he married 
Elizabeth Sheffield, who died in 
1813 during his absence from 
home ; her " so large a family of 
little ones " is mentioned in 1812. 
At her death he was left with ten 
children under seventeen years of 
age, but apparently they were 
placed under others' care while he 
lodged with friends. In 1814, 
he married Sarah Miller, and in 
1820 he removed from the State of 
New York to Bucks Co., Pa., with 
his wife and second family of
ERRATA.—For Harvard, Conn. 
read Harvard, Mass., xiv. 54.
For Columbus College, read 
Columbia University, New York,
xiv. 79.
For 1817, read 1877, xiv. 134.
"THE FRIEND/'—In William 
Wordsworth, his Life, Works and 
Influence, by Prof. George McLean 
Harper, of Princeton University, 
1916, i. 362, there is a refer­ 
ence to a publication called " The 
Friend," which may have arrested 
the attention of some of our 
readers. As explained later in the 
above work (ii. 172, 173), " The 
Friend " was a venture of Samuel 
Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), 
undertaken against the advice of 
his friends, and ending in failure. 
It was published fortnightly, at 
Penrith, from August, 1809, to 
March, 1810, when, with the 
twenty-seventh number, dated 
I5th March, 1810. it expired.
SeeD.JV.J5.; Rawnsley's English 
Lakes.
" four small children," leaving his 
first family behind.
C. Healy wrote of his early life. 
" Was there ever a poorer Quaker 
than I was ? ... I remem­ 
ber that at one time my doctor's 
bill was so large that I had to hire 
myself out for eighteen months to 
get money enough to pay for it." 
He was a convinced Friend, and, 
as often happens, very conserva­ 
tive. He denounced " fast-days, 
the holding the office of special 
constable, and attendance of 
missionary meetings etc.," he 
once quoted the text " Strangers 
have devoured his strength and 
he knoweth it not " as applicable 
to " the dangers which attended 
Friends joining with persons of 
other religious denominations in 
associations for promoting bene­ 
volent objects."
igo NOTES AND QUERIES
MlRABEAU AND NANTUCKET
FRIENDS.—" Mirabeau was elected 
president without opposition of 
the National Assembly on January 
2Qth, 1791.
" During his presidential fort­ 
night Mirabeau received various 
deputations—notably one from 
the Quakers—and replied to them 
in the happiest of brief speeches." 
—The Life of Mirabeau, by S. G. 
Tallentyre, p. 322.
An account of the presentation 
of the " Petition Respectueuse des 
Amis de la Societe Chr6tienne 
appe!6s Quakers " may be read in 
Memorandum written by William 
Rotch (1734-1828), printed in 1916.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. — Febr. 
loth, 1819. — " Wilberforce made a 
speech last night which reminded 
one of the better days of the House 
of Commons. He presented a 
petition from the Quakers against 
the criminal Code, and introduced 
a compliment to Romilly." — 
Grey vi lie's Journal of the Reigns 
oj George IV. and William IV., 
i., 16. 17.
In 1818, London Yearly Meeting 
" solidly considered the awful 
subject of the Punishment of 
Death, as now practised in this 
Empire," and instructed the 
Meeting for Sufferings to address 
the Legislature on the subject. 
This was done and the petition, 
above presented, was the outcome. 
It expressed the " firm conviction 
that the frequency of this Punish­ 
ment, extended as it is to crimes of 
very different degrees of guilt, is 
repugnant to the ......
Christian Religion. ." 
The petition was " ordered to be 
printed in the Appendix to the
Votes."
In 1819, there were 180 crimes 
punishable by death, but from 
1838 the death-sentence in civil 
cases was executed practically for 
murder only. There are numerous 
references to the work of Friends 
in the card-catalogue in D.
DICKINSON—FEARON EPISODE. 
—The adventures of James Dickin- 
son (1659-1741) and Jane Fearon 
(1675-1737), so vividly told by 
L. V. Hodgkin, in F.Q.E., vol. 51, 
have appeared, in various forms, 
in the following books :
The Annual Monitor for 1816 
(the Sarah Taylor version) ; 
Young's Monumental Pillars, 
1818—"The Quakers Guided and 
Protected" ; Comly's Miscel­ 
lany, vol. 5, 1834 I Armistead's 
Select Miscellanies, vol. 5, 1851 ; 
F.Q.E. 1873 and Annals of the 
Early Friends, both by Frances 
Anne Budge. The incident is 
introduced into For a Free Con­ 
science, by Lydia Cope Wood, 
1906, p. 46. A discussion of the 
place is to be found in The British 
Friend, 1887, p. 303, 1888, pp. 20, 
90, 196, and The Friend (London), 
1887, pp. 91, 105.
FRIENDS BURIED ON THEIR OWN 
LANDS. — The Wheeler family 
(from whom W.B. is descended 
through the Cadburys) lived for 
many generations on a small estate 
at Cranfield, Bedfordshire (near 
Hitchin). Here they had their 
own private burying ground in 
which they were interred. 
Joshua W. (born 1635) was in 
Bedford Gaol with John Bunyan. 
The estate now belongs to the 
Seebohms, of Hitchin, their des­ 
cendants.—WALTER BARROW.


English

Notes and Queries

Record of Friends travelling in Ireland, 1756-1861. I.

CONTENTS
page
149-150 Editorial
151-164 'I had cause to be thankful that marriage would furnish
me with a chaise'; conscious and unconscious motivation 
in the journal of Catherine Pay ton Phillips, 1727-1794. 
Gil Skidmore
165-183 The London Yearly Meeting and Books in the Quaker
Atlantic world in the late Seventeenth Century.
Jordan Landes
184-191 The Banker and the Marine: Two Brothers from an
Eighteenth-Century Quaker Family.
David lan Hamilton
192-210 Quakers and the World of Objects: The Acquisition and
Maintenance of Daniel Boulter's Eighteenth-Century 
Museum in Great Yarmouth.
Sylvia Stevens
211-218 Recent Publications
219-221 Notes and Queries
222 Biographies
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Meeting Houses
John Hall set up a website about British Quaker meeting houses 
about five years ago. This (www.flickr.com/photos.qnih) is almost 
complete and will carry photographs of over 500 current and former 
meeting houses as well as other relevant information.
The images are also being made available in an excellent series 
of 28 page colour illustrated pamphlets. These are produced in the 
USA to keep costs down and can be obtained via http;//dangerfield. 
magcloud.com where each issue can be viewed, digital files can 
be purchased or print copies ordered. John Hall is also prepared 
to supply print copies himself though this is more expensive than 
ordering them from the USA. He can be contacted at hal!1885@ 
btinternet.com or 99 Wittonwood Road, Frinton on Sea, Essex C013 
9LD. At the time of writing there are seven issues with the eighth 
imminent. Each covers a group of counties with a supplementary 
essay - e.g. number 4 is Cheshire and Lancashire with an essay on 
architectural styles in relation to Quaker belief.
For those discovering Friends through historic meeting houses 
the supplementary essays and the bibliographies enabling themes 
to be followed up in depth will be particularly valuable.
Quaker Writings: An Anthology 1650-1920. Edited by Thomas D. 
Hamm. London: Penguin Books. 2010. xxvii,370 pp. £12.99. ISBN 
978-0-14-310631-9
After a thirteen page introduction and suggestions for further 
reading Thomas Hamm's anthology contains writings from more 
than 30 individuals as well as a few Quaker bodies, eg. the Balby 
Elders and finally the 1920 World Conference of Friends restating 
the peace testimony. The texts are arranged in six groups, five of 
them chronological with a final group covering peace from the 1661 
declaration and including passages on the American Revolution and 
Civil War. Well-known authors, both British and North American 
are well-represented as are women. The origins to 1690 takes up 152 
pages, the long Quaker eighteenth century (1690-1820) 42 pages and 
the remaining century 116.
John Bunyan and Friends
In Bunyan Studies no. 14, 2010, (ISSN 0954-0970) pp.34-55 Vera 
J. Camden contributes /rThe Unbearable Inner Light: John Bunyan's 
Controversy with the Quakers'. She explains that Bunyan's first two 
published works in 1656 and 1657 were the result of a controversy
220 NOTES AND QUERIES
with the Quaker Edward Burrough. This led to an ongoing enmity 
described as a 'lifelong expressive contempt for the Quakers' which 
the author argues is 'rooted as much in his psychology as his 
theology'.
A Book of Quaker Poems chosen by Simon Webb. Edited by Simon 
Webb. Durham: The Langley Press. 2010. 52pp. Illustrated. £3.99. 
ISBN 978-0-9564551-3-0
Simon Webb's all too brief anthology contains seventeen poems 
or extracts from poems. Six of these are by Whittier, two of them 
amounting to thirteen pages. Webb says that 'Whittier must take 
the laurel for commitment, volume of output, quality and learning'. 
There are also poems by Bernard Barton, Thomas Ellwood and 
William Howitt. Equally interesting are the poems or extracts relating 
to Friends by better and better known non-Quaker poets including 
Byron, Dryden, Pope and Tennyson. The pamphlet includes a short 
introduction by Webb and four pages of helpful notes.
Only a Thought Away. A personal story of bereavement and 
communication beyond death. By Angela Howard. York: Quacks 
Books. 2010. x +246pp. 8 colour plates. £8.50 ISBN 978-1-904446-28-6 
The main content of Only a Thought Away is an account of Angela 
Howard's time with her husband Martin and her continuing 
communication with him after his death. She also recounts the 
related experience of two other couples. In later chapters she looks at 
spiritualism and psychic experience in a Quaker context. The limited 
historical elements of the book are a brief account of the beginnings 
of spiritualism and a few pages about related early Quaker beliefs. 
Angela and Martin Howard were among the founding members of 
the Quaker Fellowship for Afterlife Studies whose beginnings and 
work are described towards the end of the book.
EVENT
The Revd Professor Alan P F Sell has drawn to my attention 
that the FRIENDS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL LIBRARY have 
organised a Summer Event to commemorate the 350th anniversary 
of the Great Ejectment of 1662. A day conference will take place, with 
a book launch, at Dr. Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London 
WC1H OAR, on Saturday 9th June 2012 between 10.30 am and 5.00 
pm. Thanks to the generosity of the sponsor, Congregational and 
General Insurance pic, lunch and tea will be provided, and there 
will be no charge for the day. Places are limited, on a first come, first 
served basis. If you wish to attend, please write to the Director at the
NOTES AND QUERIES 221
above address, or email conference@DWLib.co.uk, or telephone 020
7387 3727.
Howard F Gregg


Volume 63 2012 (issued 2013)
THE
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EDITORIAL
The Editor regrets the late despatch of this Journal.
It is with sadness that several deaths must be noted in 2012.
Sir Christopher Booth, President of FHS in 2005. An honorary 
Professor at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at 
University College, London, he made contributions to both medical 
and Quaker history. His Presidential Address 'The Quakers of 
Countersett and Their Legacy7 was much enjoyed and appreciated 
at Britain Yearly Meeting, 2005. (JFHS, Vol. 60, No 3, pp 157-176).
Melanie Barber, President of FHS in 2007, whose distinguished 
career as Deputy Librarian and Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library 
was reflected in her Presidential Address 'Tales of the Unexpected: 
Glimpses of Friends in the Archives of Lambeth Palace Library' 
(JFHS, Vol. 61, No 2, pp 87-123).
Melanie gave much valued service to the Society as a member of 
the Executive Committee. Some FHS members attended Melanie's 
Memorial Service at Lambeth Palace Chapel on 20th November 
2012, an occasion of appreciation, respect and affection.
Clifford Crellin gave quiet and faithful service on the Executive 
Committee, particularly as Assistant Treasurer.
Each is remembered with gratitude for their contributions to FHS.
Starting with the 2012 Journal each year's Journal will be a volume 
in its own right. Thus 2012 is Volume 63.
In his Presidential Address David Boulton re-evaluates a key 
question of early Quaker history. Were Quakers pacifists in the 
English Republic or was 1660 a new departure made necessary by 
the Restoration?
David Blamires explores the range and different purposes of 
Quaker educational books for children between 1670 and 1800 and
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the Friends who prepared them.
Nigel Lemon investigates the contribution of Quaker poetry and 
Quaker hymn writers to the hymn books of the Dissenting tradition 
now within the United Reformed Church.
Winston Duguid and Timothy Phillips introduce a major historical 
research project being undertaken by the Quakers and Business 
Group.
The Assistant Editor, David J Hall, has again secured reviews of a 
broad range of Quaker historical scholarship and research.
The Editor welcomes articles or short items for consideration 
in future Journals. He is willing to read drafts and advise where 
appropriate. He would like to include annotated Quaker historical 
documents, of reasonable length, i.e not too long, from contributors 
who have the expertise and enthusiasm to prepare them. 
Contributors are advised to use the MHRA (Modern Humanities 
Research Association) Style Guide in the preparation of material. This 
is available from the Subscription Department, Maney Publishing, 
Hudson Road, Leeds LS9 7DL (www.mhra.org.uk).
The Editor's decision is final as regards publication or revision.
The Editor regrets the delay with the issue of the Supplement.
Howard F Gregg


Editorial

Stearn, Roger T.

Edwardian Peace Testimony: British Quaker against militarism and conscription c. 1902-1914

Williams, Justine

Dispute and Print in Cambridge, 1659

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1-2 Editorial
3-29 Town and Country: Living as a Friend in
Urban and Rural Yorkshire 1780-1860. 
Sheila Wright
32-44 "American Quakerism's 350th Birthday:
A look at its Maryland Birth Pangs" 
Kenneth L Carroll
45-50 A Plea for Freedom of Religion, William Penn and
Friends in Emden
Kees Nieuwerth and Fritz Renken, translated and 
edited by Marieke Faber Clarke
51-53 Penn's 'Solicitous Thoughts' for Europe
Elizabeth Alley
54-57 Quaker Shillings
David Matthews
58-66 Corder Catchpool (1883-1952):
A Life between England and Germany 
Claus Bernet
67-76 Recent Publications
77 Appreciation: Edwin B. Bronner
78 Future Events: FHS 2007
79 Friends House Library: new registration system 2007.
80 Correspondence
81 Report: FHS Residential Weekend at Glenthone,
Oct 2006
83 Biographies
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A Scheme for Expediting the Transport of the Mails

Anecdote relating to William Harrison of Brighton

Notes and Queries

Record of Friends travelling in Ireland, 1756-1861. I.

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Edwardian Peace Testimony: British Quaker against militarism and conscription c. 1902-1914

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