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Contents to Volume X

CONTENTS
Our Bibliographers—III. Joseph Smith. By Isaac
Sharp, B.A. • • • • • • .. .. .. i
Presentations in Episcopal Visitations, 1662-1679.
By G. Lyon Turner, M.A. .. .. .. .. n
Personal Recollections of some of the American 
Friends who travelled in England on Religious 
Service from 1835 1852. By the late Margaret
Evans •. •• .. .. .. .. .. 15
" George Eliot" and Barclay's " Apology " .. .. 18
George Fox to William Penn, 1678 .. .. .. 19
The Cambridge Journal of George Fox.—-VII. .. 21
George Swan, of Glasgow. By William F. Miller • • 22
Sad News from Virginia, 1674 • • • • • • • • 28
Women's Meetings in Cornwall in the Early Days
of the Society. By R. Hingston Fox, M.D. .. 32
Philadelphia v. New York .. .. .. .. 34
John Nichol, Diarist, and Early Friends in Scotland 35
Joseph Rule, the Quaker in White .. .. .. 36
Journal Supplement No. XII. .. .. .. .. 38
Friends in Current Literature. By The Editor • • 39
Notes and Queries:—
William Pegg, Painter on China—William 
Miller, Engraver—Statue of Elizabeth Fry- 
Presbyterians and their History—Penn Family 
—Isaac Watts—F.H.S. and C.U.P.—Stansfield 
of Bingley—Errata—Hats and Hat Honor— 
Lord Macaulay's Quaker Ancestry and the 
Mills Family—Thomas Beaven, of Melksham— 
Author Wanted—" History of Hoddesdon"— 
Obituary .. .. .. .. .. .. 45


English

Simpson, Charles R.

Benjamin Furly, and his Library

CONTENTS
George Fox to Margaret Fox, from Worcester and 
London, 1673/4
Quakers and Recusants
Kingston and Prideaux, Bankers, Plymouth ..
" Quakers and Cock Robins "
" A Loveing & Obedient Wife " 
The Ashbridge Family of America
Robert Watson to James III. .. ..
Editor's Note
Quaker Anecdotes .. .. ....
Notes and Queries :—
Arise Evans and Friends' Literature—The 
Replanting of Place-names—A Light in 
the Window—Keith Item Sold—The Baily 
Genealogy—William Stout, of Lancaster— Hats 
and Hat-honor—A New Work on Quakerism
Officers for the Year 1914-1915 
Balance Sheet for the Year 1913
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Presentations in Episcopal Visitations, 1662-1679. 
Prof. G. Lyon Turner, M*A.
Friends in Montgomeryshire 
Abiah Darby's Dream
A Quaint Effusion
A Journey of Margaret Fox into Yorkshire, 1672 ..
Presidential Address. By J. Ernest Grubbt J.P.
Professor Firth on Early Quaker Biography
Friends in Current Literature. By The Editor
The Cambridge Journal of George Fox—viii. .. 130
The Indian's Search for the White Man's Bible .. 132
Elizabeth Webb. By Gilbert Cope ..
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Professor Firth on Early Quaker Biography

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Abraham Manuscripts
Friends in Radnorshire .
William Miller of Edinburgh ..
The Friend and the Robber
George IV. and Thomas Shillitoe. By Francis C. 
Clay ton, J.P. (Illustrated) ..
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Patriotism 200
Stockton Meeting House, 1814-1914. By John W.
•• •• 201
in Current Literature. By The Editor .. 203
Notes and Queries :—
Gershon Boate—The Ashbridge Family of 
America—Author Wanted—Quaker F.R.S.— 
Friends' School at Swarthmore, Pa.— 
" Quaker Women" .. .. .. .. 206
Editor's Notes 208
Elizabeth Pike and the Highwayman 209
Index to Volume XI. 210


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(d. circa 1799)
From The London Chronicle, Sept. 3-5, 1778. p. 229,
To the Printer of the London Chronicle.
Sir, Edinburgh, Aug. 24.
As your paper is frequently a very consolatory relief 
to me when the mind requires entertainment, I wish much 
to contribute a little to so useful a miscellany, pleasing 
myself with the idea that others of your readers may have 
the same satisfaction over a dish of Coffee or Tea in 
perusing what I send, as I have in perusing other passages 
of the London Chronicle.
I am myself not rigidly attached to any sect of 
Christians, and therefore I can relish what is good in all 
of them, whether in solemnity of ceremony or simplicity 
of soul.
I always read with pleasure in your Chronicle the 
Yearly Epistle of the people called Quakers, for there is 
in that sect of Christians a gentleness of disposition, 
and at least a belief of an immediate communication 
with the Divinity, which all Christians would wish to have 
v/hen they have a near view of death, and which composes 
the mind to the most agreeable complacency.
In this city the number of people called Quakers is 
very small, but there is amongst them a most respectable 
man, Mr. Miller, who is possessed of considerable property, 
and who lives upon a beautiful piece of ground at the back 
of the Cannongate near to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse. 
There is a quaker meetinghouse about the middle of the 
old town of Edinburgh, but Mr. Miller has lately built a 
handsome plain small one opposite to his own dwelling 
house, and within a few yards of it.
Into this place of worship I went a few Sundays ago 
with intention to have been present at the meeting, but
192
WILLIAM MILLER OF EDINBURGH 193
there was none there that forenoon. So I employed a 
few minutes of solitude in calm and pious meditation, and 
had full leisure to observe every part of the room.
I found the panes of glass in the window to the south 
very prettily ornamented with pots of flowers cut upon 
them with a diamond, and upon one of the middle panes 
I found the following inscription. 1
I took a copy of these lines in my pocket-book and 
send them to you with a kindly wish that they, may 
have the same agreeable effect upon others of your readers- 
as they have had upon
AN OLD FRIEND.
The above has been sent by J. J. Green. William F. 
Miller adds the following note :
The " Mr. Miller " above alluded to was William 
Miller of Craigentinny (1722-1799 ?), the third Friend of 
that name in succession at Edinburgh. For many years 
he was Minister, ruling Elder, Overseer and Treasurer 
of the little remnant of Friends in that city, and was 
popularly known as " The King of the Quakers." The 
" plain small house " was no doubt built for business 
purposes—he had an extensive connection as nurseryman 
and seedsman—though one of the rooms was employed as 
a meeting-place.
It seems to have been W. M/s custom to depute his 
clerk, David Not man, who was not even a member of the 
Society, to sit at the head of the First-day Morning Meet­ 
ing, at the regular Meeting House in the city, which he 
himself never attended, whilst in the afternoon he 
ministered in propria persona to the meeting held in the 
" plain small house " at the foot of the Horse Wynd, 
Canongate. From refreshments being bountifully pro­ 
vided for the worshippers, the gatherings came to be called 
in scorn by those who did not participate in them— 
"bread and cheese meetings." William Miller stuck very 
obstinately to the arrangement, in spite of much labour 
bestowed upon him after the revival which took place 
amongst Friends in Scotland (1780-1785), and he was
1 For this inscription see this volume of THE JOURNAL, p. 22n.
•
Vol. xi.—143.
194 THE FRIEND AND THE ROBBER
finally disowned because he would not give up " separate 
meetings."
The last years of his life were spent at Eagle House, 
Tottenham. Our friend Josiah Forster described him 
as having a " hard, red face," shaded by a well-curled 
brown wig and cocked hat, his person being clothed in a 
claret-coloured suit. He attended Tottenham Meeting 
regularly, walking up " panting and bahing," probably 
from asthma, to his seat on the top form facing the 
gallery.
jfrienJ) an& tyt (£066**
In 1863, Joseph Elkinton and Joseph Scattergood, of Philadelphia, 
called on the Provost Marshal respecting the drafting of Friends for the 
Army. The officer said, among other things, " I am opposed to war myself, 
but if a man were to go into your house and cut your throat, would you 
resist him ? Be sure you would." J. E. replied, " Sometime since, the 
house of a wealthy Friend was entered in the night ; the robber aroused 
the Friend and told him if he did not get up and show him where his money 
was, he would kill him. The Friend sat up, and after a little thought said, 
4 I shall do no such thing ; I will not be accessory to thy wickedness, and if 
it be permitted for thee to take my life, I shall die happy.' The robber 
concluded he would not kill such a man, and left him."
Joseph S. Elkinton, 1913, p. 41.
You that are poor, murmur not, but be patient, and trust in the 
Lord and submit to his Providence, and he will provide for you that 
which is convenient for you, the days of your appointed time.
And you that are rich, keep in moderation and strive not to multiply 
earthly treasure nor to heap up uncertain riches to your selves; but 
what God hath given you more than what is convenient for your own 
use, wait for his wisdom to employ it for his glory; that you may be 
faithful stewards of this worlds Mammon and the Lord God shall reward 
you into your bosoms, of the riches of that Kingdom that shall never 
have an end.
WILLIAM PENN, To the Churches of Jesus throughout the World, 1677, 
p. 8.
Christ will not have one coward in his spiritual army. 
WILLIAM PENN, Saul smitten to the Ground . . . Matthew 
Hide, 1675, p. 15.


William Miller of Edinburgh

Sir Frederick Wedmore concerning Robert Charlton

Certificate granted to Daniel Wheeler, 1840

Sharpless, Isaac

fcomtnmfe on
AM asked by the Editor of THE JOURNAL to make 
some comments on certain passages in J. W. 
Fortescue's " Military History/' 1 On page n 
we read :
You know that late in the seventeenth century a company of 
worthy and excellent men formed the settlement of Pennsylvania in 
North America. They were members of the Society of Friends, who 
would have nothing to do with war, and consequently bought their lands 
from the Indians instead of taking them by force or fraud. Frugal, thrifty 
and industrious, they soon grew wealthy, and extended their borders 
further and further, until they came into collision with other tribes of 
Indians, who one day fell upon the outlying settlers with fire and sword. 
In utter dismay the sufferers appealed to the Government of the province 
for protection ; but the Colonial Assembly would not do violence to their 
tenets and ignored the appeal, leaving their unhappy and inoffensive 
frontiersmen to be massacred. At length, goaded to desperation, the 
settlers came down to Philadelphia with their arms in their hands, and 
threatened violence unless the Assembly voted money for supply of 
ammunition, and other measures of defence, forthwith. Thereupon the 
Assembly yielded, but still they would not openly pass a vote for the 
purchase of gunpowder. To save their conscience they voted money 
only for the purchase of corn or other grain, which, as gunpowder is made 
up of grains, was sufficient warrant for the acquisition of the necessary 
but unspeakable article. To such contemptible subterfuge are men 
driven who refuse to face facts.
This statement is very misleading. It was not other 
tribes of Indians which made the trouble, but other tribes 
of white men, who had come to the Quaker Province and 
abandoned the Quaker methods. The Friends lived in 
the south-eastern corner. The other settlers were the 
Germans, who got along very well with the Indians, and 
the Presbyterians from Ulster, commonly called Scotch- 
Irish. These exasperated the Indians by their pugnacious 
intolerance. " Why should the Indians have land which 
Christians want ? " they demanded.
" The settlers that came down to Philadelphia " were 
a company of these militants, who had just lynched some
1 Military History. Lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, 
by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue. Cambridge University Press, pp. 207, 
6f by 5, is. net.
Vol.xii.—149. 65
66 COMMENTS ON " MILITARY HISTORY"
twenty peaceable Indians at Lancaster, and proposed to 
treat a group of Moravian Indians, then in Philadelphia, 
in the same way. The Philadelphians, including some 
200 Friends, rose in arms, and the expedition went back 
without a fight and without accomplishing any other 
object than extorting from John Pcnn, grandson of the 
Founder, and not a Friend, a promise to offer a reward 
for male and female Indian scalps.
The incident, related by Franklin, of the purchase of 
gunpowder referred to a different transaction about 
twenty years before. The Province was asked by England 
to aid in a military attack upon the French fort at 
Louisburg on Cape Breton. The Quaker Assembly 
refused, on the ground that " The peaceable principle 
professed by divers members of the Assembly do not 
permit them to join in raising of men or providing arms 
and ammunition." They, however, appropriated £4,000 
for " bread, beef, pork, flour, wheat or other grain." 
The Governor, not a Friend, on his own responsibility said 
that " other grain " meant gunpowder, and so expended 
the money.
Again, on page 105 :—
The pious Quakers of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island used to 
finance pirates, who at one time nearly swept our East Indian trade off 
the seas.
There were pirate ships that went out from Phila­ 
delphia and from Rhode Island about the year 1700, and 
returned with spoils. So far as I have been able to 
ascertain, Friends had nothing to do with financing them. 
I am sure that if any individual Friends had done so, they 
would have received the censure of their Monthly Meetings, 
and the fact would have appeared on the minutes. I 
never saw or heard anything of the kind.
Haverford College, ISAAC SHARPLESS.
Pennsylvania.
Margaret Pike was expressing her high approval of women speaking 
in meeting and in public where it appeared desirable. Jonathan Pike 
remarked : " Well, Aunt, thou knows Paul was not of that opinion." 
She replied with alacrity : "But thou knows Paul was not a Friend."
From THOS. HY. WEBB'S MS. Collection of Quaker Stories.


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Benjamin Furly, and his Library

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Professor Firth on Early Quaker Biography

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William Miller of Edinburgh

Sir Frederick Wedmore concerning Robert Charlton

Certificate granted to Daniel Wheeler, 1840

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