A George Fox Manuscript

68BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ing houses, and addresses at 3 p.m. on William Penn, by Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, and at 3.45 by Dr. Jesse H. Holmes, of Swarthmore College , on " The New Social Order." At 8 p.m. in the Homewood house Dr. Rufus M. Jones addressed a large meeting on " The Message of Christ to the World Today." The visitors came away with vivid impressions of the importance of the occasion, the warmth and extent of the abounding hospitality shown them throughout the entire period, and most of all, the vast possibilities, in the light of the past, which open out in the future before the really devout and dedicated " Children of the Light." Amelia Mott Gummere. A GEORGE FOX MANUSCRIPT. By the kindness of Anna S. D. Hall, of Frankford, Pa., an interesting and valuable manuscript written by George Fox has been placed in the library of Haverford College. It is subscribed, " gff. his paper to the king 1660." It is a scriptural defense of Friends for refusing to take oaths, and a denial of " all plotes, murderes & tumoltus meetings against the king or any of his subjects." Norman Penney connects the paper with the Fifth Monarchy outburst and the fact that the government classed Friends with that movement. See Journal of George Fox (Camb. ed.) 1 : 388 and note I. Anna S. D. Hall received the manuscript in the papers of her grandfather , Thomas Scattergood (1802-1883). There is a facsimile of the manuscript (which omits a few unimportant, inter-lined words) subscribed, "' S. L. Smedley, Philada. 1868." A copy of this facsimile is in the Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. R. W. K. THE CRIMINAL CODES AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS OF COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA. By Professor Harry E. Barnes Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. II. The Penal Institutions. I. The Origins of the Colonial Penal Institutions. In a manner very similar to the development of the criminal codes in the colonial period, the evolution of penal institutions in provincial Pennsylvania passed through three main stages of evolution. The typical detention jail of contemporary England was provided for in the Duke's laws of 1676. This institution was replaced by the Quaker workhouse, or house of ...