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NOTES AND QUERIES79 Restaurationen, 1825), the Quaker origin of which the author dealt with in an earlier article. The coming of the four ship-loads of 1836 and 1837 was largely due to the efforts of a Norwegian Friend1, Knut Anderson Slogvig, who returned to Norway after spending some time in America. —There is a short historical sketch of the beginnings of Quakerism in Norway and Denmark in The Wayfarer, London, Vol. VI, no. 8, p. 6. NOTES AND QUERIES The annual spring meeting of Friends' Historical Association was held 5 mo. 28, 1927. Members and friends first inspected ancient sites and relics near the Old Meeting House, Wain Street, Frankford. Caroline W. Smedley, a member of Friends' Historical Association and Secretary of the Frankford Historical Society, gave many valuable sidelights on historical aspects of the locality. The next objective was Old Oxford Church (Episcopal), established 1699 and built on the site of a former Friends' Meeting House. This Church was a Keithian, anti-Quaker outpost in the period after George Keith had left Friends. Those whose automobiles had not gone astray in the network of suburban by-ways paused in the further journey at the Old Cheltenham Friends' Grave Yard, Ashbourne Road, west of Old York Road,—the site of Cheltenham Friends' Meeting House, established 1683. Abington Meeting House was the final destination, where papers were read and supper spread. The paper by Horace Mather Lippincott on " The Keithian Separation " is printed above. A paper prepared by Thomas H. Shoemaker was also read although unhappily the author could not be present. This contribution was entitled, " Cheltenham Friends' Grave Yard, usually known as the Shoemaker Burying Ground." It contained much interesting and valuable material on the locality concerned and on the families of Richard Wall and George Shoemaker. One of several " human touches " was the story of the elderly Friend who visited the rather pretentious home of John Shoemaker and remarked after some contemplation : " John, all this and Heaven beside ! " —There is much of historical interest and importance in the new Book of Christian Discipline of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Arch Street), 1926. It is divided into two parts, " Faith and Life," and " Practice and Procedure." In the former part are statements, with foot-note references to authorities, of the views of Friends on worship, ministry, the outward ordinances of religion, and on various problems of personal and social life. The brief " Historical Sketch of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting," pp. 1-3, is pointed and informing. 80 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION An inconspicuous but not unimportant change in the Discipline is that a member marrying a non-member is no longer required to make an acknowledgment to his meeting. Instead of this the meeting takes the initiative , through delegated Friends : " If way opens, they should express the continued interest of Friends in him and his household and the hope that his membership among Friends may be helpful and congenial to his newly established home." This is the final step away from the old, devastating practice of making marriage to a non-member a disciplinary offense. —In connection with the above report of the spring meeting, one must not pass over a small item that attracted much attention in the grave yard of Old Oxford Church. It was the following versicle on the tombstone of Elizabeth Roberts, wife of John Roberts. She died 5 mo. 6, 1708 : " Here, by these lines is testify'd No Quaker was she when she died ; So far was she from Quakerism That she desired to have baptism, For her, her babes and children dear, To this, these lines true witness bear ; And furthermore, she did obtain That faith that all shall rise again Out of the graves at the last day, And in this faith she passed away." The ardent partisan who first penned these lines would have been mystified by the smiling equanimity with which modern Friends greeted his outgiving . —The editor consulted recently " The Elfreth Necrology," printed in the Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2 (June, 1900) : 172-219. This Necrology was compiled by Jacob R. Elfreth (1789-1870) who was known in his day as a Friend of sturdy convictions. Having...