Briefer Notices

Briefer Notices By Henry J. Cadbury Among the articles published at the time of the Penn Tercentenary (see Bulletin, 35 [1946], 4145) the following was overlooked: "William Penn in Dublin" by Miss EiIa Buckley in Dublin Historical Record, 6 (1943-44), 81-90.# Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions, N. S., 44 [1944J, 100-118, has an article on "Lowther of Marske (Cleveland) and Holker" by C. M. Lowther Bouch. This is the branch of the family known to Friends because William Penn's sister Margaret married in 1667 Anthony Lowther who for a time was F.R.S. and also M.P. for Appleby.» » * An enthusiastic preview of "Friends' Tercentenary" by Richmond P. Miller appears in the handsomely-illustrated Coming Events in Britain (September, 1951), pp. 22, 23, 44. * » » Carl R. Woodring's work on the Quaker author couple William and Mary Howitt has been reflected in these pages in recent years and is expected to be published in full by the University of Kansas Press in 1952. In connection with a fuller discussion there of their relation to William Wordsworth, he has written in the Philological Quarterly, 30 (1951), 430434, a note on "Peter Bell and 'the Pious': a New Letter." * » * Grand Alliance: a Chapter of Industrial History by Basil H. Tripp (London: Chantry Publications, Limited, 1951, 56 pages, 32 plates) is a historical and descriptive account of Allied Ironfounders, Limited, for whom it was written. This alliance, formed in 1929, includes some twenty-two firms in England, but in 1922 a smaller alliance was formed which provided the nucleus. In the latter the Coalbrookdale Company, Limited played a principal role. Hence much of the book recounts the development of that company and its achievements, especially from 1699 to 1850. This company and its affiliates were long Quaker-owned and-directed. The author has drawn upon a forthcoming book of our Friend Dr. Arthur Raistrick on the Coalbrookdale Company. His earlier book, Quakers in Science and Industry (1950) is not mentioned, though it deals at length with the Darbys of Coalbrookdale and other Quaker families in allied trades. # # » The Proceedings of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania are succeeded by the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, beginning with volume 16 (1948). That volume includes (pp. 23-30) an article on the Crispin Cemetery of Hohnesburg, Pennsylvania, laid out by Thomas Holme, surveyor-general for William Penn, in which Holme himself was buried in 1694 and many of his descendants through his daughter, Hester, who married Silas Crispin. 71 72Bulletin of Friends Historical Association George B. Scriven has contributed to Maryland Historical Maganne, 46 (1951), 207-212, an account of "Silas Warner's Journal," viz., two paper-bound day books of a country store in Harford County in 1804, 1805, and 1806. The accounts, kept still in British currency, show a great variety of information about economic life. Silas Warner and many of his customers were Quakers. So was William Warner, who wrote some pages of diary at the end of the second volume. But the Epias] Hicks present at a later meeting (p. 211) must have been E[dward] Hicks. Elias died in 1830. * » » Joerg Erb has written what de describes as a reader for an Evangelical calendar and also a Church history in biographical sketches, Die Wolke der Zeugen (Kassel, 1951, 540 pages). Among the persons listed by the day of their deaths are Jacob Boehme and George Fox. Short sketches are given for about a hundred of some 360 persons, including one for Elizabeth Fry (pp. 411415).» » » Written too soon after the war to have access to any but German sources, Evakatrin Sieveking's book, Die Quaeker und ihre Sozialpolitische Wirksamkeit, gives a very good account of the subject (Bad Pyrmont, 1948, 124 pages) . In most chapters a single social concern is discussed in connection with a noteworthy Quaker exponent. A short chapter on Quaker influence on social work in Germany is perhaps the most original. » » # C. E. Hicks, writing in Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 89 (1947), on "Tavistock: The Changing Scene in the Last Two Centuries" gives a brief review of Quakerism in the town (pp. 169 f.). There was a meeting in...