Chapter IV: Closing Years (2)

This was probably Thomas Newhouse, whose name is included in a list of English Friends visiting N.E., 1661 to 1671 (in the possession of William C. Braithwaite, Banbury, Oxon). The incident is associated with the name of Thomas Newhouse in the histories of Bishop, Besse and Bowden. In Newhouse’s own account of the event and its results, given by Bishop (_op. cit._ p. 472), we read:

“Upon a Lecture-day at Boston in New-England, I was much pressed in Spirit to go into their Worship-house amongst them.... They cryed, Away with him; and some took me by the Throat, and would not suffer me to answer to it, but hurried me down Stairs, to the Carriage of a great Gun, which stood in the Market place, where I was stripp’d, and tyed to the wheel, and whipp’d with ten Stripes ... and then ... whipp’d ... at Roxbury ... and at Dedham ... and then sent into the Woods.”

In Bishop’s fuller account of this scene, he tells us (_op. cit._ p. 432) that Newhouse, “having two Glass Bottles in his Hands, dash’d them to pieces, saying to this effect, That so they should be dash’d in Pieces”—a very close parallel with the account given by E. Hooton.

William Edmondson states in his _Journal_, under date 1672, that the Friends of Virginia were “stumbled and scatter’d by his [Newhouse’s] evil Example ... who went from Truth into the Filth and Uncleanness of the World.” See Jones, _Quakers in American Colonies_.

It must have been a sorry spectacle—an old woman and a young man, both half naked, tied side by side to the back of a cart, and lashed with a whip of three knotted cords till blood ran.

HOOTON DESCENDANTS

The materials with which to re-erect the house of Hooton are scattered and difficult to identify; the frequent use of the same fore-name is a source of danger; but we venture to place before our readers such facts as at present see the light, in the hope that later research will be aided thereby.

SAMUEL HOOTON

Samuel, son of Oliver and Elizabeth Hooton, was baptized at Ollerton in 1633.

The hand of persecution rested upon him in early life; we find him in prison in Nottingham in 1660 for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance,[150] and in Leicester in 1662 he was in prison with George Fox and others,[151] being “cast into yᵉ Dungeon amongst yᵉ felons. There was hardeley roome to lye downe they [the prisoners] were soe thronge.”[152] Before reaching the age of thirty he was the objective of Muggletonian curses,[153] as was his mother later; and eight years after, in 1670, as recorded by Besse,[154] restraints were laid upon his goods “for the Cause of religiously Assembling to worship God.”

On the 30th of November, 1670, Samuel Hooton married Elizabeth Smedley, both of Skegby, at the home of the bridegroom’s mother. There were two children born at Skegby, Oliver[155] in 1671 and Elizabeth in 1673.

Of his religious service we have found nothing before his departure for New England early in 1666, as related _ante_, and the next reference is dated two years later, May, 1668: “one Samuel, son of old Elizabeth Hooten,” is mentioned among “those that labour in the work of the ministry.”[156]

Towards the close of 1670, among signatories to An Appeal from Nottinghamshire, occurs the name Samuel Hooton.

In the Minute Book of Nottinghamshire Quarterly Meeting, at the date, 26 x. (Dec.) 1670, the same date on which his mother wrote the letter given _ante_, the word “backslider” is written beside the name of Samuel Hooton (see photo. facsimile, p. 75). This was probably done a few years later in connection with the passing of the following minutes by the Nottinghamshire Q.M.:

Nine & Twentith Meeting

At the Quarterly Meeting at Maunsfeild the 29ᵗʰ day of first
month 1675.

Exhortation the 1ˢᵗ time

Robert Grace & Thomas ffarnsworth Exhorted Sammuell Hooten for
paing of Tyths, as to that he would giue noe Answer but was
found very scornefull.

Exhortation the 2ⁿᵈ time.

Georg Cockram, & Mathias Brackney Exhorted Sammuell Hooten for
paing of Tyths, his answer was, he was neuer conuienced in
his conscience but that they ought to be payed, it was spoken
to him as that he did beare his testimoney against them and
suffered the spoyling of his goods for his Testimony he said
that he did it out of the strength of his owne will.

Agreed that a Testimonie be drawne up Against the Spirit that
Leads Sammuell Hooten To pay tythes (& justifie his paying of
them) and to be giuen him by Robert Grace and William Malson, a
Coppy as followeth:

“A Testimonie from the people of god (in scorne called Quakers)
Against Tythes & Tithe takers & all that pay them in Generall
(whoe denie Christ Jesus come in the flesh—who hath Ended the
Law & the Changable preisthood, and is becom the unchangable
high preist over the house of god for Euer) But more Especialy
against the Spirit that now acts in & by Sammuell Hooten.

“Whereas Sammuell Hooten hath Long beene a professor of gods
blessed truth and hath borne a Larg verball Testimony thereunto
& not onely soe but hath suffered much thereby, by all which
according to outward Apearance he was Looked upon by many to be
a faithfull wittness for god, but Alass as a flourishing tree
which brings forth noe good fruite, soe is a profession without
the possession of the truth, & as Euery Tree is knowne by his
fruite soe is Euery spirit knowne by its Action, and though
the said Sammuell hath walked Long in apearance as aboue said,
yet hath he Lately brought forth bad fruit to the dishoner of
god in paing Tiths to an Jmpropriator and though he hath beene
tenderly dealt withall yet he still persists to manetaine the
thing as Lawfull, soe that wee are constrained for the truth
sake to giue forth this testimony against that Spirit that Led
him to pay tiths (and plead for them) and doe foreuer judg it,
& Condemne it in him or in whome-soeuer it is found, being the
same Spirit with them that takes Tithes by whome many of our
deare friends haue suffered Jmprisonment unto death & sealed
there testimoney with there Bloud, and this is to goe forth
into the world that truth may be cleared, & all false Reports
stopped & Judged, who now say we alow what we formerly declared
against, noe more but in true Loue to all people we Reste.”

ffrom the Quarterly Meeting at Maunsfeild, the 29ᵗʰ day of the
1ˢᵗ month 1675.

It is possible that the family emigrated to the Western World. Mrs. Amelia Mott Gummere, of Haverford, Pa., contributes the following, which may refer to the above Samuel:

“Elizabeth Hooton, wife of Samuel Hooton, of Shrewsbury,
New Jersey, with her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas
Hillborne, were appointed guardians of Samuel Hooton, when the
latter became insane in 1694. Thomas Hillborne and Elizabeth
Hooton, both of Shrewsbury, N.J., were married 12th December,
1688, at the house of her mother, Elizabeth Hooton. The
original marriage certificate was in the possession of Thomas
Darlington, of Birmingham, Pa., in 1863.”

Of the Hootons of N.J., Mrs. Kate B. Stillé wrote in the _Jnl. F.H.S._ iv. 50: “Their descendants hold the land near Burlington and Evesham, which was bought from the Indians.”

ELIZABETH HOOTON, JR., AFTERWARDS LAMBERT.

The marriage of the younger Elizabeth with Thomas Lambert, of Tickhill, 21st of September, 1669, is recorded in the Registers of Nottinghamshire, but there is no entry therein of any children or of the deaths of Thomas and Elizabeth Lambert.

We may hazard the suggestion that emigration to the New World removed their names from the Registers of the Old. In the published _New Jersey Archives_, first series, vol. xxiii., p. 236, we read:

“1692-3, Feb. 20. Hooton John. Letters of administration on the estate of, formerly granted to Thomas Lambert in behalf of his wife, confirmed, notwithstanding application of Richard & Thomas Hilbourne on behalf of Samuel Hooton for it, based on the order of Gov. Hamilton making Elizabeth, the wife of the said Samuel, Thos. Hilbourne and wife Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel, his guardians during his lunacy (_N.J. Arch._, vol. xxi., p. 193). John White, attorney for Thos. Lambert, submits the affidavit of John Snowden, to whom John Hooton had said, shortly before his death, he did not intend his brother Samuel should have his plantation, while William Black and John Birch attest that deceased had expressed his intention that John, the son of his brother, Thomas Lambert, should have it. (Burlington Records, p. 18.)”

OLIVER HOOTON

1. Oliver, son of Elizabeth, is mentioned by Fox in his _Journal_, under date 1672, and he was apparently at home in England at the time (Camb. _Jnl._ ii. 213).

His “hystry” is referred to on page 4, also his Certificate concerning George Fox.

He was at Skegby in May, 1666 (page 54).

2. Oliver Hooton, living in Barbados, is referred to in sundry places.

He wrote a Testimony concerning William Sympson (dropping into verse at the close), on the 16th of February, 1670, printed in _A Short Relation ... of William Simpson_, 1671.

In 1674, he was fined 1,592 lbs. of sugar for “not appearing in Arms.”[157]

Thomas and Alice Curwen visited him, and wrote a letter from his house, dated the 12th February, 1676.[158]

In 1677, with other Friends, he signed an Appeal to Governor Atkins on behalf of sufferers for the Truth.[159]

There is a letter in =D.=[160] from O. Hooton to George Fox, dated “Barbados yᵉ 8: 2ᵈ mᵒ 1682.” References to the writer’s personal history are wanting, but he writes as one who knew Fox, “from the begining of yᵉ apearance of yᵗ Glorious Day, yᵉ dawnings wherof (in our dayes) first made knowne its Splendor through thee.... I have both loved and honored thee from yᵉ first.” The writer is on the eve of a visit “to see yᵉ new Countreys of new Jarsey and Pensilvania,” but he “cannot say to Setle there.”

There does not appear to be sufficient evidence to state that 1 and 2 are the same persons.

3. The Registers of Mansfield Monthly Meeting record the death of Oliver Hooton, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Hooton, 14 xi. 1671, who died at his parents’ house at “Seckby” and was buried at “Skegby.” See page 81, note 1.

MARTHA HOOTON

The name, Martha Hooton, also appears in the records of Barbados—in 1689 she was fined £4 19s. 0d. “for Default of sending a Man and a Horse armed in to the Troop,”[161] and there is in =D.= a curious manuscript, being a petition from a slave girl named Mama to obtain the freedom granted by her mistress, Martha Hooton, widow, in her will dated “the third day of the fifth Month ... 1704,” she having died on the 8th September of that year.

THOMAS HOOTON

1. Thomas, son of Oliver and Elizabeth Hooton, was baptized 1636. Of this son, Mrs. Manners writes: “The late Mary Radley thought that Thomas was an older son of Oliver and Elizabeth Hooton, but I think she must have read this name as ‘Timothy.’ Mrs. Dodsley, who searched the Skegby Parish Registers for me, thinks the name given is ‘Thomas,’ and as I have found no mention of ‘Timothy’ in any of the documents I have searched, I am inclined to think Mrs. Dodsley’s surmise is correct.”

2. According to the Friends’ Registers for the County of Lincoln, Thomas Hooton, of Sibsey [? Sibson], Leicestershire, married Mary Sharp of Barnby at the house of John Pidd, at Barnby, Notts, 1662 xii. 15. The Hooton home in Leicestershire was Sileby, and the home of the bride, Barnby, is not far distant from Ollerton, the Notts Hooton home.

3. The following extracts have been taken from the Minutes of Nottinghamshire Q.M.:

Thirteth Meeting

At the Quarterly Meeting at Maunsfeild the 28ᵗʰ day of the 4ᵗʰ
month 1675.

Agreed that William Malson Robert Grace Francis Clay, & Mathias
Brackney, doe consider with Thomas Hooton about the Repairing
of Joseph Roberts house.

One and Thirteth Meeting

At the Quarterly Meeting at Maunsfeild the 27ᵗʰ day of the 7ᵗʰ
month 1675.

It is Agreed that friends at the monthly meeting belonging to
Maunsfeild put an End to the buseniss betwixt Thomas Hooton and
friends, About Joseph Roberts house & ground.

Six & Thirteth Meeting

At the Quarterly Meeting at Nottingham the 28ᵗʰ day of the 10ᵗʰ
month 1676.

Paid out of the publique Stocke for the Reparing of Joseph
Roberts house the sume of £2: 10: 6.

4. At a Quarterly Meeting held at Lincoln, 27 x. 1693, the following minute was made: “At this meeting Thomas Hooton sent Twenty Shillings to be disposed of this Meeting received and disposed of at this accordingly.”

5. There was a Thomas Hooton of London, of whom more is known. He and his family emigrated to New Jersey. See Besse’s _Sufferings_; Clement’s _Settlers in West New Jersey_, 1877, p. 301; _The Friend_ (Phila.), lxxvii. (1903), p. 52; _New Jersey Archives_.

JOHN HOOTON

The following is from the Minutes of the Nottinghamshire Q.M.:

Seauen Twentith Meeting

At the Quarterly meeting at Maunsfeild, the 28ᵗʰ day of the 7ᵗʰ
moᵗʰ 1674.

Exhortation the first time—

Georg Corkram & Mathias Brackney exhorted John Hooton for
paying of Tyths, his answer was that if they take it he would
not hinder them and that he had as good pay tythes as pay Rente
for them.

Eight and Twentith Meeting

At the Quarterly Meeting at Maunsfeild, the 28ᵗʰ day of the
10ᵗʰ month 1674.

Exhortation the Second time

Robert Grace & Thomas ffarnsworth Exhorted John Hooton for paing
of Tythes, & his Answer was, he was not fully conuinced, but
that it was the Jmpropriators Right or due after they had set
there marke in it and he said if he found anything in himselfe
that did oppose it for the time to come he hoped he should be
faithfull to it, And he was Lowe & tender.

One and Thirteth Meeting

At the Quarterly Meeting at Maunsfeild the 27ᵗʰ day of the 7ᵗʰ
month 1675.

Exhortation the 3ʳᵈ time.

Francis Clay, and Robert Grace Exhorted John Hooton for paing
of tyths, his Answer was that he found that it was not right to
be paied, neither did he jntend to pay any more but he said his
seruants did Leaue some contrary to his order, and he was found
very tender.

For John Hooton, of N.J., see under Elizabeth Hooton, _aft._ Lambert.

JOSIAH HOOTON

Of Josiah Hooton, mentioned on page 3, nothing further appears.

JUDGE ENDICOTT (p. 50)

“It was not the people of Massachusetts—it was Endicott and the Clergy”—who persecuted the Quakers.—JOHN FISKE, _Beginnings of New England_, 1895.

FOOTNOTES

[1] _The General History of the Quakers_, by Gerard Crœse, 1696, pt. 1, p. 37.

[2] Dr. Robert Thoroton, J.P. (1623-1678), published his _Antiquities of Nottinghamshire_ in 1677. He appears in Besse’s _Sufferings_ as a persecutor of Friends in Notts.

_D.N.B._; Cropper, _Sufferings_, 1892, quoting Brown’s _Worthies of Nottinghamshire_.

[3] John Throsby (1740-1803) republished Thoroton’s _Nottinghamshire_, with additions, in 1790. He wrote also on Leicestershire.

[4] See _Original Records of Early Nonconformity under Persecution and Indulgence_, compiled by G. Lyon Turner, 1911, iii. 13. See other references to E. Hooton, i. 155, ii. 725, iii. 744. Chapman was Vicar of Mansfield Woodhouse.

[5] MS. in =D.= This piece is endorsed: “Oliver Huttons Certificate Concerning G: ff:”; and is among other similar certificates which were read at the Second Day’s Meeting, 16 xii. 1686/7. “Oliver Hutton’s hystry” does not appear to have survived. See Braithwaite, _Beginnings of Quakerism_, 1912, pp. 43, 44.

[6] MS. in =D.= entitled: “A Testimony Concerning our Dear ffriend and Sister in yᵉ Lord Elizabeth Hutton,” dated 1690, but not in Fox’s writing.

[7] For an illustrated article on Elizabeth Heath (d. 1693) and her charity see _Journal F.H.S._ x.

[8] MS. in =D.= endorsed by Fox: “a short jornall of gff never wer printd,” and by another writer: “of Some Short things from abᵗ yᵉ year 1648 to King Charles yᵉ 2ᵈ Dayes.” The MS. is much worn at the edges, but some words have been inserted from a contemporary copy.

[9] Besse, _Sufferings of the Quakers_, 1753, i. 137.

[10] =D.= (Swarth. MSS. ii. 43)

[11] The home of Thomas Aldam (c. 1616-1660) was Warmsworth, near Doncaster. His detention in York Castle followed a _contretemps_ with the clergyman of this village, Thomas Rookby; he was two and a half years in the Castle. _Short Testimony_ by his son, Thomas, 1690; _Piety Promoted_; _D.N.B._; Camb. _Jnl._

[12] =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i. 373)

[13] Mary Fisher (c. 1623-1698), afterwards Bayly and Cross, became a prominent preacher and traveller. She visited Cambridge and preached to the students, travelled in the West Indies and Eastern Europe, and died in Charlestown, South Carolina. Camb. _Jnl._; _Quaker Women_, 1915.

[14] =D.= (Swarth. MSS. iii. 36)

[15] According to a MS. in =D.= (Swarth. MSS. iii. 91), William Peares died in York Castle. Fox endorses this scrap of paper: “W peres died in presen at York abought 1654.” In the MS. we read: “The cause of his Jmprisonment was, because he was moued to stripe himselfe naked. A ffigure off all the nakedness of the world.... Jt was the naked that suffered for the naked truth.”

In _A Declaration of present Sufferings_, printed 1659, recounting six years of persecution, we have a confirmation of G. F.’s statement: under Yorkshire, “William Peers imprisoned till death for Tithes.” (p. 20.)

[16] Prior to her incarceration in York Castle, Jane Holmes was one of the Friends whose preaching made such an impression on the town of Malton that “some was caused to burne a great deale of riboning of silkes and braueries and such things” (=D.= Swarth. MSS. i. 373). While in the Castle her health suffered, and this may partly account for the low spiritual condition into which she fell. The MSS. tell us that the “wilde nature was exalted in her, aboue the seede of god” and “the wilde Eyrie spirit was exalted aboue the Crosse” (Swarth. MSS. iii. 40), resulting in her “going out” from her quondam friends into darkness and obscurity. See Braithwaite, _Beginnings of Quakerism_, 1912, pp. 72, 73.

[17] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 35a)

[18] Amor Stoddard (d. 1670), frequently styled Captain, was one of Fox’s companions on various missionary journeys. He lived in London. His wife died in 1665.

Beck and Ball, _London Friends’ Meeting_, 1869; Camb. _Jnl._

[19] James Halliday was a weaver of Allartown, in Northumberland. He travelled frequently with Patrick Livingstone. The date of his detention in York is not found.

[20] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 15) endorsed: “El: Hooton to yᵉ Bench, to set James Holydah free & to call others to yᵉ Bar & set yᵐ at liberty.”

[21] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 3) Although this letter is signed “Elizabeth Hooton,” there are evidences that it is in the handwriting of Thomas Aldam, so it is possible that it may have been partly composed or edited by him.

[22] As with William Peares, so with Benjamin Nicholson, the rigours of York Castle, though unable to reduce the spirit, proved too strong for the enfeebled body. Benjamin Nicholson died there in 1660. His home was Tickhill near Doncaster.

[23] Two copies are in =D.= An interesting and curious production, and badly printed. On page 3 we read: “You do not read in all the Holy Scriptures, that any of the Holy men of God were Cambridge or Oxford Scollers, or Universitie men, or called Masters; but (on the contrary), they were plain men, and laboured with their hands, and taught freely, as they had received it freely from the Lord.”

[24] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 5)

[25] See photo reproduction of this letter. Fox has endorsed it: 1655, but we think 1653 must be the date; the Author’s unit figure is not very clear.

[26] Margaret Killam was wife of John Killam, of Balby, Yorks. She was a great traveller and sufferer for the Truth.

[27] =D.= Swarth. MSS. i. 2. Margaret Killam, writing to George Fox, in 1654, mentions holding a meeting at “Oliuer Hoottens,” also one at “Thomas Brockshows att Mansfild side,” and continues: “And soe as the lord directs to send ouer sum̄ frends it may bee of greate seruice there abouts; and to Mansfild side, for there is much deadnes ther awaies” (Swarth. MSS. i. 374). There is mention of another meeting at Oliver Hooton’s, at Skegby, in 1653 (=D.= Swarthmore MSS. iii. 52).

[28] _Journal of George Fox_, bi-cent. ed. i. 197.

[29] This MS. is the property of Broughton, Gainsborough and Spalding Monthly Meeting. See _F.P.T._ 152.

[30] John Whitehead (1630-1696) was a Yorkshireman in early life and afterwards resided at Fiskerton, near Lincoln. See Camb. _Jnl._

[31] _Suff._ i. 346.

[32] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 37)

[33] _Journal_, bi-cent. ed. i. 198.

[34] _F.P.T._ 219.

[35] It must be remembered that according to the Old Style, the year began with March, which the Quakers designated First Month. Hence Fourth Month was June.

[36] _Suff._ i. 553.

[37] CALLENDER, _Historical Discourse_, Boston, 1739. Both these quotations are taken from _The Quakers in the American Colonies_, by RUFUS M. JONES, London, 1911, p. xxi.

[38] _Quakers in American Colonies_, p. 8.

[39] Mary Dyer (????-1660) was the wife of William Dyer, then of Newport, Rhode Island. She was described by George Bishop as “A Comely Grave Woman, and of a goodly Personage, and one of a good Report, having an Husband of an Estate, fearing the Lord, and a Mother of [six] Children” (_New England Judged_, 1703, p. 157). Her husband and she emigrated from London to Boston in 1635. See ROGERS, _Mary Dyer_, 1896.

[40] CALAMY, _Account of the Ejected Ministers_, i. 481, calls Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, a “little Zoar.” In the chapel known as the Old Meeting House, in Mansfield, which was built in the year 1702, by the descendants of the congregation which had formerly received the Ejected Ministers, there are two commemorative brasses above the altar, placed there by the late Rev. A. W. Worthington, a former minister, which bear the following inscription: “In memory of the conscientious sacrifice and Christianity of the Rev. Robert Porter, Vicar of Pentrich, the Rev. John Whitlock, M.A., Vicar of St. Mary’s, Nottingham, the Rev. William Reynolds, M.A., lecturer at the same church, the Rev. John Billingsley, M.A., Vicar of Chesterfield, Joseph Truman, B.D., Rector of Cromwell, the Rev. Robert Smalley, Vicar of Greasley, and others, who resigned their livings when the Act of Uniformity was passed in 1662.

“Driven from their homes by the Oxford Act, in 1666, they found in Mansfield a little Zoar, a shelter and a sanctuary; and united in hearty love and concord, they worshipped together till the Act of Toleration was passed in 1688, when all who survived the day of persecution returned to their ministry, save the Rev. R. Porter, who remained in charge of this congregation till his death, January 22nd, 1690.”

[41] In 1641, the assembled citizens made the following declaration: “This Body Politick is a Democracie; that is to say, it is in the Power of the Body of Freemen, orderly assembled, or the major part of them, to make Just Lawes by which they will be regulated.” Under the same date the following act was passed: “It is ordered that none bee accounted a delinquent for doctrine,” and later in the same year this was re-affirmed in these words: the “Law of the last Court made concerning Libertie of Conscience in Point of Doctrine be perpetuated.” Quoted from _Rhode Island Colony Records_, by JONES, _op. cit._, p. 23.

[42] _Calendar of State Papers Colonial._

[43] Katharine Scott, wife of Richard Scott, was the daughter of (Rev.) Francis Marbury, of London, and her mother was of the family of John Dryden, the poet. Her daughter, Mary, married Christopher Holder, and another daughter, Hannah, married Walter Clarke, once Governor of Rhode Island. Her daughter, Patience (1648-????), was specially noted for her early suffering for conscience sake. ROGERS, _Mary Dyer_; SCULL, _Dorothea Scott_, 1882; _Holders of Holderness_, 1902.

[44] BISHOP, _New England Judged_, 1703, p. 94.

[45] _Ibid._ p. 95.

[46] Of Anne Austin (d. 1665, in London) little is known. She was advanced in years at the time of her American visit. See BOWDEN, _Hist._ i. 30-37, etc.

[47] Upsall endeavoured to supply Quaker prisoners with food, but only succeeded by a weekly payment to the gaoler of five shillings (BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 8). Bishop tells us that he was “a long-liver in Boston, an Ancient Man, and full of Years.”

[48] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 54.

[49] The Southwicks lived at Salem. Other children were Daniel and Provided. Bishop has many notices of the family.

[50] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 55.

[51] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 60, in the case of Horred Gardner, of Newport.

[52] Nicholas Davis was of Plymouth Colony.

[53] Printed in _New England Judged_, p. 299.

[54] _New England Judged_, p. 333.

[55] One of the young and vigorous preachers of early Quakerism (1634-1662). He died in Newgate Jail, London. See Camb. _Jnl._

[56] It was spread abroad in N.E. that the Quakers had forged the King’s letter and counterfeited his seal (=D.= Spence MSS. iii. 116).

[57] The furious attack on the Quaker travellers, Christopher Holder and John Copeland, in 1657, made by the civil and Church authorities of Salem, so affected Samuel Shattuck (c. 1620-1689), a man of good reputation, that he interfered on behalf of the sufferers and as a consequence was imprisoned at Boston, and whipped; and finally, in May, 1659, he was banished the Colony. Some trouble which arose in the early part of 1665 is referred to later (see p. 50), and it may be that Shattuck, as a consequence, dissociated himself from Friends. His remains were buried in the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem; on the tombstone the date is given in non-Quaker style—“ye sixth day of June.” His intervention on behalf of Christopher Holder is recorded in full. There is a picture of the stone in _The Holders of Holderness_, 1902. A son of Shattuck appears in one of the Salem witch trials (_Witchcraft and Quakerism_, 1908, p. 8). His descendants are still living in Salem (_Holders_, p. 104).

[58] In a letter from John Philly to George Fox, in 1661 (Swarth. MSS. iv. 158), there is this mention of Ralph Goldsmith: “There is one Ralph Goldsmith, A friend & master of A ship, his house is in Jacobs street Nere Sauorys Dock, Nere Redrife, whoe hath taken A viag for Venus [Venice].” Little is known of this Quaker shipmaster. Besse notes one of the name among sufferers in Barbados (_Suff._ ii. 279).

[59] Captain James Oliver is frequently mentioned in the history of these troublous times. He led forth Robinson and Stevenson to execution, causing drums to beat when they attempted to speak (there is a striking illustration of this scene in _McClures Magazine_, Nov. 1906, from a painting by Howard Pyle); and when Edward Wharton intervened in the trial of Leddra, Oliver cried out; “Knock him on the pate” (BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 318).

[60] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 345. There is in =D.= a MS. account of the voyage of the King’s messenger.

[61] Joan Brocksopp (d. 1681) was the wife of Thomas Brocksopp, of Little Normanton, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

[62] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 27) This may be the “E. Hootons Manscr” of the margin of Whiting’s _Truth and Innocency Defended_, 1702, see pp. 95, 109, etc.

[63] Mary G. Swift, of Millbrook, N.Y., who has made considerable study of Hooton printed literature, suggests that Elizabeth Hooton and Jane Brocksopp were the “two Friends,” mentioned in a letter from George Rofe to Richard Hubberthorne (quoted in Bowden’s _Hist._ i. 230), and that they accompanied him a part of the journey from Va. to N. E. in his “small boat,” and on arrival united with him in appointing the first General Meeting in America, at Newport, R.I., in 1661. He writes: “_We_ appointed a general meeting,” etc., the antecedent to _we_ being the writer and his two Friends. In her own account of this visit to New England (see p. 32), E. Hooton states: “We did come to Rhod Jland where was appointed by freinds a generall meeting for New England.” Bishop tells us of the two women that “the Lord afforded them an opportunity by a Catch, which carried them part of the way” (_New England Judged_, p. 404). Whiting relates that they “got to Rhode Island, where was a General Meeting” (_Truth and Innocency_, p. 109). It would be very interesting if it could be stated with certainty that E. Hooton was concerned in the calling of the first Y.M. in America. See p. 32, n. 2.

[64] Margin gives the name—Wenlock Christison.

[65] This may have been the first General Meeting in America. See p. 31, n. 1, and the account of the 250th Anniversary of the Beginning of New England Yearly Meeting, 1911.

[66] Margaret Fell (1614-1702) was the wife and widow of Judge Thomas Fell (1598-1658). In 1669 she married George Fox (1624-1691). She was the nursing mother of the early Quaker Church.

[67] Swarth. MSS. i. 75.

[68] Ann Clayton held some position of trust in the Swarthmoor household, but she also travelled in the ministry at home and abroad. It was she, or another of the same name, who became the wife of Nicholas Easton of R.I., prior to 1672. See Camb. _Jnl._

[69] Swarth. MSS. i. 76.

[70] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 27), close of first portion.

[71] At the end of her _Invitation of Love_.

[72] In the voluminous records of the cost of many religious journeys taken by the early Friends, there is no record of any money paid to Elizabeth Hooton. It may be that she met the cost of these extensive travels out of her own pocket. Bowden states that “she was in very sufficient circumstances” (_Hist._ i. 256).

[73] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 34).

[74] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 10).

[75] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 27), second portion.

[76] Seaborne Cotton was a son of John Cotton (1584-1652), the noted Puritan minister, of Boston. His wife was a daughter of Simon Bradstreet, sometime Governor of Massachusetts Colony. Cotton was minister of Hampton, and as such came into frequent conflict with Quakerism.

[77] The words within parentheses were added to the MS. by another hand.

[78] This was Eliakim Wardell, mentioned two lines below. His home was at Hampton. He was one of those who suffered for entertaining the Quaker travellers. His wife, Lydia, “being a young and tender and chaste Woman ... as a Sign to them, went in naked among them,” on which action Bishop comments: “This might be permitted as a stumbling-block, rather for their Hardening than Conversion, after they had rejected better Examples and Warnings” (_New England Judged_, p. 376).

[79] John Hussey and Rebecca his wife, _née_ Perkins, lived near the Wardells at Hampton.

[80] Captain William Hathorne was a Salem magistrate. His descendant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author (1804-1864), writes of him: “He was a bitter persecutor, as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories” (_The Custom House_, quoted in _Jnl. F.H.S._ xii). See BISHOP, _op. cit._; FELT, _Annals of Salem_, 1842.

[81] Benanuel Bower, of Cambridge, Mass., was originally a Baptist, but later his family and he became Friends. A correspondent quoted in _Friends’ Intelligencer_, 1887, p. 243 (copied into _The Friend_ (Phila.) for the same year), writes: “Thomas Danforth, who was the county treasurer and magistrate, whenever short of business, was in the habit of persecuting B. Bowers, and then he would enter it at full length upon the records” in the Court House in Cambridge.

[82] The correspondent referred to in the previous note copied the wording of the warrant as found in the public records of the Cambridge Court House, and it appears in the periodicals named in note [81]. He writes further: “There is this much to be said in the favor of the old Puritans, that they did not treat the Quakers any worse than they did their own members whom they accused of heresy, and in most cases they gave the victim the choice of paying a fine or taking a whipping. I found one case in which they gave a man a second whipping because he invited his friends to come and see him whipped the first time.”

[83] This phrase—“a Cage of uncleane birds”—quoted originally from the Bible—“Babylon is become ... a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,” Rev. xviii. 2, was frequently used by early Friends to describe their opponents. Francis Bugg (apostate Quaker) states that George Fox used it “about the year 1662” in reference to “the Church of England” (_Pilgrim’s Progress from Quakerism to Christianity_, 1698, p. 130).

[84] This is doubtless a reference to an early, undated quarto pamphlet, issued by Friends, entitled _Something concerning Agbarus, Prince of the Edesseans.... Also Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans.... As also how several scriptures are corrupted by the Translators_. Other editions, in octavo, were printed later in the century.

[85] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 59)

[86] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 43)

[87] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 62) The following is taken from the _Calendar of State Papers Colonial_, 1665, i. 292:

April 10, 1665.

From Captain Breedon’s House at Boston.

Col. George Cartwright to Col. Nicholls:

“This day, a Quaker (my country-woman) told me before Captain
Breedon, that she had heard several say yᵗ I was a Papist ...
and that Sir Robᵗ. Carr kept a naughty woman; I examined her if
I had not kept one too, or if she knew me not to be a Papist.”
E. Hooton writes: “They said that Cartwright, that was one of
the Comissionʳˢ, was a papist, or a Jesuit, but hee being my
Country man, J did vindicate him, and told them that J knew noe
such thinge” (MS. in =D.= Portfolio iii. 43).

[88] Ann Richardson was, by her first marriage, Ann Burden. After some years of married life in Mass., Thomas and Ann Burden returned to England, their native land, and settled at Bristol, where the husband died. His widow crossed the Atlantic again about 1657, and, with Mary Dyer, visited Mass., whence they were both banished. About 1665, as Ann Richardson, she again visited New England.

[89] Swarth. MSS. iii. 104.

[90] Swarth. MSS. iii. 101. Fox adds to the endorsement: “shee died in the trouth.”

[91] Jane Nicholson (d. 1712) was the wife of Joseph Nicholson, of Bootle, Lancs. They visited the New World in 1659, and again, for several years, they were in New England. See Camb. _Jnl._; _Household Account Book of Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor Hall_, 1915.

[92] John Endicott (c. 1588-1665), first Governor of New England, will go down to the end of time as the arch-opponent of New England Quakerism. See _Annals of Salem_, 1845, where there is a portrait; _Chronicle of the Pilgrim Fathers_; _Jnl. F.H.S._ xii.; etc.

[93] _Hist._ i. 259.

[94] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 36)

[95] _Hist._ under date 1662.

[96] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii, 63)

[97] The Nottingham and Mansfield Quarterly Meeting was long held at the house of Timothy Garland. Letters for Friends were at times addressed: “To be left at Timothy Garlands at the Green Dragon in Mansfeild.” (LOCKER-LAMPSON, _A Quaker Post-bag_, 1910, pp. 48, 51. See also THE JOURNAL, iv., v.)

[98] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 81) The difficulties and delays of travel on land and sea at this period are illustrated by another letter of Samuel Hooton, dated 4th of June, 1666, in which he tells us that the ship on which he sailed—“the royall exchang”—was “staying in the harbar at the Kows for the wind, how long i may staye I know not.” MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 82)

[99] Richard Bellingham (1592?-1672) was Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts from 1635, and Governor from 1665 to his death.

[100] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 80). The Journal appears in full in _The Friend_ (Phila.), lxxvii. (1904), 204.

[101] Patrick Livingstone (????-1694) was born at Angus in Scotland, and was convinced in the North of England in 1658. He travelled in the ministry with James Halliday (_F.P.T._ 201). In later years he lived in Nottingham and London. See _Jnl. F.H.S._ vii. 184.

[102] Given in his _Truth Owned_, 1667, pp. 6ff.

[103] Justice Matthew Babington lived at Rotherby, Leics. He was an ancestor of Lord Macaulay. Mary Radley states that he was the “Some Justice” addressed by E. Hooton (=D.= Portfolio iii. 6). He appears in Besse’s book of _Sufferings_ as a persecutor (i. 335).

[104] See _Jnl. F.H.S._ v. 140.

[105] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 33), dated “13ᵗʰ day of 6ᵗʰ Month 1667,” and endorsed: “El. Hooton to some Spirits who were gone out from yᵉ trueth.” At the close of the paper occur the names: “Eliza: Barnes & Rose Atkinson” (see Camb. _Jnl._).

[106] Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1697/8) and John Reeve (1608-1658) announced themselves the “two witnesses” of Rev. xi. 3. The sect of the Muggletonians was never very numerous, but it still exists, sharing with the Quakers the distinction of being the only survivals of those numerous religious bodies which sprang into existence during Commonwealth times.

[107] _A Volume of Spiritual Epistles written by John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton_, printed 1755, reprinted 1820, p. 227.

[108] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 67) This is printed at the end of addresses to the King, and to the King and both Houses of Parliament, by Thomas Taylor. The first is dated 1st of December, 1670.

[109] The Conventicle Act of 1664. For particulars of its working see _F.P.T._ 357.

[110] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 53)

[111] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 52)

[112] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 69)

[113] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 73)

[114] Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester (1602-1671), was Lord Chamberlain at this time, having been appointed in 1660 (_D.N.B._).

[115] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii, 11) It is endorsed: “To yᵉ Lᵈ Chamberlane for Release of Prisonᵉʳˢ & justice to her selfe.”

[116] Henry Grey (1599?-1673), created Earl of Stamford in 1628. (_D.N.B._) He was a Leicestershire nobleman. His son, John Grey, is mentioned later.

[117] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 47)

[118] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 17), endorsed: “To yᵉ Duke of York desiring an Answer to her former papers, & pressing for justice to her selfe.”

[119] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 44)

[120] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 57)

[121] William Dewsbury (1621-1688), Thomas Goodaire (????-1693), and Henry Jackson (????-1727), were prominent Friends of the early day. Dewsbury spent nigh twenty years of his life within prison walls.

Francis Howgill (1618-1668/9) was of Westmorland. He died in Appleby Jail. Thomas Taylor (c. 1617-1681/2), a Yorkshireman, spent long years in prison for conscience sake.

[122] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 56)

[123] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 55)

[124] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 60)

[125] The copy of this record is amongst the late Mary Radley’s notes, but the authority is not stated. The names of witnesses correspond with those given on the certificate obtained from Somerset House.

[126] It will be noticed that this letter is dated a month after the marriage had taken place. Possibly Elizabeth Hooton was travelling when the intention of marriage came before the Meeting, and it was thought well to record her letter of approval when it was obtained.

[127] See Turner, _Original Records_, 1911, i. 76, ii. 771, iii. 745.

[128] MSS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 1, 29)

[129] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 75), endorsed: “El. Hooton To yᵉ King & Councell on behalf of yᵉ innocent & Judge Fells Widdow.” Further mention of this dispute may be found in Maria Webb’s _Fells of Swarthmoor Hall_, 1865, pp. 255 ff. See also _Jnl. F.H.S._ xi. 181.

[130] Hannah Salter, as Hannah _Stringer_, the wife of John Stringer, of London, participated in the troubles associated with James Nayler in 1656, but repented thereof, and returned to the Quaker fold. In 1666 she married Henry Salter, of London.

[131] Swarth. MSS. i. 152, addressed: “Leaue this with Sarah ffell at Swarthmore ffor to be sent to her mother In Lancashire.” Endorsed by Fox.

[132] _The Arraignment of Popery_; being a short Collection, taken out of the Chronicles, and other Books, of the State of the Church in the Primitive Times; also the State of the Papists ... by George Fox and Ellis Hookes, 1667, a learned treatise of 140 pages.

[133] _Extracts from State Papers_, 1913, p. 341.

[134] _The Journal of George Fox_, bi-cent. ed. ii. 140. The other woman friend was Hannah Salter; see note to this name in Fox’s _Journal_, Camb. ed.

[135] Martha Fisher (c. 1631-1687) was a member of the valuable band of London women Friends active in work for the cause of Truth.

[136] Swarth. MSS. i. 83. The letter is addressed: “ffor Sarah ffell this at Swarthmore To be left wᵗʰ Thomas Green grocer in Lancaster,” and endorsed by Fox: “j rous to mff 1671 of patin of releas.”

[137] Henry Bennet, first Earl of Arlington (1618-1685), was Secretary of State 1662-1674, and Lord Chamberlain 1674 (_D.N.B._).

[138] Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701) was Clerk of the Council 1672, and afterwards, 1674, Secretary of State to Charles II. (_D.N.B._)

[139] Of the previous life of Elizabeth Miers we are yet in ignorance. Apparently she did not proceed further than Barbados, and returned home about 1672 (see WEBB, _Fells_, p. 278).

[140] The account of the voyage is given in detail in the _Journal of George Fox_, Camb. ed.

[141] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 25) The copyist of this address endorses it: “El. Hooton to yᵉ Rulers (J suppose) of Barbado’s.”

[142] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 32)

[143] James Lancaster (????-1699) was of Walney Island, Lancashire. He was one of Fox’s fellow-travellers to the Western World.

[144] MS. in =D.= The endorsement is in three hands—Fox writes: “a testemony of elesebeth hoton,” another adds: “before she dyed,” and a third: “by Ja: Lancaster.”

[145] _Journal_, Camb. ed. ii. 213.

[146] MS. in =D.= Not autograph.

[147] _My Birthday_, 1871.

[148] Joseph Oxley, _Journal_, under date 1771.

[149] Bishop, _op. cit._ p. 420.

[150] Besse, _Suff._ i. 553.

[151] _Ibid._ i. 333, 334.

[152] Camb. _Jnl._ ii, 15.

[153] Muggleton, _Spiritual Epistles_, pp. 78, 227.

[154] _Suff._ i. 555.

[155] This may be the same as Oliver 3, see page 84.

[156] T. Salthouse to M. Fell (Swarth. MSS. i. 103), and _Letters of Early Friends_, p. 165.

[157] Besse, _Suff._ ii. 290.

[158] _Relation of ... Alice Curwen_, 1680.

[159] Besse, _Suff._ ii. 313.

[160] A.R.B. MSS. 45.

[161] Besse, ii, 339.

Bibliography

WRITINGS BY ELIZABETH HOOTON

I.—In print:—

_False Prophets and False Teachers described_ [1652].

_To the King and both Houses of Parliament_ [1670].

_A Short Relation concerning William Simpson_, 1671.

II.—In manuscript:—

Hooton MSS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii.) 1653-1671.

This is a collection of seventy-nine MSS., one only, or at most two, in the handwriting of the Author, but all of contemporary date. They are, in the main, addresses to persons in authority or position—Cromwell, the Mayor of London, the Lord Chamberlain, the Bishops of London and Canterbury, the King and the Duke of York, Lieutenant Robinson of the Tower, various “priests” and magistrates, and others.

There is another MS. in =D.= (Portfolio i. 135), being an address respecting persecution in New England, unsigned, but doubtless by E. Hooton, though not in her handwriting.

Letter to the Mayor of Derby. 1650. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. ii.
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Letter to George Fox, 1651. In =D.= (A.R.B. MSS. 16.)

Letter to George Fox, 1653. In =D.= (A.R.B. MSS. 14.) See
photo. reproduction, page 12.

Letter to George Fox, n.d. In =D.= (A.R.B. MSS. 153.)

Letter to Margaret Fox, 1670. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i. 152.)

References to Elizabeth Hooton

I.—In print:—

GERARD CRŒSE, _The General History of the Quakers_, 1696, pt.
I, p. 37.

JOHN WHITING, _Truth and Innocency Defended_, 1702.

GEORGE BISHOP, _New England Judged_, 1703.

J. H. FEUSTKING, _Gynaeceum Haeretico Fanaticum_, 1704.

WILLIAM EDMONDSON, _Journal_, 1715.

WILLIAM SEWEL, _The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress
of the Christian People called Quakers_, 1722.

[WILLIAM GIBSON] _Saul’s Errand to Damascus_, 1728, p. 34.

JOSEPH BESSE, _Sufferings of the Quakers_, 2 vols., 1753.

JOHN GOUGH, _A History of the People called Quakers_, 4 vols.,
1789-1790, iii. 56.

WILLIAM HOGDSON, _Select Historical Memoirs of Friends_, 1844,
ch. xvii.

JAMES BOWDEN, _The History of the Society of Friends in
America_, 2 vols., 1850-1854, i. 225, 226, 255, 262.

BACKHOUSE, EDWARD & THOMAS J., and THOMAS MOUNSEY,
_Biographical Memoirs_, 1854.

_Calendar of State Papers Colonial._

SAMUEL M. JANNEY, _History of the Religious Society of
Friends_, 4 vols., 1859.

[JAMES BOURNE] _The “Friend” in his Family_, 1865, p. 7.

CHARLES EVANS, _Friends in the Seventeenth Century_, 1876.

ROBERT BARCLAY, _The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of
the Commonwealth_, 1876.

RICHARD P. HALLOWELL, _The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts_,
1887.

_Friends’ Almanac for 1887_ (Philadelphia).

_Friends’ Intelligencer and Journal_, xliv. (1887), 243.

BROOKS ADAMS, _The Emancipation of Massachusetts_, 1887.

_The Friend_ (Philadelphia), lx. (1887), 374.

GEORGE FOX, _Journal_, bicentenary edition, 2 vols., 1891.

AUGUSTUS CHARLES BICKLEY, _Elizabeth Hooten_, in _Dictionary of
National Biography_, 1891, xxvii. 308.

_The British Friend_, 1893, pp. 118, 196.

JOSEPH J. GREEN, _Souvenir of the Address to King Edward_,
1901, p. 28.

_The Journal of the Friends Historical Society_, from 1903, iv.
154; v. 12; vi. 17, 185; vii. 62.

_The Friend_ (Philadelphia), lxxvii. (1904), 205.

“_The First Publishers of Truth_,” edited by NORMAN PENNEY,
1907.

SUSAN WILLIAMS, _Elizabeth Hooton_, in _Quaker Biographies_,
ii. 1909.

GEORGE FOX, _Journal_, Cambridge edition, edited by NORMAN
PENNEY, 2 vols., 1911.

G. LYON TURNER, _Original Records of Early Nonconformity under
Persecution and Indulgence_, 3 vols., 1911-1914.

RUFUS M. JONES, _The Quakers in the American Colonies_, 1911.

WILLIAM C. BRAITHWAITE, _The Beginnings of Quakerism_, 1912.

_Extracts from State Papers relating to Friends_, edited by
NORMAN PENNEY, 1913.

MABEL R. BRAILSFORD, _Elizabeth Hooton, a Seventeenth Century
Elizabeth Fry_, in _Quaker Women_, 1915.

II.—In manuscript:—

THOMAS ALDAM to George Fox, 1652. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. iii.
36.)

THOMAS ALDAM, from York Castle, n.d. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i.
373.)

MARGARET KILLAM to George Fox, 1653. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i.
2.)

THOMAS SALTHOUSE to Margaret Fell, 1657. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS.
iii. 164.)

GEORGE FOX, Short Journal. In =D.=

JOAN BROCKSOPP to Margaret Fell, 1661. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i.
75.)

ANN CLAYTON to Margaret Fell, 1661. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i.
76.)

MARGARET FELL and others to the King and Council, 166-. In =D.=
(Spence MSS. iii. 116.)

ANN RICHARDSON to George Fox, 1664/5. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS.
iii. 101.)

LEONARD FELL to Margaret Fell, 1666. In =D.= (Gibson MSS. v.
247.)

THOMAS SALTHOUSE to Margaret Fell, 1668. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS.
i. 103.)

JOHN STUBBS to Elizabeth Hooton, 1670. In =D.= (A.R.B. MSS. 97.)

Sundry Ancient Manuscripts, 1671, p. 40. In =D.=

JAMES LANCASTER, Testimony concerning E. Hooton, 1672. In =D.=

EDWARD MAN to Margaret Fox, 1672. In =D.= (Swarth. MSS. i. 133.)

OLIVER HOOTON, Certificate concerning George Fox, 1686/7[?] In
=D.=

GEORGE FOX, Testimony concerning E. Hooton, 1690. In =D.=
(Portfolio xvi. 74.)

RADLEY MSS. In the possession of Francis E. Radley, of Gospel
End, Staffs.

Index

Aberdeen, 56.

Agbarus, 43n.

Aldam, Thomas, 7, n, 8, 10n, 12, 15, 77.

Allartown, 9n.

_America_, ship, 25.

Anabaptists, 4.

Angus, 55n.

Appleby, 63n.

Aquidneck, see Rhode Island.

Arlington, Lord, 69, n.

Askham, 3.

Atkins, Governor, 83.

Atkinson, ⸺, 78, 79.

Atkinson, Rose, 57n.

Austin, Anne, 21, n.

Aylesbury, 63.

Azores Islands, 70.

Babbington, Matthew, justice, 56, n, 60-62.

Balby, 13, n.

banishment, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 32, 44, 50n, 51, 53, 54, 63.

Baptists, 4, 41n.

Barbados, 21, 24, 26, 29n, 32, 33, 48, 49, 69n, 70-72, 83, 84.

Barclay, David, 57.

Barclay, Robert, 57.

Barke, Samuel, 75.

Barnby, 78, 84.

Barnes, Elizabeth, 57n.

Barradell, Thomas, 62.

Bayly, Mary, _form._ Fisher, _aft._ Cross, 7n.

Beckingham, 14, 78, 79.

Bellingham, Richard, governor, 43-45, 47, 54, n.

Bennet, Henry, see Arlington, Lord.

Bible, The, 43.

Billingsley, John, minister, 20n.

Bingham, John, 64.

Bingham, Robert, 3.

Birch, John, 83.

Black, William, 83.

Bootle, 50n.

Boston, Mass., 19, n, 21-26, 28-34, 36, 39, 40n, 42-44, 46, 49-51,
54, 79.

Bower, Benanuel, 41, n.

Brackney, Matthias, 81, 85.

Bradstreet, Simon, magistrate, 40n.

Breedon, Capt. Thomas, 27, 49n.

Bristol, 50n.

Brocke, James, 57, 58.

Brockshaw, Thomas, 13n.

Brocksopp, Joan, 30-34.

Brocksopp, Thomas, 30n, 64.

Brownley, Richard, 75.

Bugg, Francis, 42n.

Bullock, Noah, 7, 78.

Burden, Ann, _aft._ Richardson, 50n.

Burden, Thomas, 50n.

Burlington, N.J., 82, 83.

Burrough, Edward, 28, n.

“cage of unclean birds,” 42, n.

Callender, John, 19, n.

Cambridge, 11n, 13.

Cambridge, Mass., 26, 30, 40-42, 51, 79.

Carr, Sir Robert, commissioner, 46, 49n.

Carrier, Elizabeth, _aft._ Hooton, 2, 77.

Cartwright, George, commissioner, 46, 47, 49, n, 50.

Chapman, Rev. Francis, 3, n.

Charlestown, Mass., 41.

Charlestown, S.C., 7n.

Chatham, 64.

Chesterfield, 20n, 30n.

“Children of the Light,” 4.

chimney-money, 48.

Christison, Wenlock, 32n.

church, non-attendance at, 24, 40, 80.

churches, speaking in, 7, 13, 14, 49, 44, 79.

Clarke, Hannah, _form._ Scott, 21n.

Clarke, Robert, 62.

Clarke, Walter, governor, 21n.

Clay, Francis, 85, 86.

Clay, William, 64, 75.

Clayton, Ann, 33, n.

Cockram, George, 64, 81, 85.

Cockram, Thomas, 64.

Coleman, Sarah, 41-43.

Conventicle Act, 58, 59, n, 66.

conventicles, 3, 58.

Copeland, John, 29n.

Cornwall, 25.

Cotton, John, minister, 40n.

Cotton, Seaborne, priest, 40, n.

Cowes, I.W., 54n.

Cowland, Alice, 25.

Cowper, James, 3.

Craven, Robert, 15.

Cromwell, Notts, 20n.

Cromwell, Oliver, 10-12, 87.

Cross, Mary, _form._ Fisher and Bayly, 7n.

Curwen, Thomas and Alice, 83.

Danford, Thomas, magistrate, 40, 41, n.

Dartmouth, N.E., 25.

Davis, Nicholas, 24, n.

Deal, 69.

death sentence passed or proposed, 24-26, 31, 32, 34, 44, 49, 51.

Dedham, 41, 43, 44, 80.

Degge, Sir Simon, 78.

Derby, 6, 7, 78.

Derbyshire, 15.

Dewsbury, William, 63, n.

disownments, 8, 80-82.

Dixie, Beaumont, justice, 62.

Doncaster, 7n, 11n.

Dorchester, Mass., 79.

Dover, N.E., 40.

drink, 14, 15.

Dryden, John, 21n.

Dyer, Mary, 19, n, 24, 25, 50n.

Dyer, William, 19n.

Easton, Nicholas, 33n.

Edmondson, William, 80.

Ejected Ministers, 20n.

emigration, 19n, 50n, 82, 83, 85.

Endicott, John, governor, 28-31, 34, 43, 50, n, 86.

Evelyn, J., _Diary_, 64.

Evesham, N.J., 82.

_False Prophets_, 11, 17.

Farnsfield, 59.

Farnsworth, Richard, 57.

Farnsworth, Thomas, 81, 86.

Fell, George, 65, 66.

Fell, Hannah, 65-68.

Fell, Margaret, _aft._ Fox, 33, n, 65, 66n, 81n.

Fell, Sarah, 67n, 69n.

Fell, Thomas, judge, 33n, 66n.

Fifth Monarchists, 4.

Fisher, Martha, 68, n.

Fisher, Mary, _aft._ Bayly and Cross, 7, n, 8, 11, 21.

Fiskerton, 13n.

Foster, Thomas, 69.

Fowke, Thomas, 64.

Fox, George, 4-8n, 12, 13, 15, 29n, 33n, 42n, 50, 57, 65, 67-74, 77,
80, 83.

Fox, Margaret, _form._ Fell, 66, 68, 69.

Fretwell, John, 64.

Fry, Elizabeth, 14.

Furness, 65.

Gardner, Horred, 24n.

Garland, Timothy, 54, n, 62.

Generalists, 20.

Goggins, Daniel, magistrate, 40, 42, 43.

Goldsmith, Ralph, 29, n.

Goodaire, Thomas, 63, n.

Grace, Robert, 64, 81, 85, 86.

Greaseley, 20n.

Green, Thomas, 69n.

Grey, Henry (Earl of Stamford), 61, n, 62.

Grey, John, 61n, 62.

Halliday, James, 9, n, 10, 55n.

Hamilton, Governor, 83.

Hampton, Mass., 40n, 51.

Handsworth Woodhouse, 64.

Harby, 65.

Hassehurst, Robert, 64.

hat honour, 12, 24.

Hathorne, Capt. William, 40, n.

Hatter, Richard, 9.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 40n.

Heath, Elizabeth, 5, 16.

Hillborne, Elizabeth, _form._ Hooton, 82, 83.

Hillborne, Richard, 83.

Hillborne, Thomas, 82, 83.

Holder, Christopher, 21n, 29n.

Holder, Mary, _form._ Scott, 21n.

Holland, 54, 63, 64.

Holmes, Jane, 8, n, 11.

Hookes, Ellis, 67n.

Hooton, Elizabeth:
family name, 1.
birth (_c._ 1600), 1.
marriage, 2.
early religious associations, 4.
home at Ollerton (1633), 1.
removal to and residence at Skegby (_c._ 1636), 3, 16.
meeting with George Fox and convincement (1647), 4, 72.
in Derby prison (1651), 6.
in York Castle (1652-????), 7.
opposition and convincement of her husband, 4, 5.
meetings at her house, 5, 6.
imprisoned in Lincoln Castle (1654-5), 14.
assaulted by Priest Jackson, 17.
death of her husband (1657), 16.
enters New England (1661), 30.
return to England (1662), 33.
sets out again for New England, 39.
return again to England (1665-6), 53, 54.
marriage of son and daughter, 64, 80.
visits prisons, 35, 55.
correspondence _re_ Fell family, 65.
third visit to the New World (1671), 67.
illness and death (1672), 72, 73.
descendants, 80-86.
her printed writings, 11, 87.
financial condition, 34n.
numerous epistles, 35, 55, 60, 87.

Hooton, Elizabeth, _form._ Carrier, 2, 77.

Hooton, Elizabeth, _aft._ Lambert (daughter), 3, 39, 41-43, 64, 68,
82.

Hooton, Elizabeth, _aft._ Hillborne (granddaughter), 81, 82.

Hooton, Elizabeth, _form._ Smedley, 65, 80, 82-84.

Hooton, John (son), 3, 83, 85.

Hooton, Josiah (son), 3, 86.

Hooton, Martha, 84.

Hooton, Mary, _form._ Sharp, 84.

Hooton, Oliver, 2.

Hooton, Oliver (husband), 4, 5, 7, 8, 13n, 16, 77, 80.

Hooton, Oliver (son), 3, 4, n, 54, 73, 83.

Hooton, Oliver (grandson), 81, 84.

Hooton, Robert, 2.

Hooton, Samuel (son), 2, 35, 54, n, 57, 65, 75, 77, 80-84.

Hooton, Thomas (son), 3, 84.

Hopkinson, George, 75.

House, Nicholas, 62.

Howgill, Francis, 63, n.

Hubberthorne, Richard, 31n.

Hull, John, 70.

Hussey, John, 40, n.

Hussey, Rebecca, _form._ Perkins, 40n.

Hutchinson, Anne, 19-21.

Hyfield, Sarah, _aft._ Livingstone, 56.

Indians, 21, 45, 79, 82.

_Industry_, ship, 69.

Ipswich, Mass., 18.