Year
1688
Alternative Title
John Rous's letter to George Fox, 12 March 1688
Sender Place
Marsh Grange, England
Receiver
George Fox
Receiver Place
London, England
Repository holding original letter
Library of the Society of Friends
Full Date
1688-03-12
Document Type
Correspondence
Country, State, Location 1
54.2072, -3.19599999999999
Country, State, Location 2
51.507407, -0.12772404
Keywords
Robinson, Thomas
Subject - Person (Linked Data)
Fell, Margaret, 1614-1702 [LC]
Fell, Margaret, 1614-1702 [VIAF]
Margaret Fell (Q524860) [Wikidata]
Fell, Leonard, 1624-1700 or 1701 [LC]
Fell, Leonard, 1624-1700 or 1701 [VIAF]
Leonard Fell (Q6525285) [Wikidata]
Dickinson, James, 1658-1741 [LC]
Dickinson, James, 1658-1741 [VIAF]
James Dickinson (Q18576377) [Wikidata]
Thomas Lower (Q18577086) [Wikidata]
Mary Fell (Q134878893) [Wikidata]
Subjects
Fell family; Society of Friends; Quakers; Religious communities; Religious minorities
Subject - Place (Linked Data)
Genre
Correspondence
Abstract
Correspondence, dated March 12, 1688 (12 1mo. 1688 Quaker Style), from John Rous, to George Fox
PRINT ID
LSF_ARBarclay_MS_Vol323_080
Language
english
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: AR Barclay Collection
Type
Correspondence; Text
Transcription
[page 1] Dear ffather [Father] while thou [you] was at Kingston I doe [do] not question but my wife ^gave^ thee [you] an acct [account] of my travels I writing to her every weeke [week], & [and] this is to acquaint ^thee^ of our travels since, Leonard ffell [Leonard Fell] being much taken up about the lease land, & [and] an expectation of buying corne [corn] for severall [several] at London he could not goe [go] with me as I expected, soe [so] Joseph Nichol son [Joseph Nicholson] & [and] I went to Sedber [Sedburgh] meeting the 22d [22nd] of the 11th/moth [January 22] wch [which] was a very large & [and] full meeting & Met Tho: Robbinson [Thomas Robinson] there & [and] at night we parted & [and] had two very good evening [deletion]meeting[/deletion] meetings where many people of the world were, & [and] ye [the] 23d [23rd] we had a very good Meeting at Grayrigge [Grayrigg] & [and] the 24th at Kendall where was James Moore & [and] another of the seperates [separates], with Wm. [William] I had a great deale [deal] of discours [discourse] after the meeting but they are hardened in opposition to truth, on ye [the] 25th day we had a meeting at [Carnes Gill?] & on the 26th day we returned to Swarthmore. And on the 8th day we went to Hauxside [Hawkshead] & [and] on the 29th had a very large & [and] blessed meeting there, & [and] on ye [the] first of the 12th/moth [February 12] we had a meeting at Keswick, & [and] on the 2d [2nd] day at Pardsay cragge [Pardsay Cragg] & [and] on the 3d day a day meeting at west end & [and] in the evening a very large meeting at white haven [Whitehaven], where were abundance of people of the world & [and] had been a very good & [and] servicable [serviceable] meeting had not some rude [deletion]men[/deletion] seamen made a disturbance, & [and] on ^ye [the]^ fifth day had a very large meeting at Pardsey cragge [Pardsey Cragg?] & [and] had an evening meeting at Cockermouth, & [and] on 7th day had a large [deletion]meeting[/deletion] ^evening^ meeting at ^Broughton [?] & ye [the] 8th at^ Holme, & [and] on the 9th day had a very large & [and] precious meeting at [Murris?] neer [near] the widdow [widow] [Stordies?] & [and] from ^thence^ we went to Carlile [Carlisle] & soe [so] to Newcas cas [Newcastle] :tle [Newcastle] where we met with John Bowren John Langhorne & [and] Robert Wardall, & [and] John Carlile & [and] John Bowsted went wth [with] us & [and] on the 12th day had two very large & [and] blessed meetings there [deletion]a[/deletion] & [and] on the 13th was their Monthly meeting, where a long diffe rence [difference] among the glasse [glass] makers was referred to freinds [friends] that were strangers, wch [which] made an end of after neer [near] two daies [days] spent in hearing all parties & [and] I hope they will have have a care of falling into the like for the future; on the 14th Joseph [Joseph Bowsed] & [and] John Bowsed went to a meet [meeting] :ing [meeting] at Sheilds [Shields], while I with some of other freinds [friends] stayed to make an end of the difference, on the 15th we had an even [evening] :ing [evening] meeting at Sunderland & [and] on the 16th at Durham & on the 17th we came to the monthly meeting at Stockton where we heard the whole proceedings of freinds [friends] with Richard Watson, & [and] a paper was read wch [which] he sent to ye [the] meeting to condemne [condemn] he ye [the] extravagancies [extravagance] in trade & [and] breaking wch [which] seemed a fine smooth thing at the first reading of it, but wch [which] freinds [friends] came to inspect narrowly into it, they found it much short of [deletion][a...]ing[/deletion] ^[...earing]^ the reproach he had brought Marsh Grange ye [the] 12th of ye [the] 1st/moth [March 12] 1688 upon truth [page 2] And soe [so] it was returned him again, I find freinds [friends] in those parts have had a very great respect for him, & [and] have yet many of them I fear beyond his deserts for divers [diverse] of them are yet apt to speake [speak] very favourably of him, but by reason of the influ ence [influence] he had upon many he hath [has] made a great spoilt [sport] among many poor freinds [friends], for if he knew of any that had mony [money] he go it from them, & [and] among the rest he got 50 [pounds] from my sister yeomans [Yeomen?], & [and] he bought the house ^he lives in^ of young man yt [that] was an apprentice & [and] gave him 5 [pounds] in hand & [and] his bond & [and] iudgment [judgement] to pay him 200 [pounds] when he was out of his time, wch [which] the young man depended on as a stock to set up with, but now he is out of his time is quite at a losse [loss] , & [and] Richard hath [has] morgaged [mortgaged] the house to another man for mony [money] borrowed of him I hear the weeke [week] before he broake [broke] he was [deletion][...][/deletion] ^at Durham^ [deletion][...][/deletion] & [and] spoake [spoke] very much in the meeting, & [and] spoake [spoke] after he came home very much of the service he had there, but when the news ca [came] to Durham of his being broake [broke] people very much refle ted [reflected] upon freinds [friends] & soe [so] farre [far] as I hear Edw: Haistwell [Edward Haistwell] & [and] Nath: Wilmer [Nathaniel Wilmer] are like to loose [lose] a great deale [deal] by him, [deletion][...][/deletion] ^we^ there ^again^ met with John Bowren John Lanstaffe [John Langstaff?] & Robt Wardall [Robert Wardall] & [and] Robt Lodge [Robert Lodge] came thither the day before, on the 19th we had two large meetings ^there^ & [and] on the 21st we had a very large meet ing [meeting] at Gisborough [Guisborough] in Cleaveland [Cleveland] where was the lady Chaloner & [and] three of her sisters & [and] many more people of the world, it was a very blessed meeting, & [and] on the 22d [22nd] I went to see Willm Pens [William Penn's] sister & [and] her husband who were both well & [and] very loving & [and] at night we had a very large meeting [at] whitbey [Whitby], & [and] on the 23d [23rd] at Scarborough, & [and] on the 24th as we were going to Burlington we met James Dickenson who had been there, & [and] was going to Scarborough, at Bur lington [Burlington] we had a large meeting in the evening, where we [were] divers [diverse] presbiterians [Presbyterians] who were very much affected & [and] ear nestly [earnestly] desired our stay on first day, & [and] freinds [friends] being very earnest with us though we had intended for Yoork [York], we stayed & [and] on the 25th day had an evening meeting at Bur lington [Burlington] key [quay?] where were many professours, [professors], & [and] on the 26 being first day wee [we] had two very large meetings where were many professors & [and] other people of the world, to whom we cleared our consciences & [and] leave the Issue to the Lord, on the 27th we came to Yorke [York], & [and] had a large meeting there on ye [the] 28th day, where I got a very grevious [grievous] cold that hath [has] made me very hoarse every [ever] since, & [and] on the 3d [3rd] instant we came to Swarthmore where we found them all very well, & [and] freinds [friends] are very diligent in providing ma terials [materials] to build the meeting house; next 6th day come a weeke [week] Joseph & [and] I thinke [think] to have a meeting at Yealand & [and] on first day after at Lancaster & [and] soe [so] thinke [think] ^to^ passe [pass] south ward [southward] visiting freinds [friends], & [and] knowing that it is thy [your] desire to hear of the prosperitie [prosperity] of truth, I thought it my duty to give thee [you] an acct [account] of out [our] travels hitherto, wch [which] if thou [you] [...] it a conveniencie [convenience] I desire to wilt let my brother & [and] sister ^[...]^ & [and] with the remembrance of my dear love to thee [you] my brother & [and] sister meade [Mead?] Ben: Antrobus [Benjamin Antrobus] & [and] his wife I rest many freinds [friends] where we came inquired after thee, to wm [William] I remembred [remembered] thy [your] dear love, & [and] they desired to have their dear love remembred [remembered] to thee [you] if thou [you] please let Grace Watson know we were at Staneforth [Stainforth] & [and] her father & [and] mother & [and] sister were all pretty well, only her mother is something crazy Thy [Your] dear son in the truth John Rous [page 3] my brother & [and] sister [Low...] are well with their children & [and] remember their dear love to [....], he hath [has] recd [received] thy [your] letter but cannot as yet answer it for want of having the acct [account] from Swarthmore, wch [which] wilbe [will be] as soon as possible may be. [page 4] ffor [For] my dear ffather [Father] George ffox [George Fox] This To be left wth [with] Beniamen Antrobus [Benjamin Antrobus] at ye [the] plough & [and] harrow in cheap side [Cheapside] in London. for [...] [Ro...] [L...] to G:ff: [George Fox] from [M...] Grange 12: 1st/mo: [March 12]: 87/8 mo: [...] R Richardson may Read this in the Morning Meeting
Creator (Linked Data)
Rous, John, -1695 [LC]
Rous, John, -1695 [VIAF]
John Rous (Q18810890) [Wikidata]
Sender Place (Linked data)
Citation
John Rous to George Fox, 12 March 1688, AR Barclay Collection, MS Vol. 323, 80, Library of the Society of Friends, London, PRINT, LSF_ARBarclay_MS_Vol323_080 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-arbarclayvol-323/78
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