Year
1670
Sender Place
Lancaster Castle; Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Receiver
Ralph Pemberton
Receiver Place
n.p.
Repository holding original letter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Full Date
1670-05-11
Document Type
Transcription
Country, State, Location 1
54.04981, -2.80562
Keywords
Phineas Pemberton, Lancaster Castle, Lancaster, Ralph Pemberton, Francis Dunn, Margaret Fell, Quakers, Society of Friends, Imprisonment, Persecution, Gaols, Jails
Abstract
Letter dated May 11, 1670 (May 1, 1670 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his father, Ralph Pemberton. He tells his father about his recent imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, that he does not know when he will come home, and being met with treatment "something harsh & cruel." Despite being told to not attend a meeting in town, Phineas intends to hold a meeting with two fellow Friends imprisoned alongside him, Margaret Fell and Francis Dunn: Initially, they were to be tried at a court session on the second Tuesday after Easter, but lack of judges postponed the trial until the 10th day of this month (May 20 New Style). It is accompanied by a facsimilie written by Caroline Pemberton.
Transcription
Lo: fa [Loving father]
my duty to you remembered this is to acquaite [acquaint] you yt [that] I
am in good health & [and] hath [have] gotten a place in ye [the] castel [castle]
& [and] a bed & [and] I hope wee [we] shall do well & [and] at present
I do not understand yt [that] wee [we] or any of us shall have
our liberty ^to come home^ for the [they] are somthing [something] harsh & [and] cruel
at present & [and] hath [have] [page crease: given] us a charge yt [that] none
shall go to any [page crease: meeting] in the towne [town] but wee [we]
intend to have our meeting in the castel [castle] for
francis Dunn & [and] margret: fell [Margaret Fell] are both prisoners
I have here sent you a coppy [copy] where by [whereby] they
comitt [commit] us to prison which I writ out preston [wrote out at present] but
I could not send it away; there is a sessions
to be kept the 10th day of this month & [and] whether [page tear]
the [they] will let do any thing [anything] with us then or [page tear: not?]
I can not [cannot] tell the sessions was dismissed for [page tear]
want of justises [justices] or ells [else] it should have beene [been]
the [they] send tusday [Tuesday] after easter so with my deare [dear]
love to ant [aunt] & [and] the [page crease] rest of freinds [friends] in general
I rest your dutyful [dutiful] son
phine: pemberton [Phineas Pemberton]
La: castel [Lancaster Castle]
may ye [the] 1 day
1670
HSP DAMS ID
15742
Language
english
Type
article
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions
Citation
Phineas Pemberton, Lancaster Castle; Lancaster, Lancashire, England, to Ralph Pemberton, n.p., 1670-05-11, vol. 1, pg. 29, Pemberton Family Papers, 1641-1880, 0484A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PRINT, 15742, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton/14/.
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