A Book of Quaker SaintsHodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
Religion
A Book of Quaker Saints
Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
Society of Friends
This is a purely imaginary story, written for a ten-year-old listener
who begged for 'more of a story about him when he was young.' The
connection of a member of the Purefoy family with the 'Great Lady of
Beverley' has no foundation in fact. On visiting Fenny Drayton, since
writing the story, I find, however, that there were a brother and
sister Edward and Joyce Purefoy, who lived a few years earlier than
the date of this tale. They may still be seen in marble on a tomb in
the North Aisle with their father, the Colonel Purefoy of that day,
who does wear a ruff as described in the story. It is not impossible
that the Colonel Purefoy of George Fox's Journal may also have had a
son and daughter of the same names as described in my account, but I
have no warrant for supposing this and am anxious that this imaginary
tale should not be supposed to possess the same kind of authenticity
as most of the other stories. Priest Stephens' remark about George
Fox, and the scenes in Beverley Minster and at Justice Hotham's house,
are, however, historical.
'TAMING THE TIGER.'
Historical. See George Fox's Journal (Ellwood Edition), pp. 27, 28,
31-48, 335, for the different incidents.
'THE MAN IN LEATHER BREECHES.'
Expanded, with imaginary incidents and consequences, from a few
paragraphs in George Fox's Journal, i. 20.
'THE SHEPHERD OF PENDLE HILL.'
Expanded from George Fox's Journal, i. 40.
N.B.--The Shepherd, who is the speaker, is a wholly imaginary person.
'THE PEOPLE IN WHITE RAIMENT' and 'A WONDERFUL FORTNIGHT.'
Historical. Taken from various sources, chiefly George Fox's Journal,
vol. i. pp. 40-44, and two unpublished papers by Ernest E. Taylor,
describing the lives and homes of the Westmorland Seekers: 'A Great
People to be Gathered' and 'Faithful Servants of God.' See also his
'Cameos from the Life of George Fox,' Sewel's 'History of the
Quakers,' and 'Beginnings of Quakerism,' by W.C. Braithwaite.
'UNDER THE YEW-TREES.'
Expanded from George Fox's Journal, i. 47, 48, 52. The conversation
among the girls is of course imaginary, but many details are taken
from 'Margaret Fox of Swarthmoor Hall,' by Helen G. Crosfield, a most
helpful book that has been constantly used in all these stories about
Swarthmoor.
'BEWITCHED!'
Historical. See Sewel's History, i. 106. George Fox's Journal, i. 51.
'Testimony of Margaret Fox' (Ellwood Edition of above, p. xliv).
'Margaret Fox of Swarthmoor Hall,' p. 15. Also 'England under the
Stuarts,' by G.M. Trevelyan (for Witchcraft).
'THE JUDGE'S RETURN.'
Historical. See 'Testimony of Margaret Fox' (Ellwood Edition of G.
Fox's Journal), p. xlv. Sewel's History, i. 106.
'STRIKE AGAIN!'
Historical. See George Fox's Journal, i. 57-59. Sewel's History, i.
111-112.
'MAGNANIMITY.'
Historical. See George Fox's Journal, i. 59-61. Sewel's History, i.
113-114.
'MILES HALHEAD AND THE HAUGHTY LADY.'
Historical. See Sewel's History, i. 129-131, and George Fox's Journal,
i. 53, 56, for George Fox's sermon.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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