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.