[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.”