Illustrations

Skegby Village prior to 1897[Frontispiece.]
Photograph by the Sherwood Photographic Co., Mansfield.
The tall house on the extreme left of the picture is standing to-day. It was the property of the Society of Friends until 1800, when it was sold, with the adjoining Burial Ground, now a garden, the proceeds going towards the re-building of the Meeting House at Mansfield. The house is considered by some to have been the home of Elizabeth Hooton. It is probably of seventeenth century construction.
Letter from Elizabeth Hooton to George Fox, 1653 [?][12]
Photograph by Henry G. Summerhayes.
This is probably an autograph letter. It is endorsed by Fox: “e houton to gff 1655.”
Beckingham Church[14]
Photograph by Rachel L. Manners.
The village of Beckingham is about five miles south of Newark-on-Trent. The church has a fine Norman porch and the churchyard is remarkable, being the shape of a coffin.
Heading of the Tract “False Teachers,” etc.[17]
Photograph by Humphrey L. Penney from the original. See p. [11].
Signature of John Endicott[34]
Photograph by Walter J. Hutchins from a facsimile in Annals of Salem.
Endorsement by George Fox[52]
Photograph by W. J. Hutchins from an early copy of a letter from Elizabeth Hooton to Oliver Cromwell. See p. [10].
A Portion of a Page of the Earliest Minute Book of Nottinghamshire Quarterly Meeting[75]
Photograph by Sherwood Photographic Co., Mansfield, from the original. See p. [81].
Lincoln Castle Gateway[78]
Original drawing by Ethel Barringer.
This, with some fragments of the old wall, and a small, strongly-built structure, supposed to have been a dungeon and known as Cobb’s Hall, is all that remains of the old Castle. The area of the fortress is now occupied by the County Hall and a building now disused, which was the County Gaol.