[89] Swarth. MSS. iii. 104.
[90] Swarth. MSS. iii. 101. Fox adds to the endorsement: “shee died in the trouth.”
[91] Jane Nicholson (d. 1712) was the wife of Joseph Nicholson, of Bootle, Lancs. They visited the New World in 1659, and again, for several years, they were in New England. See Camb. Jnl.; Household Account Book of Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor Hall, 1915.
[92] John Endicott (c. 1588-1665), first Governor of New England, will go down to the end of time as the arch-opponent of New England Quakerism. See Annals of Salem, 1845, where there is a portrait; Chronicle of the Pilgrim Fathers; Jnl. F.H.S. xii.; etc.
[93] Hist. i. 259.
[94] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 36)
[95] Hist. under date 1662.
[96] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii, 63)
[97] The Nottingham and Mansfield Quarterly Meeting was long held at the house of Timothy Garland. Letters for Friends were at times addressed: “To be left at Timothy Garlands at the Green Dragon in Mansfeild.” (Locker-Lampson, A Quaker Post-bag, 1910, pp. 48, 51. See also The Journal, iv., v.)
[98] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 81) The difficulties and delays of travel on land and sea at this period are illustrated by another letter of Samuel Hooton, dated 4th of June, 1666, in which he tells us that the ship on which he sailed—“the royall exchang”—was “staying in the harbar at the Kows for the wind, how long i may staye I know not.” MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 82)