[540] Crosby, iv. 330.
[541] Sewell, ii. 370, 448. The early meeting has been since fixed for the month of May.
[542] “Forasmuch,” it is recorded in the minutes of Quaker Meetings in Worcester (1695), “as it hath been the good advice of our friends of the yearly meeting that friends shall in all plainness so habit themselves as truth requires, and to lay aside those flowered and striped stuffs, with the changeable fashions of this world, it is thought meet by this meeting, that what in us lies it may be put for the future into practice, and that none do wear them or sell them, when those by them are disposed of; also that friends take care to train up their children in the fear of the Lord, and bring them up not only in plainness of habit, but take care to bring them up in plain language also, that there may be no good Nehemiah grieved to hear half Hebrew and half Ashdod spoken.” Complaint is made of sleeping at public meeting. Those so overtaken were informed, “they must be openly dealt with, if a more private admonition will not do.”—Extracted from records preserved by the Society of Friends at Worcester.
[543] Miscellanies. Compare pp. 326 and 340 with 334.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. The words Yeomansee Indians could be a error for Yamassee or Yemassee.
3. The corrigenda have been silently corrected.
4. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.