[164] Kadelbach tells us of George Mattern, a teacher in Silesia, who inclined to the opinions of Schwenkfeld, and who migrated to Holland, and afterward to England, where he joined the Quakers. He wrote a letter with this expression: “Dear father, thou must not be surprised that I thee and thou thee. Dich. dutze.”
[165] This letter is dated 1875. It was late in 1873 that I heard of baptism as having been administered among them.
[166] I believe the paper is discontinued, 1882.
[167] I received permission to use the name of Mr. Mahony, the manufacturer. His brother wrote “The Bells of Shandon.” The other names used are substitutes.
[168] Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary, County Cork.
[169] One was erected a few years ago at Manchester, and I was told there that the Queen and Prince of Wales had not visited the town since.