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Miscellaneous extracts in verse and prose, including transcripts of letters, relating mainly to the Quakers. They include Remarkable Occurrences of John Crook [1616/7-1699], author of An Apology for the Quakers, 1662; Some Account of George Fox's [1624-1691] Funeral by Robert Barrow, 1691; letters from Samuel Fothergill (1715-1772), 1761, 1773, etc.; an epistle from the monthly meeting of Friends held at Merion in the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania to Friends in Wales, 11 March 1699; a copy of a letter from William Penn (1644-1718) to Margaret Fox (1614-1702), 1677; etc.

A journal of John Griffith (1713-1776) of co. Radnor and Pennsylvania, Quaker, recording his voyage from America to England, 1747-1748 (ff. 2-13, 67v); his itinerary of England and Wales, visiting Quaker meetings and including a visit to his mother in co. Radnor, 1748-1750 (ff. 14-35); his return voyage to America, 1750 (ff. 55-62v, 35v-7v); his second voyage to England, 1750 (ff. 38-54); and personal memoranda (ff. 63v-7, 68r-v). The writer describes his detention at Bayonne (f. 7r-v) and Dax in France in December 1747, his ship having been seized by a French privateer off San Sebastian, and comments upon the superstitions and religious customs of the inhabitants (ff. 7v-11v). Much of the contents of the manuscript was later used in his autobiography, A journal of the life, travels, and labours ... of John Griffith (London, 1779).