Quaker miscellany of printed and manuscript material, notably sermons by Samuel Fothergill and autobiographical writings by Mary Penington.
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Quaker miscellany of printed and manuscript material, notably sermons by Samuel Fothergill and autobiographical writings by Mary Penington.
Classmark: MS 1690
Creator(s): Fothergill, Samuel (1715-1772)
Date(s): c.1769-1781
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 vol. (180 pp.), part printed, part manuscript.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8407
Collection group(s): Quaker Collection
Description
Comprises: (1) Samuel Fothergill: Sermon at York, 30 June 1769, pp.3-17 [Manuscript]; (2) Samuel Fothergill: Prayers at Leeds, 26 June 1769, pp. 17-20 [Manuscript]; (3) Samuel Fothergill: Sermon at Leeds, 26 June 1769, pp. 21-59 [Printed London, 1771]; (4) 'The Ancient testimony and principles of the people called Quakers renewed...', dated 20 January 1776, pp. 61-64 [Printed Philadelphia, 1776 and signed by John Pemberton, Clerk]; (5) Samuel Fothergill: Sermon preached at Horslydown, Southwark, London, 19 November 1769, pp. 65-84 [Printed Rhode-Island, London reprinted, 1781]; (6) Mary Penington: Some account of the Exercises of Mary Pennington addressed to her daughter, Gulielma Maria Penn; Also, a letter to her grandson, Springet Penn, written about the year 1680 and left to be delivered to him after her decease, pp. 85-140 and 140-179. On pp. 179-180 there is a note by the writer of the manuscript, signed 'J.S.' (?), describing how he came to copy the preceding two items. Page 1
consists of a summary contents page written in the same hand as the main manuscript text. Modern textual and bibliographical notes by Russell Mortimer are kept with the volume.
The manuscript sections appear to have been written in a single neat late 18th-century hand. There is continuous modern pencil pagination. Bound in boards with a worn leather spine. On the inside of the front cover there is a note of ownership which reads 'James Blakes. Leeds - owner', while on the verso of the flyleaf there is a further faint pencil note of ownership in a different hand which includes the name 'John Poole' and the date '1932', the intervening words being virtually illegible.
Biography or history
Samuel Fothergill (1715-1772), the Quaker preacher. For a fuller account of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography. Mary Penington was the daughter of Sir John Proude of Kent. When young she married Sir William Springett (d. 1644); their daughter Gulielma married William Penn. In 1654 Mary Penington married the prominent Quaker writer, Isaac Penington. She died in 1682.
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