8 W. Pearson Thistlethwaite, ed., Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting (privately published, Harrogate, 1979), 160; These requests were not always granted. When Robert Thompson asked for help in 1683, the Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting decided that it was “not free to yield him any assistance upon that accompt to further his transportation … but rather desires him to rest contented in his own country”; but recognizing his poverty, it gave him one pound. Ibid., 160.

9 Chester Quarterly Meeting Records, 1699, EFC 1/1, CHESRO.

10 Hoskins, “The Life of That Faithful Servant,” I, 461.

11 Mary Penington Abstract, md., n.d., HAV.