Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volumes 11-12Friends Historical Association, 1922 |
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Page 46 - From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot. obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it.
Page 69 - That all prisons shall be work-houses, for felons, vagrants, and loose and idle persons ; whereof one shall be in every county.
Page 5 - Mayming, at the Complaint of the said Father and Mother, and not otherwise, they being Sufficient witnesses thereof, that Child or those Children so offending shall be put to Death.
Page 88 - The dear \ old folks, most of whom are dead by this time, may have spoken to their children a good deal about plainness. It is still noticeable in the clothes except that the material is very costly, or is even velvet. Anything may be had at Philadelphia, but everything is twice as dear. A bottle of Cologne water of 15 Pfennig is here 5 Groschen, an ivory comb 1 Groschen [Florin?], a dozen brass buttons, which cost 5, 6, -7 Kreutzer with you, 6-10 Groschen. The wholesale trade is very brisk on account...
Page 76 - What a spectacle must this abode of guilt and wretchedness have presented, when in one common herd were kept by day and night prisoners of all ages, colors and sexes ! No separation was made of the most flagrant offender and convict, from the prisoner who might, perhaps, be falsely suspected of some trifling misdemeanor; none of the old and hardened culprits from the youthful, trembling novice in crime...
Page 11 - Quaker prejudice against games and theaters appears in the decree that " whosoever shall introduce into this province, or frequent such rude and riotous sports and practices as prizes, stage-plays, masques, revels, bull-baitings, and such like " shall be regarded as peace breakers, to be fined at least twenty shillings or to suffer ten days
Page 80 - The house twenty feet long and fourteen feet wide in the clear, two stories high, — the upper seven feet, and the under six and a half feet, of which four feet under ground, with all convenient lights and doors, and casements — strong and substantial, with good brick, lime, sand and stone, as also floors and roofs very substantial ; a partition of brick in the middle through the house, so that there will be four rooms, four chimneys, and the cock-loft, which will serve for a prison ; and the...
Page 76 - ... trembling novice in crime; none even of the fraudulent swindler from the unfortunate and possibly the most estimable debtor; and when intermingled with all these, in one corrupt and corrupting assemblage were to be found the disgusting object of popular contempt, besmeared with filth from the pillory — the unhappy victim of the lash, streaming with blood from the whipping post — the half naked vagrant — the loathsome drunkard — the sick, suffering from various bodily pains, and too often...
Page 20 - Dear Mother — after my dear love to thee and to my Brother and Sisters and to all my relations and well wishers, these comes to let you understand that I am well at present, hoping these few lines may find you all in good health also, and I have had my health reasonably ever since I came into the country; but at first being a little weakly at the first; I was then with James Haworth, and then I hired myself for a year and had about...
Page 15 - The list included the various degrees of treason, murder, manslaughter by stabbing, serious maiming, highway robbery, burglary, arson, sodomy, buggery, rape, concealing the death of a bastard child, advising the killing of such a child, and witchcraft.