OF

THE EARLY FRIENDS

IN

SURREY AND SUSSEX

FROM

THE ORIGINAL MINUTE-BOOKS AND OTHER SOURCES.

COMPILED AND EDITED BY THOS. W. MARSH.

CONCLUDING CHAPTER BY ANNE W. MARSH.

With Nine Plates.

LONDON:

S. HARRIS & CO., 5, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT.

PREFACE.

THE extracts which appear in the following pages, so far as they are made from Monthly Meeting minute-books, relate to the area of country comprised within the present limits of Dorking, Horsham, and Guildford Monthly Meeting, with the sanction of which Meeting they are printed; but no further responsibility attaches to the Meeting in connection with this publication. A few matters outside this limit are also briefly alluded to.

It may be stated, that there is in the safe at Dorking Meetinghouse a complete series of minutes of the Monthly Meeting of Dorking, Reigate, and Capel, from the year 1668 to 1814, at which time a junction was effected with the Monthly Meeting of Horsham. The records of Horsham Monthly Meeting are also complete for the same period, and for Guildford Monthly Meeting they extend from 1668 to 1841, when the three Monthly Meetings were united under the present appellation of Dorking, Horsham, and Guildford Monthly Meeting, the minutes of which have of course been preserved; so