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[Illustration: LOIS AND HER NURSE]

A BOOK OF QUAKER SAINTS

by

L. V. HODGKIN
(Mrs. John Holdsworth)

Illustrated By F. Cayley-Robinson, A.R.A.

MacMillan and Co., Limited
St. Martin's Street, London
1922
Copyright
First Edition 1917 Reprinted 1918
Transferred to Macmillan & Co. and reprinted 1922
Printed in Great Britain

DEDICATED
TO THE
CHILDREN
OF THE
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
AND TO THE
GRANDCHILDREN
OF
THOMAS HODGKIN

PREFACE

The following stories are intended for children of various ages. The
introductory chapter, 'A Talk about Saints,' and the stories marked
with an asterisk in the Table of Contents, were written first for an
eager listener of nine years old. But as the book has grown longer the
age of its readers has grown older for two reasons:

_First:_ because it was necessary to take for granted some knowledge
of the course of English History at the period of the Civil Wars. To
have re-told the story of the contest between King and Parliament,
leading up to the execution of Charles the First and the Protectorate
of Oliver Cromwell, would have taken up much of the fresh, undivided
attention that I was anxious to focus upon the lives and doings of
these 'Quaker Saints.' I have therefore presupposed a certain
familiarity with the chief actors and parties, and an understanding of
such names as Cavalier, Roundhead, Presbyterian, Independent, etc.;
but I have tried to explain any obsolete words, or those of which the
meaning has altered in the two and a half centuries that have elapsed
since the great struggle.

_Secondly_: because the stories of the persecutions of the Early
Friends are too harrowing for younger children. Even a very much
softened and milder version was met with the repeated request: 'Do,
please, skip this part and make it come happy quickly.' I have
preferred, therefore, to write for older boys and girls who will wish
for a true account of suffering bravely borne; though without undue
insistence on the physical side. For to tell the stories of these
lives without the terrible, gl