By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 885 
Stevens, Esq. of Frankleigh, and their only daughter and heiress 
became, in 1779, the wife of Samuel Bailward, Esq. of Horsington, 
a name still well known and as well respected in the parish of 
Bradford-on-Avon. 
Tue ‘Cam’ Famity. 
The earliest member of the ‘Cam’ family of whom we have found 
any account was ‘John Cam,’ of Camsgill in the barony of Kendal, 
in Westmoreland. His name is very conspicuous in the early 
history of the Society of Friends." He travelled in the west of 
England and was greatly persecuted at Bristol in 1654. 
Early in the following century we meet with the name in Brad- 
ford-on Avon. A little later we have Samuret Cam, a leading 
clothier and active Magistrate, residing at Chantry House, of which 
by purchase from the representatives of Edward Thresher (who 
died 1741), he had become the proprietor... For many years he 
oceupied a very prominent position in our town, and together with 
several whose names have been already mentioned, and others whose 
names are not yet forgotten,—such as Bethel,—Clutterbuck,— 
Tugwell,—Hillier,—Attwood,—Shrapnell,—and Bush,—helped to 
raise Bradford-on-Avon to a high pitch of commercial prosperity. 
One of his daughters married Benjamin Hobhouse, Barrister-at- 
Law, who was afterwards created a Baronet, and resided for some 
years at Cottles. Their eldest son ‘John Cam,’ who was born in 
the year 1786, succeeded his father in the Baronetcy in the year 
1831. He distinguished himself in early life at the University of 
‘The Quakers were at one time a numerous and influential body in Bradford, 
Their first meeting-house seems to have been at Cumberwell (or rather, Frank- 
ley) now converted into a School. They afterwards (1710) built one in the 
court leading out of St. Margaret Street, and this, long disused by them, has 
been oceupied for some years past as a British School. Many notices of inter- 
ment in the ‘‘ Cumberwell burial-ground” (especially in the year 1701) are to 
be seen in the Parish Register. In the year 1660 an attack was made upon 
them at Cumberwell, and one Robert Storr sent, for being concerned in it, as a 
prisoner to Sarum. John Clark, a Bradford Quaker, held, in 1695, a public 
disputation with a member of another section of non-conformists at Melksham, 
on the premises of Thomas Bevan. William Penn was in the chair as moderator, 
and, after the trial of skill had gone on for some time, closed the proceedings, 
Amongst the Quakers of Bradford-on-Avon too is to be reckoned ‘Joseph Yer- 
bury,’ who lived at Well-close. 
