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and the wliolo prison to be laid over with l)eiims close together, 

 and planked on the top of them." Provision was also made for 

 a pair of stocks and a whipping-post; all to be at the county's 

 charge. 



The Justices appoint "four substantial Freeholders," as As- 

 sessors to assist them in levying the necessary taxes; but the 

 duty now performed by Assessors was then performed by the 

 Constables, while the Justices and Assessors supplied the place 

 of County Commissioners of the present day. 



Among the presentments of the Grand Jury was that " 



did fraudulently expose peces of lead and potshards 



unto John Stubbs of this county for current silver of the Pro- 

 vince." 



The Court and Grand Jury authorized a levy towards the close 

 of this year of 3d. in the pound, and 12 shillings poll tax. In 

 anticipation of this duty, three of the Grand Jurors, though 

 present, refused to serve, and submitted to a fine of 20 shillings 

 each ; it being understood that the tax was for the defence of tlie 

 Province. This tax amounted to £325, and was laid by the 

 Assemblymen and Assessors of the county, in pursuance of a law 

 lately enacted at New Castle. 



What is now known as " the old end" of Haverford Meeting- 

 house, was built this year, at an estimated cost of <£158. It was 

 built as an addition to a former meeting-house, which was re- 

 placed by the present "new end" in the year 1800 — one century 

 afterwards. The old meeting-house was without a chimney, 

 being warmed by a kind of stove, or furnace, placed on each side 

 of the building, and supplied with fuel from the outside of the 

 house. Only the top of these stoves were of iron, and the smoke 

 escaped by flues opening on the outside of the wall, a few feet 

 above the opening through which the fuel was introduced. Part 

 of this arrangement is yet conspicuous in the walls of the old 

 meeting-house. 



Clarkson records the attendance of Penn at a general meeting of 

 the Welsh Quakers at Haverford — doubtless in their then newly 

 erected meeting-house. If tradition is to be relied on, a goodly 

 number of our Welsh ancestors were so little acquainted with 

 the English language, that they were unable to understand the 

 sermon preached by the Proprietary. 



On another visit to Haverford, an anecdote is recorded of the 

 Proprietary. A little girl named Rebecca Wood, was walking 

 from Darby, where she resided, to Haverford Meeting, when 

 Penn, who was on horseback, overtook her, and inquired where 

 she was going. Upon being informed, " he with his usual good 

 nature, desired her to get up behind him ; and bringing his horse 

 to a convenient place, she mounted, and so rode away upon the 



