220 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1712. 



throughout the province. This defeat has heen attributed to a 

 letter from the Proprietary, dated at London, 29th 4th mo. 

 [July], 1710, which censures unsparingly, the course pursued 

 by the Assembly. This, however, is a mistake, for the letter 

 was not received till after the election.^ The people had be- 

 oome wearied with the incessant controversy kept up between 

 their representatives and the Governor and Council, and though 

 they may not have approved of the conduct of the latter, they 

 availed themselves of the only means in their power, to termi- 

 nate the political broils which, by obstructing all useful legisla- 

 tion, had come to be regarded as a more serious evil than to yield 

 to the demands of their opponents. 



David Lloyd removed to Chester in 1710,^ but whether before 

 or after the election is not known. In 1712 he was chosen a 

 representative from Chester County. 



The defeat of the liberal party produced more harmonious 

 action in the government. Still there was a considerable differ- 

 ence of opinion between the representatives of the people and 

 the oflScial dependents of the Proprietary, but each side evincing 

 a more yielding disposition than heretofore, the progress of le- 

 gislation was not materially impeded. 



Towards the close of 1711 Newtown Meeting informed the 

 Chester Monthly Meeting, "that their meeting house is near 

 finished, and desired that their meeting may be removed from 

 Evan Lewis' to the meeting house." 



At a monthly meeting, held 28th of 2d mo. (April), 1712, 

 the representatives of Goshen meeting "moved the request of 

 several friends that lives at a place called Youchland, to have a 

 meeting at the house of John Cadwaladers." This meeting was 

 allowed to be held " every first and fifth days, except when a 

 meeting is kept at James Thomas', they meeting once in six 

 weeks with the Great Valley friends at James Thomas'." 



Preachers among the Friends were very numerous in most of 

 the meetings in the county about this time, and several of them 

 were quite eminent. These were frequently engaged in making 

 religious visits to distant places — to Virginia, Carolina, Barba- 

 does, Long Island, New England, and sometimes to Great 

 Britain. Elizabeth Webb, of Birmingham, returned this year 

 from a visit to England and Wales, with certificates of approval 

 from six different monthly and quarterly meetings, and John 

 Salkeld is furnished with a certificate " to visit friends in the 

 Islands, and also in Great Britain and Ireland, or elsewhere," 

 and in the following year John Jarman, of Radnor, asked for a 



1 Proud, ii. 45 ; Gordon, 161 ; Janney's Life of Penn, 514-519. 



2 Letter from Isaac Norris to James Logan. — Janney, 614. 



