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Field Meeting, 28th May, 1904. 
JOBDANS AND THE CHALFONTS. 
As the programme arranged for last year’s visit to this pretty 
part of Buckinghamshire could only he partly carried out owing to 
the rain, the same route was again chosen, and this time it was 
taken in its entirety, in beautiful weather, Mr. Hopkinson being 
the Director as on the former occasion. 
The party consisted of cyclists only, and was not quite so 
numerous as in 1903. As the Church and Milton’s cottage at 
Chalfont St. Giles had then been seen, this village was passed 
through without a halt, and the old Quakers’ Meeting House at 
Jordans was the only place of interest visited. It is at the point 
where the roads from Chalfont St. Giles and Chalfont St. Peter to 
Beaconsfield join, near the foot of a rather steep hill from the 
former place and of a very steep hill from the latter, Stone Dean 
being at the bottom of the valley, which is beautifully wooded, 
and Wilton Park rising on the opposite hill. 
The ground on which the Meeting House stands was conveyed, 
in 1671, from William Kussell to Thomas Ell wood and others for 
a burial-place for the Society of Friends. The first mention of 
any building there is in 1688, when a meeting-house is spoken of. 
It was probably built, and the lime-trees by which it is now much 
shut in were probably planted, in that or the previous year. Here 
William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, worshipped, more 
than once being imprisoned for his faithfulness to his religious 
views, and here he was buried, with his family and many of his 
relations. Hertfordshire, as well as Buckinghamshire, can claim 
some interest in connection with his life in England, for he lived 
for some years (1671-1677) at Basing House, Hickmans worth, 
marrying during his residence there (in 1672) at Chorley Wood. 
William Penn was horn in London on the 14th of October, 1644. 
He was the son of Admiral Sir William Penn, the conqueror of 
Jamaica, to whom, at his death in 1670, the Government owed 
£16,000. In discharge of this debt a province in North America, 
about as large as England, was granted to the son in 1681, and he 
named it, on account of its sylvan character, Sylvania, hut, in 
honour of Penn’s father, the name was changed by Charles II to 
Pennsylvania. Penn first went out there in 1682 with about one 
hundred Friends, his voyage in the “ Welcome” occupying nearly 
two months (31st August to 28th October). He proved to be an 
able lawgiver, and most justly administered the province. He 
returned to England in 1684, his wife died at Hoddesdon in 1694, 
he married again in 1696, returned to Pennsylvania with his new 
wife in 1699, and again to England in 1701. He died in 1718, 
