. Sketches of a life of 75 in three parts : biographical, historical, and descriptive. up and down the street, ringing his bell,and crying aloud: Luke Woodard, from America,has a meeting here tonight. In the graveyard adjoining the old meeting house,are many headstones on which appear the names ofthe Gurneys. Earlham Hall, the residence of Joseph John Gur-ney, is about three miles from Norwich. It is a large,plain brick house, with tile roof, and stands some twohundred yards back from the road, surrounded bymany trees. The grounds are beautiful, but have notbeen kept in the style of neatness,
. Sketches of a life of 75 in three parts : biographical, historical, and descriptive. up and down the street, ringing his bell,and crying aloud: Luke Woodard, from America,has a meeting here tonight. In the graveyard adjoining the old meeting house,are many headstones on which appear the names ofthe Gurneys. Earlham Hall, the residence of Joseph John Gur-ney, is about three miles from Norwich. It is a large,plain brick house, with tile roof, and stands some twohundred yards back from the road, surrounded bymany trees. The grounds are beautiful, but have notbeen kept in the style of neatness, which one wouldsuppose J. J. Gurney kept them. Many of the largetrees had been prostrated by a recent storm, remind-ing one of the low-lying of him who used to walkbeneath their shade. J. J. G. died in 1847, in his fifty-ninth year. Norwich is one of the oldest cities in England, andhas a population of 100,000. There is a large castlein the city, which, though very ancient, is well pre-served. It was once used as a jail, in which many ofour early Friends were imprisoned. Among many. Holy Rood Palace. Edinburg 189 other relics, and specimens of various kinds preservedin this castle, we were shown some old Monthly Meet-ing records of the early Friends, showing that on ac-count of so many of them being in prison, in 1683,they held their Monthly Meeting in the prison. Edinburg. This city is the Athens of Great Britain, being oneof the most picturesque and beautiful. It has a popu-lation of 250,000, and, like Rome, sits on seven was the home of John Knox. His house, the churchwhere he used to preach, and the place where he wasburied, were shown us. He was buried in the streetnear the church, and his grave is marked by a plainstone lying even with the pavement with his name en-graved on it. Holy Rood Palace is in this city. It was hereseveral of the kings and queens were crowned, in theChapel Royal now in a ruined condition. Here MaryQueen of Scots was married to the unworth
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