. The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography. miral. In the mean time he hadbeen again imprisoned six months (1670-71), at first in theTower, and then in Newgate, for being at the Friendsmeeting in Wheeler Street, London, and for refusing totake the oath of allegiance (tendered as a snare to theFriends, who would take no oaths); had written severalmore political and religious pamphlets; and had made hisfirst religious visit to Holland and Germany. The years of his courtship and of hi3 first marriage—aslate, at least, as his first return from Pennsylvania—form thehalcyon period of Penns
. The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography. miral. In the mean time he hadbeen again imprisoned six months (1670-71), at first in theTower, and then in Newgate, for being at the Friendsmeeting in Wheeler Street, London, and for refusing totake the oath of allegiance (tendered as a snare to theFriends, who would take no oaths); had written severalmore political and religious pamphlets; and had made hisfirst religious visit to Holland and Germany. The years of his courtship and of hi3 first marriage—aslate, at least, as his first return from Pennsylvania—form thehalcyon period of Penns career. There is about theseyears an air of hopeful and buoyant cheerfulness. Theaccounts given of the Springetts by Mary Peniugton, and ofthe Peningtous by Thomas Ellwood, are at once romanticand idyllic. Upon these details it will always be pleasant,in the study of the Founders varied experiences of sun-shine and cloud, to linger. l Life of Penn, p. 33. t -I: : ? : -^ . „- - .-. *; ui_. Etflfl . -. - . .-an, - ? < i ••. O h * s M ? 3 2s CO o ? z ¥ z The Family of William Penn. 371 Early in 1668, it is said, William Penn first met GulielmaMaria She was then living in the family of herstepfather, Isaac Penington, with her mother, Mary Pening-ton,—previously the wife of Sir William Springett, her(Gulielmas) father,—at Bury House, near Amersham, inBuckinghamshire. Isaac Penington was the son of Alder-man Isaac Penington, of London, sometime lieutenant ofthe Tower, Lord Mayor of London, and one of the judges whocondemned Charles I. to death. In 1654, Isaac, the son,had married the widow, Mary Springett, and somewhatlater both had joined the religious movement of whichGeorge Fox was the leader. In 1658 they had settled atthe Grange, at Chalfont St. Peters, in Bucks, which hadbeen assigned as a residence (not conveyed) to Isaac by hisfather, and they continued to live in that part of the coun-try, amid many vicissitudes, until their death and
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