The Penns and Peningtons of the Seventeenth Century

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1658-1661. The Ellwoods' visit to the Peningtons at Chalfont.?Their impressions of their Quaker friends.?James Nayler and Edward Burrough at th? Grange.?Discussion on the doctrine of election.?Isaac Penington's account of his early religious feelings and views.?His later spiritual...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1658-1661. The Ellwoods' visit to the Peningtons at Chalfont.?Their impressions of their Quaker friends.?James Nayler and Edward Burrough at th? Grange.?Discussion on the doctrine of election.?Isaac Penington's account of his early religious feelings and views.?His later spiritual experience.?Letters to his father, the Alderman.?Alderman Pening. ton's impeachment as a regicide.?Charles the Second's declaration from Breda.?Alderman Penington's condemnation.?Imprisonment in the Tower and confiscation of his estates.?Sir John Robinson's cruelty.?Aldermam Penington's death. Mart Penington's narrative brought us in the last chapter to the point from which we first started?1658?four years after her marriage with Isaac Penington. Their family at that time consisted of three other children besides Gulielma Maria Springett, then in the fifteenth year of her age, a lovely, graceful girl, the delight of her family and friends. Thomas Ellwood gives us a peep into the home of the Peningtons at this period, through, his graphic description of the first visit he and others of his father's family paid them, after they had settled at Chalfont. The Ellwoods had made the acquaintance of Lady Springett and her daughter in Lon78 Thomas Ellwood don, several years before her marriage with Isaac Penington. Thomas Ellwood, who was a few years older than Guli, speaks of having been her playfellow in former times, and of having been often drawn with her in her little coach through Lin- coln's-inn Fields by Lady Springett's footman. Ultimately the family left London, and settled at Crowell in Oxfordshire, on the Ellwood estate. Hearing that the Peningtons ' had moved to Chal- font, the Ell woods, father and son, went to visit them; and the latter in his autobiography speaks of the...