Note 107 — Chapter I

II Statutes at Large, 242. The Society of Friends had regulations of their own for submitting all differences between members to their monthly meetings. See the publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. IV, 141. In 1707 James Logan writes to William Penn: “William Rakestraw has had me before the meeting for not granting him the lot near the bridge, after Francis Plumstead had applied to thee for it, and, as he pretends here, got a grant for it; but the six Friends to whom it was referred, declared it as their sentiments, upon a full hearing, that William has no manner of claim to it, either in law or equity, but that he has had full satisfaction, and shall condemn and retract his abuse against thee especially, of which shall send copies when past in the meeting.” Memoirs of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. X, 258. The Statute of William III would seem to have been first suggested by John Locke. Board of Trade Journal, December 18, 1696 (Mss. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. IX, 288).