| Description | A family visit to Tewkesbury. The French are preparing for an invasion. Quakers are very fortunate not to be fined for not joining up. Some young Quakers have entered as volunteers "which shows what sort of Quakers they are". Includes draft reply from J.B.L in Ettington dated 23rd November 1803 regarding family news, heavy taxation is the price we have to pay "either to give up part of our property to preserve the rest or suffer the French to deprive us of the whole". |