11 mo. 24.—­My heart, says J.Y., is pained within me, while I record the loss of one with whom I have been for many years on the most intimate terms.  He has long had an afflicted tabernacle and a suffering mind, which, I believe, contributed to his refinement, and prepared him for the awful change.  He had been recommended to go to a warmer climate, and had taken up his residence at Glouchester, where he died, which prevented us from attending him in his last moments.  He possessed much originality of character, joined to sincerity and genuine piety; and I doubt not he experienced the fulfilment of this promise:  “Behold, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” (Zech. iii. 4.)

On the 11th of the Twelfth Month they left home, and during the next two months were closely occupied in visiting various meetings from Yorkshire to Devonshire.

Their service commenced with an encouraging meeting at Monyash, in Derbyshire.

13_th_.—­The first meeting we attended was at Monyash.  It was larger than we had expected, in consequence of strangers coming in, and proved rather a lively commencement to our spiritual course of labor.

On the 14th they held a meeting in the Potteries, in a cottage belonging to one of the few Friends in the place.  Word having got abroad that strangers were expected, many of the neighbors came in, so that the rooms below-stairs were filled:  it was a refreshing time.  They found in the woman to whom the cottage belonged a bright example of piety and charity.

She has been, says J.Y., a cripple from her childhood; but is able to maintain herself by keeping a school for little children; she is not unmindful, also, to help her poorer neighbors out of her small earnings.

At Bristol, where they arrived on the 1st of the First Month, 1830, they rested a few days at H. and M. Hunt’s.

We had, says J.Y. much pleasure in being in this family.  Bristol is the largest meeting we have in our Society in England, and to me it was a very trying one on the First-day morning.  I was much cast down after meeting; but we staid over the Monthly Meeting on Third-day, which afforded me relief of mind, and I left with as much comfort as I could well desire.

At Plymouth John Yeardley found an object of lively interest in Lady Rogers’ Charity School, established to fit girls for becoming household servants.  He was gratified with the good order, simplicity, and economy, which pervaded the institution.  Martha Yeardley suffered much during their journey in Devonshire, from the inclemency of the weather; and a heavy fall of snow on the night of the 17th prevented their leaving Plymouth at the time intended.  In consequence of this, they hired a lodging, and employed themselves in visiting the Friends from house to house, and in organising an infant school, which the Friends had long desired to see established.