The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-02-07
WILLIAM PENN IN GERMANY.
The Results of Adhering 10 a Quaker
Custom

| Duysburg, s Calvinistic city, lay
In the territory Of the EieeIor oI
Brsndenburg. o. their arrival they
they sought out DR.. Msstrich. and
delivered their letter He told them
they were very fortunate in the time
OF their visit, IS, it being Sunday, the
young countess would have left her
fathers castle aHi crossed the river
10 Muiheim, where she would, as
usual, spend the day at . clergyman's
house He cautioned them, however,
not to make themselves public, as
much for the young lady's sake IS for
their owr--her father, a coarse and
rigorous person, being already much
displeased with her. Thus warned,
they set out for Mnlheim- 90 their
way they met with Heinrich Schmidt,
school master, who told them the
countess had returned To him
they gave the letter from DR.. Mas
tricht. In an hour he came to say
the countess would be glad to see
them, but knew not where, as her
father kept so strict hsnd over her.
She thought itwould be best for them
to cross the water and go to the house
of her friend the clergyman.
While they were talking, the Graf
with his attendants came from the
castle, and Ceeing persons in a for
elgn dress standing near his gate.
sent one OF his retinue to INQUIRE
who they were, what they wanted,
4 and whittier they wire going. Before
the Graf received his answers, he
walked up and questioned them in
person. Penn replied that they were
Epglishmen from Holland, and were
lgoing no further than to his own
town Of Mulhelm on hearing which
answer one of the Gratis gentlemen
walked up to the strangers with a
irown on his face, and asked them If
they knew before whom they stood,
and if they had not yet learned how
to deport themselves before. noble
men and In the presence Of princes
Penn answered he was not aware of
any disiespect. "Then why don's
you take off your hats p said one.
SIS it respectful to stand covered
in the presence of the sovereign Cf
the country 20 The Quakers took no
notice of his gesture, but replied that
they uncovered to none but God.
''Well, then, said the Graf, ''get out
of my dominions; you shall not GO
into my town."
Penn tried to reason with tho Of
Tended Graf Won Fslkenstein, who
called his men and bade them lead
these Englishmen out of his estate.
1t was dusk; they we're alone in a
strange land for after conducting
them to thick forest, the soldiers
returned to the castle and left them
to find their own way back. This
forest was three miles in length, and
the roads being unknown to them,
and the night dark, they wandered in
and cut. At length they came into
an open country and were soon be-
fore city wall. What eitys 1t was
10 O'Clock; the gates were shut. In |
vain they hailed; no seminal replied.
The town had no suburbs; not q |
single house or building stood beyond |
the ditch. They lay down in an open
field In search OF such repose as
they might find on the marsby ground
of the Lower Rhine. At 8 in the
morning they got up stiff and cold,
and walked about till five, comforting
each other with the assurance that q
g-est day for Germany was at hand,
several places in that country being |
almost ripe for the harvest"
After the cathedral clock struck
five the gates we're opened, and the
outcasts gained the shelter OF their
inn. Mastricht was surprised with
fear, the common disease of this
country" says Penn, when he heard |
of the affair with Graf Won Falken-
steen. He asked minutely what had |
passed, and was relieved to find they
had not named the countess. For
themselves he thought they had es-
capped pretty well, as the Graf usually
amused himself by setting his dogs TO
worry persons who were found loiter-
ing near his castle gstes.-"Lifs of
IFilliam Penn" By ". II. DirOn