The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-07

them while at the same time pretending to comply with the demands of the of- ticers of the crown that they should be given up.
 They started for the New Neither lands (New York;, but after reaching Milford returned to New Haven and took shelter on West Rock, in what is now known as the judges cave. Gov ernor Leete took no action when their surrender was demanded by the crowd, At one time the regicides proposed to surrender themselves so as to avoid possible trouble to their benefactors, but Davenport and others would not hear of it. The general court was con- vened to act on the demand of the crown that the regicides should be giv- en up, but the court said that diligent search had been made for the men and they could not be found. MT, Wood ward described the history of the regi- eide affair written by Dr. Styles presi- dent of Yale college, in 1794, to be a vol ume of tradition and containing much more romance than history regarding them. Many stories of them told in the book were not at all probable. In July, 1864, royal commission arrived at Boston from England with a demand for the surrender of the men, and they returned to the cave from Milford, where they had been living at the home of one Tompkins. In October they went to Hadley, Mass, after the Rev. Joseph Russell moved from Wethers- field to that place. Whalley was de- scribed in 1874 as broken down in body and mind; and Goffe came to this city in 1676, probably after Whalley's death, where he was helped by the Rev. John Whiting, pastor of the South church, and through whom he corresponded with his family and others in England. The last writing from Goffe is dated April 2, 1879, and he probably died soon after. About that time Governor Leet issued trenchant demand that the men be surrendered, after waiting i three weeks from the date of the de- mand made upon him for the surrender of Goffe and Whalley, and the day af- ter the issue of the demand made re- port that a diligent search had been made for the men and they could not be found. This indicated the gover- nor's manifest sympathy with the regi-
  other of the regicides who lived in New Haven openly for several years, Goffe 1 rests in an unknown grave in this city. Whalley's body, or rather the skeleton of his body, was afterwards found bur jed in a cellar at Hadley. In conclud- ing his paper MT. Woodward paid tri- bute to the civilization of England and her advance in all that is best in the civilization of the world during the reign of Queen Victoria.
 At the business meeting of the society | Samuel J. Kirk presented the first pass issued by Governor Letcher of Virginia for a citizen to leave the state at the outbreak of the war of the rebellion. It was issued to MT. Kirk and a drum mer named John Christian on the morning of April 20, 1861. The night before there had been great celebra- 1 ton in Richmond of the fall of Fort 1 Sumter, and MT. Kirk, who was a
 Philadelphian, thought 1t time to get out of that atmosphere. It re&uired a pass to permit him to leave on a train. | The society has been notified by MT. and Mrs. Carl Stoekel, of Norfolk, that 1 they intend to present a portrait of the | late Hon. Robbins Battell, Mrs Stoe- kel's father, to the society. MT. Battell l was formerly president of the society. His portrait will complete the gallery | of presidents of the society. Dr. Bar nard has notified the society that it is 1 to receive through him portrait of Dr. Eli Todd. A vote of thanks was ] passed to the family of the late Gideon i Welles, Lincoln's secretary of the navy. l for many articles given the society. i The death of Marvin H. Sanford of
 Canterbury, a member of the society,
 was announced by President Hoadly.