It has been my endeavor to give a plain, orderly presentation of the facts, without embellishment; and I have deemed it of greater interest to let the contemporary records, as much as possible, tell their own story. The inequality of treatment in portions of the book is due partly to variation in the materials at one point they are abundant and at another scanty. In Part I., I have attempted only an outline of the early history of the Quakers in Ireland; the full history is yet to be written. An abundance of material for such a study lies buried in the manuscript records of the Society in Ireland, and it is to be hoped that some one will be sufficiently interested to prepare a thorough and systematic treatise upon the subject. The propriety of introducing so much genealogical matter in the Appendix may be open to question. But I find justification in the belief that this ma.