THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE FOX

A One Volume, Abridged Edition, Edited by Norman Penney
From the text published London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1924.

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PREFACE, BY NORMAN PENNEY

The Journal of George Fox as here presented has as its basis the eighth (bicentenary) edition (1891) of the Journal as prepared by Thomas Ellwood and others, shortly after the death of the author, and published in 1694 (known as the Ellwood Text).

This bicentenary edition has been carefully collated with the first, and additions have been made from the Journal as at the Cambridge University Press in 1911, verb. et lit. from the original manuscripts (known as the Cambridge Text), and from the Short Journal of George Fox, now being edited from the hitherto unprinted manuscript for publication by Cambridge University Press.

In order to bring the Journal within the bounds of one volume, numerous excisions have been made from the Ellwood Text, consisting largely of papers written by Fox, and of the non-autographic portion referred to in the Appendix to this volume. The longer excisions are denoted by "points."(1)

The resultant text, which will be known as the Tercentenary Text, will, it is believed, not only preserve that which is vital in the original manuscripts, but throw into greater relief those portions of the Journal which have caused it to earn the marked appreciation of such representative minds as those of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, George M. Trevelyan, William James, and Josiah Royce.

I wish gratefully to acknowledge the courtesy of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press in granting permission to include extracts from their valuable copyright edition of the Journal.

NORMAN PENNEY.

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February, 1924.



NOTES
1. In the present, internet text they are denoted with a row of centered asterisks, as in

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The reader should not assume that all deleted material has been so indicated! (-pds)