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Patras--the Gulf of Corinth Galaxidi--Trying
situation Castri (the ancient Delphi) Journey to Athens Athens Corinth
Detentions--Vostizza Patras Corfu
CHAPTER XIII.
THE THIRD CONTINENTAL JOURNEY, 1833-34.

PART III.--THE RETURN FROM
GREECE.
Letters from John Rowntree and William Allen Ancona Florence The
Custom-house--Piedmont Geneva Lausanne Berne
Zurich--Schaffhausen Basle--Death of Thomas Yeardley Death of M.A.
Calame Neufchâtel Return to England--Death of A.B. Savory
CHAPTER XIV.
FROM THE END OF THE THIRD CONTINENTAL JOURNEY IN
1834 TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FOURTH IN 1842.
Divisions in the Society of Friends Employment of leisure time Girls'
Lancasterian school at Scarborough Death of Elizabeth
Rowntree--Letter from M.Y. to Elizabeth Dudley Visit to Thame Visit
to Lancashire Visits to the Isle of Wight Death of John Rutter Prospect
of revisiting the Continent

CHAPTER XV.
THE FOURTH CONTINENTAL JOURNEY, 1842-43.
Amiens Paris Letters from E. Dudley and J. Rowntree Lyons
Nismes--Boarding-school for girls Letter from John Rowntree
Montpélier Lesengnan Maux Saverdun Toulouse Montauban--Castres
Tullins--Grenoble Geneva Lausanne Neufchâtel--Paul Pétavel Locle
Berne Basle Carlsruhe--Frankfort Accident to J.Y.--Vlotho
CHAPTER XVI.
REMOVAL TO STAMFORD-HILL, AND COMMENCEMENT OF
THE FIFTH CONTINENTAL JOURNEY, 1843-48.
Removal to Berkhamstead Removal to Stamford-hill Visit to the
families of Gracechurch-St. Monthly Meeting Death of J.J. Gurney and
I. Stickney Prepare for revisiting the Continent Brussels H. Van
Maasdyk Charleroi--Spa Bonn Mannheim, Strasburg Basle
Berne-Neufchâtel Grenoble Privas--Vals Nismes--Congenies
CHAPTER XVII.
COMPLETION OF THE FIFTH CONTINENTAL JOURNEY,
1849-50.
Letter from J.Y. to John Kitching Elberfeld--Mühlheim Bonn
Kreuznach--J.A. Ott Mannheim Stuttgardt--Death of Elizabeth Dudley
Kornthal Kreuznach Bonn Return home--Resume their journey
Berlin--A. Beyerhaus Warmbrunn Illness of Martha Yeardley-Töplitz
Prague--Translation of tracts into the Bohemian language
Kreuzuach--Neuwied
CHAPTER XVIII.
DEATH OF MARTHA YEARDLEY, AND JOHN YEARDLEY'S
JOURNEY TO NORWAY, 1851-52.

Illness and death of Martha Yeardley J.Y. visits Ireland Prospect of a
journey to Norway Homburg--Illness of J.Y. Christiana--Christiansand
Stavanger Excursion up one of the fiords Bergen Meetings at Foedde
and other places Obernkirchen
CHAPTER XIX.
HIS JOURNEY TO SOUTH RUSSIA, 1853.
Passport--Sails from Hull Petersburg Moscow Journey to
Iekaterinoslav Kharkov Rybalsk--The German Colonies The Molokans
The Crimea--The Tartars A suspicious halting-place--Simpheropol
Feodosia Odessa--Constantinople Smyrna Syra--Malta
Nismes--Bagnères de Bigorre Pialoux
CHAPTER XX.
FROM HIS RETURN FROM RUSSIA TO HIS LAST JOURNEY,
1853-1858.
Visits Bath The Yearly Meeting--Life of J. J. Gurney Visit to
Minden--Religious service in Yorkshire Goes again to Minden
Neuveville Paris Visit to Bristol and Gloucester Quarterly Meetings
Minden Visit to Birmingham, Leicester, &c. Goes to Nismes Visits
Chelmsford, &c.
CHAPTER XXI.
LAST JOURNEY AND DEATH, 1858. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
Religious Mission to Asiatic Turkey Voyage to Constantinople
Sun-stroke Meetings in the neighborhood of Constantinople Is seized
with paralysis, and returns home His death--Remarks on his character
Notes of some of his public testimonies

MEMOIR

OF
JOHN YEARDLEY.
CHAPTER I.
FROM JOHN YEARDLEY's CONVERSION TO THE
COMMENCEMENT OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
1803--1815.
John Yeardley was born on the 3rd of the First Month, 1786, at a small
farm-house beside Orgreave Hall, in the valley of the Rother, four
miles south of Rotherham. His parents, Joel and Frances Yeardley,
farmed some land, chiefly pasture, and his mother is said to have been
famous for her cream-cheeses, which she carried herself to Sheffield
market. She was a pious and industrious woman; but, through the
misconduct of her husband, was sometimes reduced to such straits as
scarcely to have enough food for her children.
Before they left Orgreave they were attracted towards the worship of
Friends, and several of the family, including two of Joel Yeardley's
sisters, embraced the truth as held by the Society. In the year 1802 they
removed to a farm at Blacker, three miles south of Barnsley, and
attended the meeting at Monk Bretton, or Burton, near that town, where
the meeting-house then stood. At Blacker it was John's business to ride
into Barnsley daily on a pony, with two barrels of milk to distribute to
the customers of his mother's dairy. His elder brother Thomas worked
on the farm.
Their attendance at Burton meeting brought the family under the notice
of Joseph Wood, a minister of the Society, residing at Newhouse, near
Highflatts, four miles from Penistone. Joseph Wood had been a
Yorkshire clothier, but relinquished business in the prime of life, and
spent the rest of his days in assiduous pastoral labor of a kind of which
we have few examples. To attend a Monthly Meeting he would leave
home on foot the Seventh-day before, with John Bottomley, also a
Friend and preacher, and at one time his servant, for some neighboring

meeting. He would occupy the evening with social calls, dropping at
every house the word of exhortation or comfort. The meeting next day
would witness his fervent ministry. In the afternoon they would
proceed to the place where the Monthly Meeting was to be held the
following day, which they would attend, filling up the time before and