3-066-065 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The grave of William Penn at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, 1881. 'A correspondence has recently been published concerning the proposal to remove the body of William Penn from England to America, where it would be re-interred with public honours by the authorities of the State of Pennsylvania...We have to thank a Correspondent, Mr. Henry Liggins...for...sketches lately taken by him of the quiet little rustic graveyard...This was the burial-place of William Penn, and of some other early members of the Society of Friends or Quakers...the only memorial-stones are a few of modern date,...marking the last resting-place of the Penn family. They bear the names of two children of William Penn; namely, of Letitia Penn, and Springett Penn (1696), Gulielma Maria Penn (1689), Maria Pennington (1682), and Joseph Rule (1765); and also, on another stone, of the same shape and size of the above, about two feet high, "William Penn, 1718, and Hannah Penn, 1726."...The trustees of the Jordans graveyard have positively declined to allow the removal of William Penn's body to America; and we are disposed entirely to commend their resolution, not only upon the ground of religious propriety, but regarding it as a matter of national interest to our own country'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.