But many of those, who had joined the society, had brought with them children into it, and from the marriages of others, children were daily springing up.

To the latter, in a profligate age, where the fashions were still raging from without, and making an inroad upon the minds and morals of individuals, some cautions were necessary for the preservation of their innocence in such a storm.

For these were the reverse of their parents.

Young, in point of age, they were Quakers by name, before they could become Quakers in spirit.

Robert Barclay therefore, and William Penn, kept alive the subject of dress, which George Fox had been the first to notice in the society.