What a joyful surprise it is to realise that William Penn (1644-1718), one of the first Quakers and a great and glorious hero to boot, is buried but a mile or two from where I live in Buckinghamshire.
Never, ever will I forget searching for proof of his burial place in Philadelphia, where he had planned ‘a greene Countrie Towne which will never be burnt and always be wholesome’. There, so great was his importance, it had been decreed that he should
