In the same manner a third query is read by the clerk, and answered by
all the deputies, and observed upon by the meeting at large; and so on a
fourth, and a fifth, till all the queries, set apart for the day are
answered.
It may be proper now to observe, that while the men in their own
meeting-house are thus transacting the quarterly business for
themselves, the women, in a different apartment or meeting-house, are
conducting it also for their own sex. They read, answer, and observe
upon, the queries in the same manner. When they nave settled their own
business, they send one or two of their members, as they did in the case
of the monthly meeting, to the apartment of the men, to know if they
have any thing to communicate to them. When the business is finished in
both meetings, they break up, and prepare for their respective homes.
CHAP. IV.
_Great yearly court or meeting--constitution of this meeting--one place
only of meeting fixed upon for the whole kingdom--this the
metropolis--deputies appointed to it from the quarterly
meetings--business transacted at this meeting--matters decided, not by
the influence of numbers, but by the weight of religious character--no
head or chairman of this meeting--character of this discipline or
government of the Quakers--the laws, relating to it better obeyed than
those under any other discipline or government--reasons of this
obedience_.
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