indebted to a number of persons and sources for aid in gathering the material for this study. Mr. M. Luther �Heisey and Miss Elizabeth C. Kieffer, of the Lancaster County Historical Society, have been especially helpful, Miss Kieffer secur- ing the interesting facts from the account books and minutes of

Schools and education in the &rough 01 Lancaster By P. M. HARBOLD An Act of the Provincial Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, passed February 6, 1730, permitted "any religious society of Protestants . . . to purchase or establish houses for schools, etc." In the spirit of this Act, the

deserving of the attention of the Lancaster County Historical Society; and my appreciation is due you, my fellow members of the Society, for giving me the congenial task of preparing the story and telling it at this meeting. But before focussing on Lancaster's own part in the history, we may get a better

a public library. An editorial in the Lancaster Journal,March 16, 1821, has the following inter- esting statement: "For ourselves we can say that though having access to a great many books, we almost daily feel the want of a public library, as we, in the course of our reading, (circumscribed as it