The spiritual journal of the Oxfordshire Quaker William Jones, unlike many such works, focuses not on personal prayer life but on the experience of Quaker meetings, characterised by ‘Awefull’ or ‘Solid’ Silence, through which Jones felt ‘Devine Love to flow amongst us', and at which he regularly ‘found it to be my duty to speak’. Like his Evangelical contemporaries, Jones stressed the need to be prepared for death (‘if I died and was not Prepared I should be miserable for Ever’), while the men and women whose spoken ministry he described often drew on biblical material. More peculiarly Quaker was Jones's refusal to serve in the militia, which resulted in the seizure of some of his goods. He ‘felt a concern’ to speak personally to people whose behaviour fell short of expected standards: a relative disrespectful to her husband, a doctor who drank too much, a clergyman who seemed to encourage dancing. As well as attending his own meeting on Sundays and Thursdays, Jones regularly visited other West Midlands meetings, as did travelling Friends from further afield, including a number from America. The journal which he kept for over fifty years evokes a close-knit, supportive Quaker community. The value of this meticulously transcribed text is, however, limited since identical sentiments and experiences are recounted page after page, year after year. With detailed indices of persons, places and subjects, it may appeal most to people interested in West-Midlands Quaker communities.