Society of Friends

Her family were Quakers , said to be in humble life, which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.

Catherine Payton (later CP ) prayed, in our little meeting at Dudley, that she might become a Quaker minister.

HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.

KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...

EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.

AC became a Quaker . This at first compromised her friendship with More , but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action.

Her family was English, professional, and well-off. As an adult she became, like her husband, a Quaker

She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist congregation of John Simpson . Later she moved to the sect of...

Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...

She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

She was a presumably English Quaker ; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs.

Born as an American colonist to parents who had themselves emigrated from England because of their Quaker faith, she was, she says, not a gentlewoman by birth. She defined a gentlewoman as one with no...

CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican