Society of Friends

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Wealth and Poverty Hester Biddle
Here she received a regular five-shilling charity stipend from the Friends .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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Wealth and Poverty Anne Docwra
AD made her first and most sizeable donation to the Society of Friends : a one-thousand-year lease of an estate in the town of Cambridge, valued at a thousand pounds.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Anne Docwra
AD made her will. Although poorer than ten years previously, she added to former gifts by herself and her husband to the Society of Friends , with twenty pounds to buy a burial ground, besides...
Violence Mary Fisher
Punishments laid down in 1657 for members of the Society of Friends daring to come to Massachusetts consisted of physical violence: whippings, cropped ears, and tongues bored with a hot iron.
Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press.
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Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes . She attended the House of Commons , the Chapel Royal , where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington , and a meeting of...
Travel Sophia Hume
She also travelled on a missionary journey to Holland with her fellow-QuakerCatherine Payton (later Phillips) ; they set out on 21 July 1757.
Phillips, Catherine. Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips. James Phillips and Son.
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Travel Mary Fisher
MF , now a Quaker missionary to foreign parts, landed in the West Indies (that is Barbados) in time for news of her arrival to reach England on 15 October.
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press.
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Travel Mary Fisher
From BarbadosMF arrived by sea at Boston, Massachusetts, with Anne Austin , the first Quakers to proselytise there.
Larson, Rebecca. Daughters of Light. University of North Carolina Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Mary Fisher
The year after her hostile reception in Boston, Massachusetts, MF left England again with a small group of other Quakers , apparently in the beginning headed for Jerusalem.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Mary Peisley
MP , on a journey of Quaker ministry with her friend Catherine Payton (later Phillips) , travelled nearly nine thousand miles to and around North America.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Hester Biddle
HB travelled with the more famous Mary Fisher to preach in Newfoundland—the only Quakers of their period to go there.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 38-45.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Evelyn Sharp
ES , with Ruth Fry and Fred Brennan , set out as members of a Quaker relief mission to visit famine areas of Russia (the Volga valley), and report both on the genuineness of...
Travel Elizabeth Heyrick
EH took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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While in London...
Travel Evelyn Sharp
ES , who had visited Donegal in 1903, had loved it and learned a great deal about folk-dancing and songs, took her first postwar holiday in Ireland in July 1919.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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On 5 January...
Travel Harriet Jacobs
Back in the USA she passed the money she had raised to a Quaker organization, but suggested that the unsettled political situation in the South made it a poor time for building.

Timeline

17 August 1612: The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted...

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17 August 1612

The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted in the execution of seven women and one man.

8 July 1618: Michael Dalton had entered in the Stationers'...

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8 July 1618

Michael Dalton had entered in the Stationers' Register his book The Countrey Justice, Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace out of their Sessions, designed to raise the level of local administration...

1653: Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship...

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1653

Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship (to the Nonconformist printer Ruth Raworth ), and began printing Quaker texts from an unknown address.

9 December 1655: Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting...

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9 December 1655

Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting Jewish resettlement in England. The Jews had been expelled in 1290, though individuals had now been living in England unofficially for more than a century.

9 July 1656: John Evelyn made a sight-seeing visit to...

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9 July 1656

John Evelyn made a sight-seeing visit to Quakers in prison at Ipswich, Suffolk; he thought them a melancholy proud sort of people, and exceedingly ignorant.

October 1656: Quaker maverick James Nayler set out to demonstrate...

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October 1656

Quaker maverick James Nayler set out to demonstrate the spirit of Christ within him by staging an entry into Bristol riding on a donkey, as Christ had ridden into Jerusalem.

10 June 1658: The Quaker Sarah Blackborow published the...

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10 June 1658

The QuakerSarah Blackborow published the earliest of her several signed pamphlets, A Visit to the Spirit in Prison.

1659-60: Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed...

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1659-60

Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed in England, though they were only 1% of the population.

1 June 1660: Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England...

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1 June 1660

Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England and a friend of Anne Hutchinson ) was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for preaching as a member of the Society of Friends .

January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...

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January 1661

Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the Cromwell ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king, Charles II .

1662: The Printing or Licensing Act restored the...

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1662

The Printing or Licensing Act restored the principles of government censorship which had been current before the Civil War: it limited the number of printers and required them to put their names on their works.

August 1663: The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England...

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August 1663

The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England caused renewed persecution of Quakers .

1665: Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in...

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1665

Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in 1626), wife of a leading Aberdeen citizen and a recent convert to the Quakerism , penned the first poem in a volume which she went on using till her...

1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...

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1667

The Quakers established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.

1669: William Penn published No Cross, no Crown,...

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1669

William Penn published No Cross, no Crown, a manifesto on behalf of the Quakers .

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