Society of Friends

Connections

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Cultural formation Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd came of mixed white and black (or, in her own word, colored) American heritage on both maternal and paternal sides. Her paternal great-grandfather came originally from Germany. The family was economically...
Cultural formation Carol Shields
CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.
Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, pp. 36-56.
38,50
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ashbridge
She had a final struggle to undertake before, while visiting her Quaker relatives at Philadelphia, she finally humbled her pride by joining the Society of Friends , which she had for so long despised...
Cultural formation Priscilla Wakefield
She came from a distinguished English Quaker family of the middle class.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ham
EH lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think...
Cultural formation Elizabeth B. Lester
From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
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Cultural formation Dorothy White
She was a presumably English Quaker ; nothing is known of her social background. By the end of her life she held millenarian beliefs.
Cultural formation Winifred Peck
WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.
Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber.
19-20
Cultural formation Anne Audland
AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Cultural formation Rebecca Travers
She was originally a Baptist and was converted to Quakerism by James Nayler . She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox . RT organised the first women's...
Cultural formation Anne Docwra
Born into an English gentry family, AD was an Anglican during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles.
Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed.
21
Her husband joined the Society of Friends in...
Cultural formation Jessie Fothergill
JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Scholar Helen Debenham notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell , who is writing a...
Cultural formation Catherine Phillips
She was a middle-class Englishwoman, a Quaker both by birth and conversion.
Cultural formation L. S. Bevington
She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...
Cultural formation Priscilla Wakefield
A loyal, life-long member of the Society of Friends , PW was anything but narrow in her beliefs and practice. In middle life she wrote that without disparaging the value of [t]rue religion, she desired...

Timeline

1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...

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1670

Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel (called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.

16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...

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16 March 1670

The borough council of Aberdeen, finding that its suppression of Catholic and Quaker meetings on 15 February was being flouted, moved to arrest all male Quakers at the next meeting.

18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...

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18 July 1671

The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann Stevens and Damaris Sanders , was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.

October 1671: The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was...

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October 1671

The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was instituted (perhaps the first women's meeting of Quakers outside London to become permanent, though the Great Missenden meeting had first met by July).

November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...

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November 1671

The QuakerThomas Milne of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.

1672: A Quaker committee set up by the first Yearly...

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1672

A Quakercommittee set up by the first Yearly Meeting began the work which resulted in decisions about members' publications: to vet them for acceptability, to finance, edit and distribute them, and to archive them.

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.

15 July 1673: The Publishing Committee of the Society of...

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15 July 1673

The Publishing Committee of the Society of Friends made the decision to archive two copies of every book published by a Quaker.

From September 1673: The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting,...

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From September 1673

The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting, in London changed with vetting texts submitted for publication.

1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...

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1677

By this year the Society of Friends included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...

January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...

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January 1678

An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.

1678: Quaker theologian Robert Barclay's Apology...

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1678

Quaker theologian Robert Barclay 's Apology for the True Christian Divinity was first published in English, by the Sowle Press .

1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...

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1679

The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force, Quaker printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.

December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...

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December 1681

The Privy Council moved against Quakers and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.

March 1686: James II's General Pardon and Royal Warrant...

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March 1686

James II 's General Pardon and Royal Warrant released another batch of persecuted Quakers from prison.

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