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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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Griffitts
Her sharp critical mind is also reflected in poems of political tenour. She wrote an Ode on the late Peace (of Paris, signed on 10 February 1763), an epitaph on Britannia (personification of the colonial...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Leadbeater
She prefaced these poems on religious and non-religious subjects with an account of the Quakers .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Penington
Here she justifies her financial dealings and defends herself against charges of having sought to evade the fines and imprisonment meted out to Quakers : the implication of these charges was that she and her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Parsons
Money issues arise early in this story. Mr Mead was curate to a small parish in Lincolnshire, and performed the whole duty within eight miles round, for the noble salary of thirty-five pounds a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Whitehead
The chief object of this text is to support the practice of separate Women's Meetings within the Quaker movement as a whole; it presents itself as refuting objections to the continuance of separate Women's and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth B. Lester
Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie -esque, is written in a confident, literary style and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Barbara Blaugdone
BB relates her conversion to Quakerism back in the 1650s, and its consequences for just the first three years of her ministry. First come the adverse results of being a Friend: the resultant collapse of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Joan Vokins
She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jessie Fothergill
As in her later novel Kith and Kin, JF draws on her Quaker heritage, and her underlying distrust of luxury and material comfort, for a sympathetic portrayal of nineteenth-century Quaker life. Inspired by the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Hooton
EH 's petition argues that the impoverishment of charitable Quakers would ruin the kingdom.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Mollineux
Of a Sinful State, written the following year, shows that the young poet already understood the potential cost of belonging to the Society of Friends : she prays to bear / The World's Revilings...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Joan Vokins
This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend . Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Mollineux
MM situates her letter, like other early ones to Frances, in the context of her desire for her cousin's Temporal and Eternal Welfare, that is, her conversion to the Society of Friends . This...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maude Royden
The book opens with a chapter called The Universal Subordination of Women, which sets out MR 's contention that sexual inequality has been fundamental to the great civilisations known to history. A candid study...

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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