Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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James Nayler
Standard Name: Nayler, James
Used Form: James Naylor
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca Travers | The names of RT
's parents are not known. Her sister, Mary Booth
, was like her a Quaker and a follower of James Nayler
. |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Fell | A number of early Quakers became lifelong friends and fellow-workers with MF
. She met James Naylor or Nayler
and Richard Farnsworth
not long after she met George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 240n2 |
| Friends, Associates | Rebecca Travers | She must have been a close personal friend of her co-religionist Joan Whitrow
and her family, for when Joan's daughter Susannah
was dying in 1677 she asked for Rebecca, that dear Friend . .... |
| politics | Mary Fisher | This brutal treatment was widely publicised: in a pamphlet by an apparently non-Quaker but outraged Eminent Hand, entitled The First New Persecution, and in a letter from a Friend appended at the end... |
Timeline
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.
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