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 | 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 . .... |
| 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 |
| 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...
National or international item
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.
Hill, Christopher. “The World Turned Upside Down, 1975: Part I: Inspiration and Experience”. Street Corner Society: Upside Down.
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