James Nayler

Standard Name: Nayler, James
Used Form: James Naylor

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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.
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She also enjoyed a...
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...
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 . ....
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 .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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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.

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