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A History of the County of Essex
… to have originated in the 1850s. 111 The premises became a Quaker meeting-house in 1870. 112 A cricket match in Wanstead … taken from the Strand. 120 William Penn (16441718), Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, was brought up at …
A History of the County of Essex
… until 1716, when it was sold to Joseph Wright, himself a Quaker, who demolished it and used the site to enlarge his own house. 53 The present Quaker meeting at Wanstead originated in a shift of …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… of Catholic recusancy and later, from the 1650s, through Quaker and other Protestant meetings. By the 1850s there was … in south Oxfordshire. 24 The most influential early Quaker was Thomas Gilpin (16221703), a mercer and former … were Methodists as well as Quakers, 8 but the size of the Quaker meeting may have been declining, and in 1810 it was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Bigland, 47 who resold it to William Penn (1644-1718), the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, in 1676. 48 Penn was no doubt …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Warminghurst Place c. 1652-9, 18 may already have been Quaker in sympathy, 19 and after William Penn moved there in 1676 20 the house became a Quaker centre. George Fox visited it several times between …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1693. 63 The house of James Hedges was certified for Quaker worship in 1701; 64 it may have been the building in Common Close which was remembered as a Quaker meeting house in the 19th century although it had long …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Windsor Sept. 8 to release from prison William Warren, a Quaker, surety for Thomas Hammond of London, merchant, for …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Carolina, imported in the Lucy, Thos. Richardson master, a Quaker, who refuses affirmation to the certificate of origin. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… recusants. 75 In 1724 there were 3 Anabaptists and one Quaker in the parish. 76 A building in The Street belonging …