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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… earned a living as a worsted spinner and became a Quaker; 67 Henry Banyer ( fl. 1739), medical writer, who …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the Puritan ministers of Wiston. 24 There was a small Quaker community in the parish in the 1660s and 1670s, whose … I/26/3, f. 19; ibid. Par. 211/7/1, f. [25v.]; E.S.R.O., Quaker rec. 39/1, ff. 6, 10, 20v., 40v.; Chwdns. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… endowed elementary or Nonconformist schools, among them a Quaker school established in the 1690s and elementary schools … work. The school buildings were let and later sold. 38 Quaker Schools Witney Quakers built a schoolhouse at or adjoining their meeting house at Woodgreen in 16989. 39 Quaker schoolmasters were mentioned from 1707 to 1711, but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… housed a pair of shops. Friends' Meeting House The former Quaker meeting house at Woodgreen, now a private house, is a … for their own poor and sick, as was customary in other Quaker meetings. 296 The extent of poverty in the town varied …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lists of signatories varied from meeting to meeting. 74 A Quaker served as overseer in 1802, suggesting that relations …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and by the 1670s Witney possessed Independent and Quaker meetings each with their own meeting houses. 7 By 1676 … to have routinely participated in vestry government, a Quaker overseer in 1802 being allowed to make an affirmation … a focus of Quakerism in west Oxfordshire: around 30 Quaker families were reported in the parish in 1738, compared …
A History of the County of Essex
… Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John …