Records of Brighouse Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1701-1990

Taylor Captain Thomas

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Society of Friends England Yorkshire History Sources

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Brighouse Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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A Meeting was settled in Brighouse around 1652 by Christopher Taylor of Chapel-in-the-Bryer, who had been convinced by the preaching of William Dewsbury. Groups of Quakers from the area were amongst those imprisoned in York Castle in January 1661, including John Green of Liversedge, who eventually died in prison in 1676. The Meeting was recorded in 1665 as Brighouse and Mankinholes, part of Pontefract Monthly Meeting. In 1669, it became part of the newly formed Brighouse Monthly Meeting. It drew...