Records of Halifax Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1654-1980

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Records of Halifax Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1654-1980

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb206-msdep.1979/1(carltonhillarchive)halifaxpm

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GB 206 Leeds University Library

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Society of Friends England Yorkshire History Sources

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Halifax Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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William Dewsbury is attributed with settling the Meeting in Halifax after preaching there in the early 1650s. The earliest local sufferings recorded by Besse were in January 1661, when Nathaniel Crowther and John Howker were amongst those imprisoned in York Castle for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Halifax Meeting is first recorded in 1669 as part of the newly formed Brighouse Monthly Meeting. It included Friends in neighbouring Rishworth (or Rushworth), and its leading members were Ab...