Records of Otley Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1666-1982

Otley Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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There were Quakers in this area of the West Riding from as early as the mid 1650s, based in Weston, Askwith, Farnley and Otley. The sufferings of the Thompson family of Weston were particularly acute and date from 1654, when Henry Thompson "having reproved the Priest of that Parish for lying, was beaten by him in the open Street". The local vicar Thomas Thwaite was a notorious persecutor of Quakers. A burial ground was in use in Askwith from c.1660, on land owned by Edmund Greenwood, and in 1665...

Society of Friends England Yorkshire History Sources

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Askwith Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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