Records of Dacre Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1701-1950
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Darley Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.
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Dacre Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.
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Christopher Taylor was the first to preach the Quaker message in Dacre, but no date is given for this. The sufferings of local Friends are recorded by Besse from 1660 onwards; several were imprisoned in January 1683 by Wetherby Sessions for not attending church and refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Netherdale Meeting, based at Dacre, is first recorded in 1665 as part of Skipton Monthly Meeting. In 1669 it became a constituent of Knaresborough Monthly Meeting. Its leading members were Henr...