Collection of Manuscripts relating to the Society of Friends 18th century

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Collection of Manuscripts relating to the Society of Friends 18th century

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb237-coll-499

4 volumes

eng,

Edinburgh University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6294804

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Cruickshank, J

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The Society of Friends, or the Friends Church, or Quakers, are a Christian group which arose in the seventeenth century within the English Puritan movement. The founder was George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham, who began giving sermons in 1643 and formed a group called the Friends of Truth, later becoming known as the Society of Friends. After 1656, the Friends refused to attend Anglican services and stopped paying their tithes. Fox was arrested and a judge told him t...