Records of Thornton le-Clay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1761-1911.
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Thornton le-Clay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.
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Barton Meeting was first recorded in 1669, as part of Malton Monthly Meeting. It took in a group of villages to the south west of Malton, including Crambe, Bulmer, Sheriff Hutton, Strensall and Thornton-le-Clay, as well as Barton. Its members included Christopher Halliday, Thomas Agar, Ralph Green, John Hicks, Christopher Hardisty, Michael Nicholson, John Pickering and Thomas Scott. Goods worth 21 pounds were taken from John Hicks in 1670/1 for hosting a meeting at his house in Sheriff Hutton. M...
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...
