Records of Leeds : Carlton Hill Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1672-1989.

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Records of Leeds : Carlton Hill Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1672-1989.

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brown, Isaac T. H.

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Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends

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There is strong evidence for a Quarterly Meeting being held in Yorkshire in December 1665; however the first full series of Quarterly Meetings took place in March, June, September and December 1666. This pattern continued unbroken to October 1966. After 1966 it was re-named Yorkshire General Meeting. Over the centuries, the following Monthly Meetings have existed within the Quarterly Meeting boundaries: Balby (1669-); Brighouse (1669-); East Riding (1665-1669); Elloughton, later Cave (1669-1784)...

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...

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)

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Wilmington Monthly Meeting was established in 1750 by Chester[Concord] Quarterly Meeting out of Kennett Monthly Meeting (PA). After the Hicksite Separation of 1827, there were two monthly meetings at Wilmington. The Hicksite, or West Street, meeting merged with the Orthodox, or Harrison Street, meeting in 1945, forming a united monthly meeting under the two Concord Quarterly Meetings. Wilmington is currently an active monthly meeting. From the description of A Collection of Christian...

Leeds: Carlton Hill Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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William Dewsbury of Allerthorpe was convinced by George Fox in 1651 and began to travel with Fox through Yorkshire. When Fox made his way towards the north-west, Dewsbury remained to preach in Leeds, and a Meeting was settled soon afterwards. Meetings were held in private houses, as well as on Holbeck Moor and Woodhouse Moor. According to Besse, the first instance of a meeting being broken up in Leeds was in 1656; large numbers of arrests at meetings were made during 1683-84, including a raid on...

Gardner, Richard Dawson.

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