Records of Dacre Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1700-1714.

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Records of Dacre Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1700-1714.

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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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...

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...