Records of Harrogate Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1864-1907.
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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...
Harrogate Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.
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There was a community of Quakers in Harrogate and district in the late 17th century. The cases of John Hogg, who was put in the stocks for "speaking to the Priest at Rippon" in 1657, and Isabel Hogg, who was imprisoned in 1664 for non-payment of tithes, are both recorded by Besse. However the town did not have an independent Meeting and came within the orbit of neighbouring Knaresborough. In the 1820s and 1830s, travelling ministers such as Elizabeth Robson (1771-1843) and James Backhouse (1774-...
