Records of Airton Estate Apprenticeship Fund of the Society of Friends. 1624-1903.
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Airton Estate Apprenticeship Fund of the Society of Friends.
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Land at Airton near Skipton was conveyed to trustees over the period 1709-1720 by William (1658-1709) and Alice Ellis (d.1720), the rent to be used to fund apprenticeships for young people. The funds were to be distributed on a three-yearly cycle: in the first year, to poor children from Quaker families within Settle Monthly Meeting; in the second year, to poor children from Quaker families within Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting as a whole; and in the third year, to poor children from families of wh...
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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...
