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Anne Docwra
Anne Docwra born Anne Waldegrave (1624 – 1710) was a Quaker minister, religious writer and philanthropist. Life Docwra was born in Bures, England, Bures in 1624. Her father was William Waldegrave and her grandfather was Sir William Waldegrave (Bures), William Waldegrave. Her family were Royalist and well connected. Her father was a Justice of the Peace and when he found her reading a book that he thought lightweight he encouraged her to learn by reading books about the law. She married James Docwra, who died in 1672. She was a Quaker minister and Quakers in Cambridge met at her house from 1672. In 1680 she gave the Quakers a 1,000 year lease on a yard in Jesus Lane in Cambridge. Jesus Lane Local Quaker Meeting still meets at the meeting house there, which traces its foundation back to 1650. However the current building dates, in part, to 1777 as the meeting house has been rebuilt several times. Docwra wrote several tracts on the subject of religious toleration, including ''A lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bures, England
Bures is a village in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk border, made up of two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Division The place is bisected by the River Stour, the county boundary from the end of its estuary to near its source. The village is most often referred to collectively, as Bures. On the respective banks are two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in the Braintree district of Essex, and Bures St. Mary in the Babergh district of Suffolk. The village is a post town and its pre-1996 (obsolete) postal county was Suffolk. Landmarks and amenities On the left bank is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing eight bells with the largest weighing 21 cwt. They were augmented from six to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the ecclesiastical parish, and thus history before the invention of civil parishes in the 1870s there is no division, save as to county; all falls into Bures St Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
