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Valiant Sixty
The Valiant Sixty were a group of early activists and itinerant preachers in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Mainly from northern England, they spread the ideas of the Friends in the second half of the 17th century. They were also called First Publishers of Truth. In fact they numbered more than 60. Some prominent members *George Fox is often considered the founder of the Friends movement. Some historians see him as one among several people with similar religious ideas who eventually banded together. He outlasted some of the other leaders, and his speeches and journal were very influential. *Margaret Fell was one of the earliest sponsors of Fox and the Friends movement. She opened her home, Swarthmoor Hall, to Quaker meetings. She later married Fox. *Edward Burrough was an early preacher and apologist for the Friends who held a pamphlet debate with John Bunyan. * Mary Fisher was a preacher and missionary who travelled to the New World and to Turkey to spread Friends bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religious Society Of Friends
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to experience the light within or see "that of God in every one". Some profess a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with evangelical, holiness, liberal, and traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity. There are also Nontheist Quakers, whose spiritual practice does not rely on the existence of God. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers, 49% of them in Africa. Some 89% of Quakers worldwide belong to ''evangelical'' and ''programmed'' branches that hold services with singing and a prepared Bible message coordinated by a pastor. Some 11% practice ''waiting worship'' or ''unprogrammed wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Atkinson (missionary)
Christopher Atkinson ( fl. 1652-5, dates of birth and death unknown) was an early Quaker missionary from Westmorland and one of the Valiant Sixty The Valiant Sixty were a group of early activists and itinerant preachers in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Mainly from northern England, they spread the ideas of the Friends in the second half of the 17th century. They were also call .... Already married, he caused a minor scandal among the Society by attempting to seduce another woman.H. Larry Ingle: ''First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism'' (Oxford: OUP, 1996, p. 127/ref> References {{DEFAULTSORT:Atkinson, Christopher (missionary) English Quakers Converts to Quakerism 17th-century English people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stubbs (Quaker)
John Stubbs (c.1618–1675) was an itinerant English Quaker minister and author who engaged in a well-known debate with Roger Williams in Rhode Island. Stubbs had received a liberal education and was fluent in several languages, including Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.Roger Williams, ''George Fox Digg’d out of his Burrowes or an offer of Disputation on fourteen Proposals made this last Summer of 1672 unto G. Fox then present on Rode-Island in New England'' (Printed in Boston by John Foster 1676, republished by Russell & Russeull, NY 1963, Volume Five, Writing of Roger Williams), p. 38 Stubbs served as a soldier in Cromwell's army and was stationed in the Carlisle garrison where George Fox was imprisoned in 1653 and Fox converted Stubbs to the Quaker beliefs.Friends Intelligencer, Volume 16, (1859 – Society of Friends) p. 531 Stubbs refused to take an oath of fidelity to Cromwell in 1654 as against his Quaker beliefs, so he left the army that year. In Lancashire in 1660, Stubbs tried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gough (natural Philosopher)
John Gough ( ; 17 January 1757 – 28 July 1825) was a blind English natural and experimental philosopher who is known for his own investigations as well as the influence he had on both John Dalton and William Whewell. Life John Gough was born in Kendal, Westmorland, on 17 January 1757, the eldest child of Nathan Gough (d. 1800) and his wife, Susannah (1731–1798). Gough's father was a wool dyer and shearman dyer, while his mother was the eldest daughter of John Wilson, a prosperous farmer with an estate on the west bank of Windermere. Nathan and Susannah Gough had three sons and four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. The family belonged to the Society of Friends, whose communities flourished in Cumberland and Westmorland during this period. Before he was three years old, Gough was attacked by smallpox and lost his sight. In his childhood he expended much effort in developing his sense of touch and hearing, and appears to have been especially eager to learn to recognize ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Parnell
James Parnel or Parnell (baptised 1636 – 1656) was an English Quaker preacher and author. As a teenager he became a nonconformist, visited George Fox in prison in 1653, and joined the Society of Friends. He is known as "The Boy Martyr". Personal life Parnell was born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the son of Thomas and Sarah Parnell, and was apprenticed to his father. His parents were well off and he was sent to the town's grammar school, King Edward VI Grammar School, (which was fee paying). Religious life According to the Reverend WP McFerran of Retford, writing in ''The Retford Times'' in 1947, at the age of 15 Parnell became concerned about his soul. He found "no satisfaction" amongst the priests of Retford so left home to travel. In Balby he came across a group that “waited together in silence to become instruments in the hand of the Lord”. This group were forerunners of the Society of Friends or Quakers. When he was 16, Parnell walked 150 miles from Retford to Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Parker (Quaker)
Alexander Parker (21 June 1628 – 8 March 1689) was a Quaker preacher and author.ODNB article by Richard L. Greaves, "Parker, Alexander (1628–1689)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 200accessed 15 May 2008/ref> He was born on 21 June 1628 at Chipping, Lancashire, England the son of Robert Parker. He was convinced and became a Quaker preacher, travelling widely in England and Scotland. He wrote: *''A Testimony of the Light Within'' (1657) *''A Discovery of Satans Wiles'' (1657) *''Testimony of the Appearance of God'' (1658) *''A Tryall of a Christian'' (1658) *''A Call out of Egypt'' (1659) *'' A Testimony of Truth'' (1659) *''An Epistle to Friends'' (1660) Parker was one of eighty-four Quakers who founded the six-weeks' meeting for the management of Quaker affairs, in October 1671. On 8 August 1683 he, with George Whitehead, and Gilbert Latey, presented an address to King Charles II of England at Windsor on behal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lawson (botanist)
Thomas Lawson (1630–1691) was an English botanist and Quaker. Life Lawson was born 10 October 1630 at Lawkland, in the parish of Clapham, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Lawson. Educated at Giggleswick School, the local grammar school, he was admitted sizar of Christ's College, Cambridge 25 July 1650. Lawson apparently dropped out of university, although his brother completed a course. Lawson became an adept in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. At some point in the early 1650s he became a clergyman at Rampside, a village on the Furness Peninsula. The village had a chapel of ease and was part of the parish of Dalton. During this period, although the Church of England was retained, episcopacy was suppressed and there was tolerance of independent churches. George Fox visited him at Rampside in 1652, and was invited to preach. Lawson soon after became convinced of the unlawfulness of preaching for hire, and at twenty-three gave up his living to join the Quakers. He was fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holme
Thomas Holme (1624–1695) was the first Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. He laid out the first and original plan for the city of Philadelphia. Holme was one of the Valiant Sixty, a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Life Holme was born in Lancashire, England, on November 3, 1624, to a yeoman named George and his wife Alice (née Whiteside). He married Sarah Croft in 1649, and soon enlisted in the army under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, where he attained the rank of captain. It may have been in the army that he gained some experience in surveying. After retiring he was granted more than 4,000 acres (16 km²) in County Wexford, Ireland, which was then under the control and colonization of England. At some point he joined the Quaker movement in Ireland, reputedly converted by George Fox, founder of the sect. There he met fellow Quaker William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. In 1682, Penn wrote to Holme from the colony as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Goodaire
Thomas Goodaire (c. 1620 - ?) was an early member of the Society of Friends and an associate of George Fox. He may have come from Wakefield.''The Journal of George Fox'', p. 73 He was later imprisoned in Warwick, and is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty The Valiant Sixty were a group of early activists and itinerant preachers in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Mainly from northern England, they spread the ideas of the Friends in the second half of the 17th century. They were also call .... Sources *''The Journal of George Fox'' References 17th-century English people English Quakers Converts to Quakerism {{England-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Farnsworth (Society Of Friends)
Richard Farnworth or Farnsworth (died 1666) was an English Quaker writer of tracts. Life Farnworth was born in the north of England, and appears to have been a labouring man. In 1651 he attended the Quaker yearly meeting at Balby in Yorkshire, where he resided, when he was convinced by the preaching of George Fox. Joining the Society of Friends, became a minister. For some time he seems to have attached himself to Fox, with whom he visited Swarthmore in 1652. During this year he interrupted a congregation at a church in or near Wakefield, but was permitted to leave without molestation. In 1655 Farnworth was put out of a church in Worcester for asking a question of Richard Baxter, who was preaching, and in the same year was imprisoned at Banbury for not raising his hat to the mayor. He was offered his release if he would pay the gaoler's fees, which he refused to do on the ground that his imprisonment was illegal, when he was offered the oath of abjuration, and on his declining to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dewsbury
William Dewsbury (c. 1621–1688) was an English Quaker minister and religious writer in the early period of the movement. He was born in Allerthorpe, Yorkshire, around 1621. Little is known of his parents or education, except that his father died when he was eight years old. Early life Dewsbury studied both scripture and other religious texts from an early age. Until around the age of 13 he worked as a shepherd in Allerthorpe, after which he became an apprentice to a weaver in Holbeck. In 1642, his brief experience in the English Civil War, Parliamentary Army led him to reject fighting with "carnall" weapons on religious grounds. Dewsbury travelled to Edinburgh, having become interested in Presbyterianism, but was disappointed by the formality of the Scottish faith. It is unknown when Dewsbury married, but a date of around 1649 has been proposed. It is known that his wife, whose first name was Ann, came from York, and that they were marriage, married in an Anabaptist ceremony. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Blaykling
Ann(e) Blaykling (''fl.'' 1652–1708) was an early preacher for the Quakers. Ministry She met George Fox in May 1652 when he preached in Sedbergh and he came to stay at Draw-Well farm where Anne lived with her brother, John, and her father Thomas Blaykling. Ann's brother was a Puritan minister but it was John and Ann who became Quaker evangelists after hearing George Fox preach. Ann travelled in the south east and spread the word as far as Cornwall. She and similar early preachers were called the "First Publishers of Truth". In Cornwall she so alarmed one woman that she declared that she was "no woman, but a man". She was arrested and imprisoned several times including being imprisoned in Bury St Edmunds by order of Sir Thomas Barnardiston. She was charged with abusing the minister at Haverhill. She stood up to the baptist John Bunyan John Bunyan (; baptised 30 November 162831 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
