The Society of Friends, commonly known as 'Quakers' or 'Friends', is a religious soxciety founded in England during the 17th century. Quaker congregations are scattered across the world. Though the number of Quakers has always been rather small, they have shaped the world to a degree far beyond their numbers.
George Fox
George Fox
THOMAS BUDD (1617-1617)
The Somersetshire parish rector who became a Quaker in 1657 and, refusing to take the oath of obedience to the Church of England in 1661, was arrested and died at Ilchester jail in 1670 after nine years of imprisonment.
| 1624 | | Birth of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends | | BAAAGBFT BAAAGBIF | | 1650 | | Followers of George Fox nick-named \'Quakers\' during the course of his trial | | BAAAGBFT BAAAGBIF | | 1656 | | Imprisonment of George Fox, founder of the Quaker sect, at Launceston, Cornwall | | BAAAGCEK BAAAGEAF BAAAGBFR BAAAGBFT BAAAGBHZ BAAAGBIF | | 1656 | | James Nayler, a Quaker, is clamped in the stocks after being convicted of blasphemy, and has his tongue is bored through with a hot iron | | BAAAGCBT | | 1682 | | First Quaker Meeting House in Devon built at Spiceland nr. Uffculme
Built 9 years before the Act of Toleration, 7 of the trustees were imprisoned at Exeter goal | | BAAAGCEI BAAAGEBW BAAAGBAV BAAAGBIF BAAAGDZD | | 1689 | | Act of Toleration: recognizes rights of Baptists , Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Quakers to worship freely
Grants freedom of religious worship to all except Catholics and those denying the Trinity | | BAAAGBIF | | 1691 | | Death of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends | | BAAAGBFT BAAAGBIF | | 1760 | | The Quakers ban slave-trading amongst their followers | | BAAAGCLO | | 1815 | | Present Quaker Meeting House built at Spicland nr. Uffculme, Devon | | BAAAGBEW BAAAGBIF |
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The Beginnings of Quakerism
by William Charles Braithwaite, publisher Cambridge University Press, 1955
Sufferings: A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers 1650-1689
by Besse, publisher London, 1753
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