FIRST QUAKER WOMAN PREACHER (1600-1672) BY EMILY MANNERS WITH NOTES, ETC., BY NORMAN PENNEY, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. London: HEADLEY BROTHERS, Bishopsgate, E.C. American Agents: DAVID S. TABER, 144 East 20th Street, New York. VINCENT D. NICHOLSON, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. GRACE W. BLAIR, Media, Pa. 1914. This volume is issued as Supplement 12 to THE JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY...

The Notes collected by the late Mary Radley, of Warwick, for her contemplated “Life of Elizabeth Hooton” seem to indicate a work of much wider scope than I have attempted. Since her research commenced many notable works on the rise of the Society of Friends have been issued which cover the investigations made by her. I have therefore endeavoured to bring together in a collected form the scattered fragments of Elizabeth Hooton’s history, which are to be found up and down, together with many of he

D. = The Friends’ Reference Library, at Devonshire House, 136, Bishopsgate, London, E.C. A.R.B. MSS. = A collection of two hundred and fifty Letters of early Friends, 1654 to 1688, so named because worked over by Abram Rawlinson Barclay in 1841. In D. Camb. Jnl. = The Journal of George Fox , Cambridge ed., 1911. D.N.B. = Dictionary of National Biography , 68 vols., 1885-1904. F.P.T. = “ The First Publishers of Truth ,” being early Records (now first printed) of the Introduction of Quakerism into

Travelling on through some parts of Leicestershire and into Nottinghamshire, I met with a tender people, and a very tender woman whose name was Elizabeth Hooton. Journal of George Fox. Such is our introduction to the earliest convert of George Fox: one who was destined to travel far in the service of Truth and whose steadfastness, determination, fearlessness and patience are unconsciously revealed in the numerous letters which she wrote. No insignificant place was hers in the long and bitter str

Longfellow , New England Tragedies , Prologue to “Endicott.” We owe to their heroic devotion the most priceless of our treasures, our perfect liberty of thought and speech; and all who love our country’s freedom may well reverence the memory of those martyred Quakers, by whose death and agony the battle in New England has been won. Brooke Adams , Emancipation of Massachusetts . Fierce and cruel as was the persecution in England it was far exceeded by the tortures which awaited the first Quaker m

It is easy for us, at this comfortable distance, in an ordered society in which one believes what he wants to believe—or peradventure believes nothing at all—to say that these Friends walked of their own accord into the lion’s den.... That is undoubtedly true, but it indicates a superficial acquaintance with the spirit of these Quakers.... They would have preferred the life of comfort to the hard prison and the gallows rope if they could have taken the line of least resistance with inward peace,

As to the reason why I write some remarkable Passages of my Sufferings for Truth, and also the great Things which the Lord hath wrought for me, both in supporting me therein, and delivering me out of. I say these Things are wrote, that my Children and others may be encouraged to be faithful to the Lord, and valiant for the Truth upon the Earth; for for that Cause it came into my Mind, to tell unto others how good the Lord hath been unto me, for which I am deeply engaged to Praise his great Name.

Several writers on Elizabeth Hooton have stated that her husband was Samuel : James Bowden, Hist. i. 260; A. C. Bickley in D.N.B. ; Charlotte Fell Smith in The British Friend , 1893. Mrs. Manners has come to the conclusion that Elizabeth’s husband was Oliver . She thus states her case: 1. Though an exhaustive search of the Nottinghamshire Parish Registers has been made, I failed to find any marriage of a Samuel Hooton to Elizabeth ⸺ in any years when it would possibly have occurred. 2. At Ollert

The name of Noah Bullock does not appear in the list of Mayors of Derby given in William Hutton’s History of Derby , ed. of 1791, but the following curious allusion to Bullock occurs in the same work, page 236: “1676—We sometimes behold that singularity of character which joyfully steps out of the beaten track for the sake of being ridiculous; thus the Barber, to excite attention, exhibited in his window green, blue and yellow wigs, and thus Noah Bullock, enraptured with his name, that of the fi

Lyncolnshere. J was gon out of becingham, & was gone to barnbe in Nottingham shire, & as J was warneing some to repent in yᵉ towne, there come a wicked man forth whose name was Atkingson, a proud man, he stroake me unreasonably, then pul’d he me out of my way over a bridge & when J was over he sent to the Preist of becingham to serve his warrant upon me, & wᵗʰ his warrant he sent me to the Justice, & the Justice being a wicked man he sent me to prison to L

An enquiry addressed to Augustine Jones, LL.B., of Newton Highlands, Mass., has brought the following information: Unquity, or Unquity-quisset was the Indian name for Dorchester, which, in 1662, was incorporated as Milton. It is across the Neponset River from Boston, on the somewhat indirect way from Cambridge to Scituate. Unquity means “a place at the end of the small tidal stream or creek.”...

This was probably Thomas Newhouse, whose name is included in a list of English Friends visiting N.E., 1661 to 1671 (in the possession of William C. Braithwaite, Banbury, Oxon). The incident is associated with the name of Thomas Newhouse in the histories of Bishop, Besse and Bowden. In Newhouse’s own account of the event and its results, given by Bishop ( op. cit. p. 472), we read: “Upon a Lecture-day at Boston in New-England, I was much pressed in Spirit to go into their Worship-house amongst th

The materials with which to re-erect the house of Hooton are scattered and difficult to identify; the frequent use of the same fore-name is a source of danger; but we venture to place before our readers such facts as at present see the light, in the hope that later research will be aided thereby. Samuel, son of Oliver and Elizabeth Hooton, was baptized at Ollerton in 1633. The hand of persecution rested upon him in early life; we find him in prison in Nottingham in 1660 for refusing to take the

“It was not the people of Massachusetts—it was Endicott and the Clergy”—who persecuted the Quakers.— John Fiske , Beginnings of New England , 1895. [1] The General History of the Quakers , by Gerard Crœse, 1696, pt. 1, p. 37. [2] Dr. Robert Thoroton, J.P. (1623-1678), published his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1677. He appears in Besse’s Sufferings as a persecutor of Friends in Notts. D.N.B. ; Cropper, Sufferings , 1892, quoting Brown’s Worthies of Nottinghamshire . [3] John Throsby (1740-1

False Prophets and False Teachers described [1652]. To the King and both Houses of Parliament [1670]. A Short Relation concerning William Simpson , 1671. Hooton MSS. in D. (Portfolio iii.) 1653-1671. This is a collection of seventy-nine MSS., one only, or at most two, in the handwriting of the Author, but all of contemporary date. They are, in the main, addresses to persons in authority or position—Cromwell, the Mayor of London, the Lord Chamberlain, the Bishops of London and Canterbury, the Kin

Gerard Crœse , The General History of the Quakers , 1696, pt. I, p. 37. John Whiting , Truth and Innocency Defended , 1702. George Bishop , New England Judged , 1703. J. H. Feustking , Gynaeceum Haeretico Fanaticum , 1704. William Edmondson , Journal , 1715. William Sewel , The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers , 1722. [ William Gibson ] Saul’s Errand to Damascus , 1728, p. 34. Joseph Besse , Sufferings of the Quakers , 2 vols., 1753. John Gough ,