RT Article
T1 Two Early Quaker Pamphlets from the East of England
JF Quaker studies
VO 29
IS 1
SP 1
OP 10
A1 McArthur, Euan David
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1909623164
AB This research note contextualises, and in one case transcribes, two early pamphlets concerning the Quakers which remain difficult to access. In each, dated 1655 and 1659, we can see crucial early interactions between the movement and outsiders.The earlier, an anti-Quaker work, details a sexual scandal in Norfolk that brought criticism from within and without the movement, including local magistrates and an active puritan community. Though compiled by a critic, the text includes written testimonies by Quakers. The later text concerns a series of disputes at the University of Cambridge, illustrating the development of debating styles between Quakers and scholars, as well as the occasional dislocation between in-person disputes and their transcription. In both cases, Friends set about drawing early dividing lines, in a region of Britain which has often received less scholarly attention.
K1 Cambridge
K1 English Civil War
K1 English Revolution
K1 Puritanism
K1 Quakerism
K1 Theology
DO 10.16995/quaker.16588