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An autobiographical journal records a personal spiritual awakening and the subsequent life of itinerant ministry, describing widespread travel to preach, debates with religious leaders, and repeated imprisonments for refusing conventional worship practices. It sets out a theology centered on inward guidance and immediate access to the divine, rejecting priestly mediation and advocating religious toleration and social equality. The narrative blends episodic travel accounts, letters, sermons, and prison reports to show how convictions shaped social encounters and institutional responses. Episodes of suffering and perseverance illustrate the costs and communal foundations of a movement that emphasized plain speech, simple worship, and the primacy of inward experience.

Abrahams, Galenus, 556

Amsterdam, 551

Audland, John, 154


Baltimore Yearly Meeting, see Maryland Yearly Meeting.

Baptists, 18-20

Barbadoes, 488-492

Barclay, Robert, 549

Barnet, 69

"Battledore, The," 386, 406

Beavor, Vale of, 94, 98

Believers, true, 74

Bennet, Justice, 125, 126

Beverley, 136

Bishop, George, 223

Blood of Christ, 91

Bradstreet, Simon, 378

Bristol, 272, 331, 392, 468, 535

Bunyan, John, 19, 26

Burnyeat, John, 498, 508, 547

Burrough, Edward, 157, 374, 402


Cambridge, 228

Carlisle, 186-191

Carlyle, his characterization of Fox, 67n, 139n

Carolina, 525-528

Charles II., Fox's letter to, 354

Church, The, what it is, 92, 145, 447

Claypole, Lady (Cromwell's daughter), 320

Clergy, 40

Coale, Josiah, 515n

Colchester, 224

Commonwealth Period, its importance, 16

Conventicle Act, 470, 474

Cork, 465

Cornwall, 238

Craddock, Dr. (of Coventry), 72

Cradock, Dr., an Episcopalian, 445ff

Cromwell, 212-215, 267, 275, 276, 319, 324, 325

Crook, John, 228, 317

Croslands, Jordan, 454

Cumberland, 181


Dales, The, 151

Dates, given in "old style," 69n

Delaware River, 501

Derby, 119ff;
Fox imprisoned a year, 121n, 131, 336

Desborough, General, 243

Doomsdale in Launceston Jail, 255

Drayton-in-the-Clay, 65, 203

Dunbar, 314


Edinburgh, 302-306, 313

Edmundson, William, 232, 494, 499, 510, 532

Education, views on, 37, 461

Edwards, Thomas, his "Gangræna," 19, 20, 21

Elizabeth, the Princess, 551

Endicott, Governor John, 375

Eton in Derbyshire, 95

Exeter, 269, 279


Falmouth (Smethick), 240

Farnsworth, Richard, 151, 164

Fell, Judge, 162ff, 164n, 168, 174ff, 295

Fell, Leonard, 162

Fell, Margaret (afterwards Margaret Fox), 160, 162, 351, 352n, 353, 368, 404, 405, 409;
a prisoner, 417, 421ff, 433;
marries George Fox, 468ff, 482;
her children, 536n

Fenny-Drayton, 65n, 203

Fifth-monarchy men, 23, 364, 367, 384

Flushing, 502

Foreign mission work, early, 385

Fox, Christopher, 65, 208

Fox, George, his creative power, 24;
the prophet of English Reformation, 24;
his "despair," 26;
turning point in his life, 27;
views of the Bible, 29;
his mysticism, 31;
enthusiasm, 32;
Divine Guidance, 33;
his view of man, 34;
a reformer, 35;
views of Education, 37;
on Predestination, 40;
his cures, 41;
his "Society," 42;
his fellow-workers, 43;
parentage, birth, early life, 65-67;
"leather suit," 67, 139;
leaves home, 68;
"despair," 69;
his experiences, 72-82;
his financial means, 74;
conversion, 82-85;
his sense of conditions, 87;
psychical change, 87;
the "flaming sword," 97;
new view of creation, 97;
his central teaching, 101;
his message, 101-105, 140, 155, 162;
first imprisonment, 110;
cures an hysteric woman, 112;
in Derby jail, 121ff;
at Lichfield, 132-134;
value of his preaching, 141;
his iron constitution, 144n;
beaten and stoned, 146;
Swarthmore, 159;
beaten at Ulverstone, 169ff;
beaten at Walney, 172ff;
how he bore persecution, 174;
his cures, 180n;
his discerning, 184;
sings in prison, 191;
visits Cromwell, 212-215 (see also Cromwell);
in Launceston jail and his trial, 244-268;
moved to travel over the nation, 277;
preaches three hours, 284 (see also 155, 184, 274);
long hair, 293;
his brave spirit, 311;
use of the Bible, 327;
his eyes, 344 (see also 187, 557);
imprisoned at Lancaster, 430ff;
in Scarborough, 439;
set free, 453;
power of organizing, 459;
marries Margaret Fell, 468ff;
ill at Stratford (Essex), 477;
sails for America, 484;
sails for England, 531;
last imprisonment, 540ff;
death, 578

Fox, Mary, 66, 539

Friends, beginning of the, 70n;
name, 77n

Friends set at liberty, 574

Furly, Benj., 550


Glasgow, 306

Glynne, Justice, 245

Goldsmith, Ralph, 374

Gospel, what is the, 403


Hacker, Colonel, 209, 369

Hale, Edward Everett, on "prophets," 24n

"Hat honor," 105ff, 197, 245, 248, 410

Holder, Christopher, 511, 512

Holiness, a life of (see Perfection, Christian), 85, 120ff

Holland, 548-553, 571

Hooton, Elizabeth, 79n, 494, 495

Hotham, Justice, 22, 135-137, 141, 146

Howgill, Francis, 154, 168

Huntingdon, Robert, at Carlisle, 371


Imprisonments of Friends, 277

Independency, 17

Indians, 499, 501, 510, 515, 519

Inward Light (see Light, the).

Ireland, 463-467


Jails, condition of, 192, 193, 256, 372, 430

Jamaica, 494

James, William, on the "Quaker Religion," 25n

Jersey, East, 512

Jersey, West, 501

John ap-John, 199, 280, 283, 285, 287ff, 293


Keith, George, 549, 556-558

Kendal, 156, 166

"King's Missive" (mandamus sent to Boston), 374-377

Kirby, Colonel, 403, 409, 412


Lampitt, "a priest," 159-161, 169

Lancaster, 164ff, 344-356, 410

Lancaster, James, 172ff, 183ff;
sings, 399, 499, 504

Launceston, 244-268

"Leathern breeches," 139

Leicester, a dispute at, 92, 396

Lichfield, 132-134

Light, the, 29, 100-104, 162, 196, 238, 283, 310, 315

"Little Ease," 372n

London, 70, 275, 277 et seq., 319-325, 471-476, 559, 564, 568, 575-578

Lower, Thomas, 265, 536, 538


Mancetter, 72

Manchester, 293

Mansfield, 95

Marriage, Friends' ceremony upheld by the courts, 387

Maryland, 498-501, 531-533

Maryland (Baltimore) Yearly Meeting begun, 98, 499, 520

"Meeting for Sufferings," 340

Meetings, setting up of Monthly, 459, 461

Ministers (Friends that speak in public), advice to, 203n

Ministry, 38

Monk, General, his order, 355


Nancemond, 524

Narragansett, 508

Nayler, James, 147, 164, 168, 172-174, 234, 269-271

New Castle, 501, 517

New England, Quakers in, 373

New England Yearly Meeting, 504

New York Half-Year's Meeting, 502

Nottingham, 109


Oaths, Act in regard to refusing to take oaths, 395

"Opened," meaning of the term, 74n

Ordinances, 39

Owen, Dr. John, 276

Oxford and Cambridge education not enough to qualify men to be ministers, 75

Oyster Bay, 511


Packer, Colonel, 216ff

Parker, Alexander, 309, 310ff, 571

Parnell, James, 191, 192, 224

Patrington, 142-144

Pendle Hill, 150

Penington, Isaac, 317n, 325

Penn, William, on Fox, 44, 516n, 536, 547, 540, 556-558, 565

Perfection, Christian (see Holiness), 97, 101, 120ff, 333

Persecution of Friends in New England, 373, 379

Poland, letter to King of, 560

Presbyterianism, 17

"Priest," meaning of the word, 67n

Prison, number of Friends in, 389

"Professor," meaning of the word, 68n

Pronouns, use of plural, 197, 380ff

Providence, 507


Quaker, origin of the name, 125, 125n

Quaker honesty, 198


Ranters, 22, 78n, 116-117

Ranters in New England, 506

Reading, 223ff

Reckless, John, 110

Religious states, various, 318

Rhode Island, 504-09

Rotterdam, 550


Sale, Richard, 371

Sawrey, Justice, 161, 163, 169, 175

Scarborough, 439ff

Schools, establishing, 37, 461

Scotland, 298-316

Scriptures, the, 103, 109, 176

Sect, Quakers not a, 349n

"Seekers, The," 20-22

"Shake the country ten miles round," who could, 149

Shattuck, Samuel, 374

Shelter Island, 509

Shrewsbury, N. J., 513

Sixty ministers sent out, 201

Smethick (Falmouth), 240

Smith, William, 397

Sommerton, 525, 528

Speaking in a house of worship, 161n, 182n

Stephens, Nathaniel, a "priest," , 76, 203-206, 211

Stoddard, Amor, 90

Sufferings of Friends, 369; in New England, 373-379, 389;
petition to the king, 389

Swannington, 394

Swarthmore, 159, 166ff, 179, 295, 297, 342, 403

Swarthmore Meeting House, 164


Taylor, Thomas, 168, 200, 284

"Thou and Thee," 380-382

"Truth," meaning of, 407n


Ulverstone, 166, 169ff


Vane, Sir Henry, 328

Virginia, 524, 529


Wales, 199, 280, 282-293

Walney, 172

War, Fox's view of, 128, 130

Warwick, 230

Wensleydale, 151

West, Justice, 176ff, 295

Westmoreland, 154

Widders, Robert, 298, 307, 309, 311, 313, 341, 494, 499

Wilkinson and Story, 537n, 555

Williams, Roger, 547

Women, their position in the church, 19, 537

Women preachers, 19

Worcester, 539

Worship, 38


Yearly Meetings, at Luton (1658), 317;
Balby, 337;
Skipton (1659), 340, 483

York, 138

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