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ELIZABETH HOOTON

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.

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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, forher contemplated “Life of Elizabeth Hooton” seem to indicatea work of much wider scope than I have attempted. Since herresearch commenced many notable works on the rise of theSociety of Friends have been issued which cover the investigationsmade by her. I have therefore endeavoured to bring together ina collected form the scattered fragments of Elizabeth Hooton’shistory, which are to be found up and down, together with manyof her letters, or extracts from them, which I believe have neverbefore been published.

Many kind friends have materially assisted in the work,and I desire gratefully to acknowledge their services here: toNorman Penney, F.S.A., and the staff at Devonshire House,London, without whose invaluable help I could not have compiledthe little history; to Mrs. Dodsley of Skegby Hall, forher search of the Skegby Manor Rolls, and the Church Registers,also for the illustration of the village which she kindly lent forreproduction; to A. S. Buxton, Esq., for various notes connectedwith the history of the district and for his unfailing help andinterest in the work; to Mrs. Mary G. Swift, of Millbrook, NewYork, for notes of various authorities; to my cousin, EthelBarringer, for her sketch of Lincoln Castle Gateway; and tomy daughter, Rachel L. Manners, for her photograph ofBeckingham Church and her suggestions and advice generally.

For New England History I have drawn largely on Dr.Rufus M. Jones’s recent book, The Quakers in the AmericanColonies, and for the account of the Quaker persecution in thatcountry my authority has been New England Judged, 1703 edition.

Emily Manners.

Edenbank,
Mansfield.

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