Elizabeth Hooton : $b First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)Manners, Emily
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Elizabeth Hooton : $b First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)
Manners, Emily
Hooton, Elizabeth, approximately 1600-1672; Quakers -- Biography
She was much swelled and J said let her haue iaire and the
opened the windowes and opened her bodies and then her breath
came and shee looked vp and see me but could not speake. J said
let vs put her into her bed least shee gett cold, and we did
and shee looked vpon me and J her my life rose towards her and
allsoe her life answered mine again with greate Joy betwixt vs
and shee said it is well James thou art come and fastened her
arms aboute me and said blessed be the lord god that has made
vs partakers of those heuenly mercies and more words to the
like effecte and embraced me with a kisse and laid her selfe
Downe and turned her selfe on her side and soe her breath went
weaker and weaker till it was gone from her and soe passed away
as though shee had beene asleep and none knew of her departure
but as her breath was gone....
And so, still in the thick of the fight, far from her home in the quiet
Nottinghamshire village, she fell on sleep. Though her story is so far
removed from our own time, something of that peace enters into our souls
in the knowledge that her long and strenuous life ended in a great calm.
George Fox, writing to Friends from Rhode Island, 19th June, 1672,
says:[145]
Elizabeth Hootton is deceased at Jamaicae ... James Lancaster
was by her and can give an account what words she spoke and of
her Testimony concerneing Truth a farther account I shall give
concerneing her outward things to her Relations but let her
Sonne Oliver gather up all her papers and her sufferings and
send them to London that her life and death may bee printed.
To our lasting regret the latter injunction never appears to have been
carried out, or at any rate the record has been lost, for no history of
her, written by a contemporary, remains, and after the lapse of over two
hundred and forty years there are necessarily many blanks which can
never be filled. George Fox, in his Testimony concerning her, written in
1690, says:[146]
In her Life she was very much Exercised with priests outward
Professours Apostates Backsliders and Profane, for she was
a Godly Woman & had a Great Care Lay upon her for People to
walk in yᵉ Truth that did Profess itt, and from her Receiving
yᵉ Truth she never turned her Back of itt but was fervent &
ffaithfull for it till Death.
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