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
Information supplied by Edward Watkins, of Fritchley, Derby.
COMMITMENT TO LINCOLN CASTLE (p. 14)
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 Lincoln goal. The same Preist put another Man friend
into prison for tithes, & hee dyed, & his house keeper came through the
chamber where the Preist lay, & he sᵈ good morrow Valentine in a vain
light condition, & tooke her in his armes to salute her & suddainly the
Lord stroak him wᵗʰ death, though he cryed for his bottle of strong
waters but it would not save him, thus the hand of the Lord is agᵗ wicked
men, both old & young, [they] shall perish if they transgress. Atkingson
came to nought alsoe & was taken away suddainly, yet the Lord was with
me in prison though J endured a very cold winter, it was God’s mercy in
preserving me that winter from being starved to death, & this widdow
woman that kept yᵉ goal was full of cruelty towards me & all yᵉ prisoners.
[Endorsement]
An imperfect paper, yet expressing the Manner of her being sent to
Lyncolne Prison: and Gods hand upon yᵉ Priest & Atkinson that were yᵉ
cause of her Jmprisonmᵗ there.
MS. in =D.= (Portfolio i. 136)
[Illustration: LINCOLN CASTLE GATEWAY.
_To face p. 78._] [_See p. vii._]
UNKETTY (page 43)
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.”
A YOUNG MAN OUT OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND (p. 43)
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 them.... They cryed, Away
with him; and some took me by the Throat, and would not suffer me to
answer to it, but hurried me down Stairs, to the Carriage of a great
Gun, which stood in the Market place, where I was stripp’d, and tyed to
the wheel, and whipp’d with ten Stripes ... and then ... whipp’d ... at
Roxbury ... and at Dedham ... and then sent into the Woods.”
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