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
[101] Patrick Livingstone (????-1694) was born at Angus in Scotland,
and was convinced in the North of England in 1658. He travelled in the
ministry with James Halliday (_F.P.T._ 201). In later years he lived in
Nottingham and London. See _Jnl. F.H.S._ vii. 184.
[102] Given in his _Truth Owned_, 1667, pp. 6ff.
[103] Justice Matthew Babington lived at Rotherby, Leics. He was an
ancestor of Lord Macaulay. Mary Radley states that he was the “Some
Justice” addressed by E. Hooton (=D.= Portfolio iii. 6). He appears in
Besse’s book of _Sufferings_ as a persecutor (i. 335).
[104] See _Jnl. F.H.S._ v. 140.
[105] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 33), dated “13ᵗʰ day of 6ᵗʰ Month
1667,” and endorsed: “El. Hooton to some Spirits who were gone out from
yᵉ trueth.” At the close of the paper occur the names: “Eliza: Barnes &
Rose Atkinson” (see Camb. _Jnl._).
[106] Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1697/8) and John Reeve (1608-1658)
announced themselves the “two witnesses” of Rev. xi. 3. The sect of the
Muggletonians was never very numerous, but it still exists, sharing with
the Quakers the distinction of being the only survivals of those numerous
religious bodies which sprang into existence during Commonwealth times.
[107] _A Volume of Spiritual Epistles written by John Reeve and Lodowicke
Muggleton_, printed 1755, reprinted 1820, p. 227.
[108] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 67) This is printed at the end of
addresses to the King, and to the King and both Houses of Parliament, by
Thomas Taylor. The first is dated 1st of December, 1670.
[109] The Conventicle Act of 1664. For particulars of its working see
_F.P.T._ 357.
[110] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 53)
[111] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 52)
[112] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 69)
[113] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 73)
[114] Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester (1602-1671), was Lord
Chamberlain at this time, having been appointed in 1660 (_D.N.B._).
[115] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii, 11) It is endorsed: “To yᵉ Lᵈ
Chamberlane for Release of Prisonᵉʳˢ & justice to her selfe.”
[116] Henry Grey (1599?-1673), created Earl of Stamford in 1628.
(_D.N.B._) He was a Leicestershire nobleman. His son, John Grey, is
mentioned later.
[117] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 47)
[118] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 17), endorsed: “To yᵉ Duke of York
desiring an Answer to her former papers, & pressing for justice to her
selfe.”
[119] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 44)
[120] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 57)
[121] William Dewsbury (1621-1688), Thomas Goodaire (????-1693), and
Henry Jackson (????-1727), were prominent Friends of the early day.
Dewsbury spent nigh twenty years of his life within prison walls.
Francis Howgill (1618-1668/9) was of Westmorland. He died in Appleby
Jail. Thomas Taylor (c. 1617-1681/2), a Yorkshireman, spent long years in
prison for conscience sake.
[122] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 56)
[123] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 55)
[124] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 60)
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