Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange EventsBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Legends -- England -- Yorkshire; Yorkshire (England) -- Miscellanea
Dunhill had received his ticket of freedom at Sydney two or three years
before this, and had then removed to Van Dieman's Land, where his wife
and daughter were settled.
There is a strange irony in facts. Sally Dunhill, who had been unable to
rear one of her own children in morality and honesty, so impressed on
the people of Hobart Town that she was a saintly woman by her vociferous
prayers and familiarity with Holy Scripture, that she was employed in
teaching at a day-school, and was entrusted with the education of
children in those paths she had never trodden herself. The residue of
her time was spent in making penny pies, which Snowden hawked about the
town.
Snowden Dunhill gradually sank into habitual drunkenness, and was
suspected of reverting to his old tricks of petty larceny. When he died
is not known.
FOOTNOTE:
[7] "The Life of Snowden Dunhill, written by Himself." Howden, 1833.
JAMES NAYLOR,
THE QUAKER.[8]
James Naylor was born at East Ardsley, near Wakefield, in 1616. He was
the son of a small farmer, whose house was near the old church. He
received a passable education in reading, writing, and arithmetic. In
1628, when he was aged twenty-two, he married, and settled in Wakefield
parish. He was a diligent reader of the Scriptures, and zealous as an
Independent. He spent about three years at Wakefield, and then joined
the Parliamentary army as a private in 1641. He rose to become
quartermaster of his regiment under Major-General Lambert, but in 1649,
on account of ill-health, he was obliged to leave the army and return to
Wakefield. The pulpits of the Established Church were now in the hands
of Independent ministers, and that of Horbury, near Wakefield, was
occupied by the "godly and painful Master Marshall," under whom James
Naylor sat and groaned with unction.
But Naylor relaxed his religious exercises on visits to a Mrs. Roper at
Horbury, a lady whose husband had been for some time absent. When this
lady became a mother by James Naylor, the Rev. Mr. Marshall thought it
necessary to expose him, and Naylor, indignant with his Independent
minister, joined the sect of the Quakers, then founded by George Fox. In
1652 he went on a religious visitation to the West, and in 1655 he
visited London, in which city a meeting of Quakers had been established
by the ministry of Edward Burrough and Francis Howgill, two men of
Westmoreland.
Naylor prophesied in the meeting with so great applause that several
women began to exalt him above Burrough and Howgill, and disturbed the
latter when they attempted to speak. The two ministers reproved the
women, and they in dudgeon complained to Naylor, and he encouraged them
in their opposition to Burrough and Howgill. Two of these women, Martha
Symonds and Hannah Stranger, became his most devoted adherents, and
followed him in all his wanderings.
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