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The Authorities and Early Restoration Quakerism

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Barry Reay
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The Restoration was a victory for the governing classes, a victory for social stability and discipline. Dissent, the gentry argued, led to republicanism and social disintegration: Anglicanism and the monarchy meant order. Yet despite the ease with which Charles it returned in 1660 and the relative lack of bloodshed which accompanied his restoration, it was by no means certain that the settlement would be anything more than transitory. God, in his infinite and impenetrable

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 69 - 84
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19 Swarthmore MS iv. 195. By the end of the seventeenth century German pamphlets were referring to the rebel leader Thomas Venner as head of the Quakers and describing the rising as a Quaker rebellion: Historia Fanaticorum, Frankfurt 1701, illustrations between pp. 70 and 71.

20 Dorset Record Office, P155/CW 130 (Sherborne Churchwardens’ Accounts, 1661). I owe this reference to the Senior Assistant Archivist.

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28 14 Car. 11 c. 1: ‘Act for preventing the Mischiefs and Dangers that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths’.

29 For the Baptists (in Reading), see Bodleian Library, Clarendon MS 81, fos 182–3.

30 The scare was mainly confined to London, though the Quakers reported a state of alarm in Cornwall. Monthly Intelligence, n.p. 1662, passim; A Brief Relation, London 1662Google ScholarPubMed, passim; Diary of Samuel Pepys, eds Latham, R. and Matthews, W. (London 1970)Google Scholar, iii. 165, 236, 245; Life of Thomas Ellwood, 137ff; Swarthmore MSS i. 44, iii. 182; F.H.L., Charles Lloyd MS, p. 21.

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35 P.R.O., Assi. 2/1 (Assizes, Oxford Circuit Gaol Book 1656–78), fos 78, 80, 81v, 99v; P.R.O., Chester 24/133/2, 134/1, 3, 4 (Cheshire Assize Rolls).

36 Brief Relation, 13, 19.

37 C.R.O., QJB/10a (Quarter Sessions Indictments and Presentments 1654–62), July 1662; C.R.O., QJF 90/4/3, 96, 91/1/110, 91/3/15, 22, 23, 33 (Quarter Sessions Files 1662–3); Lancashire Record Office (hereafter cited as L.R.O.), QSP 253/2 (Quarter Sessions Petitions); K.R.O., ‘Kendal Indictment Book 1655–68’, 16 Jan. Chas 11.9 Oct., 15 Jan. 15 Chas 11, 2 April 16 Chas ii; K.R.O., ‘Applcby Indictment Book 1661–85’, Mich. 1662, Hilary 1663, Easter 1664; Wiltshire Record Office (hereafter cited as W.R.O.), Quarter Sessions Great Rolls, Trinity 1662/101, Mich. 1662/182. Hilary 1662/196, Trinity 1663/141, Easter 1664/156; S.R.O., DD/SFR 8/1, pt ii, fos 12–19V; Middlesex Courtly Records, ed. J. C. Jeaffreson (Middlesex County Rec. Soc, 1888), iii. 322; Greater London Record Office (hereafter cited as G.L.R.O.), MF/SBB/197 (Middlesex Sessions Book, May 1662), 29, 30, 33; G.L.R.O., MJ/SBB/199 (Middlesex Sessions Book, July 1662), 31; G.L.R.O., MJ/GBR/6 (Middlesex Gaol Delivery Registers 1656–72), fos 146V, 148V-149V, 151V; Norfolk Record Office (hereafter cited as N.R.O.), ‘Norwich Quarter Sessions Indictment Files 1654–64’, Vol. 74/36; N.R.O., ‘Quarter Sessions Minute Book 1654–70’, March 1663/4; Essex Record Office (hereafter cited as E.R.O.), Q/S R 394/126, 128; Kent Archives Office (hereafter cited as K.A.O.), Q/SMC (Quarter Sessions Calendars 1626–74), August 1663; K.A.O., Q/SB 9/7–11 (Quarter Sessions Papers); East Sussex Record Office (hereafter cited as E.S.R.O.), QO/EW4 (Quarter Sessions Order Book 1660–64), fos 53, 53V, 57V; E.S.R.O., QI/EW3 (Quarter Sessions Indictment Book 1662–69), fos 16v– 17; Hertfordshire County Records: Sessions Rooks 1658–1700, ed. Hardy, W. Le (Hertford 1930), 67–8Google Scholar.

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41 For suggestions that some Quakers conformed, see Kingdoms Intelligencer, 34 (17–24 Aug. 1663), 545; K.R.O., WD/Ry (Rydal Papers or Fleming MSS), BOX 31, unfoliated, 15 Jan. 1663/4; P.R.O., P C 2/55, pp. 174–5; Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C948 (Justice's Notes 1660–7) [back of book], p. 5.

42 E.S.R.O., SOF 5/3, no pagination; Besse, Collection, i. 129, ii. 106; Extracts from Stale Papers, 232–3.

43 Williams, J. A., Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire 1660–1791 (Catholic Rec. Soc, 1968)Google Scholar, appendix F; E.R.O., Q/SR (Quarter Sessions Rolls) 385/25, 391/6, 392/10, 394/11, 395/11, 396/11, 399/8, 10; Hertfordshire Sessions Books 1658–1700, 44–6, et seq.; L.R.O., QSP 245/23, 24, 27, 30, 32, 35, 37, 38; and notes 44 and 46 below.

44 See the regional variation in the Quakers’ later calculations of the numbers of the sect convicted as recusants: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Misc. b.1 (R).

45 Dr Miller has shown that in Norfolk in 1664 42 Quakers were convicted of recusancy and only 38 Papists. My own calculations of Cheshire presentments for recusancy during the period 1662–5 have revealed results not unlike Miller's Norfolk figures: 292 Papists, 203 Quakers and 42 others. See Miller, Popery and Politics, 267; P.R.O., Chester 24/133/2, 134/1, 2,4, 135/1.

46 Catholic Rec. Soc, vi (1909), pt iii, 85–6, 289–95, 298–302. These were the only counties for which I bothered to identify Quakers, but we can assume that they were being prosecuted in other counties too.

47 ‘Great Book of Sufferings’, i. 116: Cambridgeshire Quakers had stock distrained to pay £20 fines for recusancy.

48 Friends’ Meeting House, York, MS 36 (York Quarterly Meeting Sufferings 1651–95), p. 2.

49 Miller, Popery and Politics, 59; Friends’ Meeting House, Kendal, MS 51d (Westmorland Quarterly Meeting Sufferings), fos 181–181v; Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions... 1674–1695, ed. Peyton, S. A. (Lincoln Rec. Soc, xxv, 1931), p. cxxiiiGoogle Scholar; Quarter Sessions Records, ed. Atkinson, J. C. (North Riding Rec. Soc, 1889), vii. 69Google Scholar; Williams, Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, 85–6.

50 E.S.R.O., QI/EW3, fos 36V, et seq.

51 ‘Great Book of Sufferings’, i. 193–5, ii, Yorks, 25; S.R.O., DD/SFR 8/1, pt i, fos 42–8.

52 My calculations for Essex arc based on E.R.O., D/ACA/55; E.R.O., D/AMV/1–2; E.R.O., D/ABA/10; E.R.O., D/AEA/43 (Visitations/Acts 1662–5). For the other counties see Besse, Collection, i. 139; ‘Great Book of Sufferings’, ii. Warwicks. 4; S.R.O., DD/SFR 8/1, pt i, fos 46–46V: S.R.O., D/D/Ca 335; S.R.O., D/D/Ca 338; S.R.O., D/D/Ca 339 (Visitation Presentments); L.R.O., QSP 253/2; The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, ed. Brace, H. W. (Lines. Rec. Soc, xliv, 1951)Google Scholar, iii. appendix ii, 137ff, 144ff; Irvine, W. F., ‘Extracts from the Bishop of Chester's visitation, 1665’, Journal of the Friends’ Historical Society (herafter cited as J. F. H. S.), ii (1905), 97–100Google Scholar, 137–8, iii (1906), 28–30; Turner, G. Lyon, ‘Presentations in episcopal visitations’, J.F.H.S., xiii (1916), 20–2Google Scholar, 64–5, xiv (1917), 105–7, et seq.; Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York, V. 1662–3/CB2 (Diocese of Chester Court Book); Bishop Fell and Nonconformity, ed. Clapinson, M. (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc, Iii, 1980)Google Scholar, passim.

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56 P.R.O., Chester 24/134/3, 4. My calculation of eighty is once again based on Besse, Collection.

57 Sec E.R.O., D/AMV/i (Archdeaconry of Middlesex Acts/Visitations 1662–3), fos 48v, 56v; Kingdoms Intelligencer, 19 (12–19 May 1662), pp. 318–19, 27 (30 June-7 July 1662), p. 423.

58 Bodleian Library, Ms Add. C. 305 (Sheldon Papers), fo. 68.

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63 P.R.O..SP 29/91/68, 93/23,95/2.

64 The Diary of Henry Townshend, ed. Bund, J. W. Willis (Worcestershire Hist. Soc, 1920)Google Scholar,. i 70; Henry Townshend's ‘Notes on the Office of the Justice of the Peace’, 1661–3, ed. Hunt, R. D. (Worcestershire Hist. Soc, N.S., V, 1967), 104Google Scholar, 112–13; Bishop Fell and Nonconformity, ed. Clapinson, xxv.

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66 Suffolk Record Office, B 105/2/4 (Quarter Sessions Minute Book 1656–62), fos 150V, 164, 175, 180; Suffolk Record Office, B 105/2/6 (Quarter Sessions Minute Book 1662–67), fos 15, 25V, 32–32V, 35,44, 46; N.R.O., ‘Norwich Quarter Sessions Minute Book 1654–70’, March 1663/4; Roberts, D., Some Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts, 2nd edn, London 1973, 64Google Scholar.

67 P.R.O., SP 29/83/111.

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69 My impressions are based upon the Quaker and sessions records for these counties.

70 Henry Townskend's ‘Notes’, 94; Surrey Quarter Sessions Records 1661–3, H. Jenkinson and D. L. Powell (Surrey Rec. Soc, xxxvi, 1935), 251–4, 257–9; Chandler, J., A True Relation, London 1662Google Scholar, passim.

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72 P.R.O., SP 29/92/12; C.R.O., QJB/11a (Quarter Sessions Indictments and Presentments 1660–9), fo. 98.

73 Warwick County Records, eds Ratcliff, S. C. and Johnson, H. C. (Warwick 1946)Google Scholar, vii. pp. lxix-lxxxii. The fact that there were 22 Quakers in Warwick prison in 1666 (many of whom were under praemunire) may detract from Ratcliff and Johnson's claims about the liberality of Warwickshire justices: cf. Extracts from State Papers, 248–55.

74 MS Clarendon, 82, fo. 44; P.R.O., SP 29/95/2, 91/68; Horle, ‘Judicial encounters’, 90–1.

75 By 1671 about £4–5 million was owing to the Exchequer (not solely from Quakers, of course): British Library (hereafter cited as B.L.), Add. MS 20739, fo. 2V. The Exchequer received only £40 worth of recusancy fines during the first financial year of the Restoration, and from 1660 to 1667 a mere £147 15s. 7d. Receipts reached a peak in the 1680s, with over £6,000 reaching the Exchequer in 1682–3. See Chandaman, C. D., The English Public Revenue 1660–1688, Oxford 1975Google Scholar, 348–9, 356–7. 360–1. Some of the fines must have found their way into the pockets of local officials; the earl of Powis told Richard Davics that of £8,000 taken from Lancashire recusants virtually none reached the Exchequer (Leaves from the History of Welsh Nonconformity, 146).

79 W.R.O., Quarter Sessions Great Rolls, Mich. 1664/179;E.S.R.O., QO/EW4, fos53v, 57v; K.R.O., ‘Kendal Indictment Book 1655–68’, 16 Jan. 14 Chas ii, 15 Jan. 15 Chas ii; K.R.O., ‘Appleby Indictment Book 1661–85’, Hilary 1663, July 1664; C.L.R.O., ‘Sessions Minute Book’, vol. 3, Aug. 1662. Although the Conventicle Act of 1664 carried the same fines and terms of imprisonment as the Quaker Act, the London authorities fined hundreds of Quakers a mere is. each (C.L.R.O., ‘May or's Court Waiting Book 1664–8’, 14 Aug. 1664–1 Jan. 1664/5), probably, Braithwaite has suggested, so that they could proceed to the third offence which carried the penalty of banishment: Braithwaite, W. C., Second Period of Quakerism, London 1919, 42Google Scholar.

77 K.R.O.,’ Appleby Indictment Book 1661–85 ‘July 1664. According to my calculations it should have been the third offence for William Hebson and Anthony Bownas (though possibly computation began again under the Conventicle Act). Also Thomas Langhornc was listed as a second offender in Easter 1664, whereas a man of that name had been prosecuted as a second offender, Hilary 1663. But they could of course have been different men.

78 P.R.O., Chester 24/134/4; Warwick County Records, vii, p. lxxvii; Clark, R., ‘Anglicanism, recusancy and dissent in Derbyshire 1603–1730’ (Univ. of Oxford D.Phil, thesis 1979), 222Google Scholar.

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82 Wrightson, K., ‘Two concepts of order’, in Brewer, J. and Styles, J. (eds), An Ungovernable People, London 1980Google Scholar, ch. 1, esp. 21–2, 24, 29, 31, 44.

83 Miller, Popery and Politics, 60.

84 Bodleian Library, MS Add. C 305, fo. 68.

85 B.L., Add. MS 20739, fo. 2v.

86 Hay, D., ‘Property, authority and the criminal law’, in Hay, D. et al. , Albion's Fatal Tree, London 1977, 41–2Google Scholar, 46–9.

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88 Quoted in Hay, op. cit., 48.

89 Morgan, ‘Prosecution of nonconformists’, 44; P.R.O., SP 29/90/100. Cf. MS Clarendon 82, fo. 44.

90 B.L., Add. MS 21048 (Correspondence of the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk 1661–4), fo. 8.

91 See Minute Book of the Men's Meeting of the Society of Friends in Bristol 1667–1686, ed. Mortimer, R. (Bristol Rec. Soc, 1971)Google Scholar, xxvii; Reay, B., ‘The social origins of early Quakerism’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xi (1980), 71Google Scholar.

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93 Miller, Popery and Politics, 58–63.

94 Green, ‘Re-establishment of the Church of England’, ch. 9 (and p. 453 for his conclusions).