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The Society of Friends, commonly known as 'Quakers' or 'Friends', is a religious soxciety founded in England during the 17th century. Quaker congregations are scattered across the world. Though the number of Quakers has always been rather small, they have shaped the world to a degree far beyond their numbers.

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THOMAS BUDD (1617-1617)
The Somersetshire parish rector who became a Quaker in 1657 and, refusing to take the oath of obedience to the Church of England in 1661, was arrested and died at Ilchester jail in 1670 after nine years of imprisonment.

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1624		Birth of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends
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1650		Followers of George Fox nick-named \'*Quakers*\' during the course of his trial
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1656		Imprisonment of George Fox, founder of the Quaker sect, at Launceston, Cornwall
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1656		James Nayler, a Quaker, is clamped in the stocks after being convicted of blasphemy, and has his tongue is bored through with a hot iron
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1682		First Quaker Meeting House in Devon built at Spiceland nr. Uffculme Built 9 years before the Act of Toleration, 7 of the trustees were imprisoned at Exeter goal
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1689		Act of Toleration: recognizes rights of Baptists , Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Quakers to worship freely Grants freedom of religious worship to all except Catholics and those denying the Trinity
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1691		Death of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends
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1760		The Quakers ban slave-trading amongst their followers
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1815		Present Quaker Meeting House built at Spicland nr. Uffculme, Devon
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The Beginnings of Quakerism
by William Charles Braithwaite, publisher Cambridge University Press, 1955

Sufferings: A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers 1650-1689
by Besse, publisher London, 1753

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