Friends In Warwickshire In The 17th And 18th Centuries Third Edition With An Additional Chapter PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vi. Union of Meetings.--The North Monthly Meeting.--Some account of Birmingham Meeting--Birmingham in the 17th Century.--First Meeting House.--Various Minutes--Baddesley--Wigginshill--Tam worth--Henley--Fulford Heath--Hartshill--Atherstone--jlapworth. t iiortlj jhontijlg Jleetmg. In 1710 the separate Monthly Meetings held both at Baddesley and Wigginshill were for mutual strength united with Birmingham, and then first styled the North Monthly Meeting. To these were added in 1715 the Meetings of Fullford Heath and Henley; the Monthly Meeting thus comprising Birmingham, Baddesley, Wigginshill, Hartshill, Fullford Heath, Henley, and Lapworth. birmingham meeting. Except in the very earliest days, the Meeting at Birmingham has always been the largest in this division of the county; down to the year 1700, the Meeting at Baddesley probably outnumbered it. In 1697 so few Friends resided in the town that the Monthly Meeting directed that, "Friends travelling in the ministry shall be taken to an inn, and their charges defrayed by the Monthly Meeting." It may be assumed that Richard Farnsworth, who visited Birmingham in 1654, was the first Friend "who declared the truth there;" while in the year following, George Fox records on his visiting the town, "that several were converted and turned to the Lord." This was doubtless the origin of the Friends' Meeting in this great midland metropolis. How different, however, was the Birmingham of the days of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate to that of the nineteenth century, and of the reign of Queen Victoria. In the middle of the seventeenth century it was not of sufficient importance to be allowed the privilege of sending a member to Oliver's parliament; and lying off the main road leading from London...