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Puritan group, correct name “Society of Friends in Truth”, or “Society of Friends”. Founded by George Fox. The name comes from the spiritual “trembling” experienced during meetings. Fox taught that: “All wait patiently upon the Lord, whatsoever condition you be in; wait in the grace and truth that comes by Jesus; if ye do so, there is a promise to you and the Lord God will fulfill it to you” (quoted in Picard 267). In the meetings people did neither need a fixed liturgy nor a priest, sitting in silence until their spirit was “moved by God” (Picard 267). Quakers irritated the authorities by their strange behaviour: addressing everyone with “thou” (=Du), keeping their hats on all the time (i.e. showing no deference to their betters and superiors), refusing to swear oaths and to pay tithes. Under the Clarendon Code they were severely persecuted. In 1681 William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker refuge.

Sources: Picard, Liza. Restoration London. London: Phoenix, 1997. Kenyon, J.P. Dictionary of British History. London: Wordsworth, 1989.

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	[[Puritanism\|Puritan]] group, correct name “Society of Friends in Truth”, or “Society of Friends”. Founded by George Fox. The name comes from the spiritual “trembling” experienced during meetings. Fox taught that: “All wait patiently upon the Lord, whatsoever condition you be in; wait in the grace and truth that comes by Jesus; if ye do so, there is a promise to you and the Lord God will fulfill it to you” (quoted in Picard 267). In the meetings people did neither need a fixed liturgy nor a priest, sitting in silence until their spirit was “moved by God” (Picard 267).		[[Puritanism\|Puritan]] group, correct name “Society of Friends in Truth”, or “Society of Friends”. Founded by George Fox. The name comes from the spiritual “trembling” experienced during meetings. Fox taught that: “All wait patiently upon the Lord, whatsoever condition you be in; wait in the grace and truth that comes by Jesus; if ye do so, there is a promise to you and the Lord God will fulfill it to you” (quoted in Picard 267). In the meetings people did neither need a fixed liturgy nor a priest, sitting in silence until their spirit was “moved by God” (Picard 267).
	Quakers irritated the authorities by their strange behaviour: addressing everyone with “thou” (=Du), keeping their hats on all the time (i.e. showing no deference to their betters and superiors), refusing to swear oaths and to pay tithes. Under the Clarendon Code they were severely persecuted. In 1681 William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker refuge.		Quakers irritated the authorities by their strange behaviour: addressing everyone with “thou” (=Du), keeping their hats on all the time (i.e. showing no deference to their betters and superiors), refusing to swear oaths and to pay tithes. Under the [[Clarendon Code]] they were severely persecuted. In 1681 William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker refuge.