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Religious Society of Friends

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a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers

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Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature. Source: Internet

Changing roles A woman publicly witnessing at a Quaker meeting seemed an extraordinary feature of the Religious Society of Friends, worth recording for a wider public. Source: Internet

Religious Society of Friends In 1647 Fox began to preach publicly: Fox in Nickalls, pp.18–19 in market-places, fields, appointed meetings of various kinds or even sometimes "steeple-houses" after the service. Source: Internet

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