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for not raising his hat to the mayor. He was offered his release if he would pay the gaoler's fees, which he refused to do on the ground that his imprisonment was illegal, when he was offered the
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Farnworth wrote many tracts, which enjoyed a wide popularity during his lifetime, but his works were not collected. The major tracts were:
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in 1652. During this year he interrupted a congregation at a church in or near Wakefield, but was permitted to leave without molestation.
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Farnworth was born in the north of England, and appears to have been a labouring man. In 1651 he attended the Quaker yearly meeting at
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Christian Tolleration, or simply and singly to meet upon the Account of Religion, really to Worship
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Antichrist's Man of War, apprehended and encountered withal by a Soulder of the Armie of the Lamb
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A Discovery of Truth and Falsehood, discovered by the Light of God in the Inward Parts
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In 1655 Farnworth was put out of a church in Worcester for asking a question of
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The Generall Good, to all People, ...with God's covenanting with his people
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Truth Cleared of Scandals, or Truth lifting up its Head above Scandals
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Witchcraft cast out from the religious seed and Israel of God
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Light Risen out of Darkness Now in these Latter Days
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Richard Farnsworth (Society of Friends)
Quaker
Balby
Yorkshire
George Fox
Society of Friends
Swarthmore
Richard Baxter
Banbury
oath of abjuration
St. Thomas Apostle
William Sewel
John Griffith
'Notes on Richard Farnsworth'
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/9176
UK public library membership
public domain
Farnworth, Richard
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1666 deaths
Converts to Quakerism
English Quakers
English religious writers
Quaker writers
17th-century English writers
17th-century English male writers
17th-century Quakers

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