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Quaker Meeting History and Early London Figures
The piece recounts the Bull and Mouth and Gracechurch Street Quaker gatherings, noting Aldertiah Brown’s role, the move of meetings to White Hart Court, and the 1740 transfer of Bull and Mouth to Grace church street. It recalls George Fox, the 4000-strong funeral procession for Fox, and influential Quaker bankers and merchants born from these meetings. It ends with Gilbert Latey’s clever lease tactic that protected meeting houses amid royal opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldertiah Brown
Ivylane
Society of Friends
White Art Inn
Lombard
Gracechurch Streets
Gracechurch-street
White Hart-court
Clarkson
Qi Pearisian
George Fox
Pendieket
Géorge Whitehead
Bunhill Fields
Lombard and
Gravechurch-streets
Bunhill-fields
The
Manburys
Lloyds
Jansons
Alexanders
Dimsdales
Fowlers
Mastermans
Gurneys
Osgoods
Harman
Sanderson
Tindalls
Harris
Birkbecks
Woods
Bevans
Christy
Sturges
Sterrys, &c
Lombard-street
Meetings of Friends
Devonshire House
Westbury-street
Ratcliff
John Robinson
Spitalfields
Gilbert Latey
Latey
England
Gilbert
Unis
Westminster