Sunday, January 7, 2007
Quakers--did u know Puritans hanged 4 of them including Mary Dyer, by 1660?
The name "Quakers" was meant as an insult to the Society of Friends, the most revolutionary wing of the Anglicans in England durings it Reformation there (some call this period "civil war" because it did lead to the execution of the English King Chrales I). But a name that was used "in derision" by...
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