THE LONDON LEAD COMPANY - WAS IT A QUAKER COMPANY?

摘要

George Fox, the founder and religious leader of the Society of Friends, began preaching in about 1650. He had been imprisoned at Derby on a charge of blasphemy and it was whilst in front of the magistrates that it is said that he told them to 'tremble before the Word of the Lord', whereupon one of the magistrates became the first person to call the society members 'Quakers'.This was used initially as a term of abuse but became accepted as a name for the members of the Society of Friends.