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Volume 40

The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1669-1719 Vol.II 1689-1709

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This book continues from Volume 1 starting at the transcription of page 145 (1689) of the Minute Book and continues to page 340 (1709). The text covers a period of consolidation. The Toleration Act of 1689 enabled Meeting House to be built and licensed, so business concerning real property begins to appear in Monthly Meeting Minutes. Preoccupation with discipline, leading to the appointment of Overseers ; structural elaboration as in the establishment of Preparative Meetings; meticulous recording of names of Representatives, to Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, and of those appointed to inquire into the “clearness” of the parties to a marriage; are all indicative of congelation from a movement into an organisation.

Adapted from the Preface.
LRS-Vol-40
Volume 40                   The First Minute Book of  the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of  Friends 1669-1719  Vol.II 1689-1709

Editor                          Harold W. Brace F.R. Hist.S., Clerk of the Lincolnshire Monthly Meeting

Date                            For the year ending 31st August 1943

Publication Date         1949

Size                             255 x 155 mm

Language                     English

Printer                         The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford

Content                       Table of Contents, 1 page

Preface, 2 pages

The Minute Book pages 145-340, 207 pages

Appendix, 1 page

Index of Persons and Places, 8 pages

Index of Subjects, 4 pages

Description                 This book continues from Volume 1 starting at the transcription of page 145 (1689) of the Minute Book and continues to page 340 (1709). The text covers a period of consolidation. The Toleration Act of 1689 enabled Meeting House to be built and licensed, so business concerning real property begins to appear in Monthly Meeting Minutes. Preoccupation with discipline, leading to the appointment of Overseers ; structural elaboration as in the establishment of Preparative Meetings; meticulous recording of names of Representatives, to Monthly and Quarterly Meetings,  and of those appointed to inquire into the “clearness” of the parties to a marriage; are all indicative of congelation from a movement into an organisation.

Adapted from the Preface.
LRS-Vol-40
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