The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . toabandon apostate usages, and to adopt a manner that was more agree-able to their new state. Fox, himself adopted in his own practice, this more ancient and ex-cellent way ; for about 1669 he married the widow of Judge Fell, Ac-cording to that simple form which is practised to this day among thepeople of his persuasion. He only acquainted their common friends oftheir intention ; and having received their approbation, they took e
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . toabandon apostate usages, and to adopt a manner that was more agree-able to their new state. Fox, himself adopted in his own practice, this more ancient and ex-cellent way ; for about 1669 he married the widow of Judge Fell, Ac-cording to that simple form which is practised to this day among thepeople of his persuasion. He only acquainted their common friends oftheir intention ; and having received their approbation, they took eachother in marriage by mutual public declarations to that intent, at ameeting appointed for the purpose at Bristol. It will be readily believed, that from their first appearance theFriends suffered much persecution. They were universally treated withpeculiar severity, even in New England, to which some of them fledfor security; here, though the Pilgrim Fathers themselves had but late-ly fled from Europe, that they might enjoy religious freedom, they im- * It is perhaps needless to state that this was Foxs designation for the build-ing usually called a Friends or Quakers. 819 prisoned and even hung some of their Quaker brethren. This wasworse than what they had to endure in England itself, and hence theyappealed to Charles II., who in 1661, not only granted a mandamus toput a stop to their persecution in the colonies; but in 1672 releasedunder the great seal four hundred of their number who were confinedin the different prisons of Great Britain. This last act was performedby the influence of a Friend named Whitehead, who frequently visitedCharles, and to whom, it has been said the monarch was indebted formoney he had borrowed from him. Whitehead prepared the list, andthe whole were freed by the payment of a single jail fee. To the im-mortal honor of Whitehead he placed on his list the name of GloriousJohn Bunyan, of Pilgrim fame, even though he was known to beone of th
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