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Swarthmoor Hall

estate, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
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  • Quaker meeting
    Society of Friends
    / The rise of Quakerism

    …the movement was Swarthmore (Swarthmoor) Hall in northwestern Lancashire, which after 1652 became the center of an evangelistic campaign by traveling ministers. Within a decade perhaps 20,000 to 60,000 had been converted from all social classes except the aristocracy and totally unskilled laborers. Heaviest concentrations were in the north,…

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    …the movement was Swarthmore (Swarthmoor) Hall in northwestern Lancashire, which after 1652 became the center of an evangelistic campaign by traveling ministers. Within a decade perhaps 20,000 to 60,000 had been converted from all social classes except the aristocracy and totally unskilled laborers. Heaviest concentrations were in the north,…

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