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| Fox's Pulpit, Firbank | ||
| Fox's Pulpit | ||
| site name:- | Firbank Fell | |
| civil parish:- | Firbank (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| coordinates:- | SD61929370 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6193 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | |
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 BJQ89.jpg (marred by an ugly plaque) (taken 24.7.2005)  BRY39.jpg "LET YOUR LIVES SPEAK / HERE OR NEAR THIS ROCK GEORGE FOX PREACHED TO ABOUT ONE THOUSAND SEEKERS FOR THREE HOURS ON SUNDAY JUNE 13, 1652. GREAT POWER INSPIRED HIS MESSAGE AND THE MEETING PROVED OF FIRST IMPORTANCE IN GATHERING THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS KNOWN AS QUAKERS. ..." (taken 11.12.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Thompson 1894 placename:- Fox's Pulpit |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Fox's Pulpit, Firbank, Westmorland, by S A Symington, published
by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894. click to enlargeTHP135.jpg On p.121 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. printed at lower right:- "[S A S]" item:- Armitt Library : A1612.B35 Image © see bottom of page |
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| person:- | clergyman; quaker : Fox, George |
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| date:- | 6.1652 |
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| period:- | 17th century, late | |
| period:- | 1650s | |
| George Fox, quaker preacher, '... came and sat down on the top of a rock hard by the
chapel [Firbank]. In the afternoon the people gathered about me, with several of their
preachers. It was judged there were above a thousand people; amongst whom I declared
God's everlasting truth and word of life freely and largely, for about the space of
three hours, ...' |
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| The chapel nearby was destroyed in a storm, winter 1839-40. |
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| Rooksby, Donald A: 1998: And Sometime Upon the Hills::: ISBN 0 9523548 2 9 |
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