ABSTRACT

Location of sources BRL Birmingham Reference Library BUL Birmingham University Library CBL Colchester Branch Library of Essex County (Local Records Collection) DWL Doctor Williams Library, London ERO Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, Essex FHL Friends House Library, London IRO Ipswich Record Office, Suffolk PRO Public Record Office, London WSRO West Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Archives DQB Unpublished Dictionary of Quaker Biography held at Friends House

Library, London and Haverford College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania DNB Dictionary of National Biography

London is the place of publication unless otherwise stated. Citation is given in full the first time it is used in each chapter.