ABSTRACT
However, George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, said that the name was given to himself and his followers by Justice Bennet at Derby in 1650 “because I bid them Tremble at the name of the Lord” (Hodgkin 1896, 54). The noted diarist John Evelyn recorded visiting some Quakers in prison in Ipswich on July 9, 1656, referring to them as “a new fanatic sect, of dangerous principles, who shew no respect to any man, magistrate or other.” Evelyn was obviously alluding to their refusal on principle to take any oath, nor to remove their large wide-brimmed hats, and to their quaint use of the forms thou and thee.
