William Penn’s life was, at its core, a search for peace. This study concentrates attention on his greatest effort to secure true peace for all—his undertaking to populate and cultivate the region of North America granted him by the English Crown...
In this first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers.
A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn and William Edmundson, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve a place for himself in the woolen trade. As a businessman he succeeded brilliantl