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2017 George Richardson Lecture
Research Article
2017 George Richardson Lecture
Research Article
2017 George Richardson Lecture

Abstract

Might cognitive impairment, being an ‘idiot’, disqualify you from ‘belonging’ as a Quaker, in an age before membership? What was idiocy in seventeenth-century terms and, as the Age of Reason dawned, where would the idiot have stood among Friends? These and other questions come to mind from study of a case in the Court of Chancery in the early 1680s. It concerned land and property in Glamorgan and the son of a notable dissenter. The case brings into fresh focus some well-known seventeenth-century Quaker names, filling gaps in the known biography about them. Above all, it sheds light on an individual about whom Friends’ records are silent, though he was part of a family of Quaker activists.

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Henry Fell, Mordecay Erbury, Idiocy and Quakers, Lydia (Erbury) Fell, Quakers Yard (Glamorgan), Cognitive impairment (seventeenth century), Dorcas Erbury (Cooke)

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Trevett, C., (2017) “2017 George Richardson Lecture”, Quaker Studies 22(2), 147–178. doi: https://doi.org/10.3828/quaker.2017.22.2.2

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  • Christine Trevett, Cardiff University, Wales christinetrevett01@gmail.com, None

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  • Volume 22 • Issue 2 • 2017

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Pages 147–178
Published on 2017-12-01

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/quaker.2017.22.2.2

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