Reference
HW85/6
Title
Letter: William Shewen, to Theodore Eccleston
Date free text
12 Dec 1687
Production date
From: 1687 To: 1687
Scope and Content
Dissentions over
i. Marriages. Parents’ consent necessary for first marriages, widows and widowers not to remarry within a year of death of husbands or wives, etc,
ii. Women's meetings, which take care of sick, widows, orphans. etc.
Dissenting bretheren differ over methods & think that London practice should not govern conduct in the rest of the country. Shewen would have uniform practice enforced.
Level of description
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