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Description: | 1793.
This engraving of James Naylor was published by I. Caulfield on 19th December 1793. He was the son of a West Ardsley farmer and joined the Parliamentry army in 1642 aged 25. It was when he heard George Fox speak in 1651 that he turned to Quakerism. He endured a six month spell of imprisonment for blasphemy in his preachings. On his release he spoke at Quaker Meetings in London and later was arrested once more in Bristol where he was found guilty of 'abominable blasphemy'. The punishment that Naylor had to face was appalling and included being pilloried and whipped through the streets by the hangman. He had his tongue perforated with a hot iron and the letter B for blasphemer branded on his forehead as the image shows. He was forced to ride a horse through the streets seated backwards and then whipped again. Finally he was kept in solitary confinement. James Naylor was discharged from prison in 1659 but, broken by the experience, he died in 1660.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Quaker James Naylor | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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