Keeping the Meeting
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Under the 1662 Quaker Act it was an offence for five or more Quakers to meet for worship. Quakers were imprisoned and meeting houses were demolished. When the adult Quakers in Reading were in prison for disobeying this law, the children kept the Meeting for Worship going. Horsleydown Meeting House was demolished but the Quakers met for worship the next day among the ruins.
ref: C3
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