8 I am told that in England’s Oxford Friends meeting, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the only prayer offered was for the assassin.

9 Tolles, Meeting House and Counting House, 213.

10 Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, (New York, 1971), 261.

11 Reay, The Quakers and the English Revolution, 37.

12 Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 127.

13 Reay, The Quakers and the English Revolution; G. F. Nuttall, “Unity with the Creation: George Fox and the Hermetic Philosophy,” Friends Quarterly I (1947).