Ann(e) Docwra - Park Street, Cambridge, UK
N 52° 12.503 E 000° 07.212
31U E 303240 N 5788124
This Cambridge City Council blue plaque is attached to the Friends Meeting House at the junction of Park Street and Jesus Lane. The plaque, to the Quaker Ann(e) Docwra, is on the Park Street face of the building.
Waymark Code: WMQ8WK
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/12/2016
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The Roots Web Ancestry website briefly tell us about Ann(e) Docwra:
Docwra, Anne (1624 - 1710) Quaker author of numerous pamphlets in which she argued for the supremacy of God's word over human laws, and the importance of the `inner light' as a revelation of God's love. She supported women's active involvement in the Church, and also pleaded for religious tolerance, although she was forceful in attacking those whom she felt were enemies of the Quaker cause. Among these was an apostate Quaker, Francis Brigg, with whom she engaged in a vigorous and colourful pamphlet war. Docwra defended George Fox against accusations of indulgence.
