The Journal of George Fox
George Fox’s own account of his youth, his preaching journeys and his imprisonments, first edited for the press in 1694, three years after his death. It tells the beginnings of the Quaker movement in the words of its founder.
Read the text at ccel.org ↗Unabridged text in the London edition of 1852, volume 1 ↗The same edition, volume 2 ↗
The Journal is written in the first person and looks back over Fox’s life from his birth in 1624. It reports his visions, his disputes with clergy and magistrates and the growth of the meetings of Friends as he saw them. Opponents appear as he reports them, and figures such as the size of a crowd are his own or those of people around him.
The abridgement linked here leaves out many of the letters and papers that the full text prints, among them the declaration to Charles II; for those the unabridged edition of 1852 is cited by volume and page. See George Fox and the Quakers.
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- 1652, firm date