Eye - 21 April 2017
From a fellow traveller to a Friendly act of kindness
A fellow traveller?
‘Pity that Quakerism didn’t start a bit earlier as we might have had an influential Friend amongst our number…’ mused London Friend Rod Harper in a missive to Eye.
‘In Elizabeth Jenkins’ book on Elizabeth I, she makes a comment about William Cecil, who was chief secretary of state at the time: “Though he had conformed under Mary, he had a personal devotion to the protestant cause and in his private life he much resembled present day Quakers.”’
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