James Nayler

Simon Webb writes about James Nayler and a time of fake news

I am one of those people who needs to know the history of everything. Even when I had an eye operation, years ago, I was tempted to waste the surgeon’s time by asking him who invented that particular type of operation. Not only can I not understand Quakerism without understanding its history, I find it hard to understand how anyone else can make sense of it without having a knowledge of events in England in the middle of the seventeenth century.

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