Reading the testimonies in remembrance of those who were imprisoned. Photo: Mark Smalley

What did the suffering show?

What do they have to say to us?

What did the suffering show?

by Mark Smalley 21st July 2010

By going into the cold, dark, gloom of a large police holding cell, beneath the vacant Magistrates’ Courts, we were expressing our respect and gratitude to our forebears in faith. The city’s Quaker population has never been greater than during the 1660s-80s. They looked out for each other, and it’s probably fair to say that they thrived under repression, imprisonment and huge fines.