Women of courage

Author Susanna Hoe asks why two seventeenth-century Quaker women were imprisoned in Malta

by Susanna Hoe 27th November 2015

On the door of one of the prison cells in the former Inquisitor’s Palace in Birgu, Malta, there is an unexpected notice. The first lines read:

Sarah Cheevers, 50 years of age
British Quaker from Wiltshire, wife of Henry
Katherine Evans, 40 years of age
British Quaker from Somerset, wife of Jacob