Thursday, February 6, 2003, 11:01:30 PM, you wrote: CD> Besse's Sufferings Chris, I understand some of my Quaker Docwra's are mentioned in this. Whereabouts would I be able to find a copy, would you know please? -- Cheers, Anne mailto:docwras@yahoo.co.uk The Docwra Family Research Project http://resource.at/docwra

As a number of people have asked me about Besse's Sufferings, I thought I would post something generally about it. Joseph Besse published his 'Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers' in 1753. This gives an account of the 'sufferings' [imprisonment, fines, etc.] endured by Friends before 1690, and is a very valuable source for Quaker names at a local level. Fortunately, the work is in the process of being reprinted in facsimile. As far as I am aware, four volumes are now available - the one including Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham & Westmorland, Isle of Man and Lancashire is ISBN 1 85072 242 0 [Editor: Michael Gandy; Sessions Book Trust; pub. 2000]. As a little taster: "John Grave of Turpenhow, Thomas Watson of Cockermouth, and John Robinson of Brigham, taken out of their own Houses by Soldiers and carried to the Governour of Carlisle, were by him imprisoned, in the Depth of Winter, in a cold Place over one of the City Gates, where they were denied the Visits of their Friends, and had their Food frequently kept from them, nor were they permitted to go out to ease themselves". You can probably find the books on Amazon, though on a quick check I didn't get a result; but they are available on WH Smith: Cumberland - £12 http://www.whsmith.co.uk/WHS/Go.asp?isbn=1850722420&DB=220 Yorkshire - £12 http://www.whsmith.co.uk/WHS/Go.asp?isbn=1850722129&DB=220 London - £12 http://www.whsmith.co.uk/WHS/Go.asp?isbn=1850722765&DB=220 New England, Maryland, West Indies - £18 http://www.whsmith.co.uk/WHS/Go.asp?isbn=1850722641&DB=220 Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net