Of Josiah Hooton, mentioned on page [3], nothing further appears.
JUDGE ENDICOTT (p. [50])
“It was not the people of Massachusetts—it was Endicott and the Clergy”—who persecuted the Quakers.—John Fiske, Beginnings of New England, 1895.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The General History of the Quakers, by Gerard Crœse, 1696, pt. 1, p. 37.
[2] Dr. Robert Thoroton, J.P. (1623-1678), published his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1677. He appears in Besse’s Sufferings as a persecutor of Friends in Notts.
D.N.B.; Cropper, Sufferings, 1892, quoting Brown’s Worthies of Nottinghamshire.
[3] John Throsby (1740-1803) republished Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire, with additions, in 1790. He wrote also on Leicestershire.
[4] See Original Records of Early Nonconformity under Persecution and Indulgence, compiled by G. Lyon Turner, 1911, iii. 13. See other references to E. Hooton, i. 155, ii. 725, iii. 744. Chapman was Vicar of Mansfield Woodhouse.
[5] MS. in D. This piece is endorsed: “Oliver Huttons Certificate Concerning G: ff:”; and is among other similar certificates which were read at the Second Day’s Meeting, 16 xii. 1686/7. “Oliver Hutton’s hystry” does not appear to have survived. See Braithwaite, Beginnings of Quakerism, 1912, pp. 43, 44.