Honora Skipwith

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From the book "The Goforth Genealogy" by G.T.Goforth , Library of Congress cat.# 88-81087 comes the following:

Honora Saunders Skipwith d. April 15,1679 "a prisoner in York Castle for the truth" Lady Dorothy Norcliffe, dau. of Lord Fairfax was pious, liberal and bountiful to those suffering on account of their religion and from "Yorkshire County Magazine" vol.3,pg.186 quote "In the year 1663 when York Castle was filled with prisoners, she engaged friends to inquire after the necessitous persons, and sent weekly and monthly monies to be distributed for their comfortable support and supplies." She kept this up, and as she survived the d. of Honora Saunders Skipwith ,prisoner of York Castle, by 8 years, there is no doubt that Honora was one of the recipients of her bounty.

Notes

10. Willoughby Skipwith, Esquire, baptized 3 January 1612/13, died about 1658 when administration to his estate was granted to his widow.  He married 20 July 1634 at Barnet, Hertfordshire, [extracted and with thanks to Will Johnson] Honora Saunders, the daughter of Patrick Saunders or Sanders, M.D. of London and his wife Sarah Smith.  Honora became a Quaker martyr dying in prison at York Castle on 15 April 1679.  Administration to her estate was granted to her son John on 16 September 1680.  [Lincolnshire Pedigrees III:896; Visitation of London, 1633, pp. 227; NYGBR 29 (1898):172; Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 8 (1904/5):188-89.  Burial record of Patrick Saunders.]

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The following is an excerpt from A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers, by Besse, Joseph:

ANNO 1675.

Commitments for Absence from the National Worship.

In this Year Thomas Appleton, of Hutton-Rudby, Yeoman, Edward Gower, of Thornton near Pocklington, Husbandman, Richard Carr, of Scamston near New-Malton, Husbandman, Edward Evans, of Nunmonkton near York, Yeoman, Honora Skipwith Widow, and John Lightfoot, of Skipwith, Husbandman, were imprisoned, after Processes against them carried on in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for absenting themselves from their Parish-Churches, and not coming to receive the Sacrament there. Also Samuel Wright, of Nedlington, Grassman, was imprisoned on an Excommunication, for refusing to pay a Demand of 4d. for the Wages of the Parish-Clerk.

LInk to Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, Volume 8: https://books.google.com/books?id=6qXkAAAAMAAJ&dq=skipwiths%20quake...