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NAYLER (or NAYLOR), JAMES (1618-166o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAYLER (or NAYLOR), See also:JAMES (1618-166o)  , See also:English Puritan, was See also:born at Andersloe or Ardsley, in See also:Yorkshire, in 1618 . In 1642 he joined the See also:parliamentary See also:army, and served as See also:quarter-See also:master in See also:John See also:Lambert's See also:horse . In 1651 he adopted Quakerism, and gradually arrived at the conviction that he was a new incarnation of See also:Christ . He gathered See also:round him a small See also:band of disciples, who followed him from See also:place to place . At See also:Appleby in 1653 and again at See also:Exeter in 1655 he suffered terms of imprisonment . In See also:October 1655, in See also:imitation of Christ's procession into See also:Jerusalem, he entered See also:Bristol on horseback, See also:riding single—" a rawboned nude figure, with lank See also:hair reaching below his cheeks " —attended by seven followers, some on horseback, some on See also:foot, he in. silence and they singing " See also:Hosanna ! See also:Holy, holy ! See also:Lord See also:God of Sabaoth!" At the High See also:Cross he and his followers were arrested . His trial occupied the second See also:parliament of See also:Cromwell for several days, and on the 16th of See also:December 1656 he was convicted of See also:blasphemy and sentenced to be whipped from the See also:Palace Yard to the Old See also:Exchange, to be branded in the forehead with " B" (for blasphemer), to have his See also:tongue bored with a red-hot See also:iron, to be whipped through the streets of Bristol, and to suffer imprisonment with hard labour for two years . On his See also:release he was readmitted into the communion of the See also:Quakers, and spent some See also:time in See also:Westmorland with See also:George See also:Whitehead (1636?-1723) . In October 166o See also:Nayler set out to visit his See also:long-forsaken See also:family in Yorkshire, but died on the See also:journey in See also:Huntingdonshire . A collected edition of the Tracts of Nayler appeared in 1716 .

See A Relation of the See also:

Life, See also:Conversion, Examination, See also:Confession, and See also:Sentence of See also:James Nayler (1657) ; a Memoir of the Life, See also:Ministry, Trial, and Sufferings of James Nayler (1719) ; and a Refutation of some of the more See also:Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of See also:Friends commonly called Quakers, with a Life of James Nayler, by See also:Joseph See also:Gurney Bevan (1800) . 1" See also:Les Flutes egyptiennes antiques," in See also:Journal asiatique, 8 See also:erne serie, tome xiv . (See also:Paris, 1889) .

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