![James Naylor [Nayler].](jpegs/42123.jpg)
James Naylor [Nayler]. Born at Adresloe near Wakefeild in Yorkshire, Was an Independent & Served Quarter Master in ye Parliament Army about ye Year 1641, Turn'd Quaker in 1651, Published as a Blasphemer 1656, Author of many Books & Dyed at Holm in Huntingtonshire 1660, Aged 44.
T. Preston Fecit [after Francis Place].
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Thread margins.
Having been a quarter-master in the Parliamentarian army, Nayler became a Quaker in 1651, joining the Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker preachers and missionaries. Nayler [1618-60] was one of the more radical members, and in 1656 he and his friends staged a demonstration entering Bristol on a donkey, re-enacting Christ's entering Jerusalem. Nayler was arrested and convicted of blasphemy; branded on the forehead with the letter B and his tongue bored through, he went to prison for two years. On his release he repented of his actions, but continued his Quaker life until he died a day after being mugged. Despite the blasphemy he remained an influential figure to the Quaker movement.
CS 3 only state.
[Ref: 42123] £260.00
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint. 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Thread margins.
Having been a quarter-master in the Parliamentarian army, Nayler became a Quaker in 1651, joining the Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker preachers and missionaries. Nayler [1618-60] was one of the more radical members, and in 1656 he and his friends staged a demonstration entering Bristol on a donkey, re-enacting Christ's entering Jerusalem. Nayler was arrested and convicted of blasphemy; branded on the forehead with the letter B and his tongue bored through, he went to prison for two years. On his release he repented of his actions, but continued his Quaker life until he died a day after being mugged. Despite the blasphemy he remained an influential figure to the Quaker movement.
CS 3 only state.
[Ref: 42123] £260.00