Family Strife Quotes
Fox, the Quaker founder, dispatched Aldam to petition Oliver Cromwell for relief of the persecution of the Quakers. Cromwell at first maintained that he was unaware of these organized governmental persecutions so Aldam and another Quaker, Anthony Pearson, collected the writs of many Quakers who were in Jail. Aldam returned and presented these to Cromwell who, having his own political difficulties choose not to get involved as a substantial part of his political support saw Quakers as heretics. Aldam then removed his hat and rendered it into pieces uttering the quotation which might have been interpreted as a curse. Quakers had a concept of—see {611244} for another—“specific fore-seeing” which others might call prophesy. Shortly thereafter Cromwell was deposed.
