Protestant Nonconformity in Harby

Harby is a village in north Leicestershire, 9 miles north of Melton Mowbray. The house of husbandman Christopher Levis was used in 1669 for meetings on about 20 Quakers ‘of the poorer sort of people’. Their ‘teachers’ were said to be William Smith, Elizabeth Hooton and Leviston Patrick.[1] By 1676 there were said to be … Continue reading Protestant Nonconformity in Harby