The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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to notice some few incidents respecting Stephen Curtis, handed down for above a hundred years. He was a small farmer and shepherd, living at the time when severe laws were enacted against Schismatics, in the times of the Charlses and what was called “the Five Miles Act”, was the occasion of dreadful persecution. Stephen Curtis was three times imprisoned in Lincoln jail for reading the Scriptures to his neighbours and exhorting them to become the disciples of Christ. About the time of the Commonwealth there was in several villages of Rutland and Northamptonshire, many small Churches of what is now call “Old General Baptist”. Several members resided at Harringworth. Stephen being the leader was persecuted. In an old Magazine, it gives an account of his persecutions and interviews with the Village Parson; who was the Magistrate

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