The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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for holding meetings, that jail was so full of persecuted dissenters that they had to be sent to Nottingham county jail. Rev J Kelsey, Baptist minister of Kirlow in Lindsey was one who was sent to Nottm jail. It is recorded that from the Restoration 1660 to 1687, more than 5,000 persons had died in prison for conscience sake, such was the persecuting spirit of the times. Daniel Curtis, the son of Stephen, and I believe father of my grandmother Anna Curtis married to Thomas Goodliffe was his daughter. Daniel Curtis was a man of considerable intellectual culture as evidenced by his Latin books, and other learned works I have seen. He had an acquaintance with Sir Isaac Newton through Wm. Whiston, the author or rather translator of Josephus and other learned works. Whiston worshipped frequently at

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