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THOMAS LLOYD The Lloyds of Dolobran in Montgomeryshire were an ancient and honorable family which claimed descent from the old princes of Wales. Thomas Lloyd was born February 17th, 1640. As were also his older brothers Charles and John he was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. Both Charles and Thomas joined the Society of Friends and, especially the former, suffered severely in person and estate on account of their fidelity to its principles. These Welsh Friends took a certain un-Quaker-like pride that they were descendants of the old Britons, a proud and warlike people who had never been conquered. Yet George Fox with his preaching of peace and Divine communion and the simplicity and sincerity of life which flowed from it made a deep impression upon them. A minister of Denbighshire heard of him and sent two of his congregation " to trie the Quakers." Fox in his Journal tells the result: "When these triers came down among us the power of the Lord overcame them, and they were both of them convinced of the truth. So they stayed some tune with us and then returned into Wales, where afterwards one of them departed from his convincement, but the other, whose -iiame was John ap John, abode in the truth and received a gift in the ministry to which he continued faithful." John ap John became the apostle of Quakerism in Wales. He aided in buying the Barony of William Penn, but he never came to America. He died at a great age, venerated as a patriarch of the flock. Equally influential with him was Richard Davies. He met an itinerant preacher who had some influence with him, but his Quakerism seems to have arisen almost spontaneously. The thee and the thou, the refusal to doff the hat, to swear, and to make forcible resistance, the confident belief in direct teaching as a pra...
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