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See also:ISAAC See also:PENINGTON (1616-1679) , See also:Sir Isaac's eldest son, was one of the most notable of the 17th-See also:century See also:Quakers. He was See also:early troubled by religious perplexities, which found expression in many voluminous writings. No less than eleven religious See also:works, besides a See also:political See also:treatise in See also:defence of democratic principles, were published by him in eight years. He belonged for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to the See also:sect of the See also:Independents; but about 1657, influenced probably by the See also:preaching of See also:George See also:Fox, whom he heard in See also:Bedfordshire, Penington and his wife joined the Society of See also:Friends. His wife was daughter and heiress of Sir See also:John Proude, and widow of Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Springett, so that the worldly position of the couple made them a valuable acquisition to the Quakers. Isaac Penington was himself a See also:man of very consider-able gifts and sweetness of See also:character. In 1661 he was imprisoned for refusing to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance, and on several subsequent occasions he passed See also:long periods in See also:Reading and See also:Aylesbury gaols. He died on the 8th of See also:October 1679; his wife, who wrote an See also:account of his imprisonments, survived till 1682. In 1681 Penington's writings were published in a collected edition, and several later See also:editions were issued before the end of the 18th century. His son John Penington (1655–1710) defended his See also:father's memory against attack, and published some controversial tracts against George See also:Keith. See also:Edward Penington (1667-1711), another of Isaac Penington's sons, emigrated to See also:Pennsylvania, where he founded a See also:family. Isaac Penington's stepdaughter, Gulielma Springett, married William See also:Penn.
See Maria See also:Webb, The Penns and Peningtons of the 17th Century (See also:London, 1867) ; See also:Lord See also:Clarendon, See also:History of the See also:Rebellion and See also:Civil See also:Wars in See also:England (7 vols., See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1839) ; See also:Bulstrode See also:Whitelocke, Memorials of See also:English Affairs: See also:Charles I. to the Restoration (London, 1732); J. See also:Gurney Bevan, See also:Life of Isaac Penington (London, 1784); See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Ellwood, History of the Life of Ellwood by his own See also:hand (London, 1765) ; Willem Sewel, History of the Quakers (6th ed., 2 vols., London, 1834).
End of Article: ISAAC PENINGTON (1616-1679)
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