Religious Radicals 1: James Nayler

Suggested areas of discussion…

• The religious/political turmoil of the 17th century
• Nayler in the New Model Army
• What Nayler believed and preached
• Nayler and Fox : Radical and Reformist currents in the Quakers
• What actually happened when Nayler rode into Bristol in October 1656
• The trial and punishment and its wider political implications
• Why was Nayler forgotten and why he should be remembered