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Over the next few years Fox continued to travel around the country as his particular religious beliefs took shape.

At times he actively sought the company of clergy but found no comfort from them as they seemed unable to help with the matters troubling him.

One, in Warwickshire, advised him to take tobacco ( which Fox disliked ) and sing psalms ; another, in Coventry, lost his temper when Fox accidentally stood on a flower in his garden ; a third suggested bloodletting.

He became fascinated by the Bible, which he studied assiduously.

He hoped to find among the " English Dissenters " a spiritual understanding absent from the established church but fell out with one group, for example, because he maintained that women had souls: