In October 1656, Nayler and his friends, including Simmonds, staged a demonstration which proved disastrous: Nayler reenacted the arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, commemorated on Palm Sunday, by riding on into Bristol on a donkey, attended by followers who sang " Holy, holy, holy " and strewed the muddy path with garments.

Though Nayler denied that he was impersonating Jesus and said rather that " Christ was in him " ( consistent with the Quaker doctrine of the Inner light ), he refused to comment further on the meaning of the action, and the ecstatic devotion of his followers convinced many that he had messianic pretensions.

While this was apparently an attempt to emphasize that the " Light of Christ " was in every person, most observers believed that he and his followers believed Nayler to be Jesus Christ.

On Palm Sunday 1656 James Nayler reenacted the arrival of Christ in Jerusalem by riding a horse into Bristol attended by followers who sang " Holy, holy, holy " and strewed the way with their garments.

When Nayler refused to kiss Fox's hand, Fox told Nayler to kiss his foot instead.

On 23 September 1656, Fox visited Nayler in his prison at Exeter ; when the prisoner refused to kiss his hand, Fox pushed his foot toward him, " It is my foot.

Like Nayler before them, they saw no reason why men should remove their hats for prayer, arguing that men and women should be treated as equals and if, as according to the apostle Paul, women should cover their heads, then so could men.

In 1656, a popular Quaker minister, James Nayler, went beyond the standard beliefs of Quakers when he rode into Bristol on a horse in the pouring rain, accompanied by a handful of men and women saying " Holy, holy, holy " and strewing their garments on the ground — imitating Jesus's entry into Jerusalem.

Shortly afterward, Nayler was attacked by thieves while travelling home to his family, and died.

As Fox was held prisoner at Launceston, Nayler moved south-westwards towards Launceston intending to meet Fox and heal any rift.

Arriving at Exeter late in September, Fox was reunited with Nayler.

After experiencing what he described as the voice of God calling him from work in his fields, Nayler gave up his possessions and began seeking a spiritual direction, which he found in Quakerism after meeting George Fox in 1652.

On several occasions, Fox expressed concern that the ministry of Nayler and his associate Martha Simmonds was becoming over-enthusiastic and erratic.

Though the substance of the disagreements is unclear, by 1656 Fox and Nayler were hardly on speaking terms.

Nayler tried to make a show of love and would have kissed Fox, but the latter would receive no sham kisses from one whose spirit was plainly wrong.

Nevertheless, Fox and the movement in general denounced Nayler publicly, though this did not stop anti-Quaker critics from using the incident to paint Quakers as heretics, or to equate them with Ranters.

Nayler left prison in 1659 a physically ruined man ; he repented his actions and was formally ( but reluctantly ) forgiven by Fox, who apparently required his former associate to kneel before him and ask forgiveness.

Over the next six years, Swarthmoor Hall became a center of Quaker activity ; she served as an unofficial secretary for the new movement, receiving and forwarding letters from roving missionaries, and occasionally passing along admonitions to them from Fox, Richard Hubberthorne, James Nayler, and others.

This time of upheaval and social and political unrest called all institutions into question, so Fox and his leading disciples -- James Nayler, Richard Hubberthorne, Margaret Fell, as well as numerous others — targeted " scattered Baptists ," disillusioned soldiers, and restless common folk as potential Quakers.

Parliament was sufficiently incensed by Nayler's heterodox views that they punished him savagely and sent him back to Bristol to jail indefinitely This was especially bad for the movement's respectability in the eyes of the Puritan rulers because some considered Nayler ( and not Fox, who was in jail at the time ) to be the actual leader of the movement.

This effort culminated in 1666 with the " Testimony from the Brethren ," aimed at those, in its own words, who despised a rule " without which we ... cannot be kept holy and inviolable "; it continued the centralizing process that began with the Nayler affair and was aimed at isolating any separatists who still lurked in the Society.

One early Quaker convert, the Yorkshireman James Nayler, arose as a prominent preacher in London around 1655.

Nayler was offended and the two parted acrimoniously.

Nayler was released in 1659, but he was a broken man.

On a second visit in December 1659, when Thomas attended a Quaker meeting at a neighbouring farmhouse and made the acquaintance of Edward Burrough and James Nayler.

James Nayler ( or Naylor ) ( 1616 – 1660 ) was an English Quaker leader.

In 1656 Nayler achieved national notoriety when he reenacted Christ's entry into Jerusalem by entering Bristol on a donkey.

Nayler became the most prominent of the traveling Quaker evangelists known as the " Valiant Sixty "; he attracted many converts and was considered a skilled theological debater.

A collected edition of the Tracts of Nayler appeared in 1716, edited by his friend ( and important early Quaker ) George Whitehead, though Whitehead omitted Nayler's more controversial works.

Jacopo refused ; in May, Boniface removed him from the College of Cardinals and excommunicated him and his followers for four generations.

By the mid-1780s, Rapp had begun preaching to the Separatists, his followers in Iptengen, who met privately and refused to attend church services or take communion.

In Carthage the followers of Felicissimus elected Fortunatus as bishop in opposition to Cyprian, while in Rome the followers of the Roman presbyter Novatian, who also refused absolution to all the lapsed, elected their man as bishop of Rome, in opposition to Cornelius.

Although Zoe refused to allow this, Harald managed to escape into the Bosphorus with two ships and some loyal followers.

Christian followers who refused to offer a pagan sacrifice for the Emperor and the Empire's well-being by a specified date risked torture and execution.

Meanwhile, the Nazareth tract was largely in the hand of Captain John, a Lenape chieftain who ( along with his followers ) stubbornly refused to leave, even though they no longer owned the land.

When called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate purported communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry.

It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him ( like Bellatrix Lestrange ), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs on him when he fell, then he would have very few followers.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Its followers refused to pay taxes, to work in serfdom, or to fight in conquering wars.

Ladislaus refused this claim and he probably accepted the legitimacy of Antipope Clement III, who had been elected by the followers of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Rabbi M. Schneerson actively refused to accept leadership of the movement for the entire year after Rabbi Y. Schneersohn's death, but was eventually cajoled into accepting the post by his wife and followers.

Initially they had hoped to take refuge with the Crow nation in the Montana Territory, but when the Crow refused to grant them aid, the Nez Perce went north in an attempt to reach asylum with Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and his followers who had fled to Canada in 1876.

When Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib refused to accept this position, most of the Hasidim became followers of the elderly Hasid, Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, formerly rabbi of Prushnits and Krushnevits and now retired to Alexander.

Dissatisfaction with the sect and a desire for independence had been long brewing among Gangrel and in 1999, the clan's Justicar ( and his followers ) broke away from the sect after the inner council refused to help him fight a creature he identified as an Antediluvian ( the god-like progenitors of the vampire clans ).

According to a spokesperson from China's National Agency for Religious Affairs, as well as Pastor Gao Ying from the China Christian Council, Gong Shengliang has incited followers to beat up people who refused to join his religious group, and has used sulfuric acid to disfigure disobedient followers.

Nevertheless the people of Cyzicus refused to acknowledge them until they had anathematized Aetius, Eunomius, and their followers.

However, Alfonso Carillo de Acuña, the Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, refused to accept the letter, wishing instead to bestow the benefice upon one of his own followers.

After Dong Zhuo's death, the central government, now controlled by Wang Yun, refused to grant amnesty to Dong's former followers.

While the X-Men attacked Asteroid M to rescue Moira and stop Magneto's plans, the Soviets launched a particle beam satellite which destroyed Asteroid M. Betrayed and abandoned at the last minute by Cortez, Magneto refused Xavier's pleas to escape with the X-Men back to Earth and he and his followers seemingly perished in the subsequent explosion.

After a lengthy debate and special conference in 1991 confirmed overwhelmingly the position of the CWI in the England and Wales section, Grant and his supporters sought official faction status within the organization, which was granted for some time, but later was revoked by the leadership when Grant's followers refused to pay dues to the CWI and after documents leaked indicating that Grant's faction planned to engineer a split.