* Stove, R. J., Prince of Music: Palestrina and His World, Quakers Hill Press, Sydney, 1990.

The Society of Friends ( Quakers ) have their Dublin burial grounds, Friends Burial Ground, located at Temple Hill.

Busways provides services North ( Rouse Hill, Castle Hill, Kellyville, Glenwood and Stanhope Gardens ), west ( Plumpton, Oakhurst, Quakers Hill, Dean Park, Woodcroft ) and south ( Prospect, Arndell Park, Huntingwood, Tallawong, Doonside, Blacktown Hospital ), whilst Hillsbus provides services east ( Macquarie Park, Seven Hills, Parramatta, Kings Langley ) of Blacktown.

A good short summary is Larry Kuenning's Quaker Theologies in the 19th Century Separations, but for more depth see H. Larry Ingle, Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation ( Philadelphia: Pendle Hill, 1998 ).

From this junction the M7 turns eastward through Quakers Hill and Kings Langley up to the interchange with Old Windsor Road to Norwest Business Park and continues southeast to reconcile with the existing M2 Hills Motorway in Baulkham Hills.

The area was part of Quakers Hill but in 1926 the Marayong Progress Association applied to have Marayong made a suburb, in its own right.

The nearest government-run high schools are Quakers Hill High School, Blacktown Boys, Blacktown Girls and Doonside Technology High.

Quakers Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Quakers Hill is part of the Greater Western Sydney.

Quakers Hill is colloquially known as ' Quakers '.

The first recorded use of the name Quakers Hill was in an 1806 report of the area by government surveyor James Meehan.

The origin of the name is unclear and the next references are more than sixty years later when Thomas Harvey used it for his property in what is now western Quakers Hill.

The catalyst for the name change came with the subdivision of Harvey's Quakers Hill property in 1904.

The residents of the newly forming village preferred that name and in 1905, the name of the railway station was changed to Quakers Hill.

A school opened in the Presbyterian church hall in what is now Marayong in 1911 and Quakers Hill Public School took its first students in 1912.

In the 1960s, Sydney's suburban sprawl reached the Quakers Hill area and the five acre farms surrounding the village began to be subdivided.

In 1996, a new development in the north-east of Quakers Hill was converted into a new suburb, Acacia Gardens.

On 18 November 2011 an early morning fire at Quakers Hill Nursing Home killed 11 elderly residents, seriously injured others and caused the evacuation of up to 100 people.

Public Transport to and from Quakers Hill is provided by train and a number of bus services by Busways.

Quakers Hill railway station is on the Richmond branch of the Western railway line of the CityRail network.

Quakers Hill has experienced much road development over recent years including the construction of a new road leading directly to the education precinct, bypassing the town centre.

Following this opening the road overpass for the Quakers Hill Parkway has been widened from two to four lanes, improving toll-free traffic flow between Richmond and Sunnyholt Roads.

Fox commissioned two Friends to travel around the country collecting the testimonies of imprisoned Quakers, as evidence of their persecution ; this led to the establishment in 1675 of Meeting for Sufferings, which has continued to the present day.

Although the sale or consumption of commercial alcohol has never been prohibited by law, historically various groups in the UK have campaigned for the prohibition of alcohol, including the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), The Methodist Church and other non-conformist Christians, as well as temperance movements such as Band of Hope and temperance Chartist movements of the 19th century.

Loker has changed as the result of being healed by the Quakers.

It has been argued that the suppression of the English monasteries and nunneries contributed as well to the spreading decline of that contemplative spirituality which once thrived in Europe, with the occasional exception found only in groups such as the Society of Friends (" Quakers ").

It has been speculated that his zeal in attending to military duty led to his expulsion from the Quakers in 1773.

Because the membership of the FoR included many members of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), who reject any form of written creed, it has always been stressed that the Basis is a statement of general agreement rather than a fixed form of words.

While the emergence of abolitionist thought derived from many sources, the work of David Brion Davis, among others, has established that one source was the rapid, internal evolution of moral theory among certain sectors of these societies, notably the Quakers.

The company has no formal ties with the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

* Early 19th century: A fundamental belief of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has always been the existence of an element of God's spirit in every human soul.

" In the United States, in contrast with almost every other organized denomination, the Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has allowed women to serve as ministers since the early 19th century.

Founded as a school for Quakers in 1885, the private school has more than 3, 500 students combined between its main campus in Newberg and its centers in Portland, Salem, Redmond and Boise.

The Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has a long connection with China and Hong Kong.

The Religious Society of Friends began as a Christian movement ( though a few contemporary Quakers in some meetings do not consider themselves Christian, while some consider themselves as part of a Universal religion, that for historical reasons is rooted in Christianity ), founded in 17th Century England ; it has around 350, 000 members.

It was founded in 1847 by Quakers and has approximately 1, 200 students.

Legend has it that George Fox ( 1624 – 1691 ), founder of the Society of Friends ( commonly known as Quakers ), preached in the area in 1672.

The term historic peace churches refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches — Church of the Brethren ; Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ); and Mennonites, including the Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Conservative Mennonites — and has been used since the first conference of the peace churches in Kansas in 1935.

This has often aroused controversy, as when the Quakers sent large shipments of food and medicine to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and to U. S .- embargoed Cuba.

FCNL has a General Committee of about 220 Quakers from across the United States.

Agriculture has long been the main source of income and sustenance for both Costa Ricans and Quakers in Monteverde.

Singletary, now in his fourth year, has led the Quakers to conference championships in the 2009-10, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons.

Head Coach Anne Renninger, a pioneering player at the University of Maryland and one of the youngest Division I college coaches ever ( at George Washington University ), has led the Quakers to over 400 victories.

While there are no formal linkages between Quakerism and Anarchism and Quakers as a whole hold a wide variety of political opinions, the long tradition of Quaker involvement in social-justice work and similar outlooks on how power should be structured and decisions should be reached has led to significant crossover in membership and influence between Christian Anarchists and Quakers.