Background
Anne Newby was born and then baptised in Kendal in 1627.
Anne Newby was born and then baptised in Kendal in 1627.
Anne travelled throughout Yorkshire. Oxfordshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire advocating the views of George Fox. In 1653 she was put on trial for her blasphemy but argued that this was incorrect and she published her views in A True Declaration of the Suffering of the Innocent, two years later.
After this she married Thomas Camm despite being over a decade older than him.
She had to run the household whilst he was imprisoned for his beliefs. She died in 1705.