Extract from "Walkerdine - Old Churches of the Mansfield Deanery - 1907"

" During his ministry Mr Jackson apparently became alarmed lest the list of the faithful recorded in the registers should diminish as a result of the teachings of Elizabeth Hooton, of Skegby, the first woman minister of the Friends. While evidently feeling very irate, he encountered her, and gave evidence of his "seasoned ability and fitness" to suppress all "heresy and schism" as the following extract from Quaker records shows:- "1660, 2nd April, Eliz. Hooton passing quietly on the Road was met by one Jackson, priest of Selston, who abused her, beat her with many blows, knocked her down, and afterwards put her into the water."  It is satisfactory to know that these drastic measures did no lasting harm, for she afterwards travelled with Geo. Fox, to America, and died in Jamaica in 1671."

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