Just been reading on the 'net'..... Prints of the Meeting House etc (Episodes from the History of Quakers in Faringdon during the last 350 Years.
History of the Friends Meeting House. Published and Printed by Faringdon Friends in 2006 - Faringdon Community Website.
Next to the Year 1683.
An informer, Eustace Hardwick of Shrivenham, came into the meeting for worship in Faringdon and arrested Oliver Sansom, who later recalled being 'on my knees, praying to the Lord'.
Subsequently Sansom said, 'I and many others became great sufferers for keeping up our religious meetings at Faringdon'.
Besides Sansom, the Great Book of Sufferings, listed Thomas WITHERS, George Adams, William Green and Edward Lockley, all of Faringdon, as having goods and chattels confiscated for attending meetings for worship.