Ann Blaykling

Ann Blaykling (fl. 1652-1708) was a Quaker woman called to preach after hearing George Fox in 1652 at Sedbergh, Yorkshire, where she lived. She began traveling across England as one of the original First Publishers of Truth, often getting into trouble with the authorities. At Cambridge she was charged with vagrancy, and later, at Swaffham, committed to jail as a vagabond.  In Bedfordshire she disputed with John Bunyan, which he wrote about in A Vindication of ... Some Gospel Truths Opened (1657). By the late 1650s Blaykling appears to have run afoul of the Quakers, for Fox writes that she was working on Sunday and not paying taxes. Eventually she came back and closed her days at Sedbergh, having married a Quaker there. There are no publications by her.