Indexes

( ) indicate dates
T indicates a testimony or similar to the Friend named

abolition – of death penalty: 23.96–97; of slave trade: see slavery
abortion: 22.54–56; alternative to: 22.58; husband’s experience: 22.59; moral dilemma: 22.57
abstinence: 20.37–40
accounts: see finance
Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS): 5.03, 9.09, 9.12
addiction: 20.41–42, 25.03
adoption: 22.58, 22.64
advices and queries (Advices & queries): p?14, ch 1, 11.42; AM responsibilities: 1.06, 4.10.e; duty of reading: 1.05–07; history: 1.04; LM responsibilities: 1.07, 4.33.b; Welsh: 1.03
Advisory Committee on Property: 15.14
adults, vulnerable: 4.10.t, 4.14
affirmation in court: 1.02.37, 1.03.37, 20.48–50; form prescribed: 20.51, in Welsh: 20.52; see also oaths
ageing: see growing old
AIDS: 21.68, 22.17
alcohol: 1.02.40, 1.03.40, 20.38, 20.40–41
amlffydd: 5.05.b
Amnesty International: 23.30 (preamble)
angels: 21.54, 21.64, 23.70, 24.28
anger: 1.02.10, 1.03.10, 20.68, 22.77, 22.83
animals: 1.02.42, 1.03.42, 20.20, 20.32, 25.05; as part of creation: 20.33, 26.31, 29.05; see also anti-vivisection, vegetarianism
Annual report of Meeting for Sufferings and its committees (annual report…): 6.01, 6.06.c, 6.25, 6.28, 7.02.e
anti-vivisection: 29.04
appeals: 4.25–26
appointments: 3.19, 3.22–25; ending: 3.24.k, 3.25; length: 3.23
area meetings (AMs), (formerly monthly meetings): Ch 4; appointments: 4.01, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.10.d,k,p, 4.11, 4.35–36, 5.09; authority, unit of: 4.01; burials, burial grounds & gravestones: 4.10.q; charitable registration: 4.02, 4.37, 15.01; children & young people: 4.02, 4.05, 4.10.t, 4.14; clerks: 4.04, 4.05; committees: 4.03, 4.04, 4.05; considering concerns: 4.09, 4.19, 4.20, 13.13; data protection: 4.45, 11.06, 11.26; disputes & appeals: 4.23–26; duties, functions & responsibilities: 4.02–11; eldership & oversight appointments: 3.19, 4.01, 4.04, 4.10.d, 4.36; finance: 4.10.k,l,m; 4.33.g, 14.04, 14.05; Fox, George: 4.01; frequency of meetings: 4.07; funerals: 4.05, 4.10.p; history: 4.01; homes for elderly: 4.10; Junior Yearly Meeting: 4.21; legal action: 4.24; legal compliance: 4.10.l,m,t; legislation: 4.10.t, 4.14; libraries: 4.10.r; marriage: 4.10.o; meetings for church affairs: 4.10.b; meetings for worship: 4.10.a; membership matters: 4.02, 4.10.f,g,h,i, 4.15, 4.32, 11.04, 11.05–08; memorandum of understanding: 4.34; outreach: 4.13, pastoral care: 4.13–14; prison ministers: 4.10.s, 4.11; property: 4.03, 4.10.k; QL: 4.14 & Representative Council: 4.17; QSC: 4.10.m, 14.28, 14.30; Recording Clerk information to: 4.04; records: 4.10.j, 4.39–44; registering officer: 4.04, 4.10.o, 4.11, 16.10; relationships with BYM, Meeting for Sufferings, & other meetings: 4.05, 4.09, 4.16–21, 4.31; reorganisation (change in status of meetings): 4.12; sojourning membership: 4.32, 11.28; stewardship: 4.02, 4.10.l, 14.18–19; tabular statement: 4.10.h, 4.33.h; testimonies: 4.27–30; transfer of membership: 4.10.i; treasurers: 4.04; trusts & trustees: 4.02, 4.04, 4.10.k, 4.37, 15.03, 15.04; use of Advices & queries: 4.10.e; vulnerable adults: 4.10.t, 4.14; wardenship: 4.05, 4.13; wills 4.10.n, 4.22; worshipping community: 4.01–03; see also college & university chaplains, elders & eldership, local meetings (LMs), membership, overseers & oversight, prison ministers, public statements, registering officers, tabular statement
arms trade: 24.40, 24.47, 29.09
arts: 1.02.7, 1.03.7, 21.29–41; see also creativity, dance, music, painting, poetry
ashes, interment or scattering: 4.10.q, 15.17–19, 17.11–13
atonement: 2.92
attenders – becoming a member: 10.34, 11.04–12, 18.14; definition of: 11.39; early experiences of meeting for worship: 2.02–03, 2.06, 10.32, 19.15; elders’ role: 12.12.g,j; lists: 11.39; meetings for church affairs: 4.08, 4.32, 6.15; overseers’ role: 11.09, 12.13.d,h,i,l,m; nurture & support: 11.08; printed lists of members: 4.10.f,g, 11.40; religious education: 4.33.c, 8.10; visitors to applicants for membership: 11.11; see also enquirers
authority – Christ’s: 19.19, 19.58, 26.52; Christian conviction: 24.27; clerk’s: 3.13, 3.18; in CTBI: 9.11; Friends & state: 23.86–91; God’s: 23.86–90, 24.18; Inner Light: 26.68; international bodies 24.45; local (authority): 15.13, 15.19; in marriage: 22.35; to sign minutes: 3.15; for public statements: 3.27; registering officer: 16.11, 16.46; those in: 2.27, 23.36, 23.85, 24.54, 26.50; treasurer’s: 14.20; Trustees of BYM: 8.03; within the yearly meeting: 3.27, 4.25, 6.01, 6.12, 7.07, 8.01, 14.15