<P> Throughout the century there were a significant number of Quakers who travelled as missionaries to Europe, the Americas, and Africa . Quaker missionaries from England were supported spiritually, financially, and logistically by London Yearly Meeting . The Yearly Meeting "routinely funded" transatlantic crossings for Quaker ministers to Pennsylvania . However, within British society this period is marked as an "inward" era--more commonly known as the Quietist period (a reference to early Christian Quietists). Influenced by Quietists such as Jeanne - Marie Bouvier de la Motte - Guyon, Francois Fenelon, and Miguel de Molinos, the spiritual practices of nonviolence and inward nourishment resonated with Quaker testimony and significant numbers of Friends adopted plain dress and a "concern against ostentation". </P> <P> Participation in Yearly Meeting was originally limited to men but in 1784, the Yearly Meeting for Women was established, which corresponded with equivalent Yearly Meetings for Women abroad, and corresponded with the Monthly Meetings for Women and Quarterly Meetings for Women in Britain . In 1898, London Yearly Meeting produced a minute stating that: </P> <P> in future, women Friends are to be recognized as forming a constituent part of all our Meetings for Church Affairs equally with their brethren </P> <P> and since then women have had an equal right to attend London Yearly Meeting . The Yearly Meeting for Women was laid down in 1907 . </P>

Britain yearly meeting of the religious society of friends (quakers)