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 him from Laud, who declined to read his letters. Soon afterwards he was taken to Bethlehem Hospital and kept in close confinement. On 26 Jan. 1637–8 the doctors reported to the privy council that he was sane and should have his liberty in the hospital. Meanwhile the husband of Elizabeth Addington—the woman who had feloniously married Farnham—returned home, and charged her with bigamy. She was tried and convicted in August 1638, but was afterwards reprieved, as Farnham was held to be responsible for her crime. The judges, after the gaol delivery at which the woman was indicted, ordered Farnham to be removed from Bethlehem to Bridewell, and there ‘to be kept at hard labour.’ Late in 1640 he sickened of the plague, and was removed to the house of a friend and disciple named Cortin or Curtain in Rosemary Lane. He died there in January 1641–2. Elizabeth Addington nursed him and reported that, in accordance with his prophecy, he rose from the dead on 8 Jan. 1641–2. Bull died ten days after Farnham, and their followers insisted that they had ‘gone in vessels of bulrushes to convert the ten tribes.’ Besides the pamphlet mentioned above, two others dealt with Farnham's career: 1. ‘A Curb for Sectaries and bold propheciers, by which Richard Farnham the Weaver, Iames Hunt the Farmer, M. Greene the Feltmaker, and all other the like bold Propheciers and Sect Leaders may be bridled,’ London, 1641. 2. ‘False Prophets Discovered, being a true story of the Lives and Deaths of two weavers, late of Colchester, viz. Richard Farnham and John Bull …,’ London, 1641[–2]. 

FARNWORTH, RICHARD (d. 1666), quaker, was born in the north of England, and appears to have been a labouring man. In 1651 he attended the quaker yearly meeting at Balby in Yorkshire, where he resided, when he was convinced by the preaching of George Fox, and, joining the Friends, became a minister. For some time he seems to have attached himself to Fox, with whom he visited Swarthmore in 1652. During this year he interrupted a congregation at a church in or near Wakefield, but was permitted to leave without molestation. In 1655 he was put out of a church in Worcester for asking a question of Richard Baxter, who was preaching, and in the same year was imprisoned at Banbury for not raising his hat to the mayor. He was offered his release if he would pay the gaoler's fees, which he refused to do on the ground that his imprisonment was illegal, when he was offered the oath of abjuration, and on his declining to take it was committed to prison for six months. The latter part of his life was spent in ministerial journeys. He died in the parish of St. Thomas Apostle, London, on 29 June 1666, of fever. Sewel says he ‘was a man of notable gifts,’ and he was certainly one of the most eloquent, patient, and successful of the early quaker ministers. He wrote a very large number of tracts, which enjoyed a wide popularity during his lifetime, but his works have never been collected. The chief are: 
 * 1) ‘A Discovery of Truth and Falsehood, discovered by the Light of God in the Inward Parts,’ &c., 1653.
 * 2) ‘The Generall Good, to all People,’ &c., ‘with God's covenanting with his people,’ 1653.
 * 3) ‘An Easter Reckoning, or a Freewill Offering,’ &c. (part by Thomas Adams), 1653.
 * 4) ‘Light Risen out of Darkness Now in these Latter Days,’ 1653.
 * 5) ‘Truth Cleared of Scandals, or Truth lifting up its Head above Scandals,’ &c., 1654.
 * 6) ‘The Ranters' Principles,’ 1655.
 * 7) ‘Witchcraft cast out from the religious seed and Israel of God,’ 1655.
 * 8) ‘The Brazen serpent lifted up on high,’ 1655.
 * 9) ‘Antichrist's Man of War, apprehended and encountered withal by a Soulder of the Armie of the Lamb,’ &c., 1655.
 * 10) ‘The Holy Scriptures from Scandal are cleared,’ 1655.
 * 11) ‘The Pure Language of the Spirit of Truth.’
 * 12) ‘A True Testimony against the Pope's Wages,’ &c., 1656.
 * 13) ‘Christian Tolleration, or simply and singly to meet upon the Account of Religion, really to Worship,’ &c., 1664.

FARQUHAR, ARTHUR (1772–1843), rear-admiral, a younger son of Robert Farquhar of Newhall, Kincardineshire, entered the navy in 1787 on board the Lowestoft, and, after serving in several other ships, mostly on the home station, and having passed his examination, entered on board an East India Company's ship. He had scarcely, however, arrived in India when news of the war with France led him to enter on board the Hobart sloop, whence he was removed to the flagship, and in April 1798 was promoted to be lieutenant. On his return to England as first lieutenant of the Heroine, he was employed in various ships on the home,