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Solomon Eccles (1618–1683), also known as Solomon Eagle, was an English composer. ==Life== Solomon Eagle was mentioned in Daniel Defoe's semi-fictional account of the plague of 1665 titled ''A Journal of the Plague Year.'' Defoe wrote: :'I suppose the world has heard of the famous Solomon Eagle, an enthusiast. He, though not infected at all but in his head, went about denouncing of judgment upon the city in a frightful manner, sometimes quite naked, and with a pan of burning charcoal on his head. What he said, or pretended, indeed I could not learn.' This event is corroborated in the 29 July 1667 entry of the ''Diary of Samuel Pepys'' (vol 13). Pepys confirms that the person described as such is a Quaker. :'…a man, a Quaker, came naked through the () Hall, only very civilly tied about the privates to avoid scandal, and with a chafing-dish of fire and brimstone burning upon his head… crying, “Repent! repent!' Eccles was a Quaker, a man prosecuted numerous times during the Restoration for civil disobedience. He would worship with other Quakers. The law that was passed in the early 1660s said that, if more than three people got together in a room for religious worship, this was a seditious, wicked activity. In May 1665, Eccles was arrested in Southwark, even though he probably lived in the middle of the City of London, and was put away in prison – probably in the Clink on the South Bank – for about two to three months. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Solomon Eccles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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