[2] She was the leader of the group, and their objection was that a section of the monies gathered by the Countess of Essex was to pay for the parish priest.
She also failed to mention that she had toured Britain, the Netherlands and Germany talking about her Quaker faith.
[2] Hayes enjoyed a greater freedom as a Quaker, as she was allowed to do things traditionally reserved for men.
She had led the Quaker group who resisted the tax, and when she moved to Tottenham in 1712 she was described as a "conspicuous member" of that meeting.
Three years later her "dying sayings" were published and her spiritual biography A Legacy, or, Widow's Mite went to five reprints.