Born probably at Weymouth, Dorset, White wrote her first pamphlet, A Diligent Search amongst Rulers, Priests, Professors, and People in May 1659, seemingly for local distribution.
It was radical in tone: "All you high and loughty [lofty] ones, you fruitless branches, you will the Lord cut down with the Sword of his power.
"[1] It also describes how Dorothy White was briefly imprisoned for interrupting a local Anglican service.
[4] A pamphlet entitled A Trumpet Sounded Out of the Holy City... appeared in 1662, when Quakers and others were suffering renewed persecution under laws requiring conformity with the Church of England.
[8] After a silence of twenty years, White reappeared in 1684 with several appeals to the Quakers not to reduce their radicalism.