The Valiant Sixty were a group of early activists and itinerant preachers in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Most other preaching was done by well-educated ordained male clergymen, but most of the Valiant Sixty were ordinary farmers and tradesmen, and several of them were women.
Because the Valiant Sixty came from the northern part of England they were considered backward.
Because they stood against the church structure in place in England at that time, many of them suffered imprisonment or corporal punishment or both.
Members of the Valiant Sixty travelled not only throughout England, but to the rest of Great Britain, Europe, and North America.