Editing New Forest Shakers (section)

==New Forest Shakers==
In January 1873 Girling and her followers arrived in Hordle.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=139}}</ref> They settled in New Forest Lodge, a house which was partially paid for by one of the followers Julia Wood,<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=137}}</ref> the remainder being mortgaged. 160 believers gathered there, cultivating vegetables and worshipping. They were prohibited from sexual activity, as well as from economic transactions. They proceeded to farm the land, but Girling forbade the sect to sell either their produce or their labour.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=149}}</ref> The mortgage remained unpaid and on a bitterly cold night of December 1874, in the rain, sleet and snow, 60 women, 35 men and 45 children were evicted.<ref name="ivey">"Jo Ivey, [http://www.newforestcentre.org.uk/uploads/publications/65.pdf ''Report on New Forest Traditions''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309124857/http://www.newforestcentre.org.uk/uploads/publications/65.pdf |date=2013-03-09 }}, pages 27-8. New Forest Museum</ref> All the furniture was left along a half mile stretch of the road.<ref name="ivey"/> It included 3 pianos, 77 beds, boxes of eggs, butter and vegetables valued at about £1,000 and worthless by the end of the night.<ref name="ivey"/>

They were aided by the political philosopher [[Auberon Herbert]], who gave them temporary shelter on his estate in nearby [[Ashley, West Hampshire|Ashley]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=281}}</ref> Other prominent sympathisers of their plight included liberal politician [[William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple|William Cowper]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=194}}</ref> and local eccentric and [[Spiritualism (movement)|spiritualist]] [[Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson|Andrew Peterson]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=160}}</ref> By February 1875, they had returned to Hordle, camping in a field near New Forest Lodge.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=306}}</ref> They were evicted in 1878,<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=343}}</ref> but a local landowner gave them a field in nearby [[Tiptoe, Hampshire|Tiptoe]] where they set up camp. After this, the sect faded from national prominence.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=374}}</ref> The census of 1881 records 64 people were encamped in the field,<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=377}}</ref> but by 1886 the community was reduced to 12 women and 8 men.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=392}}</ref> Girling died from [[uterine cancer]] on 18 September 1886 and the sect broke up.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoare|2005|p=395}}</ref> Girling was buried in Hordle churchyard.<ref name="ivey"/>