Mary Pennyman

Mary Pennyman or Mary Boreham, née Bond or Heron (1630–1701) was an English religious polemicist, and the wife of controversial dissident Quaker John Pennyman.

Life She was born on 1 May 1630 and was the daughter of Edward Heron, although another source says she was born in 1631 to Nicholas Bond of London.

Mary married the Quaker Henry Boreham (or Boreman). In 1662 she was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the uprising of the Fifth Monarchy men. Her husband was imprisoned "for selling religious books", and died in prison the same year, leaving Mary with three children (and pregnant with a fourth).

Works (with John Pennyman) The Ark is begun to be opened (the waters being somewhat abated)..., 1671 John Pennyman's Instruction to his Children, 1674 The Quakers Rejected, 1676? (ed. John Pennyman) Some of the letters which were written by Mrs. Mary Pennyman, relating to an Holy and Heavenly Conversation, in which she lived to her Dying-Day, 1701–2.