James Nayler (or Naylor) (1616–1660) was an English Quaker leader. He is among the members of the Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker preachers and missionaries. At the peak of his career, he preached against enclosure and the slave trade. In 1656 Nayler achieved national notoriety when he reenacted Christ's entry into Jerusalem by entering Bristol on a donkey. He was imprisoned and charged with blasphemy.
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