Gibbites
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Gibbites [1]
THE, a small fanatical sect in Scotland about 1681, named from their leader, John Gil, a sailor. They never exceeded thirty persons. Their dctrines were a compound of Quaker ideas, cith some of the extreme speculative views of the strict Covenanters. They were seized as a body, lent into the House of Correction, and soon ceased to exist as a sect. — Hetherington, Church of Scotland, 2:114. — (See Sweet Singers).
