sentences:  In the 17th and 18th centuries Capel was the centre of a thriving Quaker community which met at the houses of the local Bax family.The Quaker Sussex Quarterly Meeting recorded the fact that Thomas Patching "who then lived at Bonwick's Place in Ifield" met with George Fox, and then later "there was settled the first Monthly Meeting that was set up in this county ... and has since been removed to the house of Richard Bax at Capel in Surrey by reason of Thomas Patching's removing from that place".It is known that George Fox visited Surrey in 1668 and held a Meeting at Plaistow Farm, Capel, the home of Richard Bax.