 This was a list of twenty advices as to how Friends should conduct themselves, formed following a meeting of prominent Seekers at Balby in Yorkshire, and is seen by many as the defining document founding Quakerism.The "Canons and institutions drawn up and agreed upon by the General Assembly or Meeting of the heads of the Quakers from all parts of the kingdom" was produced following a meeting of leading Quakers in London in 1669.This had been drafted by George Fox, the name "Canons and Institutions" had been given to the publication by his opponents.