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The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open. Or a few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation... Wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open ... Wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices so called, concerning contempt of authority ... Also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead, and John Harwood ... in the goal of Bury in Suffolk. Also a copy of a paper, which a servant of the Lord called Richard Clayton was moved to set upon a steeple-house door at Bury in Suffolk

Archive Print Item: Birkbeck Library 355.3

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Type of record: Book

Title: The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open. Or a few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation... Wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open ... Wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices so called, concerning contempt of authority ... Also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead, and John Harwood ... in the goal of Bury in Suffolk. Also a copy of a paper, which a servant of the Lord called Richard Clayton was moved to set upon a steeple-house door at Bury in Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: Birkbeck Library 355.3

Creator(s): Whitehead, George (1636?-1723)

Additional creator(s): Harwood, John Quaker (Other)

Related people: Clayton, Richard

Publisher: Printed for Giles Calvert

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1655

Language: English

Size and medium: 26 pages, 2 unnumbered pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/229048

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012475069705181

Collection group(s): Quaker Collection

Description

Authors named, p.20.


"To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people in the nation, who accuse us, you call Quakers, for idleness..." (p. 24-26) signed John Harwood.


Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) W1944; Smith II, 885.

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Bound [no.3] with: A cry against oppression & cruelty, 1663: Birkbeck Library 355.1

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