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A brief relation of the life & death of Elizabeth Braytwhaite [sic], a maid of the age of about seventeen years, who died in prison for the testimony of a good conscience, in the town of Kendal in Westmorland, the 26th of the 7th month, 1684. In several testimonies hereafter inserted
[1684]
Caption title. Editor's initials given on p.8: T.C. Contains contributions by Anne Gardner, Thomas Gardner, John Braythwaite and T.C.
Cain against Abel, representing New-England's church-hirarchy, in opposition to her Christian Protestant dissenters
Fox, George (1624-1691)
1675
Errors in pagination: p.46-47 numbered, respectively, 38 and 49.
A cry against oppression & cruelty : being a short account of the tryal, and of the sentence that was passed on several innocent people called Quakers, who are inhabitants of the city of Worcester. At the assizes holden there the 16, 17 and 18th days of the 5th month called July, who were imprisoned because they refused to swear in obedience to the commandment of Christ Jesus, &c. And for assembling themselves together peaceably in the name and fear of the Lord, to worship him in spirit and truth, according to his will
Bourne, Edward (1708)
1663
The Quakers of Worcester are Edward Bourne and others. Subscribed by Edward Bourne, p.19.
A further evidence of the aforementioned Thomas Hewet : his disaffection to the present authority of this nation, and his perfect enmity against the people of God is cleerly made out in that eminent (but most wicked) piece of service which (as a magistrate, and yet no justice according to his own testimony) was performed on the first day of the week, the 28th of the 6th moneth, 1659
I. K
1659
Caption title. Signed: I.K. (p.4). Imprint from colophon.
A further evidence of the aforementioned Thomas Hewet : his disaffection to the present authority of this nation, and his perfect enmity against the people of God is cleerly made out in that eminent (but most wicked) piece of service which (as a magistrate, and yet no justice according to his own testimony) was performed on the first day of the week, the 28th of the 6th moneth, 1659
I. K
1659
Caption title. Signed: I.K. (p.4). Imprint from colophon.
A true information to the nation, from the people called Quakers : being a brief account of the proceedings of some of the magistrates in and about this city of London, against the aforesaid people, from the third day of the 5th moneth called July, to the last day of the 6th moneth called August, 1664
Crook, John (1617-1699)
1664
Attributed by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints to John Crook.
A second relation from Hertford; containing the unjust proceedings of some called justice there at the general quarter sessions, upon the tryal of one and twenty innocent persons called Quakers for a pretended breach of the late act... Whereby it appears that meeting to worship God in spirit and truth is the great crime for which they are under so grievous a sentence
Smith, William (1672)
1664
Page 15 misprinted 14, p. 20 misprinted 26.
The persecution of them people they call Quakers in several places in Lanchashire [sic]
Adamson, William; Holme, Thomas (1695); Fell, Leonard (1624-1701)
1656
Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Written by Leonard Fell, Thomas Holme and other Friends. Wing attributes authorship to William Adamson.
A cry against oppression & cruelty : being a short account of the tryal, and of the sentence that was passed on several innocent people called Quakers, who are inhabitants of the city of Worcester. At the assizes holden there the 16, 17 and 18th days of the 5th month called July, who were imprisoned because they refused to swear in obedience to the commandment of Christ Jesus, &c. And for assembling themselves together peaceably in the name and fear of the Lord, to worship him in spirit and truth, according to his will
Bourne, Edward (1708)
1663
The Quakers of Worcester are Edward Bourne and others. Subscribed by Edward Bourne, p.19.