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More imagesA Brief Discovery of Some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices Of the People, Called Quakers: Taken out of their Most Noted and Approved Authors. Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Kind, and both Houses of Parliament.
QUAKERISM - BECKHAM, Edward; Henry Meriton; Lancaster Topcliffe.
Published by London: printed for John Harris, 1699, 1699
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First edition of this early anti-Quaker tract, compiling quotations from the tracts of prominent Quakers from George Fox onwards and their supposed heresy. William Penn, Pennsylvania, and the reneged Quaker George Keith are mentioned. The postscript is by Francis Bugg, a member of the Society of Friends who abandoned the sect an…d wrote against it. ESTC R18109; J. Smith, Bibliotheca anti-Quakeriana, p. 67; Wing B1652. Small quarto (205 x 162 mm), pp. 32. In 20th-century brown paper wrapper. Browned, pagination shaved at head. A good copy.
