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  An epistle to King Charles the II sent from Amsterdam in Holland, the 28 of the 10 month, 1660 wherein is contained certain orders and laws there, concerning the liberty granted to those which cannot take up arms, nor swear, which laws there do yet continue : as also several arguments shewing that the people called Quakers are no popish recusants, who are cast into prison for not swearing : with advice & direction to King Charles, that his tendernesse may appear likewise to tender consciences, who keep to their yea and nay, that if they break their yea and nay, they may be punished as for breaking an oath / William Caton.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Caton, William, 1636-1665.
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  Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
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  Reasons why the oaths should not be made a part of the test to Protestant dissenters
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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  Caption title. Attributed to Penn by Wing. Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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  The great question concerning the lawfulnes or unlawfulnes of swearing under the gospel stated and considered of for the satisfaction of such as desire to scan the thing in the weight of God's spirit and to see the true and clear determination of it in his un-erring light / by Isaac Penington the younger.
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  The cry of the oppressed from under their oppressions, ascending up to Him, who will rebuke the oppressor and devourer, and deliver the innocent some of the sufferings of the people of God, called Quakers, concerning tythes and oaths, &c. : by the branches which are a new springing forth of the remainder of the bitter root of Episcopacy, which yet remaineth unplucked up in the rigid presbytery ...
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Benson, Gervase, d. 1679. ; Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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  "To the reader" signed: G.B. "The grounds why tyths once commanded, are now denied; as also why oaths once used, are now laid aside" (p. [8]) signed: Ger. Benson. With a postscript by George Fox, p. 38-33 [i.e. 40]. ...
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  Our covenant with God and with all men is peace and life and light and salvation
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Fox, George, 1624-1691.
  Description:
  Title from first lines of text. Signed: G.F. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  A second testimony concerning oaths and swearing in answer to a book entituled The case of the Quakers relating to oathes stated by J.S., or, An appendix to a book written in the year 1668 in answer to Allan Smallwood ... wherein is fully cleared the command of Christ and practice of the apostles concerning swearing from the corrupt glosses, limited sense and meaning of J.S. / by Gervase Benson.
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Benson, Gervase, d. 1679.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  The case of the Quakers concerning oaths defended as evangelical in answer to a book, entituled, The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated by J.S.
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Attributed to George Whitehead. cf. NUC pre-1956.
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  Remarks on the Quakers case, deliver'd to the Parliament
  Date of publication:
  1648
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Caption title. Broadside. Requesting that the use of affirmation in place of oaths, already granted to Quakers in England, be extended to all of Great Britain. NUC pre-1956 lists a 2 p. version of this publication as issued ...
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  The Suffering case of the people commonly called Quakers, relating to oathes and swearing, humbly offered.
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint suggested by Wing. Item at reel 852:26 incorrectly identified as Wing S6156. Reproductions of original in Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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  The Cry of the innocent for justice being a relation of the tryal of John Crook, and others, at the general sessions, held in the Old Bayley, London : beginning the 25th day of the 4th month, called June, in the year 1662 : before the lord mayor of the city of London, and recorder of the same, chief justice Forster, and divers other judges and justices of the peace, so called : published for no other end but to prevent mistakes, and to satisfie all moderate enquirers, concerning the dealings and usages that the said J.C. and others met withal, from the beginning of the said tryals to the end.
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Crook, John, 1617-1699.
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  Epistle signed: J.C. Errata: p. 45. This item can be found at reels 1122:16 and 1253:29. Wing number C7451 at reel position 1122:16 cancelled in Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of originals in the Huntington Library and Union ...
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  A copy of a paper sent to John Otway, Justice of the Peace, concerning swearing
  Date of publication:
  1666
  

  Author(s):

  Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.
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  Caption title. Signed at end: Francis Howgill. This item appears at reel 591:14 bound following Wing C1514, "A journal of the life of ... Will. Caton," and at reel 2209:8. Reproduction of originals in Huntington Library ...
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  A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament.
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Penn, William, 1644-1718. ; Richardson, Richard, 1623?-1689. ; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689. ; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
  Description:
  Signed: "This perform'd in the name and for the service of the people call'd Quakers. William Penn, Richard Richardson." Prefixed to the "Treatise" is an address "To the King and great council of England, assembled in ...
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  Supplementum sublatum Iohn Tombes, his Supplement, or Second book about swearing disproved and made void and his abusing the Scripture plainly manifested : against which the truth of Christ's words is vindicated and maintained / in a few words briefly returned to him from Richard Hubberthorne and Samuel Fisher.
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662. ; Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665. ; Tombes, John, 1603?-1676. Supplement to the serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy.
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  Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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  A true relation what sentence was passed upon the servants of the Lord by one who is in commission to do justice, called by the world Sir William Walter, with the consent of the rest of those called justices, that sat upon the bench with him at that time, because we could not swear for conscience sake, but abide in the doctrine of Christ, who saith swear not at all ...
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed at end: Thomas Goodaire. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  A discourse concerning publick oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings written by Dr. Gauden ..., in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers.
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Duke University Library.
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