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  A true discovery of the ignorance, blindness, and darkness of those who are called magistrates about Carlile in Cumberland, who call Light darkness, and truth error, and judge them blasphemers who are sent of the Lord to declare the eternal word of truth amongst them, but the Lord hath made himself manifest in the hearts of his people, and opened their eyes here in the northern parts, whereby they plainly see the tyranny, oppression, and cruelty of those who are called magistrates and rulers, who do imprison the servants of the most high God, for declaring against sin and abomination, held up in markets and steeple-houses, and so they that depart from iniquity and stand in obedience to the commands of the Lord, makes himself a prey to that generation; but the Lord is risen for Sions deliverance, all praise and glory be to him for evermore. J.C.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Camm, John, 1604?-1656.
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  J.C. = John Camm. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June. 8th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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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, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness ...
  Date of publication:
  1655
  

  Author(s):

  Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. ; Harwood, John. To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people.
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  "To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people ..." signed: John HArwood, p. 24-26. Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library.
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  A true discoverie of the ground of the imprisonment of Francis Ellington, Thomas Cocket, and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire, who are cast into the common goale in Northampton by the men that are now in commission to do justice, who never read us any law, or any evidence came against us, shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest : he that hath an eye to see, let him see, and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear.
  Date of publication:
  1655
  

  Author(s):

  F. E. (Francis Ellington)
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  Signed: Francis Ellington (p. [7]), Edward Ferman (p. [9]), and Thomas Cocket (p. [10]) Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A discovery of some fruits of the profession religion ministry government of this nation, which maketh the land to mourne, and vexeth the soule of the righteous from day to day. Also the relation of the world discovered, and wherein it differs from the pure relation. With a few words to the magistrates that doe cast Christ into prison, and will not visit him when they have done, nor suffer his friends and brethren to visit him.
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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  Attributed to George Fox. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. The words "profession .. government" are enclosed in brackets on title page. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 14 1655". Reproduction of the original in the ...
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  The Persecution of them people they call Quakers in several places in Lanchashire
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Holme, Thomas, d. 1695. ; Fell, Leonard, 1624-1700 or 1701. ; Addamson, William, 17th cent.
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  Caption title. Written by Leonard Fell, Thomas Holme and other Friends. Wing attributes authorship to William Addamson. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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