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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.
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  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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