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  A plain record, or declaration shewing the origin, root and race of persecutors together with the nature, practice and end of that generation ... so their reward will be according to their work / [by] H.F.
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  H. F. (Henry Fell)
  Description:
  Numerous errors in pagination. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  A true relation of the unjust proceedings, verdict (so called) & sentence of the Court of Sessions ... against divers of the Lord's people called Quakers, on the 30th day of the 8th month, 1662 / published for the honour of God, the vindication of the innocent, and the information of people, by John Chandler.
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Chandler, John, 17th cent.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  A declaration of the present sufferings of above 140. persons of the people of God (who are now in prison,) called Quakers: with a briefe accompt of about 1900. more ... Together with the number of 21. persons who were imprisoned and persecuted until death. All which was delivered to Tho. Bampfield, then Speaker of the Parliament, on the sixth day of the second month, 1659 ... As also an accompt of some grounds and reasons, why for conscience sake we bear our testimony against divers customes and practices at this day in use amongst men. Also a cry of great jndgement [sic] at hand upon the oppressors of the Lords heritage, as received from him on the 18. day of the first month called March. With an offer to the Parliament of our bodies, person for person to be imprisoned, for the redemption of our brethren, who are now in bonds for the testimony of Jesus.
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
  Description:
  Signed on E2v, F1v: E.B., i.e. Edward Burrough. The last leaf is blank. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April. 23". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a further relation (in brief) of the cruel havock and spoil, made on the persons and estates of the people of God in scorn called Quakers; for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth.
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Date and place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: Friends' Library (London, England).
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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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  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.
  Description:
  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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  A hue and cry after bloodshed, or, A short relation of that inhuman, barbarous, cruel, and bloody tragedy acted upon the innocent people of God called Quakers at their meeting at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, upon the 31 and the 6th month, 1662, by some of the trained bands of the city of London
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  R. C. (Richard Crane)
  Description:
  Signed: Rich. Crane. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  A general summons from the authority of truth, unto all ecclesiastical courts and officers wherein they may see what truth objecteth against their practice and proceedings in cases of conscience / by William Smith.
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, d. 1673.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  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, with an account of the most material passages between the prisoners and the court, the 3d, 4th, and 5th dayes of the 8th moneth, 1664 : 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, and that whatever is pretended by those that love the title of justice, yet in very deed they hate justice it self, as by their proceedings appears / by W.S.
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, d. 1673.
  Description:
  Page 15 misprinted 14, p. 20 misprinted 26. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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  A call from death to life and out of the dark wayes and worships of the world where the seed is held in bondage under the merchants of Babylon / written by Marmaduke Stephenson, who (together with ... William Robinson) hath (since the writing hereof) suffered death, for bearing witnesse to the same truth amongst the professors of Bostons jurisdiction in New England ; with a true copy of two letters, which they writ to the Lords people a little before their death ; and also the true copy of a letter ... from a friend in New England, which gives a brief relation of the manner of their martyrdom, with some of the words which they exprest at the time of their suffering.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Stephenson, Marmaduke, d. 1659. ; Pearson, Peter, 17th cent. ; Robinson, William, d. 1659. ; Dyer, Mary, d. 1660.
  Description:
  Includes various letters signed by Peter Pearson, William Robinson, Marmaduke Stephenson, and Mary Dyer. "To the reader" signed: John Whitehead, Marmaduke Storre, William Padley, Gregory Milner, Thomas Leemin. Reproduction ...
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  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.
  Date of publication:
  1663
  

  Author(s):

  Bourne, Edward, d. 1708.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Attributed to Edward Bourne. cf. BM. Entries for B3847 and C7447A cancelled in Wing (2nd ed.).
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  The second part of The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being an additional account of the present and late cruelty, oppression & spoil inflicted upon the persons and estates of many of the peaceable people called Quakers, in divers counties, cities and towns in this nation of England and Wales (chiefly upon the late act made against conventicles) for the peaceable exercise of their tender consciences towards God in matters of worship and religion.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Penn, William, 1644-1718.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  A Declaration from the people of God called Quakers against all seditious conventicles, and dangerous practises of any who under colour or pretence of tender conscience, have, or may contrive insurrections, the said people being cleer from all such things, in the sight of God, angels and men.
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in the Guildhall Library (London, England).
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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)
  Description:
  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 discourse concerning riots occasioned by some of the people called Quakers, being imprisoned and indicted for a riot, for only being at a peaceable meeting to worship God / written by one of that people, Thomas Ellwood.
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.
  Description:
  Imperfect: cropped and slightly faded. Advertisement: p. 16. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  Some queries proposed to the bishops and ministers of England, for them, or any of them, to answer that there may be an understanding why persecution is so violently prosecuted / [by] W.S.
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, d. 1673.
  Description:
  Imperfect: creased, with loss of text. Reproduction of original in: Friends' Library (London, England)
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  A seasonable disswasive from persecution humbly and modestly, yet with Christian freedom and plainness of speech, offered to the consideration of all concern'd therein, on behalf generally of all that suffer for conscience sake, particularly of the people called Quakers / by Thomas Ellwood.
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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