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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 2)
  
  To the bishops and clergy of England and Wales, the state of the cruel persecution, imprisonment (many to death) and spoil of goods inflicted upon the people called Quakers Only for their religious meetings, and obeying, serving, and worshipping Almighty God that made them.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Robertson, Thomas, fl. 1658-1685. aut ; Bland, Richard, of London. aut ; J. B. (John Bowater), d. 1704. aut ; Ingram, William, tallow chandler. aut
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Signed and dated at end: Thomas Robertson, Richard Blank, John Bowater, William Ingram. London, the 30th. of the 1st month, called March, 1685. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard ...
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  These few lines are to all such as have an hand in persecuting the innocent people of God (called Quakers) for the exercise of their pure conscience towards God, whom Christ Jesus the Light hath redeemed ...
  Date of publication:
  1667
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, Mary, prisoner at Middlewich.
  Description:
  Title taken from first lines of text. Signed at end: Mary Smith. Place of publication conjectured by Wing; publication date from colophon. "Here is another warning which was given forth some years before, .." has caption ...
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  The Persecution of them people they call Quakers, in several places in Lanchashire [sic].
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Addamson, William, 17th cent.
  Description:
  A collection of accounts by Quaker authors, the first signed by William Addamson. Caption title. Place of publication from Wing. This tract bound with items from the Thomason collection printed in 1656. Thomason purchased ...
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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.
  Description:
  J.C. = John Camm. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June. 8th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  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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  A Christian plea against persecution for the cause of conscience grounded upon Scripture, reason, experience and testimonies of princes & learned authors. Impartially collected by Ellis Hookes. Published for the service of truth.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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