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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have all men of their own persuasion, Rhode Island all Quakers, New York all Dutch. In every one the oppressed party …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… had no answer from them. Pennylvania consists mostly of Quakers, who under that pretence would escape all duty and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Stede's letter of 10 March, 1688, respecting Quakers in Barbados. 1 p. Endorsed, Read at the Cabinet. May, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… elections, for appointing agents in England, for allowing Quakers to substitute their affirmation for an oath, and a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… or made new: amongst them, an Act, April 1672, against the Quakers, so ill resented by the people in general that they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the oaths is not reasonable, in that it excludes all Quakers from the benefit of affirmation allowed by the Law of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 98. Nos. 12, 13.] Jan. 21. 52. Some observations [ by the Quakers] on the Law in Maryland for 40 lbs. of tobacco per … so great an inclination to embrace Xtianity among many Quakers that, say we, there needs no law to compel them. … Colonies, as Dr. Bray observes, consisting chiefly of Quakers or such as for want of the Gospel being preached …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The number of people in this Government that are not Quakers are far more than those that are, among which number … this Government shall be sedition (of which they, the Quakers, will be the Judges, for there is not one Magistrate … name of God in it, nor will they suffer those that are not Quakers to be sworn in Court, tho' they doe declare that they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Objections offered by several persons commonly called Quakers on behalf of our Friends in Maryland against the Act … absolutely to the King. (vii.) By the said Law, the Quakers are to have the benefit of the Statute that enacts … and Mr. Wyeth presented a Memorial in behalf of the Quakers of Maryland, which was read. Ordered that the Order …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of England, or the affirmation allowed by the said Law to Quakers, and that no Judge be allowed to sit upon the Bench, … of England, or the affirmation allowed by the said Law to Quakers, and that no Judge be allowed to sit upon the Bench, …