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• An examination of a book, lately printed by the Quakers : and by them distributed to the members of both Houses of Parliament, entitled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, in the exchequer, ecclesiastical, and other courts, for demands recoverable by the acts made in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of King William III for the more easy recovery of tythes, church-rates, &c. : so far as the clergy of the dioceses of Oxford, Glocester, and Chester, are concerned in it. (Printed for J. and H. Pemberton at the Golden-Buck against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1740), by Thomas Hayter and Joseph Besse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Answer to a pamphlet intituled Papers relating to the Quakers tithe-bill (Printed and sold by J. Roberts near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick Lane, 1737), by Joseph Ollive (page images at HathiTrust)
• The everlasting truth exalted being a plain testimony unto the manifestations, growth and prosperity of truth : also some dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving truth, or having received it, departing from it : also a short testimony unto gospel meetings and fellowship ... / William Smith. ([London : s.n.], 1669), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An holy kiss of peace, sent from the seed of life, greeting all the lambs and little ones with a tender salutation with a few words, entituled, relief sent forth into the camp of Israel. (London : Printed for Robert Wilson ..., 1660), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Innocency and conscientiousness of the Quakers asserted and cleared from the evil surmises, false aspersions, and unrighteous suggestions of Judge Keeling expressed in his speech made the seventh of the seventh month at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily ... : wherein also is shewed that this law doth not concern them, they being no seditious sectaries, nor contrivers of insurrections, nor evil-doers, therefore no just law is against them. (Printed at London : Published by a lover of truth and righteousness, W.S., 1664), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The morning-watch, or, A spiritual glass opened wherin a clear discovery is made of that which lies in darknesse, from whence wars, contentions, and destructions do arise concerning a professed religion, with a few words of tender counsel unto the Pope, prelate, presbyter, independent & baptist, &c. ... / by ... William Smith. (London : Printed, and are to be sold by Robert Wilson ..., 1660), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the present authority or heads of the nation of England this among others is my testimony which for the Lord is given, as well to them that were in authority as to the suffering seed which hath layen under and suffered hitherto by both those powers. (London : Printed for Robert Wilson ..., 1660), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An epistle to Friends in England to be read in their assemblies in the fear of the Lord / by ... Elizabeth Hendericks. ([London? : s.n.], 1672), by Elizabeth Hendricks (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A serious review of some principles of the Quakers : wherein error is discovered, and truth defended (s.n.], 1655), by fl. 1655 P. E. (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Quakers both old and new (Printed for Simon Miller ..., 1660), by Thomas Underhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated : wherein they are discovered, to oppose propheticall, to pervert evangelicall, to falsifie ecclesiasticall, and to contradict their own doctrine (Printed for H. Brome ..., 1674), by J. S. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quakerism subverted : being a further discovery and confutation of the gross errours of the Quakers published and maintained by William Penn and others of that sect : by which it is plain that the errours of the Quakers be most pernicious, subverting Christs true religion ([s.n.], 1677), by J. C. (John Cheyney) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sober reply, on behalf of the people called Quakers, to two petitions against them, the one out of Norfolk, and the other from Bury in Suffolk, being some brief observations upon them published on occasion of Francis Bugg's exposing one of the said petitions in print, and commending the other, &c, with many unjust aggravations and misrepresentations in his late book, falsly stiled A modest defence, &c. (London : Printed and sold by T. Sowle ..., 1699), by Thomas Ellwood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The universal love of God to mankind defended against the misapprehensions of some people about the doctrine of election and reprobation. Written for the sake of the simple-hearted, by John Everard. (London : printed and sold by T. Sowle, next door to the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street; and at the Bible in Leaden-hall-street near the Market, 1697), by John Everard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An epistle of Margaret Everard to the people called Quakers and the ministry among them: more especially to such of them to whom she hath bee particularly known, and who are concerned for her, as if she were lost and fallen from truth. Shewing her dissatisfaction with the ignorance, error, and uncharitableness that too much abounds among them. (London : printed for Brabazon Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons, against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1699), by Margaret Everard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Exhortation and admonition of the Friends and Brethren of London chiefly, to all maid-servants (who make profession of the pure ever-lasting gospel of peace and salvation) as are, or may be servants in the families of Friends or others, in and about this city. ([London : s.n., 1672]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Exhortation of the Friends and Brethren of London to all youths and young men; who are children of Friends, and apprentices, or have been apprentices to Friends, who are convinc'd in their judgments of the way of truth, and inhabiting in and about this city. ([London : s.n., 1672]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. ([London : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Quakers shaken: or, A fire-brand snach'd out of the fire. Being a briefe relation of Gods wonderfull mercie extended to John Gilpin of Kendale in Westmoreland. Who, as will appeare by the sequel, was not only deluded, but possessed by the devill. (London: : Printed for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at the Crown in Pauls Church-Yard., 1653), by John Gilpin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Deceivers made manifest There hath been a controversie in this nation of England, and dominion of Wales, and in many other nations, both far and near, between the people (by scorners) called Quakers, and the bishops, priests and clergy, and with others that went before them, concerning the right way and worship of the Lord. ([London : s.n., 1672]), by E. Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A word to the well-inclin'd of all perswasions together with a coppy of a letter from William Penn to George Keith, upon his arbitrary summons and unjust proceedings, at Turners-Hall, against the people called Quakers. (London : Printed and sold by T. Sowle ..., 1698), by Thomas Story and William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled. (London : Printed by Andrew Sowle, and are sold at his shop ..., 1680), by George Whitehead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true ministers living of the Gospel, distinguished from the false ministers living upon tithes and forced maintenance. With a word of reproof (preceding the distinction) to the ministers of the nation, whose kingdom is already shaken and divided against itself. And the iniquity and antichristianism of that ministry which is upheld by forced maintenance, briefly discovered according to the scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In a brief reply to a book stiled, An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries, by John Bewick, who calls himself a minister of the Gospel, and rector of the parish church of Stanhop in Weredale in the county of Durham. (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1660), by George Whitehead, James Naylor, and John Bewick (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Oh London! with thy magistrates and rulers. What are ye doing, and causing to be done against a harmless and innocent people ... : VVritten in Newgate the 14th of the 11th month, 1660. / [By] Humphrey Wooldrich. ([London? : s.n., 1660?]), by Humphry Wollrich (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A relation of the last words and departure of that antient and honourable woman Loveday Hambly of Trigangeeues, in the parish of Austell in the County of Cornwal. With farther testimonies concerning her life and conversation. (London : printed by John Gain, living in the Upper Moor-Fields, near the Flying-Horse, M.DC.LXXXIII. [1683]), by Loveday Hambly (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A general epistle to friends every where. Written in obedience to the requirings of the spirit of life from God. ([London : s.n., 1682]), by James Parke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of the cruel dealings of William Pocklington of North Collingham in the county of Nottingham, with the innocent people of God called Quakers, in the same county. ([London : s.n., 1667]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The line of true judgment: laid to an imperfect piece published by Thomas Collier, which he calls An answer to an epistle written to the churches of the Anabaptists, &c. : A reply herein is published in order to the exaltation of the spiritual man, with his ordinances and administrations, above the man of sin, with the weak and unprofitable ordices [sic] that doth not make the comers thereunto perfect. / By Thomas Salthouse. (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons ..., [1658]), by Thomas Salthouse (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Another out-cry of the innocent & oppressed being a true account of the unjust and illegal proceedings of Richard Rainsford and Roger Norwich and others against Thomas Allen, Francis Child, Richard Coe, and William Line, being such as are called Quakers, at the general Quarter Sessions holden at the castle in Northampton on the 12. and 13 days of the 10th moneth, 1665, where Rich. Rainsford sat in judgment and when Richard Rainsford saw that the plague was somewhat ceased, as Pharaoh did Exodus 9, 34, he hardened his heart, and those called justices joyned with him so their hearts were hardened that they attempted the second time unjustly to pass sentence to transport the servants of the Lord to the island of Barbados. ([London : s.n.], 1665.) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief treatise of religious womens meetings services & testimonies. According to the scriptures of truth. [A]lso, something concerning womens prophecying and teaching, &c. [W]ith some other things, (distinguishing the holy from the unholy) in the scriptures cited ... / [Wr]itten for the satisfaction of all that desire to be informed, by one, who by the free grace of God is become a searcher of the scriptures, and a lover of truth in the inward parts ... ([London] : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, 1684), by Hugh Wood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An epistle to Friends given forth from Leinster-province meeting in Ireland, held at Castledermot the 9th. 10th. and 11th. days of the 7th. month 1698. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The popish proselyte the grand fanatick. Or an antidote against the poyson of Captain Robert Everard's Epistle to the several congregations of the non-conformists (London : printed for Samuel Tidmarsh, at the Kings Head in Cornhill, next house to the Royal Exchange, MDCLXXXIV. [1684]), by Joseph Harrison (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To those that sit in counsel for ordering the affairs of the nation, &c. a visitation, / by one of the Lords servants called a Quaker. (London, : Printed for Thomas Simmons ..., 1659), by John Anderdon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An epistle in the love of God to Friends, with a little chiefly to their tender children. : To which is added a few lines to such that may be farther grown in the truth. (London : Printed and sold by T. Soule ..., 1696), by Abigail Fisher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Continued cry of the oppressed for justice. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year, 1676), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Part of the sufferings of Leicestershire & North-Hamptonshire by informers and priests also, God's mercies testified unto, and mans cruelty bore witness against : being a faithful demonstration given forth in the dread of the Lord, against the cruelty of persecution, as it hath of late been manifested, and notoriously acted by the priest and people of the town of Farthingstone in the county of North-Hampton to shame of their professed religion and to the injury of those who truly fear God and worship him : which may be as a prospect unto them, whereby they may behold themselves and consider the evil of their ways and be warned to timely repentence in this their day ... / W. Pooley. (London : [s.n.], 1683), by W. Pooley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rusticus ad academicos. Appendix (London : Printed for Robert Wilson, 1660), by Samuel Fisher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A serious letter to Dr. John Owen, sent by a small friend of his, relating to the intendments of Wallingford-house; also a short friendly reply to a late pamphlet of his concerning tithes. ([Oxford? : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Montanism revived by Philip Hermon, a Quaker cobler, and chief speaker at the Savoy meeting; confuted with some of his antichristian principles and prophecies: to which is added some reasons for my leaving the Quakers. By Clement Joynes. (London : printed for the author, 1700), by Clement Joynes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The three Norfolk clergymens brief discovery, &c. presented by them to the king and Parliament, against the people call'd Quakers, modestly observed to our superiours. (London, : Printed and sold by T. Sowle ..., 1699), by George Whitehead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A vindication of the Christian Quakers, from the malicious insinuations, in a late pamphlet, said to be signed on their behalf by D.S. ([London : s.n., 1694]), by Edward Brush (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• False fictions and romances rebuked in answer to pretended matter charged against the Quaker, in a book, intituled, The progress of sin, &c. written by B. K. His lies and slanders therein returned back upon him, and the speakers of yea and nay in truth vindicated. By James Park. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1684), by James Parke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the monthly and quarterly meetings of Friends in England, Wales, London, the twenty six day of the sixth month, 1692. ([S.l. : s.n., 1692]), by Society of Friends Meeting for Sufferings and George Whitehead (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A declaration of old Nick, prince of the air, and all his infernal crew, to the inhabitants of the whole world, but chiefly to the Quakers of Great Britain &c. ([London] : Printed by George Morgan, [1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true copy of a paper given in to the yearly meeting of the people called Quakers at their meeting-place in Grace-Church-street, Lonon, 15 day of the 3d. month 1695. By George Keith, which was read by him in the said meeting, by their allowance. With a brief narrative of the most material passages of discourse betwixt George White-head, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, and the day following, betwixt George White-head, William Penn, and Francis Canfield on the one side, and George Keith on the other; ... Together with a short list of some of the vile and gross errors of George Whitehead, John Whitehead, William Penn, their chief ministers, and now having the greatest sway among them (being of the same sort and nature with the gross errors charged on some in Pensilvania) most apparently opposite to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion ... And a proposition to VVilliam Penn, to prove his charge, that G.K. is an apostate. (London : printed for R. Levis, 1695), by George Keith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the most powerful in authority, to unloose the bonds of cruelty and oppression of an aged industrious person without work or friends. ([London : s.n., 1697]), by Thomas Boyce (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers; as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. (London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbor, 1656), by William Prynne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Foxonian Quakers, dunces lyars and slanderers proved out of George Fox's journal, and other scriblers; particularly B. C. his Quakers no apostates, or the Hammerer defeated: amanuensis, as is said, to G. C. (as he sometime wrote himself) Gulielmus Calamus, alias, William Penn. Also a reply to W. C. (a churchman, the Quakers advocate) his Trepidantium malleus intrepidanter mallearum, &c. By Trepidantium Malleus. (London : printed for W. Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street, and J. Marshall at the Bible in Grace-church-street, near Cornhil, 1697), by Trepidantium Malleus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The weapons of the people called Quakers turn'd backward, by the shield of truth ; the fountain whereof is the rock and sure defence of that despised contemptible instrument / Elizabeth Atkinson. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1669), by Elizabeth Atkinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Quakers no Christians:, or, A sober request to the Quakers, published by Jer. Ives. (London : Printed for F. Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange, 1674), by Jeremiah Ives (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Some seasonable reflections upon the Quakers solemn protestation against George Keith's proceedings at Turner's-Hall, 29. Apr. 1697 Which was by them printed, and sent thither, as the reasons of their not appearing to defend themselves. Herein annex'd verbatim. By an impartial hand. (London : printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun at the west end of St. Pauls, 1697), by Charles Leslie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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