. Papers relating to the Quakers tythe bill: viz. I. Extracts from the yearly epistles of meeting of Quakers ... relating to tythes. II. Remarks upon a bill now depending in Parliament, to enlarge, amend, and render more effective the laws ... for the easy recovery of tythes ... from the ... Quakers. III. The country parson's plea against the Quakers tythe bill ... IV. The case of the people called Quakers. though frequently com-menced for Trivial Sums, from Four ^enceto Five Shillings, and great Part of themfor Sums not exceeding Forty Shillings,have been attended with fuch heavy Cofts,and ri
. Papers relating to the Quakers tythe bill: viz. I. Extracts from the yearly epistles of meeting of Quakers ... relating to tythes. II. Remarks upon a bill now depending in Parliament, to enlarge, amend, and render more effective the laws ... for the easy recovery of tythes ... from the ... Quakers. III. The country parson's plea against the Quakers tythe bill ... IV. The case of the people called Quakers. though frequently com-menced for Trivial Sums, from Four ^enceto Five Shillings, and great Part of themfor Sums not exceeding Forty Shillings,have been attended with fuch heavy Cofts,and rigorous Executions, that about Eighthundred Pounds have been taken from Tenof them, where the original Demand, didnot amount to Fifteen F^ounds. By fuch Profecutions, the favourable Intendof the aforefaid Ads is in a great mcafure fru-ftrated, and many of the faid People fufFer, E as [ 34]as if no fuch Laws v/ere in Being: ThoughChriftian Charity muft admit, that their Re-fuial of fuch Demands is purely Confcien-tious j fuice no rational Man, conftdering liisCircumftances and Family, would incur fuchfcvcre Sufferings on any other Account. Tis therefore humbly fubmitted, Whetherfuch Profecutions, frequently attendedwith Excommunications and Imprifon-ments-, be not Grievances which call forRedrefs 5 and whether it be not reafon-able to Rejhain the Profecutors fromProceedings lo Ruinous and T^ [ 35]
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