. 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. t of Suffering. For the two laft Years, there appears to be butone Quaker Prifoner for Tythes in the two King-doms of Great-Britain and Ireland ; in no one ofthefe Years above three i and c
. 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. t of Suffering. For the two laft Years, there appears to be butone Quaker Prifoner for Tythes in the two King-doms of Great-Britain and Ireland ; in no one ofthefe Years above three i and could Accounts forfive Years more backward be fairly examined, theCafe would probably be much the fame. The Quakers in the Country fhould obferve, thattheir Friends at the yearly Meeting, who call upon* In 1687, 1693, 1689. them I 38 3 them fo often and fo earneftly, to fuffer all Extr<i-mities rather than pay Tythes, are themfelves gene-rally Merchants znd Traders in the great Cities andTowns, and have no Tythes to pay, and thereforeare in no danger of bearing any Share of the Bur-den, and I have not heard of any of thofe in Prifonfor Church-rates : They pay their Taxes and Cuf-toms like other People, and exhort the poor Far-mers to die in Prifon rather than pay their Tythesand Church-rates, though equally due, and by thefame Law of the Land. I think Country Friendshave reafon to complain.
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