Besse, Joseph Vindication of a book, intituled, A Brief Account of many of the Prosecutions of the People call'd Quakers London 1739
[Besse, Joseph.] A vindication of a book, intutled, A Brief Account of many of the Prosecutions of the People call'd Quakers, &c. Presented to the members of both houses of Parliament, in answer to a late examination thereof, so far as the clergy of the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry are concerned in it: with an appendix, in reply to the objections of two clergymen of the diocese call'd St. David's. London: printed and sold by T. Sowle Raylton and Luke Hinde, 1739. 96 pp. 8vo, disbound. First edition. Joseph Besse, an industrious Quaker controversialist and editor of Quaker texts, had published a general account of the legal persecution of Quakers throught England in 1736. This book elicited a number of replies over the next few years, to which Besse responded in considerable detail. A very good copy, with outer edges uncut. Hanson 5471 (wrongly dated 1740).
£175
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