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Brotherton Collection5
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Quaker Collection1

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quakers5
english poetry2
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Parnell, James, 1637?-16561
Society of Friends1
Wagstaffe, Thomas (1724-1802)1
Hall, Spencer T (1812-1885)1
Gratton, John, 1641-17121
Bradley, John1
Callaway, Henry (1817-1890)1
Gough, James1

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Miscellany of English verse with Quaker connections.

1773

A miscellany of poems in English, including some with Quaker connections, such as 'Bristol Theatre: A Poem' by James Gough, the well-known Quaker historian, and 'The Country Quaker'.

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The Quakers tea table overturn'd, the tea spill'd and all the china broke. A satyrical poem in 4 parts, by a lover of the ancient plainness and simplicity of that people

1717

Lengthy satirical and didactic criticism of Quakers for hypocritically allowing their daughters to indulge in the social fashion for drinking tea, coffee and chocolate, seeing this as an opening to gr...

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John Gratton, the Quaker preacher

Hall, Spencer T (1812-1885)

1885

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A memoir of James Parnell : with extracts from his writings

Callaway, Henry (1817-1890)

1846

Smtih I, 376.

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Piety promoted in brief memorials, and dying expressions, of some of the people called Quakers

Wagstaffe, Thomas (1724-1802)

1798

Preceding the index is a list of "Books lately published by James Phillips & Son".

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