Claridge, Richard:

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MELIUS INQUIRENDUM: OR, AN ANSWER TO A BOOK OF EDWARD COCKSON, M.A. AND RECTOR, AS HE STILES HIMSELF, OF WESTCOT-BARTON IN THE COUNTY OF OXON. MIS-INTITULED, RIGID QUAKERS CRUEL PERSECUTORS...IN ... Richard Claridge (1649-1723) was an Anglican priest before converting to the Baptist faith in 1691. By 1696 he had become dissatisfied with the Baptists, and became a Quaker minister, writing many works on Quaker doctrine, including a defence of William Penn's THE SANDY FOUNDATION SHAKEN. In the present work he seeks to refute the arguments of Edward Cockson, whose RIGID QUAKERS, CRUEL PERSECUTORS was published in 1705, and which included a "history of the Quakers persecutions for religion, in Pensilvania and America." Section fourteen of Claridge's work specifically refutes the charges of Quaker tyranny in Pennsylvania, and the rest of the book seeks to dismantle Cockson's other arguments, point by point.

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