The Case Of The People Called Quakers With Respect To Many Of Their Friends In South Britain And

by Quakers

$875 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Quakers seek relief on affirmation. In 1696, after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths, Quakers were granted the right by Parliament to take a solemn affirmation in legal situations in place of an actual oath. Over the next two decades, numerous Quakers objected to the invocation of God's name in the official affirmation and refused it as they had the oath. In 1715, a bill was under consideration

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