Raynors HCA 2016-10
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Broadsheet, 9” x 14,” “.... THE HUMBLE PETITION OF HENRY PICKWORTH, OF NEW SLEEFORD IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN; IN BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND MANY OTHERS OF HIS LONG MISLED FRIENDS, CALL'D QUAKERS; OVER WHOM HE HATH BEEN ELECTED OVERSEER AND ELDER, ACCORDING TO THE DISCIPLINE PRACTISED AMONG THEM”, London, 17414, early folds and early stab holes in left margin, small portion of inner margin excised, with no loss to text, VG. Pickworth asks that members of the Lincoln meeting be convened, in small part, "to one against me, in order to their Defences, from the Charges of Error, Heresy, Uncharity, Falshood, Evasion, Inconsistency, Innovation, Imposition, Infidelity, Hypocrisy, Pride, Railery, Apostasy, Perjury, Idolatry, villainy, Blasphemy, Abomination, Confusion, and worse than Turkish Tyranny in their Church Capacity." He was denied. In addition to being an important artifact of early 18th-century Quaker history, the document is among the first examples of political lobbying.
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