A history of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers in Ireland, from the year 1653 to 1700 : Exhibiting their labours in the Gospel, their zeal in the promotion of Christian discipline and sufferings for conscience-sake : together with the characters and spiritual experiences of some of their principal ministers and elders, and other occurrences / First compiled, at the request of their National Meeting, by Thomas Wight of Cork ; Now revised and enlarged ; To which is added, a continuation of the same history to the year of our Lord 1751 ; With an introduction describing summarily the apostacy of the professors of Christianity from the primitive simplicity and purity through its several stages, and the gradual reformation from thence ; And a treatise of the Christian discipline exercised among the said people / By John Rutty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wight, Thomas, approximately 1640-1724.

Contributor:

Rutty, John, 1698-1775.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society of Friends--Ireland.

Society of Friends.

Ireland.

Society of Friends--Discipline.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (donor)

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (copy 2)

Doyle, Joseph (autograph) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

hee- edi- 4.ts RaAq (3) 1751 (A)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by I. Jackson, in Meath-Street, Bookseller, 1751.

Notes:

In this edition, line 15 ends "Cork." and line 23 ends "several" on title-page.

With a divisional titlepage and indices.

Cited in:

ESTC T138834

OCLC:

15936381