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Caines bloudy race known by their fruits, or, A true declaration of the innocent sufferings of the servants of the living God, by the magistrates, priests and people in the city of Westchester, who lives in a profession of God, Christ, and the Scriptures, as their forefathers did, who slew the prophets, persecuted Christ and the Apostles, as is declared in the Scriptures of truth, &c

Hutchins, Anthony · 1657 · London : Printed for Thomas Simmons, at the sign of the Bull and Mouth, neer Aldersgate · 1 picture

A 1657 Quaker polemic by Anthony Hutchins, printed in London for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, addressed to the Quakers' opponents and to the public, recounting persecution of Friends in Westchester. The single picture is an engraved heraldic achievement, with a helmet and crest above a shield bearing three charges, a bird, and a motto scroll reading Gaudeo; a designer might take its symmetrical scrollwork, mantling and dotted field as models for crest-style emblems.

Quakers -- Persecutions -- England · Society of Friends -- Apologetic works · Imprint 1657

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