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  A woman forbidden to speak in the church the grounds examined, the mystery opened, the truth cleared, and the ignorance both of priests and people discovered / written by a friend of the truth, whose name in the flesh is Richard Farneworth.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

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  R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.
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  Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
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  The good order of truth justified wherein our womens meetings and order of marriage (by some more especially opposed) are proved agreeable to Scripture and sound reason / by an old and true friend to liberty of conscience, but not to disorder, William Loddington.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Loddington, William, 1626?-1711.
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  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  A novelty: or, a government of vvomen distinct from men, erected amoungst some of the people, call'd Quakers. Detected in an epistle, occasionally written to a man-judge, upon a young man's refusing (for good conscience sake) to submit to their authority in marriage, seeing that relations and friends were already satisfied. To which is added, a lamentation for the fall of so many of that people. Published for no other end, but to deter all honest hearts of the said people, from erecting the like unscriptural government. Tho' this may not so far prevail with such women as has a secret command of their husbands purses; together with those preachers that reap profit by such a female government, as to consent to the disanulling the same. Written by William Mather, a dear lover of the said people, who has for several years been much troubled, that some of them should fall from there primitive institution, as to set up women's and men's meetings, as guides in government, ... .
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

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  Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695.
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  Date of publication from Wing. With marginal notes. Reproduction of the original in the Friends' House Library, London.
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  York, the 24th. and 25th. of the 4th. month, 1696
  Date of publication:
  1696
  

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  Yearly Meeting of Women Friends ; Breckon, Margaret. and Winn, Katharine.
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  Caption title. First line begins: "We being met together at this our yearly meeting ..." Signed: Katharine Winn ... [and 7 others]. "Dear sisters" (p. 6-8) signed: Margaret Breckon. Place of publication suggested by Wing. ...
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  A living testimony from the power and spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ in our faithful womens meeting and Christian Socity [sic] given forth in the universal union, and approbation thereof, according to our several proportions of faith and life in the same spirit.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

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  Forster, Mary, 1619?-1686. and Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends.
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  Caption title. "Signed by us, in the behalf of the rest of our sincere minded members of our meeting, London, from our Womens Meeting, gathered out of the city and suburbs, the 1st of the 4th moneth, 1685 -- Mary Forster" ...
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  A brief treatise of religious womens meetings services & testimonies. According to the scriptures of truth. [A]lso, something concerning womens prophecying and teaching, &c. [W]ith some other things, (distinguishing the holy from the unholy) in the scriptures cited ... / [Wr]itten for the satisfaction of all that desire to be informed, by one, who by the free grace of God is become a searcher of the scriptures, and a lover of truth in the inward parts ...
  Date of publication:
  1684
  

  Author(s):

  Wood, Hugh, 17th cent.
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  Signed on p. 47: Hugh Wood. Place of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Imperfect: tightly bound with loss of text; bracketed material in title conjectured by cataloger. Reproduction of original in: Friends' Library (London, ...
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