A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Quakers refuse to swear: . ... Presented to the King and great-council of England, assembled in parliament.
William Penn (1644-1718)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101362
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,176,179-194p. . 8vo.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: WW2-8[brown ink]; Vv/5 [pencil]; Vv.6.22 [dark blue ink]. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, double blind fillet on spine and covers, remains of gilt spine title, blind tooling on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
William Penn (1644-1718) Richard Richardson (1755-1803)