• 1663.c.1. Pervis. an act prohibiting the unlawful assembling of quakers.
• [1692.c.5. an act encoraging the erecting of a post office in this country.]1 this was to confirm the establishmt. of that office made in England.
• 1659.Mar.13. an act for the suppressing the Quakers. I doubt whether the laws of this session are in H. B. office.2 the substance is to lay penalty of £100 Sterl. on any captain of ship who shall bring in a Quaker to be levied by an order from the Gov. & council or the justices of the county.
• that all Quakers already questioned or which shall hereafter arrive shall be apprehended & imprisoned without bail or main-prize till they abjure this country, or give security to depart the colony immediately & not to return.
• if they return, to be proceeded against & pursued as contemners of the laws & magistracy:
• if they return a second time to be proceeded against as felons.
• no person to entertain any [of the Quakers quesitioned by the Gov. & council or [who shall hereafter be] questd.
• no person to [permit] any assembly [of Quakers] in or near his house in pen[alty of £100 sterling.]
• no person at their peril to dispose [or publish their] books withtheir tenets & [opinions.]
• Justices & [other?] officers at [their peril to take notice of this act to see it] fully [effected and executed.]3

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• Impropriety of time—invasion
• • nevr. complnd. befre.
  • Hierarchy & Monarchy Congenl.
• Threatg.
• Practice Tolern. nt. Leg.
• Stat. of Tolen. Adopted
• Propriety of an Estabmt.
• • Obj. most states have establmt. ans. yn. every Relign. hs. bn. establd. ds. ys. Prove Infallibility
• Examp. Holland
• • Pennsylva. &c.
  • [. . . .]
• Public Regulns. necessary
• 1. Open doors
• 2. Tendcy. of opns.
• • Regenern.
  • Future state
• ys. wd. subjct. Religs. opn.
• ys. supportd. Monksh. ignorce.
• trust to Ministers
• wch. is smallst. inconvce.
• 3. Ordinatn.
• • Leave it to each sect
  • yr. own interest lead to it
  • Quakers
• 4. fixed Contributn.
• • laborer worthy hire
• [. . . .]
• while contins. worthy—shd. b. indepdt.
• • wll. be afrd. to censure
  • ans. The reverse is true
  • obj. Rich Philadelphns. refuse
• inequalty. of Parishes
• • Contribn. wll. nt. suppt.
  • Contribn. mst. go to difft. sect or be lost
  • Decln. Rts. Freedm. of conscce.
  • • force to support Error
  • Quakers
  • Foreigns. discoraged
  • Law deft. cts.—Value Xn. Examp.
  • Ruin church
• [. . . .]
• Ye. Stat: justified by hist. times.
• • ans. shd. hve. bn. repealed.
• All Stat: after 4. […]—Whimsicl.
• • Ys. is determin. of law
  • obj. Some befre. ys. not in force
  • ans. local stat. exceptd.
• Obj. act of pan. repeald. mst. be in force here.
• • Yn. in repeal Magn. Charta. Stat, of Wills
  • Ys. gives up Americn. qu.
• Genl. Ct. so thought it
• Ans. Y dd. nt.
• Obj. act, ass. is agt. swearg. Drunkss.—wll. be licence to practice
• • [. . . .]
  • none but Chst. men obligd. to go to Chch.
• Obj. wt. […]Sentimts.
• Obj.

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• do not […] inculcate principles of morality.
• Why then give peculir. privileges to any.
• Romn. Catholics. 4.Bl.54.
• Pennsylva.—D. Counts.—N. York—Maryld.
• a Romn. Cathol. in Congress—grt. confldce.
• Canada
• frdly. interchange of Citizens wth. all ye. colonies5
• [. . . .]6
• Shadford the petner. is appd. by Rankins for Virga.
• Westley has written in favr. of ministry
• • has been advertzd. in Maryld. gazette as having written agt. Junius’s lres.
• E. of Dartmouth, principi. secretary, a methodist
• Shadfd, has signed witht. authority.
• Methodsts. in Albem. signd. petns.
• Co. L. 11. 260. Hob. 79.
• 1 Bl. c. 8. 5. Co. 106.
• Spelman. Admir. flotsam.
• Jacob. beaconage.
• 2. Shower 232. Comb. 474.