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A46344 The Judgment given forth by twenty-eight Quakers against George Keith and his Friends with answers to the said judgment declaring those twenty-eight Quakers to be no Christians : as also An appeal (for which several were imprisoned &c.) by the said George Keith &c. to the early meeting Sept. 1692, with a full account of the said yearly meeting signed by seventy Quakers. Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699. A true copy of three judgments. 1694 (1694) Wing J1173; ESTC R28748 20,634 24

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