Add MS 62930-62932. SWARTHMORE MANUSCRIPTS: three Quaker treatises originating from the circle of George Fox and his wife, Margaret Fell, at Swarthmore Hall, Ulverston; circa 1652-1668.

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Add MS 62930-62932. SWARTHMORE MANUSCRIPTS: three Quaker treatises originating from the circle of George Fox and his wife, Margaret Fell, at Swarthmore Hall, Ulverston; circa 1652-1668.

1652-1668

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All three manuscripts are docketed in Fox's hand. Further portions of the Swarthmore collection, which was dispersed in 1759, are now in the Library of the Society of Friends. With the bookplates of Alec Edmund Martin, M.D., 20th cent. Purchased at Sotheby's, 8 Dec. 1983, lot 379. Paper. Three volumes. Uniform modern bindings of dark green morocco, gilt-stamped. 199 x 160mm.

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Fox, George, 1624-1691

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George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual, uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, performing hundreds of healings, and often being persecuted by ...