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CAUSING A TUMULT

At the SESSIONS held at the OLD BAILEY
in LONDON

the IST, 3D, 4TH, and 5тн of SEPTEMBER

1670

Done by Themselves

TRANSCRIBED from the COMPLEAT COLLECTION
of STATE TRYALS

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1719 and EDITED by
DON C. SEITZ

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COPYRIGHT, 1919

BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY

All rights reserved

SEP 2 4 1919

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

To the Memory

OF

THOMAS JEFFERSON

WHICH NEEDS FREQUENT
REFRESHING

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Quaker, to come nearer establishing the ideal of this Trinity than any other being called Human before or since his day.

It may be argued that more was due to the Faith he held than to the Man. Yet this must be answered that it took some more than ordinary Man to absorb and fulfill the requirements of such a Faith. There have been many Quakers and but one Penn!

Born on the 15th of October, 1644, in the angry days of the Roundhead Revolt, his early years were spent in an intensely religious atmosphere that saturated his soul, but at the same time bred detestation of bigotry and persecution. If he seemed to be performing out of his class because of his family's eminence, it should be recalled that this was acquired, not inherited. His father, Admiral Sir William Penn, was the son of Giles Penn, a merchant navigator trading into the Mediterranean, and his

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