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Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.

John Bellers : his life, times, and writings / edited by George Clarke.

Tortola : a Quaker experiment of long ago in the tropics / by Charles F. Jenkins.

A history of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers in Ireland, from the year 1653 to 1700. Exhibiting their labours in the Gospel, their zeal in the promotion of Christian discipline and sufferings for conscience-sake: together with the characters and spiritual experiences of some of their principal ministers and elders, and other occurrences / First compiled, at the request of their National Meeting, by Thomas Wight of Cork. Now revised and enlarged. To which is added, a continuation of the same history to the year of our Lord 1751. With an introduction describing summarily the apostacy of the professors of Christianity from the primitive simplicity and purity through its several stages, and the gradual reformation from thence. And a treatise of the Christian discipline exercised among the said people. By John Rutty.

A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers. Written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbours in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. by Will. Chandler, Alex. Pyot, J. Hodges, and some others.

A brief account of the people called Quakers. Their doctrines and discipline; taken from a dictionary of arts and sciences, lately published at Edinburgh.

John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol oil; implying a satirical attack on the Quaker movement. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.

An epistle from the Friends who visited the quarterly and monthly-meetings of the kingdom of Ireland, in the year 1762. To the national half-years-meeting For that Kingdom, held in Dublin, in the 11th Month of that Year.

To George the Second, King of Great-Britain, &c. The humble address of the people call'd Quakers.

The queries of the meetings of ministers and elders, as settled by the yearly-meeting, 1791, which directs that they shall be answered in Writing, in the following Order, and that no other Queries be used without the leave of the Yearly-Meeting: To the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders in the Spring and in Autumn, and from the former to the Yearly-Meeting of Ministers and Elders, all the Seven: To the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders in Summer and Winter, the 2d and 4th only; the rest to be then read.

Some particulars relative to the continuance of the endeavours, on the part of the Society of Friends in the United States of North America, for the improvement and gradual civilization of the Indian natives.

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An epistle from the Friends who visited the quarterly and monthly-meetings of the kingdom of Ireland, in the year 1762. To the national half-years-meeting For that Kingdom, held in Dublin, in the 11th Month of that Year.

To George the Second, King of Great-Britain, &c. The humble address of the people call'd Quakers.

John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol oil; implying a satirical attack on the Quaker movement. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.

Some particulars relative to the continuance of the endeavours, on the part of the Society of Friends in the United States of North America, for the improvement and gradual civilization of the Indian natives.