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Volume 38

The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1669-1719. Vol.1 1669-1689

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LRS-Vol-38
Volume 1 of the three volume transcription of the minutes covers the period from 1669 to 1689. It opens with the following statement A booke of records for the monthly meeting on the North West Parts of the County of Lyncolne wherein for the information of such as are concerned is recorded severall things as well of publique as of particular concernment in relation to the pretious truth & those that make profession thereof. In these volumes are recorded in detail the activities of the Friends including their income, charitable giving, marriages and admonition of those not meeting their high standards.
LRS-Vol-38
Volume 38 The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1669-1719. Vol.1 1669-1689
Editor Harold W. Brace Clerk of the Lincolnshire Monthly Meeting
Date For the year ending 30th September 1941
Publication Date 1948
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language English. The text uses the original seventeenth century spelling set in a modern typeface.
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Frontispiece: Map of places mentioned in the text, 1 page
Table of Contents, 1 page
Minutes of Gainsborough meetings held in November 1945 approving the publication of this volume, 1 page
Introduction, 15 pages
The Minute Book pages 1-145, 137 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 7 pages
Index of Subjects, 3 pages
Description Volume 1 of the three volume transcription of the minutes covers the period from 1669 to 1689. It opens with the following statement A booke of records for the monthly meeting on the North West Parts of the County of Lyncolne wherein for the information of such as are concerned is recorded severall things as well of publique as of particular concernment in relation to the pretious truth & those that make profession thereof. In these volumes are recorded in detail the activities of the Friends including their income, charitable giving, marriages and admonition of those not meeting their high standards.
LRS-Vol-38
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