A vindication of a book intituled A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, &c : presented to the members of both Houses of Parliament : in answer to a late examination thereof, so far as the clergy of the dioceses of Oxford, Glocester, and Chester, are concerned in it.

An examination of a book, lately printed by the Quakers  and by them distributed to the members of both Houses of Parliament, entitled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, in the Exchequer, Ecclesiastical, and other Courts; for Demands recoverable by the Acts made in the 7th and 8th Years of the Reign of King William III. for the more easy Recovery of Tythes, Church-Rates, &c. So far as the clergy of the dioceses of Oxford, Glocester and Chester, are concerned in it.

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Besse, Joseph, 1683?-1757. Brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people call'd Quakers.

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