CLOTHIIG AND DRESS.
Hoop-petticoats arraigned and condemned by the light of nature, and law of God. (Boston: Printed and sold by James Franklin, in Queen-street. 1722; (Boston, 1940,
facsim.: 8 p. 204™. ,(Photostat Americana. Second series ... Pho- tostated at the Massachusetts historical society. No. 111,
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A satire on the divines, and particularly on the Rev. Solomon Stod- dard, who in his “Answer to some cases on conscience,” printed June 25th, 1722, had arraigned “hooped petticoats” as “contrary to the light of nature.” cf. Brinley catalogue, v. 4, p. 229.
One of 15 copies from the original in the Library of Congress, August,
940,
1, Clothing and dress.
42-8244 Library of Congress BJ1697.H6 1722a By 177.4