To the Committee of Grievances
Subtitle: the Assembly having referred to your immediate consideration the memorial and address presented to the House on behalf of the religious society called Quakers on the 5th of the 11th month last; the weighty subject thereof we apprehend claims your serious and deliberate attention, as it contains our objections to the penal laws now in force, which manifestly infringe the most essential of privileges, liberty of conscience, and give licence to men of corrupt principles and conduct to exercise the most rigid persecution on their innocent neighbours, and other peaceable inhabitants, exceeding any thing of the kind we have known or heard of within the present century.
Contributors: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee of Grievances.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by John Dunlap
Published: 1780
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Quakers -- Persecutions -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800.; Dissenters, Religious -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800.; Freedom of religion -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800.; Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bristol B5213
Caption title with first sentence of text of the first complete document; printer's name from colophon. Document dated 2d Month 3d [day, i.e., February 3rd], 1780.
Even numbers of the pagination on rectos of the 5 leaves.
Signatures: H-I² K1.
Includes second petition from Zane dated 5th month 18th [day, i.e., May 18th] 1780.
LC copy has ms note: Left out in the pamphlets delivered out by the printers. These sheets of the particulars of the seizing having been condemned and the Committee who had the superintendance of the press or of the minutes were censured for having inserted them.
LC copy has [1924?] bookseller's folder bound in.