A

PORTRAITURE

OF

QUAKERISM,

TAKEN FROM

A VIEW OF THE

MORAL EDUCATION, DISCIPLINE, PECULIAR
CUSTOMS, RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES,
POLITICAL AND CIVIL ECONOMY,
AND CHARACTER,

OF THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

BY

THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A.

AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE SUBJECT OF
THE SLAVE-TRADE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

London:

PRINTED BY R. TAYLOR AND CO., SHOE-LANE,

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1807.

110. c. 178.

THECA

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

PECULIAR CUSTOMS.

CHAP. I.

SECT. 1. Marriage-regulations and example of George

Fox relative to marriage-present regulations

and manner of the celebration of it among the

Quakers

p. 3

SECT. 2. Those who marry out of the Society are dis-

owned—various reasons for such a measure-

objection to it-reply

10

SECT. 3. but the disowned may be restored to member-

ship-terms of their restoration-these terms

censured-reply.

SECT. 4.

18

-more women disowned on this account than

men-probable causes of this difference of

number

CHAP. II.

23

SECT. 1. Funerals-extravagance and pageantry of an-

-

tient and modern funerals these discarded

by the Quakers plain manner in which they

inter their dead

27

SECT. 2. Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental

inscriptions various reasons of their disuse

of these

VOL. II.

a

32

SECT.

SECT. 3, neither do they use mourning garments-

reasons why they thus differ from the world

these reasons further elucidated by con-

siderations on court-mourning

CHAP. III,

39

Occupations agriculture declining among the Quakers—

causes and disadvantages of this decline

CHAP. IV.

SECT. . Trade—Quakers view trade as a moral question

-prohibit a variety of trades and dealings

on this account-various other wholesome re-

gulations concerning it

53

SECT. 2, but though the Quakers thus prohibit many

trades, they are found in some which are con-

sidered objectionable by the world—these spe-

cified and examined

CHAP. V.

62

Settlement of differences-abstain from duels-and also

from law-have recourse to arbitration-

their rules concerning arbitration-an account

of an arbitration-society at Newcastle-upon-

Tyne on Quaker-principles

CHAP, VI.

76

SECT. 1. Poor-no beggars among the Quakers-manner

of relieving and providing for their poor. 89

SECT. 2. Education of the children of their poor provided

for-observations on the number of the Qua-

ker-poor-and on their character

94