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OF THE

TRIAL OF FRIENDS,

IN THE

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,

June, 1828,

BEFORE THE HONOURABLE EDWARD KING, ESQ.

PRESIDENT JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA;

OR, THE CASE OF

EDMUND SHOTWELL,
JOSEPHI LUKINS,
CHARLES MIDDLETON,
AND TWO OTHERS,

Who had been, by the Mayor of the City, committed to prison,
whence they were brought up by Habeas Corpus,
June 9th, 1828.

TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND, BY M. T. C. GOULD,

STENOGRAPHER.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. Harding, Printer.

PUBLIC LIBRARY
56798

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:

SEAL.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-eighth day of June, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1828, M. T. C. GOULD, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:....

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Report of the Trial of Friends, in the City of Philadelphia, June, 1828, before the Honourable Edward King, Esq. President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the first Judicial District of Pennsylvania: or the case of Edmund Shotwell, Joseph Lukins, Charles Middleton, and two others, who had been, by the Mayor of the City, committed to prison, whence they were brought up by Habeas Corpus, June 9th, 1828. Tuken in Short-hand, by M. T. C. Gould, Stenographer.

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act intituled "An Act supplementary to an Act, intituled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

INTRODUCTION.

IT will no doubt be satisfactory, to such readers as are not familiar with recent events in the Society of Friends, and particularly the circumstances connected with the following report, to have a concise statement of some of the most material facts connected with the subject; indeed, something of the kind appears necessary to a clear understanding of what follows.

For the information of readers unacquainted with the church government of the Society of Friends, it may be proper to remark, that there are in America eight Yearly Meetings, all independent of each other. The Yearly Meeting held in Philadelphia, is composed of 11 Quarterly Meetings, viz: Philadelphia, Abington, Bucks, Concord, Caln, Western, Southern, Burlington, Haddonfield, Salem, and Shrewsberry and Rahway. Each Quarter is composed of several Monthly Meetings. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, before Green street Monthly Meeting dissolved its connexion with it, was composed of nine Monthly Meetings, viz: Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, held in Mulberry street; Northern District, held in Key's alley; Southern District, held in Pine street; Western District, held in Twelfth street; Green street, in the Northern Liberties; Radnor, Exeter, Muncy, and Roaring Creek. None of these meetings have any interest whatever in the burying ground in dispute, except the five Monthly meetings in this city, viz: Mulberry street, Key's alley, Pine street, Twelfth street, and Green street, in which it is exclusively vested.

For reasons which it is not necessary particularly to mention here, the party in Philadelphia Quarterly Meet

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