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Rh Pensilvania. But he never saw it again, he dying in Ruscomb in Berkshire, anno 1718.

not able to guess what fate Quakerism may have in America, but I perceive, it dwindles away daily in England. In all countries where liberty of conscience is allow'd, the establish'd religion will at last sw'allow up all the rest. Quakers are disquallfied from being members of parliament; nor can they enjoy any post or preferment, because an oath must always be taken on these occasions and they never swear. They are therefore reduc'd to the necessity of subsisting upon traffick. Their children, whom the industry of their parents has enrich'd, are desirous of enjoying honours, of wearing buttons and ruffles; and quite asham'd of being call'd Quakers, they become converts to the Church of England merely to be in the fashion. Rh