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FromA dictionary of slang and colloquial English by John S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, published in 1905.
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17th Century Quaker Shade
Transcription:
“as wee came back did I heare one uncivill word that I
know of Except one woman spoke underhand tho not as I
[could] heare her & sd [said] wee were dogs & the Rable [rabble] set upon her
& told her; we were no more dogs then [than] she was A bitch & [stopped]
her Quickly”
And you know that shit is the Truth bc it’s coming from a Quaker. They’re basically contractually obligated to tell the Truth.
so if a Quaker calls you a bitch, youse a bitch
shouts out to Margaret Brewster for giving me the new life goal(s) of disturbing congregations, frightening children, making women swoon, dishonoring god, and being the scandal of religion and the contempt of government—all through the power of my “strange aspect.”
Text transcription and source:
“Whereas Margaret Brewster, alias Sawyer, did upon the last
Lord’s Day, being the twenty first of this instant December, come
into the Church at Spight’s Bay, in Time of divine Service, with her
Face disfigured, her Hair about her Shoulders, and Ashes upon her Head,
and Sackcloth upon her upper Garments, and bare-footed, like unto some
wild Satyr, or some mad lunatick Person: By which unlooked for strange
Aspect the whole Congregation was disturbed, some Children much af-
frighted, and several Women were ready to faint, which is to the Dishonour
of God, Scandal of Religion, and Contempt of Government: And being
examined this Day before us, would give no Account for her so doing, but
uttering several railing and reproachful Words against the Priests and their
Ministry, and being by us requested to find Sureties for her Appearance at
next Court of Quarter Sessions to be holden at Spight’s Bay, and for her good
Abearing for the future, and having refused to do the same: These are there-
fore, in his Majesty’s Name, to will and require you forthwith to take into
your Custody the Body of the said Margaret Brewster, and safely convey
unto his Majesty’s Common Jail at St. Michael’s Town, and her deliver unto
the Keeper thereof, who is hereby required to receive her from you, and her
in safe Custody to keep, until she shall find Sureties for her Appearance at
next Court of Quarter Sessions, to be holden at Spight’s Bay, and for her
good Abearing for the future, or until she shall be delivered from thence by
due Order of his Majesty’s Laws: Hereof fail not at your Perils. Given
under our Hands this twenty second Day of December, Anno 1673.”
Joseph Besse,
A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers: For the Testimony of a Good Conscience from the Time of Their Being First Distinguished by that Name in the Year 1650 to the Time of the Act Commonly Called the Act of Toleration Granted to Protestant Dissenters in the First Year of the Reign of King William the Third and Queen Mary in the Year 1689, Volume 2 (L. Hinde, 1753), 319.
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