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<HEAD><HI>Renewed Advice</HI> To the Re&s;pective Monthly and Quarterly MEETINGS In <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales</HI> For Pre&s;erving and Spreading Friends Books for Truths Service.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">From the Meeting of Sufferings in London.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>DEAR FRIENDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WIth our dear Love in the Truth unto you all, The&s;e are to let you under|&s;tand, That our Friends have at &s;everal <HI>Yearly Meetings</HI> had under their &s;erious Con&s;ideration, how all tho&s;e Books that are Printed for the <HI>Service of Truth,</HI> and in the Unity of Friends, might mo&s;t effectually be &s;pread for a General Service to Truth, and Information unto Friends and others: And at the la&s;t <HI>Yearly Meeting</HI> it was left unto this <HI>Meeting,</HI> who accordingly have taken Care and Pains therein, and &s;ettled as followeth.</P>
<P>That tho&s;e that Print Friends Books, &s;hall the fir&s;t Opportunity after Printed with|in one Month at mo&s;t, &s;end to one of the Corre&s;pondents in the &s;everal Counties, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>For your County, two Books of a &s;ort if under Six Pence for each <HI>Monthly Meeting</HI> in your County, and but one of a &s;ort if above Six Pence <HI>per</HI> Book for the&s;e Rea&s;ons,
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<ITEM>1<HI>&s;t.</HI> For Friends to have General Notice of what Books are Printed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2<HI>dly.</HI> That they may &s;end for what other Quantities they may &s;ee a Service for. And</ITEM>
<ITEM>3<HI>dly.</HI> That the Printer may be incouraged in Printing for Friends.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4<HI>thly.</HI> That one Book at lea&s;t of a &s;ort that &s;hall be Printed [except Collections] may be kept in each Monthly or Quarterly Meeting, for the Service of Friends and Truth, as there &s;hall be occa&s;ion for the future. And was agreed at the yearly Meeting 1692. To be Recommended to the Quarterly or Monthly Meetings, and de&s;ired by the &s;aid Meeting 1692. in the Printed Epi&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5<HI>thly.</HI> Its agreed, that for Incouragement the Printer will allow two pence in the Shil|ling for all &s;uch Books.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6<HI>thly.</HI> Its agreed that &s;ome here &s;hall be appointed that two or three Weeks before each Quarter Day to Examine the Printer, to &s;ee that they &s;end no Books but &s;uch as are approved by Friends, and no more than two of a &s;ort as afore&s;aid; except the Friends in the Country &s;hall write for more, which its hoped they will not fail in, as they &s;ee a Service for them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7<HI>thly.</HI> Its Agreed or Advi&s;ed, that the Printers Account be fully cleared once a Year at the lea&s;t by tho&s;e Friends the Country &s;hall &s;end up to the Yearly Meeting.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8<HI>thly.</HI> Its Agreed that the Name of the Printer Imployed by Friends &s;hould be &s;ent, with Directions how to write to him.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>And Dear Friends and Brethren.</HI><LB>
Its tenderly and in Brotherly Love Advi&s;ed and Recommended unto you, That ye be careful and diligent in the &s;preading of all &s;uch Books that are Printed for the <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rvice of Truth,</HI> and are Written either in defence of it, or <HI>Chri&s;tian Doctrine,</HI> or <HI>Holy Profe&s;|&s;ion,</HI> or by way of <HI>Epi&s;tle, VVarning, Caution, Exhortation</HI> or <HI>Prophe&s;ie.</HI> That &s;o we may not be any way or in any wi&s;e Remi&s;s or Negligent in promoting that Holy and Eter|nal Truth it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God to ble&s;s us with the Knowledge of, and hath Rai&s;ed us up to &s;tand Witne&s;s for, in our Age and Generation, nor nothing may be wan|ting
<PB N="2" REF="2">on our Parts to promote it, and the &s;preading of it, in order that the Nations may be Informed and brought into the Knowledge of it, and therein come to know Peace and Acceptance with the Lord, and injoy his Ble&s;&s;ing. For one End of the Lords Vi|&s;iting us, and bringing us to the Knowledge thereof is, that we therein might be In&s;tru|mental for the good of others, and Faithfully &s;erve him therein with our whole Hearts, and al&s;o with that Sub&s;tance he hath Ble&s;&s;ed us with, and made us Stewards of, that in the End we may give an account to him with joy, and may Receive the Reward of Eter|nal Life.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Signed on behalf of the Meeting for Sufferings in <HI>London</HI> <DATE>the 18<HI>th.</HI> of the 6<HI>th.</HI> Month. 1693.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By Benj. Bealing.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Our Ancient Friend, The Printer's Name is as followeth, to whom direct thus, For ANDREW SOWLE at the <HI>Crooked-Billet</HI> in <HI>Holy-well-Lane</HI> in <HI>Shoreditch London.</HI> Who hath long Served Truth and Friends, and &s;uffered very great Lo&s;&s;es, and gone through many Hazards and Difficulties, with &s;ore Pro&s;ecutions for the &s;ame; is now Ancient and Dark-Sighted, but his Daughter TACE SOWLE, who under&s;tands the Bu&s;ine&s;s very well, Carries on his Imploy.</TRAILER>
<TRAILER>Or, To <HI>Tho. Northcott</HI> at his Shop in <HI>George-Yard</HI> in <HI>Lumbard-Street London;</HI> One that &s;erved his Apprentice-&s;hip with one that Bound, and &s;ometimes procured Books for Friends, and hath now for &s;ome Years pa&s;t, in like manner been Imployed.</TRAILER>
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<P>Po&s;t&s;cript. And this Agreement and Account herein &s;ent, we think it needful you &s;hould Record it in your Quarterly Meeting Books, and &s;ometimes Read it for Remembrance and General Notice.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for Friends, by <HI>T. Sowle,</HI> at the <HI>Crooked-Billet</HI> in <HI>Holy-well-Lane</HI> in <HI>Shoreditch.</HI> 1693.</P>
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