CHAPTER IV.

_Annual court or meeting for the same purposes--nature and manner of the
business there--striking peculiarities in this manner--character of this
discipline or government_.


CHAPTER V.

_Excommunication or disowning--nature of disowning as a punishment_.



PECULIAR CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER I.

SECT. I.--_Dress--extravagance of the dress of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries--plain manner in which the grave and religious were
then habited--the Quakers sprang out of these_.

SECT. II.--_Quakers carried with them their plain dresses into their new
society--extravagance of the world continuing, they defined the objects
of dress as a Christian people--at length incorporated it into their
discipline--hence their present dress is only a less deviation from that
of their ancestors, than that of other people_.

SECT. III.--_Objections of the world to the Quaker dress--those