An edition of Dublin's merchant-Quaker (1998)

Dublin's merchant-Quaker

Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707

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An edition of Dublin's merchant-Quaker (1998)

Dublin's merchant-Quaker

Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707

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A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn and William Edmundson, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve a place for himself in the woolen trade. As a businessman he succeeded brilliantly, employing some 500 workers and amassing a fortune that included lands in Ireland, England, and New Jersey. His economic success helped him gain entree to prominent political and ecclesiastical officials, from whom he sought relief for persecuted Quakers.

Dublin's Merchant-Quaker is not only a biography of Sharp but a portrait of Dublin's community of Friends. The author explains in detail the functioning of national, provincial, and local meetings; the Friends' work in educating and disciplining their members; their provision of charity to the needy; and their efforts to ransom captives in Muslim lands.

In undertaking these activities, Sharp and his fellow Quakers expressed the driving force of their faith and built a society that sustained the Friends for centuries to come as a minority within another minority, the Protestants of Ireland.

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337

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Dublin's merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707
1998, Stanford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-319) and index.

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Stanford, Calif

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Dewey Decimal Class
941.8/350088286
Library of Congress
DA995.D75 G74 1998, DA995.D75G74 1998

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Pagination
x, 337 p. ;
Number of pages
337

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OL344710M
Internet Archive
dublinsmerchantq0000grea
ISBN 10
0804734526
LCCN
98003683
OCLC/WorldCat
38747937
Library Thing
5751243
Goodreads
1097236

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