Appendix A contains valuable statistics; appendix B has a scurrilous pamphlet, "A Key to unlock Methodism, or Academical Hubbub," etc., published in Norwich, 1800.
——The Centenary of American Methodism: a Sketch of its History,
Theology, Practical System, and Success. New York, 1866.
——The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, called Methodism. New York, 1858-61. 3 vols.
5. QUAKERS, OR THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Besse, Joseph. A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, for the Testimony of a Good Conscience, etc., to the year 1689. London, 1753. 2 vols.
Vol. ii contains a full account of their persecutions, together with copies of the proceedings against them and letters from the sufferers.
Bowden, James. History of the Society of Friends in America. New York and London, 1845. 2 vols.
A history of the sect throughout New England, containing many short biographies. It is fair and frank in its record of New England persecutions. The author adopts the unique plea that the excesses of the converts were inspired by the Holy Spirit as a reproof to their persecutors for the kind of persecution and punishment that was meted out to innocent persons.
Evans, Charles. Friends in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia, 1876.
Gough, John. History of the People called Quakers. Dublin, 1789-90. 4 vols.