Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 429

Price Realized: $ 156
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(RELIGION.) An Act to Extend . . . An Act for Naturalizing Foreign Protestants . . . who Conscientiously Scruple the Taking of an Oath. Title page and pages 935-939. Folio, disbound. London, 1747

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In the wake of a 1741 act which authorized naturalizing Jews and Quakers as British subjects to encourage American emigration, this act allowed the naturalization of "the Moravian brethren and other sovereign Protestants not Quakers."