[PENN WILLIAM] The Sandy Foundation Shaken or Those So Gener

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THE PAMPHLET THAT SENT PENN TO THE TOWER OF LONDON [PENN, WILLIAM.] The Sandy Foundation Shaken: or, Those So Generally Believed and Applauded Doctrines . . . Refuted. 36 pages. 4to, disbound; a few early marginal notes, moderate worming slightly affecting text, with tape repairs on first 8 leaves. In modern 1/4 calf case. London: [John Darby], 1668

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first edition of Penn's third published work, written as a 23-year-old recent convert to the Quaker faith. In response to this strongly worded polemic against the Trinity and other Anglican tenets, Penn was charged with blasphemy and sent to the Tower of London, where he famously refused to recant his faith: "My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot: for I owe my conscience to no mortal man." 13 years later, Pennsylvania would be chartered by the king as a Quaker colony in the New World.
Bronner & Fraser, Penn's Published Writings, 4A; ESTC R38009; Smith, Friends' Books, page II:283. Only one other copy has been noted at auction since 1977, bound with two other Penn pamphlets and sold in 2008 for $42,000.