London Yearly Meeting Epistle, 1676
- That Friends of the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings of each county be reminded to keep an exact account among themselves of those that first brought the message of glad tidings among them.
- That their sufferings (to wit, of the first messengers) whether at steeple-houses, market-places, or otherwise, be also recorded.
- What Friends first received them and their message.
- To remember to keep a record of the names, and travels, and unblameable conversations, of all public laborers that are deceased.
- What judgments fell upon persecutors.
- Where any of the hearts of such enemies have been turned to God, let them and their conversions be recorded.
- What priests and others have written books against Friends; and who have answered them.
- Who have suffered the loss of goods, or imprisonment; with the cause, time, and manner of such sufferings; together with the names of their persecutors.
- Who have died in prison on truth's account; and for what branch of our testimony. And that tithes taken away by force may be recorded as a suffering for truth.
- Where there hath been any signal living testimony of dying Friends to record them.
- That the names of them that have been instruments in such persecutions and sufferings, with the names of sufficient witnesses, whether Friends or neighbors, etc. be exactly recorded, to manifest both the fact and the inflictors.
- If any have apostatized, that their sufferings, while owning truth, be notwithstanding recorded, and their apostasies signified.
- Where any backslides or apostates have returned, and any judgments overtaken such in they gainsaying, let it be recorded.
