But besides losing these privileges, which confer consequence upon him,
he looses others of another kind. He cannot marry in the society. His
affirmation will be no longer taken instead of his oath. If a poor man,
he is no longer exempt from the militia, if drawn by submitting to three
months imprisonment; nor is he entitled to that comfortable maintenance,
in case of necessity, which the society provide for their own poor.
To these considerations it may not perhaps be superfluous to add, that
if he continues to mix with the members of his own society, he will
occasionally find circumstances arising, which will remind him of his
former state: and if he transfers his friendship to others, he will feel
awkward and uneasy, and out of his element, till he has made his temper,
his opinions, and his manners, harmonize with those of his new
associates of the world.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE QUAKERS.
CHAP. I. SECT. I.
_Dress--Quakers distinguished by their dress from others--great
extravagance in dress in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries--this
extravagance had reached the clergy--but religious individuals kept to
their antient dresses--the dress which the men of this description wore
in those days--dress of the women of this description also--George Fox
and the Quakers springing out of these, carried their plain habits with
them into their new society.
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