Abraham Warrington letter to Thomas Rotch 10th mo 1816

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  Belov'd friend Thomas Rotch        10th mo 1816
        It is on my mind to give thee more of my
  thoughts on the case which past last Quarterly
  meeting and recommended to our Monthly meeting in
  which we directed a Committee to endeavour to comply
  with the direction of the Quarter, and they have not
  yet reported, I understood Wm Briggs offer'd T Ball
  500 Dols which he did not comply with, and perhaps
  will comply with nothing short of taking Wm Briggs's
  living from him notwithstanding his fair
  pretentions to the Quarters committee and if this
  is consistent with the Discipline or with the golden rule
  I do not understand it, and I think if I am in
  a mistake in communicating my thoughts
  to thee perhaps may be a means of
  being cited as I wish thee to be free with me, and
  I will try to stand open to hear.
      As I view the Oppinion of those who say
  we have a clear Title for our Lands and Disapline
 nor the Assembley has no power to infringe thereon
  it is our Constitutional rite, is I think irronious.
     For instance, there is no Allowance for highways,
  yet general Law and common custom will admit
  of roads and it would be invain for any man to
  endeavour to withstand it. A widow woman
  near Carmel meeting told me they had cut her
  land by three roads viz Camfield Pittsburg & Lisbon
  roads something like a Turky foot very badly and
  there was no redress altho they ran thro a small
  barn but order'd it to be mov'd by such a time
  and in other cases the Assembly makes Deeds
  and grants priveledges, even in military
  Laws where Conscious is infring'd on, and to
  say general Law must not be adher'd to being
               an not regarded by us as a people
  unconstitutional^ when a few years ago all
  offences against the law must be publickly
  testify'd against, and I know not how
  our Qr would come of if it was the case now for