Report From The Committee To Whom The Petition Of The Deputies Of The United Moravian Churches .

London: Printed By Thoas Baskett. Good with no dust jacket. 1749. ... Behalf of Themselves and Their United Brethren, Was Referred: Together with some Extracts of the Most Material Vouchers and Papers contained in the Appendix. "Deals in large part with the Moravian emigration to America. No American record of sale. Collation: half title (Acta Fratrum Unitatis in Anglia, 1749) , verso blank; Syllabus, verso blank; title, verso blank; p. Iii, Extract from the Votes of the House of Commons, verso blank; inserted 4 pp. , Anno Regni Georgii II. ... An Act, etc. ; second title, Report of the Committee, verso blank; pp. 3--27, verso blank; Appendix, pp. 1--58; Unitatis Fratrum Fidei, Liturgiae et Praxeos Expositio, pp. [59a, 59b, 59c]---120; 2 leaves, “Added since, in an Octavo Edition; with respect to Page 121, the following Preface; pp. [121]---156. P. Iii, as above, contains an Order addressed to Lieut. -Gen. Oglethorpe and Mr. Velters Cornwall for the ecouragement of the Moravians to settle in America. The following 4 pp. , which seem to have been inserted, contain An Act for encouraging this settlement and defining the Moravian attitude toward taking oath and bearing arms. The colophon of this Act dates it London, 1749. Among the “Vouchers and Papers” are leters to and from Count Zinzendorf and General Oglethorpe. The “Report” deals with the numbers, character, and American colonization of the Moravians and their missions in the West Indies and other parts of the world. Beginning at p. 59 are the Augsburg Confession, gospel of the Synod of Bern, litany, etc. Small folio, mottled calf"RBH SDabin Folio B. M. 69731..Original binding mottled claf. Wear to extremities, some edgewear to first few leaves prior to title page. .