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Acknowledgments I owe gratitude to many: To Pendle Hill for awarding me the 1991–1992 Henry J. Cadbury Scholarship to begin this study. There I lived, studied, worked, and shared meals in fall, winter, and spring with the friendly Friends who comprise that community and who made it not only a productive, but warm, experience. To the Quaker lawyers, who so painstakingly and thoroughly answered the survey questionnaire, I give special thanks. I am indeed indebted to them. To the Friends Historical Collection at Swarthmore College and to others who deserve my appreciation for suggestions on the manuscript or Quaker lawyer survey or for help in other ways: Hugh Barbour, Kathleen Brandes, Pam Burrell, Nancy Frommelt, J. William Frost, Tom Hamm, Heleodoro Lozano, Deborah Patton, Karl Peter Sauvant, Joanna C. Scott, Barbie Selby, Donald Smith, and the late Richard Franke, Helen Hollingsworth and Eleanor Webb. To Paul Lacey, special thanks for his Friendly help and encouragement and to Craig Horle for being willing to share his extensive knowledge of early English citation styles. To the editors at SUNY Press: Nancy Ellegate, my gratitude for her discovery of something worthy in the manuscript and her gentle and easy manner, and to Eileen Meehan, my thanks for her kind understanding and patience with my near-endless tinkering. To our sons Jahan and David, with love, who began their college years as I became the Cadbury Scholar at Pendle Hill, and who have encouraged me by just being who they are, and To my husband of forty-three years, Tagi Sagafi-Nejad, along with my gratitude, my heartfelt love and admiration, who, during this endeavor, was forgiving of my foibles and ever-steadfast in his help, support, and encouragement. xvii ...

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