Francis Bugg

Francis Bugg (who harrassed another Quaker writer, Anne Docwra , with slanderous writings) later published a mocking story that George Fox and MF thought God had intervened to make her pregnant at her advanced age...

As persecution against dissenters increased, AD took on the project of combating this trend in print. For some years at the turn of the century (when she already thought of herself as an old woman)...

Bugg continued his attacks in William Penn , the Pretended Quaker . . . To which is Added, A Winding-Sheet for Anne Dockwra, 1700, and A Seasonable Caveat against the Prevalency of Quakerism...

AD responded to Bugg 's attacks with The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed, whose title-page proclaims it as an answer to his scurrilous Jezebel Withstood.

AD 's pamphlet battle with the anti-Quaker controversialist Francis Bugg may not have been her first. She was, she says, attacked in 1683 in The Good Order of Truth Justified, and replied in 1685...

Docwra wrote to rebuke Bugg , who had written against her that April a tirade entitled Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Dockwra, Publickly Reprov'd. He incorporated this ad feminam attack in two works...

Others who contributed were Rebecca Travers (who wrote the opening pages under the title of the work as a whole), Sarah Ellis , Ann Martin , and Robert Whitrow , Joan's husband, who signed a...