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Early Modern · 1669, expanded 1682
No Cross, No Crown
William Penn · 1644–1718
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What it is
Written in the Tower of London: an attack on worldly pride, titles, luxury, and hat honour, with a long anthology of testimonies against them.
Why it lasted
The classic Quaker statement of plainness as a discipline rather than a fashion, composed by a young aristocrat who had given up the title.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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