P.126, in which is a modern account of Scotland, written in 1670, states the same practice as having existed in our own island.] [11]On Noah, and in him on all mankind The Charter was conferr'd, by which we hold The flesh of animals in fee, and claim O'er all we feed on pow'r of life and death.
But read the instrument, and mark it well.
The oppression of a tyrannous control Can find no warrant there.

Feed then, and yield Thanks for thy food.

Carnivorous, through sin, Feed on the slain; but spare the living brute.
[Footnote 11: Cowper.] From this charter, and from the great condition annexed to it, the Quakers are of opinion that rights and duties have sprung up; rights on behalf of animals, and duties on the part of men; and that a breach of these duties, however often, or however thoughtlessly it may take place, is a breach of a moral law.

For this charter did not relate to those animals only, which lived in the particular country of the Jews, but to those in all countries wherever Jews might exist.

Nor was the observance of it confined to the Jews only, but it was to extend to the Proselytes of the covenant and the gate.