According to summary at beginning of folder, these are extracts from the Minutes of the London Yearly Meeting of Advices and Minutes relating to discipline. There are also letters from of the Yearly Meeting to the Quarterly Meeting (especially the QM of Hertford).

An unbound copy of a Book of Discipline addressed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in East Jersey, West Jersey, and Pennsylvania by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

A loosely bound volume of disciplines put forth by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. According to the contents page the volume includes writing on the establishment and order of Meetings, advice and directions to Overseers, and directions on how to discipline infractions such as "marriage with other persuasions", "horse and foot racing", and "buying Negro slaves" among a number of others.

A transcribed page at the beginning of the volume reads "Christian and Brotherly Advices Given forth from time to time by the Yearly Meetings in London to which have been added various rules and advices of New England Yearly Meeting about 1760". The disciplines fall into a number of categories which include: appeals, arbitrations, books, children, conversation, correspondence, covetousness, discipline, families, fightings, kings and governors, law, love, marriage, meeting houses, meetings for discipline, meetings for worship, mourning, "negroes", oaths, orphans, persecution, plainess, the poor, preachers, questions, records, removals of settlements, representatives, salutations, schools, scriptures, servants, singing, steeplehouse rates, national stock, sufferings, talebearing and backbiting, tombstones, trading, wills, and yearly meeting.

The title page of this volume reads: "Christian and Brotherly Advices Given forth from time to time By the Yearly Meetings in London Alphaetically Digested and Properheads." The table of contents (titled "A Table of the Several Heads") includes each category of discipline which range from appeals to epistles to oaths to scriptures to trading.

This is a third copy of the disciplines of the London Yearly Meeting circa 1760 (see Volumes 3 and 4 of this series for other two). The title page reads: The categories in the table of contents are largely identical to those in the previous two copies with two additions: elders and visiting familys.

This volume includes disciplines of the Phildelphia Yearly Meeting and the Quarterly Meetings of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The subject matter covers a wide range of topics related to discipline and order including displine and authority in Meeting, use of poor language, and relations with Native Americans. This volume also includes an index at the back of the book on the subject matter covered therein.

This is a copy of the Book of Disciplines of the Phildelphia Yearly Meeting as of 1761 (though there is an addendum for 1765). It includes disciplines (whole or fragmented), a summary of minutes from the extracts of Yearly Meeting (1755-1760), and extracts from the Epistles of the Yearly Meeting on discipline (from 1721-1761).

This is the second copy of the Phildelphia Yearly Disciplines as of 1762. There is no table of contents for this copy, but the headings remain clearly marked at the top of each page and are in alphabetical order. Topics in the book include order in Meetings, scripture, children, and schooling.

This volume of "Christian and Brotherly Advices" of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting run up to 1787. As with other volumes of disciplines in this collection there are subject headings at the topic of each page and everything is alphabetically arranged. In the margins of each entry include the "year when the respective Minutes were agreed upon". The section on "Negroes or Slaves" is split between pages 204-216 (this is from 1688-1774) and at the end of the volume, pages 350-359 which covers 1774-1787.

This volume of discplines (which is printed, not handwritten) includes the advice and disciplines of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting up until 1797. There is a table of contents in which each entry is laid out. The topics ranged from defamation to burials, to mourning, to schools and to wills. This particular copy of the disciplines is extensively annotated with sections crossed out, others noted as "retained", and others with commentary alongside them in the margins. According to a slip of paper at the beginning of the volume it was used by Jonathan Evans when he prepared a revision of the disciplines in 1834.