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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93359	Something further laid open of the cruel persecution of the people called Quakers by the magistrates and people of Evesham.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4072; Thomason E863_7; ESTC R206668	7,337	8

in the common stocks not shovving him any reason vvhy they did it and after he had been in the stocks all that freezing night in the street then the Mayor sent him out of the tovvn by the Goaler and vvhen the Goaler had left him he returned to the tovvn again along the road vvay it being the Market day came to the prison to us and then vvent to the Mayor to knovv vvhat offence he had to charge him vvith that he thus punished him but the Mayor having nothing to accuse him of vvas vvrath and sent him to the stocks again where both his feet were put in Then they sent for Robert Vens who did go along with that friend out of the town that had been in the stocks all night and when Robert Vens came before them called Justices Samuel Gardiner and Robert Martin the one of them said what shall we do with this fellow the other answered put him in the Goal and hang him but at last they sent him to stocks and he knows no reason why they did it but for going with the other friend out of the town when he had been in the stocks five hours then they sent for him to see what the Goaler had to charge him with for any words that he might speake when he went with the other friend so when they had punished him they went to enquire what fault he had done Some of the Inhabitants of the town intended to send two men to the Protector when this persecution begun in Evesham and the corruption of the Magistrates did so plainly appear to let him know what corrupt men were in authority in this town and they writ somthing to that effect to send by them the which writing was subscribed about fifty hands to it but I said unto them that they might put themselves to much trouble and yet not speak with the Protector therefore if they would not otherwise be satisfied they might put some four hands to it and send it to print and then I should endeavour to have it sent to the Protector that he might be left without excuse so they sent it to print with 20. hands to it which was titled A Representation of the Government of Evesham from many of the Inhabitants thereof directed unto the Protector O. C. And at the Sessions many of them were fined and some were both fined and imprisoned ever since in the Protectors name for declaring to the Protector the corruption of those that are put in authority under the Protector who act contrary to the Protectors laws against those that have been faithfull souldiers both for the Parliament and the Protector and there is not any friend at any time that can by any means since the Sessions procure by any means or buy for money a copy of our Indictments And let all people take notice that all that is printed in the first second and this third book is all but a short declaration to what might be printed of the persecutions of Priests Magigistrates and people of this Tovvn of Evesham against the Saints From the Dungeon in Evesham by him that is known to the world by the name of Humphrey Smith YOU that be Magistrates which do cast Christ into prison and wil not visit him when you have done nor suffer his friends and brethren to visit him in prison and there you keep him in prison til he hunger and thirst and you prison him as a Vagabond who hath no place to lye his head sick and in prison and you visit him not but the Corner stone is set up and the Rock of Ages manifest and him who bears the Government upon his shoulders whose Kingdom is without end and Dominion which hath no end which is an everlasting Dominion which Dominion is over all Dominions whose Scepter is Righteousness whose Law Royal stands over all answereth that of God in all and respects no Mans Person but is Holy Just and Righteous Perfect and Good whose Priesthood is Royal everlasting that never changeth who lighteth every man that cometh into the World that men might believe and see the Way out of the World Christ the Light the Way the Truth who is the Covenant of Light of Peace and of Life Was not Christ crucified in Sodome and Gomorrah spiritually and are not they Sodomites that imprison him and are not the Sodomites them that live in fulness of bread and Idleness and the filthy conversation which the Righteous Soul grieves and vexeth which Christ is Shepheard of and the Bishop who is a Witness in all Consciences which witnesseth against the Lusts which war against the Soul Was not all the Profession of Christ before he was manifested in the flesh and when he was manifest in the flesh hypocrisie among them that profess him in words and did not believe in him who was the Light but cast him into Prison and he was sick and they visited him not and was hungry and they fed him not and he was naked and they cloathed him not such as neither knew his voice nor the Prophets that shewed the coming of him And is not all the profession of Christ now hypocrisie among them that profess him in words and do not believe in him who is the light that lightneth every man that cometh into the world but cast him into prisons and holes dungeons and he is sick you visit him not and hungry and you feed him not and thirstie and you give him no drink and naked you cloath him not but into prison cast him as a Vagabond who hath no place to lay his head the Foxes have holes and the Birds of the ayre have nests but the son of man hath no place to lay his head Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever Therefore awake ye Rulers and fear the Lord God and hear the voice of the Son of God that you may live for now is Christ come to raign the same as ever was whom into prison you do cast and with your wils would not suffer him to raign but Christ wil raign who is not born by the will of man who is King and Ruler and now raigns in his kingdom and dominion which is without end and in his power and in his fulness who filleth all things thousands of his fulness have received and of his power as many as have received him to become the Sons of God LONDON Printed in the Yeer 1656