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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30027	Innocency vindicated and envy rebuked being a brief answer to George Whitehead and John Tysoe, touching John Anslo's proceedings in marriage, whereby their lyes, hypocrisy, and evil suggestion are discovered, and their evidences rejected, who being examined apart agree not in their tale, like their predecessours of old.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1684 (1684)	Wing B5371; ESTC R36066	11,254	13

Innocency Vindicated AND ENVY REBUKED BEING A Brief Answer to George Whitehead and John Tysoe Touching John Anslo's Proceedings in Marriage whereby their Lyes Hypocrisy and evil Suggestions are discovered and their Evidence rejected who being examined apart agree not in their Tale like their Predecessours of Old The INTRODUCTION WHereas W.R.T.C. my self and others have been of late concern'd to bear a publick Testimony against the dangerous Innovations and manifest Vsurpations of G. Fox and his Party amongst the People call'd Quakers and also against their manifest Persecution according to their power as may be seen at large in our Books now extant and as a Proof of the same I have sometimes made use of their Proceedings against J. A. whom they recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to their ORDERS which though it be as evident as the Sun shining at Noon day yet hath G.W. the Face to deny it and J. Tysoe his Brother in Iniquity the Impudence to say They never came Face to Face before Friends and so went together and consequently never Marryed at all which some have believed who have lived at a distance from J. A. and have been Strangers to him and his Conversation Thus have they appeared like the worst of Informers and without any just Provocation given them as well as false in Fact And have exposed him to publick View as a wicked and disorderly Person WHEREFORE O ISRAEL Return to the Iudgment Seat and let us examine these two Corrupt Judges Apart And if found Guilty let Justice be executed upon them according to their Merits Thus much by way of Introduction THE EXAMINATION OF G. WHITEHEAD First then observe the Words of the Record against J. A. as they lye in their Quarterly Book Verbatim and which hitherto they have not had the Face to deny Viz. We at this Meeting having the Business of J. A. his taking his Wife contrary to the Orders of Friends brought before us and Friends having several times spake to him about it and he not giving Friends Satisfaction we do testifie that we have no Union with him in this his so doing c. Hadenham the 4th day of the 7th Month 1678. Thus they say plainly that he took his Wife contrary to the Orders of Friends and that therefore they have no Unity with him c. See now a Copy of their Orders which were made by Cambridgeshire Friends and the Isle of Ely Friends together in J. A's absence at the Quarterly Meeting in Hadenham in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge to which Meeting J. A. belonged as a Member being but four Miles distance from his Dwelling and to which Meeting the Business of his not taking his Wife was brought as appears by the recited Record c. Where by the Major Vote he was condemned c. I say a Copy of the said Orders are as followeth Viz. It is ordered and agreed upon at this Quarterly Meeting that no Friends for time to come may permit or suffer Marriages without the consent of Friends at two Mens and Womens Meetings and the Man and Woman to come both to the said Meeting to receive the Answer of Friends that so no disorderly or indirect Proceedings may be carryed on any more contrary to the Unity of Friends Dated the 1st of the 10th Mo. 1675 c. Now J. A. either took his Wife according to these Orders or he did not If he did Why stands he Recorded out of the Vnity for not taking his Wife according to the Orders of Friends as are the very words of the recited Record of his Condemnation unless these Orders be not the Orders of Friends which I presume they will not confess too And if he did not then 't is plain that his Adversaries are ashamed to own their own Orders to be the Orders of Friends and ashamed to vindicate their own Actions but begin to evade them and shuffle about them Since G. W. in his Judgment-Fixed pag. 254. 361. seems to deny that he was recorded out of the Vnity for not coming and presenting his Publication to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings Viz. According to the Orders above specified c. Which is plain and evident by the very words of the Orders and the Record of his Condemnation as at large recited But least G. W. should still insinuate that J. A. disobeyed some other Order of Friends besides the recited Orders and therefore stands Recorded out of Vnity c. Which is more than I know of and which if he had they ought to have signified what Order it is tryed him at such Meetings where such Orders were in Being and not to have brought his Business of taking his Wife contrary to the Orders of Friends to Hadenham Quarterly Meeting and there try him and by Vote condemn him and Record him in the same Book as well as at the same Quarterly Meeting where the Orders were both Made and Recorded as a perpetual Everlasting Rule and Standard for all to walk by that intend to Marry and continue in Vnity c. and yet pretend they mean not those Orders And thereupon for further Satisfaction I shall recite several Orders for Marriage and from them observe to the Reader that J. A. took his Wife according to all former Orders save only the Orders where Women's Meetings are set up and lately Erected That is to say THE FIRST ORDER FOR MARRIAGE BY G. F. The 7th of the 11th Mo. 1659. G. F. wrote an Order for Marriage Printed for T. Symmons An Abstract whereof is as followeth Viz. ANd if any Friends go together in the power of the Lord or find a Necessity thereunto to joyn in Marriage that after the Thing hath been made known between themselves before any thing be concluded it be declared to Friends who are Able If in convenient time after the Thing be declared nothing appear against it by the Parties who are first acquainted with such a Marriage They may as they are moved declare it in the end of the next General-Meeting to which the Parties do belong or as they are moved they may declare it in the mid time of the Market on the Market Day in the next Market-Town or they may not as their Freedom is and as they are moved they may declare it to the Magistrate if they will or they may not Then after a convenient time an Assembly about twelve Friends met together they may speak their Testimony that all may take notice who are the Persons as they are moved And then a Certificate by Friends present may be given of the Day Month and Year that it may be Recorded And that nothing be Recorded for Money * What then will become of such as take 12 d. for writing a Certificate which a Lawyer will do as much for 4 d. and 30 l. for writing the Manuscript which G. Fox and E. Hooks wrote to teach Children in the Way of God which a Priest will

c. I hope by this time G. W's Alligations are answered and his Insinuations that J. A. is not Recorded out of Vnity for not Conforming to the fourth Order for Marriage where all are required to publish their Intentions to the Women's Meeting as well as the Men's are clearly refuted But if any think not the next time they write let them be more plain and tell what Order for Marriage there is in being amongst the People call'd Quakers that J. A. did not conform to other than the said fourth Order And they may meet with a suitable Reply c. THE EXAMINATION OF JOHN TYSOE AND whereas John Tysoe and his Approvers in answer to J. A's several Things c. p. 12. says John when thou went'st to the Men's Meeting and told them thou didst intend to take thy Houskeeper to Wife Did not Friends ask thee where she was and desired she might come next Meeting with thee to the intent they might hear what she said to it and thou coming no more NOR SHE AT ALL BEFORE FRIENDS How John could Friends be Witnesses without hearing you both face to face And did YOV NOT GO TOGETHER Nay John thou must not think to impose such WICKED and disorderly Things upon God's People nor W. R. nor F. B. who have so often published thy Name in their Books Which Practice was below Civil Men and is Judged with the Spirit of Truth c. By all which 't is evident that J. T. and his Approvers would have the World believe That after J. A. had acquainted the Monthly Meeting with his Intention of Marriage he without any other Formal Proceedings in order to take her to Wife went together and enjoyed each other as Man and Wife by these words And thou meaning J. A. coming no more nor she at all before Friends how could Friends be Witnesses without hearing you face to face AND DID YOV NOT GO TOGETHER Oh base and unworthy to make the World believe that which they know themselves to be false ☞ Which gross Lye and Defamation is laid to the Charge also of the Second-day's Meeting in London who approved his Book whereby their Infallible Discerning and unerring Judgment they pretend to in their Book Judas and the Jews pag. 58. saying We need none to give us discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnish't us already and doth on all Occasions c. is a meer Cheat and the greatest Deceipt yea without a Parallel except by their Elder Sister Romo And yet to confirm the World in their Belief of this horrid and notorious Lye Viz. That she never came before Friends at all but went together like J. H. and one in Kent and another in the North without any Orderly Proceeding in Marriage This Prophane J. T. thus paraphraseth saying Nay John thou must not think to Impose such wicked ☞ As if J. A. had been like D. Kay R. Mobbs Ez. W. T. Rud. T.M. S.N. C.A. W.W. and others of J. Tysoe's Brethren that I can name c. and disorderly Things upon God's People c. And therefore to undeceive the World and to make it appear that J. A. and Clemence Whiston which J. Tysoe call'd his Maid though she was an ancient sober Widdow his then intended Wife came face to face whereby Friends were Capable to be Witnesses of their Marriage I may incert a Copy of his Marriage Cetrtificate which is Recorded in their Monthly Book without Money according to all the Orders for Marriage that I know of before the late Government of the Women was erected by G. F. c. VIZ. OBSERVATIONS UPON THE SAID CERTIFICATE 1st These Subscribers were no Friends or J. T. lyes 2dly She came not before these Friends or J. T. lyes 3dly This their way and manner of Marriage is a wicked and disorderly Practice or J. T. lyes 4thly W.R. F.B. and T. C. Quoting this Marriage became Civil Men or J. T. lyes 5thly J. A. and Cl. Whiston when they were Marryed came not face to face and consequently were not publickly and mutually joyned together in Marrirge or else J. T. lyes This is JOHN TYSOE That 's given to lye so These are to certifie all whom it may concern that John Ansloe Clemence Whiston both of Over in the County of Cambridge were publickly and mutually joyned together in Marriage upon the third day of the second Month 1678 in a Meeting of the Lord's People at the House of the said JOHN ANSLOE scituate in Over ☞ Where T. Hardmeat and Anne his Wife took each other in Marriage my self J. Crook many others being present aforesaid in the presence of us who subscribe our Names and many Others Viz. John Rush Tho. Gamble Jer. Procter John Norris Jo. Cranwel John Smith James Parris Tho. Parnel Robert Rabey John Peacock Benjamin Thornly Edward Love Richard Taylor Amy Peacock Edith Smith Dynah Cranwel Tabathy Ainsloe Thus doth it evidently appear 1st That J. A. was marryed according to the ancient Practice of Friends as appears by the 1st 2d and 3d. Order for MARRIAGE Secondly That they came face to face before Friends whereby Friends were capable to give a Certificate thereof But that he should conform to every new Invented Order for Marriage which followed so fast one after another the last of which was worst of all for this there is no Reason but rather against it since who knows but the fifth Order may introduce the Ring for which there is as much to be said and from Scripture too as for the Women's distinct Meetings Neither yet are they content with their Sentence of Non-Vnion but six years after his Marriage they continue their Quarrel against him And that they may a little resemble the Papist's Proceedings with John Wickliff they rake in his Wive's Ashes three years after her Decease wickedly Suggesting that while she liv'd she resembled I.H. c. other unclean Persons tho she was well known to be a sober honest Woman and I am perswaded lived in the Fear of God and dyed in his Favour Thus are they found defaming both the Dead and the Living a Work ungrateful to a Christian Mind As for J.A. 't is well known that he hath not followed the Steps of G. F. and his Fellow-Preachers in compassing Sea and Land to get a rich Wife who though they preach up Self-Denyal as a Mark of true Christianity yet none more for Self-Interest their Fruits make them manifest G. Fox in particular who was but a poor Shoomaker and yet no less Fortune than Judge Fell's Widdow could match his aspiring Mind Obj. But some are ready to object That before the Controversy happened betwixt S. Cater and me that I was as much for Orders as others and that they never perceived in me any dissatisfaction with the Practices of Friends c. Answ As to the first part of this Objection I do think I was as zealous for them as most but when I came to see them imposed upon Friends