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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

write so much for 20 s. What will become of S. Cater for taking 10 l. for 40 s. Damage sustained by a Fine for preaching at Phakenham in Norfolk And of S. Cater his Fellow-Preachers for taking several Sums of Money for preaching I say what will become of these disobedient Sons for Breach of this Infallible Order made by G. Fox unless G. F. absolve them Answer this you Money-Mongers in these Things but freely a free People and in Love serve one another OBSERVATIONS THEREUPON Although J. A. took not this Prescription for his Rule yet thus far he did according to the Advice given Viz. He first made known his Intention of Marriage to several able Friends of his first Wive's Relations and others then to the Monthly or General Meeting then about 3 Months after being a convenient time there was an Assembly of Friends many more than 12 met together who were Witnesses to his Marriage and gave him a Certificate witnessing the Day Month and Year which is Recorded in Cambridgeshire Monthly Book without Money So that J. A. cannot be Recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to this Order THE SECOND ORDER OF MARRIAGE BY G. F. About the Year 1662 G. F. wrote a Second Order for Marriage which came to me when I was Prisoner at Wisbech which amongst thirteen Particulars more at the request of some Friends I Recorded in our Monthly Register Book A short Abstract whereof followeth Viz. And when they take one another in Marriage let not less than a Dozen of Friends and Relations be present according to your former Order having first acquainted the Men's Meeting and that it may be Recorded in a Book OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Although J. A. took not this Second Prescription for his Rule yet he published the Intentions of his Marriage to the Men's Meeting and this is G. F's Order Infallibly and it doth not advise to go Twise to the Men's Meeting c. And not less than a Dozen Friends and Relations though many more were present And his Certificate is Recorded without Money as before observed So that he cannot be Recorded out of Unity for taking his Wife contrary to this Order THE THIRD ORDER FOR MARRIAGE About the Year 1667 there came another Paper of Orders to my hand with this Superscription Viz. The Elders and Brethren sendeth unto the Brethren in the North c. Touching twenty Particulars the seventh whereof was about Marriage which I have quoted at large in my Book De Christianâ Libertate pag. 141. A short Abstract thereof followeth Viz. That as any are moved of the Lord and in his Light called to take a Brother or Sister in Marriage let it be made known to the Children of Light and being by the Light made manifest to be of God let them be joyned together in the Lord and in his Fear in the Presence of many Witnesses according to the Example of the Holy Men of God Recorded in the Scripture of Truth which was wrote for our Example and Learning That there may be a Record in Writing witnessing the Day Place and Year under which the Witnesses present may subscribe their Names c. OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Although J. A. took none of the foregoing Prescriptions for his Rule which by the Conclusion of this Epistle in these words Dearly beloved these Things we do not lay upon you as a Rule or Form to walk by c. is not desired Yet he fulfilled the same in making known his Intention of Marriage to the Children of Light unless their Monthly Men's Meeting be not Children of the Light and about 3 Months after was joyned together in the Fear of the Lord in the Presence of many Witnesses and a Record thereof was made of the Place Day Month and Year and many subscribed the same as I shall yet more plainly make appear So that J. A. could not be Recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to this Order THE FOURTH ORDER FOR MARRIAGE At a Quarterly Meeting in Hadenham in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge within four Miles of J. A's Dwelling Yet G. W. hath the Face to tell the World there were no Women's Meetings in those Parts Oh Impudence it self and to which Meeting J. A. belonged as a Member there was yet another Order made which I shall transcribe at large and though Ed. Pechy St. Blew and divers other Cambridgshire Friends as well as the Isle of Ely Friends had published their Intentions of Marriage there Viz. before the Mens and Women's distinct Meetings yet J. A. as a Disobedient Son to the Church of G. F. and his Party took no notice of this Unscriptural Law and vain Tradition following 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 two Men's and Women's 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 VNITY of Friends Anno 1675. OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Indeed this Order J. A. did thus far take his Wife contrary to Viz. 1st He did not go to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings 2dly He did not carry his Wife twice to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings 3dly He did neither ask nor receive Lycense from them And therefore if by their words both of this fourth Order and of the Record of his Condemnation as in Title Page recited their meaning may be known they have Recorded him out of Vnity for Non-Conformity to the Order of Men's and Women's Meetings And that it may yet more plainly appear that J. A. was therefore Recorded out of the Vnity if plainer can be I shall recite part of that Universal Decree made by a General Counsel held not at Trent but at London in Devonshire House the 27th of the 3d. Month 1675 and Signed by G. Whitehead St. Crisp and other Preachers of G. F's Party by Vertue of which Decree not only J. A. but as many in all Countrys and Nations that profess Christianity as shall either directly or indirectly discountenance these Women's Meetings are Recorded to all Intents and Purposes out of the Vnity of the Church of Christ and Order of the Gospel See De Christianâ Libertate pag. 42 43 44. more at large Viz. That Marriages be twice propounded to the Men's and Women's Meetings It is our Judgment and Testimony in the Word of God's Wisdom that the Rise and Practice Setting up and Establishing of Men's and Women's Meetings is according to the Mind and Counsel of God and done in the Ordering and Leading of his Eternal Spirit And if any professing Truth shall either directly or indirectly discountenance or weaken the hands of either Men or Women we cannot but look upon them as therein not in Vnity with the Church of Christ and Order of the Gospel

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-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