House in Milden-Hall which Will. Bennet Preached at when for refusing to tell his Name and Habitation the Poor Quakers were Fined for him and their Cows driven away and Sold so that John Mason and my self were Constrained to lend them Money to help to get more whilst this Infallible Preacher Lost nothing I also was Fined Ten Pound for another Meeting for the Poverty of Ja. Webb at whose House the Meeting was And besides all these Ten and Twenty Pound Fines four of them for the Poverty of the Dwellers in our Meeting-Houses and one Twenty Pound Fine for a Meeting at my own House I also was Fined Seven or Eight small Fines insomuch that I was Distrained at Milden-Hall besides those mention'd at Ely In Wooll Yarn Stuff Cloth and Houshould Goods to the Value of above 50 l more which in all makes more then 100 l. Loss by Fines for Meetings Now Reader Had not this Woman a Forehead well Enlaid with Impudence how dare she appear in Print with such bare Fac'd Lyes As that I suffered the least of any she knew that had Estates to Lose That I suffered but two Fines That my whole Loss by Fines was hut 5 l. As for the Fine of 15 l. she mentions for an unknown Preacher my Book Reason against Railing c. did so effectually Confute all their false Accusations as that to this Day they never Reply'd to it tho' Writ near 20 years since to which I Refer my Reader Oh Cousin Dockwra for Shame Cover thy Face wear a Vail and sit down and mourn for thy Sins Till then never pretend more to Religion Remember Cherry-Hynton thy former place of Abode Reader these two Books of Ann Dockwra's viz An Apostate Conscience c. and The Second part of an Apostate Conscience were both Wrot by the Quakers Spirit of Truth that cannot Err being Infallible Yea and also approved by the Quaker-Church i. e. their second-Second-Day Meeting that Infallible Club of Inspired Doctors with whom she has been in the Unity this 36 years as she says herself p. 35. These Books are also Sold by Tacy Sowle the Quakers Book seller as a Sign both of their Approbation and Unity The first stands Convicted of 18 Lyes and in her Second she has not cleared herself of any one of them And I do now recharge them upon her and as many fresh Lyes in this last let her come forth if she thinks she can clear herself and I am willing also that she take her Gentleman Quaker G. Whitehead to her Assistance Again I find in p. 12. Ibid That rather then she will want Authors for her Villany she 'll Father her Lyes upon me viz. He Fran. Bugg told me so himself Again He Fran. Bugg told me many year ago that when he bought his House that his Wives Father help'd to buy it And made his Fran. Bugg's Wives Portion better then a 100 l. This he told me All which I Positively Deny Indeed my Father-In-Law was very desirous that I should buy the said House for I Rode on purpose to Wellingborrow to Consult him and thus far he was Assistant Namely to hire me 60 l. of Mr. Thomas Bruce a Tobacconist his Neighbour and was bound with me for it and I was in some hopes he would have given it me but as soon as he had got what some Aim'd at and what pleas'd him he so ordered the matter that Mr. Bruce in little more then a years time called in his 60 l. which I paid to a Penny And more of this Nature I could mention but shall forbear nor had I done this but in Vindication of my own Reputation avouching still for a Truth what I have said in Jezebel Withstood c. p. 2. And which my Brother John then Living might have gainsaid if he could All which shews this Treacherous Womans design which was to set my Wives Relations and me at Variance Unless she took me to be such a Tame Fool as by my silence to say Amen to all her Lies and Forgeries But her inveterate Malice ends not here Quakerisme must shew its self exact New Rome and in this instance exceed her Elder Sister for as the Papists took up the Bones of Wickliff many years after he was laid into his Grave and burnt them as a Sacrifice to their Infallible Malice no more can the Quakers let my Honoured Father alone in his Grave But near 40 years after his Death they must rake in his Ashes and lay false Imputations to his Charge And that which Aggravates the Malignity of their Implacable Malice is he never gave them Cause he never was concerned in this Controversy Whereas in excuse of the Papists Fury they have this to say That Wickliff was a Vigorous Warrier against Romish Idolatry and had wrote more than two hundred Volumes against their Errors and Superstition This indeed did Anger the Romish Church as my self and others have angred her Younger Sister yet I never read that the Papists meddled with Wickliff's Father Grandfather Yea and Great Grand-father as the Quakers have done with my Dear Father Grand-father and Great Grand-father For in her first Book An Apost Cons c. p. 26. She thus saith Robert Bugg his Father dwelt with him Fran. Bugg some years after he Marryed he rose from Dinner one Day and went out and was found Drown'd in Water where he had no occasion to go As Fran. Bugg and his Wife relateth To this I replyed in my Book Jezebel Withstood c. p. 2. saying Here is Lye upon Lye four Story high First my Father never dwelt with me a week since I Married much less some years 2. He never rose so from Dinner 3. Nor was so found Drown'd Nor did I or my Wife so relate Now instead of clearing herself of these Notorious Lies she being Fool-hardy and filled Brimful with Prejudice against our whole Family for my Sake she in her Second Part c. p. 13. thus enlarges I heard my Brother Barnadiston speak of it some years after That Francis Bugg's Father Drowned himself as most People believed c. Yet this Wicked Woman in the very next Page Acknowledges to her own Confusion viz. But the Coroner and Jury did not find it wilful Murder c. Now let the World Judge whether this be not meer Malice in the superlative degree in this Incendiary That because her Brother Barnardiston living near 20 Miles distance from my Fathers Dwelling that upon his telling her she knew not when nay I question whether at all that most People talked so That therefore she should have the Impudence near 40 years after this Accident to take upon her to Try this Tryed Cause de novo And by her Infallible Super-abounding Confidence to Confront both Coroner and Jury Render them Perjured who then had the opportunity to hear Witnesses to examine all Circumstances and when they found it casual and Accidental they brought their Verdict in Accordingly And this she says herself p.
William Penn THE Pretended QUAKER DISCOVERED To hold a Correspondence WITH THE JESUITE's at ROME To which is Added A Winding-Sheet FOR Ann Dockwra By Francis Bugg ON the 2d of July in this present year 1700. Having occasion to be in Company with Mr. Batle Sub-Dean of the Royal Chappel at White-Hall I enquired of him the Truth of the Story of that I had heard from others that he should report of William Penn who freely told me as follows That he being at Rome in the year 1677. Having gone thither from England Tutor to Mr. Hales and having stayed there for some certain time had one Father James a Scots Jesuit at Rome to teach him Italian which was all the occasion he had of Converse with him And as he was making ready with his Pupil Mr. Hales to return for England supposing he might have some occasion to send to Rome for some strings to some Musical Instruments he ask'd Father James how he might send a Letter to him that might come safe to his hands to Rome who answer'd That if he would put his Letter in Mr. Penn's Packet it would come safe to him for Mr. Penn's Packet comes frequently to Rome from London What said Mr. Batle William Penn the Quaker said Father James The very same This Story the Quakers Report thus as I heard it from one of them which I then told to Mr. Batle that after William Penn had heard that Mr. Batle had so Reported of him at Hartford he went thither to call him to an Account for it and at Meeting Mr. Batle did own his mistake that on a better Recollection of his Memory it was not Mr. Penn but one Pennynton a Glover who was no Quaker who frequently used to send Gloves to Rome Mr. Batle replyed I heard the Quakers so report but it is utterly false I said no such thing there is no mistake in the Name it was no Mr. Pennynton a Glover but Mr. Penn that is William Penn the Quaker as Father James told me Mr. Batle also told me That after he had reported this at Hartford Henry Stout a Quaker at Hartfold came to him and said Neighbour Batle Thou hast done thy self a great diskindness by reporting this Story of William Penn and to be plain with thee I do not believe it Mr. Batle answer'd him Tell Mr. Penn If he will come to me I will Treat him as a Gentleman but I will say it to his Face that what I Reported of him is true that is that Father James a Jesuit at Rome told me If I put my Letter in Mr. Penn's Packet it would come safe to him for he sent a Packet frequently from London to Rome The same Day above-mentioned Mr. Batle told me that Mr. Hockley Goaler at Hartford lately Deceased told him and divers others at Hartford that Father Gifford then Prisoner at Hartford who was taken up at the Revolution being designed by K. James to be made President of St. Magdalen's Colledge in Oxford told him the said Hockley that he had heard Father Penn say Mass several times What Father Penn said Hockley William Penn the Quaker Yes said Mr. Gifford William Penn the Quaker And Mr. Hockley has told it to divers Persons of Repute at Hartford who if asked will affirm it All this Mr. Batle allowed me to put in Print to Inform the Nation and the Quakers A Winding-Sheet for Ann Dockwra Being an Answer to her Scurrilous Pamphlet Intituled The Second Part of an Apost Cons c. Friendly Reader I Am not unsensible that Negative Evidence in many Cases will not Determin the Point in hand and therefore it is both Reasonable and Judicious for me the Accused to demand Proof as herein I have done And then if this Slanderous Woman cannot produce Proof I am Acquitted of her groundless Charge For suppose this Envious Old Woman in favour of Quakerism should Publish in Print that Fran. Bugg twenty years since Murder'd a Man Fir'd a House and Robb'd by the Highway as that she may with as much Truth and Justice as what in her two Books she has done how can I help it I only can call upon her to produce her Evidences if she do this I may be thought Guilty but if not I am by the Rules of Justice Discharged and she remains Culpable and ought to make me Satisfaction But that a Negative Evidence is good and Vallid in some Cases I shall Demonstrate for Example suppose this Slanderous Woman shall Charge me with Robbing a House in York City on the 15th of May last if then I can prove by Credible Witnesses that I was in London the same Day this will hold and I should be Acquitted And to shew that this Simily is not Foreign to our Case in Hand I shall produce two Instances to Name no more out of this Book of hers p. 13.25 The first is this viz. Fran. Bugg the Elder conveyed his Estate to his Son Francis Bugg the Younger who had 700 Pound with his Wife and her Friends and Relations upon Inquiry doe affirm that it was Settled upon Marriage c. Now what is this But to suggest first That my Son had 700 Pound with his Wife 2dly And that I took the Money of him and in Consideration thereof Convey'd my Estate to him and all this to make good her former lying Story viz. That I Sold my Estate to my Son and thereby made him able to Settle a Joynture upon his Wife and consequently both Father and Son Knaves for I could not be Guilty of this Fraudulent Act but my Son must Consent to it And 3dly That upon the strict Inquiry of her Relations this Cheat was found out and by them affirmed to be so The last of which I do believe to be a Grand Lye and that until she produce the Names of those Relations that so sought so found out and so affirm I shall take it to be so for no one of them speaks one Word to me of any such thing nor had they any ground so to do the two first I shall disprove by good Evidence and thereby leave this old Woman in such a Dilemma out of which she shall never be able to deliver her self but by Repentance and Retraction which is wholly Inconsistent with Quakerism for they can neither make Confession of Sins or Trespasses to God or Man as their Books do abundantly manifest First His Fran. Bugg's Son had 700 Pound with his Wife This is false and a Lye spoken in Hypocrisie with a design to Deceive for 't is plain she would have it believed that my Son had 700 l. in Currant English Money with his Wife which was not so and thereby was enabled to Purchase my Estate to Settle a Jointure upon her And if so it would help her out in her former Lye viz. That I Sold my Estate to my Son That this is her design 't is plain for 't is no Crime that Francis Bugg's Son got a Wife with 700
14. But the Coroner and Jury did not find it Wilful-Murder And I do now Challenge Ann Docwra to say it was self-Murder for I deny it and will to her Face and to the Faces of all her Approvers and Abbettors otherwise to what end have we Courts of Judicature Judges Juries and Witnesses If every Proud Varlet and Envious Man may stir up Strife in Towns and Cities and charge Persons with Crimes after they are acquitted by Legal Tryals Neither is it agreeable to the Rules of Law or Justice to Impeach men afresh or recharge them after they are cleared c. I do acknowledge the Accident was sorrowful enough to my self and my Fathers Relations and Loving Neighbours But if my Grandfather who was born Anno 1579 which was about 50 years before this Crazy Woman was Born No nor yet my Great Grand-father who was Born many years before him no Marvel that she now falls upon my Deceased Father and Reflects upon my Son also for Malice is like Quakerisme it hath no Botom nor no Banks can keep it in due bounds it s like the Raging Sea Foaming out it s own Shame casting forth Mire and Dirt for suppose it had been as she falsely relates how could I have helped it or wherein does the Misfortune of any of my Relations affect the controversie now on Foot But that I may draw the exact Picture of this old Dissembling Hypocrite Ann Dockwra as Compleatly as Father Penn's is drawn in the Quakers Synod and set her forth in her proper Dress with all her Features see p. 14. ibid where she thus says as if she were an Excellent Friend of mine viz. I Write not this to Vpbraid Fran. Bugg but to warn those that have Incouraged him in Scribling his Estate away to be Bountiful to him c. Here the Cloven Foot appears tho' Disguised for Malice and Hypocrisie walk Hand in Hand under a Quaker-Bonnet for says she in her Preface It is matter of Admiration says she to me that they i. e. the Clergy should Entertain Fran. Buggs Books and give Credit to them a Man of a Seared Conscience of Desperate Fortunes of a Shattered Head his Seared Conscience Imboldens him to Write all manner of Lyes and Forgeries whilst she proves not one to get Money like High-way Men a Beggar c. I think I need not Comment upon this her Inconsistency First In saying she does not Write to Upbraid me whilst she Upbraids me in the Highest Nature the Devil and Malice can Invent. And this I can say that as no Man ever Incouraged me to Scrible away my Estate But that from First to Last I have seen a Necessity to Unmask this Painted Harlot so thanks be to God I can say with a good Conscience I never Wrot for Money nor was I ever a Beggar nor have I wanted a sufficient support to this Day but have Lived well in Meat Drink and Apparrel and Maintained my Family with all Necessaries I never wanted a good House to Live in nor a good Horse to Ride on and Money in my Pocket and if I have Applyld my self to the Clergy that thereby I might be Inabled to Defend my Christian Profession against the Powerful Fund of the Quakers it is no more then Fox Whitehead and others of the Quakers have done who at first were not able to Print a Book at their own Charge which I did fifteen years together without Assistance from their hearers to whom they apply'd themselves by Papers which did fly like briefs FOR MONEY MONEY FOR THE MINITSRY Wherefore Cousin Dockwra for the Dicision of this Controversie which on your part is chiefly Personal and founded upon Charges without Proof against which in many Cases a Negative Evidence cannot take place and I being the Party Accused am willing to put my self upon Tryal If you will joyn Issue giving you all the Advantage you can reasonably expect or desire as also the Assistance of your Gentleman Quaker viz. Appoint your self any Day or Days from the first day of October next to the fifth day of November following at any convenient Place in Cambridge and chuse you six Men where you Please and upon timely Notice of your Accepting this my Proposition I will chuse me six Men and let us both subscribe an Instrument to stand to and abide by the award of these twelve Men under what Penalties you Please And if they cannot agree then let us both be Obliged to stand to the Award of the Right Worshipful the Vice Chancellor and the Right Worshipful the Mayor of the University and Town of Cambridge for the time being or to two Delegates be them two respectively Chosen and if you prove the several Charges exhibited against me in your two Books I shall freely submit to any Penalty which shall be awarded against me but if you fail of Proof and be found a salse Witness and guilty of a Lying Tongue I shall expect your Submission accordingly and if I do not prove the Letters mentioned to be yours in my several Books to be of your own Hand Writing as fully and satisfactory as any thing of that Nature can be Proved I shall likewise submit to any Penalty assigned by them To this I subscribe my Name June 29. 1700. Francis Bugg POST SCRIPT REader the Account touching William Penn's having held Correspondence with the Jesuites in the height of his Quakerism I Received from a Minister of the Church of England who is ready to attest it whereby I find the Truth of what a Worthy Member of the Honourable House of Commons said to me the last Session of Parliament upon my Presenting my Book A Modest Defence c. i. e. The Devil and Jesuitism is at the Bottom of Quakerism a Fruit in their Doctrine in A. Dockwra I have herein briefly Discovered F. B. FINIS London Printed for J. Gwillim against Crossby-Square in Bishops-Gate-Street 1700.