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A30028	Jezebel withstood, and her daughter Anne Docwra, publickly reprov'd for her lies and lightness in her book, stiled, An apostate conscience, &c. By Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1699 (1699)	Wing B5372; ESTC R213099	10,811	18

Jezebel Withstood And Her Daughter Anne Docwra Publickly Reprov'd For Her Lies and Lightness in Her Book stiled An Apostate Conscience c. By Francis Bugg Friendly Reader THE great Business which this Woman has undertaken together with her Approvers i. e. their Second-Day Meeting is to render Francis Bugg a poor Indigent Person one that goes about a begging p. 4 6. a grand Lie and G. Whitehead a Gentleman Quaker But the way they have jointly taken is very Wicked and Scandalous to discover which is my present Task which I shall do by extracting some few of her manifest Lies and Falshoods upon which their whole Structure is built and then leave the old Woman with her Incoherent Fables and briefly thus viz. Lie I. p. 5 27. in her Pamphlet Francis Bugg was says she but a poor Man when he came first among us He cannot prove that he had 30 l. a Year before his Father's Death Reply This is a Formidable Lie For my Grandfather Francis Bugg died in Anno 1655. and gave me 30 l. a Year in good House and Land in Milden-Hall as may appear by his last Will and Testament which was then proved in the Prerogative-Court at London and this was above Ten Years before my Father Robert Bugg died Lie II. p. 55. He Francis Bugg also gave a Bond to make his Wife a Jointure of some part of his Estate Reply This also is a notorious Lie For I never gave Bond to make my Wife a Jointure nor did her Father ever desire it nor in Reason could not since he never paid me her Portion which upon Marriage he promised which was to make her as good as any Child he had yet I never got but 20 l. in Money and that in 5 or 6 Years time And I can still make it appear that his Executor my Brother John owes me 100 l. if he will come to accompt and pay his Father's Debts I have often complained of this Injustice done me but could never get Remedy yet I should not have made this publick had not this old Woman provoked me to it His Name I shall forbear yet add that he was a noted Quaker Lie III. p. ibid. He F. Bugg hath since sold his Estate to his Son these things he has confessed to me and others Reply No Knight of the Post ever utter'd more manifest Lies For I never sold my Son either House or Land little or much in all my Life how then could I confess to her and others that which never was Lie IV. p. 26. Robert Bugg his Father dwelt with him some Years after he married he rose from Dinner one Day and went out and was found drowned in Water where he had no occasion to go to that Place as F. Bugg and his Wife related Reply Here is Lie upon Lie four Story high 1. My Father never dwelt with me a Week since I marry'd much less some Years 2. He never SO rose from Dinner 3. Nor was SO found drowned 4. Nor did I or my Wife ever SO relate it nor could we since it was never so as by her suggested and therefore I would have her and her Abbetters and Approvers look into the 56 p. of her Book where she says the Devil is the Father of all Liars that so they may see whose Children they are She was accounted by them that knew her to be a Proud Haughty Woman and a great Liar but now Experientia Docet Lie V. p. 31. she reciting that part of a Letter she sent me wherein G. Whitehead was by the honest Quakers suspected to be a Jesuit as cited by me in my Pilgrim's Progress c. p. 25. she deny it to be hers Again Lie VI. p. 35. She recites part of one of her Letters which treat of the Quakers Common Bank or Fund which she then was as much against as my self as cited by me in Pil. Prog. p. 58 59 62. and in my Book The History of the Rive Growth and Progress of Quakerism c. p. 148 149. Both which she denies to be hers in these Words p. 32. This Letter says she is a meer forged thing I never writ any such Letter to him P. 35. This Letter I have disowned with a Certificate to prove it false c. Reply I do affirm I have both the Letters still by me and that they both are of her own Writing and this I offer to prove or publickly burn my Book on Condition that G. Whitehead her late Gentleman Quaker and she will engage under their Hands to burn her Book in case I do prove it as aforesaid Surely Quakerism is come to a low Ebb since they are thus forced to make Lies its Refuge This puts me in mind of a Passage of Father Penn in one of his Books i. e. Error is only upheld by Error Lie VII p. 36. F. Bugg was not the Author of some part of his 20th Book meaning my Pilgrim's Progress Lie VIII p. ibid. He F. Bugg was seen at Oxford at the same time when this Book was about Writing Lie IX p. ibid. He was 16 Weeks from home when his Book was writing only he came home some times for a Night or two Lie X. p. 37. F. Bugg says in his last Book that Oxford exceeded Cambridge in their Bounty to him Reply 1. I wrote every Line of that Book my self 2. I never was in Oxford during any time of the writing of it 3. I was in London Three Months when I wrote that Book but never came home a Night all the time 4. I never printed That Oxford did exceed Cambridge in their Bounty nor has she shown in what Page it is nor can I remember or find any such Passage I observe her ☞ Mark therein and I guess at the Design of it but I shall not gratifie her in what she 'd willingly have since in all Respects she is a notorious Liar which to shew is the Subject of this Discourse that the World may see the Nature of the Quakers Repeated Answers boasted of in the Quakers Modest Observation to the Parliament as in p. 45. herein and also from thence gather the Reasons why the Quakers at West-Dereham refuse to own their Books and defend themselves notwithstanding they first gave the Clergy a Challenge to bring in their Charge And indeed this very Discovery of their way of writing may be a sufficient Refutation of their late Book intituled The Defence of the People call'd Quakers being a Reply c. Printed 1699. For as never was a People more confuted so there never was any Heresie had the Impudence to Lie Dissemble and Prevaricate from their own Words their own Writings and Pretences and to wrong all People they controvers'd with For Jesuit-like they stick at nothing their Second Day Meeting have a Dispensation ready they have Power to Bind and to Loose they have Authority to Lie and Dissemble and all Infallibly But to the Matter else I shall exceed my Half Sheet which I

I receiv'd for my Charges for prosecuting three Appeals I send you to my Books for an Answer i. e. The Painted Harlot both Stript and Whipt c. and Reason against Railing c. where all your Allegations are fully answer'd and the Point fully clear'd And whereas p. 53. she seems to believe that I never lost 32 l. by the Quakers but I can tell her I have lost by them near 300 l. but when Men pay what they can and therein shew an Honest Moral Principle I am not apt to upbraid them by Name in print tho' I could not well omit Tho. Plumstead who run away and paid me never a Penny and as I was told convey'd away too by his Brother Clement Plumstead at the Cross Saws in the Minories a noted Quaker on purpose to wrong me and others but if I were minded to draw a black Line over Quakerism on that Head and to enlarge on other Heads I have but just hinted and that too upon just Provocation I do tell you that I could make that Discovery which the Cobler of Gloucester is an Ass to nay and go no further neither than your Writers and Preachers notwithstanding your Pretence to a Sinless Perfection and thereupon make no Confession of your Sins to God as elsewhere I have largely yet truly set forth But to conclude Come on Cousin Docwra for so I 'll call you since we had the Misfortune to have such a Liar drop into our Family let 's reason a little and I 'll tell you I was not so poor when I came amongst you as you render me and that no Man in our Country laid himself more out both as to Imprisonment and Fines for Meetings nor a Man that I know of that entertained your Teachers more nor at greater Expence Cloathing some and putting Money into the pockets of others Your Brother Giles Barnadiston would have scorned to have dipt his Pen in such muddy Ink as you have done for he and his Wife your Sister have been often at my House sometimes near a Week together and sometimes your Brother Francis Waldgrave I think as their Serving-man and all freely and not grudging as P. 34. you basely Insinuate and with a bold-fac'd Lie into the Bargain i. e. That I told you so This piece of Impudence is too frequent with you if you consider your Age. But had you not wrote this Lying Pamphlet G Whit●head c. would never have forgiven you for writing so much against their Bank their publick Fund which you call their Dagon c. But notwithstanding all these Lies to serve a Turn and to get into Favour again with G. W. c. yet I almost think for the sake of their Truth which is sensibly touch'd when the World's People get Knowledge of their Immoralities I still think that G.W. c. must turn this She goat out of their Heard unless she 'll bear a Faggot c. But let her then blame her self I must leave her to the Fate she brought upon her self by her Lies and Lightness Come Geo. Whitehead and the rest of your Cabal i. e. your Second Day Meeting one branch of whose Business is to Approve and License your Books which you disperse through England and Wales the fruit of which tends to Poyson the Nation and to Supplant Christianity and that with no small Pains and Charge not to your selves but to your deluded People that supply your Fund Let me shew you some of the fruits of this your Infallible Club especially since until you meet me as proposed I know not that I shall take any more notice of your Railing Invectives believing That AS God rais'd up Zealous John Wickcliff who wrote more than Two Hundred Volumes against Rome 's Superstition SO he will in his own time raise up abler Men to Compleat that Work which is begun and what I now offer to your Consideration is from certain Letters and a printed Paper of your Friend A. Docwra which she wrote to Mr. Crisp not having my own by me in London And First Out of a Printed Broadside intituled The New Projecting Formalist Characterized c. I know it is common says she with some of them in their Books of Controversie to put the Names of such Persons as they account their Vassals both to Certificates and Books sometimes without the Consent of the Parties whose Names are inserted and sometimes with Consent thro' slavish Fear of having their Trades obstructed and they ruined of their Livelihoods or Reputations by Publick Defamation Two Years ago I saw a small Book in Octavo i. e. The Liberty of an Apostate Conscience it was notably worded by an able Penman G. W. wherein was my Name as a Witness without my Consent to Testifie more than was true which I must disown Yea a bare-fac'd Lie and an undeniable Truth so closely interwoven together that it was not easily discovered Their separate Men's Meetings have been the Nurseries of Contention and I believe the chief Cause of this long-grinding Persecution the Magistrates has upbraided me as one that adhered to them looking upon such Meetings as more dangerous to the Peace of the Nation than our Publick Meetings with Doors open where Men and Women meet altogether Separate Meetings have served to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies and to obstruct or defame Lawful Marriages and to Ingross honest Friends Properties to themselves The most Innocent Self-denying People have been the Subject of their Clamorous Tongue when the Loose and Vicious the Covetous Proud Lying Hypocrites have been Covered and Protected Again in a Letter to Tho. Crisp Sept. 20. 1683. she thus saith S. Cater 's Narrative is come out in Print I do greatly pity him for of a certain his Weakness is betray'd by his false Friends I found my Name in it I suspect G. Whitehead to be the Author of it Sam. Cater is not Sophister great enough to twist his Matter together so cunningly either to make Truth go for a Lie or a Lie go for Truth It is part of a Letter I wrote to S. Cater concerning my Cousin Francis Bugg wherein they have added a few Words that quite alters the Sence of my Letter neither have they put in the greatest part of it which would have overthrown their whole Cause I have writ a Letter to my Cousin Francis Bugg to invite him to me about this Matter Again in another Letter to Tho. Crisp Feb. 13. 1683. Sam. Cater is very angry with me because I call him to an Account for bringing me in for a Witness in his Narrative to Justifie him which I cannot do most of that he has written concerning me is false but not all of it he hath mixed a Lie and Truth together Again in another Letter to T. Crisp March 25. 1684. viz. Sam. Cater has been lately with me clamouring against F. Bugg and J. Ainsloe I have had a sharp Conference with him about his Narrative wherein he has used my Name in

Print to justifie him in his Contentious Pamphlet with F. B. about Money he have written more than is true concerning me I laid it before him smartly before several Friends he is very bold and the most confident Liar that ever I met with I laid the Record against John Ainsloe before him and his indirect Proceedings also Geo. Whitehead 's false Certificate about the said Record in his Judgment Fixed that is an abuseful Forgery for some of those whose Names are to the Certificate absolutely disowns it and say they set their Hands to none It is very sad that Men should be so confident in their wickedness Again in another Letter Aug. 6. 1684. Francis Bugg 's Book concerning John Ainsloe 's Marriage is much liked of by Friends here And are much concerned for him that he should be so used by them that profess the Truth I have not room for the rest of the Letters but these may shew the horrible Deceit and deep Hypocrisie that Sam. Cater one of their noted Teachers and the greatest Liar that ever she met with G. Whitehead a wicked Forger to set Mens Names to Certificates without their knowledge That their private Meetings are Nurseries for Contention and dangerous to the State and of little use but to shelter great Bellies and to Ingross the Property of others thereby to be inabled to Ruin their Opposers in Estate and Reputation All which I know to be true and she too else why did she write to me and others against these Works of Darkness Geo. Whitehead I cannot inlarge on her other Letters nor is there any need since these few are so to the purpose as well as true in fact that all your Pretences to write from the Mouth of the Lord and the Holy Ghost and Eternal Spirit and that your pretence George That a Necessity from God lay upon you to write your Book Judgment Fixed all these pretences are a Lie a Cheat and a horrible Snare whereby you catch Thousands of otherwise well-meaning People And to make this more obvious I shall draw some few Natural Inferences from your Practices both reproved and discovered in the recited Printed Paper and Letters First Then is it so that you put the Names of Persons which you account your Vassals to Books and Certificates and without their Consent too What horrible W●ckedness is this And that which adds to the malignity of it is it must still go with the same Title and in the same Person 's Name witness Sam. Cater 's Narrative which was as Lying a piece of Forgery as ever I knew witness R. S 's Righteous Judgment where those Heathenish Verses were put in by your Second Day Meeting which R. S. never wrote nor knew of viz. Team Rogers Pennyman Bullock and Bugg c. And does this Woman say that such as will not submit to their Yoke they 'll endeavour to Ruin both in Name and Estate How then ought this to raise Courage in all their Proselytes who have but a spark of Zeal left to throw off her Tyranny Secondly But George your Dear Sister Anne Docwra suspects you to have a Chief Hand in Sam 's Narrative and consequently in putting her Name to what she never wrote who have therein so intermixt Lies and Truth as it is not easie for the Reader to discern seriously George this is wickedly done with a witness Thirdly Again George and the rest of your Second Day Meeters you see she hath Charged your Private Meetings to be Nurseries of Contention and dangerous to the State and have given you a good Reason for it agreeing with what I have said in Pilg. Prog. c. p. 65 to 105. Is it so George that these your Private Meetings tend to little use but to shelter great Bellies to defend the Vicious Lying Hypocrites amongst you and to ingross the Properties of your poor deluded Followers Oh horrible And are the most Innocent Self-denying People amongst you the subject of your Teachers Clamorous Tongues Then seriously George I think there are not grander Deceivers upon the whole Earth 4. Is it so that she thus brands G. Whitehead for a Forger for setting Mens Names to his Certificate without their Knowledge Privity or Consent Is it possible that what Sam. Cater wants of being a Sophister great enough to make a Lie seem true that sincere George which is the Token of his Writing in all his Epistles should have the Insincerity to do it privately Oh gross Hypocrisie And which is still worse to take from and add to what A. D. wrote in a Letter privately to Sam. and to be Printed without her Consent as moved thereto by the Holy Spirit this is such a depth of Iniquity as will hardly meet with a Parallel 5. Is it so that Sam. Cater is the most Confident Liar that ever A. D. met with That G. W. the Gentleman Quaker is such a Forger and Grand Sophister to make Certificates and Print them in Mens Names that never knew of it See Judgment Fixed c. p. 361. And we have now just Cause to question that in p. 250. for he that can forge one Certificate may forge two and as many Hundreds if their Consciences are enough hardened And I know of no way that G. W. hath to clear himself from this manifest Forgery but to produce an Original Certificate before 1682. But alas Charge them with what you will 't is not now worth their Notice 't is below them to clear themselves since they have repeatedly answered all Objections Repeatedly do they say Then 't is by a Repetition of Lies and Forgeries as in the Case in hand 6. Is it so that my Book Innocency Vindicated c. was so liked amongst them which was the fourth Book I wrote against Geo. Fox 's Party even whilst I remained a Quaker Why then does A. D. in this late Book say p. 7. That I was the Author of part of their Order for Marriage and that J. A. told her so that I was Quarrelsom c All this she knows to be false See her Letter Aug. 6. 1684. to Mr. Crisp as herein recited I did indeed write the Order from Sam. Cater 's Mouth as Clerk to the Meeting but was not the Author of one word of it nor was I quarrelsom but had a Place amongst the Moderate Sort and they liked well what I wrote until I saw into their Errors in Fundamentals and then left them But George I have not yet done tho' I think almost for until George thou dost meet me as proposed p. 11. in Quakerism Exposed to Publick Censure c. I do not know that ever I shall after this concern my self further with you But to the Matter One of your Papers which you gave privately away came to my Hands and I made no ill use of it But George whereas you therein complain of Suffering 20 l. Damage for 13 s. and the like this George is your Six-Week Meetings fault and as great a Sign of your deep-rooted Design against the Publick Ministry as any you have yet manifested who will rather spend Twenty or Thirty Pounds upon Lawyers Bailiffs Sheriffs c. than to pay Twenty Shillings due Debt such is your Mortal Hatred to the Clergy and which I have shewed in my Pilgrim's Progress p. 65 to 72. But since I came last to London I have seen an Account taken out of a Manuscript of W. M 's viz. They have Condemned many Quakers as of Antichrist that do pay Tythes as others do Joseph Clark a Preacher profest to me That God moved him to refuse to deliver the Tythe to the Priest the Priest Sued him he Answered the Priest by Advice of John Field who had promised to Secure Joseph's Goods from the Priest which he J. Field failing Joseph the Day before the Assizes at Bedford got a Person to Agree with the Priest for him and since said to me He could now pay Tythes as well as other Taxes Thus George do your London Six-Week Meeting defend your Countrey Subjects and inable them to stand it out with the Priests as you call them in order to tire and weary them out not mattering what you spend provided you can but gain the Point viz. the Overthrow of the Christian Ministry thereby making way for Quakerism But George when all this is done by your London Fund and the Assistance of your Common Bank for you then to solicite for help herein is such gross Hypocrisie as I want words to set you forth for if ever there was a People that deserved the Characters following you are the very Men your Fruits make you manifest and with that I shall conclude this half Sheet which in conjunction with what I have elsewhere wrote shall stand as a Monument of the Quakers grand Errors and deep Hypocrisies great Dissimulations and horrible Treachery manifest Cowardice dreadful Blasphemies self-condemn'd Apostacy gross Superstition great Idolatry what shall I say George It is plain to me that thy self and many of your Brethren the Teachers of your Schism are proud Boasters fierce Despisers of them that are Good Heady High-minded false Accusers Time-servers Sowers of Discord in Families Implacable Vnmerciful yea filled with Hatred Malice Strife Envy Debate and Malignity given to Licentious Vncleanness and Epicurism Incontinent Impatient who are going in the way of Cain and running greedily after the Error of Baalim the Son of Bozer who loved the Wages of Vnrighteousness who mind earthly things and whose End shall be according to your Works except you repent and amend your Ways which that you may do is the great desire of your very much Abused Friend April 11. 1699. Francis Bugg FINIS