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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52658	A narrative wherein is faithfully set forth the sufferings of John Canne, Wentworth Day, John Clarke, John Belcher, John Richard, Robert Boggis, Petter Kidd, Richard Bryenton, and George Strange, called, as their news book saith, Fift Monarchy Men that is, how eight of them were taken in Coleman Street, moneth second, called Aprill, day first, 1658, as they were in the solemn worship of God, and by the Lord Mayor sent prisoners to the counter in the Poultrey : also of the arraignment of Wentworth Day and John Clarke at the sessions in the Old Baily, and how the rest after three weeks imprisonment and more were discharged in their court / published by a friend to the prisoners and the good old cause they suffered for.	Friend to the prisoners and the good old cause they suffered for.	1658 (1658)	Wing N231A; ESTC R9702	12,097	18

No sooner had they read it but presently they cryed out ye are discharged of the Court Mr. Cann desired that he might have liberty to speak a few words The Mayor told him he was quitted and desired him to forbear I pray you Sir said he give me the liberty which the Heathen gave Paul when he was before them But by no means would they suffer him to speak though he earnestly entreated them three or foure severall tunes But still told him the Court had discharged them and so there was nothing more to be said One of the Prisoners seeing they would not suffer Mr. Cann to speak asked of the Mayor wherefore they had imprisoned them above three weeks and now told them they had nothing against them If ye were men said he fearing God and hating Coveteousnesse you would not have dealt so with us but I see you are corrupt and your courses too For speaking thus the Mayor commanded that he should be stayed and to carry him to the Baledock where he was kept a while and having some of the Armies Declarations about him published at Muscleborrow in Scotland he dispersed them as he stood there With this Alderman Titchbourn was presently made acquainted and calls for the Prisoner asking him how he durst disperse such Seditious Books The other replyed how Seditious I am sure your self did once own them but that is nothing now they are Seditious and to prison he must go and indeed was carried to Newgate where he is kept a prisoner to this day I had ended here the Narrative but that the Weekly Pamphleteer occasions me to speak a little more In his Sessions News he tells us of eight men which were brought from the Counter called Fift Monarchy men the chief of which Faction were Wentworth Day and John Clarke both which were Indicted for speaking reproachfull malicious and scandalous words against his Highness the Lord Protector upon which they were found guilty c. Had there been any Conscience or honesty in the man he would not have abused the Nation as he hath done but given a true Intelligence As 1. have told us where they were taken and how but this he durst not do 2. How they were cast into prison without any offence or crime committed 3. Why had he not set down what their Reproachfull and Malitious words were and where they were spoken 4. How durst he say they were found guilty seeing the one was quitted by the Jury and the other had no Jury passed upon him nor any witnesses produced 5. Why had he not put it into his News how the Lord Mayor came with Halberts and Staves and pluckt a Minister out of the Pulpit as he was in the worship of God and having kept him more than three weeks in prison dismisseth him by Proclamation in open Court telling him that he had nothing against him But for this Needham Mr. John Goodwin hath given a sufficient Character of him He is saith he Faex hominum faex Causarum an infamous and unclean person next to the Hangman a man that curseth whatsoever God blesseth blesseth whatsoever God curseth this Witnesse is true But a person the more fit for the imployment he hath and the Master he serves Thus Reader thou hast heard the Narrative and as I told thee at first so I say again I have dealt candidly and faithfully in it It is true I might have been more large As how Brother Cann was likewise Indicted but the Grand Jury found not the Bill exhibited against him How the Mayor to excuse himself told some of our friends he was threatened to do it and could not be at rest till he had done it besides whereas they were kept twenty four hours in Prison without any Warrant afterward they sent a Warrant to the Counter and dated it a day before it was made All that they pretended in the Warrant was The Prisoners were disaffected to the present Government and had reviled the same and wanted security for their good Behaviour So likewise I have forborn to speak any thing of Alderman Titchbourn who was as we have good ground to report it the greatest stickler to have this Persecution raised against the Saints And was one of the three for there were but the Mayor and he and Alderman Atkins then on the Bench which would not suffer old Father Cann to speak a word at the Bar. But there is enough said to satisfie all such as desire to know the Truth in the love of it For others who are malicious and devise lies and falshood The Lord rebuke them FINIS Query Whether in point of Law or Conscience Judge Glyn Recorder Long or any of their Lawyers could give Sentence against Day and Clark they wel knowing that M Prin hath pubblished ten times more against the present Government than ever was laid to their Charge See his Book Demophilos the Appendex to the Premises * The Charge against him was June 14. 1647. at Albons enquire after it * I believe there are more than Twelve Witnesses yet living that will make good at least can what Cornet Day said as to the word Jugler some were present at the Sessions and desired that they might be cah'd There is Master Jesse Mr. Lanfeere Eman Middleton Captain Palmer Captain Sherman Mr. N●s● Mr. Johns George Barrer and severall others Trium Viri Preface Sect. 5.

Government Many words passed between the Mayor and him but nothing could they draw from him to serve their turn till he told them that he would give it under his hand To prove Oliver Cromwell a Jugler by his own Confession and so much he did leave with the Mayor in a piece of Paper which was the great Charge that he was afterward Arraigned for Having done with two and putting them both aside Brother Clark is called who is asked as the former were What he thought of the present Government He told them plainly He thought it was not of God and gave some scriptures why he thought o as Hos. 8. 3 4 I Sam. 8. 6 7. Am. 6. 13. He did acknowledge this Government was of God permissive but not by approbation These words were written down and made the ground of his Indictment afterward for till now though they had imprisoned him yet they had not so much as any shew of matter against him This being done they were all three brought before the Mayor who demanded Baile for their appearance at the next Sessions they told him they were not free to give him any Baile Then he told them they must go back from whence they came and so sent them again to the Counter not charging them with any guilt or crime For the other five they were likewise called one after another and the same question put to them viz. What they thought of the present Government But our Freinds said little to it But askt the Mayor what he had against them and wherefore he had Committed them to prison To which he gave no Answer but that they had been at the meeting in Coleman street In short he askt whether they would give Baile c. They refusing it were likewise sent back to the Counter after the other three Onely brother Ricard was baild by his Master not that he desired it but his Master did it of his own accord Among other Brethren which accompanied the prisoners to the Mayors house brother Belcher was one now as he was returning back the City Marshall met him and askt him if he were not one of their company yes saith he blessed be God for it I am one of them Then said he you must go with me and so brought him to the Mayor who presently askt him What he thought of the present Government I am not said he bound to accuse my self yet I do confesse to be one that holds forth a publick Testimony against the present Apostacy and came hither to stand with the Prisoners at their first Answer Do you so saith the Mayor then you shall keep them company in Prison and so committed him to the Counter with the rest no Cause or Crime objected to him nor had he any thing to accuse him off Having kept them about three weeks in prison upon the 22. of the second moneth towards evening Brother Day was sent for and brought to their Sessions coming before them with his Hat on they caused it to be pulled off and commanded him to be put into the Goale among the Thieves and Murtherers But the Keeper was more civill to him and allowed him a better place A little while after he was brought again to the Bar and keeping his Hat on as before they took it off whereupon he told them he was no Quaker but could very well give them civill respect And therefore what he did now in refusing to put off his Hat it was to shew he could not own their Authority and that they had basely and unworthily betrayed a most glorious and noble Cause yea and the Rights and Liberties of the whole Nation Having thus spoken they Read his Charge which was to this effect Having no fear of God before his eyes nor in his heart he had maliciously and devillishly with an open mouth said that the Protector was a Jugler and that he would prove it And that the Protector was a Traitor and no lawfull Magistrate either by God or man unlesse by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen c. And then they asked him Guilty or not guilty His Answer was that he did not well understand the quirts and punctilio's of their Law and in that respect being ignorant of their tricks he knew not how to Answer them but by that light and grace which the Lord had given him in his holy Word he would Answer them which Word said he must judge both you and me You pretend your selves to be Christians and will yee deny me that which Heathens did grant unto Paul then he produced Acts 23. 35. Whereupon they had some debate about the Scriptures which Judge Newdegate called Bibble babble bibble babble and commanded him to be silent But he would not then he bid them to Gag him two or three times the Brother for all that spoke boldly to them and told them he was not guilty of any Treason 〈◊〉 towards 〈…〉 men neither to his Countrey nor had he betrayed his trust as they had done and so were not competent Judges to try him For saith he you are not such as Fear God men of truth hating Coveteousnesse according to Exod. 18. 21. For if you were you would not have betrayed so noble a Cause for which thousands of Gods children have laid down their lives besides many thousands of our dear country-men have spilt their blood And in this regard he told them that it was more fit that they should come down from the Bench and stand at the Bar where he was and he and such as had been faithfull to the Interest of Christ and his People sit there and Judge them Moreover he told them that he was not their match being a very ignorant creature as to the knowledge of their Laws but Mr. Prin who is known to be an able Lawyer as most men in the Nation hath lately written a Book and set his name to it Printed in this year 1658. In which Book he saith that you and the Court are all Vsurpers have set up a new Vsurped Power are Thieves and Robbers have committed the highest Treason and do act against all laws both of God and the Land And whereas you pretend to charge me by Act of Parliament he tels you in the same Book it was but a pretended Parliament and a mock Parliament and by the Acts of Lawfull Parliaments they were all Traitors withall he desired them that he might read some part of the Book to them for he had the Book in his hand at the Bar but they would not suffer him Moreover he told them he was perswaded that they themselves did know in their Consciencies that Cromwell was a Jugler but self Interest had blinded them In conclusion he told them if he knew his own heart he could freely be hanged upon a Gallows as high as Hamon was the Lord assisting him for this glorious Cause which they had betrayed But here they put a stop and did run with violence upon him and one