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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

be kept from his Wife and six small children and from his trade and employment to the ruining of him and his Family Just seven dayes after the Lord strook his Wife with death made 7 or 8 children of his motherless and in one week his Family were all disperced and his children put forth and his house left desolate to this day So our God is known by his executing Judgement and the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands and thus in all ages hath the Lord been known and it is left upon record and in this age all the children of the light see the Lords footsteps praises be to him for ever Also one Wyat living at bugbrook a great professor for many years hearing that a Neighbour living in the same Town owned Truth and began to go to Friends Meetings he wrote a whole sheet of paper against the Truth of God and most blasphemously belyed the people of God which he in scorn called Quakers and sent this his Letter to his Neighbour aforesaid and challenged him or any of his Friends to give him an answer unto it but in a few weeks after before a friend could return him an answer the Lord answered him by taking away his life Also one John Palmer whom the World calls Quaker sent a book which was set forth by a friend to a Priest living three miles from Harborrow and desired him to read it the Priest was troubled at what was written in the book and said that he would write another to confute it and while he was writeing against the truth the Lord struck him with death suddenly that he died and never finished that work Also one Thomas Hensman one who was Warden so called of Willingborrow and when any friends were moved to go to the Steeple-house he would be alwayes ready at the command of the Priest there to hale them forth of the Steeple-house and he did once at the desire of the Priest swear falsly against one Elihu Hunt that she disturbed the Priest when she did out ask him one question after he had done and by his swearing Thomas Pentlow committed her to Prison presently after the Lord smo●e the said Thomas with an uncurable disease and when he lay upon his death-bed he declared to Neighbours that nothing troubled him so much as swearing and persecuting the said Elihu and wished that he had never had a hand in it and at the same time died Henry Wood of Bury in Lancaster riding to Manchester market Priest Bradsham rod up to him and called him knave and took away his hat At Bo●ton the said H. Wood was much misused had his hair pul'd off his face by T. Tislesly Dol Hodgkin was strook by the Priest of Wakefield and had like to have been killed with a hammer by a black-smith YORK Priest of Warsworth strook and punched G. Fox The same Priest took away Thomas Rawlinsons hat LONDON Priest Griffin of Bred-street strook Robert Ingram sorely over the head with a Cane many blows The Priest of Heburn strook Jo. Sley several times over the brest And those things have happened for the Admonition of the children of those who have persecuted the innocent without cause and are written for the encouragement of such as may hereafter be persecuted for the testimony of Jesus that they may look unto him and be saved who hath delivered us out of six troubles and in seven he will not forsake us A Catologue of some few of the fighting Priests PRiest Shaw of Aldingham beat Anna Clater Priest Roulands of Areloth beat Robert Cooper because he would not speak to him Priest Willon of Kerby struck Luke Benson till he broke a thick cane therewith Priest Bennet of Cartmel came out of an Ale-house being in drink beat Richard Raper and boasted that he beat him and struck up his heels Priest Brook of Cartmel-fell came drunk into the house where Thomas Rollison dwelt beat him violently would have cast him into the fire Priest Wait of Gargrave stood by while his wife burnt eighteen sheets of paper holding it to the face of William Wa●kinson to burn him with but the Priest never so much as reproved her or restrained her Priest Dorton of Shape being drunk drew his Tuck at Daniel Tompson in the street as he passed but being horsed he fled and escaped he beat Richard and William Stray pulled them by the hair luged his ears and came to William Strayes house with his tuck to seek him and threatened his wife therewith Priest Ripling of Crosby came rideing into the meeting where the people of God was meet and rid through them with violence Priest Nichols of Acton beat James Parnel and broak his head against a stall Priest Warwick of Aspeater beat John Grave and his wife and shed the blood of Jonah Person at a meeting Priest Burton of Sedburg beat John Blackling and pulled him by the hair of his head in his high place He also beat Richard Speight and John Hall as is said at Huperam Chappel Priest Cowleden of Langsterdale beat Edward Edwards and shed his blood upon the high way Also he beat Iames Tenart Priest Atkinson of Granton beat Bernard Addisom in the high-way and broke his staff over his face Priest of Marrick beat Christop More and also he beat Ioseph Longsdale in Richmond market-place for reproving him for it Priest More of Richmond beat Christoph. More with a flayl insomuch that its like he had killed him if help had not come Priest Confit of Barton beat Dor. Tod for coming to visit his wife I Christo Iron upon a first day was coming from a meeting of Friends and comming along the High-way I lighted of one Parson Feak of Standrop in the county of Durham who did rageingly fall upon me and did beat me and so passing along the way and my mouth never opened nor one word said he came again and gave me a great blow and made me stagger and struck off my hat and had a Rapier-staff that he had at Steeple-house which he drew a part forth of the Scabbard but put it up again and thus the Parson did to me and not one word and thus we parted This same Feak beat Thomas Taylor Christopher Atkinson and Thomas A●ery coming along the high way coming from Ravensworth Castle Priest Feak of Staindrop beat Christo Atkinson trailed him at the horse side by the hair of the head by the high-way and his wife behind him bunched him on the face Lewis Floid Priest of Otteringam did tear William Dewsbu●ies hair off his head and struck him as they passed together near Oteringam in much rage and fury Thomas Andrews Priest of Wellingborow laid violent hands on Anne Ellington and drew her to the fire to have caused her to have burned a letter she carried to him and bruised the sinnew of her arm Priest Tho. Shaw of Aldingham beat James Lancaster for speaking to him in private he also beat Miles Falhead and shed his blood Linc. Flecher Priest of Dean in Cum bad the people fight for the Gospel and caused Thomas Stubs to be extreamly beaten Mathew Bake● a great High Priest who said that Adam before he fell had a dark light of nature in him that shewed him sin c. A friend in the truth bid him prove it but he could not his lyes being laid upon him he got up in a great rage and struck F. Ellington As Rob. Chintin was going to a meeting Priest Fortrey asked him why he run after other mens wifes there being a woman or two before going towards the meeting and with many other obscene unclean words rayled at him and beat him with his staff so that for a moneth or more his han● was Iame. Thomas Curtis of reading being in the Steeple-house there asking Priest Web a question was sorely pulled by the hair of the head by the priests adherents The aforesaid Curtis was also abused and smote by the priest of Causham until the Mayor himself came and took him forth of the Steeple-house Priest Feak of Stanethrop beat Christopher Jones of Barnard Castle Priest Jenkins with four men to whom he gave bond to save harmlesse for whatsoever they did who by false warrant seized upon and drove away 100 sheep and other Cattel from Captain John Elliot his shepherds wife owning one sheep and desiring to have it one of this priests men knocked her down and broak her head in two places and for some time she lay for dead continuing deaf unto this day the aforesaid Captain Eliots wife being there also the priest bid one of his men knock her down and kill her and he would bear him out at which command one of them struck her on the breast with a great staff which might have killed her but she having a young child which did suck preserved her but the child sucking the putrified milk took a vomiting and died and this is murther in the sight of God and men And no murtherer nor striker shall inherit the Kingdom THE END

them being come into the Town that morning when the Assize did begin was struck with the hand of God so that he was speechless for many dayes and faint to lye in the Town before they could get him to his own house and since is dead never coming to Assizes or Sessions more and the other Justice which committed them was suddenly after put out of Commission and since is dead And likewise at the first coming of Friends into the County of Gloucester there was a man called by the name of a Captain that did send to a Justice of the Peace wishing him to take a course with these people called Quakers and with some bitterness said else he would take a course with them himself but within a few dayes after near his own dwelling at an Ale-house he fell out with a Rag-man and killed him insomuch that the said Captain was tried for his life the next Assi●e following There were three young Women that were friends coming from a meeting and in the way as they came there were people setting of Beanes and amongst them there was a man and a great Boy which Boy laid himself down over the foot-path and laying hold on one of the young women did abuse her in such an unseemly manner as with modesty cannot be expressed untill the other two did pull her from him and afterwards did set dogs on them and both the man and the boy did follow them with clods and stones for a great way and within a short time after the same man and boy being together so fell out that the boy was wounded by the man and within 24 hours after died and the man was tried at the Bar for his life this last Assi●e held for the County of Gloucester Richard Hobbs who had sworn in behalf of Priest Davis of Frampton for Tithes against John Tyler to the value of 16 or 20 s. for which the said Tyler was ordered to pay ●0 l. 1● s. besides 3 l. 10 s. charges The aforesaid Rich. Hobbs being thatching a Rick of Wheat was questioned by the man he wrought for about his swearing and shewed what errour he had run himself into he seemed to be troubled for it and said if he had known so much before as he did since he would not have done it in a little space after the man was gone the said Rich. Hobb● saw on his hand and on the Rick of Wheat the appearance of fire being troubled thereat left off his work and went to his Master and told him of it who would have perswaded him it was not so but he affirmed it to be so and not many dayes after the said Rich Hobbs he being Clerk of a Parish and as he was Ringing a Bel was taken up with the Bel-rope and tossed up and down that the scull of his head was broken and his body sore bruised that he lay for dead in the place but being recovered again he was carried to his house where he lay senceless 2 or 3 dayes and so died HEREFORD-SHIRE Henry Davis of little Ducburch a Persecutor of many friends who meeting James Merrick of Ross and because the said James did not speak to him turned his Gun after him and threatned to shoot him and in a short time after the said Henry Davis fell off from his horse and broke his neck WORCESTER-SHIRE EVISHAM George Kemp Mayor of ●visham being the first and also an eminent Persecutor of the Innocent people of God in Evisham shortly after the heat of his persecution was out off by death Rich. Martin another of the persecuting Justices was shortly after sued at the Law by his onely Son and thereby being forced to leave his habitation soon after died Edwa●d Youn● Mayor of Evisham aforesaid who exceeded all his Brethren in persecution not long after he was out of his Maiorality he also was cut off by death Samuel Gardner one of the persecuting Justices of Evisham aforesaid not long after his persecuting the people of God he fell distracted so that he was kept tied in his bed Thomas Ordway one of their Council a great professor of the Scriptures a friend to truth lent him a book which was in answer to a Catechism set forth by 42 Priests and after he had looked over it he wrote on the backside of the book It is pitty but all such books were burned and them that made them and set his name to it but very suddenly after was he cut off by death HUNTINGTON-SHIRE Thomas Lawrence Priest who had sued 4 of the Parish of Coln in the Exchequer and one of the 3 friends meeting him on the way asked him what he sued him for the Priest very wrathfully and churlishly answered him I will speak with you another time but within 10 dayes he was cut off and his body laid in the earth LINCOLN-SHIRE Francis Ball of Sibsey who sued and cast into Prison Edmund Woolsey for Tithes and the said Francis had told several people that he was perswaded that if Edmund Woolsey did believe in his Conscience that he the said Francis Ball had right unto the Tithes he would have paid it him and yet for all that he the said Francis Ball kept him in Prison But the Just indignation of the Lord is since fallen upon the Family of the said Francis Ball for his Wife presently after died and two more of that Family the Daughter and her Child and the people hereabout concluded it to be a just Judgment from the Lord. DERBY-SHIRE One Brittlin of Thorncloft a Steward of a hundred Court who had Judged Thomas Boyer to pay about 4 times what the principal of the Tithe came too soon after the Lord did cut him off by death SHROP-SHIRE Edw. Dod who wrote a false accusation against Friends and is a great Proselite of Sam. Smith Priest of Cresit who caused many Friends to suffer fell off from a Bridge and broke his leg and the Priest came to visit him and said one step further and into Hell and he said his people were a damned Crew and he had preached 7 years to them and not one brought to the knowledge of God HAMP-SHIRE Justice Cobb who had been a great Persecutor of Friends in Winchester Goal and would not suffer Stephen Bevi● Prisoner to work in the Prison on his own Calling and he being Judge at another Sessions would no● do any thing towards the releasement of the Servants of God in Prison though their unjust imprisoment was laid before him but gave order to restrain other Friends from coming to them several papers being sent to him for Justice the last of which was that being six men and one women in Prison that the women or any one of them might have the liberty to go forth and provide necessaries for the rest to bring them in work and carry out work and bring in food and such things as were necessary which reasonable and righteous thing was by him denied and within a