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A31781	Caines bloudy race known by their fruits, or, A true declaration of the innocent sufferings of the servants of the living God, by the magistrates, priests and people in the city of Westchester, who lives in a profession of God, Christ, and the Scriptures, as their forefathers did, who slew the prophets, persecuted Christ and the apostles, as is declared in the scriptures of truth, &c.	Hutchins, Anthony.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Sale, Richard.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing C208A; ESTC R20269	33,131	48

for passing quietly through the streets to a meeting to wait upon the Lord all which things before mentioned which this is a short relation of hath been done by the command of Peter Leigh Mayor of the City of Chester and suffered by the innocent people of of God in this Little-Ease or hole in the Rock to the truth of which lest any should doubt as they might do if they were not witnessed to by some they being such unheard-of cruelties as never were acted by any who profess themselvs to be Christian Magistrates nay nor by the worst of Heathen Magistrates that ever I read of and I being an eye-witness to most of them as they were executed upon the innocent shall be ready if called thereunto to answer to the truth of them Anthony Hutchins You that be Magistrates in the City of Chester who hath thus acted with prejudice against the people of God and servants of God you have turned your Sword backwards against the just and ye have not been a praise to them that do well but your fruits and actions have been a shame to men that four God to modesty them that own true justice and equity you make men offenders for words and you persecute them that reprove sin in the Gate and they is made a prey upon by you you have provided a torturing place a squeezing pressing place for such as declare truth amongst you you are become rebels against the truth truth is fallen in the streets and equity cannot enter the door to that is shut ye become abominable amongst men your doings the Lord hath taken notice of ye are boisterous and perverse yea envious in the persecution of the Lords servants and the Lords presence hath been amongst them in all their sufferings yea in the greatest of your cruelty can you be proud and boast when you have done that you would have all to see your peevishness the beholders by that ye may be upon record brought Doth not your fruits and actions before mentioned dishonor the place of a Magistrate We number not the just with the wicked nor the godly with the profane but put a difference What have you gotten by all your actions but shewed forth your spirits whereby they are tryed not to be the spirit of Christ nor the Apostles who saith Love your Enemies but you persecute your Friends the Lord forgive your persecutions persecutors were ever blind you have manifested the end of your Religion in this the day of the Lord and the fruits of your Teachers and the end of your profession and the order and government of your Church and Ministry as before-mentioned declares besides all the abuses the people of God the Saints have had in their Meetings which was never rebuked by the Magistrates George Fox UPon the 28. day of the 6th Month 1657. I sent a Copy of all these things before-written save only some which have been acted against the innocent since and likewise some things which were acted before which was not then in remembrance which is added in this to Peter Leigh Mayor of Chester City The direction that I writ in the beginning was to this effect That if he or any other who was therein concerned could object against the truth of any thing therein written they might do it before I went on with what I intended wch intent of mine was to print the Book though at that time I denied to certifie them so much but the Bearer thereof Peter I eigh Mayor sent into Little-Ease in the Rock but I heard nothing from them until the eighth day of the 7. Month and then the Mayor sent for me up to the Pentice by two Constables and when I came in before them I found Peter Leigh Mayor John Ratliffe Recorder Edward Bradshaw Justice of Peace the two Sheriffs and many more then present the Mayor asked me if I had seen that Book it lying before them which was the same I sent him as aforesaid I said I had He asked me if I wrote that Name at the latter end thereof which was my own Name I said I did not but I told him I had gotten it written fair over after one that I had writ Then he said Do you own it I said I did He asked me if I read it over I said I had Then he gave me many threatning words Then I asked them whether committed the greater evil They that act cruelty or they that write down cruelty when acted by another The Recorder said Who must judge of that I said Let that of God in your own consciences judge whether committeth the greater offence The Recorder said Many a one hath had their ears nailed to the Pillory for a lesse offence I said If he deserved to have his ears nailed to the Pillory that writ these things down what did they deserve that acted them Then they gave me threatning Words I told them I desired no favor from them but that I might have fair Plea in the face of a Court and if I had transgressed the Law I was willing to suffer by it Likewise I told them I judged it not equal they themselves should be Judges in their own cause One of them said they would not twelve men should judge it but the Recorder said twenty four men should judge it Then the Mayor said I was a railing fellow I turned to the people and asked if any of them heard me rail since I came he said I did in the Book I told him if I should say such words to them as Paul said to Elimus they then would say I railed though truth might be written and Names and Titles might be given to men answerable to their actions as Paul said to Elimus whose Name was Elimus yet Paul called him a child of the Devil and an enemy to all righteousnesse but I said I had used no such Words to them The Recorder said Paul might say so to Elimus who was a Sorcerer I said All the Priests in England which preach for hire and divine for money are Sorcerers for thereby the right ways of the Lord comes to be perverted The Recorder said I must not judge them I said Their practice judged them Then I charged them concerning their hard usuage of my Friends in that Little-Ease or hole in the Rock and asked them where they ever read of such a prison as that wch bruised mens bodies in such a cruel manner told them the Law hath so much respect to men though transgressors of the same as to provide large prisons to secure their bodies in and not such holes as these to presse and bruise them in or words to this effect I told them I could see drunkards and swearers passe up and down the Streets but I heard of none of them that was put into that place The Mayor told me if I saw such things I might come and inform him thereof and then see if he did punish them I said So I might

their FRUITS FIrst Under Edward Bradshaw Mayor Richard Hubberthorne coming into Chester City about the 29th of the 9. Month 1653. the occasion of his coming at that time was to visite a brother in the truth who was for the truths sake a prisoner in the County-Goal his Name was Iohn Lawson so he Richard Hubberthorn being in the House where he lodged all night peaceably not giving the least occasion of offence to any but was writing in a Book he then had of his own so as he sate writing came in Richard Golborne a Lawyer and took his Book from him and gave him envious and threatning words and went his way and informed Edward Bradshaw Mayor what a dangerous Fellow was in the Town and caused him to be brought before the Magistrates into the Pentice so when they and the chief Priest had examined him and finding the Law not by him transgressed he being clear in all things from the least breach thereof they caused him to be put a-part into another Room until they had devised wicked and unlawful devices against him for this was the time when the Lord first tryed them how they could bear the sincerity and plainnesse of the innocent truth and Gospel of Christ which was then beginning to spread abroad in the Nation which Truth and the servants thereof doth onely seek the Honor which comes from God and doth only give the Honor to God and doth not seek that Honor which comes from men neither can give that Honor which men seek one of another and for this cause was the Wrath of the Magistrate lifted up until they had lost both the knowledg of the Law and of Reason who in their Wrath sent him into prison no breach of the Law being found by him only by the information of Richard Golborne who had broken the Law in taking his Goods from him contrary to all the Laws of this Nation only this they said they imprisoned him for because he could not promise them to go out of the Town when they commanded him But Festus who was a Ruler amongst the Heathens he well might be called Noble for to him it seemed unreasonable to send a Prisoner and not to shew the causes of offence that was laid against him But these Magistrates which say they are Christians they manifest themselves to be void of understanding sence and reason having sent many to prison without so much as signifying a just occasion against them So when R. Hubberthorn had suffered about three moneths imprisonment he was called before a Sessions and they finding nothing against him again asked him if he would go forth of the City which if he would they said he should be set free which he denyed to promise them and stood in the Authority of the Almighty over their deceit being they could lay nothing to his charge then their Wrath arose and commanded him to be put into prison and kept close that none should come to him all which the Keeper obeyed for about eight dayes and then the Mayor and the rest of his Brethren joyned together to make a Passe to send him from Constable to Constoble into Lancashire but when the Lord had tryed them to the full then they broke their Order which was sealed with seven Seales and he was onely brought forth of the City and set free Thomas Holme coming into this City had a Meeting in the same about the nineteenth day of the first Month 1653. where he and many more were met together to wait upon the Lord in a house in the same City then Thomas Holme spake as he was moved of the Lord Edward Bradshaw then Mayor being informed thereof sent one of his servants and commanded him to bring Tho. Holme before him so he committed him to prison to the Common Goal for the City where he was kept about six Weeks in which time he was much abused and beaten by Robert Emis●ne Keeper of the Prison who is a common notorious Drunkard Before Tho. Holme was released Edward Bradshaw sent Samuel Elcock unto him to know if he would promise him to depart the City which if he would he might be released who said he could make no such promise Now Tho. Holme having a Letter by to him which was sent him from Rich. Hubberthorne directed Edward Bradshaw he gave it to Samuel Elcock to give it as directed who did so when Ed. Bradshaw had read over the Letter he said that Tho. Holme should be whipped and as we are informed had a man in readinesse to do it he thinking all this while it had been Tho. Holme which writ it to him so Thomas Yarwood hearing what was intended against Tho. Holm and understanding it was because of that Letter went to Edward Bradshaw and said Friend Tho. Holm did not write that Letter to thee it was Rich. Hubberthorne but Tho. Yarwood not dossing his Hat Edward Bradshaw committed him to the Stocks where he was kept about an hour and a half at the least then the next day after Tho. Holme was committed as aforesaid Edward Bradshaw sent for Rich. Hickock and Edward Morgan they being two that was at the Meeting the day before and committed them to prison upon the twentieth day of the first month 1653. and kept Rich. Hickock fifteen Weeks and Edw Morgan nine Weeks Elizabeth Levens and Jane Waugh coming to this City to visite their Brethren in prison and as they were passing peaceably through the Streets were tooke up by a drunken man and brought before Edward Bradshaw and by him committed to prison who were a great part of their imprisonment kept in a stinking place where for the most part thieves and murderers are kept the whole time of their imprisonment was about five Weeks who when they were released were sent from Constable to Constable as Vagabonds into their own Countrey Anne Fara coming to this City was moved to go to a steeple-house and spake unto the Priest she was much abused by the rude multitude and by them took before Edw. Bradshaw and by him committed to prison for many dayes Richard Hickocke was moved to go to a Steeple-house in the City where was a High-Priest called Samuel Eaton who when he had ended that he called his Sermon Rich. Hitkock spake some Words to the people but they pulled him down and did much abuse him yet neverthelesse Edw. Bradshaw committed him to prison and commanded the Keeper to put him into a dark stinking Room where he saw a Snake and other venemous creatures it is such a place that none is put into at any time but such as are condemned to dye and therefore is called The dead Mans Room and likewise Edw. Bradshaw commanded Irons to be put on him all which his commands were executed to the highest degree of malice that might be in which condition he was kept 13 Weeks and upwards and it 's believed by some the Priest and he together intended to destroy the outward man though he had a

get the same reward which Edward Morgan got who came and complained to thee of a man that was ill drunk and had ill abused him too and thou caused him to be put into Little-Ease and suffered the drunkard and quarreller to passe unpunished Many more questions and answers passed betwixt us which I omit to make mention of here but to be short they put me to this issue either to put in Sureties to appear before them the next Quarter Sessions holden for and in the City or to go to prison but to put in Sureties I refused knowing my self to be clear from the breach of any Law and they themselves to be guilty according as it 's written in the foregoing Relation So into the Common Gaol for the City I was brought upon the eighth day of the seventh Month 1657. I demanded a Copy of my Mittimus and used all the means I could which stood in my Freedom but could get none though the Recorder said I should have one So when I had been in prison about four Weeks the General Sessions at this City for the County was holden so my body was by a Habeus Corpus removed out of the City Goul to answer the Law before the Judges for the County and before them I was brought upon the nineth day of the eighth Month after I had lain in prison as is said 3● days So coming before the Judges as is said they demanded of the Recorder the causes of my imprisonment so the Mittimus by which I suffered was read in the Court the substance contained therein was That I had writ a Book of Libels wherein I reproached Peter Leigh Esq for so it was written and other Magistrates and Ministers in the City of Chester To which I make this short answer Libels are things which are scattered and not owned which are full of lyes and scoffs and their whole intention is to reproach and revile them they are directed against now so far as I know things written and scattered upon this account are Libels Now this I sent to Peter Leigh Mayor cannot have any colour to be called a Libel for I writ my Name to it when I sent it and likewise I had not fea●●●red any of them at all when I sent that to him I owned it before them all as is said in my examination I put them to it to disprove any thing I had written if they could which was the ground I sent it to them for that if they would object against it they might before I went on with what I now have accomplished but they did not convince me of any thing I had written to be false neither could they besides my intent therein was neither to reproach nor revile them or any one of them for I writ nothing therein but the truth and the truth never reproached or reviled any man for if any act those things that are not just and of a good report or hath used violence or acted cruelty against any man and the truth of these things be written down and published abroad and they who have thus acted come thereby to be reproached he that writes down the truth brings not the reproach but he that doth the thing which is not right brings the reproach upon himself But to proceed my Mittimus being read the Judge asked the Recorder if he could prove against me any matter of fact he said A deal but not any thing which could prove any such a thing against me as matter of fact The Judge spake a great deal to shew him wherein I was wronged and then did release me and set me free So when I was cleared before I went from the Bar I spoke to the Recorder in the hearing of the Judges and the whole Court these words viz. I would have the Recorder before you all if he can to disprove any one thing I have written but before them all as is said he was silent and could not So to the whole Court it plainly appeared I was wrongfully imprisoned Righteousness exalteth a Nation But sin is a reproach to any people Anthony Hutchins A Relation of the sufferings of friends in Cheshire because that for con science-sake they could not pay tythes and other things and where any thing hath been returned back is mentioned as I have bad knowledge Great Budworth Parish Ephraim Elcock priest THomas Buckley for tythes of the value of 12. s. had a Horse taken from him for the use of the said Priest worth 4. l. as the men of the World judged George Veakin for the value of 4. d. ob which he claimed for Smoke-penny and Easter Reckoning had one brass pot taken from him worth 8. s. And likewise the said Geo. Veakin for the value of 6. d. which they demanded for two years payment to their Priest according as they in their wills had sessed him tool from him Work-Tools being a Wheel-Wright by Trade worth 7. s. Runkorn Parish William Finmore Priest Henry Burtonwood for tythe of the value of 5. s. had taken from him one Cow worth 2. l. 13. s. 4. d. for the use of the said Priest abovesaid And at another time Henry Burtonwood for tythe-Corn of the value of 2. l. 1 s. 1. d. had taken from him 〈◊〉 Cows and one Heiser stirk which were sold for about 7. l. for the use of Priest Finmore abovesaid John Burtonwood for tythe Wool and Lamb of the value of 8. s. 3. d. had taken from him two yong Beasts which they sold for 1. l. 5. s. Thomas Boulton for tythe-Corn of the value of 13. s. had taken from him Corn worth five pound for the use of Henry Brooks Sisly Cleaton had taken from her one Warming-Pan worth 6. s. for tythe-flax and she had none being sued at Law and cast by a false Oath for the use of Coll. Brook Widow Royle for tythe-Corn of the value 1. l. 3. s. had taken from her one Cow worth 3. l. 10. s. for the use of Coll. Hen. Brooks And likewise taken from her one Load of Beans nothing being demanded and likewise she had one Bed Hilling taken for tythe too for Coll. Brook Frodsam Parish Widow Millner for tythe-Corn of the value of 2. l. 10. s. had taken from her one Mare and one Cow worth 7. l. 10. s. likewise for tythe-Oats of the value of 11. s. had taken from her one Colt worth 2. l. besides she lay in prison 7. Weeks for the same thing for the use of Earl Rivers Thomas Hill for tythe-Corn of the value of 1. l 10. s. and for which he suffered 14. Weeks imprisonment had taken from him five load of wheat out of his field worth five pound for the use of Earl Rivers James Brown for tythe-Corn of the value of 1. l. 10. s. had goods taken from him worth 5. l. 13. s. 4. d. by valuation for the use of Earl Rivers William Sarret for tythe-Corn of the value of 1. l. 6. s. 8. d. had