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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

am willing to winde up this old Woman in Lie XI p. 37. There are Verses which E. Bugg says I writ of G. Fox this is false Reply I do now offer to prove it true upon her I have the Manuscript still by me and I never added one material Word otherwise than 't is and has been usual with Mr. Crisp Mr. Keith and others who have sometimes alter'd a Word in Correcting the Press for me But the Matter was nevertheless mine and possibly to make her Verses run smooth I might when I Printed them for her put in a Word but of this she never shewed any Dislike till now tho' I Printed them in W. Rogers's Book stiled A Second Scourge for G. Whitehead c. as I remember about 12 Years or more since and Mr. Crisp and I have Letters of hers still by us which it may be may fill another Half Sheet but I would not bestow much upon this craz'd old piece which is now creeping into the Unity of the Quakers and no way was to be found but to make G. Whitehead a Gentleman Quaker and to tell a few innocent Lies to uphold their tottering Cause Lie XII p. 40. Sam. Cater does affirm he never had his Timber again Reply This is a Lie in Anne or Sam. or in both If I find it under his Hand who had it who sold it and the like then will I produce my Proof for I love to discover Hypocrites and Liars Lie XIII p. 13. Fr. Bugg Conformed to the Church of England 1684. for fear of the Statute of 20 l. a Month. Reply I deny it and charge it as a Lie I believe I did go into a Church in 1684. as some Churchmen may go into a Quakers Meeting to Try and Examine c. but I did not go to Church at home in Conformity to her until 1685. for I well remember I went to Church more than a Year at a distance from home to give my self Satisfaction in my Conformity to her Doctrine and Discipline and in all that time I do not remember that ever the fear of 20 l. a Month came in my Thoughts nor was there Occasion for such a fear let her produce one Instance of 20 l. a Month after 1685. suffer'd for not going to Church so that her whole Story thereabouts is like the rest of her Lies Lie XIV p. 27. He F. Bugg was a Presbyterian when he came among the Quakers Reply This is another Lie I never was a Presbyterian nor so called nor my Father before me But if I had so I had not turn'd Quaker what Crime had it been Lie XV. F. Bugg 's Grandfather was a poor Boy bound out to the Wooll Trade by the Docwra ' s. Reply This is another Lie Nor was he of my Trade originally nor did I ever hear or understand that he was a poor Boy but have often heard that his Father gave 24 l. with him to a Blue Clothier in or near Colchester which was then a good Sum as well as a good Trade and he lived well on it And first he was born Heir to 14 l. a Year what Money he had I know not But this I 'll tell this Venomous Woman that he was a Man of as good Name Fame and Estate as any Docwra I yet ever knew He had Four Daughters which he gave 300 l. Portions to He had Three Sons to whom he gave little less than 400 l. a Year in House and Land from first to last And when he died he gave Additional Portions to all his Grand-Children which were very many I had Six Sisters and he gave me 30 l. a Year and each Sister 5 or 6 l. a Year in House and Land which was worth more than 1000 l. He gave all his Great Grand-children a Legacy as also the Poor in Four Towns and to every Servant he kept He was a wise Man and endued with a good Understanding in the Law and chosen often Arbitrator between Men in difficult Cases And why this Venomous Woman should thus detract from HIM that was every way HER Superior I cannot tell only this she 's overgrown with Pride and possess'd with a Lying Spirit even the Spirit of Quakerism Lie XVI p. 42. My Aunt said G. Whitehead was a Gentleman born or brought up so and call'd him the Gentleman Quaker Reply This must needs be another Lie 1. Do Gentlemen live in a poor Cottage standing on Mud Walls not worth 50 s. as G. W. did as I am credibly inform'd by a Person of Note that saw it 2. Do Gentlemen's Sons walk about the Country on foot and live upon Alms as he did And 3dly A Scholar he was not as may be seen by his early writing which I have seen in Manuscript as also by his Book Jacob found in the Desert Lands c. I do not say but he might have learnt his Accidence as many poor Boys do But now to merit the Quakers Favour and to get her Lying Pamphlet licensed she has stiled him the Gentleman Quaker A sine Jingling Name by Yea and Nay Lie XVII p. 17. And now Liberty is granted we stand upon equal Terms with our Opposers in Religious Matters Reply I deny it and the Law tells you that this is another Lie tho' indeed your Impudence and known Antimagistratical Frinciples leads you into some Practices beyond what the Establisht Church can legally do But remember you stand but upon your good Behaviour do not boast too fast of your Equality with the Church of England who oppose your Errors Lie XVIII p. 40. If Friends were so charitable as to send S. Cater 10 l. to help to pay his Debts or to carry on his Trade they did well in so doing better than F. B. in upbraiding him Reply I deny that the 10 l. was sent him on that Account No it was sent him as a Reward for his Pretence of suffering 20 l. when in Reality he suffer'd nothing But suppose it was sent him to help to pay his Debts as you say do you therein keep to an even Balance whilst you condemn that in the Clergy you commend in your selves And when did they or I ever account Sam. a Beggar an Indigent Fellow a Judas a Man of a desperate Fortune c. because you supply'd his Need and helpt to pay his Debts But how came you to be so bold as to meddle with the Bishops Certificate Tho' therein you did me a Kindness I do not say on purpose no 't is manifest what your Design therein was but accidentally it is so and quite overthrows the Drift and Design of your Book since I hope 't is of more Credit with all good Christians than your False and Pernicious Libels But you nibble at it like Rats or like a little Cur that lays hold of a Bone in which his Teeth makes no Impression And now I 'll leave off counting your Lies as for your Story in p. 51. about the 15 l. Fine and 5 l. which

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