to judge according to the Law shall before-hand threaten and Menace the Prisoner contrary to the Law how can the Mind of the Prisoner be free to plead his Innocency before him or expect Equal Judgment from him who before he hears him threatens what he will do unto him Is not this the Case between Thee and Vs Is not this the Measure we have received at thy Hands Hast thou herein dealt according to Law or to thy Duty Or as thou wouldest be done unto Let that of God in thy Conscience Judge And did'st not thou say There was a Law for putting off the Hat and that thou would'st shew a Law and did'st not thou often so express thy self But didst thou produce any Law or shew where that Law might be found or any Judicial President or in what King 's Reign when we so often desired it of thee having never heard of or known any such Law by which thou didst Judge us Was not what we demanded of thee reasonable and just Was that a Savoury Answer and according to Law which thou gavest us viz. I am not to carry the Law-books at my Back up and down the Country I am not to Instruct you Was ever such an Expression heard before these days to come out of a Judge's Mouth Is he not to be of Counsel in the Law for the Prisoner and to Instruct him therein Is it not for this cause that the Prisoner in many Cases is not allowed Counsel by the Law In all Courts of Justice in this Nation hath it not been known so to have been And to the Prisoner hath not this been often declared when he hath demanded Counsel alledging his Ignorance in the Law by reason of which his Cause might miscarry though it were righteous viz. The Court is of Counsel for you Ought not he that judgeth in the Law to be Expert in the Law Could'st thou not tell by what Act of Parliament it was made or by what Judicial President or in what King 's Reign or when it was adjudged so by the Common Law which are all the Grounds the Law of England hath had there been such a Law though the words of the Law thou could'st not remember Surely To Inform the Prisoner when he desired it especially as to a Law which was never heard of by which he proceeds to Judge him that he may know what Law it is by which he is to be Judged becomes him who Judgeth for God for so the Law was read to the Jews by which they were to be Judged yea every Sabbath-day this was the Commandment of the Lord. But instead thereof to say I am not to carry the Law-books at my Back up and down the Country I am not to Instruct you To say There is a Law and to say Thou wilt shew it and yet not to shew it nor to tell where it is to be found Consider whether it be Consistent with Savouriness or with Truth or Justice Have not thy whole Proceedings against us made it evidently to appear that thy desire was to Cause us to suffer not to deliver us who being Innocent suffered to have us aspersed and reproached before the Country not to have our Innocency cleared and vindicated Doth not thy taking away our Books as aforesaid and the perusing of them in such haste before our Trial and thy Accusing us with something which thou said'st was contained in them make it to appear that Matter was sought out of them where-withal to Charge us when the Et Caetera-Warrant would not stand in Law by which we stood Committed and were then upon our Delivery according to due Course of Law Doth it not further appear by thy refusing to take from our Hands a Copy of the strange Et Caetera-Warrant by which we were Committed and of the Paper for which we were Apprehended to read it or cause it to be read that so our long Sufferings by reason of both might be lookt into and weighed in the Law whether Just or Righteous and the Country might as well see our Innocency and Sufferings without a Cause and the manner of Dealing with us as to hear such Reports as went of us as great Offenders when we called upon thee often so to do and which thou oughtest to have done and said'st Thou would'st do but did it not nor so much as took notice before the Country that we had been falsely Imprisoned and had wrongfully suffered But what might Asperse and Charge us thou brought'st in thy self contrary to Law and did'st call to have us charged therewith Is not this further manifest in that thou did'st cause us on a sudden to be with-drawn and the Petty-Jury to be called in with their Verdict whereupon Peter Ceely's falsly accusing George Fox with telling him privately of a Design and persuading him to join therein It was by G. Fox made so Clear to be a manifest Falshood and so plainly to be perceived that the Cause of our Sufferings was not any Evil we had done or Law that we had transgressed but Malice and Wickedness And is it not abundantly clear from thy not permitting us to Answer and clear our selves of the many foul Slanders charged upon us in the New-found-Indictment of which no Proof was made but when we were Answering thereunto and Clearing our selves thereof thou did'st stop us saying Thou mindest not those things but only the putting off the Hat when as before the Country the New-found Indictment charged us with those things and the Petty-Jury brought in their Verdict Guilty of the Trespasses and Contempts mentioned therein of which except as to the Hat not one Witness or Evidence was produced and as to the Hat not any Law or judicial President upon the Transgression of which all legal Indictments are only to be grounded Now the Law seeks not for Causes whereby to make the Innocent to suffer but helpeth him to Right who suffers Wrong and relieveth the Oppressed and searcheth out the Matter Whether that of which a Man stands Accused be so or no seeking Judgment and hastening Righteousness and it saith The Innocent and the Righteous slay thou not But whether thou hast done so to us or the contrary let the Witness of God in thee search and judge as these thy Fruits do also make manifest And Friend Consider how abominably wicked and how highly to be abhorred denied and witnessed against and how Contrary to the Laws such a Proceeding is as to Charge a Man with many Offences in an Indictment which they who draw the Indictment they who Prosecute and they who find the Bill know to be false and to be set in purposely to Reproach and Wound his good Name whom with some small Matter which they can prove they Charge and Indict as is the Common Practice at this day Prove but one particular Charge in the Indictment and it must stand say they for a True Bill though there be never so many Falshoods and Lies therein on set purpose
of answering me the Judge told the Jury They might go out Some of the Jury were not satisfied whereupon the Judge told them They had heard a Man Swear that the Oath was tendered to me the last Sessions and then he told them what they should do I told him He should leave the Jury to their own Consciences However the Jury being put on by him went forth and soon after came in again and found me Guilty I spake to the Jury and asked them How they could satisfie themselves to find me Guilty upon that Indictment which was laid so false and had so many Errors in it They could make but little Answer yet one who seemed to be the Worst of them would have taken me by the Hand But I put him by saying How now Judas hast thou betrayed me and dost thou now come with a Kiss 1674. Worcester Sessions So I bid him and them Repent Then the Judge began to tell me How favourable the Court had been to me I asked him How he could say so Was ever any man worse dealt with than I had been in this Case who was stopped in my Journey being travelling upon my lawful Occasions and then Imprisoned without Cause and now had the Oaths put to me only for a Snare And I desired him to Answer me in the Presence of the Lord in whose Presence we all are Whether this Oath was not tendered me in Envy He would not answer that but said Would you had never come here to trouble us and the Country I told him I came not thither of my self but was brought being stopped in my Travel on my Journey and I did not trouble them but they had brought Trouble upon themselves Then the Judge told me What a sad Sentence he had to tell me I asked him Whether what he was going to speak was by way of passing Sentence or by way of Information For I told him I had many things to say and more Errors to Assign in the Indictment besides those I had already mentioned to stop him from giving Sentence against me upon that Indictment He said He was going to shew me the danger of a Premunire which was the Loss of my Liberty and of all my Goods and Chattels and to endure Imprisonment during Life But he said He did not deliver this as the Sentence of the Court upon me but as an Admonition to me and then he bid the Jailer Take me away I expected to have been called again to hear the Sentence but when I was gone the Clerk of the Peace whose Name was Twittey asked him as I was informed Whether that which he had spoken to me should stand for Sentence And he consulting with some of the Justices told him Yes that was the Sentence and should stand This was done behind my Back to save himself from Shame in the Face of the Country Many of the Justices and the generality of the People were moderate and civil and there was one John Ashley a Lawyer was very friendly both the time before and now speaking on my behalf and pleading the Errors of the Indictment for me But Justice Street who was Judge of the Court would not regard but over-ruled all This Justice Street said to some Friends in the Morning before my Trial That if he had been upon the Bench the first Sessions he would not have tendered me the Oath but if I had been Convicted of being at a Conventicle he would have proceeded against me according to that Law and that he was sorry that ever I came before him And yet he maliciously tendered the Oath to me in the Court again when I was to have Tried my Traverse upon the Indictment But the Lord pleaded my Cause and met with both him and Justice Simpson who first ensnared me with the Oath at the first Sessions For Simpson's Son was Arraigned not long after at the same Bar for Murder And Street who as he came down from London after the Judges had returned me back from the King's-Bench to Worcester said Now I was returned to them I should lie in Prison and rot had his Daughter whom he so doted on that she was called his Idol brought down dead from London in an Hearse to the same Inn where he spake those Words and brought to Worcester to be buried within a few days after And People took notice of the Hand of God 1674. Worcester Prison how sudden it was upon him but it rather hardned than tendered him as his Carriage afterwards shewed After I was carried back to Prison several came to see me and amongst others the Earl of Salisbury's Son who was very loving and troubled that they had dealt so badly by me He stayed about two Hours with me and took a Copy of the Errors in the Indictment himself in Writing The Sessions being now over and I fixt in Prison by a Premunire my Wife came up to me out of the North to be with me And the Assizes coming on soon after in the Sixth Month the State of my Case being drawn up in Writing She and Thomas Lower delivered it to Judge Wild. In it was set forth the Occasion of my Journey the Manner of my being Taken and Imprisoned the Proceedings of the several Sessions against me and the Errors in the Indictment by which I was Premunired which having had Occasion to mention often before I forbear to repeat here When the Judge had read it he shook his Head and said We might Trie the Validity or Invalidity of the Errors if we would And that was all they could get from him While thus I lay in Prison it came upon me to state our Principle to the King not with particular Relation to my own Sufferings but for his better Information concerning our Principle and us as a People It was thus and thus Directed To the KING THe Principle of the Quakers is the Spirit of Christ who Died for us and is Risen for our Justification by which we know we are his and he dwelleth in us by his Spirit and by the Spirit of Christ we are led out of Vnrighteousness and Vngodliness It brings us to deny all Plottings and Contrivings against the King or any Man And the Spirit of Christ brings us to deny all manner of Ungodliness as Lying Theft Murder Adultery Fornication and all Vncleanness and Debauchery Malice and Hatred Deceit Cousening and Cheating whatsoever and the Devil and his Works And the Spirit of Christ brings us to seek the Peace and Good of all Men and to live peaceably and leads us from such Evil Works and Actions as the Magistrate's Sword takes hold upon And our Desire and Labour is that all who profess themselves Christians may walk in the Spirit of Christ that they through the Spirit may mortifie the Deeds of the Flesh and by the Sword of the Spirit may cut down Sin and Evil in themselves Then the Judges and other Magistrates would not have so much Work in
And this is the Light which shews the Evil Actions you have all acted the ungodly Deeds you have ungodly Committed and all the ungodly Speeches you have spoken and all your Oaths and cursed Speaking and ungodly Actions Now if you hearken to this Light it will let you see all the Actions that you have done contrary to it and loving it it will turn you from your evil Deeds evil Actions evil Ways evil Words to Christ who is not of the World who is the Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World who testifies against the World that the Deeds thereof are evil And so doth the Light in every Man that he hath received from him testifie against his Works and Deeds that be Evil that they be contrary to the Light which he shall give an Account of at the day of Judgment for every idle Word that is spoken Which Light shall bring every Tongue to Confess yea and every Knee to bow at the Name of Jesus Which Light if you believe in you shall not come into Condemnation but come to Christ who is not of the World to him by whom it was made but if you believe not in the Light this is your Condemnation the Light saith Christ G. F. This Paper passing among them from the Jury to the Justices they presented it to the Judge so that when we were called before the Judge he bid the Clerk give me that Paper and then asked me Whether that Seditious Paper was mine I told him If they would read it up in open Court that I might hear it if it was mine I would own it and stand by it He would have had me to have taken it and looked upon it in my own Hand But I again desired That it might be read that all the Country might hear it and Judge whether there was any Sedition in it or no for if there were I was willing to suffer for it At last the Clerk of the Assize read it with an Audible Voice that all the People might hear it and when he had done I told them It was my Paper and I would own it and so might they too except they would deny the Scripture for was not this Scripture-Language and the Words and Commands of Christ and the Apostle which all true Christians ought to obey Then they let fall that Subject and the Judge fell upon us about our Hats again bidding the Gaoler Take them off which he did and gave them unto us and we put them on again Then we asked the Judge and the Justices What we had lain in Prison for these nine Weeks seeing they now Objâ—cted nothing to us but about our Hats And as for putting off our Hats I told them That was the Honour which God would lay in the Dust though they made so much ado about it the Honour which is of Men and which Men seek one of another and is the mark of Vnbelievers For How can ye believe saith Christ who receive Honour one of another and seek not the Honour that cometh from God only And Christ saith I receive not Honour from Men and all true Christians should be of his Mind Then the Judge began to make a great Speech how he Represented the Lord Protector 's Person and he had made him Lord Chief Justice of England and sent him to come that Circuit c. We desired him then that he would do us Justice for our false Imprisonment which we had suffered Nine Weeks wrongfully But instead of that they brought in an Indictment that they had framed against us such a strange thing and so full of Lies that I thought it had been against some of the Thieves How That we came by Force and Arms and in an hostile manner into the Court who were brought as aforesaid I told them It was all false and still we cried for Justice for our false Imprisonment being taken up in our Journy without Cause by Major Ceely Then this Peter Ceely spake to the Judge and said May it please you My Lord This Man pointing to me went aside with me and told me how serviceable I might be for his Design that he could raise Forty Thousand Men at an Hours warning and involve the Nation into Blood and so bring in King Charles and I would have aided him out of the Country but he would not go And if it please you My Lord I have a Witness to swear it and so he called upon his Witness But the Judge not being forward to Examine the Witness I spake to the Judge and desired That he would be pleased to let my Mittimus be read in the face of the Court and Country in which my Crime was signified for which I was sent to Prison The Judge said It should not be Read I said It ought to be seeing it concerned my Liberty and my Life The Judge said again It shall not be read but I said It ought to be read for if I have done any thing worthy of Death or of Bonds let all the Country know it Then seeing they would not read it I spake to one of my Fellow-Prisoners ' Thou hast a Copy of it Read it up said I. It shall not be read said the Judge Gaoler said he Take him away I 'le see whether He or I shall be Master So I was taken away and a while after called for again And I still cried to have my Mittimus read up for that signified the Cause of my Commitment Wherefore I again spake to the Friend that was my Fellow-Prisoner and bid him Read it up and he did Read it up and the Judge Justices and whole Court were silent for the People were eager to hear it Which is as followeth Peter Ceely Cornwall ss one of the Justices of the Peace of this County To the Keeper of His Highness's Gaol at Lanceston or his Lawful Deputy in that behalf Greeting I Send you here-withal by the Bearers hereof the Bodies of Edward Pyot of Bristol and George Fox of Drayton and Clea in Leicestershire and William Salt of London which they pretend to be the Places of their Habitations who go under the Notion of Quakers and acknowledge themselves to be such who have spread several Papers tending to the disturbance of the Publick Peace and cannot render any Lawful Cause of coming into these Parts being Persons altogether unknown and having no Pass for their Travelling up and down the Country and refusing to give Sureties of their good Behaviour according to the Law in that behalf provided and refuse to take the Oath of Abjuration c. These are therefore in the Name of His Highness the Lord Protector to Will and Command you that when the Bodies of the said Edward Pyot George Fox and William Salt shall be unto you brought you them receive and in His Highness's Prison aforesaid you safely keep them until by due Course of Law they shall be delivered Hereof fail you not as you will Answer
willing to lay the VVeight thereof upon him and make him sensible thereof also writ an Epistle to him on behalf of us all which was thus and thus directed To John Glyn Chief Justice of England Friend WE are Free-men of England Free-born our Rights and Liberties are according to Law and ought to be defended by it And therefore with thee by whose Hand we have so long and yet do suffâ—r let us a little plainly reason concerning thy Proceedinos against us whether they have been according to Law and agreeable to thy Duty and Office as Chief Minister of the Law or Justice of England And in Meekness and Lowliness abide that the Witness of God in thy Conscience may be heard to speak and judge in this Matter For Thou and We must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ that every one may receive according to what he hath done whether it be good or bad Therefore Friend in Moderation and Soberness Weigh what is herein laid before thee In the Afternoon before we were brought before thee at the Assize at Lanceston thou didst cause divers Scores of our Books to be violently taken from us by Armed Men without due Process of Law which Books being perused to see if any thing in them could have been found to have laid to our Charge who were Innocent Men and them upon our Legal Issue thou hast detained from us to this very day Now our Books are our Goods and our Goods are our Property and our Liberty it is to have and enjoy our Property and of our Liberty and Property the Law is the defence which saith No Free-man shall be disseized of his Free-hold Liberties or free Customs c. nor any way otherwise destroyed Nor we shall not pass upon him but by lawful Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land Magna Charta cap. 29. Now Friend Consider Is not the taking away of a Man's Goods violently by force of Arms as aforesaid contrary to the Law of the Land Is not the Kâ—eping of them so taken away a disseizing him of his Property and a destroying of it and his Liberty yea his very Being so far as the Invading of the Guard the Law sets about him is in order thereunto Calls not the Law this a Destroying of a Man Is there any more than one common Guard or Defence to Property Liberty and Life viz. the Law And can this Guard be broken on the former viz. Property and Liberty and the Latter viz. Life be sure Doth not he that makes an Invasion upon a Man's Property and Liberty which he doth who contrary to Law which is the Guard acts against either make an Invasion upon a Man's Life since that which is the Ground of the One is also of the Other If a Penny or Penny's-worth be taken from a Man contrary to Law may not by the same Rule all a Man hath be taken away If the Bond of the Law be broken upon a Man's Property may it not on the same ground be broken upon his Person And by the same Reason as it is broken on One Man may it not be broken upon all since the Liberty and Property and Beings of all Men under a Government are Relative a Communion of Wealth as the Members in the Body but one Guard and Defence to all the Law One Man cannot be injured therein but it redounds to all Are not such things in order to the Subversion and Dissolution of Government Where there is no Law what is become of Government And of what value is the Law made when the Ministers thereof break it at pleasure upon Mens Properties Liberties and Persons Canst thou Clear thy self of these things as to us To that of God in thy Conscience which is Just do I speak Hast thou acted like a Ministâ—r the Chief Minister of the Law who hast taken our Goods and yet detainest them without so much as going by lawful Warrant grounded upon due Information which in this our Case thou could'st not have for none had perused them whereby to give thee Information Shoulâ—'st thou exercise Violence and Force of Arms on Prisoners Goods in their Prison-Chamber instead of proceeding Orderly and Legally which thy Place calls upon thee above any Man to tender defend and maintain against the other and to preserve entire the Guard of every Man 's Being Liberty Life and Livelyhood Should'st thou whore Duty it is to punish the Wrong-doer do wrong thy self Who ought'st to see the Law be kept and observed break the Law and turn aside the due Administration thereof Surely from Thee considering Thou art Chief Justice of England other things were expected both by Vs and by the People of this Nation And Friend when we were brought before thee and stood upon our Legal Issue and no Accuser or Accusation came in against us as to what we had been wrongfully Imprisoned and in Prison detained for the Space of Nine Weeks shouldest not thou have caused us to have been Acquitted by Proclamation Saith not the Law so Ought'st thou not to have Examined the Cause of our Commitment And there not appearing a lawful Cause ought'st thou not to have discharged us Is it not the Substance of thy Office and Duty To do Justice according so the Law and Custom of England Is not this the End of the Administration of the Law of the General Assizes of the Gaol-Deliveries of the Judges going the Circuits Hâ—st not thou by doing otherwise acted Contrary to all these and to Magna Charta which Cap. 29 saith We shall sell to no Man we shall Deny or Defer to no Man either Justice or Right Hast thou not both Deferred and Denied to us who had been so long oppressed this Justice and Right And when of thee Justice we demanded sayd'st thou not If we would be uncovered thou would'st hear us and do us Justice We shall sell to no Man we shall deny or defer to no Man either Justice or Right saith Magn. Chart. as aforesaid Again We have commanded all our Justices that they shall from henceforth do even Law and Execution of Right to all our Subjects Rich and Poor without having Regard to any Man's Person and without letting to do Right for any Letters or Commandments which may come to them from Vs or from any other or by any other Cause c upon Pain to be at our Will Body Lands and Goods to do therewith as shall please us in case they do contrary saith Stat. 20. Edw. 3. cap. 1. Again Ye shall swear that ye shall do even Law and Execution of Right to all Rich and Poor without having regard to any Person and that ye deny to no Man Common Right by the King 's Letters nor none other Man's nor for none other Cause And in Case any Letter come to you contrary to the Law that ye do nothing by such Letter but Certify the King thereof and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding those Letters
needs no Plea of Liberty of Conscience But the Law have we not offended yet in thy Will hast thou caused and dost thou yet cause us to suffer for our Consciences where the Law requires no such thing and yet for Liberty of Conscience hath all the Blood been spilt and the Miseries of the late Wars undergone and as the Protector saith this Government undertaken to preserve it and a Natural Right he saith it is and he that would have it he saith ought to give it And if it be a natural Right as is undeniable then to attempt to force it or to punish a Man for not doing contrary to it is to act against Nature which as it is unreasonable so it is the same as to offer Violence to a Man's Life And what an Offence that is in the Law thou knowest and how by the Common Law of England all Acts Agreements and Laws that are against Nature are meer Nullities and all the Judges cannot make one Case to be Law that is against Nature But put the Case our standing with our Hats on had been an Offence in Law and we wilfully and in Contempt and not out of Conscience had stood so which we deny as aforesaid yet that is not a ground wherefore we should be denied Justice or to be heard as to the Wrong done to us If ye will not Offend in one Case I will do you Justice in another This is not the Language of the Law or of Justice which distributes to every one their Right Justice to whom Justice is due Punishment to whom Punishment is due A Man who doth Wrong may also have Wrong done to him shall he not have Right wherein he is wronged unless he Right him whom he hath wronged The Law saith not so but the Wrong-doer is to suffer and the Sufferer of Wrong to be righted Is not otherwise to do a Denying a Letting or Stopping of Even Law and Execution of Justice and a bringing under the Penalties aforesaid Mind and Consider And should'st Thou have Accused when no Witness appeared against us as in the particulars of striking Peter Ceely and Dispersing Books as thou said'st against Magistracy and Ministry with which thou didst falsly Accuse one of uâ— saith not the Law The Judge ought not to be the Accuser much less a false Accuser And wast not thou such an one in Affirming That he dispersed Books against Magistracy and Ministry when as the Books were Violently taken out of our Chamber as hath been said undispersed by him or any of us Nor did'st thou make it appear in one particular wherein those Books thou so Violently didst cause to be taken away were against Magistracy or Ministry or gavest one Instance or Reply when he denied what thou charged'st therein and spake to thee to bring forth those Books and make thy Charge appear Is not the Sword of the Magistrate of God to pass upon such Evil-Doing And according to the Administration of the Law ought not Accusations to be by way of Indictment wherein the Offence is to be charged and the Law expressed against which it is Can there be an Issue without an Indictment Or can an Indictment be found before Proof be made of the Offence charged therein And hast not thou herein gone contrary to the Law and the Administration thereof and thy Duty as a Judge What just cause of Offence gave George Fox to thee when upon thy producing a Paper concerning Swearing sent by him as thou said'st to the Grand Jury and requiring him to say Whether it was his Hand-writing he answered Read it up before the Country and when he heard it read if it were his he would own it Is it not equal and according to Law that what a Man is charged with before the Country should be read in the hearing of him and of the Country When a Paper is delivered out of a Man's Hand Alterations may be made in it to his Prejudice which on a suddain looking over it may not presently be discerned but by hearing it read up may be better understood whether any such Alterations have been made therein Could'st thou in Justice have expected or required him otherwise to do Considering also that he was not unsensible how much he had suffered already being Innocent and what Endeavours there were used to cause him further to suffer Was not what he said as aforesaid a plain and single Answer and sufficient in the Law Though as hath been demonstrated contrary to Law thou didst act and to thy Office in being his Accuser therein and producing the Paper against him And in his Liberty it was whether he would have made thee any Answer at all to what thou did'st exhibit or demand out of the due Course of Law for to the Law Answer is to be made not to thy Will Wherefore then wast thou so filled with Rage and Fury upon that his Reply Calmly and in the Fear of the Lord consider Wherefore did'st thou Revile him particularly with the reproachful Names of Juggler and Prevaricator Wherein did he juggle wherein did he prevaricate Wherefore did'st thou use such Threatning Language and such Menacings to him and us saying Thou would'st Ferk us with such like Doth not the Law forbid Reviling and Rage and Fury and Threatning and Menacing of Prisoners Soberly mind Is this to act like a Judge or a Man Is not this Transgression Is not the Sword of the Magistrate of God to pass on this as Evil-doing which the righteous Law condemns and the Higher Power is against which judgeth for God Take heed what ye do for ye judge not for Man but for the Lord who is with you in the Judgment Wherefore now let the Fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it For there is no Iniquity with the Lord our God nor Respect of Persons nor taking of Gifts said Jehoshaphat to the Judges of Judah Pride and Fury and Passion and Rage and Reviling and Threatning is not the Lord's It and the Principle out of which it springs is for Judgment and must come under the Sword of the Magistrate of God and it is of an ill Savour especially such an Expression as to threaten to Ferk us Is not such a Saying more becoming a Pedant or Schoolmaster with his Rod or Ferula in his Hand than Thee who art the Chief Justice of the Nation who sittest in the highest Seat of Judgment who oughtest to give a good Example and so to Judge that others may hear and fear Weigh it soberly and Consider Doth not threatning Language demonstrate an Inequality and Partiality in him who sits as Judge Is it not a Deterring of a Prisoner from standing to and pleading the Innocency of his Cause Provides not the Law against it Saith it not That Irons and all other Bonds shall be taken from the Prisoner that he may plead without Amazement and with such freedom of Spirit as if he were not a Prisoner But when he who is
Hand and threw it on the Table before me to see whether I would speak against it or no I took no notice of it but declared the Truth to her and she was reached There came in many Baptists also who were very rude but the Lord's Power came over them so that they went away confounded Then there came in another sort and one of them said He would dispute with me and for Argument's sake would deny There was a God I told him He was one of those fools that said in his Heart There is no God but he should know him in the Day of his Judgment So he went his way and a fine precious time we had afterward with several People of Account and the Lord's Power came over all William Osburn was with me And Colonel Lidcot's Wife and William Welch's Wife and several of the Officers themselves also that were there were convinced at that Time Now Edward Billing and his Wife were at that time separated and lived apart and she being reached by Truth and become loving to Friends we sent for her Husband and he came and the Lord's Power reached unto them both and they joined together in it and agreed to live together in Love and Unity as Man and Wife After this we went back to Edenborough again where many Thousands of People were gathered together with abundance of Priests among them about burning of a Witch and I was moved to declare the Day of the Lord amongst them Which when I had done I went from thence to our Meeting whither many rude People and Baptists came The Baptists began to vaunt with their Logick and Syllogisms but I was moved in the Lord's Power to thresh their chaffy Edenborough light minds and shewed the People That after that fallacious way of discoursing they might make White seem Black and Black seem White as That because a Cock had two Legs And each of them had two Legs therefore they were all Cocks Thus they might turn any thing into Lightness and Vanity but it was not the Way of Christ or his Apostles to Teach Speak or Reason after that manner Hereupon those Baptists went their way and after they were gone we had a blessed Meeting in the Lord's Power which was over all I mentioned before that many of the Scotch Priests being greatly disturbed at the Spreading of Truth and Loss of their Hearers thereby were gone up to Edenborough to Petition the Council against me Now when I came back from the Meeting to the Inn where I lodged an Officer belonging to the Council came to me and brought me the following Order Thursday the 8th of October 1657. at his Highness's Council in Scotland Ordered THat George Fox do appear before the Council on Tuesday the 13th of October next in the Fore-noon E. Downing Clerk of the Council When he had delivered me the Order he asked me Whether I would Appear or no I did not tell him whether I would or no but asked him If he had not forged the Order He said No it was a real Order from the Council and he was sent as their Messenger with it When the Time came I Appeared and was had up into a great Room where many great Persons came and looked at me After a while the Door-keeper came and had me into the Council-Chamber Edenborough Council and as I was going in he took off my Hat I asked him Why he did so and who was there that I might not go in with my Hat on for I told him I had been before the Protector with my Hat on But he hung up my Hat and had me in before them When I was come in and had stood a while and they said nothing to me I was moved of the Lord to say Peace be amongst you and Wait in the Fear of God that ye may receive his Wisdom from above by which all things were made and created that by it ye may all be Ordered and may Order all things under your Hands to God's Glory After I had done speaking they asked me What was the Occasion of my coming into that Nation I told them I came to visit the Seed of God which had long lain in Bondage under Corruption and the Intent of my Coming was that all in the Nation that did profess the Scriptures the Words of Christ and of the Prophets and Apostles 1657. Scotland Edenborough Council might come to the Light Spirit and Power which they were in who gave them forth that so in and by the Spirit they might understand the Scriptures and know Christ and God aright and have fellowship with them and one with another They asked me Whether I had any outward Business there I said Nay Then they asked me How long I intended to stay in the Country I told them I should say little to that My Time was not to be long yet in my freedom in the Lord I stood in the Will of him that sent me Then they bid me withdraw and the Door-keeper took me by the Hand and led me forth In a little time they sent for me in again and told me I must depart the Nation of Scotland by that day Seven-night I asked them Why What had I done What was my Transgression that they passed such a Sentence upon me to depart out of the Nation They told me They would not dispute with me Then I desired them to hear what I had to say to them but they said They would not hear me I told them Pharaoh heard Moses and Aaron and yet he was an Heathen and no Christian and Herod heard John Baptist and they should not be worse than these But they cried Withdraw withdraw Whereupon the Door-keeper took me again by the Hand and led me out Then I returned to my Inn and continued still in Edenborough visiting Friends there and thereabouts and strengthning them in the Lord. And after a little time I writ a Letter to the Council to lay before them their Vnchristian Dealing in banishing me an innocent Man that sought their Salvation and Eternal Good A Copy of which Letter here followeth directed To the Council of Edenborough YE that sit in Council and bring before your Judgment-seat the Innocent the Just without shewing the least Cause what Evil I have done or convicting me of any Breach of any Law and afterward ye banish me out of your Nation and Country without telling me for what or what Evil I had done though I told you when ye asked me How long I would stay in the Nation That my Time was not long I spake it innocently and yet ye banish me Will not all think ye that fear God judge this to be wickedness Consider did not they sit in Council about Stephen when they stoned him to Death Did not they sit in Council about Peter and John when they haled them out of the Temple and put them out of their Council for a little Season and took Counsel together and then
the Jailer went to wait on him after he was come back from London he was very blank and down and asked how I did pretending that he would find a way to set me at Liberty But having overshot himself in his Mittimus by ordering me to be kept Prisoner till I should be delivered by the King or Parliament he had put it out of his Power to Release me if he would He was the more down also upon reading a Letter which I sent him For when he was in the height of his Rage and Threats against me and thought to ingratiate himself into the King's Favour by Imprisoning me I was moved to write to him and put him in mind How fierce he had been against the King and his Party though now he would be thought zealous for the King And among other Passages in my Letter I called to his remembrance how when he held Lancaster-Castle for the Parliament against the King he was so rough and fierce against those that favoured the King that he said He would leave them neither Dog nor Cat if they did not bring him in Provision to his Castle I asked him also Whose great Bucks-Horns those were that were in his House and where he had both them and the Wainscot that he Ceiled his House withal Had he them not from Hornby-Castle About this time Ann Curtis of Reading came to see me and understanding how I stood Committed it was upon her also to go to the King about it For her Father who had been Sheriff of Bristol was hanged near his own Door for endeavouring to bring the King in Upon which Consideration she had some hopes that the King might hear her on my behalf Accordingly when she returned to London she and Margaret Fell went to the King together Who when he understood whose Daughter she was received her kindly And her Request to him being To send for me up and hear the Cause himself he promised her he would and commanded his Secretary to send down an Order for the bringing me up But when they came to the Secretary for the Order he being no Friend to us said It was not in his Power but that he must go according to Law and I must be brought up by an Habeas Corpus before the Judges So he writ to the Judge of the King's-Bench signifying That it was the King's Pleasure that I should be sent for up by an Habeas Corpus Accordingly a Writ was sent down and delivered to the Sheriff but because it was directed to the Chancellor of Lancaster the Sheriff put it off to him On the other hand the Chancellor would not make the Warrant upon it but said the Sheriff must do that At length both Chancellor and Sheriff were got together But being both Enemies to Truth they sought occasion for Delay and found they said an Error in the Writ which was that being directed to the Chancellor it said Geo. Fox in Prison under YOVR Custody whereas the Prison I was in was not they said in the Chancellor's Custody but in the Sheriff's So the Word YOVR should have been HIS Upon this they Returned the Writ to London again only to have that one Word altered When it was altered and came down again the Sheriff refused to carry me up unless I would Seal a Writing to him and become bound and pay for the Sealing and the Charge of carrying me up Which I denied telling them I would not Seal any thing to them nor be Bound So the matter rested a while and I continued in Prison Mean while the Assize came on But inasmuch as there was a Writ come down for removing me up I was not brought before the Judge At the Assize many People came to see me and I was moved to speak out at the Jail-Window to them and shew them How uncertain their Religion was and that every sort that had been uppermost persecuted the rest For when Popery was uppermost People had been persecuted for not following the Mass and they that did hold up the Mass cried then It was the Higher Power and People must be subject to the Higher Power Afterwards they that held up the Common-Prayer persecuted others for not following that and they said It was the Higher Power then also and we must be subject to that Since that the Presbyterians and Independents cried each of them We must be subject to the Higher Power and submit to the Directory of the one and the Church-Faith of the other Thus all like the Apostate-Jews have cried Help Men of Israel against the True Christians So People might see how uncertain they are of their Religions But I directed them to Christ Jesus that they might be built upon him the Rock and Foundation that changeth not Much on this wise I declared to them and they were quiet and very attentive Afterwards I gave forth a little Paper concerning True Religion as followeth TRue Religion is the True Rule and right way of serving God And Religion is a pure Stream of Righteousness flowing from the Image of God and is the Life and Power of God planted in the Heart and Mind by the Law of Life in the Heart which bringeth the Soul Mind Spirit and Body to be Conformable to God the Father of Spirits and to Christ so that they come to have Fellowship with the Father and the Son and with all his Holy Angels and Saints And this Religion is pure from Above undefiled before God and is to visit the Fatherless and Widows and Strangers and keeps from the Spots of the World So this Religion is above all the defiled spotted Religions in the World that keep not themselves from Defilement and Spots but are Impure and below and spotted whose Fatherless and Widows and Strangers do beg up and down the Streets G. F. Soon after this I gave forth another Paper against Persecution as followeth THe Papists Common-Prayer-Men Presbyterians Independents and Baptists persecute one another about their Inventions which they have invented their Mass their Common-Prayer their Directory their Church-Faith which they have made and framed their Inventions and Handy-works and not for the Truth For they know not what Spirit they be of who persecute and would have Mens Lives destroyed about Church-Worship and Religion as saith Christ who also said He came not to destroy Men's Lives but to save them Now they that know not what Spirit they be of but will persecute and destroy Men's Lives and not save them we cannot trust our Bodies Souls nor Spirits into their hands They know not what Spirit they be of themselves and therefore they are not fit to be trusted with others They would destroy by a Law as the Disciples once would have done by Prayer who would have commanded Fire to come down from Heaven to destroy them that would not receive Christ But Christ rebukes them and tells them They did not know what Spirit they were of And if they did not know what Spirit they
upon his Breast and confess'd What was written therein was Truth but said he if I should confess to it openly they would burn me So John Stubs and Henry Fell not being suffered to go farther returned to England and came to London again And John had a Vision that the English and Dutch who had joined together not to carry them would fall out one with the other And so it came to pass Having now stay'd in London some time I felt drawings to visit Friends in Essex Essex Colchester Cogshall So I went down to Colchester where I had very large Meetings and from thence to Cogshall not far from which there was a Priest Convinced and I had a Meeting at his House And so travelling a little up and down in those Parts and visiting Friends in their Meetings there-aways London I returned pretty quickly to London where I found great Service for the Lord For a large Door was opened and many flocked in to our Meetings and the Lord's Truth spread mightily this Year Yet Friends had great Travels and sore Labours the rude People having been so heightned by the Monarchy-Men's Rising a little before But the Lord's Power was over all and in it Friends had Dominion though we had not only those Sufferings without but Sufferings within also by John Perrot and his Company who giving heed to a Spirit of Delusion sought to introduce and set up among Friends that evil and uncomely Practice of keeping on the Hat in time of publick Prayers Now Friends had spoken to him and divers of his Followers about it and I had written to them concerning it but He and some others rather strengthened themselves against Friends therein Wherefore feeling the Judgment of Truth rise against it I gave forth the following Lines as a Warning to all that were concerned therein WHosoever is tainted with this Spirit of John Perrot it will perish Mark theirs and his End that are turned into those outward things and Janglings about them and that which is not savoury all which is for perpetual Judgment and is to be swept and cleansed out of the Camp of God's Elect. This is to that Spirit that is gone into Jangling about that which is below the Rotten Principle of the old Ranters and gone from the Invisible Power of God in which is the Everlasting Fellowship and so many are become like the Corn on the House-top and like the untimely Figs and now clamour and speak against them that be in the Power of God O consider the Light and Power of God goes over you all and leaves you in the fretting Nature out of the Unity which is in the Everlasting Light Life and Power of God Consider this before the Day be gone from you and take heed that your Memorial be not rooted out from among the Righteous G. F. Among the Exercises and Troubles that Friends had from without one was concerning Friends Marriages which sometimes were â—â—lled in question And in this Year there happened to be a Cause Tryed at the Assize at Nottingham concerning a Friend's Marriage The Case was thus Some Years before Two Friends were joined together in Marriage amongst Friends and lived together as Man and Wife about two Years Then the Man died leaving his Wife with Child and leaving an Estate in Lands of Copy-hold When the Woman was delivered the Jury presented the Child Heir to its Father's Lands and accordingly the Child was admitted Afterwards another Friend married the Widow And after that a Man that was Near of Kin to her former Husband brought his Action against the Friend that had last married her endeavouring to dispossess them and deprive the Child of the Inheritance and to possess himself thereof as next Heir to the Woman's first Husband And to effect this he endeavoured to prove the Child Illegitimate alledging The Marriage was not according to Law In opening the Cause the Plaintiff's Counsel did use unseemly Words concerning Friends saying That they went together like Brute Beasts with other ill Expressions After the Counsels on both sides had pleaded the Judge viz. Judge Archer took the matter in hand and opened it to the Jury telling them That there was a Marriage in Paradise when Adam took Eve and Eve took Adam and that it was the Consent of the Parties that made a Marriage And for the Quakers he said he did not know their Opinions but he did not believe they went together as Brute Beasts as had been said of them but as Christians and therefore he did believe the Marriage was lawful and the Child lawful Heir And the better to satisfie the Jury he brought them a Case to this purpose A Man that was weak of Body and kept his Bed had a desire in that Condition to Marry and did declare before Witnesses that he did take such a Woman to be his Wife and the Woman declared that she took that Man to be her Husband This Marriage was afterwards called in Question and as the Judge said all the Bishops did at that time conclude it to be a Lawful Marriage Hereupon the Jury gave in their Verdict for the Friend's Child and against the Man that would have deprived it of its Inheritance About this time the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were tendred unto Friends as a Snare because it was known we could not Swear and thereupon many were Imprisoned and divers Premunired Upon that occasion Friends published in Print the Grounds and Reasons why they refused to swear Besides which I was moved to give forth these few Lines following to be given to the Magistrates THE World saith Kiss the Book But the Book saith Kiss the Son lest he be angry And the Son saith Swear not at all but keep to Yea and Nay in all your Communications for whatsoever is more than this cometh of Evil. Again the World saith Lay your hand on the Book but the Book saith Handle the Word And the Word saith Handle not the Traditions nor the Inventions nor the Rudiments of the World And God saith This is my beloved Son hear him who is the Life and the Truth and the Light and the Way to God G. F. Now there being very many Frionds in Prison in the Nation Richard Hubberthorn and I drew up a Paper concerning them and got it delivered to the King that he might understand how we were dealt with by his Officers It was directed thus For the KING FRiend who art the Chief Ruler of these Dominions here is a List of some of the Sufferings of the People of God in scorn called Quakers that have suffered under the Changeable Powers before thee by whom there have been Imprisoned and under whom there have suffered for good Conscience-sake and for bearing Testimony to the Truth as it is in Jesus Three Thousand One Hundred Seventy Three Persons And there lie yet in Prison in the Name of the Commonwealth Seventy Three Persons that we know of And there have died in Prison
and he would do it And whereas he says We refused to give Sureties He asked only George Fox for Sureties who replied He was an Innocent Man and knew no Law he had broken But he did not ask Tho. Lower for any as if it had been Crime and Cause enough for his Commitment that he came out of Cornwall And if we were at a Meeting as he says in his Mittimus he might have proceeded otherwise than by sending us to Jail to answer the Breach of the Common Laws though yet he shewed us no Breach of any as may be seen in the Mittimus So we thought fit to lay before you the Substance of his Proceedings against us hoping there will more Moderation and Justice appear in you towards us that so we may prosecute our intended Journey George Fox Thomas Lower But no Enlargement did we receive by our Application to the Lord Windsor so called And although Thomas Lower received several Letters from his Brother Dr. Lower who was one of the King's Physicians concerning his Liberty and one by his Procurement from Henry Savil who was one of the King's Bed-Chamber to his Brother called the Lord Windsor to the same Effect yet seeing it related only to his Enlargement not mine so great was his Love and Regard to me that he would not seek his own Liberty singly but kept the Letter by him unsent So we were continued Prisoners 1673. Worcester-General-Quarter-Sessions till the next General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace At which time divers Friends from several places being in Town did speak to the Justices concerning us who spake fair to Friends and said we should be discharged For many of the Justices seemed to dislike the Severity of Parker's Proceedings against us and did declare an Averseness to ensnare us by the Tender of the Oaths Some Friends also had spoken with him that was called the Lord Windsor who likewise spake them fair so that it was the general Discourse that we should be discharged We heard also that Dr. Lower had procured a Letter from one Col. Sands at London to some of the Justices in Favour of us Some of the Justices also spake to some Friends to acquaint us that they would have us speak but little in the Court lest we should provoke any of the Bench and they would warrant we should be discharged We were not called till the last Day of the Sessions which was the Twenty First of the Eleventh Month 1673. And when we came in they were stricken with Paleness in their Faces and it was some time before any thing was spoken insomuch that a Butcher in the Hall said What! are they afraid Dare not the Justices speak to them At length before they spake to us Justice Parker made a long Speech on the Bench much to the same Effect as was contained in the Mittimus often mentioning the Common Laws but not Instancing any that we had broken adding That he thought it a milder Course to send us Two to Jail than to put his Neighbours to the loss of two hundred Pounds which they must have suffered if he had put the Law in Execution against Conventicles But in this he was either very Ignorant or very Deceitful for there being no Meeting when he came nor any to Inform he had no Evidence to Convict us or his Neighbours by When Parker had ended his Speech the Justices spake to us and began with Thomas Lower whom they examined of the Cause of his Coming into that Country of which he gave them a full and plain Account Sometimes I put in a Word while they were Examining him and then they told me They were upon his Examination but that when it came to my turn I should have free Liberty to speak for they would not hinder me but I should have full time and they would not ensnare us When they had done with him they asked me an Account of my Travel which I gave them according as is mentioned before but more largely And whereas Justice Parker to aggravate the Case had made a great Noise of There being some from London some from the North some from Cornwal and some from Bristol at the House when I was taken I told them That this was in a manner all but one Family For there was none from London but my self none from the North but my Wife and her Daughter none from Cornwall but my Son-in-Law Thomas Lower nor any from Bristol but one Friend a Merchant there who met us as it were providentially to assist my Wife and her Daughter in their Journey homewards when by our Imprisonment they were deprived of our Company and Help When I had spoken the Chair-man whose Name was Simpson an Old Presbyterian said Your Relation or Account is very Innocent Then he and Parker whispered a while together and after that the Chair-man stood up and said You Mr. Fox are a Famous Man and all this may be true which you have said but that we may be the better satisfied will you take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy I told them They had said They would not ensnare us but this was a plain Snare for they knew we could not take any Oath However they caused the Oath to be read and when they had done I told them I never took Oath in my Life but I had always been true to the Government That I was cast into the Dungeon at Darby and kept a Prisoner Six Months there because I would not take up Arms against King Charles at Worcester-Fight and for going to Meetings was carried up out of Leicestershire and brought before Oliver Cromwel as a Plotter to bring in King Charles And ye know said I in your own Consciences that we the People called Quakers cannot take an Oath or Swear in any Case because Christ hath forbidden it But as to the Matter or Substance contained in the Oaths this I can and do say that I do own and acknowledge the King of England to be lawful Heir and Successor to the Realm of England and do abhor all Plots and Plotters and Contrivances against him and I have nothing in my Heart but Love and Good-will to him and all Men and desire his and their Prosperity the Lord knows it before whom I stand an Innocent Man And as to the Oath of Supremacy I deny the Pope and his Power and his Religion and abhor it with my Heart While I was speaking to them they cried Give him the Book And I said The Book saith Swear not at all Then they cried Take him away Jailer and I still speaking on they were Vrgent upon the Jailer crying Take him away we shall have a Meeting here Why do you not take him away That Fellow meaning the Jailer loves to hear him preach Then the Jailer drew me away and as I was turning from them I stretched out my Arm and said The Lord forgive you who cast me into Prison for Obeying the Doctrine of Christ
Blacks New-England Professors proclaiming a Fast 194. soon after put four of our Friends to Death and became bloody Persecuters 241 242. G. F. charged their Magistrates with Murdering them according to their own Confession 243 244. who felt God's Judgments for their Wickedness 455. 458. 601 News hearing and telling 65. 539. Nicknames see Sirrah O. OAth or Engagement to O. C. 123 124. Swear not at all 130. 180 181. Oath of Abjuration 163 164. tendred to G. F. 176. his Paper against Swearing read in Court 180-182 185. Oaths and Swearing 229. 239. 600. refused by G. F. 301. being unlawful ibid. Allegiance and Supremacy 250. 255-257 403 404. Oaths taken falsely against Friends 262. 273-280 Oath tendered to G. F. 288. 292 293. 295. 392. Allegiance wherein it consists 300. 318. what G. F. could say instead of it 392. and of Supremacy 395 396. 400 Offering the true and the false 560-567 577. 581. 607 Old Cause The setting up thereof was for themselves 205 Oldenburgh Magistrates and People a Warning to them 617-619 Openings of G. F's 3. 5. 8-10 13 14. 16. of the things of the Creation 18. of Physick Divinity and Law 18-22 c. 586. 588. 602 Opposers of the Faithful come to nought 615 616. Order of Bodmin-Sessions for the Prisoners Ease 187. Order and Discipline in the Church of Christ maintained 534 535 is of the Spirit 557 Oxford and Cambridge-Teachers 263. cannot make Ministers of Christ 5. 8. Oxford-Scholars Rudeness 155 225* P. PApists their Superstition of Consecrated Bread and Wine 287* 288* Images Crosses and Relicks 286* 252. pray by Beads 247. 328. 564. and sprinkle Children 323. their Purgatory ibid. and Mother-Church pretended 324. A Warning to them 146 147. and their murthering false Doctrine confuted 299 300 Pardon being offered by the King to G. F. he could not take it 404 405. and was fairly freed without it 406 Parliament-men discoursing G. F. in Prison 300 Parnel James Convinced 1653 112. was at a Dispute of G. F's against eight Priests c. at Drayton on an Hill 1654 132. Imprisoned in Colchester-Castle 1655 112. is visited by G.F. in Prison 152. The Gaoler's Wife threatned to have his Blood 153. who died by a fall from a Ladder going up to his Prison 112 113. Of whom Professors to cover their Cruelty said He fasted himself to Death ibid. Patience and Faith's Exercise 265* People flew like Chaff before the dreadful Power of God 81. 31. People trembled and shook in Carlisle-Steeple-house 109. See Shaking Perfection a Priest Discourses G.F. about it 397. Perfection in Christ is above Adam's 357.546 Imperfection pleaded for by Professors 36 37. 119 Persecution Judged 94-96 98-100 testified against and Persecutors warned 191-199 they being blinded 210* 263* 264* 225. and not knowing what Spirit they are of 224. Persecutors to Blood 318 319. Persecutors restrained 308. 312 313. 328. Persecution violent at London-Meetings 343. Testimonies against it 460-462 482-485 496-499 626 627. 631 632. Four Friends in New-England hanged 240-244 Physick and Letting Blood a Priests Remedy against a troubled Mind 5 Physicians must be in in the Wisdom of God 18. 30. 245 Pleasures and vain Delights denied 217* 219* 220* 204 Plots and Fightings Friends Declaration against 231. 233-237 267. 395. 481. and denied 272. 274. 303 Poland's Exil'd Protestants 190 191. King of Poland 458. Two Letters to him from G. F. 459-463 and 539-541 Powers of the Earth 286* Prayer in Sighs and Groans 266* how to pray 564 Preachers Congregational at a Meeting with G. F. 252* Premunire of G. F. 295. 297. of two Friends in Devonshire 318. Counsellor Corbet's Plea for G.F. in Court 405 Presbyterians Meeting stuff't with Bread and Cheese c. 314 315. 391 Press-masters on Board G. F's Vessel 349. 383 Pride in Apparel 144 145 Priests sell the Scripture 26. pray by Form 134 135. their Spirit 25. they are Hirelings 106. 133 134. Tithe-takers 228* Robbers of the People and not Ministers of the Gospel 295. 333 334. plead for Sin and Imperfection 32. 36 37. 52. are confounded 60. 119. dreaded the Man in Leather-Britches 60. A Priest trembles 69. hides himself from G. F. 79. are miserable Comforters 45. reproved by Judge Fell c. at Sessions for their gross Assertions 89. reproved in the Streets 90. Eight Priests dispute against G. F. 132. are false Prophets and Antichrists 106. 556. One pleads for Adultery 393. one beats Friends 59 60 326. are choaked by a Parsonage 30 31. and love a fat Benefice 167. 300 301. so much a Year 211. The Devils Lawyers and Counsellors 265* Oppressors 296. Persecutors 207. 308 309. 343. 415 Prophecy of R. Jones vain 127 128. of Brown's see Brown A Womans Prophecy of the Kings Coming in 199. Prophecy of Priests and Professors against the Quakers vain 120 121. false Prophecies and Prophets 128 Prison of G. F. its badness 288. 292 293. 295. 297. and that of Scarborough-Castle 298 Prison-Keeper struck with terror 37 Prisoners many 194. Friends offer their Bodies one for another ibid died Prisoners 197. 250. 275 276. 278. 280. 304. 318. Prisoners set at Liberty by the King 229. 548 Pyrates 363. 350 351 Q. Quakers first so called 37 38 Quakers Love to all Men 308. A Quaker's upright Verdict being upon a Jury commended by the Judge in Court 130 Quakers Principle stated to the King by G. F. 402-404 R. A great Rain fell after a Meeting in Cheshire in a great Drought 247* Ranters confounded 29. 57. 59. 130 131. 139. 151 152. 225* 247. A Ranting Woman at Low 262 263. Their Wickedness and the Judgment fallen on them 320 G. F. had a meeting with the Raniers in Road-Island 367 Rebellion and Plots denied 532 Regeneration must be known to enter into the Kingdom of God 572-576 Religion the Reformed by Tradition 191. The true one is the Life and Power of God 223 436 437. The Pope's 191. See Papist Repentance of some that had run out 310. Repentance goes before the Gospel 570 571 Reports raised of G. F. falsly 244* at Nailsworth 332. Of G.F. and Friends at Barbadoes 357. 361 Restitution made of wrong done 27 Restoration out of the Fall into the state that never fell 346 Revelation of John is a sealed-up Book said the Priests to G. F. 6. By Revelation God is known 8 Righteous Men are preserved from Destruction 558-560 Rude People at Meetings and Inns 243* 244* in Wales 255* at Manchester 260* in Scotland 272* Rude Fellows by the way-side 276* Rude Serving-men abusive to Friends in and out of Meetings 93. and to Women going home 216. Fellows encompassing G.F. by the way 224* Rude Priests 218 Rude People 240 241. 269. 317 Rule of Life 397 S. Sacrament of Bread and Wine the denial of it objected and answered 230* 231* 237* 287* 288* Sally-man of War that gave chase to the Vessel G. F. went in to America his report thereof 355 55 Salutation of G. F.'s to the Council of Edenburgh being had before them 273*