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A57817	The Barbican-cheat detected, or, Injustice arraigned being a brief and sober disquisition of the procedure of the Anabaptists late-erectecd judicature in Barbican, London, the 28th of the moneth called August, 1674 : with some observations upon their pretended account thereof, in their pamphlet term'd, The Quakers appeal answered / by Thomas Rudyard.	Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing R2177; ESTC R24506	13,009	36

THE Barbican-Cheat DETECTED OR Injustice Arraigned BEING A Brief and Sober Disquisition of the Procedure of the Anabaptists Late-Erected Judicature in Barbican London the 28th of the Moneth called August 1674. With some Observations upon their pretended Account thereof in their Pamphlet term'd The Quakers Appeal Answered By Thomas Rudyard Prov. 18.17 He that is first in his own Cause seemeth Just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him Printed in the Year 1674. Reader HAd not apparent Deceit and Falshood maskt themselves under the Govert of Acting a Piece of Justice it had excu'd the Occasion of reviewing that Day 's Act so comically performed upon the Stage of Abuse I thus willingly express my self knowing such Judicious and Unbyased there conclude with me The Actors thereof presented their Auditory with Painted Shews or Scenes of Judgment and Justice when in Reality there was nothing less amongst them yea so opposite that Truth was fallen in the Streets and Equity could not enter I presume thee Reader not ignorant of that Noise and Stir Thomas Hicks and his Abetters by his Comedian-Books which he falsly terms Dialogues betwixt a Christian and a Quaker have of late made in this interval of publick Connivance or Liberty to represent us and our Principles unworthy of what we enjoy or the Respect of men regarding Sobriety and Virtue His Talent lying in Forgery of Principles and Doctrines and laying the Brats at our Door he only has begot which foul Practice of his has been evidently discovered in 2 Treatises by W. Penn with Demand of Answer from his Brethren If they would own T. H. and his Work that so accordingly we might deal with them The People called Anabaptists having publickly patronized him his Work and avowed them in Print I can accompt of Tho. Hicks no less then their Agent and Representative and solemnly protest against him and them as Confederates in that Abuse of Forgeries Lyes Perversions and Slanders justly charged and in Print made out against him And since they have in so publick a manner taken cognisance of these Matters and colourably determined the same it may not be unseasonable for the sake of Truth and detecting Falshood to make a serious Scrutiny into these Particulars apart viz. 1. Their Commission 2. The Calling of their Court and Notice to Persons concerned 3. The Capacity of the Judges 4. The Method and Manner of their Procedure 5. Their Decree or Judgment Which with some brief Observations upon their pretended Answer to the Appeal I shall close the following Discourse and leave the same to the solid Perusal Consideration of the Candid and Unprejudiced Reader London 26th 7th Month 1674. T. R. THE Barbican-Cheat DETECTED c. First AS for their Commission they deriv'd from a Book of William Penn tituled The Counterfeit Christian Detected wherein is a Postscript by another Hand viz. We expect to hear what the Baptists in and about London will ay as being appealed to concerning their Brother Tho. Hicks his Proceeding in his Three Dialogues And whether they approve thereof or of such Play Books or Romances in Religion yea or nay Hence would they derive their Authority and this take they for a Commission * Anab. Appeal answ but surely they understand Words better then thus ignorantly to mistake to term this an Appeal when it only refers to one But I need not wonder at such Slips since he has so apt an Hand at Matters of greater Consequence The words are as being appeal'd to respecting Appeal before made to them and so there is in p. 28. p. 40. of W. Penn's Book entituled The Counterfeit Christian Detected which had been but Equal and Honest in T. H. and his Confederates to have delivered to that Auditory and the Reader of his Relation In pag. 28. After W. Penn had charged T. Hicks with many old and with seven new Forgeries and cleared the same by plain Demonstration he concludes With you the People called Anabaptists I leave this Section Right us right your selves right our Profession of such an Unfair Adversary and your selves of so Scandalous an Advocate In p. 40. W. Penn after he had charg'd him with twenty gross Perversions c. he concludes Thus have I finished my Observations on his Peruersions leaving them also with the People called Anabaptists upon whom I cannot choose but frequently call for Justice against this their unjust Member Concluding my Complaint in this Section in honest J. Husse's against the like Adversaries on the same Occasion Some of those Propositions I did write and publish other some mine Enemy did feign now adding then diminishing and taking away now falsly ascribing imputing the whole Proposition unto me Here 's the Appeal made to them that the Postscript mentions and here 's committed to them the two Sections containing an Account of T. H's Forgeries and Perversions for these calls W. P. for Justice against their Unjust Member But alas so far are they from answering his Just Demand that they spare to mention his Complaint as I may hereafter fully demonstrate in its place and shall desend to the second Particular which is 2. The Calling of their Court and Notice to Persons concern'd It is observable that W. P's Books were delivered at their-Meeting-House Doors the 2d of the Moneth called August last which Thomas Hicks intimates in his Relation pag. 3. Epistle Soon after William Penn's Occasions drew him out of London and upon the 10th of that Moneth G. Keith had a Dispute or Conference with T. H. whom T. H. had also traduced and then not a word mentioned of a designed publick Meeting nor till they might be sufficiently assured of the Absence of W. P. G. W. either of them being far Distant and on before-designed Journeys The 19th of that Moneth they leave a Letter with P. Ford directed to W. P. to give him notice of a Meeting the 28th following The 20th P. F. returned Answer Yesterday I received a Letter from you directed to W. Penn concerning a Meeting to be the 28th instant at which you say You Expect Him This serves only to give you Notice that he was gone into the East of England about Three Weeks ago and when his Return will be I know not neither do I know how to give him Notice hereof and therefore I do not see that he is likely to be there except you had been pleased to have appointed a Time when he was in the City or so near that he might had timely Notice of your Intentions If this be designedly done it is not fair but if not the Debate must be suspended till a time in which the Parties concerned with you by mutual Consent agree upon a Time This I thought good to let you know and do judge you ought to let others know it that so Vain-Boasting may be prevented as much as in us lieth which is all from your Friend London 20th of the 6th Mon. 1674. Philip Ford. The Anabaptists sending

Party In this Manner could he deal with us and his Judges wittingly or ignorantly countenancing the same vide Quak. App. Answ pag. 32. Although W. K. c. in their Epistle tell the World That it was the Books of the chief Leaders among the Quakers were produced for T. H 's Discharge Thus far have I been willing to observe ingeneral and am ready to vindicate the Particulars thereof and might now have instanced but that the Books already in Print will largely manifest the same to which I refer the Reader Vid. Count. Chr. detected from p. 6. to p. 54 5. Their Decree or Judgment To find any thing in the pretended Answer to the Appeal or Relation thereof that bespeaks it self a Judgment upon the whole will be beyond the Skill of any of those Judges themselves For their Relation is such a Piece of Mixture of dark Abuse Insinuations and Non constats as if it were and I doubt not but it was forged and calculated for a traducing of Truth and covering of Deceit which comparing in some of many Particulars with their Act at Barbican will casily demonstrate But to their Judgment Our Charge against their Brother is for many Forgeries Lyes and Perversions particlarly charged and proved against him in two Books of W. P. entituled Reason against Railing and The Counterfcit Christian Detected which if not relieved against we should interpret as the Act of the whole Baptists c. vide Appeal Ans Epist So it was as they themselves say their Business to examine whether T. H. was guity App. Ans p. 1. viz. VVhether he has been guilty or not guilty of Lyes Forgeries and Perversions in Manner and Form as W. Penn charged and demonstrated against him But have they given such a Judgment No such Matter they use not to be so plain dealing with the people nor have we such Measure from their Hands although they insinuate that was their Business as pag. 1. App. Ans But instead thereof in a crooked and oblique sort they tell their Reader That T. H. had charged us with several Opinions and produced our Books upon reading of which they found them to agree with what he had laid to our Charge which the following Narrative say they will give a more full Account of So that hitherto say they we see no Cause of just Blame to be laid unto Tho. Hicks And what does his Relation produce touching our Doctrine or his Perversions Forgeries and Slanders not a Sixth thereof mentioned or touched which had our Charge been there producèd would have clearly evidenced to the Shame of their Brother and Confusion of that Judicature And he who will take the Pains to read those Books and compare Thomas Hicks his Charge with his pretended Compurgation may have as large an lustance and as clear a Prospect of as manifest a Cheat under the Covert and Mask of Justice and Religion as our latter Age can produce For as to the particular Points laid down in has Relation they are but a Repetition of some few of his former Abuses which are now repeated without our Answers And our Charges against him of Perversions Forgeries c. wholely omitted The Relation allows W. P. to answer such or such a Particular is a Lye or Forgery or Slander but to tell him how he denyes him Liberty As if a Prosecutor of a Malefactor should be only licensed to acquaint a Court That the Man was a Thief Murderer or Burglar but must not reveal his Fellony Murder or Burglary certainly this would be but a dissicult Way of discovering Offences to punish Offenders But that this has been the Way Method and Practice of VVilliam Kiffin Han. Knowles c. with their Brother Tho. Hicks not only their Procedure at their Judicature in Barbican but the pretended Relation thereof doth fully demonstrate So I shall descend to examine the Consistency of that Relation with it self with Truth and their Carriage at Barbican Observ 1. To Countenance or Colour their Pretence for desire of Justice they give us a Text of Scripture out of Deuteronomy 19.17 18 19 c. If a False VVitness rise up against any man to testifie against him that which is VVrong then both the men between wh●●n the Controversie is shall stand up before the Lord before the Priests and the Judges which shall be in those dayes and the Judges shall make diligent Inquisition and behold if the VVitness be a False VVitness then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done to his Brother so shall ye put away the Evil from you Compare this just and equal Law with the Anabaptists Judiciary That when a Controversie was betwixt two the Matters and Charge of both Parties exhibited in Print they in the Absence of one Party without due notice according to common English Right hear one Party only the other Party not heard and then I leave to the Judgment of the Unprejudiced whether this ancient just Law arraigns not their unjust Practice and partial Procedure I cannot but take notice of their willing Omission of that part of the 18th Verse which no less suits the present Occasion though somewhat more distinctly reflecteth on T. H. his Practice against us The words are And behold if the Witness be a False Witness and hath testified falsly against his Brother then c. That he has so testified I doubt not but that his Conscience as well as his Books in Print are a clear Witness and if he Repent not he 'l certainly have the Reward thereof For the Lord is a jealous God and the Lying Tongue and the Heart that deviseth Mischief he hateth Observ 2. In the Title-Page of the Q. Appeal Answered mentioning the Barbican-Meeting say they Wherein the Allegations of William Penn in two Books lately published by him against Thomas Hicks were Answered and Disproved This may serve one sort of Readers to believe all W. P's Allegations and Charges against T. H. were answered and disproved others that part a great or small but might gull most into a Perswasion That W. P's Allegations or Charges against T. H. were at least read before disproved when they were neither truly read nor answered but only some miserably mangled by a Treacherous Hand and so misrepresented and the greater Number and most considerable not once mentioned or touched Observ 3. Tho Hicks bestows a Postscript as an Addition to his former Abuse wherein he attempts to wipe off some Particulars charged upon him and would colourably excuse the Matters The first is for his Abuse in a general Charge against us That we make use of the Scriptures only to Silence them that plead for it as their Rule And for this general Charge he pretends he has instanced one particular Person by whom words of such an import were spoken How suitable his Plaister is to his Sore I leave that to those who will read the Books in Print 't were too tedious here to recite My Intent is but