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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34916	A hue and cry after bloodshed, or, A short relation of that inhuman, barbarous, cruel, and bloody tragedy acted upon the innocent people of God called Quakers at their meeting at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, upon the 31 and the 6th month, 1662, by some of the trained bands of the city of London	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1662 (1662)	Wing C6813; ESTC R27283	4,420	1

A Hue and Cry after BLOODSHED OR A short Relation of that inhuman barbarous cruel and bloody Tragedy acted upon the Innocent People of God called QVAKERS at their Meeting at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate upon the 31. of the 6th Month 1662. by some of the trained Bands of the City of LONDON HEarken and give heed ye that are called Magistrates and likewise all People of what condition soever of this great City of London and elsewhere What have we the poor innocent people of God called Quakers done that such cruel and bloody usage we should receive from your hands Have we been at any time found plotters against the life of any person or have we been sowers of sedition or have we been peace-breakers or tumult-raisers or any that have in the least fomented mischief or trouble to the Government I say the God of our life cleareth us in all such cases Therefore who is not astonished at such bloody actions to have persons come with swords drawn and other weapons and with unheard of violence to cut and hew and knock down sparing neither age nor sex spilling so much blood as there was who will not blush at such actions And as though we were appointed for nothing else but to satiate the minds of blood-thirsty men and to do it by order as they say Oh fear dread and tremble ye Citizens of London and others and as if there were no Law in England but club Law Was there ever such things acted in times of peace and at such time as it is said the restoration of the antient Laws of England is I tell you I have read the History of the Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes but then they dealt with them by Law though exceeding wicked and cruel yet not by club-Law as now doth not this exceed Bonner and Gardnor's cruelty for they would still endeavour to convince before they murdered but you wil kil before you convince all which considered far exceeds their cruelty Must innocent blood be the cry in this great City that must bring down the fierce vengeance of the eternal God upon you and to make an utter desolation devastation and to lay it on heaps I tell you the Cry is heard and Judgement is at hand therefore lay it to heart all people And as for the acters of this bloody Tragedy your portion you will have in the Lake amongst your Brethren O London London is there no bowels of compassion left in thee is all given up to obduracy and hardness of heart Wo is me for thee dost thou sport thy self and make such actions thy mirth and must our innocent blood be mingled with thy daily Sacrifices why do you hunt our lives as a Partridge is hunted upon the Mountain and is it because our Religion is different from yours do you think to force us to yours by sheding our bloods I tell you nay that will never be we abhor in our souls all such actions and do also loath that cursed way of Heaven driving which never was practised by true Christians but by cruel Heathens altogether and such as were professed enemies to every appearance of God and will ye of this generation practice their cursed bloody works that ye may pull down the plagues of God upon you and your posterity as they did and have ye not read how that the wicked and blood-thirsty shall not live out half their dayes think ye God eternal is not as just as he hath been and that he will not recompence your work into your bosom Oh London London how am I smitten for thee Oh how am I bowed down under the unheard of wickedness that is committed and practised daily and then covered up in thy skirt Oh where is the man in power that seeks to suppress vice I say he need not hunt it in the twy-light or search into corners and holes for it but at mid-day and high-noon in the chief streets of thy City and every where else doth it appear is it past the Magistrates power or cannot his sword comprehend it I say if so then an overflowing scourge from the hand of the Lord is as natural for you as your food and sustenance and I faithfully believe from God it attends you Oh my soul my soul mourn and weep till thou hast emptied thy Cisterns of sorrow Oh that ever a City a professing City a City whose Inhabitants are called Christians and besides the cry that is now that the antient Laws are restored and true Religion again setled on its Basis should see her Inhabitants blood laid upon the pavements for their unpolluted Consciences in the worship of their God yea and by their own Neighbours and by authority and order as is said Oh my very soul bleeds within me for these things where are you that call your selves Overseers or Bishops and by some reverend Fathers in God where are you that you come not forth in this great day of scattering and of gathering and seek out the poor hunted worried and driven sheep and carry them on your shoulders to your fold If we be in an error why do not you come and convince us of that error if we be deluded why do not you come amongst us and tell us wherein I tell you it would be worth your while to come into our Meetings and there both openly confute us and convince us before the people which actions in meekness and pure moderation performed would make you honourable in the places wherein you are set and then those names wherewith you are entituled would not be vain and a lye which otherwise seems to be and by that means you might haply convert many to your Faith which you say is the true Faith and we much question it because of the fruits which manifests it But alas alas instead of your coming with humility in your own persons your messengers treat us far otherwise for they come to kill and not to convince and to shed our bloods and not to convert us Behold ye Bishops ye cannot be ignorant of this for known be it to you it hath not been once or twice nor many times more that the like Tragedy hath been acted in that place though not altogether so bloody as on the day precited for it was taken notice of at that time and place there came one or more Papists to the assistance of the party and one was seen to take a drawn sword out of a Soldiers hand who cut and hewed all that in his way stood which made that daies work more bloodie than usual but in prudence to his cause he might have had more patience these were by-standers and no Soldiers but well-wishers to that bloodie work which was that day perpetrated by those that cry out we will make you conform to the Church of England and the Laws Now O ye men that bear the name of Bishops do you justifie these men in these actions or do you think that conformity will ever be wrought