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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36212	An apostate-conscience exposed, and the miserable consequences thereof disclosed, for information and caution By an ancient woman, and lover of truth, and the sincere friends thereof, A.D.	Docwra, Anne, 1624-1710.	1699 (1699)	Wing D1777A; ESTC R222630	32,446	69

AN Apostate-Conscience EXPOSED AND THE Miserable Consequences thereof DISCLOSED FOR Information and Caution By an Ancient Woman and Lover of Truth and the sincere Friends thereof A. D. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Bible in Lea●●…-Hall-Street 1699. AN Apostate-Conscience EXPOSED c. IT is not unknown to many of you what Contests have been about Religious Concerns in this Nation and what Unmerciful Means have been used to bring all Protestant Dissenters to the Church of England and altho' the Penal Statutes allowed both a lawful and reasonable Excuse that would not be allowed but some of the most sottish and busie Men of the Clergy always obstructed it under pretence that no Law was to be allowed but in case of Old Age or Infirmities of Body by which means the Magistrates that were most ignorant and busie were meer drudges to those Clergy-men of the immoderate sort and would hear nothing of Reason many times nor suffer Consciencious Dissenters to speak for themselves But our Merciful God looking upon the Afflictions of his People moved in the Heart of the King and Civil Magistrates to grant Tole in a do the Protestant Dissenting Subjects of this ation for which we are truly thankful and I do really believe that God hath a Blessing in store for all Kings that are so well disposed as to grant Liberty in the Exercise of Religion to Dissenting Subjects although of different Persuasions in matters of Religion 't is of greater concern than any worldly Interest or Profit and will be a great means to root Hypocrisie out of this Nation for forced Conformity makes Hypocrites but never makes good Christians or Subjects to any Prince Now Liberty is granted there can be no pretence of quarrelling with the Government that is kind to them whatsoever some have lately pretended to the contrary which hath been some cause of my undertaking this Work to Vindicate my Self and some Others that are unjustly charged with matter of Fact Some of the Clergy I Charge not all either being uneasie under the Liberty granted to the People called Quakers or by reason of their Ignorance of the Principles of their Religion have of late Years entertained a Poor Indegent Person viz. Francis Bugg of Milden-Hall in the County of Suffolk to abuse and clamour against the said People in Print but Lam persuaded it will not be for their Credit i● the Civil Magistrate would be so kind as to bear both Parties in their Book Imp●●●●●● Michael Dalton in his Book call'd Th●●●●●try Justice Printed Cum Privilegio 1630. exhorts the Magistrates to hear both Parties and brings several places of Scriptures for it one more remarkable than the rest in the Eighth Page Where God Almighty gives you an Example exprest in these Words Gen. 18. 21. in the case of Sodom I will now go down and see if it be altogether according to the Cry that is come up unto me Thus he shews the Magistrate how to perform his Office in true Justice in the ordering the affairs of the Nation Now because the said Francis Bugg hath accused us of matter of Fact high Crimes and Misdemeanors against the Government It belongeth to the Civil Magistrate to take notice of such things and we do desire it that they would read our Answers to his Aspersions that our Innocency may be cleared of what we are accused off This Francis Bugg says that he was a Quaker 25 Years He was but a Poor Man when he came first among us and Suffered Imprisonment several times upon the account of his Religion when he was Poor afterward he grew Rich and increased in Wealth very much his Father Died and there fell to him near 30 l. a Year by Relation he also purchased an Estate at Milden-Hall aforesaid with a fair Brick House upon it Built by a Knight Baronet for himself to dwell in for his Pleasure because his Estate lay in a durty Country I knew the Person that Built it he was my near Relation This F. Bugg had also a great Stock he was a Wool-man and used the Wool-Trade and a Shop besides of Cloaths and Stuffs and divers other things and an Adventure at Sea in a Coal Ship at Ipswich which he withdrew because of the smallness of the Profit he received by it this shews he was a Rich fore-handed-man and now Poor and blames the Quakers of being the chief cause of it which may be easily proved to the contrary neither was his Sufferings more than other Rich Men but still continued Rich so long as he was amongst us but being uneasie under his Sufferings he begun to contrive how to avoid them by subtle indirect means he writ two contentious Books against us before he conformed to the Church of England and when he was in danger of having the Statute of 20 l. a Month put in Execution against him he conformed to the Church of England and went on Writing against the Quakers until he had scribled away his Estate and run many Hundred Pounds in Debt and now goes about a Begging with a Certificate from the Bishop of Norwich About the Year 1682. he came to my House at Cambridge and made great complaint of George Fox that he had brought in Innovations into the Church about Marriages that all Marriages must be published at twice in the Men and Womens Meetings whereas they used to be published but once formerly I heard him but did not give my Judgment in this concern but let it rest until I had inquired further of it at last I understood it was an Order of Marriage of his own Recording in the Quakers Meeting Book in the Isle of Ely and partly of his own making as I understood by John Ainslo of Over in the County of Cambridge he also told me that F. Bugg was quarrelsome and that he see no way to prevent it he was so given to Contention This I can prove by his first Book he writ against the Quakers that he began the Quarrel and hath continued it to this Day F. Bugg came again to me and renewed his complaints against George Fox and George Whitehead that they were the cause of bringing Innovations into the Church he also brought a Book to me of his own Writing which he had got Printed I bought it of him the Title Page was Liberty of Conscience upon its true and proper Ground This Book Doctor Gunning Bishop of Ely read and said that it was an Envious Thing but the chief matter which was the Grounds of his Contention was that he would have been a Ruler over the Quakers to make Laws for them that all Preachers should tell their Names when Informers came into a Meeting to convict it whether they were asked their Names or no and pay their 20 l. Fines themselves if they were able if Poor then Money should be gathered at the Meetings for that purpose if he were fined for a Preacher that he might pay

she being an Ingenious Industrious Woman imployed in a Trade so that between twenty and thirty Years she got enough to maintain them well in their Old Age now they have given over Trading F. Bugg quarrels with T. Green for not entertaining him at his House when he and his Wife came to London It cannot be the Custom of our Preachers to entertain every one that comes to London although they have been entertained in their Travels when they visited the Meetings in the Countries where they preached if they should do so their Houses would be like Inns. But F. Bugg accuses him for not keeping one of his poor Brothers there was no reason for that for what Ellen Green got by her Indudustry should be spent by such an extravagant woman as his Brother's Wife was by Relation what they gave him he should be little the better for his Wife would devour it But T. Green kept his own Mother and his Wife's Mother many Years in Meat Drink and Cloaths during their Lives and hired them a House to dwell together and found them all other necessaries as I have heard I never went to London but they always gave me entertainment although T. Green seldom came to my House in the Country and both Thomas and his Wife were very serviceable to me in providing me Lodgings or any other thing I desired Samuel Cater I have known about Thirty Years he hath been a great Sufferer upon the account of his Religion Imprisoned many times Six Years at one time a close Prisoner for Three Years of the time not stirred out of the Prison F. Bugg says that he was a poor Journey-man Carpenter and now a Rich Man worth Hundreds of Pounds What then shall an Industrious Man work more than Forty Years and get nothing His Trade was a gainful Trade if it be wisely managed and yet he is not a Rich Man he hath a Commendable House and the Lot that belongs to it when the Fenns were taken in at little Port in the Isle of Ely and two Acres and a half of Arable Land in the Fields and this is all his visible Estate that I can hear of besides a small Stock to carry on the Butter Trade for he is a Factor to send Butter to London altho' he is about seventy Years of Age yet he gets his living by that Trade F. Bugg makes a great noise against S. Cater about a Meeting where S. C. was Fined for Preaching and had his Timber siezed but Had it again says F. B and had 10 l. sent him by his Friends towards his Loss That he had his Timber again appears to me to be a false Story of F. B's making for S. Cater does affirm that he never had his Timber again and that the Officers sold it his Goods in his House were siezed at the same time them he had again a Neighbour bought them of the Officers and sent them to him This shews what a Malicious Lyer F. B. is and if any of his Friends were so Charitable as to send him 10 l. to help to pay Debts or to carry on his Trade they did well in so doing better than F. B. in upbraiding him Now I come to George Whitehead F. Bugg hath vented his Malice against him in an abundant manner in most of his Books the Cause whereof is because he hath answered most of them and laid him open effectually It is hard to recount how bitterly malicious this F. Bugg hath been against him the slanderous Lies that he hath vented against him are hard to be numbred his own Books will witness against him that what I say is true for G. Whitehead I have not known him but by Report till of late Years F. Bugg reports him a poor Boy came out of the North on foot his Father dwelt in a poor Cottage not worth above 50 s. His Education from his Youth shews to the contrary although I was not acquainted with him but of late Years yet I can say something to prove his Education and Learning in his Youth which is to be preferr'd before F. Bugg's that was but a Wool-Comber George Whitehead when he was a Young Man travelled in the Service of Truth into Suffolk I had an Aunt a Person of Quality according to the World's Account she was a wise Woman and inquisitive after Religion and desired that a Quaker might be brought to her to discourse with G. Whitehead was brought to her and after her Discourse with him she told me and others That the Quakers held the same Opinion that her Cousin Barrow did that was hanged for his Religion in Queen Elizabeth ' s Days and that this Barrow was Chaplain to her Grandfather Sir Nicholas Bacon I heard my Grandmother say the same thing that Henry Barrow was her Father's Chaplain and Tutor to his Children whereof she was one of them and that the Bishop of London was the chief Cause of his Death and said further that he was a very religious good Man and for G. Whitehead my Aunt said that she did believe that he was a Gentleman born or brought up under the same Education with them and call'd him the Gentleman Quaker always when she spoke of him In Pag. 137 F. Bugg tells a long Story of Stephen Crisp deceased and Samuel Duncon's Wife of Norwich deceased I have examined the Truth of this Matter and I find it to be very false and a wicked Report of Bugg's raising He names Joseph Carver and Thomas Buddery both of Norwich for his Witnesses Since I read this Book Joseph Carver hath been at my House I examined him and he said that his Wife was Samuel Duncon's Sister and that he went often to S. Duncon's House and if there had been any thing as F. Bugg says he should have heard something of it which he never did I desired him to send a Letter of what Tho. Buddery could say in this Case Tho. Buddery says in the Letter he sent me That this Story is like F. Bugg's old Way of belying the Dead as much as the Living and says further That Sam. Duncon ' s Wife was well known to all her Neighbours to be a sober honest Woman This Woman was lame and made use of a Surgeon for Help and Bugg makes an Evil of that also F. Bugg in Pag. 33. says That Stephen Crisp was a poor Weaver at the Beginning and died a very rich Man What then if it were so This does not conclude him a dishonest Man He married a second Wife that was a Dutch Woman that had Children by a former Husband It was said that she was very rich She died before him and I have heard that when she died S. C. gave all she brought to him to her Children and did not inrich himself by her therefore I have no Reason to believe that he died a very rich Man He was a good Lawyer I have made use of his Counsel and it was very beneficial to me but he took no