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A29476	A brief relation of the persecutions and cruelties that have been acted upon the people called Quakers in and about the city of London since the beginning of the 7th month last, til this present time : with a general relation of affairs, signifying the state of the people through the land.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4629; ESTC R1091	16,542	23

Reason but contrary to both their own Law saith That such Laws Decrees Customs and Ordinances are utterly void and not to be obeyed And further they were told That we were subject readily and willingly to all good Laws and wholsome Customs of the Nation which tend to the preservation of Mankind not for fear but for Conscience-sake and that it did not concern them nor any other Civil Magistrates to trouble us for the exercise of our Consciences towards God in spiritual things and that the King had also said and promised That none should be molested or troubled about matters of Conscience provided they did not disturb the publike peace which we have not at any time done but have endeavoured and do endeavour to the utmost to follow peace with all men This and much more they heard somewhat moderately but they said we must obey the Kings Laws and there must be an Uniform of Worship and that we would ruine our selves and they were they said sorry for us and such like So still it was urged upon them to convince us of the breach of any good Law and if they could we would put in security to answer that Law And further also told them That if we did err in our minds and were wrongly perswaded in our hearts in and about matters of Worship and Religion yet had not they any Precept nor President from the Primitive Christians nor Christ to imprison our bodies and ruine our Estates for that cause onely it being wholly contrary to Christianity or the Spirit of Christ. But we answering not their request as to sureties the whole Guard most of which in the mean while being in the lower room behaving themselves very rudely cruelly towards some one woman being by a Soldier punched on the belly being big with child thrust with much violence backward upon the Pavement appearing for some time as dead but little notice would be taken by the Magistrates of the fault without an Oath So the wholeGuard consisting of near one hundred were ordered commanded to guard us to the County-Gaol many hundreds of people attending to behold us with much pity So we were delivered into prison thirty four in number for the Testimony of a good Conscience for if we would make shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience we need not suffer by this generation So in the true patience long-suffering and love which thinks no ill we rest in the hope which maketh not ashamed knowing our God whom we serve is able to deliver us but if he will not be it known to all he will and doth enable us chearfully to suffer whatsoever the sons of men are permitted to inflict upon us believing in the end That Love Patience and Innocency shall overcome all that is contrary and in the end the Lamb and the Saints shall have the victory From the White-Lyon being the County-Gaol for Sarry the 6th day of the 6th Month 1662. In like manner the said Meeting of the people of God was assaulted for diverse days till such time as they had taken from time to time out of the Meeting and committed about Eighty of our Friends to the White Lion where they lay grievously thronged up together in noisome stinking places till the Sessions held at Kingstone for that County which was the beginning of this Month to which place the Prisoners were conducted in order to hearing and trial and accordingly here they were arreigned and indicted upon the Statute of the 35 of Elisabeth though it is the judgment of diverse Lawyers that that Statute is repealed for unlawful Conventicles and unlawful Assemblies c. And demanded to plead Guilty or not Guilty to which most of the Prisoners pleaded Not guilty and they were demanded to give Bayl to answer the next Sessions Though some of the Prisoners spoke home to the Court and told them their Indictment was made up of lies and falsities upon which occasion some disturbance grew in the Court so that some party of the Train-bands were commanded into the Court to keep all quiet who did make a bussle and stir and some received some blows one man in particular being no Quaker so called who was struck made some defence to keep the blows off him upon which a lying report was raised in the Town and Country that the Quakers fought and opposed the souldiers which was not true at all but a very lye for none of our Friends made the least resistance no not in the defence to save their heads from blows and this may be taken notice of to prevent false reports But none of the Prisoners were tried but all recommitted to prison and the Court adjourned till the 28 day of this instant to sit on Margarets Hill in Southwark in the mean time all our friends are kept prisoners for refusing to put in Bayl for their appearance though their denial to give bayl is not as though their crime was so great as they could not answer it but 't is usual if at any time any friends give bayl they are more ensnared thereby and made more liable to greater sufferings for which cause with some others our friends cannot give such bayl demanded of them so at this present there are remaining in prison in White-Lion near Eighty of our Friends as aforesaid The Sessions for the general Gaol delivery was held at the Old Baily the 9 10 11 and 12 days of this Month where several Murderers Fellons and some Coyners were arraigned and tried and only six persons condemned three whereof were executed and the rest Reprieved And there being about twelve of our Friends in prison in Newgate which were detained from the Sessions before for refusing to give Bayl for appearance and for their behaviour c. though they were discharged by the Kings late Letter sent to the Magistrates of the City for to release all our Friends out of the Gaols for London and Middlesex of which ye have heard heretofore and being yet continued prisoners it was expected they should have been called to the Court at the Sessions but was not brought before them onely their names called over and they returned in the Gaolers Kalendar to continue prisoners or to give Bayl for appearance the next Sessions in the mean time to be of good behaviour c. upon which they are detained still in Newgate though very unjustly as may be made appear if need require in due season and how men who unjustly do these things will be able to answer before God when they are called to account is to be considered For though this people have none among men to plead their cause yet will the Lord God arise in his season to hear the cry and plead the cause of his innocent people who suffer for his Name sake in patience bearing all things till God from Heaven work deliverance for the oppressed About the 18th day of this Month was an Order sent from the King to the Sheriffs of London for

the door and could not depart though the rude souldiers continued to abuse them with their Kanes and Swords beating them in a pittiful manner though some of the soberest of them desired that some of our friends would go to the King and acquaint him with these proceedings that they might be spared from that duty for they were wholly weary of it And one first day there were four of the friends taken out of the Streets and committed to New-Prison where they remained till the Sessions and were then discharged And this hath been most of the disturbance our friends have had in their Meetings for the time aforesaid About the middle of the 7th Month one Henry Bowerman was taken out of his Ship and brought before Richard Brown and committed to Newgate for selling of our Friends Books which they say are unlicensed by the Bishop and therefore not suffered to be sold though to this day neither the Bishop nor any other person hath ever detected any point of doctrine or principle in any of our Books or proved any unsoundness in them or contrary Doctrine to the Scriptures of truth but notwithstanding the said Henry was committed close Prisoner upon that pretence and for three Weeks laid among the Felons and suffered many great abuses because of which distemper of body grew upon him and he grew very weak till death and the 17. day of the 8. month dyed in Newgate thus this honest just man finished his Testimony in Bonds for the Name of Jesus in faithfulness whose reward is with him for ever and he is accounted among the suffering Martyrs for the truth of Jesus And without all doubt his close imprisonment and the abuses he suffered was the cause and ground of his sickness and so of his death and this was the opinion of divers of the Jury-men that passed upon his dead Corps We cannot omit in this place to mention the state of our dear Friends in Southwark and how it hath fared with them in this stormy season In the 4 th Month last the Meeting of our Friends at Horse-ly-down the usual place of their peaceable meeting to worship God for these divers years was disturbed and violated by Souldiers in Arms in the same rude illegal manner as the Meetings in the City of whom ye have heard heretofore and at divers times on three first dayes were taken out of the said meeting to the number of about 50. persons and from time to time committed to prison at the White-Lyon where they remained till the Assise which was held at Guilford to which place the Prisoners were had in order to tryal the Gaoler taking their words to travel to the place being 25. miles distance from the Goal without any Keeper which they did faithfully and appeared at the time and place appointed but few of them were called before the Bench for there was no witnesse against them nor preparation of Indictments for which cause it is supposed Orlando Bridgeman then Judge of the Assize did discharge all the Prisoners saving four who had the Oath then tendered them and for refusing were re-committed back to prison and the rest were all released and they onely detained And this was the proceeding towards our friends at that time But the rage and malice of some men were not yet an end for though the Judge of Assize had ordered the release of our friends in the face of the Countrey yet in a little time after their return home they were fallen upon again in their meeting at the place aforesaid and by rude Souldiers violently halled pulled and dragged out of their peaceable Meeting and led by force before some Justices of the peace who took some examination of them and committed them to the Gaol for the County according to the following Relation received from the Prisoners themselves ON the 3 d day of the 6th Month called August being the first day of the week we being met together as our manner is in the fear of the Lord to feel and enjoy his presence and to be refreshed in his pretious life and one in another for indeed in the Unity to meet together and in the Unity to bow or worship before the Lord and together in the unity to live is very precious unto us and we cannot but exercise our selves therein notwithstanding the Decrees and Laws of men are to the contrary And being met together even out of the fear of man after some time came a Constable with some Souldiers and found us very peaceable and quiet yet notwithstanding they soon began to thrust hale and carry forth of the Meeting all Women-Friends some with much violence and when they had wrought their design upon them we all this while siteing still eying the dear loving-kindness of the Lord to us and little regarding the cruelties of men feeling in our hearts that Love which casteth out fear which Love envieth not but teacheth us to pity and to pray for them that despitefully use us knowing that their eyes are blinded and their hearts hardened and that they understand not what they do Then they began with us and after much thrusting halling and pulling we were brought six or eight sometimes in a company and sometimes more every Souldier his prisoner as though we had been great Malefactors We were strongly guarded and brought to the Court at Margarets Hill where they kept their Main-Guard especially on the first dayes of the Week having little other service at present for their Souldiers than to range up and down like Wolves greedy of prey to find where the Lambs and Sheep of Christ meet together drudging about this day many miles for no other purpose So when we were all brought into their Guard they set a strong watch at the door scarce suffering or admitting any Friends Wives to come in After some time we were called to go up into an upper room which was over the Court of Guard where there were two Magistrates called Justice Moor and Justice Lee and several other persons most as spectators so by parcels as aforesaid we were brought before them and the Constable and two Souldiers were sworn to witness against us the Magistrates having the late Act made against us lying upon the Table before them And being called one by one to the last the Constables evidence was That we were taken met together So they set down our Names and asked us for sureties to be bound for our appearance next Sessions or Assizes to be holden in this County They were answered That we had transgressed no just Law and having broken no good Law of the Nation we ought not to be asked for sureties requiring and challenging them or any other Magistrates or People in the Nation to charge us justly with the breach of any one good Law of the Nation since we were a people in scorn called Quakers But as for such Laws Decrees and Ordinances of men which were not according to the Law of God and right