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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70620	More sad and lamentable news from Bristol in a sober letter from a gentleman of that city to his friend in London.		1682 (1682)	Wing M2715; ESTC R221910	6,518	10

well drunken in the Lower-room they then went up Stairs to the Tenement of a late Widdow and there at the top of the House they sung made Huzza's and Revelled till about three in the Afternoon when being weary they left their place and to shew their power Tilley he goes to Bridewell and releases the six Women Just before this Revel broke up there happened a very pleasant passage that is the Informers being got to the Upper Tenement of the Quakers Meeting house had then the view of the House of a Quaker against whom these Blades have an Inveterate spleen in that he was one that went to White-Hall to complain of their Illegal proceedings this they manifest by inquiring every Meeting day after him and menacing how they would manage him for his Petitioning supposing they were now levelling their thoughts at him their heads swimming with the height of their Station and strength of their Liquor they dreamed or fancied a Conventicle at his house so away they came and beset it on this suspicion he being then with his Wife and Mother abroad at Dinner at a Relations House and having left in his House three small Chil●ren and his own Servants only knocking at the door the Servants were ●earful to open it to so rude and boisterous a Company so one of them that 〈◊〉 E. Summers a Rascally Pockified Butcher goes over a Neighbours Wall and ●…ters his Garden then went and opened the Street door letting in the oth●…●…formers that is Tilley 〈…〉 Casse 〈…〉 out doors whether fearing their Entry was unwarrantable or that they waited for a supposed prey I know not but whilst they were without doors Tilley enters and walks about the first Floor within doors Summers Patrick and Casse runs hastily up Stairs to the very Terret of the House Ransacks every Room and Closet above searcht the Cellars Wash-house and Out-houses below Stairs and finding none in the House but Children and Servants away they departed When I last spoke with the Gentleman he told me He hopes he lost nothing however should I be so served and be at home I think I should be loth to let the Gentlemen go without Examining their Pockets knowing that both Law and Gospel would from their thus entring a House make them all great Trespassers and shrewdly suspected of being Thieves and Robbers I have now given you a large account of passages here which you may freely Communicate to all your Friends and give them assurance of the certainty and truth in all particulars I doubt not but several Letters this Post makes mention of this latter part of it and that the Quakers themselves will take care to Print this as remarkable I would give you leave to Print my Letter also but that I expect the Lying Observator or some such Mercenary Pamphleteer will in their next Dialogue call it a Libel against the Law and with a few down-right staring Lies confute it all as the Observator did the little Book aforementioned you know 't is common for them to term the giving an Informer his true Character and publishing their noble Acts the Arraignment of the Government whereas no Magistrate is any way concerned I shall now draw my long Letter to a Conclusion which indeed hath swelled in its bulk much above my former intention albeit the Subject is so Copious as 't would fill a Volumn Next Week our Sessions begin the Consideration of the proceedure of which makes us big with expectation the Indictments of Recusancy against Scores of Protestant Dissenters are like to come to an Issue as also the Tryal of the Quakers Meetings as to making them Riots I will not be so injurious to my Country-men as to conclude afore-hand that such Profecuters will have such Juries having great Confidence in the integrity and care of the Mayor and Justices to see that the Juries be worthy and prudent men of which this City to speak without boasting can afford good plenty Our Sheriff Lane I understand is also solicitous in this point who to give him his due is a quiet and worthy Gentleman but I am informed our new Knighted Sheriff sticles somewhat against this which the Dissenters not without cause grumble at he being their great Prosecuter and Informer they think he ought to be passive The Quakers murmur heavily at it and says It justifies their Complaint above that they can have no relief below When our Sessions is over you may expect a short and true account of its proceedure 〈…〉 time I beg your excuse in tiring your patience in so long a●… 〈…〉 c.