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A84839	The West answering to the North in the fierce and cruel persecution of the manifestation of the Son of God, as appears in the following short relation of the unheard of, and inhumane sufferings of Geo. Fox, Edw. Pyot, and William Salt at Lanceston in the county of Cornwall, and of Ben. Maynard, Iames Mires, Ios. Coale, Ia. Godfrey, Io. Ellice, and Anne Blacking, in the same gaole, town, and county. And of one and twenty men, and women taken up in the space of a few dayes on the high wayes of Devon, ... Also a sober reasoning in the law with Chief Justice Glynne concerning his proceedings ... And a legall arraignment for the indictment of the hat, ... And many other materiall and strange passages at their apprehensions and tryals ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1988; Thomason E900_3; ESTC R202187	140,064	174

to the Father from whence it comes where no unrighteousness enters nor unholiness but if you do this light hate this wil be your condemnation the light saith Christ If you doe it love and to it come you will come to Christ which will bring you off all the worlds teachers and wayes and Doctrines to Christ who is the way to the Father from the world and all the deceivers in it Which paper as they journyed through the Parish of Madderne near St Ives was delivered to a man whom they met altogether then unknown to them but since understood to be by name John Keate to be communicated to the people but he instead thereof hastned and carried it to Peter Ceely Justice of the Peace so called at St. Ives who gave him order to get together a party of new raised Horse of which the said Peter Ceely was Captain and to follow after and apprehend them But they being come into the town of Saint Jves before those Horse were gotten ready as they were riding thorough it the said Keate being there stopt them in their way and apprehended them and seized on their Horses and Portmantue which he violently took away and brought them to the said Peter Ceely at his House in the town aforesaid Where a great company of people were gathered And with them one Welstead the Priest of that town before whom P. Ceely made sport of them as if he had gotten a prey and with reviling speeches abused them and cursed Whereupon they told him he was to do the things that were just and neither to revile nor curse And of them he demanded whether they would own the paper aforesaid or not To which answer being made they should deny the Scriptures if they should not own it A heinous crime he made of it calling it a sinfull wicked Paper and fell to riffl●ng of their Pockets for more and what he found he took away and detained and yet keeps from them divers serviceable notes for the instructing the minds of the simple and their Books also and examine he did them apart and tendred them the Oath of Abjuration To which they answered that O. P. had said that oath was not intended for them That they did in the command of Iesus Christ abide who said swear not at all and that all Popery and Popish points they denied as they had declared to the whole N●tion in a Book which they gave him And a pass he demanded of Ed. Pyot for traveling pretending him to be a person unknown when as one or two of that town then informed him that they knew him to be a Merchant of Bristoll and that Bristoll was the place of his habitation and thither they were all travelling Then he asked Ed. Pyot for sureties for the goo● behaviour He desired that a Law might be shewn him that he had transgressed and he would find sureties but no Law could he produce but instead of Law he gave them many reproachfull and unsavory expressions And the Priest aforesaid called Ed. Pyot Jesuit because he used spectacles and a wanderer because to them he m●de not his estate to appear Notwithstanding the testimony of some of their own town who knew him as hath been men●ioned and that he tendred P. Ceely to buy a thousand pounds worth of goods of him or to sell him a thousand pounds worth and also had declared how he had been in Armes for the Laws of the Nation and for Liberty and in command for the Parliament They all having been constant faithfull friends to the Common-wealth and in armes for it Nevertheless without any just ground colour or pretence in Law Justice or Equitie or occasion given on their parts for no other thing was done than giving forth the paper aforesaid at the moving of the Lord as hath been declared which is left of God in every mans conscience to judge vvhether it is any just matter of offence or cause of exception or ground of suffering at all much less of so cruell sufferings and unreasonable proceedings had against them as is hereafter expressed contrary to Law and the Government and all that is equall and Just or of good report after they had been stopped on their way their Horses violently taken from them their Portmantue and Pockets rifled and searcht and their Papers and Books therein seized on and detained after they had been scoffed and reviled and reproached and made sport of before the Priest and the people and cursed and evill intreated by P. Ceely were they committed by him to Lanceston Gaol and sent in custody with a guard of Horse first to Pendennis Castle to Captain Fox with their Books and Papers leaving it to him to detain or discharge them as he should see cause but he not being there after that one of the Prisoner was violently ran upon and struck down in the Room by on Smithwick a Kinsman of Keates to whom was not given the least provocation and whose violence the said Keate being demanded said he would justifie were they carried towards Lanceston by the said Keate and guard of which he had the charge who abused them very much on the way himself and permitted others unhumanely so to do and brought them into a Room on the way where was another of his acquaintance a desperate fellow standing with a naked Rapier unto which Gaol as they were passing they met with Generall Desborow who being acquainted with their condition and the cause thereof sent them notice by a Lieutenant That if they would give under their hand or promise that they would go unto their own homes and there live soberly and quietly they might have their enlargement but they returning in answer that they were passing on towards Bristol until they were molested and stopt in their journey by P. Ceely and that quietly and soberly they had lived and behaved themselves and that their time was not in their own hand but they stood in the will of the Lord and should do as he permitted He departed out of the Countrie leaving them in custody instead of doing them Justice and they choosing a prison with the freedome answer and excercise of a good conscience rather then libertie on such unreasonable conditions as the a ravishing of their Innocencie the unmanning of themselves and the betraying and destroying of their undeniable liberties the price of so much blood viz. to goe and be when and whence To render a man his libertie upon condition of his engaging to do a●d be that of the contrary wh●●eunto h● is falsely accused under the pretence whereof he is impr●soned as to ●ender him libertie up●n condition of his making himself an offender who is innocent wh●ch if he doth he van●sheth his own innocencie For though the things be good in themselves unto which such a condition seeks to bind him and that in which a man hath his conversation yet h● being accused of the contrary and for it imprisoned if he so engage

the grass the horse had eaten that so neither she nor her horse might be detayned as transgressors or as oppressors of any Whereupon in much rage he sent for a Constable she exhorted him to the fear that should be in the hearts of all them that bear rule and told him in wisedom and fear he should examine else the Law of God would take hold of him and asked him what Law she had transgressed and whether he did rule by a Law and would have spoken further but he was so full of rage that he would not suffer her and gnashing his teeth told her that they would stop their mouths whom he called Quakers ere it were long she told him those peoples kingdome was in the beginning is now and ever shall be and his kingdome was of this world which was falling and much more till in fury he committed her to the custodye of a Constable where having been about 8. or 9. dayes the Constable went to him to know what he should do with her he said it was well enough to keep her there till she had eaten and spent her horse that so those people might be wearied out of their coasts the Constable said she could neither sell nor take her horse and that was not the way for she had mony enough to redeem it and so after a time she was set free the Constable was asham'd for what was done to her But as she passed towards Truro she was stopt by a watch near Smethwick and examined and carried before a Constable for they said they were set to take all Quakers who was in much fury when he heard of the name of a Quaker and brought her before Justice Lobb who talked with her concerning her faith and declared against it said if she would not deny her faith to prison she must go and so he sent her after his wife had also abused her to Lanceston Goale the 21. of the 4. month 1656. with a warrant filled with lyes as that she was a wanderer where she was used by the Goaler in that cruelty as hath been in part exprest and being brought before this Court as she began to speak for her self the Goalers wife stopt her mouth violently with her hands and without any more ado the Court said take her away and being brought again to the Bar commanded to have her away without permitting her to speak for her self though they sent for her and being had away to prison sentenced her to lye there till she found sureties for the good behaviour who so unjustly had been dealt withall and cruelly had suffered having not offended so much as the shadow or the least tittle of any Law nor had any accuser nor accusation produced against her nor had she offended the will of the Hat for that of her being a vvoman could not be sought vvhich to cause the men further to suffer vvho had so much suffered vvrongfully before and ought to have had Justice done them vvas sought after as an occasion But as for George Fox Edw. Piot and Will. Salt and Benjamin M●inard they vvere not called by the Judge or the Court but the Judge caused the Goalers petition aforesaid of his invented lyes to be read against them viz. that they vvould hang him at his door toss his children on spears and tread his vvife under feet and said they should be brought forth to ansvver it but he never sent for them nor examined them concerning it vvhereby the truth might be manifested but ordered the Goalers vvife to keep them closer and confined them for the time to come to the Castle and vvhilst he should be in the Tovvn close prisoners and she moved him to order them to be put into Doomsdale pretending that vvithout such an order they could not confine them to the Castle because of the security Capt. Bradon had given for their true imprisonment it s said he asked hovv the Goaler durst to take security for them and commanded they should be more strictly lookt to and took notice of a complaint of Peter Killegrews who is called a Knight he was the Post between the late King and Parliament in times of treaties that he met them about two miles from the Town when it was about one thereby strengthening their bonds and encouraging cruelty upon them in stead of hearing their cause and executing judgement for them who had so suffered as hath been said whose sufferings as they had been made very heavy by the Goaler and the Recorder and the Mayor as hath been said so now all endeavours were used to keep them from being made known to the Judge And therefore Ann Downer and Grace Burgis standing on the first day of the week in the entrie of the House where the Judge lodged having leave from the people thereof so to do to deliver him papers from the prisoners of the ground of their imprisonment their sufferings as he should come forth were at the command of the Mayor by his officers carried to the dark house and kept-there till the evening and thus much concerning this Judge and his Justice and his Assizes and the usages of the Innocent and the condition wherein they were cast and left by him and them Whilest these things were in hand and these cruelties breathed forth and exercised on the oppressed Generall Disborow came to Lanceston who the third day of the week in the afternoon being at a large house in the Town with the Sheriff and Justices sent for Edward Pyot and William Salt and enquired of them concerning the abuses they had received from the Goaler and as they gave them took them particularly in writing with his own hand and then examined the Goaler as to every particular and took his answer and heard the replie made thereunto by the prisoners till he had gone over all then the Generall heard the Goalers complaint against them mentioned in his petition aforesaid which had gone about to Sessions and Assizes to cover his crueltie towards them by inventing words of crueltie as if spoken by them and then bringing what he had so invented in charge upon them And asked the Goaler vvhether any heard the vvords besides himself He ansvvered yes and named four of his Companions who were the prisoners greatest enemies three of these the Generall sent for and examined them whilst the prisoners were withdrawn the fourth was the under-Goaler who had sworn to part of it at Sessions but by the Goalers wife was contradicted as to what he had sworn when he returned these three denyed that ever they heard any such words as the Goaler had mentioned of the prisoners in his petition He demanded what words they had heard from them to the Goaler and from the Goaler to them they answered that they had heard the Goaler call the prisoners rogues and the ptisoners call him drunken-beast swine which passages the Generall told the prisoners after he had caused them to be called in again

every man that cometh into the world that all men through him might believe the world through him might have life and Christ is come to teach him self the second Priesthood and every one that will not hear this Prophet that God hath raised up which Moses spoke of and said like unto me will God raise up a Prophet him shall you hear Every one that doth not hear this Prophet is to be cut off They that despised Moses Law died under the hands of two or three witnesse● but how much greater punishment will come upon them that shall neglect this great salvation Christ Jesus who saith Learn of me I am the way the truth and the life who lighteth every man that cometh into the world which light lets him see his evill wayes his evill deeds which he hath done but if he hate the light and go on in the evill this will be the condemnation the light saith Christ with what else is contained in the paper aforesaid concerning Christ Jesus the way to the Father and peoples being called upon to prize their time and that day of their Visitation in the words and according to the Scriptures of Truth to be tending to the disturbance of the publick Peace who will assuredly be payd his wages as his reward he shall also receive for affirming the paper containing the things before rehearsed to be sinfull and wicked than which what higher blasphemie is there greater abhomination or more horrible wickedness 3. Whereas he chargeth them with not being able to render any lawfull cause of coming to those parts It is answered For an English man to travaile or be in any part of England or the Dominions thereunto appertaining which is his Country and his habitation is his right as a free-born English man his naturall Right his birth-Right as essentiall to him as his being and it is as lawfull as for him to be and travell in those parts of it where he was borne or usually hath resided and so to be without any consideration of declaring of what is his business unless in the cases provided by the Law viz. to hues and cryes fellonies gaming 's begging freeing the Parish from charge with such like is his liberty and to abridge him hereof is to abridge him of his liberty and right unto which the Law is a defence and Guard and which for to preserve cost the blood and miseries of the late Wars in which the Lord so much appeared and is as unreasonable and unnaturall as to deny him ayr to breath in And many cases there are as the causes of a mans travelling and changing his habitation lawfull and good which if a man should declare might be his undoing as it would be cruelty to exact it Nor doth the Law set down affirmatively what is a lawfull cause for a man to travell or be in any part of these Dominions but understands this whole Dominion to be every English mans Countrie his habitation wherein he may lawfully be and unaccountable unless he by due information by two sufficient witnesses is charged with any thing done by him that is contrary thereunto And here as he hath shewn his ignorance of the Law which to execute he is sworn in making that a crime worthy of Bonds which the Law takes no notice of but is contrary thereunto as hath been demonstrated so this his charge is a lye for he was told they were there to visit the People of the Lord and to do good which the Lord required of them and the Government allows and saith that such shal be protected and defended 4. And whereas he saith being persons altogether unknown and having no pass for their travelling up and down the Countrie Persons altogether unknown they were not for as it hath been already said one or two of the Town came into his house and declared that they knew Ed. Pyot to be a Merchant of Bristoll and that there was his dwelling and of none of them But of Edward Pyot did he demand a pass So this that he affirms is another lye nor doth the Law require those who travell up and down the Countrie upon their occasions to have passes And hereof the Law he again manifests his ignorance 5. Whereas he chargeth them with refusing to give sureties of the good behaviour according to the Law in that behalf provided Of the good behaviour they are according to the Law of an endless life Nor any behaviour that is contrary to the Law of the Land did they manifest whereby they ought to give sureties of the good behaviour according as he saith to the Law in that behalf provided For but of one of them viz. of Edw. Pyot who was known to some of the town present did he demand sureties Who answered shew me a Lavv that I have transgressed and I will find sureties which not being produced he could not be charged with refusing to give sureties of the good behaviour according to the Lavv in that behalf provided nor could he do so vvithout vvronging his Innocencie and making himself an offender And they vvho vvere not asked to find sureties at all as vvere not the other tvvo cannot be said to refuse so to do And so a lye in every particular is this his Allegation in this Warrant as his Ignorance of the Law is also apparant for had they indeed misbehaved themselves contrary to the Law which provided in that behalf sureties to be given or Imprisonment The Warrant of a single Justice is not sufficient in the Law whereby to imprison them unless the misbehaviour had been particularly mentioned therein as is known to them who understand the Law of this Nation And because the impudencie of this man who when he had molested injured and abused them and towards them had so misbehaved himself contrary to the L●w and all that is of good report amongst men as hath been expressed yet doth he not blush to send them to Prison with a Warrant charging them with such a manifest lye as their refusing to find sureties for the good behaviour according to the Lavv in that behalf provided as the cause of their Commitment after he had thus villified and abused them And yet he stiles himself one of the Iustices of the Peace of the County of Cornwall See the Proclamation for the Oath of Abjuration 6. Nor is that all his pack For in the next place he chargeth them with refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration When as the preamble of the Proclamation manifests as doth also Equitie and Justice that to such as deny and vvitness against all kind of Popery and Popish Religion Root and Branch the Oath for abjuring Popery vvas not intended but for Papists Therefore it saith For as much as of late time there hath been a great neglect in putting the Laws in execution for Convicting of Popish Recusants by means whereof the penalties imposed upon such cannot be leavied or required which hath been a great incouragement

the Administration of the Law ought not accusations to be by way of Indictment wherein the offence is to be charged and the Law expressed against which it is Can there be an Issue without an Indictment or can an Indictment be found before proof be made of the offence charged therein And hast not thou herein gone contrary to the Law and the Administration thereof and thy dutie as a Judge What just cause of offence gave G. F. to thee when upon thy producing of a paper concerning swearing sent by him as thou said'st to the grand Jurors and requiring him to say whether it was his hand-writing He answered read it up before the Country and when he heard it read if it were his he would own it Is it not equall and according to Law that what a man is charged with before the Countrie should be read in his and the hearing of the Country When a paper is delivered out of a mans hand Alterations may be made in it to his prejudice which on a sudain looking over it may not presently be discerned But hearing it read up may be better understood whether any such alterations have been made therein Couldst thou in justice have expected or required him otherwise to do considering also how he was not unsensible how much he had suffered already being innocent and what endeavours there were used to cause him further to suffer Was not what he said as aforesaid a plain and single answer and sufficient in the Law though as hath been demonstrated contrary to the Law thou didst act and thy Office in being his accuser therein and producing the paper against him And in his liberty it was whether he would have made thee any answer at all to what thou didst exhibite or demand out of the due course of the Law for to the Law answer is to be made not to thy will Wherefore then wast thou so filled with rage and fury upon that his Reply Calmly and in the fear of the Lord consider Wherefore didst thou revile him particularly with the reproachfull names of Jugler and Prevaricator wherein did he juggle wherein did he prevaricate Wherefore didst thou use such threatning language and such menacings to him and us saying thou wouldst firk us with such like Doth not the Law forbid reviling and rage and fury and threatning and menacing of Prisoners soberly mind Is this to act like a Judge or a Man Is not this transgression Is not the sword of the Magistrate of God to pass upon this as evill doing which the Righteous Law condemns and the higher power is against which judgeth for God Take heed what ye do for ye judgo not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you Take heed and do it for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts said Jehosaphat to the Judges of Judah Pride and Fury and Passion and Rage and Reviling and Threatning is not the Lords It and the principle out of which it springs is for judgement and must come under the sword of the Magistrate of God and is of an evill savour especially such an expression as to threaten to firk us Is not such a saying more becoming a Pedant or School Master with his rod or ferula in his hand than thee who art the Chief Justice of the Nation who sits in the highest seat of judgement who oughtest to give a good example and so to judge as others may hear and fear weigh it soberly and consider Doth not threatning language demonstrate an unequalitie and partialitie in him who sits as a Judge Is it not a deterring of a Prisoner from standing to and pleading the innocencie of his cause Provides not the Law against it saith it not that Irons and all other Bonds shall be taken from the Prisonor that he may plead without amazement and with such freedome of spirit as if he were not a Prisoner But when he who is to judge according to the Law shall before-hand threaten and menace the Prisoner contrary to the Law how can the mind of the Prisoner be free to plead his innocency before him or expect equall judgement who before he hears him threatens what he will do to him Is not this the case between thee and us Is not this the measure we have received at thy hands Hast thou herein dealt according to Law or thy duty or as thou wouldst be done unto Let that of God in thy conscience judge And didst not thou say there was a law for putting off the Hat and that thou wouldst shew a law and didst not thou often so express thy self But didst thou produce any law or shew where that law might be found or any judiciall president or in what Kings Reign when we desired it so often of thee having never heard of or known any such law by which thou didst judge us Was not what we demanded of thee reasonable and just Was that a savory answer and a●cording to law which thou gavest us viz. I am not to carry the law books at my back up and down the Country I ●m not to instruct ye Was ever such an expression heard before these days to come out of a Judges mouth Is he not to be of Counsell in the law for the Prisoner and to instruct him therein Is it not for this cause that the Prisoner in many cases is not at all allowed Counsell by the law In all Courts of justice in this Nation hath it not been known so to have been and to the Prisoner hath not this been often declared when he hath demanded Counsell alledging his ignorance in the law by reason of which his cause might miscarry though it were righteou● viz. the Court is of Counsell for you Ought not he that judgeth in the law to be expert in the law Couldst thou not tell by what act of Parliament it was made or by what judiciall President or in what Kings reign or when it was adjudged so by the common law which are all the grounds the law of England hath had there been such a law though the words of the law thou couldst not remember Surely to informe the Prisoner when he desires it especially as to a law which was never heard of by which he proceeds to judge him that he may know what law it is by which he is to be judged becomes him who judgeth for God for so the law was read to the Jevvs hy which they were to be judged yea every Saboath day this vvas the Commandement of the Lord But to say instead thereof I am not to carry the lavv books at my back up and down the Country I am not to instruct ye To say there is a lavv and to say thou wilt shew it and yet not to shew it nor tell where it is to be found consider whether it be consistent with savouriness or truth or

justice And hath not thy whole proceedings against us made it evidently to appear that thy desire was to cause us to suffer not to deliver us who being innocent suffered to have us aspersed and reproached b●fore the Countrie not to have our innocencie cleared and vindicated Doth not thy taking away our books as aforesaid and the perusing of them in such hast before our tryall and thou accusing us with some things which thou saidst was contained in them make it to appear that matter was sought out of them wherewithall to charge us when the Warrant ET CETERA could not stand in law by vvhich we stood committed and were then upon our delivery according to the course of law Doth it not further appear by the refusing to take from our hands a Copy of the strange ET CETERA Warrant by which we were committed and of the paper by which we were apprehended to read it or cause it to be read that so our long sufferings by reason of both might be lookt into and weighed in the law whether just or righteous and the Countrie might as well see our innocency and sufferings without a cause and the manner of dealing with us a●●o hear such reports as went of us as great offenders when we called upon thee often so to do and which thou oughtest to have done and said'st thou would'st do it but did'st it not nor so much as took notice before the Countrie that we had been falsly imprisoned and had wrongfully suffered But what might asperse and charge us thou brought'st in thy self contrary to law and did'st call to have us charged therewith Is not this further manifest in that thou didst cause us on a suddain to be withdrawn and the pety Jurors to be called in with their verdict Who upon Peter Ceelyes falsly accusing G. F. with telling him privately of a design and perswading him to joyn therein it was by G. F. made so clear and manifest a falsehood and so plainly to be perceived that the cause of our sufferings was not any evill we had done or law that vve had transgressed but malice and wickedness And is it not abundantly clear In thy not permitting us to ans●er and clear our selves of the many fowl slanders charged upon us in the nevv found Indictment of which no proof vvas made but when we were answering thereunto and clearing our selves thereof thou us didst stop saying Thou mindest not those things but onely the putting off the Hat When as before the Country the new found Indictment charged us with those things and the pety Jurors brought in their verdict guilty of the trespasses and contempts mentioned therein of which except as to the Hat not one witness was produced ●r evidence and as to the Hat not any lavv or judiciall President upon the transgression of which all legall Indictments are onely to be grounded Now the lavv seeks not for cause whereby to make the innocent to suffer but helpeth him to Right who suffers wrong and releeveth the oppressed and searcheth out the matter vvhether that of which a man stands accused be so or no seeking judgement and hastening righteousness and it saith the innocent and the righteous slay thou not But whether thou hast done so to us or to the contra y let the witness of God in thee search and judge as these thy fruits do also make manifest And f●iend consider how abhominablie wicked and how highly to be abhor'd denyed and witnessed against and how contrary to the law such a proceeding is as to charge a man with many offences in an Indictment which those who draw the Indictment and prosecu●●●nd find the bill know to be false and to be set in purposely to reproach and wound his good name whom with some small matter which they can prove they charge and Indict as is the common practise at this day Prove but one particular charge in the Indictment and it must stand say they for a true Bill though there be never so many falsehoods therein and lyes on set purpose to wrong him who is maliciously persecuted This is known to the Iudges and almost to every man who hath to do with and attends their Courts and how contrary to the end and righteousness of the law which clears the innocent and condemns the guilty and condemneth not the righteous with the wicked and much it is cryed out against but of it what is there of Reformation How else shall Clerks of Assize and other Clerks of Courts fill up their bags out of of which perhaps their Master must have a secret consideration and be heightned in pride and impudence that even in open Courts they take upon them to check and revile man without reproof when a few lines may serve instead of a hundred How else shall the spirit that is in men that lusteth unto envie malice strife contention be cherished and nourished to feed the Lawyers and dependants on Courts with the bread of mens children and the ruine of their families to maintain their long Sutes and malicious contentions I mind not these things I le not hear you clear your selves of what you are falsly accused one thing I mind in your charge the rest are but matter of forme set there to render you such wicked men before the Countrie which the thing that i● to be proved on you is not able O abhominable wick●d●ess and perverting of the righteous end of the law wh ch is so carefull and tender of every mans peace and innocencie How is th● Law in the administration thereof adulterated by the Lawyers As the Scriptures are mangled by the Priests 〈◊〉 th●● w●●ch ●as made to preserve the right●ous and to punish the 〈…〉 to the punishing of the righteous and ●●e pr●se●● 〈◊〉 ●f th● 〈◊〉 An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth life for life burning for burning a wound f r a wound a stripe for a stripe he that accuseth a man falsly to suffer the same as he should have suffered who was falsly accused this saith the righteous law of God which is agreeable to that of God in every mans conscience Are not such forms of iniquitie to be denyed which are so contrary to the law of God and man which serve for the gendring of strife and the kindling of contention And of this nature was not that with which thou didst cause us to be Indicted and this forme didst not thou uphold in not permitting us to answer to the many foul slanders therein saying those things thou mindest not Will not the wrath of God be revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men Who hold the truth in unrighteousness Who are so far from the power of godliness that they have not the forme but the form of iniquity which is set up and upheld instead of and as a law to overthrow and destroy the righteousness of the righteous and so to set him up as by the law he can never get out Is

those who come to visit them the Letters he finds on such he breaks open and detains as he pleaseth their Cloaths and Pockets he searcheth and rifles their persons he abuseth with filthy and unsavory expressions he searched a womans head for Letters with his own hands taking her fowl Cloaths out of her Hat and searching them also A Cheese sent to Edward Pyott the Gaoler violently took away saying he would carry it to the Mayors for therefore was the Watch and Ward set at every Gate to stop all things that should go to and from them which is not restored to this day And William Salt after his being taken by order of the Sessions out of that noysome poysonous hole called Domesdale where he had been ill in his body walking to Poulsons Bridge that parts Devon and Cornwall being a mile or thereabouts out of the town to take the wholesome ayr upon encouragement thereof and of Captain Bradens having given securitie for their true Imprisonment for that very end that they might not be closely restrained and cruelly used as they had been by the Gaoler This Mayor having notice thereof caused to be taken and brought before him having set out Scouts and Watches to meet him at his return and having himself rifled his Pockets and taken away his Letters to the darke house he committed him telling him he would shew him a Law to morrow and after he had lyen two nights and a day there by his order sent for him and scoffed him and asked him whether he would go into Devonshire again and so sent him to the Gaoler who was a Prisoner in the County prison a prisoner upon security for his true Imprisonment over whom the Mayor had no power but the same Spirit of crueltie ruling in him against the Innocent as in the Gaoler he seeks and takes every opportunitie to manifest it and in this merciless act hath exceeded the Gaolers unreasonable practice and inhumane brutishness But by that time he comes to understand by feeling the wages of his unrighteousness what he hath done herein and in the disturbing of peaceable people in their travelling searching them and breaking open their Letters taking away and detaining their Books and Papers and misusing them as hath been said he will have little cause to boast or glory but the contrary And thus from this Gaoler Recorder and Mayor have the Innocent suffered without mercy These are they who have joyned hand in hand together to make up the threefold Cord of their cruell persecution He that reads what hath been rehearsed of these three may see their faces hearts and hands one and the same as is the Spirit that rules them The first causeth them to suffer the second helps on and then laughs at their sufferings on the seat of judgement instead of doing them right The third reacheth forth his hand to make them further to suffer where the two former cannot But the Recorder is the Counsellor from him proceeds the encouragement and strength of the other two This is he as is said that was one of the secluded Members of the long Parliament who after the Kings death being asked in whose name the Orders of Court should pass answered in the name of T. Gewen Esquire Recorder of Lanceston when as the Act of Parliament said In the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England who in disdaine and scorn asked who they were Who in the last Parliament was very zealous for a King and a House of Lords The Mayor is he who was once put by that office for his disaffection to the Common-wealth and the prisoners in their day having borne their testimony against those interests as they do now against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness no wonder if at their hands they receive all manner of cruelties now that they are put under their feet and delivered up as a prey and a scorn to all who as to the interest of the Common-wealth to which they firmly stood could not be overcome by the Sword or War but overcame the Interests that these men pursued and therein these men and all their Accomplices And no wonder to see such men as these creeping into places of power thereby to have their opportunities of revenge on such and of making the Government under which they are to stink and become intollerable because of oppression and crueltie and of separating between those who are chief in Rule and their former constant friends And is it not a fair game thus to play whilst it passeth undescerned acting under the power of authoritie which when it is become sufficiently naked weak and abort'd if a blow then come it may be sure to hit and repentance may be too late Men walk not in such mystery in these dayes but they are easily discerned as opportunitie serveth their old interest appears to lie in the bottome sure and unmoveable though their faces look another way thither they rowe hath it not very lately appeared so throughout England is it not a fair warning Ethiopians cannot change their Skin nor Leopards their spots Let not men be mistaken so they shall find it In the sufferings of these Innocent servants of the Lord who have been thorougly faithfull to the Common-wealth mentioned in this relation in this County of Cornwall appear no less than two of the eleven Members whom the Army impeached viz. John Glynne then Recorder of London dismist of that place as an enemy to the Common-wealth and Army now Chief Justice of the upper Bench and Anthony Nicholls who knows how much he had a hand in bri●gi●g in the Scotch Army in 1648. into England and how well known it was then as was his other actions and its like may remember who it was that was proclaimed a Traytor by the Army and sought after as such a one who its like should be called to a strict account for what he hath now done to the innocent con●rary to Law would flie from it himself and lay it on the back of the Priests as he did the former when the Army had him Prisoner To whom he said that the Priests laying it upon them in the Parliament as no less than damnation that such a Company of Hereticks and Schismaticks as were the Army should pass into Ireland which lay then viz. the honest interest in a sad bleeding and dying posture was the reason of what they did and of their attempt to break the Army which they endeavoured under the pretence of the relief thereof and placing such Officers for conduct as might serve that end under whom they knew the Souldiery would not engage Yet this man now oh how warme is he how secure doth he think himself under the Government of the Army and the Chief Officers thereof Two inn●cent men he sent to prison who have suffered as hath been in part related with the cause of their suffering under which they yet lye and whosoever comes

of a mans innocency and the defence of his liberty As he hath outstripped the Jews who said to Paul and his Companions men and Brethren if ye have a word of exhortation to the people say on Acts 13.15.16 and all manner of honesty and justice in urging a man to go to the assembly to hear and then judge and when he hath heard patiently till all was ended and every one silent then speaking a few words of soberness and truth to stir up the people to hale him out who before attentively heard him to call to the Constable to take him away to call such words of truth vilifying to say such things were not to be suffered to send him to prison with a warrant filled with lyes false accusations as there is non sence in that passage untill you he be thence delivered to bid the Constable to sell his horse to bear the charge And insultingly to tell him when he had done all this that he would warrant he might now lye long enough in prison who by reason of him had stayd 235. dayes in prison a little before as hath been aforesaid This is P. Ceely and his communion of Saints this is he whose unparalleld wickedness is the burden of this relation with whom it begins with whom it ends whose iniquity hath no end whose rage hath no bound whose cruel●y is without mercy and whose inhumanity is without naturall affection who is envious malicious proud fiery a boaster a blasphemer a filthy speaker a curser a scoffer a reviler a railer a lyar a persecutor an oppressor a truce-breaker a false accuser a despiser of those that are good a traytor heady high-minded cruell implacable unreasonable whose heart is as hard as the neather milstone whose conscience is seared as with an hot Iron whose forehead is as Brass and flint and whose neck as of Iron sinnews impudent hard hear●ed who makes the last days perilous who hath filled up a large measure of iniquity as this very relation beareth witness one who hath sold himself to commit wickedness who after the long illegall cruell barbarous monstrous causelesss unheard of sufferings of the innocent occasioned by him as hath been said and much more which is past over in silence contrary to the Law of God and of man civill and naturall to modesty justice reason honesty and all humanity as one not satiated therewith still ravening after the Blood of the Innocent cast's W. Salt into the same prison again within 6. dayes after his release from under t●e hand of his mercilesse cruelty and insatiable bloodiness with such treachery fa●shood and ungodliness as hath been in part expressed thus treasuring up unto himself after the hardnesse impenitency of his heart wrath unto the day of wrath and Revelation of the righteous Judgement of God which shall destroy the adversary and render unto him according to his deeds And all this is but part of what the Innocent servants of the Lord have suffered in the Goale of Lanceston in the County of Cornwall and do yet suffer in the Goale of Exon in the County of Devon where they are still continued though one of them be lately (*) Jane Ingram committed by John Champion Justice so called and recommitted by Judge N●cholas one of the Fruits of the Order for the Guards for which the Justice of the righteous God they must answer dead divers others of them sick with the poysonous nastiness of that filthy place where they were cast in heaps together in and amongst the fellons and murderers first by the Justices then by Judge Nicholas And if any man aske wherefore is all this It is answered for none other cause then for giving forth a paper in compassion to the ignorant at the movings of the Lord stirring them up to prise their time and shewing them the way to salvation in the words of the Scriptures of truth as the paper it self at large in the beginning of this relation manifests and for going to visit the Innocent thus and for this cause cast into prison and under such cruell sufferings is this England are these the people that have gone through such wars which have made the world to ring for liberty of conscience Who talk so much of Christ and his glorious Gospell and yet thus persecute the life of the Son of God now made manifest Not that our lives are in these things is this written but that every thing may be shewn and laid in its own place But this is not all yet this generation have yet to fill up the measure of their iniquity in this their hour the powers of darkness they must yet shew themselves to be more blind and bru●tish cruell and unreasonable than the generations whom they have succeeded in persecuting of the just and to be such as are as unsatiable as hell whom the sufferings and blood of the Innocent doth not suffice or make them once to say it is enough they must make it to appear that one and the same spirit of ravening and cruelty is in and acts through the diversities of painted formes of Godliness without the power and the glorious outsides of profession without the life as is in and acts through the outwardly more dark and filthy part of the world against the truth of the living God where it is made manifest and that they and them all are of the same stock lineage and kindred having all one Father him who aboad not in the truth the Devill the murderous persecutor of the seed of God throughout all ages from the beginning Therefore the wisedome of God sent again some of his Innocent servants who had long and sorely suffered in and were released out of the Goale at Lanceston as hath been said into that County of Cornwall to trie and prove this generation further and to bring forth to the light what had layn hid in the bottome of the hearts of some under the cover and shew of friendship and sence of their sufferings Which will appear when that which follows of the apprehension and imprisonment of Joseph Coale one of the late prisoners aforesaid by P. Ceely and the return of him and W. Salt from the Sessions at Bodmin prisoners to Lanceston by Collonel Bennet aforesaid who sate Judge of the Court and the carriage of Coll. Bennet towards them in the Court and the passages there now to be rehearsed as the close of this relation being added to what hath been but now said of the imprisonment of W. Salt by P. Ceely shall together be considered with moderation and weighed in judgement Joseph Coale having been after his imprisonment aforesaid to visit some friends in Cornwall as he vvas travelling peaceably on the vvay about the 30. of the 7. month Peter Ceely met him vvho envying to see him at liberty and free of adversity and bonds out of his unsatiable cruelty and murderous malice for no other cause than for seeing of him travell quietly on