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A76750	The Cry of blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jewes reconciled, and in conspiracy with the dragon, to devour the manchild. Being a declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the city of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold sufferings, and persecutions sustain'd by them from the priests, rulers, professors and rude multitude, contrary to law, liberty, justice, government, the righteous ends of of the wars, and the Scriptures of truth. Together with a true account of the material passages in substance between the rulers and them at their several examinations, and commitments, and at two general sessions of the publick peace: and of the tumults, and insurrections, with other necessary observations, and occurences. Gathered up, written in a roll, and delivered to John Gunning late mayor of that city (being the fruits of his year) for the private admonition, and conviction of himself, and brethren concern'd, and named therein: with a letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a copy followes in the ensuing pages) / Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five moneths space of time published, for the reasons hereafter expressed.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1656 (1656)	Wing B2990; Thomason E884_3; ESTC R27277	101,853	169

countenancing and abetting such unlawful assemblies and consequently of all the mischiefs and sad effects which already have or may for the future therefrom proceed Ought you upon any consideration to bear with a Ryot and not to suppress and punish it If others upon pretence of whom it 's raised have offended the Law send for them afterwards and on them let the Law have its course If the instances already produced be not full enough to make this appear as indeed they are those hereafter mentioned will make it up abundantly And yet how are they not ashamed in actions so palpable and grosse carried on by them illegally and by the multitude with Tumults to lay it on those as the occasion who are injured and oppressed and do suffer by them and the multitude contrary to Law and Justice Is any thing done to your Congregations or Priests more than the Scriptures warrant or that consisteth not with the nature freedom which ought to be in publique assemblies about Religious exercises and what was used by the Servants of Christ Cannot the Priests hear or make answer quietly if there be occasion and leave it to those that sit by to judge Cannot you nor your Priests bear a few words spoken in the Name of the Lord but you must call it a disturbance If the Lord speaks by those poor contemptible instruments as he doth and many do witnesse it Then take heed you be not found amongst the proud and scornfull and fighters against God for Jesus Christ is yesterday to day and the same for ever And you are fallen upon such times of the Son of man that ye are not aware of Your Priests may say any thing yet all is well but he that tells a Lyar he lies and a blasphemer that he speaks blasphemy and that the Lord hath pronounced woes to those who say The Lord saith when he never sent them nor spoke to them though the Lord raise up as he hath at this day his witnesses amongst your sonnes and your daughters to testifie against such to their faces and in so doing through beatings prisons fire and blood will it carry them and woe be to them if they obey not the Lord therein that must not be born tumults imprisonments new Lawes where you have no power to ena●t any thing to work them sufferings Oh what will become of you that thus strike against the Corner stone that will dash you to pieces that thus limit the holy One of Israel And by your Lawes and actions say that his Spirit shall not testifie now that the true Ministry is come against the false Ministry which stands in the time and will of man and against the false worships and bowings in your houses of Rimmon be they what they will or the deceipt But you will stop the mouthes of his witnesses imprison and permit them to be beaten even in your Synagogues Do ye thus provoke the Lord Are ye stronger than he O ye sons of men that are as a thing of nought that are lesse than the dust of the earth who would set the thorns and the briars against him in battel he will go thorough you and burn you together and consume you as stubble that is fully dry yea verily he will cause all his enemies to be brought and to be slain before him Consider this O ye that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you If Priests knew 't was in vain to speak at random others having the same Liberty to object as they have to speak And if the people were assured that they should surely endure the Law in case of Tumults the Pulpits would cease to be the Places of Contention and the giving out of trouble in all the Land England hath paid for these Priests and Pulpits in streams of blood already and they would be more wary what they said there or reported and the people would quickly be still and quiet Nay it may be said Bristol would be the most orderly City in England and most easily governed But being heated by the Priests and encouraged by the Magistrates thence proceed those outrages of which England doth ring And indeed it is not so much the fault of the People as of the other who should instruct and otherwise order them And do ye not blush to put so grosse an untruth as the coming of strangers to this City who you say can render no good accompt of their being here as the other ground of those great tumults and unlawfull assemblies of such evil consequences as you mention and tendencies to future mischiefs and sad effects How do ye know they can render no good accompt of their being here John Camm and John Audland who were thus tumulted were never before you nor examined by you yet have they given a good accompt of their coming amongst many witnesses If to be Englishmen born and living near Kendall in Westmerland where their abode hath been all their time except in the Wars and this Ministry where their outward habitations and Families at present are and estates If to have alwaies lived soberly and unblameably in the world If to have been 6. or 7. years in Arms for the Parliament mostly on their own costs and to have fought and performed eminent service in the field and faithfully to have discharged other places of trust If to have been alwaies constant to the Publique Interest and as active in their places for it as any in those parts If to come to this City in obedience to the Lord from their Habitations Friends and Relations out of love to your soules to preach the everlasting Gospel of Christ Jesus of which he hath made them able Ministers to the turning of many hundreds in this City besides other places from darknesse to light and from the Kingdom of Satan unto God who are the seales of their Ministry and witnesses to the Power and life of God in them If to be here in all Self-denyal Peaceablenesse Long-suffering not chargeable to any not breaking any Law ready to prove by the Scriptures wha●soever they hold forth being what they seem and doing what they say pressing obedience to God and Man Relations and G●●ernors from the obedience of Christ according to the Will of God If the account of these things be the rendring of a good reason of their being here as it is undeniably Then of these things an account hath been already and the Town-Clerk knowes it and can further be given were it requisite or were that indeed the thing you minded And yet how say you they cannot render any good reason of their being here and place that as a cause of the great Tumults aforesaid and unlawfull assemblies Who had cause more greatly to be affrighted though in the power of the Lord they were not at all And whose safety peace and welfare was more endangered either those on whom the outrages aforesaid have been acted or those who raised

breach of any one Law either of God or the Nation was proved against him yet they sent him back to Newgate Prison where they keep him from his employment which should maintain his family Then William Foord was called being out of Prison William Foord his Triall upon sureties to whom the Town-Clark spake concerning his being bound to the good behaviour which he denyed Wherefore are you here then said the Town-Clark He answered he Came there to Cleere those of their bonds who had bound themselves unknown unto him for his appearance upon which they searched their Papers and were silent Afterwards the Town-Clark asked him for what he was examined at the Tolsey and imprisoned He asked whether they had it not upon R●cord then they called for Richard Goodwin supposing he had been the man that prosecuted against him But that not serving their turn they seeing Thomas Hayter they asked him He told them it was for keeping a stranger at work Then the Town-Clark asked William Foord where the Stranger was He answered He knew not when saw you him said the Town Clark He replyed he had not seene him a great while the Town-Clark asked Thomas Hayter whether he knew where he was He answered he knew not but thought he was out of Town Then the Town-Clark asked him whether he was sorry for what he had done He answered he had committed no evill therefore he had no cause of sorrow nor had he broken any Law which being urged again and again and he still refusing they Commanded the Keeper of Newgate to to take him away And lastly Christopher Birkhead was brought before them from Bridewell where he had been a Prisoner five weeks and three dayes for standing silent in the Steeple-house till the Priest required him to speak as aforesaid To whom he said I stand in obedience to the Righteous Law of God in my Conscience I have neither offended the Law of God nor the Nation whereupon Alderman Joseph Jackson stood up in fury and asked him whether he would contemne the Court He answered He contemned not those who judged Righteously Then Robert Aldworth asked him whether he was sorry for disturbing the Congregation at Nicholas He answered He disturbed no man where was his accusers Robert Aldworth replyed that must come after Joseph Jackson said take him away untill he find sureties for his good behaviour So they put him from the barre But Christopher stood up again and said first prove me to be of evill behaviour but he heard them make no answer and so he was put by without any examination of the cause of his imprisonment or what he had done Neither was an accuser brought against him though he had been so long in prison as they were swearing the Jury he was moved of the Lord to speak to them and said All these that swear are out of the Doctrine of Christ to which they hearkened not but returned Christopher with the other five aforementioned to Newgate Prison with the transgressors amongst whom they were caused to stand● and were numbred though four of them have families which depended upon their liberty for maintenance as is well known to these Rulers who care not how they oppresse a man and his house and take the Parents from their Children and husbands from their Wives and Wives from their Husbands and Masters from their families not fearing the Lord who hath said Against such he hath devised an evill out of which they shall not remove their necks nor goe haughtily for the time is evill and that he will come neere to Judgement and be a swift witness against such And with them they also returned to prison and continue there Richard Jones who hath always Richard Jones been faithfull to the Parliament and in their service hath often stoutly adventured his life lost his estate and severall times been a Prisoner twice in this City whom they committed the 28. day of the 6. month and kept in durance from his family which depended upon him for maintenance for some evill words which he had spoken above a year since Concerning George Hellier then Major in the time of his Ignorance and Heathenish nature wherein as he Confessed and spake in the Court he ran with the world into the same excesse of riot into evill words wicked wayes and customes of the world which after his Conversion and becoming obedient to the truth were remembred against him though spoken by him so long before and he punished as aforesaid beyond the directions of any known Law in that particular Now all evill speaking is denyed by the Children of the light and by him also as he said to the Court in these words since the day hath appeared of my Convincement and Coversion the grace of God that hath appeared to all men teaching the Saints to deny all ungodlyness and worldly lusts the same grace hath appeared unto me and doth teach me to deny all ungodliness worldly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present evill wo●ld But as to all the tumults riots insurrections violences outrages beatings injuries and abuses aforementioned raised acted and committed upon the Innocent servants of the Lord the witnesses of Jesus no enquiry and proceedings according to Law were had either at this Sessions or at the Gaol delivery or at the Sessions 19. day of the Eleventh month 16 4. nor at any other time except as before expressed Nor any one offender therein questioned and proceeded with according to Law to this day though of so unheard of and unsufferable a nature and so contrary to Law Justice Order Government Humility and the Scriptures of Truth On the fift day of the ninth month five of the Prisoners aforesaid viz. John Smith Richard Jones Christopher Birkhead who had been there sick about a fortnight Margaret Thomas and William Foord who also had been sick were turned out of Prison upon two becoming baile unknown to them or any of their friends for their appearance onely at the next Generall Sessions of which they having information after they had notice from the Keepers servants that they might go forth protested against their being freed on that accompt and also for clearing their Consciences and that the truth might not suffer wrote to one of them advising him to take up their Bond least they should bring themselves into trouble and to let them stand to their own Master who would deliver them for that in the will of God they stood and not in their own or in their own time and did not know whether the Lord might carry them to bear witness to his name before the time came and moreover that they did not accept of deliverance at all by any such means who were innocent did suffer for the truth of God according to their measures Notwithstanding they put them forth And Temperance Hignell who was knockt down to the ground to the astonishment of her sences and afterwards sorely beat and bruised and

Lord's Justices said the Maior He replyed If you be the Lords Justices I am Whereupon one of the Aldermen said without any more words passing at that time aforesaid for they asked him no other question but what is already mentioned or the least signification of the reason of their sending for him We see what he is take him Committed away to Newgate and commanded the Officer to carry him away and so he was immediately brought thither where the Keeper received him without a Mittimus and kept him close prisoner a great part of that time permitting none to come to him but his Wife for which he said he had order from the Maior On the second day of the second moneth he was sent for from prison before them again and stood before them in the Councell-house as they required where he standing a while they bade him go forth saying not a word more to him Hereupon he went forth and stood at the door then he was bid to go down and by and by the Sword-Bearer brought order from the Magistrates to carry him to prison again Out of which that evening he was released having been kept there for the space of 19. dayes from his Calling and a close prisoner a great part of the time and at no time did they then or have they to this day signified to him the cause of their sending for him or of his Commitment though his Wife desired it of the Maior who refused so to do the man being of a very sober and honest Conversation and alwaies a friend to the Common-wealth Sara Goldsmith being moved to put on a Coat of Sarah Goldsmith 5th day 3d. moneth 1655. going through the Town in a Coat of hair Sackcloth of hair next her to uncover her head and to put earth thereon with her hair hanging down about her and without any other clothes upon her except shoes on her feet and in that manner to go to every Gate and through every Street within the Walls of the City and afterwards to stand at the High Crosse in the view of the Town and Market as a sign against the Pride of Bristol and to abide in that habit so the space of seven daies In obedience whereunto though very crosse to her own will she chearfully prepared her Garment being in the manner of a Coat down to the ground And on the day appointed her being the last day of the week and the fifth day of the third moneth taking with her two friends to accompany her went forth about the fourth hour in the morning and having finished her going to the Gates and thorough the Streets some People following of them but doing them no harm she returned home and at the ninth hour came to the High Crosse with one of the friends aforementioned a great multitude following and there stood for the space of half an hour till the tumult which consisted of many hundreds grew so violent and assaulted so much her self and friend who stood with her that they were enforced thorough the help of some whom they knew not but were made friendly to repair to a shop near out of which the multitude cryed to have them thrown that they might assault them but the Chamberlaine with some of the Sergeants came and brought them thence to the Councel-house out of respect as he said to their safety from the Tumult which filled the Streets thereabouts When they had been a little while in the inner Tolzey the Maior came in and Joseph Jackson who stampt with his foot and grew much enraged and furious as soon as he saw her but the Maior called Sara to him and asked Examined her what was her reason to appear in the City in such a habit She answered It was in obedience to the light in her Conscience What if you said the Maior in your obedience had been killed by the rude multitude She replyed I am in the hands of him who ruleth all things I have harmed none yet I have been harmed Neither have I broken any Law by which I can be brought under any censure Then Joseph Jackson demanded of her the same question that the Maior did concerning her habit She only replyed I have said Say it over again said he She answered thou heardst me But I have forgot it said he The replyed I stand not in mine own will Whereupon some said she was mad To which the friend answered I bear witnesse she is not mad Look here 's one said Joseph Jackson bears witnesse Sara replyed she bears witnesse I am not mad If I had appeared in Gay clothing then you would not have been troubled which were all the words then spoken by her Then Joseph Jackson furiously demanded of her friend what her name was She gave it to him Then he asked her how long she had been with Sara She stood silent He demanded of her why she came up in the City with Sara She replyed because Sara was her friend Do you own her said he She answered I do own her VVherefore said he came she in this habit She replyed There she was she was sufficient to answer for her self and said no more Then the Maior at the instigation of Joseph Jackson for the Maior was advising how he might send Sara home safely ordered them to be sent to Bridewell and seeing Anne the wife of Nicholas Gannecliffe standing by Joseph Jackson demanded of her whether she owned Sara To which Anne answered yea I own her to be a servant of the living God and as the Scripture saith I and the Children whom thou hast given me are for signs and Wonders so behold she is as a sign a wonder to you this day Then Joseph Jackson said Take her away to prison too She lives said the Maior without the Liberties of the City Send her away notwithstanding said he Then Sara told them That Anne had not been with her but coming to Market upon her occasions and seeing the Tumult about her came to her which was the truth notwithstanding all three were Anne Gannicliffe Margaret Wood for being with owning her Committed sent to Bridewell the Tumult who standing in great numbers before the Councel house all the while the Maior examined them following them thither where by Order of the Maior as the Keeper said were they kept close prisoners so strict that no friends were permitted to come to them nay their Husbands were sometimes denyed and the Mother of the friend and their Servants who brought them provisions and when any of them had admittance it was with very much ado and after long waiting till Nicholas Gannercloffe brought witnesses and demanded before them his wife of the Keeper who denyed to release her or to give him the reason of her being there detained and only said it was by the Maiors Order nor would the Keeper permit them the first night to light a Candle or to make any fire till about noon the next day

from the Lord to John Knowls after he had dismist the people by command of an Alderman laid hands on by the multitude violently assaulted and beaten with staves and cudgels in the place and after she was hurried out taken into Custody by order of the same Alderman And being brought before him and the Mayor examined and sent to prison without a Mittimus and the next day brought in Custody from the prison before the Magistrates and by them charged with nothing as to the cause of her Commitment after she had been ezamined as aforesaid but as to her Message delivered a week before to Ralph Farmer as aforesaid And for this she is Committed again to Prison as they pretend though they denyed her a Mittimus being by her demanded again and again and permitted no friend to come into the Councel chamber with her But the Mayor punished none of those who made the tumult in the Steeple-house before his face and who assaulted her with violence crushing and haling her nor caused the Peace to be kept nor did Ralph Farmer desire any such thing or that the woman might have liberty to speak and he to answer but called out to the Mayor in the midst of the tumult to take a course with her Nor did the Mayor punish or call to an account any of those who beat her with staves and cudgels and otherwise assaulted abused her at the Colledge or that made the tumults but imprisoned her both times laying the tumults raised on her wherein she was beaten and in so much danger and on whom the Peace was broken to her charge though as to any cause wherefore she was committed and continued for the space of about eight weeks a prisoner it appears not by any Mittimus to this day And thus was John Worring sent for by the Magistrates for speaking after another had begun to one who was no Priest and who but 3 or 4 days before said at a meeting in the presence of near three hundred people that he scorned the name and the office of a Minister and publickly said that he sinned in every thing he did A●d after examination committed to Prison without any Mittim●● and continued there for the space of fourty days though an Apprentice But neither was the tumult enquired after according to Law that was raised upon him nor those who struck and beat him in the place nor the Constables present who kept not the Peace But instead thereof when he said he was beaten and kickt Joseph Jackson said a Luke 2. 42. 46. if he had had his brayns knockt out he had his amends b Acts 9. 20. 13. 5. 14. 14. 1. 17 10. 17. 18. 4. 19. 26 19. 8. in his hands and when he would not own what was falsly alleadged against him to be true though what he had spoken he confessed was reproached by the said Alderman with the ignominious name of a Cut-purse So that whether the Priest be spoken c Acts 17. 16 to the end to when he hath ended all except his blessing or d Acts 17. 17. when by having said his blessing he hath dismist e Acts 19. 9. f Acts 28. 30 31. the people Or whether it be to a Priest or to one that scorns the name and Office of a Minister and g Sergius Paulus Governour of P●phos Acts 13. 7. 47. The Rulers of the Synagogue saith he sins in all things he doth and be the words what they will or the occasion it appears all is one to those who rule by their Lusts not by Law When as a Antioch in Pisidia Acts 13. 5. At Ephesus Acts 18. 19. 20. Publius Governour of Miletum Acts 28. 10 11. Christ was permitted at twelve years old to dispute with the Doctors in the Tepmle And the b At Rome two years no man forbidding Acts 28. 31. A● Antioch a year Acts 11. 26. At Ephesus 3 moneths Acts 19. 8. At Corinth a year 6. months Acts 17. 11. At Iconium a long time Acts 14. 3. At Caesaria many dayes Acts 21. 10. Apostles spake and reasoned and disputed in the Synagogues amongst Jews and Gentiles amongst the c Athenians in the d Market daily with those that met with him and on Mars hill and in Ephesus and in the e School of Tyrannus and at f Rome and were desired so to do by some of the g Rulers and permitted by others for some h space of time And in the Churches of Christ all might i 1 Cor. 14. 29 30 31. Prophecy one by one and if any thing be revealed to him that sitteth by let the first hold his peace And the Prophets two or three might speak the rest judge And it seemed to k Acts 25. 27. Festus the Romane Governour a thing unreasonable to send a prisoner and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him it was the l Jeroboam Ahab Jezabel c. wicked Kings and Princes and People of Israel and Judah that caused the Messengers of the Lord to be imprisoned and his servants to be evil entreated and that said unto the m Esay 30. 10. Jer. 11. 21. Amos 2. 12. 7. 13. 15. Micah 2. 6. Prophets prophecy not n 2 Chro. 36. 15 16. Jer. 7. 25. 25. 4. 35. 15 26. 5. 29. 19. 32. 33. 44. 4. though he sent them rising up early saying O do not the abominable thing that I hate till there was no remedy and both o 2 Kings 17. 18. 20. 23. Israel p 2 Kings 24. 3. and Judah were removed out of his sight And it was the q Jer. 5. 12. 33. 17. false Prophe●s that perswaded them so to do saying no evil shall befall you and that the r Amos 7. 10. land was not able to bear the words of those who speak from the mouth of the Lord And it vvas the High Priests and the Chief of the Jewes and the devout and honourahle so called that crucified him that spake from s 1 Cor. 2. 8. Luke 23. 10. 13. 23 24. Acts 13. 5. 14. 19. 17. 17. 14. 2. 5. 17. 5 6 7 8. heaven and stirred up the Rulers of the Synagogues and the multitude to oppose and persecute his Apostles vvhom before they disturbed not And as to the t See Magna Charta Stat. Westm Petition of Right The trialls of the late King and of Strafford and Canterbury ancient Law of this Nation It is a special Fundamental That none be taken or imprisoned but according to the Law of the Land viz. by lawful Warrant or Mittimus of one or more who are lawfully authorized under his or their hands and seals which Warrant or Mittimus must contain the cause of the Commitment and must conclude Until he that is Committed be delivered by Law for above all things the Law doth value the Liberty of a mans person Therefore complaint was made in the Parliament 3. Charles against the King

and Lords for sending several Merchants of London to Prison with Warrants which contained not the cause of their Commitment To salve which the Petition of Right was then granted which confirmed Magna Charta and the Statute of Westm 1. wherein this fundamental Law is contained And to act contrary hereunto is to subvert the fundamental Law For which the late King Strafford and Canterbury were impeached attainted and executed as Traytors against the fundamental Lawes and Liberties of the Nation And against this fundamental Law no particular usage 25 Edw. 1. Cap. 2. Coke upon Con. c. f. 527. or Custom of any particular place is of force All which as it appears these Magistrates neither accompt nor regard nor their heads nor estates for they commit men to prison without any Warrant or Mittimus and have denyed it to about 20. persons of whom particularly this Treatise makes mention though severall of them earnestly and often demanded it Also freedom of the exercise of the profession of Faith in Christ Jesus though differing in Judgment from the Doctrine worship or discipline publiquely held forth is a fundamental in the present u See the Government Art 37. Constitution And for all to prophesie and when any thing is revealed to another that sitteth by for the first to hold his peace And that all may speak one by one was exercised in the true Church of Christ of which the Scriptures bear Record as aforesaid and is a true profession and exercise of faith in Jesus Christ And for that absolete Act Mary 1. on which the Priests and Magistrates pretend to lay the legality of their proceedings in this case It is well known to have been made in the time of Popery for the defence of the Romish Popish Priests in the time of their Service from the testimony of those Protestants whom then God mightily raised up to bear testimony against their Idolatrous Doctrines and services who witnessed against them thorough flames of fire All which Doctrines and Services being wholly removed the effect must needs cease with the cause and the Defence when that which is defended is taken away And 1 Eliz. c. 2. repeales and makes utterly void and of none effect all Lawes Statutes and Ordinances wherein or whereby any other service than that of the Common-Prayer is limited established or set forth And that Act aforesaid 1 Mar. amounteth to the establishing of the Masse which is another service And yet neither are the Priests ashamed to desire nor do the Magistrates blush to defend them upon colour and pretence of that Statute nay to imprison where there is no offence by that Law were it in force and practicable for it protects the Romish Popish Priests from interruption onely in the time of Service Can those who claim the benefit and priviledges of that Law and are protected thereby otherwise be esteemed of than such as that Law qualifies and makes capable of the priviledges and protection therein provided And so is not the witnesse the same against which the provision is made as aforesaid and that which seeks the same defence of the same root and principle If the Priests will needs have that Law to be in force and to be defended thereby then let them not refuse to be accompted of and denominated as such whom that Law qualifies guardeth and defendeth viz. as Romish Popish Priests of Antichrist not as Protestants or Ministers of Jesus Christ for against the witnesse of God in such was that Law made and provided The great Tumult and R●et The Priests and People having understood by these illegal and oppressive proceedings how much these Magistrates had the truth and those who owned it in abomination were greatly encouraged to proceed in their opposition thereunto And resolutions were also had by an insurrection to quit the Town of those Servants of the most high who were so instrumentall in this day of the Lord because according to the way of Justice and the Law of the Land they being innocent it could not be done And such an expedient if it took might gratifie and answer all their opposites Therefore a Conspiracy was entred into and a design laid amongst Continued the Apprentices for that purpose and meetings had in order thereunto And as a Blind or pretext to this continued outrage a Petition was drawn to have been presented the Maior and Aldermen to turn them out of the Town and upon their refusing so to do for they knew that the Law authorized no such Injustice then to rise and not only to do their endeavours on them but on such as should assist them And in this Petition Priest Farmer was consulted to say no more and to execute this Plot goings there were from house to house and Master and man were prepared Mighty were the outgoings of the Lord on the first day of the week being the 17th of the 10th moneth in the publique meetings and mightily was the Dragon enraged thereat seeing his Kingdome shortned And therefore staid not till his Serpent wisdom by a Petition had turn●d his design into an insurrection but blowes up the heat of the rash and ungoverned Apprentices and rude multitude to lay hold on the first opportunity to put it by downright tumult into issue And therefore having understood that the third Raised on John Audland and John Camm 18th of the 10th moneth 1654. The first day day of the week following John Camm and John Audland who were of the first that came hither and were great labourers in the work of the Lord in Bristol were to passe over the Bridge to a meeting appointed at Brislington a mile or two from th●nce in the County of Somerset Resolutions were had to set upon them And accordingly the third day of the week in the morning being the 19th day of the 10th moneth they two passing peaceably over the Bridge and a friend with them offering no offence or injury to any severall Apprentices of Priest Farmers Parish followed after and passing by them to the South end of the Bridge turned about and giving a sign many other Apprentices came forth and other people and joyned with them who together fell violently on those innocent strangers and assaulted punched pulled and haled them back over the Bridge again towards the High Crosse their numbers being encreased to some Hundreds and their rage heightened that some cryed out Hang them presently others Knock them down and would have dragg'd them thorough Winestreet and so out of the City there to have executed their cruelty upon them but it pleased the Lord that others were hearkened to who spoke to have them brought before the Maior And so the Riot haled them into the Tolzey where their rage had been much upon them were it not that a friend present with much ado got them into his house near at hand and so rescued them About which the Ryot remained for some time threatening to assault it Those two being all that