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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94089	A true declaration of the bloody proceedings of the men in Maidstone in the county of Kent: who write themselves, John Allen, mayor, Lambert Godfrey, recorder, John Chantler, constable, against John Stubs, William Caton, who by the scornful generation of men are called Quakers.	Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing S6072; Thomason E843_2; ESTC R202134	8,916	8

A TRUE DECLARATION OF The bloody Proceedings OF The Men in Maidstone in the County OF KENT Who write themselves John Allen Mayor Lambert Godfrey Recorder John Chantler Constable against John Stubs William Caton who by the scornful generation of men are called QUAKERS AFter nine or ten weeks travel and labor of VVilliam Caton and Iohn Stubs into several towns villages in the County of Kent wee came into Maidstone upon the 27 day of the third moneth being the first day of the week about the third hour in the after-part of the day having bin at a Baptist-meeting the former part at a place called Bauton Green 2 or 3 miles distant from the said Maidstone coming thither as aforesaid we went to one VVhetstones house tho unknown to him or any man outwardly in the town and continuing there about half an hour one of us went to the Steeplehouse where a people called Presbyterians meets and the other went to a place where a people called Independants were and when they that were set up to teach amongst them had done all silent we spoke but with scorn and contempt I who were at the Steeplehouse was put forth but in the Steeplehouse-yard I spoke something to the people til that one Iohn Chantler Constable came to me in sury put me away gave another Constable charge with me by him carried to the Stocks where I was kept awhile then brought me forth and was had before one who writes himself Lambert Godfrey cal d a Justice of Peace Recorder there by him was e●amined what I was and from whence I came my education in my youth what vocation I had followed from my youth up unto this present and many subtil needless queries not worth mentioning but what I was free in the Lord to answer to I did notwithstanding his malicious intentions against me as afterward appeared I told him for the most part from a child I was kept at the School until I was seve●teen or eighteen years of age and some yeers after I was banished forth of my own Countrey in the Bishops and Prelates time for the testimony of a good conscience because I could not bow to that image which was by them set up and maintained by that power then in being and afterwards I was a Souldier neer from the beginning of the warrs in the Northern parts and told him when I came off the Souldiery and the cause wherefore then he asked what imployment I followed since and how I lived I told him I lived with my wife and children in Bishoprick nameing the place where but still he urged upon me again and again to know what I wrought and how I lived and who maintained me I told him the Lord maintained me and in him I lived moved and had my being but that would not satisfie him I must tell him what I followed for an outward livelihood then I told him that I had a Tenement of Land which did affoord me a sufficiency in the outward then saith hee you are a Husbandman I replyed that I was little brought up with it but thou may write me what thou wilt and he said he would set me on work tomorrow and get me a Master so he writes a Mittimus and sends me to prison to a place in the town called the Brambles and the next day I was called before him the said Godfrey and Iohn Allen Mayor and there examined again part of which I have already related in his former examination which he againe quired in the second examination they demanded further the moneth and yeer I came off the warrs and many other foolish and needless questions which were tedious to relate and he asked mee the time when I came from my outward being and when I came to London and my continuance and imployment there I told him my imployment and work was there to wait upon the Lord to write and speak as I was moved of the Lord against the deceit of Priests and People then they examined about our coming into Kent the time when we came from London the way we came the places wee came to the continuance in every place all which was told them accordingly and what wee did in D●ver and the Towns and Villages thereabouts and how wee were imployed I told him we were imployed in the work of the Lord in declaring as we were moved against the unjust dealings of men false ways and worships and when I would have spoken further they interrupted mee I told him if thou doe write take all my words and not some few onely what thou wilt and as thou wilt but take my words as I speak them so scoffingly he said they are pure words they must not want setting downe then they dimissed me from their Court and sent me to hold againe and shortly after sent for me and told me they had provided a Master for me and they brought forth a Statute and told me my wages was four pounds a yeer and meat and drinke I answered Wilt thou compell me to serve this man against my w●ll Here thou wilt exercise the office of a Tyrant produce one Sentence and clause of Law which I have broken if I have let me suffer accordingly and make it appeare before this people wherein I have transgressed or wherein thou hast power to make mee a Slave in thy will co become another mans servant and to limit me wages and time what Law hast thou for this O man fear the Lord and plead the cause of innocent and know that one day thou shalt finde God will judge thee and that justly and therefore beware what thou dost see that thou act not against me in thy owne will one sentence and clause of Law bring forth against mee let not thy will bee a Law I am no Childe that thou needs to tender any such thing to me as a Master I deny it and I spoke to him that they called my Master Friend thou wilt get no service of me against my will yet idleness I deny in my self and declares against it in others in my calling and work I am and he that called mee and sets mee on worke is the Lord which you know not then they sent me to prison againe all this while my deer fellow-labourer and fellow sufferer was absent from me being not then had to prison by those people called Independants but was at liberty is his Lodging where hee was all night at an Inne in the Towne but soone after they had done with mee they sent for him the manner of his Examination is as followeth I. VV. C. being at an Inne at the signe of the Bell in Maidstone there waiting for an opportunity to speak with my deare Brother was sent for by the Magistrate and being brought before him was by him examined where I dwelt and how long it was since I came from my outward being and which way and many more frivolous questions

to have persecuted and abused the Servants of the most high God whose eternall power is made manifest in them by which power he doth them preserve and keep in the time of tryall Therefore to that in all your Consciences do we speak that with the Light in you the unjust may come to judgment and so you may learn to judge according to that and that will bring you to lay the Law in its place upon the transgressors for the which end it was added because of transgression and here them that do well will be praised and incouraged by you and the evill doers terrified and this will be acceptable with God and such a power we honour in our souls and are subject to for Conscience sake so we have cleared our Consciences to you persecutors at Maidstone in laying open your crueltie against us without cause that herein you may see the evill of your doings and be ashamed and so come to repentance that for the time to come you may be awarned how you exercise your cruelty upon the innocent to that which is just in you all we speak which is your condemnation for your unjust proceedings Iohn Stubs VVilliam Caton CAIN was the Vagabond and the fugitive who had no habitation in God but wo from God proceeded against him for said God to him if thou do well shalt thou not be accepted if not sin lyes at thy dore and he did not well and he was wrath and his countenance fell and he was a persecutor of him that was in the faith and a Murderer and you be the Vagabonds and the Fugitives who persecute them that be in the faith though you may Sacrifice as Cain did your Sacrifice God doth not accept but wo from God doth proceed against you that are in Cains way persecutors envyers and Murderers full of wrath whose countenance falls as your fruits hath made appeare and the Vagabond fellows would have murdered Paul and the wandering Stars spoken of in Iude went in Cains way which is Envy Murther and Persecution which Abel is not which was in the faith and the faith is one the Apostles which were in the faith they saw the Vagabond fellows they saw the wandering Stars which went in Cains way and Balaams way from the Spirit of God with which Spirit we see such who are born not of the Spirit but of the flesh persecuting them who are not of the flesh but of the Spirit whose Sacrifice God accepts The Son of Man was no Vagabond he had no place to lay his head and the Apostles were no Vagabonds who had no certain dwell●ng place and such who are spoken of in the Hebrews who were in the Faith which were imprisoned and in Bonds with scourgings and tempted and afflicted and tormented and destitute but these were so at the Town called Maidstone through the Faith obtained a good report who are such as the world is not worthy looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of their Faith running their race with patience enduring the cross and despising the shame and knowing and seeing Jesus him that endured such speakings against of sinners in him we have faith from whom we have received it which gives us victory over the world which brings to inherit the promise And you at Maidstone who have shewed your unworthiness in not receiving the Servants of the Lord but by cruelty and persecution shaming your Religion Teachers and Church Now the folly of it is manifest to that in all your Consciences I speak the Light which comes from Christ Jesus who saith I am the Light of the world and lighteth every man that commeth into the world there is your teacher to let you see what you have done there is your condemnation for this is the condemnation the Light saith Christ and remember in the day of your calamity and condemnation that in your life time you were warned and that the messengers of God were amongst you G. F. FINIS London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-Spread-Eagle near the West-end of Pauls 1655.