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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42523	A record of some persecutions inflicted upon some of the servants of the Lord in South-Wales with the sufferings of many for not paying tithes, not repairing steeple-houses, and for not coming to steeple-houses : also the fruits of some of the priests who are called ministers of the Gospel in South-Wales, and Pembrook-shire, where some persecution hath been at Harford-west, which in short is here also mentioned, which hath not been brought to publick view till now / by Francis Gawler.	Gawler, Francis.	1659 (1659)	Wing G396; ESTC R39564	21,591	30

Molton one pewter tankard towards the reparation of that Steeple-house in all taken for that greedy Priest French towards the said rep●●●●●i●n twelve pounds and more in sheeep Cows Lambs brass pewter and the demand hardy amounts to five pounds Again Mary Richard and Mary Moss of Pennarth in Ci●●y for clearing their conscience to John C●tts Priest were haled and beaten and drawn up a pair of stairs and there set in stocks by the Constable and Priests man Cradock Griffith Walter Rayland John Lewis VVilliam Lewis John M●y● John Fabarn Again E●iz beth Holme according to the leadings of the spirit of truth went into Pembrookshire where large meetings she had and in a meeting at Thomas Ba●rats house in Tenbigh in the aforesaid County where Adam Hawkins Priest came with two Bibles under his arm Joel 2.28 Act. 21.9.2.17 Rom. 16.3 and standing till the meeting was ended and there spoke to Elizabeth H●lmes saying Paul said a woman was not permitted to speak the which she cleared unto him as it is plain according to Scripture How P●isci●a was ●aul fellow-helper and that one had four daughters which did declare the word of truth and the Lord said he would power of his spirit on all flesh and sons and daughters should prophecy in his name so it is very clear the spirit of truth is permitted to speak in male and female to which this Priest Hawkins could little object but said he did believe that Elizabeth Holm●● was a woman that did convert many souls to God and it was truth she spake and if she would come to Hart●ordwest where he was going to be Minister he would give her way to speak to the people a time after she went to Hartfordwe●● according to the leading of the spirit of truth and another friend with h●r Alice Burkat which was about the beginning of the second moneth 59. where they had a large meeting in William Batemans house the which tormented the Magistrates and Priest that officers came and brought Elizabeth Holmes and Alice Burkat and William Bateman before the Maior and Thomas Davis called Justice and by them Elizabeth H lmes and Alice Burkat were committed to the house of Correction and by the master of the house of Correction at first was threatned to set bolts on them but he did not do it so afterwards became very loving and suffered meetings in the prison where they were detai●ed about fourteen dayes untill the Quarter Sessions Priest Adam Hawkins came unto them endeavoring to clear himself that he had no hand in the Imprisonment but they would not believe him but told him the contrary so to the quarter Sessions they were brought where the Maior and Thomas Davis and more men called Justices were and Priest Hawkin● so unto them Elizabeth H●lmes declared what passed betwixt the Priest and her in ●enbig● and how he came unto them to clear himself of having any hand in the persecuting of them then Thomas Davis one of them that had committed them said in open Court that he would not let them be quiet until they were imprisoned and so reproved the Priest and said unto him that if he would not be more watchful of his words he was not fit to be their Minister and by the Court in the Sessions was Elizabeth Holmes and Alice Burkat cleared and by it were Lewis Barron Mayor and Thomas Davis made manifest who had committed them as vagabonds and wanderers but from being so they are clear and the salse accusations atop of them was cast and by truth judged into the pit of darknesse from whence it did arise with their enmity who commited William Bateman at first for receiving them a man all along well affected to the honest party and suffered much loss by Charls Stuarts party and now some of the Magistrates of Hartford-west formerly adhering to Charls Stuart hath an enmity against him as plainly doth appear who endeavoured with Priest Hawkins to lay blasphemy to his charg so under that colour committed him to prison there to remain to the great assizes for the County and Humphery Wi●●iams with him both expressed in the same commitment so some of William Batemans relations gave bail to answer accordingly if they would bring the matter before the Judge of the Assizes without fainting it would be well for if they do so it is like the Magistrates enmity and the Priests shame will be double made manifest And after Elizabeth Holms and Alice Burkat were releast by them at the Sessions about a day after Alice Burkat meet with the Mayor in the street and spoke a few words unto him for which he sent her to Bride-well and about two dayes she was kept there and after made a lying pass intending to send her to Card●ff so forth of Harford-we●t she was brought with it but the Constable having less enmity and more wisdom then the Magistrates let her go where she would and these are the fruits of L●wis Barran called Mayor of Hartfort-we●t and Thomas Davis called ●ustice and Adam Hawkins called a Minister who was proved in open Court a notorious lyar in Hartford-west in P●m●r o●-shire commonly called Little England beyond VVal●s where this Priest is called a Minister who violently struck John ap Jones in the house of VVilliam Bateman witnesses Henry K ly and VVil Bateman with others this is a great shame to Hartford-w●●t to suffer su●h a man to be called their Minister Again J●nnit Jones of Hartford-w●●t for standing before this Priest Ad●m Hawkin● in the Steeple-house of Hartford-west the Magistrate and the people were amazed as they relate in the Commitment for which she was committed to the house of correction till the quarter Sessions by Lewis Barran called Mayor of Hartford-west about the 1● of the 2 moneth 1659. Again William Thomas of Llanducy in P●mbrook-shire for standing witness against Stephen H●ges called Minister in the Steeple house of Llandevil● for which he was apprehended and brought before John El●iot called Justice who committed him to Goal and there to remain until the general Sessions to be holden for the County of P●mbrook this was done in the name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England the 23 day of the third moneth 1659. Though this man Stephen Hughes be accounted such a great Priest in P mbrook and Carmarthen shires yet here he is made manifest to be a persecutor and a striker who struck Evan John of the Parish of Landeny in the County aforesaid in the presence of William Thomas and G ●rge H●wel of the said parish Again ●lizabeth Holms being moved of the spirit of truth Alice Burkat with her to go to the Steeple-house called christ-Christ-Church in Munmouth-shire where VValter Cradock was who haled Alice Burkat down and said get thee behind me Satan Again the first day of the week being the eighth day of the third moneth Elizabeth Holms was moved of the Lord to go to VValter Craddock in the same place above mentioned and

with a boat and brought them over the water again into Swansey for which he was Imprisoned and chained by the leg in the year Lewis Jones being Portriff Again John ap John was by the Constables of Swansey turned forth several times and still returned bearing witnesse against them Elizabeth Holmes and Alice Burkat for testifying against the Priests called Ministers were Imprisoned in the Dark-house in Swansey and were released and never brought to tryal Thomas Holmes and John Brown being in Monmouth Shire at a place called the Slow at a meeting where many people were near Curwent John Brown was moved to go to the Steeple-house at Curwent where he spake to the Priest and was apprehended by the command of John Nicholas Governour of Chepstow and William Bleathin called Justice Thomas Holmes being near the place where John Brown was detained prisoner went to visit him was apprehended and kept prisoner that night with him and the next day was brought before John Nicholas and William Bleathin who by a warrant sent them from Constable to Constable towards their own Countrey Francis Gawler of Cardiff in the County of Clamorgan being in the Steeple-house in Swansey standing peaceably and stedfastly looking on the Priest Matthews diligently harkning unto him was suddenly haled forth though he did not speak a word to him which was about the beginning of his Sermon and was imprisoned in the Town Hall in Swansey and after released and never brought before the Magistrate Lewes Jones being Portriff that year Again Elizabeth Holmes being moved of the Lord went into the Steeple-house at Swansey and there did declare the word of the Lord amongst the people who diligently did heark●n unto her before the Priest came thither for which she was imprisoned in the aforesaid dark-house in Swansey and chained by the leg a great distance from the door least she should see the Priests pass by the door who were in great fear of her who was a terror to them and as they passed by the prison though their faces she did not see their portion they had whose cruelty and rage was such that none was permited to bring her such necessaries as she had need of but through a hole of the door with a cane she sucked some bear and no law of the Nation had she broken but for speaking to the people and thus was she dealt with by the hands of drunkards and swearers these are the fruits of the Magistrates and Ministers of Swans y like Priests like people Elizabeth Richard of Cardiff Widdow for speaking in the Steeple-house at Swamsey to Morrice Bidwel called Minister after he had ended was by one of his hearers Jo. Daniels daughter struck with her Bible and after put in prison released and not brought to tryal Elizabeth Holmes meeting with Morrice Bidwel in the street in Swansey spake a few words unto him in much moderation for which she was imprisoned a day and a night in the aforesaid prison in the year that John Daniel was Mayor a member of his Church Again Elizabeth Holmes being moved of the Lord to go to the Steeple-house of Swansey where Marmaduke Matthew called a Minister was for which she was imprisoned in the foresaid prison in Swansey and still released in the year 1659 Thomas Williams being Mayor Thomas Shaw for testifying against the foresaid Priest in the Steeple-house in Swansey was haled forth and imprisoned in the foresaid dark-house but after was brought to another prison and there detained about twenty dayes and afterwards released 〈…〉 in the year 1659. Thomas Williams now being Mayor and the said Priest Matthews said to Thomas Shaw that he had made his hearers three fold more the Children of the Devil then they were before so by the Priests own confession they are the children of the devil Therefore the Magistrates which are persecutors must needs be of the Devil who cast into prison and chain by the leggs by which the Scripture is fulfilled which saith Christ some of you shall the Devil cast into prison Rev. 2.10 Roger ●ouldbeth of Swansey a man who hath been a Commission Officer in the service of the Common-wealth nine or ten years in England and Ireland and now his outward being in Swansey was endeavoured to be hindred to follow his calling which the Law of the Nation allowes he being a faithful Souldier to the Common-wealth but the Magistrates of Swansey have imprisoned him for telling them the truth who are time-serving men and through the envy of William Baily of Swansey an envious angry time-serving professor was lately imprisoned in the Mayoralty of Thomas Williams this present year 1659 Again Elizabeth Holmes and Alice Burkat being at a meeting at Walter Watkins house in Sher-Newton in Monmouth-shire were abused by some of that parish they lodging there that night some came by night and made a great stir about the house intending mischief William Bleathin called Justice living near the place who was not unacquainted thereof to his shame in suffering such things the next day the Constables brought them before the Justices who made a pass to send them away as vagabonds but knowing it would be to their shame let them go Again Elizabeth H●lmes being moved of the Lord to go to Lanvaches where Henry Walter and one Sims of Ch●pstow was where she was much abused by their hearers and after they had ended at their Steeple-house they went into another house whether Elizabeth Holmes went unto them whom they turned out and shut the door Elizabeth Holms and Alice Burkat were moved to go to the Steeple-house of Newport where Henry Walter was who were suddenly haled forth and brought down to the bridge and there kept prisoners and the chief actor was one Henry Morgan Reece a bruitish man who hath his mark in his fore-head one of Henry Walters Church Again Alice Burkat at another time being in the Steeple-house of Newport where William Jenkins was a journey-man of Henry Walter she was haled forth and abused and pricked with a pin in her arm by William Williams of Newport Francis Gawler going for Bristol was moved to go to a Steeple-house at Magor where Thomas Barns called Minister was he having ended Francis Gawler asked him a question and three Constables were ready to hale him forth who being not very hasty Edward Herbert called a Justice thrust him and led him in much rage out of the Steeple-house and then gave him to the Constables with much threatning words to bring him to the Ale-house to prison him which they did accordingly and afterwards brought him to the house of one John Walter of Magor where Edward Herbert and William Packer and Barns the Priest were Then Edward Herbert said to Francis Gawler he did go about to distract the Ministers and said he did not follow his calling in which he proved him a lyar for he did follow his calling and met him the day before on the road going to Bristol about his calling then Edward Herbert