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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58446	A Relation of the inhumane and barbarous suffering of the people called Quakers in the city of Bristoll during the mayoralty of John Knight, commonly called Sir John Knight commencing from the 29 of the 7 month 1663 to the 29 day of the same month, 1664 / impartially observed by a private hand, and now communicated for publick information by the said people.	Reinking, William, fl. 1645-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing R838; ESTC R33989	86,091	151

way of Demonstration to be placed before thee as in a lump together what thou hast done by piece-meals that so seeing this spirit and the uglie face of it and how uglie it makes thee to look which would hurry thee to destruction thou maist be recovered from the evil of thy way and thy soul may be saved in the Day of the Lord. If this will not do but if thou still shalt go on to finish that which is to be done on us for our Tryal and so run over all know this for a certain Thou shalt be cut off the Lord hath spoken it And then all the blood that thou hast been the occasion of spilling and the sufferings of the Innocent will fall hard upon thee and all the despight wherewithall thou hast used us and him who suffers in us and whom in us thou hast persecuted who is Lord and King will fall upon thee and grind thee to powder and then how sad will be thy case Whether wilt thou fly for shelter when he that is thy Judge who fils Heaven and Earth with his presence and in Hell is also wh●m thou hast persecuted shall pursue thee from whose presence none can be hid The Rocks and the Mountains cannot do it though thou shouldst call upon them so to do As John saw in his Revelations vvould be the Case of Kings and chief Captains and great men and mighty men and rich men and every bond-man and every free-man Rev. 6.15 16. For the thing is in thee that will rise up a worm that will never die and a fire that will never go out go thou vvhither thou vvilt vvhich is that vvhich thou now resisteth vvhich thou callest a Natural Conscience vvhich is not Conscience but that which sits in Conscience and speaks for God in the Conscience and there witnesses for God vvhich vvhatsoever it hears the Father speak speaks there which is the Son of God the Saviour of the World the Light of the World that lighteth every one that comes into the World which is come into the World not to condemn the World but to save the World even all them that believe in him in that vvhich vvitnesses in that vvhich shews thee the secrets and the intents of thy heart and all that thou hast done Is not this the Christ And so We leave Thee being thy friends that desire thy welfare whether thou dost believe it or no. Known to the World and Thee and persecuted by the Name of Quakers Bristol 13th 10th Month. 16 4. THe … ve Witnesses names that Swore falsly against Miles Dixon mentioned in page 39 and should have been then inc … d but that their names came too late to the Printers hand yet must they remain up … 〈…〉 to future gnerations even to their shame and loathing who●e names are Iohn Scoper ●er●eant to the Militia Edw. Lowis who died in a short time after L●d … Pool William Stratford Phillip Driggs Errata IN page 9 line 21 for mo●tal read immortal p. 10 l. 17 blot out and l. 21 for no soner wast entred into thine eare read No sooner wast thou entred into thine year p. 11. l. 22. blot out the. p. 12 l. 22. for l●wi●r r. Sawier p. 18. l. 21 for the r. thy p. 20 l. 22 for woship r. worship p. 23 l. 21 for my r. his p. 24 l 8 for pute r. put p. 30 l. ●… for you slew r. was slain p. 32 l. 6 for discern r. deserve p. 44 l. 24 for though 1. thought p. 45 l. 15 for persecute r. persecuted p 48 l. 3 for smalt r. smar● p. 50 l. 17 for passe r. past p. 51 l. 4 for Iohn Tison r. Thomas Tison p 64 l. 18 the blank after Bishop should be 10 l. p. 70 l. 29 for p●isons r. prisoners p. 71 l. 5 for sooner r. see nor p. 80 l. 4 for and s r. that so p. 82 for Richard Blackborrow r. by Richard Blackborrow p. 98 l. 11 for have r. hauing p. 106 l. 6 for prisoners r. prisons p. 114 l. 2 for she r. he THE END

is witness and that of him in your Consciences which shall one day witness for us in you that it is so whether you will or no we are ready to be offered up as to all we have or are in the testimony of the Lord and the dominion of him in our Consciences which we cannot give nor bow to man that must dye nor to the son of man that must perish and come to nought whose breath is in his nostrils and wherein is he to be accounted of In other things as we can in conscience to God we are subject of which you your selves are witnesses doing more then you have expected at our hands in some things as you know we are a considerable body of people in this City we our families our relations our estates we are of the City and in the City and inhabitants thereof and enterwoven are we therein and with the people thereof as a mans flesh is in his body and his spirit in his flesh the separation if us from the City will proves as of a mans flesh from his body and his spirit from his flesh when you have liberty to do it from above for you can do nothing at all to us but as you have power from above you will see it the day of Gods vengeance is at hand wherein he will render to every man according to his deeds the Lords controversie is with all those who oppugne his dominion in the consciences of men and he will pluck them up root and branch and they shall know that he is the Lord It is the word of the Lord and shall be fulfilled in its season and the time is near So my friend take heed there is no dallying in things of this nature thou wilt find it so in the end I desire it may be before it be too late for this know assuredly that the Lord will avenge the quarrel of his people and he will plead the cause of those that suffer for his Name and ye shall be rooted up that rise up against them it is the Word of the Lord not with confused noise and garments rolled in blood but by burning and fewel of fire by the spirit of the Lord therefore take heed I warn thee once more in the Name of the Lord who am thy Friend George Bishopp The Newgate Prison Bristol the 15th of the 10th Month. The Original of this was delivered thee the day of the date and thou didst receive and read it though it held thee not long for the 27th day of the same moneth the meeting was molested again and the door was made fast whereby some were kept up in the Meeting-house and some in the street being not suffered to go in and from being in the street before the door thy men in arms had Thomas Speed who there sate in stilness and peace and from out of the meeting house was brought Charles Jones and William Taylor thy neighbour and in the high street far distant from the meeting house Miles Dixon was met and warned to appear before thee the next day who with the rest were dismist upon their promise of appearance upon Summons and so Brideatel was not made their Banquetting house nor place of entertainment as it was the others but they returned to their houses Indeed Sheriff Streamer the Major of the Regiment to whom was attributed that dayes disturbance and who out of the naughtiness of his heart was too much pleased with such actions told Thomas Speed as something in excuse of what had been done for T. Speed was his uncle That he was sworn to execute the Law To whom T. Speed reply'd They that did put them to death whom you call Martyrs and I too said they had a Law So the next day having notice they appeared at the Tolzey but thou having something to do at thy Worship put them off after it was ended to the next day T. Speed then speaking with thee The next day they appearing thou satest in the lower Tolzey with thy brethren for they demanded an open place where all that would might come in and hear and there thou didst shew thy self as thou art a man full of rage and violence and that sought the bloud of the innocent most unlike a righleous Judge or Magistrate and then hadst thy Sheriff Streamer there who though unconcerned as a Magistrate for none he was that is to say a Justice yet he took upon him very much which some of eminent quality in the City who being present took part with the innocent being grieved to the heart the place being full to see such heat partiality and prejudice with thee that didst sit as Judge and how contrary to Law thou didst carry matters for when thou didst demand sureties for their appearance which they could not give because it was m matters of conscience and their testimony to the Lord which they could not bring under by submitting to sureties or yielding that others should be bound for them for if their own reputation stood good what need is there of another being surety for them and they were conscious of nothing they had done that might vail it or bring it under and therefore could not submit the truth in them which was yea and not yea and nay to be brought under we say when thou demandedst sureties for their appearance * Captain John Knight and R●bert Yates late Aldermen in the City whose uncle Thomas Speed was with others who were ready to do the same and tendred themselves but were not accepted because the design was to make their conscience or per●o●s to suffer divers friendly men of quality voluntarily present offered themselves sureties for them which thou wouldst not accept except the persons concerned would assent thereunto which they could not do for that was equivalent with finding sureties themselves and so they should bring under their reputation and the Testimony of the truth of God in them which was yea that is to say that which it said was so but this they did they tendred their promise or word of appearance which they are known to be men to perform especially in matters of conscience wherein the name of the Lord is concerned Nay Thomas Speed told thee that if thou couldst say in thy conscience that thou didst believe they would not appear when they had given their word they would find sureties but what thy conscience was therein thou wouldest not declare which shewed that thou didst believe in thy Conscience that they would for if thou hadst believed otherwise thou wouldst have said so for it then did concern thee so to have done and to have taken him but this thou wouldest not do nor accept of those that proffered themselves which is against law and so did shew that thou determinedst in thy self to make them to suffer We say * Captain John Knight some of these that so profered themselves thy Sheriff reflected upon very much and high words grew from the