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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

carriedst thy self after thy wonted manner of Rage and Envy and thou broughtest thither with thee Alderman Lock and Alderman Creswick who made up thy Court the Sheriffs were present also and even to the Widow Yeomans that Antient Grave Matron aforesaid whose age rather bespoke a Coffin then a Banishment thou took'st as thou could'st meet and wouldst have sent her to Newgate also with this croud of Prisoners had it not been for Alderman Creswick who it's like had little rest that night for that dayes service who caused it to be otherwise Yet thou didst commit her though thou released her presently and made that her being with the people of the Lord at meeting to wait upon him a step to her banishment her Gray hairs being thus honoured of the Lord to live to that day to bear a Testimony for him in the face of thy fury and of Banishment who is scarce able in body to reach to the place of Meeting And here we must bring in the sad Reckoning of Lidiah Tovy Wife of Rich. Tovy Brewer Alice the Wife of W. Peachy and Mary Knight servant to Nath. Milner Prisoners aforesaid vvhose lives and the Infant of one of them this dayes work of thine took away from the Earth whose blood cries cries for vengeance against thee and vvill lie upon thy head for ever except thou Repent Lidia Tovy vvas very big with child a little Woman and Young the only daughter living of her Mother who was a Widow and except one son all the children she had alive Thou saw'st in what condition she was when in the meeting as to her being with child thou knew'st her to be thy Neighbour thou didst nevertheless commit her yet thou wouldst seeine somewhat tender and said should be but till the morrow though that was a step in order to Banishment which she was the nearer to by how much her imprisonment vvas short So to prison she was brought and the very noisome sent of the old Goale at the door as she was brought to come in struck in upon her In the Prison she abode till the 7th day of that week notwithstanding that thou saidst before a multitude of witnesses that it should be but till the morrow There she aylded wanting breathing and room vvhich she usually in that condition needed much Her ilness grew on and Symptoms of a Miscarriage though so big and near her time was on her Her Husbands Brother Thomas Tovy who lives on the Bridge and is one of the Council went to thee on the 5th day of the week and her tender mother on the 7th day giving thee to understand how it vvas vvith her for by this time her danger vvas so manifest that she bled upwards thou wouldst not hear but bad her come to thee on Monday That 7th day at night the Keeper of Newgate being with thee about the liberty of some of the Prisoners of whose having been at Bridewell thou hadst heard and therefore sentest for him thereabouts he informing thee of her condition and danger thou began'st to be sensible not for her sake as we may judge but thy own and the out-cry that would be made against thee if she died So thou didst hast him to set her at liberty saying Turn her out turn her out so she came and that night sent her home Well Monday of which thou spakest to her sorrowful mother came but she vvas laid in her bed a most sad spectacle continuing very ill and neither hearing nor seeing her infant came dead from her that night and the next morning being the third day of the week she yielded up the Ghost laying down her life at the foot of thy cruelty vvho vvith her tender babe vvere laid in the earth together never to return thence more for thee to Banish though after her death thy Warrant came to detain her in prison till the 6th of the 7th moneth following the date of her commitment with the rest of them that thou then committedst vvith her vvhose blood shall never depart from Thee and thy house for ever if thou dost not Repent Alice the Wife of W. Peachy vvas a Young Woman also very big vvith child vvhich was her first she vvas at the meeting vvhen thou and thy Officers vvere there One of thy Officers hall'd her rudely towards thee bidding her come along another was behind puting her forwards which being beyond what she was able to do being very big as aforesaid it hurt her and in her face it vvas discovered presently and was so in the observation of some friends present who were about to call on thy Officers for halling her after that manner So she went home ill and was delivered the next day and never was well afterwards but continued ill till the 14th day of the 6th Moneth on which day she dyed her Husband being then prisoner in Bridewell committed with the rest the day aforesaid Mary Knight was also committed on the same day to Bridewel and the next day being very ill was had to her masters house by thy suffrance where she died about twelve daies after of a violent feavour her body being brought to Bridewel from thence to be buried because she was a prisoner there bled afresh at the Nose for about an houre together the certain observation of the invisible judgement that that place was the caue of her death Yet thou wast not satisfied that thou hadst her life but her body being brought to Bridewell to be buried there as aforesaid and the woman of the house desiring thee to give leave to some of the prisoners to carry her to burial thou wast very much offended at its being brought thither and with the woman for that purpo e pose and despight said that if they wanted Bearers the Beadles should do it Thus was the Blood of the innocent shed and of three and an infant as the issue of one of thy daies work yet wast not thou glutted therewith but although that thou hadst committed these as aforesaid and laid up in the prisons heaps upon heaps though the prison was so unholsome so unsavoury though there was such danger of infection yet thou thoughtst the Prisoners were not straitned enough but ever and anon thou hadst the Jailor by the ears rating him as thou pleasedst and threatning him what should be done with him at the Sessions and that all that he had was forfeit to the King if he were worth thousands so that the man was in a great strait how to walk between the pleasing of thee who thirsted after their destruction and the health of the Prison and the prisoners unto whom the Sheriffs had such regard as to order additional lodgings as aforesaid and were willing upon a sober letter of one of the prisoners that they should have a little breath which was all they ask't whilest they were amongst you which is the thing you would have your selves and to have granted them the garden of T Gouldney aforesaid to walk in