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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45674	The lamentable cry of oppression, or, The case of the poor, suffering & persecuted people called Quakers in and about Fakenham in Norfolk shewing the cruelty, injustice and inhumanity of several magistrates, officers and informers in those parts against the said people for these many years, in the great spoil and havock of their goods and estates ... / by ... Joseph Harrison.	Harrison, Joseph.; Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. Postscript.	1679 (1679)	Wing H898; ESTC R31092	29,850	90

aforesaid upon the 6th of the 11th moneth 78. but the said Robert was not at the Meeting yet Fra. Guybon of Thusford issued out his Warrants and upon the 13th day of the 11th moneth Will. Carr and J. Bacon Over-seers Sam. Dalibon Constable Iohn Bret and Iohn Canham Wardens took away from the said Robert sixteen Hats and a parcel of Hat-bands worth 1 l. 5 s. Moreover the Door of the said Robert Curby was broken open by the Informers they having some of the Officers present with them and they took away a Table six Chairs one Bedstead with Curtains and Vallens three Bedsteads more two Chests one Coffer with several other Houshold Goods with about sixty odd stone of Wool worth together about 12 l. Iames Bunting of Burningham for a Meeting at Holt the 30th of the 10th moneth aforesaid was fined 5 l. 5 s. by a Warrant from the abovesaid Fra. Guybon and upon the 14th day of the 11th moneth following the Officers of the said Town took from him one Coat one pair of Breeches and a Hat one Bible one Cloak-bag with several other things worth 30 s. Here follow more Sufferings for Absenting from the Steeple-House being lately executed THe 20th of the 6th moneth 1678. Tho. Bretland Church-warden so called Tho. Salmon and Tho. Garret Constables with Hen. Gogney an Over-seer came to the Shop of E. Peckover to strein for 15 s. for himself his Wife his Son Walker and two Maid-Servants for Absenting three Weeks from the Parish Church so call'd so they took for the 15 s. one piece of fine Searge worth 3 l. And Tho. Bretland's Wife sent to borrow ●0 s. of Margaret Peckover so sent the piece of Searge again with 5 s. in Money by her Servant retaining only 15 s. The 29th of the 8th moneth Tho. Bretland with some other Officers came to the Shop of Edmund Peckover with a Warrant from Chr. Calthorp to strein for 15 s. for himself his Wife two Sons and one Servant for three Weeks absenting from the Parish Church so called so Margaret Peckover went to the Magistrate to let him know she with her two Sons were not at home some part of the time for which they were fined and therefore no Reason they should be fined Were you at Church said the Magistrate ●es we were said she Chr. Calthop replyed You and the Papists are all one and you hear the Jesuits and they deceive you which is a manifest if not malicious Slander Notwithstanding the Officers came and took away seven pieces of Demity which said pieces were brought again by a Neighbour that owed Edm. Peckover some Money The 26th of the 10th moneth 1678. Tho. Bretland with some other Officers came with Warrants from Chr. Calthorp for Edm. Peckover his Wife his Son and one Servant absenting from their Parish Church so called for which they demanded 33 s. because they could not pay to their Demands they took one whole piece of Searge and two pieces more that had but little cut off them worth 5 l. 10 s. and some time after the said Tho. Bretland came and brought 1 s. and said There was the Overplus of that which remained of the said Searges but M. Peckover refused to receive it saying She would not take a Shilling for so much Goods POSTSCRIPT ANd now after all this Violence used and Spoil made upon this People I desire the Reader honestly and conscienciously to weigh and consider What Evil has these Sufferers done or what Law of God have they broke or just Laws of men have they transgressed which is the principal matter to weigh and consi-that so thou may'st not in thy haste give a wrong Judgment and from that draw a false Conclusion and run with the Multitude who deny the Truth persecute them that live in it and say That they ought to suffer because they have broke the Law Now to say so without distinction is to draw a wrong conclusion without well considering what the Law is and what sort of people it lays hold upon for the Law of God does not nor will not punish a righteous man as the Apostle says 1 Tim. 1.6 The Law was not made for a Righteous man but for the Lawless and Disobedient c. So also the just Laws of men that are instituted made according to that equal and reasonable Principle which God has plac'd a measure of in every man which would if it be adhered unto teach guide people to do unto others even as they would be done unto such Laws preserve men in their Liberties and Properties and not destroy them that every man has an equal share according to his place and degree of Preservation by them or ought to have that is honest but those Laws that are or have been made to deprive men of their just Liberties which God allows them and requires them to use to his Glory and afflict their Bodies and spoil their Goods ruin them because they take that Liberty that the Lord allows them which is to worship him in that Way as he is pleased to reveal and make known himself unto them that Law is not according to the Law of God and it is under such Laws or the resting of good Laws that the Righteous in Ages past also now do suffer and them are the Laws that envious people boast of as said the envious Jews of Christ John 19.7 We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye and so said bloody Bonner and the rest of his persecuting Brethren to the faithful Martyrs of Jesus in Q. Mary's days who put so many to death because they could not bow to the Popish Superstition who upbraided those worthy men and women because they were not subject to the Queen's Laws which if they had they must have defiled their Consciences who those rather to lose all and obey Christ than to sin against the Lord and thereby bring destruction upon their own Souls And we would have all people take notice that this is and has been our case that are concerned in this Relation of Sufferings so far as the Lord has been pleased to suffer our Persecutors to proceed for their Words and Actions have been of the same nature for say they We have a Law as say Chr. Calthorp and others of them and we are Sworn to put it in execution but I hope he is not sworn to exceed it in Cruelty as it appears in this Relation he has sometimes done egregiously Also the Informers they say to the Sufferers You break the Law and therefore your Sufferings are just upon you as it was an Argument Will. Watt the old Informer used very much with many other taunting unsavoury Speeches unto the Sufferers on whom the Lord laid an heavy Judgment long before he dyed which might have been as a Warning unto the rest of them that had an hand in this evil work of persecuting their honest Neighbours but say they we have a Law