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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65147	The Voice of the innocent uttered forth, or, The call of the harmless and oppressed for justice and equity being a brief relation of some remarkable passages, concerning the tryal and sentencing of five of the people of God called Quakers, at the sessions holden at the castle of Northampton, upon the fourth and sixth dayes of the second month, called April, in the year 1665, Richard Rainsford sitting judge, there being present several of those called justices for the said county, two of their names are as followeth, Henry Yelverton and John Willoughby, &c.		1665 (1665)	Wing V678; ESTC R8912	10,694	16

misery for we can and do make our appeal unto that of God in all your consciences who of you have we wronged whose Ox have we stoln or whose Ass have we taken away or what mischief have we hatched or what insurrections have we contrived Hath either former or latter experience shewed any such thing to be brought forth by us Declare if you can or else for ever stop your mouths for speaking against us and stay your hands from doing of violence unto us for serving and obeying of God and think not your proceedings can afright us for this know we are upon that Rock against which the gates of hell cannot prevail Therefore in vain do ye strive and to no purpose do you cumber your selves and fret like distracted men for you may as easily stop the Sun from rising or stay it from going its course and setting in its appointed season as hinder or stop that good work that God hath begun in the hearts of his people and will perfect to his praise for ever Although Richard Rainsford said in his Charge speaking of the Quakers that they had away to stop their multiplying and growing numerous for said he our Soveraign Lord the King with the advice of the wisest men in the Land have allowed them to meet to the number of four besides the family or them of the house where they meet but nothing will serve their turn but thirty or forty or more and so brings themselves under the penalties of the Law and then we have two Convictions and for the third banishment and if they return again without license before seven years be expired then we have the Gallows and the Halter and that will be the end and we have our sacred Majesty to be our Head and his wholesom Laws to be our rule to walk by we have Goals Stocks and Whips and the Nation on our side and what need we fear we are safe and have strength enough c. Oh but this know ye stupified ones that ye are all this while but mortal men and if the hand of God be turned against you what will all these things do for you These cannot deliver you from the stroak of his hand neither give you peace in the day of trouble for our strength is in the Lord and he is God over all blessed for ever unto all eternity and it s not two Convictions Banishment to Jamaica for seven years Goals Whips Stocks or Death that can stop our growth or prosperity in the Truth hinder or separate us from God or the comfortable enjoyment of his good presence as we abide faithful unto the end therefore beware how you proceed or else you will suddenly be broken and split against the same Rock that those that went before you were who fought against God and his people as ye do now making your Goals Fines and Banishment your weapons of defence which we set in defiance in this Gods mighty day and think not that if you should banish many of us out of our native Land and that we should seal our testimony by laying down our lives as many have already done that this will be a means to establish you as if you should never be removed Oh build not your selves up with such vain hopes for these will utterly fail you and you by so doing will sink into confusion and the pit of endless torment and perpetual misery and the cause of the widows and fatherless God will plead and avenge in his own due time and bring deliverance to his oppressed people who put their trust and confidence in him alone and although you colour over your unrighteous and ungodly proceedings with saying ye are sorry but this be assured of it will not excuse you for its deceit and hypocrisie and da●bing with untempered morter and though you may make some silly people think its so indeed yet I tell you plainly it s all but a lye and truth is witnessed which is become the beesom to sweep lyars and the refuge of lies into the fire and thus are your garments stripped off and your nakedness is seen and your shame will also more and more appear unto all that have but in the least measure their eyes opened and you shall become a by-word unto all that knoweth you both far and near except you speedily repent of the evil of your doings And now you being warned are left without excuse and happy will you be who in this the day of your visitation wherein the Lord waits to be gracious to your souls and to do you good do return unto him by speedy repentance before your day be overpast that so you may be hid in the day of his fierce wrath which will assuredly come upon all the workers of iniquity which is the true desire of us who are your friends and Country men and lovers of the souls of all mankinde Dear people we know the generality of you is not unacquainted with the cruelties which many of us who are called Quakers hath patiently indured through the strength of our God by the Priests Magistrates and People for many years we cannot but mention the Priests first because we well know they have been and are the chiefest Agents to instigate the Magistrates and the common sort of people also against the innocent suffering people of the Lord and their false accusations affirmed by oath hath not been wanting therein as for instance Richard Harris Priest of Kislingbery who got a Warrant from John Willoughby called Justice to bring before him the said Justice one William Carr of the said Town of Kislingbery so accordingly it was done and there the Priest took an oath against him and affirmed though falsely that the said William Carr had dispersed treasonable Papers amongst the people of the aforesaid Town and the Paper which he was accused for dispersing was not at all tending to any such purpose neither did the said William give it to that man which the Priest swore he did for his neighbour came along with him to the Justice and there testified that the said William Carr was not the man which he had the Paper of but it was another man of the same Town which gave it him yet notwithstanding the said William Carr was sent to the Goal upon the account aforesaid viz. for dispersing treasonable Papers and there he lay until the next Sessions holden for the County of Northampton and then was brought forth and they knowing they had dealt deceitfully by him to cast him into prison upon an account which they could not prove against him so they mentioned no more the treasonable Paper but told him then if he would take the Oath of Allegiance he might be set at liberty but he conscienciously refusing was sent back to prison again where he laid down his life not long after and left his Wife with six fatherless children and notwithstanding the aforesaid Priest hath persecuted him unto death yet he seeketh still to ruine his widow and fatherless children for he hath caused Sarah Carr widow the wife of William Carr to be arrested by a Writ and brought from her six fatherless children to the County Goal in Northampton where her tender Husband laid down his life having no other thing against her but for milk which Tythe-milk as he calls it came to the value of ten shillings or thereabouts but he never demanded it of her but caused her to be arrested as aforesaid and brought to the Goal where she at present lieth for the testimony of a good conscience And John Whitefield Priest of Bugbrook and the aforesaid cruel blood-thirsty Priest Richard Harris of Kistingbery these two Priests often instigated John Willoughby called Justice to act as he hath done against the innocent people of the Lord and when his soldiers hath come to a Meeting by the aforesaid John Willoughbies order they have especially called for some friends by their names who dwelt at the Towns of Bugbrook and Kistingbery and took them away from amongst many saying they must have such however and two of Bugbrook called by names Joseph Gammage and Richard Ashby was by the soldiers particularly called for at a Meeting from amongst many and Thomas Dent of Kistingbery Miller those two Priests as we understand had given information against those three innocent Persons who by the soldiers was brought to Northampton before Jo. Willoughby called Justice who committed them to the Goal where the afore-named Joseph Gammage and Richard Ashby sealed their testimony with their blood and the aforenamed Thomas Dent lieth in prison upon the same account still and hath been prisoner above one year and half so both these Priests being guilty of blood we cannot but mention them amongst the afore-going cruelties of the Magistrates of this Age and Generation which they have acted against the innocent people of the Lord whom they seek to oppress and lay heavy burdens upon yet our hope and trust is in the Lord our God who we know is the living God and will arise in his fierce wrath and will avenge himself upon his adversaries and the adversaries of his chosen people but this is our desires unto the Lord in the behalf of ours and his enemies that they might return from the evil of their doings before the Lord appears in his fierce wrath who will bring destruction upon them at unawares except they repent THE END