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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30212	A true and impartial narrative of some illegal and arbitrary proceedings by certain justices of the peace and others, against several innocent and peaceable nonconformists in and near the town of Bedford, upon pretence of putting in execution the late Act against conventicles together with a brief account of the late sudden and strange death of the Grand Informer, and one of the most violent malicious prosecutors against these poor people.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5604; ESTC R21465	11,873	16

being willing to accuse themselves or others The Justices upon consideration did conclude that there was ground sufficient to convict them and did assess Fines upon them severally Thomas Thorowgood's Fine at whose House the Meeting was said to be was Nineteen pounds who was by the Officers distreyned and all that he had with the Implements of his Trade he being a Weaver taken from him and the said Thorowgood with his Wife is since departed away from their dwelling and gone The Wife of one George Winright and a Son-in-law of Winrights were fined ten pounds five shillings as having been at the Meeting The said George Winright is Tenant to the Earl of Exeter and being in Arrears of Rent to his said Landlord about Michelmas last for his said Landlords security of receiving Rent then due and such further as for the year ensuing would be accrewing the said Winright prevailed with two Sons-in-law of his to become bound for him to the Earl's Steward then upon the place for his quarterly payment of money due and for the indempnity of his two Sons in respect of the said Bond the said Winright by Bill of Sale passeth over all his Goods and Chattels to the two Sons one whereof lived with him in the possession of what was so sold from the time of the said Sale but it happened that the Son who lived with him staying out from home at a Fair the third of May kept at a Village about two miles from Cotten-end the Father-in-law took such displeasure that he broke open the Son's Coffer standing in the House took out the Writing and destroyed it the Son remains still with his Father and was fined ten pounds for being at a Meeting The Father pleads there were no Goods of the Son 's there though they were once his with his Brothers yet the Writing was since destroyed and sets forth the matter of Fact The cancelling of the Writing was deemed Collusion and the Officers were ordered to proceed in the Distress Winright thereupon driveth away his Cattel sells several of them at Potten Market and some not sold there he sells to one Miller an Inhabitant of the same Parish for a valuable rate who paid good part of the money and gave Bond for the remainer to Winright the said Cattel being in Miller's Grounds and Possession several dayes which being heard of Sir G. B. sends a Warrant for both the Buyer and Seller to appear before him to whom they gave information of the sale and the payment But all their Pleas being unregarded the said Knight demanded Sureties of them for their appearance at the Assizes declaring with his wonted vehemence he would bind them both over and distreyn the Cattel likewise whereat the said Winright being affrighted promised to pay the ten pounds and accordingly did so but some few dayes after being told by a Lawyer that he had wrong in so doing he repairs to Sir G. B. acquainting him with what the Lawyer had said entreating his favour which without delay he imparted beating him well for his pains Thomas Langley an Inhabitant of Cotton-End likewise being fined five pound ten shillings for his being at the aforesaid suspected Meeting presuming upon the favour of Sir G. B. to whom he stood in late relation as a Servant told the Officers he would pay the money if he could not get abatement of Sir G. B. to whom repairing and not prevailing for any such-like kindness he was unwilling to pay the said Fine having very little Stock and owing for the greatest part of that and much likewise in arrears to his Landlord but the Officers having strict charge to go take all he had and sell it for five pounds ten shillings they distreyned his three Cows really worth ten pound and going to sell them a Neighbour in compassion to the Distreyned paid the Officer five pound ten shillings and sent the Cows home to the right owner Some other persons of the said Endship were distreyned by the Officers and had that little substance they had taken from them and deposited by the Officers in the house of the aforesaid Pryor whose Wife did at first inform of the said Meeting where they yet remain to be sold to any willing to buy the same that with the proportion allotted to the Informer the said Pryor may again have some money to put into his purse having prodigally and brutishly wasted all that he lately sold a considerable Estate for that lay in the aforesaid Endship A true Relation of the sudden and strange Death of one Feckman a malicious Persecutor of the good People at Bedford Of a like complexion with that beastly creature John Pryor last mentioned was one Feckman a most violent and thirsty Persecutor at Bedford whose father living at Turvy in the County of Bedford left him a very considerable Estate who at his marriage did receive a good addition thereto by a Portion with his Wife but giving no limits to his lusts and extravagancies in some few years he had spent all and for his last refuge became an Apparitor to which the calling of an Alehouse-keeper being by special favour added he by the gains from both was enabled to live as a Hous-keeper in Bedford but at the coming forth of this late Act he blessed himself with the hopes of recovering an Estate and raising himself a Fabrick out of the Ruines of those whose kindnesses had refreshed him and pursuant to this purpose he engages with all his might both in taking the Meeters and levying the Distress upon their Goods in the former manifesting more than usual diligence and in the latter expressing extraordinary rage and violence so that by his fierceness and cruelty wherein he seemed delighted he appeared rather a Purveyor for and a resemblant of Satan than an Officer of a Court Christian as some men stile the Commissaries But some few dayes after viz June 3. 1670. at a Visitation where he as a necessary and endeared Appurtenant was attending at Ampthill he was taken there ill and coming thence to his home fell very far amiss issuing blood in great abundance both by vomit and seige continuing so to do till his death which was the 5th day after his first sickness during all which time he was in very great pain and anguish of body and for the most part unwilling to speak and not very sensible sometimes speaking words of threatning against Phanaticks and sometimes blaming Mr. Foster for setting him in the Office After whose Death his Wife in complyance with her Husbands desire of being buried at Turvey endeavoured to borrow a Coach of the Neighbour Gentlemen to carry his Corps but all that were asked refused to lend and the two Carriers who live in the Town each of which keeps two Coaches that they let for Hire to persons desiring them did both of them refuse for hire to let theirs for his conveyance so that his wife was constrained to send his Corps in a Cart to the place