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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34913	The cry of Newgate with the other prisons in and about London in which dismal holes and cels [sic] are imured about three hundred persons of the innocent people of God called Quakers, for no other cause but for their unspotted testimonies in God, held in clear consciences / to you magistrates, priests, and people of the city of London, and elsewhere whom these may concern, are these words uttered by R.C.	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1662 (1662)	Wing C6809; ESTC R29280	5,727	14

THE CRY OF NEVVGATE With the other Prisons in and about LONDON In which dismal Holes and Cels are imured about three hundred Persons of the Innocent People of God called Quakers for no other Cause but for their unspotted Testimonies in God held in clear Consciences To you Magistrates Priests and People of this City of London and elsewhere whom these may concern are these Words uttered By R. C. London Printed in the Year 1662. The Cry of Newgate with the other Prisons in and about LONDON c. OYe Magistrates when will ye desist from your Tragical actions Consider Consider great grievous and cruel is the burthen that is born by us from that insatiate bloody persecuting spirit which this day hath Dominion in you I say and Challenge in the Name and fear of God what is it we have done that you should execute your implacable furies on us by haling dragging and carrying us out of our peaceable Meetings as you do without any Remorse Mercy or Compassion shewn unto any young or old Age or Sex and by that Abominable practice of Club Law the which doth violate the Lawes Civil that are made and provided for English-men who are peaceable and Free-born of the Nation and are made for the preservation of the good Protestant People Inhabiting therein and not for their ruine and Destruction as is this day made manifest in the face of the World because of the difference of perswasion in Conscience about Religion and for no other cause Oh! why do you prevaricate with the Light of God in your Consciences which lets you see the abomination of this thing known be it to you we the People of the most high God called Quakers have most unjustly received from your hands such height of Cruelty and Barbarosity as hath not been measured to any People in this Nation many Generations And all this for our unspotted Testimony in the Truth of the most High God which we dearly own and our lives are given up for though slighted and made a mock of by the Sons of Idolatry I say we loath your Club Law for in Queen Maryes dayes in that Persecution which was very bloody indeed with which the Earth is still besmeared and the loathsom pestiferous stench thereof is exceeding unsavoury in the minds of the good Protestant People of this Nation I say then there was Legal Process though by wicked Lawes and not the practice of Club Law as now so much loathed and detested by the good People of England and formerly by your selves as Bishop Gauden in a book against the Quakers mentioneth and complains of that Flagellant Method practiced by preceding Powers their forcing contrary to Conscience to be exceeding wicked and cruel And if you complained of it then may not we aswel complain of it now Was it Wicked Cruel and Evil in those and in them times and is it Righteous Good and Merciful in you now Is God who gave Judgement in that Case then changed with the times that that which was Evil then is now become good And that which was Wicked then is now become Righteous God Eternal forbid I should say it and whosoever doth Blasphemes And know this O ye Magistrates we do but complain of now and cry out against what your very selves did then and found it burthensom unto you And now the burthen is off from your shoulder and are at ease you lay it upon us upon us I say which were no burthen to you in that day yea and you make your Fingers as heavy as their Loyns even God Eternal Judge between you and us in this case and make speedy decision in this Controversie if it be thy holy Will Eternal Father that it may appear to the whole World how in Innocency we stand Oh! Consider Consider it is a small thing for Liberty of Conscience to be given in matters of Religion for certainly so doing diminisheth nothing of his that allowes it And it is the greatest thing that is to be hindred of it when it as certainly addeth nothing to him that restrains it Conscience is properly and peculiarly Gods alone to exercise and not Mans or Mens Therefore think not the understandings that God hath given unto us and enlightened them with a manifestation of himself we ever can will or shall give away or part with to Man or Men for so came in that damnable Apostacy at first and the first rise of implicite Faith mark well these words it is certainly so for know you this where the Conscience is or hath been made shipwrack of by bowing to the Lusts of Men and the understandings of Men given up thereby then this followeth their Eyes being out they are turned into the Mills to grind and being become so viz. wilfully blind Vassalage is as well entertained by them as Liberty have we deserved these things at your hands or do we deserve them And is this a Retaliation Equivolent to our Tribute and Taxes we pay they which we have hitherto paid expecting for which we should enjoy a peaceable life in all godliness But behold nothing but Cells Vaults and Nasty holes in Prisons amongst Fellons and Murderers is returned unto us for this Certainly this is most injurious and unreasonable to exact Tribute and Taxes on us and not to suffer us to labour in our Callings for it If we must bring in our full tale of Brick let us have our Liberty to gather straw though not allowed and shut us not up in the places precited where neither straw nor any thing else is to be had Assuredly assuredly you must needs see and cannot be ignorant of these things for experience must needs have taught you something is it so long since your Affliction hath passed over your heads that such things are by you forgot though you forget them yet we cannot and though your hands are stretched forth against us in cruelty yet God who knoweth our Innocency hath numbered the dayes of our Affliction and so hasteneth the work of our sore travail in our Generation and though the Lord should give you power to hunt us to death and if you and us should not part but at our habitations of silence as several of our dear Friends have done already by your persecuting hands yet I say God's Eternal Peace is our Portion in which we lay down our heads and though you please your selves in these things and paliate your Lusts upon our Affliction yet know also God hath numbred the dayes of your Cruelty towards us and you post to your ends where you will lay down your heads in God's wrath for consider yesterday comes no more These Tragedies are not much unlike some of those Christian Hunters mentioned in the ten Persecutions as Nero Domitian Maximinus and Dioclesian all which took pleasure to hunt the Christians that would not sacrifice to their Heathenish Gods and is it less now or unlike them do not some of you sport your selves in the same and