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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	time_n	world_n	4,888	5	4.4662	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29476	A brief relation of the persecutions and cruelties that have been acted upon the people called Quakers in and about the city of London since the beginning of the 7th month last, til this present time : with a general relation of affairs, signifying the state of the people through the land.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4629; ESTC R1091	16,542	23

A BRIEF RELATION OF THE Persecutions and Cruelties That have been acted upon the PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS In and about the City of London Since the beginning of the 7 th Month last til this present time WITH A general Relation of Affairs signifying the state of the People through the Land LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. A Brief Relation of the Persecutions and Cruelties that have been acted upon the People called Quakers c. IN our last Intelligence we concluded with the Relation of proceedings of what happened the last day of the sixt month at the meeting at the Bull and how cruel and merciless the Train-bands were towards our friends that day and how that many were wounded and bruised and knocked down in a barbarous manner the woful effects of which persecution hath more then sufficiently appeared to the amazement of many in this City who have admired the sufferance of such dealing so illegal and cruel in this famous City And we shal not need at this time to aggravate the cruelty of that day by many circumstances for the woful effects shal prove the matter for since that day diverse are departed this life that were beat and wounded and abused in that meeting and particularly one man who lay under the grievous pangs of death for ten days after he had received such cruel bruises and blows then departed this world and upon some considerations by his friends that were present with him on his death-bed and especially they knowing as by all appearance it was manifest that he was killed and murdered and that his wounds and bruises received at the Meeting were the absolute occasion of his death It was found convenient that the Coroner of the City should be sent for and that an Inquest should pass upon his dead body that the murder might be manifest and not be hid in secret accordingly it was done the dead Corps were carried to the Bull into the Meeting-room where he received his death-blows and his body was exposed to publick view to which place multitudes of people of the City did resort to see the woful sight of the dead Corps which was such a sad sight that it made many beholders astonished his dead body was so black with bruises and even rotten and like a Jelly that none can scarce express the grievous symptoms of cruel blows that had fallen on that body which had occasioned his death and for diverse hours together many came to behold the same and went away afflicted in their hearts by the sight that their eyes had seen and the Coroner came and impanelled a Jury of the Neighbors and gave them a charge according to his Office to make true inquiry upon their oaths and to present what they found the cause of his death to be accordingly they viewed the Corps throughly and had a Surgeon or two with them to advise concerning the cause of the death of that person and after some time spent in consulting among themselves and in viewing the Corps then passed together in private desiring the Friends to bury the body which that evening was done and that time they suspended to give in their Verdict for diverse reasons known to themselvs though without doubt it was the judgment of the Surgeon then present and of themselves also according to their evidence and of all that beheld the dead Carkase that he was absolutely murdered and that the blows received at that Meeting aforesaid were the real cause of his death and diverse times since the Coroner and Jury have met together upon the occasion to hear witnesses and to determine concerning the matter and many substantial evidences have been brought in testifying of that grievous cruelty acted that day by the Train-bands aforesaid which have sufficiently proved the manner of the said murder with its several aggravating circumstances according to the expressed method of this following Letter sent by a Friend to the Mayor of the City the next day after the death of the said person Friend I Am moved of the Lord to write unto thee concerning a person lately dead who being met with many others of the people of God at the Bull and Month the 31. day of the last Month the usual time and place of their Meeting for the worship of the living God was so beat and bruised by that party of the Trained Bands of the City which were sent to that place to disturb the Meeting who did so beat and wound many of our Friends and use that violence towards the innocent people that 't is scarce to be believed that men should be so inhumane cruel and merciless to their honest neighbours as they were at that time and place But that there is now a sufficient witness of their cruelty by the death of this person who was absolutely murdered yea purposely and wilfully as may be justly suspected I may suppose thou hast heard of this thing for it was done not in the night but at the mid-time of the day not suddenly unawares by mishap but intendedly and in a long space of time a doing and not in a corner but in the streets of the City of London All which circumstances doth highly aggravate this Murder to the very shame and infamy of this famous City and its Government And now seeing it is thus come to pass consider in the fear of God and take his counsel what thou oughtest now to do as chief Magistrate of this City wherein such Murder is so hainously committed for the end that innocent blood may not be hid nor this cruel deed be covered with hypocrisie but that this matter may be enquired into as of right it ought and sought out by thee and Iustice and true Iudgement brought forth that thou mayest for ever stand clear both before God and men when called to an account and that the City may be cleared also of innocent blood which now lies upon it by this man's death Friend I say again in dear and tender love to thee Consider what thou hast to do in this case it 's not to be over-looked and connived at by thee as a thing of nought for really and in truth the City is defiled by the innocent blood of a servant of God who is slain for his Worships sake and these things will be brought to account before God the Iudge of all who is provoked to anger because of these things and may also 't is not impossible be brought to an account in this world when the sufferings of Gods people are finished which will once be as sure as the Lord lives whose purpose is to deliver his people from all their Oppressions and they shall be free though the Rulers of the earth do what they can to the contrary whom God will deal with as he dealt with Pharoah if the now Israel of God may not be permitted to meet to worship the true and living God and a generation shall not pass till it be accomplished And the innocent