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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25341	Antient testimony of the primitive Christians and martyrs of Jesus Christ revived against tythes, or, A relation of the sufferings of William Dobson of Slade-end in the parish of Brightwell in Barkshire because for conscience-sake he could not pay tythes ... and for thirteen years was much exercised by imprisonment and loss of goods and the last day of the 3d month call'd May 1677 dyed a prisoner for the same : to which is annexed a short account of the sufferings of Michael Reynolds ... because he could not for conscience-sake pay tythes ...		1680 (1680)	Wing A3074; ESTC R25883	11,756	16

him a Prisoner with the rest of his Friends whom he came in kindness to visit and continued a Prisoner two years and a half and then it pleased the Lord so to order it contrary to expectation that VVilliam was released with the rest of his Friends from their long Imprisonments by the King's Letters Patents in the 8 th monh called October 1672. And in the time of his Imprisonment on Excomunicat ' capiendo Ralph VVhistler and his Servants in the Harvest time took away VVilliam's Corn in the Field what they pleased somtimes a whole Land of Corn together after it was cut down upon the account of Tyths and at several times after a scambling manner so that the value thereof which in that two years and a halfs time was taken away in Corn could not easily be computed But VVilliam being again out of Prison and through the blessing of Almighty God had a little increased his Stock Ralph VVhistler pretending that the former Execution was not yet Levied upon the 24 th day of the 1 st month 1673 4 he sent John Button a Bayliff and VVilliam Robins Assistant of VVallingford who seized on and drove away 4 Cows and 3 Horses which were valued to be worth 27 l. And the 28 ●… day of the same month VVilliam having borrowed a Horse for he could not keep any of his own his Man was drawing a Cart and Wheels with the Horse in VVallingford street where Moses Slade the under Sheriff laid violent hands on the man and took the Cart and Wheels away from him which were judged to be worth four Pound Again VVilliam having bought some more Horses to Plow withal it being about or in the Seed-time could not well be without supposing by that time surely Ralph VVhistler was satisfied but the 13 th day of the 3 d. month 1674 John Button the Bayliff took away from VVilliam's Servant out of his Team two Colts with their Harness on which were judged to be worth 9 l. upon the former Execution as they pretended So that for two years Tyth demanded at 4 l. 10 s. a year which came to 9 l. these cruel and unreasonable men for so they have made their actions to render them to all that shall take a view thereof took away and sold as much Cattle viz. Cows Horses Hoggs and other good and wearing-cloaths from VVilliam Dobson as was worth 78 l. which was about eight times the single value that Ralph VVhistler demanded which is very unreasonable and will surely be a blot and bring a line of reflection and that justly too upon him and his Posterity though thereby he might think to increase his Riches 't is well if it prove not as a Canker in his Estate as to some others such gain has proved which by Oppression is heaped together And the memory of such unneighbourly proceedings will remain upon Record when Ralph VVhistler is gone to his Grave and the Lord if it be his Will forgive him and lay not this to his charge in that day when God shall open the Book of every mans Conscience and give righteous Judgment to every man according to their Deeds done in these Bodies whether they are Good or Evil. But to return again to the matter that 's yet behind In the beginning of the 3 d. month 1675 VVilliam being then at Liberty was served with a Subpoena to appear before the Barons of the Exchecquer at the Suit of Ralph VVhistler and about the middle of the month following he was arrested by VVilliam Child Bayliff with the Sheriff's Warrant but through the Sheriff's means was not sent to Goal until the beginning of the 7 th month called September at which time the Goaler sent for him to Prison and after a little time VVilliam with 20 mor● of his Friends that were then Prisoners were by the Goaler Joh● Tharp shut up in two very close Wards over the Dungeon where th● Felons lay sick of the Small-pox and one of them dying in the Dungeo● with that Distemper John Thorp caused the Muckle and nausty Straw whereon the Felon dyed which was in a very sad and loathsom condition to look upon to be burnt there in the Dungeon underneath those Rooms where William and his Friends were shut up and th● Smoak and infectious Dain thereof was so offensive as is hard to expres● the same which seized on several besides William and the same day he and several of the others grew ill and had the Distemper and some● died in a short time after and William was so nigh death that few tha● saw him could think him a man likely to continue and was given up by those that were about him as a dying man And at that season the living Power of God as a spring of Love and Life fill'd his heart and burst ou● as a Stream in uttering forth many heavenly Expressions and wholso● Exhortations to his Friends and Brethren to prize the Love of God an● to be faithful unto him signifying how good the Lord had been unto him And much more to the same effect he spoke with fervent zeal and clearness as if he had been in perfect strength to the comforting his Fellow prisoners And speaking so loud some of the Goaler's Family viz. Walter Cowdry and the Maid-servant came up into the Wards to hear and see what was the matter and when he had fixt his eyes on them he spoke very sensibly to them and also concerning John Thorp and Walter Cowdry the then Turn-key their cruelty towards him and his Friends and with great zeal he thunder'd out God's dreadful Judgments that he said would suddenly be poured out against the Goaler and his Confederates in that barbarous proceeding against the Innocent in such Wickedness and Cruelty Also signifying that the day of their visitation was near at an end And much more he spoke to that effect to the admiration of all that were present And the Goaler and his Wife are since both dead But it pleased Almighty God with whom all things are possible that after a long time of weakness William Dobson recovered a little strength of body and had a little Liberty to take the Air and somtimes to go to see his Family and be there to look a little over his outward concerns but remained weakly in Body and never recovered his former strength from that time And notwithstanding the Priest of the Parish of whom Ralph Whistler rented the Tyth was dead and Whistler off from the Bargain of renting it and had counted with the Priest before he dyed and abated to the Priest what he valued the Tyth of William's Farm to be worth Yet Ralph Whistler kept him a Prisoner for non-payment thereof to ●is dying day though he owed him nothing which said William in his ●ife-time is a further manifestation of Ralph Whistler's cruelty and un●easonableness in his actinggs towards him for the space of thirteen years because for the space of thirteen years he could not for Conscience-sake