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A65840	A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1680 (1680)	Wing W1894; ESTC R19963	71,889	142

Street and he lay sick ten dayes and then dyed and his Body was carried to the Bull where he received his Bruises and Blows and the Coroner and Jury viewed his dead Body who judged him to be Murthered his Body being black with Bruises and even Rotten like a Jelly It cannot well be expressed what griveous Blows he received one of the Officers having a Club in one hand about a yard long which seemed to be as much as he could well handle for bigness and weight with which he laid on about him without mercy as did the most of his party regarding neither Age nor Sex One was knockt down five times and the Blood lay in the Streets and ran down mens Faces and Shoulders Humphry Bache and ●umphry Brewster were both committed to Newgate for Meeting and by the Closeness of the Prison their Bodies were corrupted so that in a short time after they were released they dyed Humphry Leaver Richard Davis Robert Cross Thomas Wingreen and John Ratcliff were all Imprisoned in the common Goal in Newgate by Richard Browne for Meeting to worship God and as it was judged through the Smoke and Noisom Smells their Bodies were corrupt●d so that soon after they were released they dyed Edward Burroughs a Faithful Labourer and Minister of the Lord being Imprisoned in Newgate for declaring the Truth to the People at the Bull and Mouth he remained a Prisoner near three Quarters of a Year and notwithstanding the King sent an Order under his Secretary's Hand and Seal to Release him yet Richard Browne would not Release him The beginning of the 12th moneth the said Edward Burroughs fell sick and the 14th day of t●e same moneth he finished his Testimony by Death An Account of such as Dyed by reason of their Imprisonment Prosecuted upon the Act for Banishment 1664. John Clark John Lewis Hannah Trigg Hannah Drewry John Wilkinson John Hales William Tomkins Robert Twinn Henry Haslam John Palmer John Cooke Edward Baker Joseph Stonehouse Mary Draper Andrew Andrews John Willbore Richard Twinn Mary Davis George Hide Hannah Cooke Mary Mile Henry Woodward Richard Audley Mary Travers Roger Evans Benjamin Greenwell Since the prosecution of the Act for Banishment all these Persons sealed their Testimony with the loss of their Innocent Lives which was occasioned by reason of their being crowded by great Numbers into one Prison viz. Newgate where for want of Prison-Room and convenient Lodging having not room to lie down one by another so that many were constrained to walk upon the Leads in Newgate in the Night-season which was very high and open both to Wind and Weather and with the Infections and Noisom smells that were in the Prison they fell sick and dyed some in the Prison and others in a few dayes after they were let out many of them being sentenced to be Transported Elizabeth Pike Jane Powell Peter Penington John Fox John Hors●y Dorothy Hall Vincent Gerrard William Newman Richard T●mp●on Thomas Clarke William Matthews John Gabb Bartholomew Hall Matthew Jackson Christop Dickenson J●hn Noble J●hn ●haplin Henry Taylor Arthur Baker Deborah Harding Anne Royley Nathaniel Harding Edmund Berkly Rachell Jackson Laurence Aplyn Edward Walker Edward Lee. The Sickness being in Newgate there was One Hundred Forty Five of the People of God called Quakers then Prisoners being sentenced to be Banished Fifty Five of which were forced on Board a Ship to be Transported after their long Imprisonment and the Sickness being in the Ship into which they were put they were thronged all the men together in one place between Decks where they could not stand Upright so that the Distemper being once amongst them it occasioned most of them to be infected so that all these Persons above-named dyed on Board some at Bugbyes hole and the rest beyond Gravesend Robert Hayes being sentenced to be Banished was taken out of Newgate with two more of his Friends and put in a Boat to be carried to Gravesend and the said Robert being taken fasting out of Newgate and having been in a course of Purging Physick was in that case upon scarce any warning given early one Morning hurried from Newgate and having no outward Refreshment till he came to Gravesend took cold and fell Sick and in a short time after he was put on Board he dyed 1665. About the same time that th● aforesaid Persons dyed on Board the Ship there dyed these Fifty Two Persons in Newgate who lay Prisoners most of them being sentenced to be Banished and the rest upon the third Conviction Edmund Ward John West Edward Bull Thomas Wicks John Frith Thomas Davis John Somerfeild John Sammon George Pryor John Smith John Tesdell Mathias Gardner Richard Lambert Joshua Clare George Taylor George Evans John Crane Nicholas Blye Thomas Kemsey Hugh Carter Margaret Welsby Bethiah Marloe Edward Harvy Daniel Read James Sweet James Portsmouth Ambross Cock Mark Beecroft John Wiggins Hugh West John Rotten Cuthbert Harle Benj. Laurence Geo. Hellingsworth J●hn Cowdry Henry Wilkinson Malachy Dudly Aug. Th●rrowgood Christopher Nicholls John Howard Richard Spackman James Williams Daniell Hawkins John Bates Francis White John Francis Robert Thomas Joseph Haugh Mary Powell Martin Crosh●e John Fitz Gerrard Sarah Leigh About this time there were eight Persons taken out of a Meeting in the Liberty of VVestminster and committed to the Gate house by the D. of Albemarle where four of them dyed viz. Stephen VVhite William Avelin Robert Towerland and Samuel S●onh●use Somersetshire RIchard Adams dyed in Prison the 17th day of the 8th Moneth 1660. for not paying Tythes to Priest Bryan of Limington which Priest was afterwards almost Distracted before he dyed John Combe of Brent dyed in Prison the 22d day of the 10th moneth 1660. for not paying Tythes to James Blacklock and Thom●s Gold Farmers of Tythes since Blacklock dyed and Gold decayed Thom●s Lockier dyed in Prison for not paying Tythes to Priest Horsey ●f East Lydford who would not suffer him to be buryed but forcibly took him from the Bearers 1661. Hugh Willmington of Barwick dyed a Prisoner the 4th of the 10th moneth 1661. after he had been several moneths a Prisoner for not paying Tythes to Thomas Compton Impropriator Thomas Deane of Kingsbury dyed the 24th of the 2d moneth 1661. for not paying Tythes to VVilliam Strode Impropriator George Adams dyed in Prison the 26th of 6th moneth 1663. being committed to Prison for Meeting to wait upon the Lord by Francis Paulet and Thomas Carry and fined 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. by Judge Terrill without hearing him at Charde twelve Miles from Ilchester where he then lay Sick John Evans the younger having been a Prisoner for some years being taken at a Meeting of the Lords People and commited by one called Sir John Warr and afterwards had the Sentence of a P●aemunire past upon hi● by Judge Foster to be Imprisoned during Life the 14th day of the 1st Moneth 1664. was set at Liberty by Death John VVall of Eddington being taken at a peaceable

A Brief ACCOUNT Of some of the Late and Present SUFFERINGS Of the People called QUAKERS For Meeting together to Worship God in Spirit and Truth Being prosecuted by the Statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. 1. Entituled An Act to prevent suppress seditious Conventicles By the Prosecution of which Act many Families have had their Estates wholly Wasted and Ruined contrary to the Law of God the Antient Laws of the Kingdom and to Nature it self Together with a particular Account of such of the above said People who have dyed Prisoners from the Year 1660. to 1680. I. For Meeting together to Worship God c. II. For refusing for Conscience sake to Swear in any Case III. For not going to the Parish Church and not paying to the Repair of the same and not paying Offering Money small Tythes c. Humbly presented to the King Lords Commons in Parliament Assembled London Printed by Andrew Sowle and are sold at his Shop in Devonshire New-buildings without Bishops-Gate 1680. TO THE King Lords and Commons IN PARLIAMENT Assembled THe daily Accounts we receive of the great Oppressions of our Friends in several Counties upon the prosecution of the Statute 22th Car. 2. cap. 1. Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles constraineth us yet further to make our Complaint to you hoping that upon your weighty Consideration thereof some way to relieve us may be found by you In the perusal of the following Accounts you may see what Destruction and Spoil hath been made upon our Estates within these two or three years last past many poor Families being wholly ruined and Tradesmen that helped to imploy and relieve others are now so impoverished that they are fain to shut up their Shops and be helped themselves and the industrious and laborious are become a prey to the rapine of dissolute idle Informers and o●hers who after they have devoured all they could find in one County have gone to the next hunting from Meeting to Meeting nothing satisfying them till they have devoured all our outward Substance all which Oppressions we have endured with much patience and long-suffering knowing that our assembling is in good conscience towards God and that we have always endeavoured to exercise a Conscience void of Offence towards men and in such case where we could not obey what the Law of men required we have yielded our selves patiently to suffer the Penalties inflicted on us and have never Plotted nor Contrived to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom or sought Revenge under our Sufferings though they have extended not only to the Spoil of our outward Estates but to Imprisonment Banishment and loss of Life it self and that of some Hundreds of us since the King's Restoration as in the Relations following will particularly appear and that chiefly for our peaceable Meeting together to Worship God a Duty so incombent upon us and so conscientiously performed by us that if the Law had been made to take away our Lives as it was to destroy our Estates we could not have forborn our assembling together except we should have been Treacherous to God and our own Consciences And further we desire you to consider the inequality of the aforesaid Act the mercinary Informers who Swear against us gain part of our Estates to themselves and we are convicted by the Arbitrary Determinat●on of one Justice of the Peace who in our absence is both Judge and Jury And what-ever wrong is inflicted on us our Appeal must not lie in any other Court but only before the Parties themselves complained of to do us the wrong who are many times sole Judges in their own cases the Juries being often over-awed by them so that they are afra●d to act or speak their own Reason and Sence but forced to bring in such a Virdict as pleaseth our Judges which Proceedings are conceived to be expresly against the Constitution of our English Government and the antient fundamental Laws of the Kingdom which did expresly forbid the seizure of mens Liberties and Estates without a lawful judgment of their Peers How repugnant these Severities inflicted upon us are to the Indulgence formerly promised to us by the KING you may judge when you call to remembrance the many Declarations he was pleased formerly to make for the Liberty of tender Consciences that should not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom And also we shall leave i● to your Impartial Judgment Whether we have done any act or thing whereby we have justly incurred the forfeiture of such Indulgence If the Lord shall put it in your Hearts to relieve us from these our great Oppressions we humby propose to you Consideration the repeal of the Statutes 22th Car. 2. cap. 1. made against Conventicles and the Statute 13th and 14th Car. 2. by which last Statute so many of our Friends suffered Imprisonment till Death for conscientiously refusing to Swear in any case and for their peaceable Meeting to Worship God Signed on the behalf of the Sufferers by us George Whitehead William Gibson Jasper Batt Alexander Parker William Penn Richard Mew John Etheridge James Claypoole William Mead Ezekiel Wooley Clement Plumsted James Braines George Watt Willi●m Shewen John Dew Thomas Rudyard E●lis Hookes London the 20th day of December 1680. A Particular Accompt of these Distresses following in each County upon the said Act of the 22 Car. 2. Cap. 1. were Printed and given to the late long Parliament and therefore are only herein summed up in short and there was at that time much more leavyed upon that Act of which an Accompt could never be procured   L. S. D. BErkshire 0190 00 00 Bedfordshire 0357 00 00 Bucks 0040 00 00 Cumberland 0344 13 00 Cheshire 0409 08 00 Cambridgshire 0608 16 00 Cornwall 0497 13 00 Devonshire 0222 10 06 Dorsetshire 0163 05 04 Derbyshire 0397 14 10 Durham 0865 19 00 Essex 0494 11 07 Gloucestershire 0799 08 00 Hampshire 0077 15 06 Hartfordshire 0770 10 00 Huntingtonshire 054● 15 06 Herefordshire 0330 12 04 Kent 0191 13 00 Leicestershire 0569 18 ●8 Lincolnshire 0497 13 08 Lancashire 0428 15 11 Nottinghamshire 0707 01 06 Norfolk 1244 07 05 Oxfordshire 0223 12 06 Sumersetshire 1459 03 08 Surrey 0380 03 04 Sussex 0066 00 00 Suffolk 1294 01 07 Sall●p 0051 00 00 Staffordshire 0075 04 00 Westmorland 0270 17 00 Wiltshire 0434 09 00 Worces●ershire 0081 03 00 Warwickshire 0069 06 10 Yorkshire 2384 18 00 A Breviate of the most Remarkable I●stances of Injustice and Cruelty contained in the ensuing Treatise WHen an Appeal was made at the Sessions the Justice that prosecuted pressed the Oath of Allegiance might be tendred to the Appealants Page 2. In●ormers Persons of no Estate but live upon the Spoil of others feeling Goods for what Price they please and taking what and as much as they please never accounting for any Overplus Page 8. The Justice bid the Officers break open the Doors to make Distress and he would stand by them Page 10. A

Word of God 1670. One called a Justice in the Isle of Ely perceiving after much Cruelty used they could not prevail to make the People called Quakers forsake their assembling themselves together he was much enraged and went and beat several of them very much and knockt down Steven Clarkson to the Ground in so much that the Standers by said So there is one knockt on the Head but he came to himself again and lived about five moneths after but complained of that blow to his dying day John Feast of Sutton Imprisoned by John Marshall Priest in the same Town for Tythes dyed a Prisoner on the 11th day of the 4th Moneth 1674. John Addams of Haddenham dyed a Prisoner for Tythes being buried the 27th day of the 2d Moneth 1674 John Beadles of Chatteris Imprisoned by Owen Fan of Ramsey dyed a Prisoner for Tythes Peter Hill of the same Town Imprisoned by William Strong Priest in the same Town dyed a Prisoner for Tythes Cornwall EDward Anger of Minster-Parish Imprisoned the 17th of the 3d Moneth 1675. by John Austis prosecuted being Register of the Arch-Deacons Court because for Conscience sake he could not pay towards the Repair of the Church so called and dyed a Prisoner the 9th day of the 4th Moneth 1676. Thomas Deeble Imprisoned for the same cause by a Writ De Excommunicat● Capiendo at the Suit of the said John Austis the 7th Moneth 1676. and dyed a Prisoner in the 11th Moneth 1677. Devonshire IOnathan Collier of the Parish of Culleton Rawleigh Imprisoned in Stoak Cannon the 30th day of the 5th Moneth 1669. being prosecuted by John Pope and William Tricky Wardens of Culleton for not going to the Steeple-house and for not paying to the Repair of the same for which he was Excommunicated by Edward Master called Doctor of Law and Vicar general to the Bishop of Exon in Spiritual things and upon that Excommunication the said Jonathan was apprehended by a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo and imprisoned and remained a Prisoner until the 15th day of the 1st Moneth 1670. and then finished his Testimony by Death bearing a faithful Testimony to the Lord and his Truth Thomas Burgan of Artacton Taylor was Imprisoned by a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo for not going to the Steeple-house and for a Contempt of the Bishops Court in not appearing prosecuted by Richard Cr●ssen Priest and Andrew Slathen Warden of Artacton The said Thomas Burgan was brought to Prison to the Sheriffs Ward in Thomas Parish in Exon the 9th of the 2d Moneth 1676. and was continued a Prisoner until he dyed which was on the 19th day of the 4th Moneth following and all the time both in Health and Sickness whilst a Prisoner witnessed a good Confession and left a good Testimony behind him William Woolcott of Bridford Parish Weaver a labouring man having a Wife and two small Children and their dependancies was on the Labour of his Hands was presented to the Bishops Court through the Instigation of Bernard Gillard Priest of the said Parish stirring up his Parishoners and gathering Money to pay the charge of a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo to Imprison him for having Meetings at his House and not conforming by which Writ he was apprehended and sent to Prison and after he had been there eighteen Moneths the Bailiffs said They must have 20 s. of him Being a very poor man the Keeper took pity on him and let him have Liberty to go forth to Work but the Bishops Officers hearing of it threatned the Keeper to have him fined and put out of his place whereupon this poor Man was kept from working and was forced to be relieved by his Friends his Wife being a sickly Woman and in a distressed condition And the said William Woolcott was continued Prisoner till the 27th of the 3d Moneth 1676. and then departed this Life a Prisoner being a good Savour to the Truth all the time of his Imprisonment Witnesses John Gannicliffe Robert Welch Durham RIchard Errington of Gretham near Stockton Farmer taken from a Meeting a● Thomas Yooles the 9th of the 7th Moneth 1665. and had before Ralph Davison and Joseph Naylor Justices and by them committed to Durham Goal upon the Act for Banishment at the Quarter-Sessions the 4th of the 8th Moneth following being brought to the Bar Samuel Davison Judge of the Court past Sentence on him viz. to be banished to Barbadoes and to be kept Prisoner in the House of Correction till he could be Shipt where he remained until he became weak in Body and being not likly to recover his Friends moved for a removal of him to a Friends House for better Conveniencies but it was denyed so that about the beginning of the 6th Moneth 1667. he laid down the Body for the Testimony of the Truth after he had suffered Imprisonment near three Years Gloucestershire UPon the 10th day of the 5th Moneth 1670. there being a Meeting of the People of God called Quakers in Cirencester there came one Thomas Masters called a Justice with others to break up the Meeting he asked them what their end in Meeting was one replyed We meet in the fear of the Lord and for no Evil end the Lord knows but to wait upon him And to worship him too Do you not said he To which Answer was made Yes That 's enough said he we need no further Evidence But proceeded to Fine them and in a Rage laid Hands on them calling his Company to help him pull them down Stairs the Meeting being in an upper Room John Cooke one of the Officers a wicked man cryed Clear the Stairs And thereupon Robert Jenkins one reported to be a Hang-man threw several down Stairs and amongst the rest the Widdow Hewlings an Antient honourable Woman who by the Violence of the fall was lamentably bruised and her Shoulder seperated so that she could not be recovered but dyed within a Moneth after a Woman greatly beloved in those parts and much missed being a skilful Midwife and ready to do good unto all John Webly of Brockworth a Man about fourscore and seven Years of Age for the value of about 20 s. Tythes was by Christopher Guy Impropriator in the Year 1660. cast into Gloucester Goal among Thieves where he lay a full Year and there dyed the same day was a twelve Moneth that he was committed Henry Guy Brother to the said Christopher asked his Wife when he was sick in Prison Whether she would pay or not she denying the payment he told her If her Husband dyed he should not be buried but carried up to the top of the House and the Walls should be beset and the Fowles of the Air should eat him This he spoke in the hearing of their Son and Daughter John and Hester Webly Richard Wetmore for not Conforming Imprisoned by an Excommunicato Capiendo Writ sued by the Chancellor of the Bishops Court at Gloucester soon after he was put into the Goal dyed Hampshire 1661. WIlliam Rutter of Portsmouth

and from thence his Adversary removed him to the Kings Bench where he remained a Prisoner until the 19th day of the 7th Moneth 1676. which was about eleaven Years Imprisonment and then finished his Testimony by Death Thomas Friend of Allington in the County of Kent sued by Priest Slaiton of Seventon for not paying him Tythes and Imprisoned in the Common Goal in Dunstons near Canterbury the 14th of the 8th Moneth 1678. where he remained Prisoner until the 5th of the 10th Moneth in the same Year and then laid down his Body in Peace bearing a faithful Testimony to the last against the Hi●eling Priest In his Imprisonment he was hardly used by Henry Landman the Goaler and his Wi●e who put him in a bad place amongst Fellons and Murtherers and when he was sick would not let him have any Fire and sometimes his Friends kept from him and the Day he departed it was earnestly desired of the Goaler's Wife to grant a few Charcole in a Chaffendish to warm something for the sick Man telling her how weak he was which Request she denyed as one void of any Pity or Compassion Leicestershire 1661. EDward Muggleston of Whitwick Parish sued in the Exchequer by Priest Bennet for not paying Tythes After several Years Imprisonment falling sick and after two or three Weeks Sickness ●on the 4th of the 9th Moneth 1661. he was released from the Cruelty of his Prosecutors for he finished his Testimony in sweet Peace with the Lord against the corrupt Priesthood and dyed a faithful Witness to the Truth and left a good Savour behind him Lancashire 1665. OLiver Atherton Imprisoned in Lancaster Castle in a bad smoky place at the Suit of the Countess of Derby for Tythes fell sick and dyed in Prison in the Year 1665. leaving a good Savour behind him and a little before he dyed he sent her Word That if nothing would satisfie her but his Blood it was like ere long she might have it and in a little time after he dyed John Saeterthwait and William Sands both Imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for Conscience sake both dyed about the same time and finished their Testimony for the Truth London and Middlesex DAniel Abraham being Imprisoned in Newgate with about three Hundred more for refusing for Conscience sake to Swear in the 12th Moneth 1660. fell sick and dyed Walter Bellamy being at the same time and for the same cause Imprisoned in Newgate and there being one Hundred imprisoned in that Room where he was it was judged that so many being together for want of convenient Air and Lodging he fell sick and in the 3d Moneth 1661. he dyed a Prisoner John Stanton having a Wife and several Children was taken out of a Meeting by rude Souldiers and committed to Newgate and falling sick the 21st of the 4th Moneth 1661. dyed a Prisoner Thomas Kirby a Young man a Habberdasher by Trade being newly out of his time was taken out of a Meeting and committed to Prison to Newgate where he fell sick and on the 1st day of the 5th Moneth 1662. he finished his Testimony by Death Richard Hubberthorne a faithful Minister of Christ Jesus being declaring the Truth at the Bull and Mouth Meeting was taken by Souldiers and carried before Richard ●rown who as soon as he came before him took hold of the Brim of his Hat and lugged it upon his Face and committed him to Newgate where he and two more lay in a dark close Hole and falling sick on the 17th of the 6th Moneth 1662. he laid down his Life for the Testimony of Truth Anthony Skillington being at a Meeting of the Lords People the 30th of the 5th Moneth 1662. was by the rude Souldiers taken out of the Meeting and brought before R. Brown who sent him to Prison with many more and they demanded a free Prison and so the Goaler put them in th Hole which is the place they put Fellons in after they are condemned to dye and ●here a eleaven of them remained two Nights and then were had out and put in a stinking Hole amongst the common Fellons and Anthony often complained of the bad Smell before he fell sick and by reason of want of Ai● and such a stinking Smell he and several more fell sick and dyed and the Jury that viewed his Body concluded that they did believe his close Imprisonment and the stinking Smell furfeited his Body which was the cause of Death it being in the heat of Summer John Giles a faithful Minister of the Tru●h was taken out of a Meeting where he was ministring the Truth and committed to Newgate by Richard Brown where fall●●g sick the 29th of the 6th Moneth 1662. he laid down his Life for the Truth 's sake William Watson of the Parish of White-Chappel was taken from a Meet●ng and commi●t●d to the common Goal in Newgate where he fell si●k a●d on the 25th of the 6th Moneth 1662. dyed a Priso●er William Eldridge and John Shoot were both committed to Newgate by Richard Browne for Meeting to Worship God and they fell sick and the latter end of the 6th Moneth 1662. both dyed and were carried from Newgate together Richard Bradlay for the same cause was committed to New-Prison where he fell sick and the 1st day of the 7th Moneth 1662. he laid down his Life for the Truth 's sake Henry Boreman being committed to Newgate for selling Books written by the People called Quakers fell sick and dyed in Newgate the 17th of the 8th Moneth 1662. and left a Wife great with Child and three small Children behind him Thomas Austee and William Hawkes being committed to Newgate by Richard Browne for Meeting to Worship God fell sick and both laid down their Bodies in the Prison for the Truth 's sake Thomas Rogers a Young man was also taken out of a Meeting of the People of God and committed to the common Goal in Newgate where he fell sick about the 10th Moneth and dyed in a short time a Prisoner for the Truth of God Marke Close and Gabriel Shaller being committed by Richard Browne for the Cause aforesaid to the common Goal at Newgate both fell sick and about the latter end of the 10th Moneth 1662. both dyed John Cooper was by Richard Browne committed to the common Goal in Newgate for the same Cause where he finished his Testimony by Death the 30th of the 10th Moneth 1662. Thomas Hankler William Pryor and Samuel Petchett being committed by Richard Browne for Meeting to worship God about the 6th or 7th of the 11th moneth 1662. dyed in the common Goal in Newgate William P●●or leaving a Wife and Children behind him and Samuel Petchett was a Young man newly come up out of the Country about Business John Trowell being at a Meeting at the Bull and Mouth the latter end of the 6th moneth 1662. was dragged out of the Meeting by rude Souldiers and one of them knockt him down for dead in the Street and then trampled upon him in the

Meeting of the Lords people and brought be●ore VVilliam Ball called Justice he was scornfully entreated by him and his Hat and Cap violently struck off his Head by one White the Justices Clark in his Masters presence who disdainfully bid him give the man his Night-cap again and sent him to Ilchester Goal where at the Sessions he was brought out into the cold Air being sick and languishing before the Justices at a Tavern where he was badly entreated and his Hat and Cap again taken off his Head when he had been in a sweat just before The Justices after some scornful and reproachful Language without shewing any pity to his person or principle returned him to Prison again where his cold encreased and he daily grew weaker and on the ●th of the 9th moneth 1665. finished his Testimony by Death VVilliam Hodges after six years and ten weeks Imprisonment dyed in Prison the 23d of the 6th mon●th 1667. committed by Francis Paulett and Thomas Curry for Meeting and refusing to Swear Henry Leverick taken out of a peaceable Meeting and committed to Prison to Ilchester where he had a●terwards the sentence of Praemunire past upon him by Judge F●ster he dyed a Prisoner the 3d of the 1st moneth 1668. being well-nigh eighty years of Age. Richard Councell dyed in Prison for not paying Tythes to Priest Smith's Widdow of Badgworth the Goal-keepers for not feeding them with Money were hard to him Samuel Clothier of Alford an Honest Faithful and Upright man who suffered Imprisonment at several times at the Suit of Thomas Earle Priest of Alford for not p●ying Tythes Samuel looking upon it to be an Antichristian Imposition and contrary to the Testimony of Christ Jesus and the Word of God chose rather to suffer than to make Shiprack of Faith and a good Conscience and after about ten years and three m●neths Imprisonment in all upon the account aforesaid he finished his Testimony by Death being a Pri●oner at Ilchester the 26th day of the 6th moneth 1670. and went to his Grave in Peace with God and hath left a good favour behind him William Kent of Purlock for Conscientiously refusi●g to go to Church so called and conform to hear Common Prayer was Excommunicated at the Bishops Court at Wells at the Suit and by the Promotion of Haumet Ward Priest of Purlock called Dr. in Divinity but in truth an Actor in Iniquity and upon Significavit was taken upon the first day of the Week by Edward Stout and Robert Holbourn Deputy Bailiffs and on the 26th day of the 1st moneth 1667. was had to Ilchester Goal and in Testimony for God against the false Worshippers of the World he finished his Testimony by Death at Ilchester the 1st of the 11th moneth 1670. Thomas Budd on the 22d day of the 4th moneth 1670. departed this Life after he had been Prisoner at Ilchester about eight Years and four Moneths for Meeting and not Swearing being under the Sentence of a Premuni●e Some hours before his Death he dec●ared to this eff●ct That he had renewed his Engagements and Covenants with God and was therein satisfi●d and d●d hope and believe the Lord would sustain him in Life and Death with the Ri●ht Hand of his Righteousness and did greatly rejoyce and bless God that all his Children were Engaged in the Way of the Lord c. Thomas Parsons of Portishead dyed a Prisoner the 25th of the 1st moneth for meeting with the Lords Pe●ple to worship him and refusing to Swear according ●o the command of Christ who saith Swear not at all c●mmitted by Hugh Smith Edward Gorges and Hugh Tyute Justices so called ●ucy Travers an antient Widdow the 25th of the 1st moneth 1674. dyed being prosecuted to Death for two pence offering Money by Priest Kittley of Queen-Camell she being not an Inhabitant but came to visit her Daughter who lived in that Parish Surrey THomas Patchen of Binscomb an upright man although he was weak and ill in Bed in his own House in the Year 1660. was taken and had before a Justice who committed him to the White Lyon Prison in Southwark which is above twenty seven Miles from his H●use because he refused to Swe●r and though he was a man of a considerable Estate they drove him twenty five Miles on foot and were very cruel to him and when he came to the Goal the Goaler set the Thieves to Rob him for their Garnish and they took from him in Clothes and Money which through the violence of his Distemper he was forced to c●nse●t to let them have 5 l. 15 s. And being thus cruelly dealt with in a few dayes after he was committed he dyed in the Prison a faithful Witness to the Truth Thomas Birkly Henry Bromly John Whitlock and William Snooke were all four committed to the White Lyon Prison for Meeting to Worship God and falling sick for want of Air and Conveniencies of Lodging there being many more of their Friends Brethren at the same time in Prison with them fifteen of whom were sick at one time these four Persons finished their faithful Testimony for the blessed Truth in the 9th moneth 1662. John Dison John Wostenholm and Richard Page being committed to the White Lyon Prison for the cause aforesaid and about eighty more were kept in three little Rooms where by reason of the closeness of the place they fell sick and in a short time being on the 6th of 10th moneth 1662. they there finished their Testimony for the Truth by Death Samuel Fisher a faithful Minister and Labourer in the Work and Service of the Lord taken out of a Meeting of the Lords People in Charliwood in this County and committed to Pri●on to the White Lyon where he remained a Prisoner until he dyed which was on the 31th of the 6th moneth 1665. Joseph Fuce taken at the same Meeting at Charliwood and for no other cause but declaring the Truth to edifie and build up the People of God in their most holy Faith he being also a faithful Servant of the Lord whose Mouth was opened by the Gift of God to declare and publish his Truth for which he was committed wi●h S. Fisher to the White Lyon Prison and after he had remained a Prisoner several Years he finished his Testimony by Death 1665. John Shield another of the Labourers in the Work and Service of God was taken out of a Meeting at Horse-lie-down and committed to Prison to the White Lyon where he remained a Prisoner till about the 6th or 7th moneth 1665. and then finished his Course as a faithful Witness for the Lord and his Truth John Fothergill was taken out of a peaceable Meeting of the People of God at Glinford and was had before one called a Justice who committed him to Prison to the White Lyon and being twenty five Miles from London he was unwilling to put the Constable to so much trouble to guard him to Prison but went himself the Constable giving him his Mittimus and after he

had remained some Moneths in Prison he fell sick of a Feavour and about the 6th moneth 1665. he finished his Course and was taken away from the many Tryals and Troubles that the Righteous suffer in this World Henry Day of the Parish of Magdalens Bermonsey in the County of Surrey Taylor Imprisoned in the County Goal upon a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo prosecuted by George Nutkins William Browne John Arnold and Richard Burgin Wardens and Overseers of the said Parish for not paying towards the Repair of the Church so called after he had lain some time in Prison fell sick and dyed the 20th day of the 7th moneth 1677. a Prisoner for the Testimony of a good Conscience John Farmer of the same Parish Carpenter Imprisoned by the same Writ at the same time and for the same cause prosecuted at the same mens suit remained a Prisoner until he dyed which was the 12th day of November 1680. Suffolk THe 22d day of the 10th moneth 1678. Robert Tomson of Broadfeild and several of the People of God being assembled in a Yard being kept by the Officers out of the house they used to meet in at Woodbridge there came Thomas Bacon called Justice and Edmund Broome Priest and some Officers to break up the Meeting and the said Justice committed eleaven of them to Prison to Melton Goal where the said Robert Tomson soon after he was in Prison dyed a a Faithful Witness to the Lord's Truth and for assembling with his People to Worship the Righteous God Northton JOhn Samm of Howend in the Parish of Haughton Conquest in the County of Bedford a faithful Minist●r and Labourer in the Lords Work William Lovel of Hardingston and Joseph Gamage of Buggbrook being with several others assembled in the fear of God to worship him in Spirit and Truth at Nuskutt the 23d day of 6th moneth 1663. were apprehended by Warrant from John Willoughby called Justice who committed them to the common Goal where there were above 〈◊〉 tha● lay in the low Goal twelve steps below the Ground and in the night they had but little Air being lockt d●wn betimes and so kept close until the seventh hour the next Morning and John Snart the Wicked Goaler would not suffer their Friends to come at them with this hard Usage several of th● Prisoners fell sick and dyed the said John Samm dyed the 26th day of the 1st moneth 1664. William Lovel dyed the 11th day of the 2d moneth and Joseph Gamage dyed the 2d day of the 2d moneth William Carr of Kislingberry committed to Prison upon the false Oath of Richard Harris Priest of Kislingberry who Swore That William Carr gave a Treasonable Paper to one William Law but he being present before the Justice offered to take his Oath That it was given him by another nevertheless the Justice committed William Carr under a pretence of spreading Treasonable Papers in which Paper there was indeed no Treason but was written by a faithful Servant of the Lord and though William Carr was had to the Sessions where instead of trying him about the Paper the Oath of Allegiance was tendred to him a Snare the Justice knew would hold him for that for Conscience sake he could not Swear and for refusing to take an Oath he was sent to the Goal again where after eleaven Weeks Imprisonment in the low Goal on the 25th day of the 1st moneth 1664. he dyed Richard Ashby on the 6th day of the 7th moneth 1662. was taken out of a Meeting where divers were assembled to Worship God at the House of Joseph Gamage at Buggbrooke and being carried before John Willoughby called Justice he tendred him the Oath of Allegiance and because for Conscience sake he refused to Swear he was committed to the common Goal where on the 26th day of the 1st moneth 1664. he dyed in the true Faith and bore a good Testimony to the Glory of God Thomas Arnold of Heyford Imprisoned at the suit of Priest Seller of Stow because for Conscience sake he could not pay him Tythes he patiently took up the Cross and followed the Lord and forsook his Wife Children Houses and Land freely and laid down his Life willingly for the precious Truth 's sake after a Year and a halfs Imprisonment he dyed on the 1st day of the 2d Moneth 1664. And note further the Cruelty of this Priest he was not satisfied with the Blood of Thomas Arnold but on the 30th day of the 5th Moneth following sent T. A's tender Wife to Goal because she could not pay Tythes William Ewins of Farthingstone Imprisoned in the County Goal at the Suit of Thomas Hogg Priest of the said Town for not paying him Tythes he was Prisoner for the same one Year and a half all which time he was kept in the patience of the Lamb until he dyed which was on the 1st day of the 2d Moneth 1664. and his Wife dyed at home soon after and his Son and Daughter were both Sick of the same Disease being infected in the nasty Hole where William dyed And after the Young man recovered because he refused to pay Tythes the Priest cast him into Goal also in the same Year Norfolk EDward Shooter being at a peaceable Meeting in the fear of God in Lyn on the 7th day of the 12th Moneth 1663. was with others taken by Souldiers and put into a nasty noisom stinking place call'd a Cage where they were kept for the vulgar Rabble to deride till towards Night and then were had before the Mayor who tendred them the Oath of Allegiance and because for Conscience sake they refused to Swear they were all sent to Bridewell where they were kept two or three Nights and Dayes and then sent them to the Goal where they were severely used and kept most of them to l●dge on the hard Boards for a long time the Goaler being so Cruel that he would suffer neither Fire nor Straw to be carried in to them but what a poor Woman privately brought in as if it had been Victuals in a Basket and in this condition they continued four or five M●neths the Goaler also boarding up the Windows so close that he deprived them what he could both of Light and Air and often denyed their Friends to come at them In these deep Sufferings the aforesaid Edward Shooter fell sick and finished his Testimony to the Truth by Death Mary Mawley of Wor●well in the County of Norfolk Widdow committed Prisoner to Norwich Castle for the Tythe of a Goose by Priest Mingly then Priest of the said Town who kept her a Prisoner in Norwich Castle till she dyed there John Norris Imprisoned in Norwich Castle upon the Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo and there detained a Prisoner until he dyed Francis Gardner late of Tivitshall in the Year 1675. was subpaened into the Exchequer by Chistopher Burrel Priest of Pulham for not paying Tythes and the said Priest caused him to be kept close Prisoner in the Castle at Norwich