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A76750	The Cry of blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jewes reconciled, and in conspiracy with the dragon, to devour the manchild. Being a declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the city of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold sufferings, and persecutions sustain'd by them from the priests, rulers, professors and rude multitude, contrary to law, liberty, justice, government, the righteous ends of of the wars, and the Scriptures of truth. Together with a true account of the material passages in substance between the rulers and them at their several examinations, and commitments, and at two general sessions of the publick peace: and of the tumults, and insurrections, with other necessary observations, and occurences. Gathered up, written in a roll, and delivered to John Gunning late mayor of that city (being the fruits of his year) for the private admonition, and conviction of himself, and brethren concern'd, and named therein: with a letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a copy followes in the ensuing pages) / Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five moneths space of time published, for the reasons hereafter expressed.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1656 (1656)	Wing B2990; Thomason E884_3; ESTC R27277	101,853	169

and Lords for sending several Merchants of London to Prison with Warrants which contained not the cause of their Commitment To salve which the Petition of Right was then granted which confirmed Magna Charta and the Statute of Westm 1. wherein this fundamental Law is contained And to act contrary hereunto is to subvert the fundamental Law For which the late King Strafford and Canterbury were impeached attainted and executed as Traytors against the fundamental Lawes and Liberties of the Nation And against this fundamental Law no particular usage 25 Edw. 1. Cap. 2. Coke upon Con. c. f. 527. or Custom of any particular place is of force All which as it appears these Magistrates neither accompt nor regard nor their heads nor estates for they commit men to prison without any Warrant or Mittimus and have denyed it to about 20. persons of whom particularly this Treatise makes mention though severall of them earnestly and often demanded it Also freedom of the exercise of the profession of Faith in Christ Jesus though differing in Judgment from the Doctrine worship or discipline publiquely held forth is a fundamental in the present u See the Government Art 37. Constitution And for all to prophesie and when any thing is revealed to another that sitteth by for the first to hold his peace And that all may speak one by one was exercised in the true Church of Christ of which the Scriptures bear Record as aforesaid and is a true profession and exercise of faith in Jesus Christ And for that absolete Act Mary 1. on which the Priests and Magistrates pretend to lay the legality of their proceedings in this case It is well known to have been made in the time of Popery for the defence of the Romish Popish Priests in the time of their Service from the testimony of those Protestants whom then God mightily raised up to bear testimony against their Idolatrous Doctrines and services who witnessed against them thorough flames of fire All which Doctrines and Services being wholly removed the effect must needs cease with the cause and the Defence when that which is defended is taken away And 1 Eliz. c. 2. repeales and makes utterly void and of none effect all Lawes Statutes and Ordinances wherein or whereby any other service than that of the Common-Prayer is limited established or set forth And that Act aforesaid 1 Mar. amounteth to the establishing of the Masse which is another service And yet neither are the Priests ashamed to desire nor do the Magistrates blush to defend them upon colour and pretence of that Statute nay to imprison where there is no offence by that Law were it in force and practicable for it protects the Romish Popish Priests from interruption onely in the time of Service Can those who claim the benefit and priviledges of that Law and are protected thereby otherwise be esteemed of than such as that Law qualifies and makes capable of the priviledges and protection therein provided And so is not the witnesse the same against which the provision is made as aforesaid and that which seeks the same defence of the same root and principle If the Priests will needs have that Law to be in force and to be defended thereby then let them not refuse to be accompted of and denominated as such whom that Law qualifies guardeth and defendeth viz. as Romish Popish Priests of Antichrist not as Protestants or Ministers of Jesus Christ for against the witnesse of God in such was that Law made and provided The great Tumult and R●et The Priests and People having understood by these illegal and oppressive proceedings how much these Magistrates had the truth and those who owned it in abomination were greatly encouraged to proceed in their opposition thereunto And resolutions were also had by an insurrection to quit the Town of those Servants of the most high who were so instrumentall in this day of the Lord because according to the way of Justice and the Law of the Land they being innocent it could not be done And such an expedient if it took might gratifie and answer all their opposites Therefore a Conspiracy was entred into and a design laid amongst Continued the Apprentices for that purpose and meetings had in order thereunto And as a Blind or pretext to this continued outrage a Petition was drawn to have been presented the Maior and Aldermen to turn them out of the Town and upon their refusing so to do for they knew that the Law authorized no such Injustice then to rise and not only to do their endeavours on them but on such as should assist them And in this Petition Priest Farmer was consulted to say no more and to execute this Plot goings there were from house to house and Master and man were prepared Mighty were the outgoings of the Lord on the first day of the week being the 17th of the 10th moneth in the publique meetings and mightily was the Dragon enraged thereat seeing his Kingdome shortned And therefore staid not till his Serpent wisdom by a Petition had turn●d his design into an insurrection but blowes up the heat of the rash and ungoverned Apprentices and rude multitude to lay hold on the first opportunity to put it by downright tumult into issue And therefore having understood that the third Raised on John Audland and John Camm 18th of the 10th moneth 1654. The first day day of the week following John Camm and John Audland who were of the first that came hither and were great labourers in the work of the Lord in Bristol were to passe over the Bridge to a meeting appointed at Brislington a mile or two from th●nce in the County of Somerset Resolutions were had to set upon them And accordingly the third day of the week in the morning being the 19th day of the 10th moneth they two passing peaceably over the Bridge and a friend with them offering no offence or injury to any severall Apprentices of Priest Farmers Parish followed after and passing by them to the South end of the Bridge turned about and giving a sign many other Apprentices came forth and other people and joyned with them who together fell violently on those innocent strangers and assaulted punched pulled and haled them back over the Bridge again towards the High Crosse their numbers being encreased to some Hundreds and their rage heightened that some cryed out Hang them presently others Knock them down and would have dragg'd them thorough Winestreet and so out of the City there to have executed their cruelty upon them but it pleased the Lord that others were hearkened to who spoke to have them brought before the Maior And so the Riot haled them into the Tolzey where their rage had been much upon them were it not that a friend present with much ado got them into his house near at hand and so rescued them About which the Ryot remained for some time threatening to assault it Those two being all that

Conscience in things of a spiritual nature except to Popery and Prelacy And to such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practise licentiousnesse seems to be guarded from all persecution by the Fundamental constitution of a new Government Wherein those are Chief in Authority and Rule and possessed of all power whose sword was made successful and victorious to the cutting down of Tyrannous and imposing powers under which themselves amongst others suffered wherein the Gospel is said to shine so glorious as to form the whole Nation into a profession and to the rendring so many thousands of professors clear-sighted in the Mysteries of the Kingdom and earnestly to expect the reign of Christ over all for ever now supposed by them and believed to be on the very threshold Such persecutions and unjust proceedings as are rehearsed in the following Treatise should be presumed to be done in England And that those who are called the Children of the Kingdom and accompt themselves ready to sit down therein with Christ when he shall appear Now that he is begun to be manifested in life and mighty power unto which thousands of his Saints do bear witnesse and have set their seals should all opinions Judgments and forms hitherto in the height of enmity and contention against each other be now reconciled together and joyn in with the powers of the world from whom in their several dayes as they have witnessed any thing of truth they have received opposition And also with the rude multitude in persecuting and afflicting the witnesses of this Kingdom and seeking to murther the Lord of Glory thus beginning in these last times to be revealed But thou wilt cease to admire if in the cool of the day thou doest sit down and consider That as it was of old a Esay 8. 18. Christ Jesus and the Children whom the Lord had given him were for signs and wonders in Israel b Rom. 9. 4 5. to whom pertained the Adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the Service of God and the promises whose were the Fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh himself came who is God over all blessed for ever Even from the Lord of Hosts who dwelleth in Mount Sion And that as the seed of the Serpent and of the Bondwoman which is the same in Ishmael as in Cain who hated and slew his brother c Gal. 4. 29. persecuted the Seed of the Free-woman so it is now d Mal. 3. 1. John 1. 41. 4. 25. Very great were the expectations of the Jews for the coming of the Messiah Of him e Luke 1. 70. 24. 27. Acts 3. 18 21. all the Prophets prophesied from the beginning of the world Him all the f Heb. 8. 1. 5. 10. 1. 5. 7. 10. Levitical services sacrifices the Temple Circumcision and the Jewish Kingdom shadowed and typified Him the g Luke 5. 17. Acts 13. 27. Doctors of the Law and the Pharisees read out of the Prophets every Sabbath day and on him were their hopes fixed for a perfect restauration and redemption from under all their Captivities and servitudes In the h Gal. 4. 4. fulnesse of time in the dayes of i Matth. 2. 1. Herod the King who was not of the race of the Jews but appointed over them by the Romans under whose power they then were when the Scepter was departed from Judah which old Jacob k Gen. 49 10. prophesied should not he nor a Law-giver from between his feet till Shiloh come He came was l Luke 2 4 7. born of a Virgin at Bethlehem in the Tribe of Benjamin of the Seed of David The m Luke 2. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Angels signifie his birth to the Shepherds and for joy of it sing together n Luke 1. 17 76. 3. 4 5 6. John prepares the way before him in the spirit and power of Elias o Acts 2. 22. Approved he is of God by miracles wonders and signs by a p Mat. 3. 16 17. voice from Heaven by the descension of a Dove and by q 1 Cor. 15. 4. Acts 17. 31. raising him the third day according to the Scriptures All r Luke 24. 44. Acts 3. 18. Prophecies are fulfilled in him and himself ſ John 7. 28. 37. 38. John 8. 12 to the end Luke 4. 21. convinceth the Doctors and the people publiquely that it was so being indeed t 1 Tim. 3. 16. God manifested in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached to the Gentiles believed of in the world and received into glory And yet because He came not with outward observation nor in the Glory of Solomon nor in the dominion or restauration of an earthly Kingdom nor in the way they prescribed him Nor by the discovery of the High Priests Scribes and Pharisees But was u Luke 2. 24. Levit. 12. 8. born of a poor woman w Mat. 13 55. supposed a Carpenters sonne x Luke 2. 7. laid in a manger for there was no room for him in the Inne more marred in his y Esay 52. 14. visage than any man of no z Esay 53. 2 3. form or comelinesse or beauty whereby he should be desired Of no a Mat. 8. 20. abiding place b Mat. 4. 18 21. John 21. 3. Attended by poor Fishermen as his disciples followed by c Matth. 9. 9. 10. 11. 21. 31. 32. 11. 19. Luke 3. 12. 5. 29 30. 15. 1. 7. 29. 19. 2. Publicans and sinners because he opposed their e Matth. 25 3 6. Mark 7. 8 9 15. traditions Reproved their f John 4 20 21 22 23 24. outward commanded worship being all ended in him changed the g Mat. 5. 6. cap. Mat. 12. 1. 2. 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. 13. 14. Mat. 15. 1 15 Joh. 5. 10 11 Acts 6. 14. Laws and Customes h John 8. 44. 15. 22. 16. 8 9. Convinced them of sin was as a i Mal. 3. 1 2. Refiners fire and as Fullers sope k Mat. 2. 3. All Jerusalem as well as H●rod was moved at his birth The l Mat. 2. 4. 5. 6. 16. chief Priest and Scribes advise with Herod whom they hated and tell him who sought to murther Jesus where he was to be born who should be the Governour that should rule the people of Israel His m Joh. 1. 11. own receive him not though he came to them the most n Mat. 12. 14. John 7. 12. Luke 22 2. John 12. 42. Mat. 26. 3. 57. 59. 27. 20 22. strict in the outward observation of the Law which led to him most persecute him His friends when he took to him 12 disciples tell him he was o Mark 3. 21. besides himself The Scribes and Pharisees say he is p Mat. 11. 19. gluttonous a wine-bibber a q Mark 3. 23. Matth. 9. 34. Devill and the Chief of them yea and a

abode within Therefore who hath believed this report And to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed Where is there faith to be found on the earth for this coming of the Sonne of Man Though his Coming forth to Us be as the rain as the later and former rain on the earth Who can abide this day of his coming and who can stand now that he thus appeareth as a sanctuary to those who sanctifie him in their hearts and make him their fear and their dread But for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the Houses of Israel for a gin and for a snare to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken and the testimony and the law be bound up and sealed amongst his disciples How are the Priests and the Rulers and the Churches so called and professors of all sorts and this City of Bristol moved thereat What seekings out where he is born What contrivances to murther him What reproaches of Deceivers Witches Sorcerers Jesuits Franciscan Friers Blasphemers Devils are cast upon them in whom he is appeared What false reports of denyers of Ordinances and of Christ dying at Jerusalem and of the Scriptures of disturbers of the peace are raised upon them Yea what abuses incivilities rage madnesse insurrections Tumults riots illegal bonds and imprisonments Oppressions persecutions bloodthirstinesse and murtherous resolutions How are all forms factions and interests in the City reconciled and made friends and united though at enmity with each other from the beginning in this day to Crucifie Jesus in these his Saints Presbytery with Independency Independency with Anabaptisme Anabaptisme with Notionists and professors at large and Ranters and they with the Episcopals and the multitude of prophane and loose livers and all with the Rulers and the Rulers with them and the Priests their leaders in things contrary to Law and Justice against those people who are made offenders in nothing but their obedience to the Lord How have all Forms and opinions lost the Crosse which they received from these Rulers and this people and from other different forms as they in their severall times have witnessed any thing of reformation in letter or spirit in things Civil or Spiritual upon the coming forth hereof which even then was exercising on some of them by the Rulers And how are they all joyned together in one Yea the Priests and other professors out of the Countrey come hither and say also A confederacy to lay the Crosse on these servants of the most High and such a Crosse every way as never knew any before Nay all the professions in this City together and which did not the Lord chain up for his Seeds sake and the Law of the Land restrain would with more fury pour out the blood and more greedily tear the flesh of the people of God than ever was witnessed in the former ages in the most tyrannical and bloody persecutions whereby they bear a Luke 21. 13. testimony to those servants of the Lord that they are the Disciples of Jesus and to themselves that they are not his disciples But are of that b John 1. 3. 11. 12. wicked one who slew his brother because his works were evill and his brothers good And having lost the Crosse they have lost the power and life of truth and the beeing the Disciples of Christ as saith c Luke 14. 26. to the 34. Mat. 10. 37 38 39 40. 16. 24 25. Mark 8. 34. 15. 38. 10 21. Luke 9. 23 to the 27. Christ himself He that taketh not up his Crosse daily and followeth me cannot be my disciple For the Crosse is alwayes what the Truth received of the world and what themselves received of the world when they witnessed the truth Yea it s d Mat. 10. 22. 24. 9. Mark 13. 12 13. John 7. 7. 15. 18 19. 17. 14. 1 John 3. 13. portion is to be hated of the world because it is not of it and the e John 15. 19. world loveth its own The Rulers stand in their old spirit of darknesse enmity and persecution and those who received the Crosse and who were hated of them all along as they were witnesses for the truth are come to them and fallen in with them being indeed now of the same root and principle If the f Luke 14. 34 35. salt hath lost its savour wherewithall shall it be salted it's good for nothing but to be cast on the dunghill saith Christ Let them sit down and sadly consider it Any kind of form or profession any kind of Priests Raylers Covetous proud Lyars Drunkards or others outwardly more strict it 's no matter what or who so this new kind of Religion as they call it though it is what was from the beginning Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever may be rooted out of the City Nay though it be to the losing of their Civill interest the price of their blood and sufferings Save Barabbas Crucifie Jesus And he is no friend to Caesar nor the Government of the City that will not have it so And occasions are sought for and haltings looked after and Emissaries sent about to find matter to slander the Lord of life risen in his Saints Though blessed be the Lord who hath g 1 Sam. 2. 9. guided the feet of his Saints so that they have not wherewithall justly to slander their holy Calling But the wicked shall become silent in darknesse And thus hath the Lord who hath been so much defired and expected come in this Ministry of Spirit and life first to the Independent and baptized Churches so called in this City who were offended thereat and stumbled Then to the City But the Priests Rulers and the generality of the people through their means reject and persecute it though many of the Churches so called and divers hundreds in and about the City have received him and do believe in his Name and do bear testimony with many thousands more that the Lord is come and their testimony is true But as it was of old That very Word of the Lord spoken by the Prophets for which they were persecuted and put to death by the Rulers and people of Israel being recorded and transmitted to posterity the Scribes and Pharisees who lived in the dayes of Christ h Mat. 23. 29. to the end received in the letter and owned as the Scriptures and seemed to be so offended at their Fathers for slaying the servants the Prophets that they built their Tombs and garnished their Sepulchres and said If they had lived in their Fathers dayes they would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets And yet Christ Jesus the Sonne of God the Messiah that holy and just one of whom the Prophets spake they crucified and witnessed themselves as he testified to their faces to be the children of those who

up the Prophets of Baal to be cut off by the people whom they have deceived And the Lord will Malach. 2. 9 1. 2 2. make them contemptible and base before all the people according as they have not kept his wayes but have been partiall in the Law And now O ye Priests this Commandment is for you If you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my Name saith the Lord of Hosts I will even send a Curse upon you and I will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already because ye do not lay them to heart Behold I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces even the dung of your solemn feasts and one shall take you away with it And ye shall know that I have sent this Commandment unto you Order of Sessions That the Constables do once in every fortnight make diligent search within their severall Wards for all strangers Inmates and suspitious persons and to present their names and those who entertain them within two dayes following to the Mayor and Justices to the end such course may be taken with them as is agreeable to Law Reply Had what the Law requires of them in this particular been effectually executed the Town had not been so full of persons who ought to be enquired after as it is at this day But all lyes asleep in this particular till the hopes to catch the Messengers of truth and to keep the Town clear of such awakened their blind zeal as another expedient to effect their ends upon those servants of the Lord But it s fallen asleep again since it hath not proved a snare to catch the Innocent Order of Sessions That all people do take special notice and be hereby forwarned not to be present at any tumult or other unlawfull Assembly or on any pretence to assemble or gather into Companies or multitudes into the streets or elsewhere or to conduct and follow offenders either to the Magistrates houses or other places of Justice unlesse they be thereunto lawfully called And the Constables and all other publique Officers are hereby required to apprehend and arrest all such boyes and Apprentices and other people that shall assemble or gather together as aforesaid And to bring them before the Magistrates to be punished according to the Law Reply Lesse then this they could not do in colour of Justice but whether they meant any such thing will appear in that they never to this day have punished one offender although Hundreds at a time have transgressed therein and that before their faces and at their very doors as the instances hereafter to be mentioned will demonstrate Nor hath a Constable discharged his duty therein required But it seems these Magistrates Constables and people know one anothers minds well enough in this thing and can agree together in injuring the Innocent though their orders seem to speak the contrary Preamble to the Orders of Sessions aforementioned And the ground of all these Orders is premised to be several great Tumults and unlawfull Assemblies lately hapned and arisen within this City as well on the Lords dayes as at other times and as the Court is informed upon pretence or occasions that some disturbed the Congregations and Ministers both before and after the Publique Exercises in the Churches have been fully concluded And likewise by the comming of strangers to the City who can render no good accompt of their being here whereby the Lords day hath been much prophaned the Inhabitants greatly affrighted and the Publick Peace safety and welfare of the City very much endangered to be broken and disturbed which the Court taking into serious consideration and well weighing the manifold mischiefs and sad effects which may grow thereupon did Order c. Signed Aldworth And Ordered by John Gunning Mayor John Lock Richard Vickers William Cann Joseph Jackson Henry Gibbs and George Hellier Aldermen Reply 'T is well we have got the Confession of the Bench under hands that those afore mentioned were great Tumults and unlawful Assemblies prophaning the Lords day greatly affrighting the Inhabitants endangering the disturbance of the Publick Peace safety and welfare of the City whereupon manifold mischiefs may grow and sad effects And ought not such a great Tumult and unlawful Assemblies to have been strictly enquired after and severely punished Ought they not to have been discountenanced and supprest Hath any Master or Servant Officer or Inhabitant been called to accompt and punished for them according to the Law to this day though hundreds have oft times appeared and acted them before their eys When a friend of the Common-wealth was called before the Mayor and Aldermen upon information of some words which was said he should hear one of the Apprentices to say and sworn before them to speak the truth was what he informed them upon his Oath to this effect viz. That the said Apprentice being asked how the Apprentices could be so bold to rise as they had done and be so long from their Masters businesse unless they had leave from their Masters or some other encouragement He heard him say they had leave from their Masters and were encouraged for that Alderman Hellier came into them whilest they were at the Tolzey and said that he would dye rather then any of the Apprentices should go to Prison which he offered to prove further by two of his servants Committed to writing and prosecuted according to the concernment every way of a thing of that nature Or did not the Mayor forbid the Clark to write and took he not under his hand only what he could not say viz. That he heard the said Apprentice to speak that they had 400 horse in the Town ready for the King Hath it not lay husht to this day But Henry Davis a friend to the Common-wealth he and his brethren Committed to Newgate and continued him a Prisoner from the 20th of the 10th month 1654. to the 16th of the 11th month following being the next Sessions for that upon his hearing in his shop in the High street at the hight of the Ryot Decemb. 20. aforesaid when the Proclamation was read at the High Crosse in the name of the Lord Protector requiring every one to depart these words spoken by some of the Royters who then filled that part of the street viz. What do you tell us of a Protector tell us of King Charls He immediatly gave notice thereof to the Officers of the Garrison and not to them some of them telling him he had committed Treason in so doing And James Hill another friend to the Common-wealth they bound over at the same time to answer at the Sessions for speaking the words so heard as aforesaid Do ye not stand guilty O ye Rulers of the tumults disorders aforesaid in the eye of the Law and amongst all wise men shall it be said in not enquiring after in not suppressing in not correcting nay in encouraging