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A77941	A declaration of the sad and great persecution and martyrdom of the people of God, called Quakers, in New--England for the worshipping of God. Wherof 22 have been banished upon pain of death. 03 have been martyred. 03 have had their right-ears cut. 01 hath been burned in the hand with the letter H. 31 persons have received 650 stripes. 01 was beat while his body was like a jelly. Several were beat with pitched ropes. Five appeals made by them to England, were denied by the rulers of Boston. One thousand forty four pounds worth of goods hath been taken from them (being poor men) for meeting together in the fear of the Lord, and for keeping the commands of Christ. One now lyeth in iron-fetters, condemned to dye. Also, some considerations, presented to the King, which is in answer to a petition and address, which was presented unto him by the general court at Boston : subscribed by J. Endicot, the chief persecutor there; thinking thereby to cover themselves from the blood of the innocent.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing B5994; Thomason E1086_4; ESTC R13926	22,607	32

A DECLARATION Of the SAD and GREAT Persecution and Martyrdom Of the People of God called QUAKERS in NEW-ENGLAND for the Worshipping of God Wherof 22 have been Banished upon pain of Death 03 have been MARTYRED 03 have had their Right-Ears cut 01 hath been burned in the Hand with the letter H 31 Persons have received 650 Stripes 01 was beat while his Body was like a jelly Several were beat with Pitched Ropes Five Appeals made by them to England were denied by the Rulers of Boston One thousand forty four pounds worth of Goods hath been taken from them being poor men for meeting together in the fear of the Lord and for keeping th● Commands of Christ One now lyeth in I●on-fetters condemned to dye ALSO Some CONSIDERATIONS presented to the KING which is in Answer to a Petition and Address which was presented unto Him by the General Court at Boston Subscribed by J. Endicot the chief Persecutor there thinking thereby to cover themselves from the Blood of the Innocent Gal. 4.29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now God hath no respect to Cains Sacrifice that killed his Brother about Religion London Printed for Robert Wilson in Martins Le Grand SOME CONSIDERATIONS Presented unto the King of England c. BEING Partly an Answer unto a Petition and Addresse of the Gen. Court of Boston in new-New-England presented unto the King as is said Feb. last the 11th day OH King this my occasion to present thee with these Considerations is very urgent and of great necessity even in the behalf of Innocent Blood hoping that my Work will find such favour with thee as to induce thee to the reading and serious consideration hereof my occasion is this Because of a Paper presented to thee called The humble Petition and Adresse of the General Court at Boston in New-England In which is contained divers Calumnies unjust Reproaches palpable untruths and malicious slanders against an Innocent People whom they scornfully call Quakers whom for the Name of Christs sake are made a Reproach through the world and by these Petitioners have been persecuted unto Banishment and Death it is hard to relate the Cruelties committed against these People and acted upon them by these Petitioners they have spoyled their Goods imprisoned many of their Persons whipped them cut off their Ears burned them yea banished and murdered them and all this I aver and affirm before thee O King wholly unjustly and unrighteously and without the Breach of any Just Law of God or Man but only for and because of Difference in Judgment and Practice concerning Spiritual things without any transgression of the Law of God or their own Laws Saving that they made Laws against them on purpose to spoil their Goods imprison their Persons cut off their Ears yea and kill them which Laws were made by them without any Power truly derived from the lawful Authority of England contrary to their Pa●ent And now O King these same Men have presented thee with a Petition in which is asserted very many ex●ream Reproaches as I have said in contempt and derision of that People and all this as if those People were guilty of heinous crimes that it might appear to thee as if these Petitioners had done nothing but Justice in what they have done and they seek to cover themselves and to hide their Wickedness before thee in what they have unjustly acted and this seems to be the current of some part of the same Petition already presented unto thee like as if they had done no Evil though they have uniustly banished cut off Ears whipped inhumanely and taken away lives as aforesaid and they would have thee believe they are Innocent towards thee and towards us when as it is evident as the Sun at Noon-day that they are our persecu●ors and that they have unjustly persecuted us unto death for the Name of Christ and that also they are not unto thee as they hypocritically feign themselves And therefore O King for the clearing of our selves and the Name of the Lord which we profess and for the reproving of their bold and impudent Insolencies both in what they have already done to us and now in seeking to cover themselves unto thee and also if there be any doubtfulness in thy heart of these matters for these ends and causes with respect to the Fear of God and Honour to the King I hereby presume to pursue their said Petition even unto thy Court and to wipe away the slanders and reproaches of Ungodly men as much as possible hoping hereby thou wilt receive due and just information in this matter of proceeding between us and them that thy Just Judgment may be given accordingly And I shall transcribe some few of their own words presented to thee and thereupon spread some few Considerations before thee also and I pray God give thee an understanding to judge justly in this and all other cases The first thing that I note is Whereas they say That they have chosen rather the pure Scripture-worship with a good Conscience in this poor remote Wilderness to wit New-England among the Heathens than the pleasures of England with subjection to the imposition of the then so disposed and so far prevailing Hierarchy which we could not do without an evil Consciencee c. say thay The Considerations presented to the King upon these words are divers 1. The Worship Doctrine Discipline and Constitution of the Church of New-England is different and contrary and not purely according unto the Scriptures in the Administration of the Gospel nor in a pure Conscience purely guided by the Spirit of God though they seem to justifie their own way and case before the King and this may justly be made appear in his presence upon good occasion only at this time I assert the Case and if ever God gives opportunity I may prosecute it with Proofs and Evidences and that to the great Reproof of the Church so called of New-England who are not only in Doctrine Worship and Conversation contrary to the Scriptures but impudent and too presumptuous to affirm their own Self-justification and Innocency before the King when as it is manifest as the Day is from the Night that the Pastors and Members of the Church of New-England want the Spirit of God that gave forth the Scriptures and follow the spirit of Persecution Violence and Cruelty and are void of a Good Conscience both to God and Men To prove this there needs no greater Evidence than their own Deportment towards the Harmless Quakers for these five years time who as I have said have spoiled their Goods and imprisoned their Persons cut off their Ears banished them and Inhumanely put them to death and all this only because of difference in judgment and practice in Religious matters when as no manner of Evil could be charged upon them in the things between Man and Man And if these

commanded to preach no more in the Name of Jesus Did they at all obey it for fear of Man And when the three Children were commanded to bow to the Image did they do it for fear of Man Or if they had dyed for their disobedience of the Kings Commandment could it have been said That their Blood was upon their own heads and that they rushed themselves upon it and this is in part the like case that our Friends suffered under the Injustice of these Petitioners who would now cover themselves like men of guilty Consciences but the God of Heaven will let them know one day and the King may justly do it That the blood of our Brethren lyeth upon the heads of the Magistrates of New-England and they are guilty of their cruel death for they put them to death not for any evil-doing between man and man but for their obedience to God and for good Conscience sake towards him Again The Petitioners say The Quakers dyed not because of their other Crimes how capital soever but upon their superadded Presumptions and incorrigible Contempt of Authority breaking in upon us notwithstanding the Sentence of Banishment had they not been restrained there was too much cause to fear that we our selves should quickly have dyed or worse and they would not be restrained but by death Nay had they at last but promised to depart the Jurisdiction and not to return without leave from Authority we should have been glad to have said they should not dye In Answer to this it is considerable 1. What these other Capital Crimes were which the Sufferers were guilty of here is a secret Charge of Crimes without nomination and this is the part of Slanderers to accuse in general without particular proof but this is still to extenuate their own horrid fact of putting the Innocent to death and that the King may believe better of them than indeed he hath cause and the superadded Presumption and incorrigible Contempt of Authority What was it any more than that unjustly and without reason they commanded them to depart or if they did not they should be put to death when as no reason could possibly be rendred for such Law and Commandment but because they were called Quakers and were different in matters of Faith and Judgment concerning Spiritual things for as I have said no Sedition evil-dealing Drunkennesse Lying nor any of these things could be charged against them and therefore the Law and Commandment of Banishment was unjust and could not be actively obeyed by our Brethren but they returned again not in contempt of Lawful Authority but as they were moved and upon their occasions which was lawful and just in the sight of God and Men deporting themselves harmlesly towards all people and this is stiled Superadded Presumption and Incorrigible Contempt of Authority but they must needs put a Good Name upon their Bad Work and render the Innocent as high Offenders as excellency of speech can demonstrate 2. There can be no just cause rendred wherefore they should fear our Brethren except the Guiltiness of their own Consciences for as I have said they were never seen with any Sword or Staff amongst them nor any Carnal Weapon nor ever held Designs of Mischief and for them thus wickedly to suggest unto the King as if they would have killed them or worse this is back-biting and slandering in the highest degree and punishable by the Laws of God and Men and it 's true them whom they have killed are restrained but the Principles and Practices of the Quakers so called hath entred into New-England and passes thorow the Consciences of people without restraint and it 's a shame for themselves to mention how all the Pastors and the whole Church of Boston overcame three Innocent persons and what weapons they overcame them by not the weapons of the Spirit of God but the weapons of Cruelty and Hard-heartedness even as Cain overcame Abel and as the Jewes overcame Christ and so did the Church of New-England overcome our Brethren And this is all the confession they can make of Restraining our Friends that they cruelly put them to Death and thereby overcame them And it is not known to us that the Court at Boston hath such Absolute Power as that the free Subjects of England may not come and return again and again according to their lawfull occasions without leave from the Authority of Boston Court I say this seems to be usurped Authority rather than lawfully established upon them by CHARLES the First but it is apparent and the King knoweth it that in this case the Magistrates of Boston have taken too much upon them and proceeded further than they can justifie either before God or the King in Imprisoning Whipping cutting off Ears Banishing and putting to Death the good Subjects of England without either President Example or any Power derived from the Lawful Authority of England And we have cause to say They were so far from desiring to spare their lives as they would suggest to the King that they thirsted for their blood and nothing else could satisfie them but the extinguishment of their lives by shameful torture Again The Petitioners fawn and flatter in these words say they Let not the King hear Mens words your servants are true Men fearers of God and the King and not given to Change zealous of Government and Order We are not seditious to the Interest of Caesar c. In Answer to this many things are considerable 1. Why should the Petitioners seem to exhort the King Not to hear Mens Words Shall the Innocent be accused before him and not heard in their Lawful Defence Must not the King hear the Accused as well as the Accusers and in as much Justice I hope God hath given him more Nobility of Understanding than to receive or put in practice such Admonition and I desire it may be far from the King ever to condemn any Person or People upon the Accusation of others without full hearing of the Accused as well as their Enemies for it is Justice and Equity so to do and thereby shall his Judgment be the more just 2. They pretend to be Servants to the King and that they fear him and are not given to Change I shall not seem to intrude into the Matters to which I am a stranger but I leave this Case to the King to Consider what their former Actings and the Current of their Spirit hath been towards the King I shall only instance one Particular well known to me in a Letter to one Gurden dated at Boston and Subscribed by some of these Petitioners where they say There is more Danger in these Quakers as they call them to trouble and overcome England than in the King of Scots and all the Popish Princes in Germany these be the Petitioners own words whereby it is manifest what the current of their Spirit was against the King then though now they have changed their Tale and call

Him High and Mighty Prince and Dread Soveraign and such like and that they are the Kings Servants c. when as not long since they have signified by their words quoted against them That there was Danger in the King of SCOTS as they called him and reputed him a Troubler of ENGLAND and numbred him with the Popish Princes of Germany or amongst them Let but the King Consider their own words and he shall plainly read as well the temper of their Spirit against him not long since as he shall see their Hypocrisies and fawning flatteries at this time and he may fully perceive that these Petitioners are given to Change though they would make him believe otherwise And this their Address unto the King is like the approach of the uncircumcised Gibeonites unto Joshua ch 9. who wrought wilily and deceitfully using the same words to Joshua We are thy Servants as these Petitioners have used to the King whose deceitful Address is equally parallel with that mentioned The Case is worth observing Joshua 9. vers 4 6 9. 3. As for being Zealous of Government and Order not Seditious nor Schismaticks as they say it is to be Considered That their Government and the Order thereof is not only different and contrary to the Goverment and Order of the Churches of Christ but different and contrary also to the wholsome Constitution of the Civil Government of England who have made Laws and executed them to Banishment and Death without any Power derived from the lawful Authority of England which is absolute contrary to their Pattent by which they Hold their Jurisdiction which saith They shall make no Lawes contrary to the Lawes of England c. And I shall not Charge them in the Kings Presence further of Sedition and Schism than Himself believeth concerning them Again The Petitioners say They could not live without the Publick Worship of God and they were not permitted the use of Publick Worship without such a Yoak Subscription and Conformity as they could not Consent unto without sin c. In Answer to this this is to be Considered That these Petitioners have laid heavier Yoaks of Subscription and Conformity upon others than ever was laid upon themselves Witness their Imposing Fines upon such as cannot conform to their Worship some ten shillings some forty shillings and some five pounds if any shall be absent from their Assembly it is so much a day and if any keep any Meetings different from their Way of Publick Worship it is so much a time and these are unjust and illegal Impositions and it is a heinous yoak of Tyranny put upon the neck of the Kings good Subjects without any Power derived in this case from the King This they themselves do and yet are Complaining of such Impositions and Yoaks laid upon them by the Bishops which were not compareable to these which discovers their own just Condemnation in the same Matters for which they Accuse others And thus these CONSIDERATIONS are Presented to the King in Vindication of that Innocent People called Quakers whom these Petitioners have Accused as Guilty of heinous Crimes that themselves might appear Innocent of the Cruelty and Injustice and shedding of the Blood of Iust men without Cause being men of Guilty Consciences upon whom the Terror of God and of the King seems to be because of what they have done But now let the King rightly Consider of the Case between Us and Them and let him not hide his Face from the Hearing of the Cry of Innocent Blood And for a further Testimony of the Wickedness and Enmity of these Petitioners and to Demonstrate how far they have Proceeded contrary to the good Lawes and Authority of England and contrary to their own Pattent Hereunto is Annexed a Breif of their unjust Dealings towards the Quakers so called E. B. A DECLARATION Of some part of the SUFFERINGS of the People of God in scorn called QUAKERS from the Professors in NEW-ENGLAND Only for the Exercise of their Consciences to the Lord and Obeying and Confessing to the TRUTH as in his Light he had discovered it to them 1. TWo Honest and Innocent Women stripped stark naked and searched after such an inhumane manner as modesty will not permit particularly to mention 2. Twelve Strangers in that Country but free-born of this Nation received twenty three Whippings the most of them being with a Whip of three Cords with Knots at the ends and laid on with as much strength as they could be by the Arm of their Executioner the stripes amounting to Three hundred and seventy 3. Eighteen Inhabitants of the Country being free-born English received twenty three Whippings the stripes amounting to two hundred and fifty 4. Sixty four Imprisonments of the Lords People for their obedience to his Will amounting to Five hundred and nineteen weeks much of it being very cold weather and the Inhabitants kept in Prison in harvest time which was very much to their losse besides many more Imprisoned of which time we cannot give a just account 5. Two beaten with Pitched Ropes the blows amounting to an hundred thirty nine by which one of them was brought near unto death much of his body being beat like unto a jelly and one of their own Doctors a Member of their Church who saw him said It would be a Miracle if ever he recovered he expecting the flesh should rot off the bones who afterwards was banished upon pain of death There are many Witnesses of this there 6. Also an Innocent man an Inhabitant of Boston they banished from his Wife and Children and put to seek a habitation in the Winter and in case he returned again he was to be kept Prisoner during his life and for returning again he was put in Prison and hath been now a Prisoner above a year 7. Twenty five Banishments upon the penalties of being whipt or having their Ears cut or branded in the Hand if they returned 8. Fines laid upon the Inhabitants for meeting together and edifying one another as the Saints ever did and for refusing to swear it being contrary to Christ's Command amounting to about a Thousand pound besides what they have done since that we have not heard of many Families in which there are many Children are almost ruined by these unmerciful proceedings 9. Five kept Fifteen dayes in all without food and Fifty eight dayes shut up close by the Jaylor and had none that he knew of and from some of them he stopt up the windows hindring them from convenient air 10. One laid Neck and Heels in Irons for sixteen hours 11. One very deeply burnt in the right hand with the letter H. after he had been whipt with above Thirty stripes 12. One chained the most part of Twenty dayes to a Logg of wood in an open Prison in the Winter-time 13. Five Appeals to England denied at Boston 14. Three had their right Ears cut by the Hangman in the Prison the Door being barred and not a Friend suffered to