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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39879	For the King and both houses of Parliament being a short relation of the sad estate and sufferings of the innocent people of God called Quakers for worshipping God and exercising a good conscience towards God and man.		1661 (1661)	Wing F1435; ESTC R29850	12,638	14

imprisoned and had Irons put on them for not Swearing and the rude people set upon them when they were apprehended with drawn Swords threatning to kill them and one threatned to knock them on the head with an Ax the Jaylor took their Meat from them and beat them and made them goe in a very tempestuous day 12 Miles with Irons upon them and there being two Fidlers and a Piper Prisoners in spight he set them a sidling and Piping between every two that were Chained together with Irons Mountgomeryshire Eight Imprisoned sometimes they keep Water from them and often times keep their food from them because they will not have it of the Jaylor and they are in a Cold Room in the Common Goale where they lay six nights on the bare boards without straw and then had a wadd of straw allowed them And sometimes are lockt up and not suffered to go to ease themselves but are forced to do it where they lodge Two of which were taken as they were travelling on the high way Herefordshire Friends being peaceably met together in Hereford to wait upon the Lord the Mayor Aldermen and some Officers came into the Meeting-Room and said he would rouse them up Some of them said they were peaceably met together in the Fear of the Lord. He said he would have no more Meetings in the Fear of the Lord and so sent both men and women to Prison One Friend was taken at Lemster and carried to Hereford and committed to Prison by the Mayor of the City where he had bars of Iron kept on his legs which were about half an hundred weight two dayes and one night and was denyed to send to his Friends and a Letter that he wrote to his Friends being carried by a Friend to the Mayor according to his Order he kept the Letter and committed the Friend to Prison that brough it Radnorshire Imprisoned Eight being taken as they were parting from a Meeting by men who came with Swords and Staves and threatned to drag some Friends at their Horse tails and because they were asked to shew their Orders one Price drew out his Sword and said there was his Order and struck one Friend upon his Head and cut his Hat almost thorow and several others they beat very cruelly without mercy and being brought before a Justice they were committed to Prison until they should take the Oath of Allegiance Suffolk Twenty Imprisoned many of them committed for not going to the Publick Worship Cornwel Above Twenty Friends were taken as they were going from a Meeting by Souldiers and they put the men being Eighteen into a Dungeon which was so little that half of them could not sit at a time and had no Straw nor any thing to lye on and the women were put into a little Room in Pendennis Castle and had not so much as Straw allowed them to lye on And by a Warrant from two Justices as much Goods was taken from them as was worth 25 l. 18 s. for driving them from Prison to Prison Here followeth a Relation of some part of the Lamentable Sufferings and Havock that is and hath been made of the People of God by the oppressing Ministers of England ESsex John Adams of Hadstock renting a Farm of Twenty seven pounds a year the Priest of Hadstock demanded Tythes for the said Farm for the year 1659. and because John Adams could not for Conscience sake pay them the Priest caused to be taken away from him in Goods Cattel and Horses to the value of Thirty eight pounds and returned nothing again And this was testified under the hands of several Witnesses In the same County John Pollard of Steeple renting a Farm of about 200 l. a year Rent according to former Custom Tythes were paid but for three parts of the same One Armiger claimed Tythes for three years for the said Farm which amounted to 45 l. for three parts which John Pollard for Conscience sake denying to pay the said Armiger caused to be taken away from him Cows Bullocks and one Bull to the number of Eighty two in all all which are valued to be worth 322 l. and returned nothing again and hath kept the said John Pollard and his Brother in Prison in the Fleet and other Prisons several years besides Sussex Nicholas Beard had taken from him by Robert Baker Priest of Rottingdean for Fifty two pounds demanded for Tythes for two years fourteen Oxen six Cows and a Bull worth 137 l. and nothing returned again And in the year 1660. the said Baker came into Nicholas his Corn Fields and took away whole Loads of Wheat and Barley without setting out either Ninths or Tenths and choosed as he went and sometimes left none behind but took all as if it had been his own And because Nicholas reproved him he struck him over the head with his Cane in so much that his head was sore seven or eight weeks after and he kept the said Nicholas a close Prisoner in the year 1661 Twelve weeks and since removed him to the Kings Bench and demands Two hundred Pounds more for Tythes Rent Edward Noaks of Word farmed Land at the rate of Eighty pounds a year for one years Tythe had Goods taken from him to the value of an hundred pounds and was kept two years and an half in Prison besides And for about 706 l. 08 s. 11 d. demanded for Tythes of several other Friends the Priest and others have taken Goods worth 3000 l. 03 s. 08 d. and have often taken ten times more than their pretended due And there hath suffered Imprisonments Stockings Whippings Loss of Goods and other abuses for keeping a good Conscience towards God and man before the King came into England 3170 Persons And there remain yet Prisoners that were committed in the dayes of the Commonwealth and of Oliver and Richard Cromwel 0079 Persons And there hath dyed in Prison in their dayes through hard usage 0032 Persons And there hath suffered Imprisonments for Refusing to Swear and for Meeting together and Refusing to go to the Publick Worship and keeping a good Conscience towards God and man since the King came into England 5400 Persons And there hath dyed in Prison since the King came in through hard and cruel usage 0014 Persons In IRELAND For speaking the Truth in Steeple-houses and Markets and for not Swearing and for keeping a good Conscience there have been Whipt Stockt Imprisoned Fined and suffered loss of their Goods 0200 Persons And there is at present in Prison in Ireland being taken out of a peaceable Meeting in Cork and one other Meeting 0029 Persons In SCOTLAND For speaking the Truth and denying the Priests practices and for not Swearing have been Imprisoned Stockt Whipt and some Banished to the number of 0091 Persons And there are many in Prison at present in Scotland and Necessaries denied them and their Friends denied to visit them but the certain number we know not at present Here followeth an Account of Five

FOR THE KING And both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT Being A SHORT RELATION OF THE Sad Estate and Sufferings OF THE Innocent People of GOD CALLED QUAKERS FOR Worshipping GOD and Exercising a Good CONSCIENCE towards GOD and MAN LONDON Printed in the Year 1661. For the KING And both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT FOR these many years some have been put to Death and many have dyed in Prisons some have been beat with Clubs and shot at with Pistols and Guns and cut with Swords and knockt down into Pools and not long after have dyed and many have been kept in Prison several dayes without Straw or Meat and almost starved And many have had their Goods spoyled and taken away from them to the Ruining of Them their Wives and Families and above Three Thousand suffered Imprisonments Stockings and Whippings in the dayes of the Commonwealth and of Oliver Cromwel and above Five Thousand have suffered since the King came into England very great Afflictions and Imprisonments and about Seventy lye in Prison that were Committed in the dayes of Oliver and the Commonwealth and above Five Hundred are at present Prisoners some in Dungeons and some lye without Straw and some are not suffered to have Meat brought to them and also divers are Committed every week And besides many other are their Cruel Sufferings some of which are here presented to your Consideration who have the Power to Remedy these things NOttinghamshire Imprisoned Fifteen six of whom were taken out of a Meeting at Vpton by Souldiers with drawn Swords who much abused them punching and beating of them And when they were brought to the Sessions the Justices said they were not there that Committed them and so slighted them and some of them they put in a Pit with Thieves who pickt their Pockets and took their Money from them and violently pluckt off their Coats and forced Drink upon them and swore if they would not drink they would throw it in their faces and threatned to fire their Beds and this was all tolerated by the Goaler who as they said bid them do it and this they did night after night And the other Five are Imprisoned for Conscience sake and not paying Tythes where they all remain Prisoners Warwickshire Imprisoned Fourteen five because for Conscience sake they could not pay Tythes who own Christ come in the flesh the Everlasting Priesthood who ends the first that takes Tythes And Two are cast into Prison for meeting together waiting upon the Lord to worship him and others suffered for Conscience sake towards God And one Friend being bound to appear at the Assizes did appear and then was bid go back and he demanded his Bond so the Judge bad him remember him to the rest of his Brethren and said The next Assizes he should have his Bond with a Halter about his Neck And thus the Innocent is made a Prey upon and all is because their minds and hearts are turned towards God and for fearing loving and obeying him and through the prejudice of the Magistrates they kept two Friends in Prison though they were freed by the King's Proclamation And Four Friends were at a Meeting at Stratford upon Avon and being of another Town the men called Justices caused them to be Whipt both men and women and sent away and caused Two others that were at the same Meeting that belonged to the Town to be Imprisoned Rent Imprisoned Ten some taken out of their peaceable Meetings and some from their Imployments and are cruelly used And the Governour of Dover told Friends they should be kept close and none should come at them and that they should take up their Provision at a Hole and that was all the favour they should have And one Friend is put in a Hole where there is no Light nor Air but through three little holes in the Door and hath nothing to lye on but a little Straw which hath lain there several moneths some of which Friends are Tradesmen on whom many Families depend to be set to work by Pembrookshire Eighteen presented for not going to the Steeple-house and committed Close Prisoners into a close narrow nasty stinking cold Place and the Goaler never once opened the Door for them since they were put in to have Conveniencies but what comes in through the hole of the Door And the Judge gave a strict Charge to the Grand Jury to present all Friends in this County male and female which accordingly was done and gave Charge to all Magistrates and Officers to break up their Meetings and so it 's like the Prisons will be filled very soon in that County with the Innocent and such as fear God and some of these Friends are Husbandmen and were taken away just in the time of their Harvest Carmarthen One Committed on the same Account by the same Judge and was much abused in the Shire Hall Shropshire One Committed for being at a Meeting and though the Judge gave the Goaler a Charge that he might have the Liberty of the Prison and to let his Friends Come to him yet the Goaler hath Cruelly beat him and suffered the Prisoners to beat him and stopt his Victualls that he hath been glad to pluck them up by a Cord at the Window and there he remaines a Prisoner Hampshire In Portsmouth three are in Prison and there Friends were Pluckt out of there Peaceable Meetings and thrust out of the Towne and kickt and beat by Souldiers with the great end of their Muskers and are not suffered to work in Prison being Handy-crafts men Whereby they are like to be ruined for want of outwards and often their Wives are denyed to bring them food and one went to visit one in Prison and they beat him and cast him into Prison also And when Friends laid these things before the Officers one of them said he was resolved to ruine Friends Oxfordshire Four in Prison because for Conscience sake they could not Pay Tythes And at Banbury a peaceable Meeting was broken up by Souldiers under Col. Frettwel who drew their swords and struck and beat Friends and run one in the breast and a Souldier with a legg of a Form beat and bruised severall Friends and when they had pulled out Men Women and Children out of the Meeting they beat them and threatned to Kill some of them Wilishire Eighteen severall of them very poor Men Ten of them were taken in a Friends back-side after a Meeting by Souldiers of whom Friends asked to see their Warrant but they drew their sword and said This is our Warrant and haled them away to one Captain Sharp who sent them to Prison without a Mittimus where they remain Prisoners this Instant Cambridgeshire Two Imprisoned for not paying Tythes and Eleven for not going to the Steeple-houses where they remain Glamorganshire Four Imprisoned one of them haled out of a Meeting by Souldiers with Swords and Pistols and three of them because they could not give Money to the Promooters where they remain Merionethshire Four