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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63402	A True and impartial naration [sic] of the remarkable providences of the living God of heaven and earth appearing for us his oppressed servants called Quakers, Nicholas Lucas, Henry Marshall, Jeremiah Hearn, John Blendall, Francis Pryor, Samuel Trahearn and Henry Feast, who most unrighteosly were at Hertford sentenced to be transported beyond the seas from our dear wives, children, parents, and relations, for inoffensively meeting to wait upon the Lord our Maker : and also may serve for an utter refutation of a lying paper published under the hand of one Edward Manning.		1664 (1664)	Wing T2496; ESTC R32899	10,690	18

A True and Impartial NARATION Of the REMARKABLE Providences Of the Living God of Heaven and Earth appearing for Us his oppressed Servants called QUAKERS Nicholas Lucas Henry Marshall Jermiah Hearn John Blendall Francis Pryor Samuel Trahern and Henry Feast Who most unrighteously were at Hertford sentenced to be Transported beyond the Seas from our dear Wives Children Parents and Relations for inoffensively meeting to wait upon the Lord our Maker And also may serve for an utter refutation of a Lying Paper published under the hand of one Edward Maning Is he not God of the Seas and do not the Winds obey him behold ye despispers and perish for a work is wrought in your day of or concerning which your whole Magicians or Soothsayers cannot inform you Printed in the Year 1664. HAving seen a scurrilous Pamphlet subscribed by one Edward Maning entituled the masked Devil or Quaker neither fearing God nor reverencing man c. the which being so full of non-sence lies and contradictions doth in a great measure confound it self and refute its malicious Author but least it should have ought of influence upon any reasonable creature or that Maning should by his impudent and often affirming untruths against the innocent at last have a will formed in him to believe his own lies We shall in the fear of the Lord simply nakedly and impartially declare the Providences of the living God as in mercy through his out-stretched arm they appear'd to and for us and so leave it to the righteous witness of God in every conscience to judge who is the masked lying Devil neither fearing God nor reverencing man the Author of the Paper subscribed by Edward Maning or the oppresseh people of God called Quakers We N. Lucas H. Marshall Jer. Hearn John Blendall Francis Pryor Sam. Trahern and Hen. Feast were sentenced for transportation the 13. of the sixth month 1664. And in order to the execution of that sentence the Sheriff gave William Edmonds Goaler of Hartford as he the said Goaler affirmed power to treat with some Ship-master for that our transportation which he accordingly did with one Thomas May Master of the Ship called the Anne of London and agreed with him for five pound a head to the Barbadoes and six pound to J●maica which were the two places to which the sentence appointed us to be banished withal telling him that we were free men and six of us would carry goods with us c. In order hereunto the first day of the seventh month the said Goaler brought us up to London and put us into the Bull Inne in Bishops-gate street and in less than half an hours space the said Thomas May came into us the Goaler being with him and asked us whether we were willing to go to sea for the Barbadoes and Jamaica We answered him with one consent we were not willing but were forced for conscience sake by vertue of the late Act Then said he I will carry no man against his will withall telling the Goaler then present that he had told him that we were all free men and would also carry Goods with us c. Well well said the Goaler I know my bargain and so presently both departed from us leaving an under Goaler to keep us fast locked up in a room The next day in the morning being the second day of the month aforesaid we were brought out of the Inne and put into two Coaches by the order of the Goaler and were carried down to Billings-gate and hurried into Boats and rowed to the Ship side when we were come thither the Goaler asked for the Master Thomas May his Mate answered he was not a Board then he asked for the Boatswaine who was not aboard neither said he then to the Mate have you not order to take in seven passengers the Mate answered he had order not to take them in The Goaler asked from whom he had that Order the Mate said from the Master who said the Goaler had you order not to take in the Mate answered the Quakers Then the Goaler was in a great rage and brought us back again and wished that he were rid of us but one of us told him he would not be cleer of us in this world nor in that to come except he repented then he carried us to the dark house neer Billings-gate and locked us up in a room there that day setting his two men to be our Keepers telling us he must go to his Lord Chief Justice to know what he should do with us He also went to the Kings Secretary and swore that he contracted with the said Thomas May for us as convicted persons by the late Act and had acquainted the Master fully what we were whereupon Thomas May was sent for by the Kings Order Who went taking two witnesses with him to prove that he contracted with William Edmonds not knowing he was a Goaler but thinking he had been a Merchant to carry seven men that were free and willing to go But the Secretary told him Oath was given in for the King and that his witnesses would do him no good At night the Goaler returned to us and putting us into two Coaches carried us back to the Bull Inne in Bishops-gate street again and locked us up in a room saying he had order that none should come at us There we were kept close Prisoners many of our Friends being denied so much as to see or speak to us one of our friends also was much abused by the Goaler because he earnestly desired to see us here we continued till the fourteenth day on which day William Edmonds the Goaler came to us and told us we must go aboard One of us asked him if he had an Order he answered he had order from the Sheriff but being asked to see it he said it was a private order and that the Sheriff would come himself also but the Sheriff came not then he brought us out and put us into two Coaches carrying us in great hast down to Ratcliff but driving the privatest and farthest way about that people might not meet nor follow us to take notice that we were banished for conscience sake as they did when we were carried from the Bull Inne to Billings-gate Yet some of our friends hearing of our being carried away hired Coaches and followed to see what would become of us At which the Goalers were angry and threatned to Pistol and cut the Coach-men if they followed so close and as soon as we were brought to Ratcliff men which he had provided stood ready to drag us into a house much like to one called a spirits house and brought us into a private roome and kept us there about half an hour not suffering our wives children or friends to come at us Afterwards they caused us to go down into a dark Cellar from whence they forced us down a Ladder into Boats which the Goaler had also provided and from thence rowing us away to the Ship and compelled

us aboard The Master Thomas May being not aboard Edward Maning whose horrid lies and wickedness we shall make manifest in this true short and faithful Relation probably by the appointment of the Goaler then aboard received us and discharged the Goaler of us though he had nothing to do to undertake the charge of us or so to concern himself with us The said Maning would also at the same time have given us leave to have gone a shoare again but we being informed by the Seamen that Maning had no command in nor nothing to do with the Ship that they knew of we did not nor would not accept of his offered deceitful kindnesse but soon after the Master coming aboard seemed much discontented that we were brought into his ship and said that if this Edmonds had not perfidiously sworn falsly he had not been thus troubled And commanding us out of his Ship again he bid us go home giving us also a Certificate under his hand to secure us from any trouble a shoare in this following form Septemb. 14. 1664. These are to give notice to whom it may concern That whereas seven men were delivered aboard my Ship called the Anne of London to be transported viz. Nicholas Lucas Henry Feast Henry Mashall Francis Pryor Jeremy Herne John Blendall and Samuel Traherne That by my permission and leave they have liberty to go on shoare and to come aboard again when I shall require them Given under my hand Thomas May. Witnesse John Clements William Wilson William Looker But we were so far from flying from our holy cause or being at all weary afraid or unable to endure tribulation passe through the fire or sing in the stocks as that wretched Author would insinuate in page 15. that several of us did not find freedom in our Spirits to go at Thomas May's command though real Master whereupon he forced us out and tumbled our Goods out of the Ship into the Boat himself helping to row the Boat a shoare where we were at liberty as we judged according to the Certificate in which time we went to visit our wives children friends and relations being not secured in houses on Tower hill as is falsly said in the sixth page of that lying Pamphlet neither did Samuel Traherne make any slip or escape as is falsly suggested but went to see his aged Father and Mother once more with intentions to return again according to the contents of the said Certificate and whereas that lying author saith that in opposition to the Magistrates and Officers of the Town he rode about like another Nayler giving God thanks that he was delivered out of their hands and that now they had done their worst and that when Francis Butler called Justice sent for him by his man to come to him he replyed if Francis Batler had any thing to say to him he should come himself all which is exceeding false and a very forged lie for he came all the way from London on foot and so went through the Town to his parents house being three miles from Hertford and came not upon a horses back till Francis Butler came into his Fathers house and laid violent hands on him carrying him to his own house and from thence committed him as a fugitive and Fellon to the County Goale causing him to be set on horse-back and his legs to be tyed under the horses belly and with a guard of four men brought him in that manner and delivered him to the Goaler where he remained Prisoner 17 daies through or by reason of some blood thirsty men in power who exercise gteater cruelty then the greatest severity the late Act requires But as in this case so in all the proceeds against us since the late Act came in force we have been unjustly dealt withal matter of Fact according to the expresse reason and Letter of the late Act being never proved against us as hath been already published Samuel Trahern was after seventeen daies imprisonment released by information and request from Thomas May Master of the Ship shewing to the Magistrates of Hertford that he gave him leave c. although we do not deny that Edward Maning officiously went down to Hertford even intruding himself upon us we being passive in that matter otherwise then bearing his charges 〈…〉 on the first day of the eighth month we were by the Master Thomas May commanded aboard and when we were in the Ship they weighed Anchor and set saile and sailed neer to the red house at Deptford but mark and behold the hand of the Lord the wind on a sudden brought the Ship back again to Lime-house where casting Anchor they lost Cable and Anchor both for the present the Master being struck down with the end of the Cable and his shirt torn off his arm but was not much hurt The Ship also was very like to run a shoare but by casting out another Anchor it was prevented then Thomas May ordered us to go a shoare again Upon the sixth day of the same month we were again commanded aboard and they having a faire winde and tyde which carried many Ships by us weighed Anchor and spread the Sayles but they could not get the Ship far from the place for although they laid forth all the endeavours that men could yet could they not get the Ship to saile at which the Seamen were troubled and said they should not go out of England as long as these men meaning us were aboard Also one of them not regarding nor perceiving the hand of the Lord said they were bewitched so they cast Anchor again being not able to move scarce a stones cast from the place they had weighed Anchor Although many other ships with the same Winde Tyde and Time sailed by us quite away down the River This sign surely is to be minded by all that acknowledge and know the true and living God whom the Winds and the Seas obey and we cannot but confesse that his immediate hand was in this matter notwithstanding the ignorant and unbelieving are blinde and attribute these and such like things to accidents common chance c. then were we again set a shoare And on the eigth day we were sent for aboard the fourth time when they again weighed Anchor and hoised up their sailes And when they had sailed from Lime-house to Greenwich which is about two miles a sudden storm arose they being forced to cast Anchor to secure their Ship and so we were put to shoare again Upon the tenth day of the same month we were commanded aboard the fifth time and they once more weighed Anchor and set their sails to the winde then was the Ship very like to run a ground It s Bolt-split one time reaching over the bank Then were we about Black-wall set a 〈…〉 The Ship went well down the same Tyde to Graves-end On the twelfth day we were ordered by a Messenger in the name of the Master Thomas May to come down with our