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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43408	Here followeth a true relation or some of the sufferings inflicted upon the servrnts [sic] of the Lord, who are called Quakers by this generation of evil-doers as will appear by the fruits of the schollars and proctors of the University of Oxford, who from the very first appearance of the Lord amongst his people in Oxford, until this time, hath manifested their fruits, and of what stock and generation they are, which fruits now are laid open, that all may see their wickednesse, and may depart from them and their evil works, least they partake of their judgements.	Haward, Jeremiah.	1654 (1654)	Wing H1547; ESTC R15016	9,936	8

people of God at Oxford and sung bawdy songs and curst and swore these were never like Ministers of Christ And the Schollars several times came into the meeting blowing and puffing with Tobacco-pipes in their mouths cursing swearing and stamping making the house shake again and saying this would make them speak provoking them to answer to their wickedness but they meekly suffered all and proffered to put their hands under womens aprons and asked whether the spirit was not there and this is their fruits in the meeting of the people of God which is a shame to the Nation that such bad loose idle fellows should be maintained who were like hawkers and hunters riotous fellows which are bred up in pride and ungodliness which is a grief to all sober people to see such a Cage of unclean spirits And ye that are called wise men of the Nation and Governors is it not a dishonour to you to suffer such things And the Schollars have come into the meeting to act Tobit and his dog and one of them divided his filthy stuff into uses points after the manner of the Priests and another raised doctrines of a Tinker and a cobler and many more wicked actions by mockings and scoffings and filthy language which would be too tedious to relate and a shame to modesty and so loathsom and filthy and also a shame to lay open such things as have been by them uttered just like a company of Mountibanks and Stage-players Are these a good savour of young Ministers that must go out to be teachers in the Nations O loathsom and abominable Such wicked fruits and acts which is hard to relate These are like unto the croaking frogs spoken of in the Revelation and like unto the locusts that came out of the smoke of the bottomless pit bred there which goes up and down in swarms And these Schollars has been so shameless that after the meeting they have pressed in by violence and took meat off from the table came into the house of a friend where the meeting was and took the bread and the pottage out of the pot like greedy dogs and sapping them up and this is the carriage of the Schollars among the people of God which they have suffered patiently and this has been their shameless carriage and stopt a friends mouth like to have stragled him in the meeting and threw down the woman of the house and this is the fruits of the Schollars And have stoln or taken away books out of the house and caryed them away And a friend going to the Proctor to lay some of the practices of the Schollars before him he denyed them Justice not correcting them the friend told him that the people were almost spoiled he said he would have nothing to do with them as much as to say he would tollerates the schollars And an other scholar came into the meeting and cryed out blasphemy ye wicked people of the Lord. And this is their wickednesse which was never the like heard of which they make but sport of yet these must have the name of young Ministers of the Gospel and the schollars bear the maid of the house where the meeting is and have forced by violence divers times into the house and said they would be there in spite of her teeths which things have been done at other times out of the meeting and these waies of the schollars are bad examples to people they have carryed stool out of the house broke down the wall carryed the key of the door away and brought in a dog in a meeting time in derision to friends and this to disturb the people of God and this was their cruelty and bad the dog speak and punched him to make him howle and another dog was brought in by the Schollars and threw up and downe at friends in their meeting and these are their wicked fruits like Hunts-men Esau's brood and stock and this hath been their actions like a company of bruits And some have strived by their filthy actions because friends would not answer their filthy wickednesse to make friends speak seeing they would not have by force tryed open a friends mouth to know whether he had a tongue to speak and others of the Schollars have plucked a friend by the beard and nose and have took a friend by the hand and shook her so much that they sprained her Arme being rude wicked and mad And these schollars have been so rude and wicked that when any Minister of the Lord have been speaking they have made such a noise in his time of speaking with whooting yelling and laughing and filthy gestures on purpose to draw peoples minds forth into their image and likenesse who have had desires to hear the truth and have used wicked actions to keep their minds from it One of the servants of the Lord going from a meeting to his own dweling and going by Iohns Colledge a great company of Schollars drew him into their Colledge and forced him up into their Hall and by main strength and much violence thrust him into a Chair and then used abominable and wicked words to have drawn the friends mind our of the fear of the Lord but when they could not prevail they brought beer and like slobering laughing beasts swine proffered to pour it down his neck and struck and beat him with many grievous blows and pinched him in so much as he was amazed and natural sense taken away for a time with their crulty and this man about that time had not eaten a bit of bread in ten days time being very weak and they thrust pins into his flesh and pinehed him and kept him in there with many wicked scoffs asking him whether the spirit did not move him now and thus did the Jews and Priests to Christ and then had him prophesie who smote him these are the same seed And they had him preach or sing a song or tell a tale or let a fart and this is the sport of the Schollars that they make of the servants of the Lord which is a shame to modesty and is this a good report of the young Ministers which should go into the Nation but the friend being kept from fulfilling any of their wicked desires sustained much wrong from them and then three or four of the chief of the Colledge came to the said friend and bad him be gon and pulled him down from that company but left him among as bad a company of Schollars and as the said friend was passing to goe our of that wicked crew he seeing some of the chief of the Colledge spake a word to them of their cruel actions and one of the chief of them came and kicked him with his foot a bad him be gone Oh mercilesse cruelty now in the fruits of these when the chief are so bruitish and uncivil what shall be gathered of the rest of them that are under them And a company of schollars have come