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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

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

Lord's Justices said the Maior He replyed If you be the Lords Justices I am Whereupon one of the Aldermen said without any more words passing at that time aforesaid for they asked him no other question but what is already mentioned or the least signification of the reason of their sending for him We see what he is take him Committed away to Newgate and commanded the Officer to carry him away and so he was immediately brought thither where the Keeper received him without a Mittimus and kept him close prisoner a great part of that time permitting none to come to him but his Wife for which he said he had order from the Maior On the second day of the second moneth he was sent for from prison before them again and stood before them in the Councell-house as they required where he standing a while they bade him go forth saying not a word more to him Hereupon he went forth and stood at the door then he was bid to go down and by and by the Sword-Bearer brought order from the Magistrates to carry him to prison again Out of which that evening he was released having been kept there for the space of 19. dayes from his Calling and a close prisoner a great part of the time and at no time did they then or have they to this day signified to him the cause of their sending for him or of his Commitment though his Wife desired it of the Maior who refused so to do the man being of a very sober and honest Conversation and alwaies a friend to the Common-wealth Sara Goldsmith being moved to put on a Coat of Sarah Goldsmith 5th day 3d. moneth 1655. going through the Town in a Coat of hair Sackcloth of hair next her to uncover her head and to put earth thereon with her hair hanging down about her and without any other clothes upon her except shoes on her feet and in that manner to go to every Gate and through every Street within the Walls of the City and afterwards to stand at the High Crosse in the view of the Town and Market as a sign against the Pride of Bristol and to abide in that habit so the space of seven daies In obedience whereunto though very crosse to her own will she chearfully prepared her Garment being in the manner of a Coat down to the ground And on the day appointed her being the last day of the week and the fifth day of the third moneth taking with her two friends to accompany her went forth about the fourth hour in the morning and having finished her going to the Gates and thorough the Streets some People following of them but doing them no harm she returned home and at the ninth hour came to the High Crosse with one of the friends aforementioned a great multitude following and there stood for the space of half an hour till the tumult which consisted of many hundreds grew so violent and assaulted so much her self and friend who stood with her that they were enforced thorough the help of some whom they knew not but were made friendly to repair to a shop near out of which the multitude cryed to have them thrown that they might assault them but the Chamberlaine with some of the Sergeants came and brought them thence to the Councel-house out of respect as he said to their safety from the Tumult which filled the Streets thereabouts When they had been a little while in the inner Tolzey the Maior came in and Joseph Jackson who stampt with his foot and grew much enraged and furious as soon as he saw her but the Maior called Sara to him and asked Examined her what was her reason to appear in the City in such a habit She answered It was in obedience to the light in her Conscience What if you said the Maior in your obedience had been killed by the rude multitude She replyed I am in the hands of him who ruleth all things I have harmed none yet I have been harmed Neither have I broken any Law by which I can be brought under any censure Then Joseph Jackson demanded of her the same question that the Maior did concerning her habit She only replyed I have said Say it over again said he She answered thou heardst me But I have forgot it said he The replyed I stand not in mine own will Whereupon some said she was mad To which the friend answered I bear witnesse she is not mad Look here 's one said Joseph Jackson bears witnesse Sara replyed she bears witnesse I am not mad If I had appeared in Gay clothing then you would not have been troubled which were all the words then spoken by her Then Joseph Jackson furiously demanded of her friend what her name was She gave it to him Then he asked her how long she had been with Sara She stood silent He demanded of her why she came up in the City with Sara She replyed because Sara was her friend Do you own her said he She answered I do own her VVherefore said he came she in this habit She replyed There she was she was sufficient to answer for her self and said no more Then the Maior at the instigation of Joseph Jackson for the Maior was advising how he might send Sara home safely ordered them to be sent to Bridewell and seeing Anne the wife of Nicholas Gannecliffe standing by Joseph Jackson demanded of her whether she owned Sara To which Anne answered yea I own her to be a servant of the living God and as the Scripture saith I and the Children whom thou hast given me are for signs and Wonders so behold she is as a sign a wonder to you this day Then Joseph Jackson said Take her away to prison too She lives said the Maior without the Liberties of the City Send her away notwithstanding said he Then Sara told them That Anne had not been with her but coming to Market upon her occasions and seeing the Tumult about her came to her which was the truth notwithstanding all three were Anne Gannicliffe Margaret Wood for being with owning her Committed sent to Bridewell the Tumult who standing in great numbers before the Councel house all the while the Maior examined them following them thither where by Order of the Maior as the Keeper said were they kept close prisoners so strict that no friends were permitted to come to them nay their Husbands were sometimes denyed and the Mother of the friend and their Servants who brought them provisions and when any of them had admittance it was with very much ado and after long waiting till Nicholas Gannercloffe brought witnesses and demanded before them his wife of the Keeper who denyed to release her or to give him the reason of her being there detained and only said it was by the Maiors Order nor would the Keeper permit them the first night to light a Candle or to make any fire till about noon the next day

him and sends him to the Maior before whom being brought and some of the Aldermen they demanded of him for what he came into the City after that manner He answered he was commanded of the Lord to come and mourn in sackcloth and ashes for them and to warn them to let the Lords people alone as they would answer it at the day of Judgment and not to persecute or imprison his Saints Whereupon they commanded his Coat of hair to be taken off and Henry Gibbs cryed out with great rage Whip him out of Town but said others Let him be gone out of the City now but if he come in again we will whip him out at the Horse-tail so they ordered their Officers to turn him out of the Town who Turn'd out of Town executed their Commands but he by and by returned at the same gate not daring to do otherwise He returning Committed because of the dread and terrour of the Lord that was upon him within which he was no sooner entred but the same Officers who waited for that purpose apprehended him again brought him before the Maior who committed him to prison where after he had been a few houres his hair Coat was brought to him again which he put on the next day on his other Clothes but the third day of his imprisonment he was inwardly required again to strip himself stark naked and to put the hair Coat next his skin and so to abide till he spoke with the Maior so he girded the hair-cloth to his loins and was bare-foot till the second day of the next week on which being released he immediately in that manner went directly to the Maior who commanding his hat to be taken off the ashes on his head flew about which he shaked from him and told the Maior That the Lord of Hosts would stain the Crown and glory of all his pride and strip him naked and bare before him and charged him again in the name of the Lord to let the Lords people alone for they were a righteous holy people whom he had redeemed to himself who were not against Magistrates but owned them in their places as a terrour to evil d●e●s and a praise to them that do well And thus was he turned out of his Native place imprisoned and oppressed in his person and his property contrary to Law and to that frame of spirit which ought to be in men professing themselves Christians which is to hearken to such unusuall Signs and Admonitions at least not to punish those who are made so to appear unto them upon a Warrant as a suspected Franciscan Fryar though he was born and bred in the Town holds some estate of the City is there well known and hath sometime lately been an Officer therein and a man of an unblameable and professing conversation yet Citizen or stranger guilty or not all is one with this Generation for this is such an offence to them yea the very meeting of those who come together to se●k the Lord that Alderman Hellier swore to a Relation of his that if they met at his the said Relations house he would pull them out by the ears As his brother Alderman Lock swore the same oath to a Centry in the Castle because he discharged his duty By this time had the Magistates made such a 1. of the 12th month 1654. John Comberbatch for going along with T. M. to s●e that the Rabble whom be heard threaten to hurt him did him no injury progresse in their illegal and unjust proceedings that inferior Officers took the boldnesse to act as if they were Magistrates and to imprison where the Magistrates had discharged as having done nothing contrary to the Law For John Cumberbatch being at his standing of wares in the Fair called Pauls fair and hearing some of t●e Rabble threaten to throw Morford into the Horse Pool without Temple gate when he was turned out of the Town as aforesaid lest they should do the man any violence he went after them and when Morford returned came back into the City with him Whereupon William Butts a malignant Constable laid violent hands on Comberbatch and haled him before the Mayor charging him with inviting Morford in again when he urged him to no such thing but out of pitty as aforesaid went after him nor could Butts prove any thing against him whereupon the Maior bad Comberbatch go about his businesse but as he was forth of the Maior's door Butts laid violent hands on him again saying he should go to prison Comberbatch told him he was not Committed ●y the Maior and therefore he would not go Said Butts Drag'd to Prison by W. Butts a Malignant Constable after the Mayor had dismist him thou shalt go and so haled him by force Comberbatch call'd to him for a Mit●imus Butts answered he would be his Mittimus and so drag'd him to Newgate not suffering him to speak with any friend by the way and there charged the Prison with him having thrust him in at the door first for Comberbatch said he would not go in unlesse Butts delivered him to the Keeper and so he delivered him to the Keepers son Notwithstanding the Mayor never punisht Butts for so doing though complaint thereof was made unto him by some honest men who were eye witnesses From this new kind of persecution they return Thomas Robertson and Josiah Cole 4th of the 12th moneth to the former of Tumults and unlawful Assemblies for on the fourth day of the twelvth month Thomas Robertson of Grayrigge near Rendal in Westmerland and Josiah Cole of Winterborne near Bristol being at Nicholas Steeple-house in the time of the Divination of Priest Hazzard many people gathered about them and gave them many affronts though they both stood still nor did either of them speak a word But when Thomas Robertson began to utter his voice after Priest Hazzad had Speaking to Priest Hazzard ended all and dismist the people whilest the word was in his mouth unspoken by him he was struck on the head by many as was also Josiah Tumulted c. Cole though he was silent and attempted not to speak which blowes they both received patiently without any resistance Afterwards Thomas began to speak again and said Tremble before the Lord and the words of his holiness Whereupon the Tumult was so great that they permitted him to speak no more but hurried him and Josiah out of the Steeple-house and in great Companies with much rage drew them towards the Maiors and having taken away Thomas his hat they drag'd him under the spouts bar-headed it raining hard the water running down the end of his Locks yet he suffered it and their rage with unmoved chearfulnesse The Tumult having thus btought him and Josiah to the Maiors house he Examined demanded wherefore they were brought thither the Constables replyed for disturbing Mr. Hazzard Thomas desired the Maior to do Justice without respect of persons and told him

Feb. ensuing Yea it was manifest that most men were either acted in or pleased with these tumultuous proceedings such language also passed and threatenings tending to the shedding of blood that even the Rulers themselves at length were in great fear thereof Rulers afraid that blood would be shed and therefore send to those Friends that they could not secure them and therefore sent their Sword-Bearer to diver● those friends from passing into the Town for tha● they could not undertake to secure them who through the Providence of the Lord were preserved with a very great deliverance the spirits of the multitude being that night so full of fury and such mutterings At night of the listings of hundreds of men that the whole City was in a great affrightment Had Order and Government the discharge of their Duty and their Reputation been regarded by these Magistrates or the freeing themselves from the suspition of having given secret Countenance and approbation to the Ryots aforesaid they would have made their Insurrections as exemplary in punishment as they exceeded in outrage breach of the Peace any thing of that nature that this Nation hath afforded But to this day neither hath any one person of the Ryoters been punished or called to an accompt except the three aforesaid through occasion of the Officers who were not committed or punished but rather encouraged by what Joseph Jackson said in their hearing in the Councel Chamber to the Officers of the Garrison in the height of the Tumult nor any Constables for not discharging their duties as they were required according to Law Nay as men concerned in the Tumults and the guilt thereof writing there is to have it extenuated and excused with those in chiefest Authority being not ashamed falsely to charge those as the cause and the Designers upon whom the Tumults were raised and whose lives were thereby endangered And two of the Councell were appointed to ride to White-Hall And a Petition of those Ryoters to O. P. was prepared hastened and subscribed And so far were they from protecting the Innocent aforesaid that they met together and sent to John Audland and John Cam who the seventh day of that week being moved of the Lord came boldly into the City going in the chief parts thereof and from house to house without the least disturbance to desire them to depart the City though the Town was quiet without signifying any Law that they had broken which deserved such a violation of their just Liberty in answer to their desires in their letter to that purpose sent the Magistrates the 22. of the tenth moneth Now for Tumults and Insurrections to take upon them to make Lawes And in a ryotous manner for more than one dayes continuance to seek to put them in execution on innocent and peaceable freeborn Englishmen who had fought for the Liberties of their Countrey and had broken no Law nor were charged with any such things to the hazard of their lives which were sought after and the endangering of the setting a whole City into blood contrary to and in contempt of Law Liberty and Justice and tending to the subversion of all order and Government And for Magistrates not to make enquiry into or to punish one offender though hundreds sometimes acted highly therein before their faces according to the * 13 Hen. 4. c. 2. Law which require the Justices of the Peace with the Sheriff to suppresse a Ryot in their view and to Record the same which record amounteth to a Conviction on which the offenders may be punished And if the Ryoters are departed requires the Justices and Sheriff within one moneth to enquire by a Jury and to hear and determine according to Law upon pain of 100 l. a piece every one making default But to endeavour to excuse it to the chief in Authority pleading the part of the guilty and falsly to suggest the cause and design of those Tumults on the Innocent upon whom the Tumults were raised And to send to and resolve the turning the Innocent so injured out of the City instead of protecting and doing them Justice is such a shamelesse President of abominable injustice and misgovernment as outstrips Sodom it self who drew together about Lot's house to abuse two strangers come into their City whom they took to be men but indeed were Angels sent to execute the Judgment of God upon them in fire and brimstone for their wickednesse And that wherein every man is concerned for who is certain of his Liberty and who can judge himself safe if the rude multitude have a mind to infringe the one or endamage the other and the Magistrates instead of doing Justice on such offenders shall make up wherein they miscarry and if it be lawful to do thus to one they may do it unto all for One would think that Masters should never let loose cherish and uphold the unbridled youth of their servants not knowing how soon it may turn on themselves And that Magistrates should blush to bear the name of Governours where the multitude command not themselves much more to countenance and encourage such But are they ashamed who commit Jer. 6. 15. such abominations as these Nay they are not at all ashamed neither they nor the Priests nor the People Is this the Justice and the Rule of Bristol for equity against which and Judgment whosoever pleadeth and for Just Liberty and righteousnesse he must be accounted an Enemy to the Government and the Town and so be represented understood and prosecuted Is this the quiet and peaceable City of which the Magistrates do so loudly boast And are not See Ralph Farmers mystery of Ungodlinesse pag. 22 94. these the horse-heels of Priest Farmer with which he answered his adversaries whom he calls Quakers as his other businesse to dispatch then to confute this doctrine though he published a book for that purpose Whilest those friends aforesaid were in the City Friends of the City abused c. when Friends of the Country were departed they were made the pretence of all the miscarriages hitherto particularized but if they were once departed the Citizens it was said shall find no disturbance But the enmity being at the Seed it ceased not after they were out thereof in order to a meeting before appointed in Leicestershire For the 25th of the 10th moneth they were up in Tumults 25th 10th month 1654. again severall hundreds attempted a friends house at the Tolzey but were dispersed by some Troopers and as friends were found in the streets they were kickt by them dirted and otherwise abused And not onely in the streets but in the steeple-houses were these outrages committed and the Magistrates adde thereunto their injustice and oppression For On the first day of the 11th moneth Henry Warren First of the 11th month 1654. Henry Warren speaking to Priest Longman being moved of the Lord went to Thomas's steeple-house where one Longman a malignant formerly Chaplain