other rude people to the meeting and did exceedingly abuse Friends by dragging them out of the Meeting and kicking them and throwing them against the ground both old and young men and women and tore one Friends hair off his head and abused others so that it is a shame to relate Gloucester-shire 25 of the 3d. Moneth 1660. Two Friends being in a house reading in the Bible there came in some Souldiers and fetcht them before the Captain who askt them several questions to ensnare them about the King and would have forced them to drink the Kings health and when he saw they would not be subject to his will he began to rage and enquired for the stocks and then he called for a halter and put it about one of the Friends neck and so they put it over an iron hook and strained it as if they would have immediately taken away his life and then he committed them into the hands of the Constable and about two hours after they were brought before him again and he asked them about the King again and being not answered according to his will he was much enraged against them and struck them several times on their bare heads with his Pistol and then after much threatning he let them go And the same Captain Abbington came that day to Nailsworth where Friends Meeting was and got Bear and would have had one Friend to drink the Kings health but he refused and said if the King were there himself he did believe that the King would not require it of him then one of the Souldiers presented a Pistol towards him and threatned to shoot and struck fire and the same Souldiers beat and abused other friends at that time and one of the Souldiers fell upon one friend and drew his sword and threatned to run him through and afterwards put a rope about his neck as if that they would have hanged him At another meeting of Friends on the first day of the 4th moneth 1660. the same Souldiers with a drum beating came violently into the meeting place with their swords drawn and Guns and other weapons and one of the Souldiers with a naked sword in his hand puld down the friend that was a declaring and forced him out of the room and took away him and most of the men that were there as Prisoners and the Mayor of Gloucester committed two of them to prison where they yet remain On the third day of the fourth Month Friends being peacably met together to wait upon the Lord at Chillingham there came a Souldier under Captain How and said he had Orders to Break up the meeting and hailed one out and because he could not break up the meeting himself he said he would fetch more Souldiers who when they came said they had Orders to break up such meetings then the Friends asked them to shew their Orders but one replyed his sword was his Order and asked whether they would have it and so fell upon them and haled them forth violently out of the meeting and one of the Souldiers drew his sword at a Friend and said he would run him thorow Cambridge upon the eight of the second Month called April 1660. The Scholers with other rude People came into our meeting place where we were met to worship God did fall violently upon us beating us until they drew the blood of many pulling us out by the hair of the head having no regard to old or young men nor women with child but tearing their cloaths casting them into the nasty and loathsome Channels in the streets and those things they continued to us as a practice in our meetings upon the thirteenth of the third Month called May in the like manner they came into our meeting and violently broke the Locks and boults with great hammers shamefully abusing many and no Magistrate appearing to suppress these things but Alderman Blakely whom they also abused in the like manner throwing him in the Channel Again upon the twenty seventh of the same Month the Scholers joyned themselves together in a great number falling upon us with sticks and struck Friends on the heads faces and hands to the hurting of many a Justice of peace being in the room charged them in the Kings Name several times to be quiet and to keep the peace but they not regarding that Authority proceeded in violence and got a Smiths great hammer and broke open four doors and broke a wooden window and took pieces of the boards and beat us with them and drew us out into the streets and there knocked several of us down shedding the blood of twenty four persons that the blood lay upon the stones in the street in the sight of the People and thus having broke down all the seats windows and stairs that the people could not get up into their lodging chambers and having pulled us out into the streets some they held untill others put dirt into their mouths at the same time also they stabbed two women in the street as it is judged with penknives the one being an Aldermans Wife in the Town the other a widow woman And in the like manner every first day of the week do they continue abusing of us more or lesse And the Mayor of the Town who should discourage and punish these evil doers doth countenance and incourage them in it setting his Officers to stop us from our meeting saying we shall have no more meetings and hath given order unto his Officers to hinder us the next first day These are but a â—aint of things to represent the whole Witnesses hereof Henery Forster William Allen John Smith John Webb Samuel Nottingham Mathew Blakely Edward Salmon John Moone Eusebius Read Thomas Golden John Peace Thomas Read Thomas Hawkes George Nash Philip Williamson Clement Crabb John Harte Ruben Stevens Jeremiah Rose Richard Steaton Edward Wright Samuel Cater Robert Letchworth Gregory Tingy James Blakely Alderman John Cranwell John Parnell Bark-shire the twenty seventh of the third Month called May 1660. Friends being peacably met together at Kingstone-lye in that County there came to the meeting place many rude people four of whom went into the meeting with swords drawn to break up the meeting and one friend desiring to know their Order for so doing their answer was their swords was their order and so they violently abused Friends as followeth Richard Greenway was dragged by the hair of the head out of the meeting and thrown into a standing poole of stinking water and mud Richard Ballers was wounded with a sword John Clerk was pricked with a sword Edward Ballard was pricked with sword Robert Crook had his head brâ—ke and was thrust into a pond and Edward Walteâ— had his head broke Barth Mayling and Thomas Coeburn were both thrown into a pond and beat Robert Samson was beaten Adam Lawrence thrust into a pond and beat Andrew Pearson thrown into a pond head-long these were all dragged to the pond by the hair of the head
people of the Town came to the place where they were met and threw hatfulls and a pail full of dirty water on them and threw dirt on the face of him that was speaking And as they were going to the meeting many Friends were beaten and abused and some thrown down and trampled on and dragged on the ground by the hair of the head and kickt and some had their clothes torn and called them Rogues and threatened to kill them And one Friend was thrust into a pond and knockt down in it and there kept a pretty space and when they had so done they drave the Friends like Beasts out of the Town with staves and huncht them and puncht them and hurt them and no Officer neither Magistrate nor other would stir to preserve them or keep the peace which the rude people broke though some of them were told of this cruel usage and feared that some of them might be killed At another meeting on the 7th day of the same month the rude people came again and threw much dirt and Cow-dung upon them and sonn◠〈…〉 â—aâ—â— and into the mouth of him that was speaking and declaring the Truth and when they saw this would not disturb them so as to cause them to break up their â—â—â—ing they fired a Gun or Pistol three times upon them At another meeting on the tenth day of the same Moneth the rude people came again to the house where they were peaceably met in the Fear of the Lord and with a Scoop-shovel cast in scoop-fulls of dirt and dirty water upon them which did so wet and daub them with them that they were almost covered therewith insomuch that they appeared as though they had been dragged through a dirty Channel And when the rude people had so done then they cryed out see now like Witches they look with other filthy and bruitish words not fit to be mentioned all which the people of God bore with patience without making any resistance And when this was done then they threw in clods of dirt upon them and drew them forth of the meeting and tore some of their cloaths and threw dâ—wn others and stoned others and brake the windows of the house and the fence of the Friends ground where they met and drove them through the Town And some of the Friends after all this in going to a Justices house were sorely beaten and some had their blood shed and were in danger of their lives and those â—â—de people cryed out let the Justice kiss their breech Hartford-shire At a peaceable Meeting of the people of God at Sawbridgworth the rude people of the Town amongst whom were some of the Servants of him who is called Justice Hewet came to the door and threw in water rotten eggs mans dung and stones of which the said Justice Heweâ— being informed and desired to preserve the people of God from violence and the rude multitude in peace he the said Justice Hewet instead of performing the duty of a Magistrate and preserving the people in peace so incouraged the rude ones that the hands of the wicked were strengthened and encouraged in their mischief and he refused to do Justice according to his place Northampton-shire The people of God being peaceably met together to wait on the Lord in a Close near the house of William Lovel and upon his own ground there came one Captain Pinkard and many of his Troopers on Horse-back and entred upon the ground and in a brutish and in humane manner rode amongst the Friends and many of them received much hurt with their Horses and otherwise and they broke up the Meeting and took away the said William Lovel and others and sent them to prison where divers of them were kept two Moneths and the said William Lovel kept prisoner nine Moneths and he was more cruelly used then can be briefly exprest for no other cause but for having a meeting at his house Warwick-shire There being a peaceable Meeting of the people of God at a place called Grin at the house of the Widdow Meeks the said Widdow for suffering a Meeting there was turned out of her house and the house its self pul'd down York-shire There being a peaceable meeting of the people of God at the house of Friend Blacklin in York-shire where were met about thirty persons the rude people came into the Meeting and violently pulled them out one by one and knockt many of them down and wounded many of them Nottingham-shire A peaceable Meeting of the people of God was by wicked and ungodly men 〈…〉 â—ewark and the Friends received much hurt and much of their 〈…〉 by the rude multitude and about four score of them were haled â—uâ— of the meeting one by one and were cruelly beaten and abused Sommerset-shire There being a peaceable meeting of about two hunded of the People of God at Martock upon the second day of the second Month 1657. five men who called themselves Minsters and who are called Mr. Hallet Mr. Stephenson Mr. Duke Mr. Collens and Mr. Thomas Lye come to the place where the meeting was and brought with them a great company of rude people with long staves Pikes and such like Weapons and fell on the Friends who were met in the fear of the Lord and beat them and pulled them and tore their Garments and made loud out-cryes and the rude peoples hands were so strengthened by the company and countenance of the Priests and their rage and madness such against the people of God that had not the Lord wonderfully appeared in his peoples deliverance some might have lost their lives At a meeting of the people of God on the first day of the fifth Month 1659. at Threshford the rude People came with Kettles Panns and blowing horns and with Pipes Lowbels and a Drum to make a noise and a cause a disturbance and the noise they made was great so that friends could not hear the truth declared Amonst which rude company there was one who is called a Minister and he to manifest him himself ruder then the rest beat the drum himself to make a greater noise then was made before who with the rude multitude flung stones and dirt and water at friends and some of them affirmed that they were hired to do so and that they that hired them stood by and encouraged them giving them Bear and Ale for their service Now let the understanding Reader judge who were chief Instruments in chis wickedness c. And whether such serve our Lord Jesus Christ or their own lusts and whether the end of such is not destruction Northumberland As divers of the People of God were met together in his fear at a place called Elledsdon there came a company of rude men and women amongst whom was the Priests wife of the Town of Elledsdon who came from the steeple-house and in great violence haled forth of the meeting about twenty friends and forced them out of the Town and over a little River
But after some season the rage of the rude people abated and so by permission of the chief Actors the people of the Lord met together again then the Priest himself came from his steeple hoâ—â—â— and having a stone in his hand of two or three pound waight he desperateâ—y threw it at one of the friends and his wife also threw stones at friends and they did so encourage the rude multitude that they made a fresh assault upon them and with great fury dragged and haled friends out of the meeting again and threw them down and dragged them on the ground and the Priest encouraged the rude people to stone the Friends and said it was warrantable by the Scriptures and he would bear them out in it and that if ever they came again he would set his mastiff dog at them Wrexham in Wales the eight day of the eleventh Month 1659. The people of the Lord being met together to wait upon the Lord many rude Souldiers that belonged to the Irish Brigade came to the meeting place with staves and crab-tree cudgels and thrust and pusht one another upon Friends and one standing up and bidding them be civil and quiet they cryed out pull him down and out with him and so fell upon him and the rest of Friends and forced them out of the meeting place striking them with their staves and some friends getting up into some upper rooms the Soldies followed them up and broke open the door and came to them and there beat them abused them very much and at that time they drove some Friends into the water and one they puâ—â— down in the water and bruised him so that the Blood ran down another mans head was broken and his blood shed in the street Middle-sex the sixth day of the third Month 1660. Some of the People of God being met together c. in the house of one John Elson in St. Johns street so called there came a great company of rude people who violently threw stones at the said John Elson and other Friends and broke his windows very much and endeavoured to break down his door and after the meeting was ended the rude multitude fell upon one man and pluckt off much of his hair and shed much of his blood and rent the clothes of others and threw dirt in the said John Elsons face and eyes and spit upon him Wilt-shire the 13. of the 3d. month called May 1660. Many Friends being assembled together in the fear of God in Cummerwell in the Parish of Bradforth there came several Troopers of Captain Edward Hungerfords Troop who forced into the meeting and pul'd out one Robert Storr and had him to the City of Sarrum before the Commissioners who upon examination of him said they found that he had been at an unlawful meeting and so committed him to prison Gloucester-shire the 8. day of the 3d. month 1660. Friends being peacably met together in Mase-moor to wait upon the Lord there came one John Coney of that place with a sword in his hand and violently thrust open the door and came into the room and said be gone and struck one Nicholas Wasfield several blows with his sword in his scabbard after which he drew his sword and thrust violently at the said Nicholas Wasfield and gave him many sore blows on the shoulders with his naked sword and being asked by whose order he did this he said by the Mayors order At another meeting of Friends at Cirencister in the County aforesaid on the 13. day of the 3d. Month 1660. and on the 16. day at Nailsworth there came a wicked man that is a great Professor with some others with him with their swords drawn and their pistols cocked and lighted matches in their hands into the meeting and laid hands on one Friend and had him before the Mayor of Glocester who said to the Marshal he should take him away and set a strong guard of Musketeers to look to him and this they did upon suspition that he was a Jesuit Wilt-shire the 16. day of the 3d. Month 1660. Friends being met together in the fear of the Lord at Calne there came into the meeting several rude Souldiers with two Serjeants who are under the command of Colonel Edward Bainton and of his own company commanded by Captain Lieutenant John Lavington and commanded Friends to depart their meeting who desired to see their order for breaking up their meeting they being peacably met together but the Souldiers answered their swords was their authority and so with violence did hale Friends out of their meeting using threatening words â—nd came in amongst Friends with drawn swords and muskets cockt although Friends made no resistance Cumberland At a meeting of Friends at Carlisle the Souldiers came to the meeting and with â—iolence haled and thrust out Friends out of their own house and carried some to their guard and one Friend they pluckt out by the head when he was at prayer â—nd pluckt him down Lanca-shire the 13. day of the 3d. Month 1660. John Thomas a servant of Sr. George Middleton so called set upon three women with impudent scoffs said he would kisse one of them and did abuse them and wrong them and pluckt their coats loose And the same man did abuse Friends and he would have cut Friends with an Ax but that he was restrained by some of his fellows and the same Knights man set upon six friends as they were going to a Meeting to wait upon the Lord who beat them and abused them and bruised their faces and shed much of the blood of two of them Che-shire 17. day of the 3d. Moneth 1660. Friends being at a Meeting at Northwich there came one John Cumberbatch of Nantwich with â—any others of the new raised Militia and haled out three of our friends and carried them before the Commissioners and keeps one a Prisoners and shewed much abuse to friends York-shire 12. day of the 3d. Moneth 1660. Friends going to a Meeting at or near Bellerbe the Militia Souldiers beat them and broke their Meeting and violently abused them and struck them with their naked Swords and would not suffer them to meet and this they did in the Name of the Higher Powers Cambridge 8. of the 3d. Moneth called May 1660. At a Meeting of Friends in Wesbidge Thomas Lecock had his head broke that the blood ran down and was knockt down also another man was feld down with stones also a maid was shot in the neck with a Pistol which did receive much harm and one William Allen was pluckt out of the Meeting and when they had got him out they cryed fall on and few there was of our Friends that passed away without receiving much hurt and it was judged by friends that a load of stones and dirt were thrown into the Meeting room at Friends At a Meeting of Friends in Cambridge on the twentieth day of the 3d. Moneth 1660. there came a great company of Scholars and
teared us out of their Town would not suffer us to stay in the common street or rest but haled us on a long lane and shoved us toward a common far from the Town and would not by any word was spoken keep themselves in peace towards us who offered harm to none Now in this manner and many several waies are we by Magistrates priests and rude people who are incouraged and by their leaders caused to err persecuted in pretence of warrant from the King and power given from him and as it was in Olivers time done by them unto us so is it now and our sufferings in many places greater and the hand of the evil doers more strenghthened against us who since we were a people have not persecuted any or sought revenge against our persecutors in the least manner but with patience have suffered what hath been done unto us knowing that all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and be hated of all men for his Names sake and do rejoyce that we are counted worthy These Friends of the truth whose Names are under written who do give their Testimony of the truth and of Things herein mentioned who were present at the time of this persecution Nicolas Rawson John Jackson Michael Renold Anthony West William Overhead John Barber with many more Friends Darlington the eighteenth of the ninth Month 1660. This day week our meeting was broken and some had before one called a Justice who theatened if we met again to send us to prison South-hampton Friends being met together in the fear of the Lord in Portsmouth videlicet On the twenty one day of the eight Month last past they met together in silence at a Friends house where as they were waiting upon the Lord there came a guard of Souldiers and beset the house and some they hailed out of the meeting and dragged the man out of the house down the street to the main guard and then brought him up to his house again and shut him with the rest in the house until the secon◠day about the seventh hour at night and then turned them forth and withdre◠their guard then upon the next first day being the twenty eight day of the eigh◠Month as Friends were met together there was likewise a guard of Souldiers beset the house and kept about twenty and one persons close prisoners in the Friends house which was all that were then gathered together and there kept them not suffering any provision to come to them but 〈…〉 they kept them all there until about the sixth day of the week following and then came and haled forth such as was not of the Town and set them at liberty but the rest being about ten Friends they keep still prisoners in the house then the last first day those that were not Imprisoned met together in another place at a Friends house and them they haled forth of their meeting and committed the men to a prison it the Town called Felltons hole where they stil remain and all this is as they say because Friends will not promise them not to meet any more in Town as the baptists hath done This is a short relation of their cruelty in that place towards Friends Monmouth-shire David Jones Imprisoned in that County for not coming to the steeple-house wh◠if he would pay 1. s. per week for 12. Moneths past all which time he hath not been there which comes to 2. pounds 12. s. he might be releast Fleet London John Pollard and Joseph Pollard imprisoned first in Colchester Castle 13. Moneths and 2. weeks then returned from Colchester to the upper Bench prison and there kept prisoner five Moneths and a week and is since committed to the Fleet Prison at the suit of Mathias Armiger Farmer of Tythes who with Benjamin Maddock for less then 2. years Tythes valued to be worth about 35. pound have taken 57. Cows and Bullocks with one Bull in all worth about 12 score pounds from the said John and Joseph Pollard and returned nothing again and is kept a Prisoner besides York-shire Samuel Thornton being in a Meeting at Leeds with many more of the Lords people though he be a free man of the same Town was taken violently out of the Meeting by Martin Iles and John Dawson Alderman and hailed to Prison and there detained 5. dayes with several others which was also haled forth of the same Meeting which were Inhabitants within the said Borrough and the said Samuel Thornton by the said Alderman was ordered to be whipt and sent from Constable to Constable which was done accordingly though the place of his natural birth was but three miles from thence and he well known in the said Town Also Samuel Thornton was taken forth of a peaceable Meeting of the people of God at Holbeck by order of the Priest there and haled to Leeds before the said Alderman with two more who caused a Mittemus to be made and sent him to the Correction-house at Wakefield for a Vagrant where he was detained three Moneths and he had been an Apprentice in the same Town and after was called to the Sessions and there fined 10. pounds and sent to Prison again though he had broken no known Law nor for any other thing but for being in a peaceable Meeting amongst Gods People Dudly Templer of Wethersfield in Essex sent William Allen to Prison for no other cause but for coming to the Town of Wethersfield to a Meeting there and since from time to time his Clerk with many of the Town in a violent manner have pulled us out of our Meetings and not suffered us to be at quiet but sometime set guards of men in several places to keep us from meeting and sometime fined several for coming to our meeting and from John Child by a warrant from him or by his Order they pretending a warrant they took a horse Sadle and Pillion and what belonged to him and kept him three weeks but one day and then sent him home without sadle bridle pillion and the rest which they keep to this day notwithstanding have been oft demanded of them And they beat many friends much for coming to the Town and suffered rude boyes and others without reproof to abuse sober people to the shame of Justice and the possession of their Town and this hath been done in the presence and hearing of him the said Dudly Templer and not reproved And he himself hath scoffed at Friends and evil intreated many and set the rude people on to hale us out of the Town when if any thing could have been charged against us he being a Justice and a Commander of a Troop of Horse might have brought any of us to tryal and not in such a manner contrary to Law and Justice have abused us and broken the peace of this Nation and so rendred himself uncapable to to Rule and is to be ruled by Justice himself And of this his proceedings hundreds can
being contrary to Christs Command amounting to about a Thousand pounds 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 Five kept 15. dayes in all without food and 58. dayes shut up close by the Jaylor and had none that he knew of and from some of them he stopt up the windows hindering them from convenient aire One laid neck and heels in Irons for sixteen hours One very deeply burnt in the right hand with the letter H. after he had been whipt with above 30. stripes One chained the most part of twenty dayes to a log of Wood in an open Prison in the Winter time Five appeals to England denied at Boston Three had their right Ears cut by the Hangman in the Prison the door being barred and not a Friend suffered to be present while it was doing though some much desired it One of the Inhabitants of Salem who since is banished upon pain of death had one half of his House and Land ceized on while he was in Prison a month before he knew of it At a general Court in Boston they made an Order that those who had not wherewithal to answer the fines that were laid upon them for their Consciences should be sold for Bond-men and Bond-women to Barbados Virginia or any of the English Plantations Eighteen of the People of God were at several times banished upon pain of death six of them were their own Inhabitants two of which being very aged people and well known among their Neighbours to be of honest conversations being banished from their Houses and Families and put upon traveling and other hardships soon ended their dayes whose death we can do no less then charge upon the Rulers of Boston they being the occasion of it Also three of the Servants of the Lord they put to death one of them they caused to be Executed in 24. hours after they had taken her And when we heard from thence last there was four more in prison who according to their Law were to be banished upon pain of death and twenty four of the Inhabitants of Salem were presented and more fines called for These things O friends from time to time have we patiently suffered and not for the transgression of any Just or Righteous Law either pertaining to the Worship of God or the civil Government of England but simply and barely for our consciences to God of which we can more at large give you or whom you may order a full account if you will let us have admission to you who are banished upon pain of death and have had our ears cut who are in England attending upon you both of the causes of our sufferings and the manner of their disorderly and illegal proceeding against us Who begun with Immodesty went on in Inhumanity and Cruelty and were not satisfied untill they had the blood of three of the Martyrs of Jesus Revenge for all which we do not seek but lay them before you considering you have been well acquainted with sufferings and so may the better consider them that suffer and may for the future restrain the violence of these Rulers of New Egland you having power in your hands they being but the children of the family of which you are chief Rulers who have in divers of their proceedings forfeited their Patent as upon a strict enquiry in many particulars will appear And this O King and you of his Counsel we are assured of that in time to come it will not repent you if by a close rebuke you stop the bloody proceedings of these bloody persecutors for in so doing you will engage the hearts of many honest People unto you both there and here and for such works of mercy the blessing is obtained and shewing it is the way to prosper We are witnesses of these things Who besides long Imprisonments and many cruel whippings had our Ears cut John Rous John Copland Who besides many long Imprisonments divers cruel whippings with the seizing on our Goods are banished upon pain of Death and waite here in England and desire that we may have an Order to return in peace to our Families Samuel Shattock Josiah Southick Nicholas Phelps A Declaration of the Sufferings of the Inhabitants of the Province of Mariland in Virginia as followeth WIlliam Fuller and Thomas Homwood had taken from them because they could not be conformable to the unrighteous Orders of Court made by the Officers of Cicilia Baltamore in Mariland to the value in goods eight pounds five shillings and eight pence Taken from Richard Keen for not training the sum of six pounds fifteen shillings by the Shireff and his Servants have received much abuse The Sheriff drew his Cutlash and with the point made a thrust at his Breast and struck him over the shouldiers and said you Rogue I could find in my heart to split your brains The Sheriffs name is William Coursey there be several Witnesses to testifie the Truth of this thing Again this Captain of the Souldiers whose name is John Odbor with Justice Askam with a rude crew drank out certain Casks of Wine bought of Justice Askham for which Wine they came to Richard Keen and to other mens houses to take away their Goods to make payment for that which they had idlely spent Justice Askham so called coming to Richard Keens house was taxed by the wife of Richard Keen for being drunk at one of their Randivous He replyed he was not drunk for said he a man is never drunk if he can go out of the Carts way when it is coming towards him William Muffet fined for not training to the value of six pounds fifteen shillings one John Bogge an Officer of Captain Thomas Brook gave order to the Sheriff that if he could not take his goods to take his Chest if not his Chest his Shirts John Knap had taken from him for not training goods to the value of seven pounds ten shillings with a Chest and fined to the value of three pounds ten shillings for not swearing he being an antient man about sixty years of age and hath laboured hard in the strength of his dayes and years to get those goods together William Berry was fined to the value of three pounds fifteen shillings for entertaining Thomas Thurston into his house one night Michael Brooks fined seven pounds ten shillings because he could not swear and four pounds ten shillings because he could not train under the command of John Odbor Captain who declared in the presence of many that they were not fit to be Souldiers that could not swear be drunk and whore it Edward Keen fined for not training to the value of four pounds ten shillings under the said Odbor Captain Edward Hinkesman fined to the value of four pounds ten shillings for not training under the said J. Odbor Henry Osborn fined to the value of three pounds fifteen shillings because he