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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	ask_v	see_v	tell_v	899	5	4.5492	4	true

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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