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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39880	For the King and both Houses of Parliament for you (who have known sufferings) now (in this the day of your prosperity) in the fear and vvisdom of God, to read over and consider these sufferings of the people of God in scorn called Quakers, which they have suffered in the dayes of the Commonwealth, and of Oliver and Richard Cromwel, and which they now suffer in your day for conscience sake, and bearing testimony to the truth, as it is in Iesus ...		1660 (1660)	Wing F1436; ESTC R35539	42,758	40

them and the place of their meeting being neer the high way they cast in dirt and stones to the great annoyances of the peaceable people that were then waiting upon the Lord and they were much abused by stones and abundance of dirt cast upon them which the rude people took out of the open street and there came a drunkard swearing and raging like unto a mad man and he and the rude people broke into the house and laid violent hands upon many of the peaceable people and endeavoured to pull him down that was speaking to the people in the fear of God And for some hours in this manner they abused sober people in their own house that were met together to wait upon the Lord and to worship him in spirit and when some went to some of the Magistrates in the Town to acquaint them with this abuse desiring them to keep the peace they made light of the matter and would not appease the rude Multitude nor preserve the sober people in their just right and liberties for it was said that one of the Magistrates should speak to the drunken fellow aforesaid to come up into our meeting and bad him make sport and so great was the abuse that the sober People was forced to remove their meeting to another place whither the rude people also followed them and did cast dirt and stones at them Some more of the cruel sufferings of the people of God called Quakers related which hath been acted in the Town of Cambridge by the rude Scholars Souldiers and Towns people Cambridge UPon the thirteenth day of the third Month following called May the Scholers and rude Multitude came and brake open several doors and burst the locks and bolts with a great hammer and when we passed out from our meeting we were most shamefully abused by the Scholars and rude Multitude several hundreds standing in the streets some beating of us and some rejoycing to see us beaten Upon the twentieth day of the same Month the Scholers and Souldiers and the rude Multitude came in with one of the chief Constables which said that the Mayor had a letter from Ja. Tompson of Trumpington called a Justice which did inform the Mayor that several of us had arms whereupon we desired that we might be searched they searching some few of us finding none the rude Multitude fell violently upon us and drew some of us out by the hair and pulled and haled all the rest out and kickt William Allen who was moved to declare the truth to the people in the Power of the Lord being so grosly abused that he was very unable to go abroad for several days After that we was parted from the meeting-house they came with hammers and what pieces of wood they could get and fell to work on their Sabbath day and they did break and batter the house within and without that it is judged by their own Generation that twenty pounds will scarce make it as i● was Sutton Henry Foster was pulled out of the meeting house and had before the Mayor and Aldermen where he was searched for Arms but found none and discharged to come any more to his own hired house upon a first day Upon the second of the fifth Month 1660. Friends being peaceably met together several of the Scholars and others with them came with a Smiths great hammer and other things and broke up the house although two doors was open into the same and with the boards and shivers of the house armed themselves with which they knockt down many in the house and in the street shedding the blood that day of near thirty and bruising the flesh of nere an hundred in a very lamentable manner some of whom were dangerously wounded Also the eight of the fifth Month the Scholers assaulted the meeting again and tore friends out in an exceeding uncivil manner And on the 15th day they broke up Friends meeting again and near pulled down the house and with the ruins of the same wounded several Friends And besides the Scholers and others that joyn with them do daily tear friends cloathes as they passe in the Streets and nip and abuse their flesh and pull them by the hair and stone buffet and knock Friends down when they have pulled them out of the ●eeting and tread them in the channels that had not the Lord wonderfully preserved them many Friends had been slain ere now The Names of part of twenty four that had their blood shed by the Scholers and others in Cambridge besides many that had their cloaths rent and knockt down into the Channels and kickt and trod upon and one was kept in the mud till he was almost smothered and others pinched and pulled by the nose and some stabbed John Smith John Webb Ann Norris William Allen John Ware Thomazin Blackly Margret Mathews Robert Letchworth William Page George Nath John Tournel Chatris Edward Matthew Blackly John Harvy Edward Salmon Phillip Williamson William Wells Thomas Gray Phillip Viping James Viping Cheshire Friends being met together in the fear of the Lord at one Lawrence Fletcher his house there came some Souldiers and broke up the meeting and they fell on the Friends and haled them forth and some they threw forth and down tearing others by the hair of the head till they had all forth and this they did without shewing any order but being asked for their order they said they had left it at the Town Glamorgan-shire In the eight Month called October 1660. Friends being peaceably met together several Souldiers with their Muskets swords lighted matches in a brutish manner took all the men Friends out of their Meeting being twenty and had them to the Castle and set them in the Dungeon till the next day and then the oath of Allegiance was proffered to them because they could not break Christs comand who saith swear not at all they were ordered to be kept prisoners where they yet remain this tenth Month 1660. From Cirencester in Glocester-shire Wee whose names are here under written on the eighteenth day of the ninth Month w●re met peaceably together in the fear of the Lord there came in amongst us the two high Constables so called with other Offices and men of our Town that were gathered together charging us in the Kings Name to go along with them answer was made that we were met peacably together in the fear of the Lord and if they had any thing to lay to our charge we were there ready to make answer but that would not satisfie them and one of them said he had a warrant from the Lord Harbert to take us we requiring the warrent to be shewed but could not see it they gave order first to hale our women and children forth and then said they would send for pistols and when they had discharged three or four amongst us we would be willing to go forth but we were not willing to break our meeting so they began to

hail and teare and push us sorth adoors and ran against us as wee passed along the streets we acquainted them that the King had promised no such thing so they brought us to prison and thrust us in and gave the Jaylor orders to keep us there untill the Comissioners came to Town and at present there we remain prisoners for the truths sake Thomas Onyon Robert Newcome Walter How lings John Roberts Philip Gray Richard Townsend Thomas Barnfield John Silvester Thomas Elridge William Hinton Richard Bartlot John Ovendell Henry Stacy Richard Bowly Thomas Knight John Clark Thomas Bowly John Cripes Jacob Howlings Roger Sparks William England Durham Darlington the third of the tenth Month 1660. Where we the people of God called Quakers had a meeting peaceably and waiting upon the Lord in the aforesaid Town the Captain sent some Souldiers and violently broke up our meeting and carried away forty or more of us to the Castle of Durham and as we were passing along we met the Captain and the Justice who threatened us much in high expressions and five of us they single out and said we should go to prison if we did not give bond for our good behaviour and four of them is sent to Durham Castle for no other cause but for meeting together to worship God in spirit according to Christs Doctrine which now is come to be fulfilled and witnessed Portsmouth the second of the tenth Month 1660 As the people of the Lord were met together to worship God in the spirit peaceably in the said Town Captain Sprag sent several files of armed men with firelocks and violently haled out of our meeting eighteen men and women and punched them dragged them along shut the Gates men and wives were turned from their habitations and children and families and callings and are not permitted to come in again though some came in again yet were turned out of the Town again from their Families and imployments some desiring to have their Instruments to labor withal was not permitted besides were kept in a house where Friends met by a guard nineteen daies denyed to see their wises Families Children and gave commandment no victualls should be brought to them and a Officer said if they turnd us out of the Town and set Souldiers to plunder our houses they served us well enough though we never acted any thing against this Goverment Ireland FOr speaking the truth to people in Steeple-houses Markets and other places have sufferred in the Nation of Ireland and for other causes herein exprest have been fined whipt Stockt Imprisoned and suffered loss of their goods 94 persons For meeting together in the fear of the Lord in their own houses according to the practice of the Apostles and the true Churches in the Scriptures mentioned have been Imprisoned c. nineteen persons For speaking the truth to the people in Steeple-houses and Markets and other places have been Whipt and Imprisoned and some stockt and shamefully beaten and abused thirty four persons For not swearing as Christ commands they should not swear two persons had goods taken from them worth eight pounds ten shillings and one had taken from him seventy barrels of Salt For not paying Tythes for conscience sake that bears Testimony to the everlasting Priest-hood that ends the first that takes tythes eight persons for two pounds sixteen shillings four pence demanded for Tythes have had taken from them goods worth thirty four pounds ten shillings Stopt as they were passing the streets and high ways about their occasions and Imprisoned twelve Persons For receiving Friends and for visiting Friends in Prison one was Imprisoned and another fined five pounds Sufferers for other causes for the truths sake eleven Persons An Account of the sufferings of Friends in Scotland where there hath suffered for the causes hereafter exprest in all ninety one Persons SCOTLAND For denying the Priest practices have been Excommunicated forty five Persons For meeting together in the fear of the Lord have been stoned and beaten eleven persons For speaking the truth to people in Steeple-houses and Markets and asking Priests questions have been Imprisoned and some stockt and whipt and some banished in all fifteen Persons There was likewise Imprisoned and otherwise abused and some banished and no cause why shewed in all eighteen persons A Declaration of some Part of the Sufferings of the People of God in scorn called Quakers from the Professors in New-England onely for the exercise of their Consciences to the Lord and obeying and confessing to the Truth as in his light he had discovered it to them TWo honest and innocent women stripped stark naked and searched after such an inhumane manner as modesty will not permit particularly to mention Twelve strangers in that Country but freeborn of this Nation received twenty three whippings the most of them being with a whip of three cords with knots at the ends and laid on with as much strength as they could be by the arme of their executioner the stripes amounting to three hundred and seventy Eighteen Inhabitants of the Country being freeborn English received twenty three whippings the stripes amounting to two hundred and fifty Sixty four Imprisonments of the Lords people for their obedience unto his will amounting to five hundred and nineteen weeks much of it being very cold weather and the Inhabitants kept in Prison in harvest time which was very much to their loss besides many more Imprisoned of which time we cannot give a just account Two beaten with pitcht roops the blows amounting to an hundred thirty nine by which one of them was brought near unto death much of his body being beat like unto a Jelly and one of their own Doctors a member of their Church who saw him said it would be a miracle if ever he recovered he expecting the flesh should rot off the Bones who afterwards was banished upon pain of death there are many witnesses of this there Also an Innocent man an Inhabitant of Boston they banished from his Wife and Children and put to seek a habitation in the Winter and in case he returned again he was to be kept Prisoner during his life and for returning again he was put in Prison and hath been now a Prisoner above a year Twenty five Banishments upon the penalties of being whipt or having their Ears cut or branded in the hand if they returned Fines laid upon the Inhabitants for meeting together and edifying one another as the Saints ever did and for refusing to swear it 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 1● 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