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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60436	The fruits of unrighteousnes and injustice Brought forth by John Bulkley, and Thomas Bowrman, and the rest of the rulers in Hampshire, against the innocent people of God called Quakers. Who in words and writings have often declared their unjust sufferings; as also at two sessions, and two general assizes holden at Winchester, requiring justice and equity, and their right and liberty in the nation; of the which being still most unjustly deprived, it is now publiquely declared, that they and others seeing their deeds of darknesse brought to light, may be warned, and learn to do justice, and to relieve the oppressed. Also the sounding voyce of the dread of Gods mighty power to all the judges and rulers of the earth, who rise up aginst the Lamb, and to all the host of powers of darknesse who fight against God. By the servants of Christ ... called Humphry Smith. Anthony Melledg. George Henderson. James Potter. Will: Baily. Daniel Baker. John Day. Winifred Newman.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4061; ESTC R216933	45,374	58

of Christ to be so afflicted being sick in prison and the hypocrite might well be affraid least we should be persecuted to death and our innocent blood come upon his head but though thy heart was somewhat judged at the time when thou write thy Letter to that uncleane beastly Woman thou calls Mrs. Hobs● yet soon after thy heart was hardned again like Pharaoh At the Sessions following John Bulkley sent his Clark to us to see if we would promise to goe home and so to release us if we could but onely have spoken some such words to satisfie their wills the which we durst not do And therefore being retained in Prison we writ to them concerning such a promise as followeth WE are not only free-born of England but we have also purchased our freedome in the Nation and the continuation thereof with many years hard service the losse of the lives of many hundreds the spoyling of much goods and the shedding of much blood in the late war by which at last the Lord overturned them who then sought to enslave our persons and infringe our liberty in the Nation in the which liberty now we do expect to worship God in spirit and in truth according to the Scriptures and to speak the word of the Lord as any one of his servants is moved by his spirit we also expect liberty to follow our employments which are honest in the fight of God and all men that fear his Name and the Magistrate to be a praise unto such and by the wholsome Lawes of the Nation us herein to defend England being as an English mans house or home and wherein any of us are deprived of these things we are deprived of our Rights and infringed of our Liberties in the Nation the which done and continued will be an evill example unto other Nations amongst whom also sometimes I had and have businesse I having been much at Sea for almost twenty years and have some occasions at and beyond Sea at this present and I have also severall lawfull occasions in divers parts of the Land about which I now travelling was taken up and sent to Prison and my horse lay at charge by me my goods which I had with me being sent up to London whether I should also go to make sale of it or passe my selfe with it and more over Sea some such businesse at Sea and Land being my present employment for the maintenance of my self and family all which I am now deprived of and kept in Bridewell because I cannot promise to go home and so leave my employment and businesse undone which is the way to ruinate men and their families And as for William Baily he was travelling but to South-hampton upon severall lawfull occasions but before he came there was taken up with me and brought to a Prison which is further off his home then he intended to go and in it kept from his home many weeks longer then he did intend to stay and there yet kept from his businesse because he cannot make a promise to go home and is not this the way to make us servants and slaves to mens wills And as for Humphrey Smith though his Wife came to the Sessions many miles from her habitation and brought two men and a horse for her Husband to ride away with her yet is he also kept in prison because he cannot promise to go home and which of you is it that can promise what to do on the morrow Therefore out of all these promises we stand in submission to the will of the Lord Knowing that they who will live godly must sufler persecution And seeing we have broke no Law nor intend any evill against any man or woman but abide in all watchfulnesse to keep a conscience void of offence towards God and man c. Anthony Mellidge This Paper being little regarded by them that are set to do Justice for they still kept us in prison because we durst not make a promise wch is more then they themselves can wel do if they stood in the feare of God as may appear by him who was called Justice Cobb who sate as Judge at the Sessions whose heart was then and there and afterwards hardned against us like Pharaoh refusing to let us go but suddenly in a moment not long after the Lord cut him off and then what promise could he himselfe perform Oh! that this might be a warning to all oppressing Rulers who are as grasse A Copie of another Paper You who are set to do Justice and to be Ministers of known Laws and are to relieve the oppressed and do that which is just in the sight of God and all men that feare his name and should be a terrour to such as do evill and a praise to such as do well which is according to that of God in all consciences THis we say unto you that since we have been taken from our Callings and Imployments and imprisoned and also caused to be kept in outward bonds by some of you we have seen such as have been accused of divers manners of Theft Witchcraft and Murther receive their sentence or punishment according to your Law or otherwise quit released and freed out of outward bonds And we have seen a man whom we have known to be an idle person and a drunkard and so a transgressor of the Law committed to the house of Correction for wandring or idleness and received his punishment and released Likewise a Tinker committed to the house of Correction received his punishment and released Also two men and a boy that came out of Ireland who appeared to be wanderers and suspective persons who said they had no money and were transgressors also of the Law by fighting if they were not Papists and these also as the other were committed since we and released in short time though we still kept prisoners And this also we say unto you that if we have broken or transgressed any Law or if any evill is or can be proved against us then our bodies are ready and we are willing to suffer the punishment according to the Law for any such offence if charged upon us that the Law being satisfied we might have our liberty again as others to travell about our lawfull occasions And this would we know of you First by what Law of God or man we are herein deprived of that right and liberty which Theeves Murtherers Witches Wanderers and other known transgressors have Secondly what Law you have to keep us in the house of Correction untill we engage or promise to go home If you have any such law let us know it that we might submit thereunto for we are ready to submit unto all your Laws either actively by obedience thereunto or passively by suffering under it for a testimony against that which is unjust but where there is no law there is no transgression Thirdly whether you do intend to keep our bodies in prison untill death unlesse

unto him and the she Goaler hath often said that it was because I should not preach that I was kept in Prison and truly I preach none other Saviour but Christ Jesus who saveth from sin and my words practises and sufferings are according to Scripture and so John Bulkley was so far from entertaining strangers Hebr. 13. 2. that he sought by force cruelty imprisonning and whipping to cause me and others to depart out of his coasts but I am near unto him and my witness is within his walls though not a swine or a dog of his by me did Perish whereby he is manifest to be far worse then the Gadereens who came and beseeched him to go out of their Coasts who is the Light and also to be of them who crucified him that preached repentance and John Bulkley keepeth the swine alive within his dwellings wallowing in uncleanes And seeing that he and them before named and others after mentioned have let the power of darkness so blind their minds and harden their hearts that they have not only lifted up their hands against the innocent but also continued their cruelty and let their hearts increase in hardness like Pharaoh whereby the Servants of God are still retained in cruel bondage and long inprisonment from one sessions to another and from one affizes to another and also kept from that liberty in the Prison and that Justice which wandring persons and thieves and many transgressors of several sorts have had who were committed to the same prison and house of correction since we and also released long before us and that not withstanding many complaints and even as it were cryes for Justice and Equity have been laid before them both in words and writings several times both in private and publick both at assize and sessions whereby many of them in the county that should do justice have been convinced with the Light in there consciences though they strive against it that our sufferings have been unjust and unreasonable and yet to keep up their own glory have not done justice in releasing them whom they knew were opprest because we could not be subject to their wills Wherefore let their glory which is to Perish be defaced and let their Names be recorded among the rest of the enemies of the Lamb and let the ages to come read them with the Light to be under the power of darkness they having been warned and left without excuse that both their Actions and our sufferings might the more plainly appear and that they and all others who are set to do justice might take heed of rashness in justice and envy or smiting with the fist of wickedness that they might come to know something meek lowly upright just and sober in them by it to be guided in the fear of the Lord to execute true justice and to do unto all men as they would be done unto Therefore are some few of their unjust actions and some Copies of our papers after written passing by much of what hath been already printed in a Book titled the true and everlasting Rule and citing some few things among many which may signify much of their injustice and cruelty the which that they and others may turn from and do that which is just and right let them feel Gods witness in them and read that which followeth South Haumpton A Copy of a Mittimus To the keepers of the common Goal for this County of Winton or to his Deputy I send you herewithall the bodies of Humphry Smith of Cowhorn in the County of Heriford Anthony Melledge of Lime in the County of Dorset and William Bayly of for that they have been charged before me with several misdemeanors by them committed at Poulnar in the Parish of Ringwood and for that they refused to finde sureties for their appearance at the next general Assizes so be held for this County and in the mean time to be of the good behaviour These are therefore to require you to receive them the said Humphry Smith Anthony Melledge and William Bayly into your custody them safely keep in your common Goal until they shall from thence be delivered by due course of Law and hereof faile you not Given under my hand and Seal the 27. day of February 1657. John Bulkley William Baylys answer to the Mittimus HEre the ground of our commitment to prison was founded upon a lye and so from that of the father of lyes in John Bulkley for at the present time there was many people who can yet witness that not one of them in the least did accuse or charge me of any evil in the least nor any one misdemeanor by me committed neither was ● at Poulnar at the time intended in the mittimus W. B. A Copy of a Letter to John Bulkley THis I say before thee in the presence of the Lord God who will plead the cause of the oppressed and in due time will clear my innocency before thy eyes and all the world and that witness of God the righteous Judge that is in thee will make thee know that I now suffer without cause and whether it be according to equity and righteous Judgement to commit a man to prison or cause him to suffer without transgressing any just and righteous Law I leave to that of God in thy Conscience to judge to take up a man who was going in a journey and in and about honest imployment in the sight of God and man but if thou art not caused by that of God in thy Conscience to free me of my outward bonds and innocent sufferings I am content to lay down my life for his sake who in due time will arise and clear my innocency in this my faithful suffering Called William Bayly John Bulkleys answer WIlliam Bayly I take no delight in your imprisonment but shall be ready to take your friend Harris or any fit persons security for your abode at home without wandering abroad as a Teacher to which you have no warrantable call but onely to follow your honest and Lawful occasions which you have a freedome to do touching your commitment your refusal to give a ready and free account of your place of abode accompanyed with termes of high disrespect and contempt to Authority brought you under commitment when others of your Company carrying themselves civilly were dismissed if you belong to God I trust in due time he will rescue you from the Spirit of error you lye under to which shall be contributed my prayers and Christian endevours Yours John Bulkley A Reply THou sayest I have a freedome to follow my Lawful occasions the which I was travelling about and had continued in if thou had not sent me to prison and called it wandering abrad and keept me in prison from my Lawfull occasions wch are abroad unless I will give security for my abode at home from whence I came but the day before to the Parish where I was born out of which Parish thou

stand still and be quiet and let the ungodly consider the words of truth rebel not against the word of the Lord neither harden your hearts against the dread of his power let the tall ceders bow and bend and that which is lifted up be brought down and stand ye all in meekness For behold the omnipotent power is come the rock of ages is revealed the everlasting strength is made manifest the God of Abraham hath reacht forth his hand and the Redeemer of Israel is come to dwell in the midst the great Jehovah hath uttered his voice and he whose Name is I Am is at hand he that moveth upon the waters may be felt he that formeth the seed in the womb may be known he that inhabiteth eternity is come to dwell in his people and walk in the middest of the poor despised of his flock having cleansed them by the washing of water and renewed them by the Spirit of burning refined them with his righteous Judgements and clensed them with the blood of his Son that in his Sion redeemed with judgement he may dwell for ever more and take up his rest in the middest of his people having made the place of his feet glorious and his residence as a seat in the middest of a fire which fire burneth against all them that are in the night and given light to them that are in the covenant whose glory is hid from the dark mind and his councel withholden from the unbeleeving in heart he standeth near unto the wicked who perceiveth him not and taketh notice of his secret intents he observeth the footsteps of the Kings of the earth and marketh the decrees of the unrighteous and when they have filled up their measure he putteth forth his finger to their life and taketh away their breath he suddenly cuts off the wicked and regardeth not the mightiness of Princes he searcheth the hearts of the Kings and ruleth over the powers of men his infiniteness can never be declared in his hand is the breath of the life of the souls of all man-kind Heare I say and consider my words and ponder the meditations of my mind for behold the Lord God of life is come Immanuel is revealed the Root and offspring of David is grown up as a plant of renown the Seed of the shepherd fits upon the throne and before him shall all the Kings of the earth lay down their Crowns every Emperor shall bow and bend and the Potentates of the earth before him shall wither as a green hearb their glory shall perish as the untimely birth of the womb their honour shall vainish as the smoke before the wind their wisdom shall fade away as a blossom cut off and their understandings shall come to nothing the wisdome of the most high shall be exalted over them all and with his foolishness will he them all confound yea with a foolish Nation will he anger the Judges of the earth and with a despised people will he provoke the Rulers of the world to jealousie by the foolishness of his flock will he confound his enemies and by his weakness in them will he subdue the strength of the mighty and though all his enemies strive in the arrogancy of their Spirits and in the fierceness of their strength yet shall he be exalted who is lead as a Lamb dumb and he shall reign whose right it is in whose mouth there is found no guile who maketh an end of sin and bringeth in everlasting righteousness and setteth up judgement in the heart and cometh to rule in the Kingdomes of men and overturneth the host of his enemies by whom Judges are lead away fools deviners turned made before whose presence the mightiness of the mightiest Rulers of the earth is as wax before the fire and their strength meltteth away as the fat of Lambs Wherefore hear and see O ye kindreds and Rulers of the earth the Lord our God is come the might of his strength is revealed the power of his presence made known he hath chosen his Army to himself their names are written in his life he hath numbred up his hosts together and armed his chosen with his everlasting strength the Captain of his host goeth before them and the camp of the Lord is very great they are numberless as the sand of the Sea and infinite as the stars of heaven Even so is the seed of Abraham the remnant of the flock of Jacob whom the Lord hath redeemed who are chosen and faithful and true yea behold it 's even so and that all the Nations of the earth shall know for the Lord of hosts rideth on in meekness in the midst of his host and maketh War in righteousness with the enemies of the Lamb who would not that he should reign who makes an end of sin and he is cloathing his Army with ●eal as with a garment and covering them with the armour of light and preserveth their head in the day of battel and girds them up with strength and guideth their feet upon the rock and preserveth their life under the shadow of his hand When he speaketh the word his Army goeth forth and at his command they march on their way● He listeth up a Standard before them and proclaimeth open War against the Inhabitants of the Earth who now hear that the Lamb is come to reign in Righteousness and to stain the pride of their glory and confound the height of their wisdome and lay their honour in the dust for ever Therefore all Kindreds of the earth even Gog Magog and all the hosts of the heathen are rising up in the bitterness of their spirits in the height of the power of the man of sinne joyning all their forces together as in one band of darknesse taking counsell from Aegypt making a covenant with death and an agreement with hell and gathering up the utmost powers of darkness to be as a refuge unto them And thus in the strength of the King of the childdren of pride they are rising up against the Lord even the God of life and against his anointed ones who have indeed and in truth received the anointings and need not man to teach them but are all taught of the Lord God Almighty who also teacheth their hands to war and their fingers to fight And he utters his voice as the sound of many waters before his Army who followeth him in the might of his power whose presence is dreadful in the midst of his host and there is none that is able to stand before him for he is a consuming fire in the midst of his Camp and burneth up his enemies round about and before him and his Army shall all faces gather paleness everlasting shame shall cover the glory of all flesh before him all people shall be much pained his dread and vengeance shall take hold on all his adversaries His redeemed shall march with him in the travail of their souls from strength to strength shall