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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

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

sin and evill which also doth appear by their envy and persecution which is of the Devill James Pottar Imprisoned without the breach of any law and fined at the following Assizes 5 l. because he could not transgresse the Law of God by respecting of persons to satisfie the lusts and corrupt wills of men in not putting off his hat when he was brought to the said Assizes of whom also is demanded 3 l. for fees who have been kept a close prisoner under these cruell oppressions 59 weeks and some dayes From them who are not onely ready to suffer bonds and long unjust imprisonments but also death it self if the Lord require it of us in testimony against all Deceivers and all manner of unrighteousnesse and oppressions and we are friends to the Common-wealth and to equity and true judgement having true love to the souls of all mankinde who for the testimony of a pure conscience are Prisoners by the corrupt wills of men in the Common Gaol and house of Correction at Winton At this last Sessions D. B. G. H. I. D. were committed to the House of Correction being prisoners before the which them set to do justice would not have done if they had not looked out more at the unrighteous hireling Priests vain customes and the glory of the world which shall all perish then to the light of Christ which endureth for ever in their consciences which did then much judge them for what they did against the servants of God and let them see their evill therein the which Light they are to love obey and follow From the servant of God in Prison to the Judge of the Assize at Winchester A Copie of a Paper to the Assizes THe righteous Judge of heaven and earth who respecteth not the persons of the mighty who tryeth the hearts of Kings who is the mighty God of Abraham Isaac Jacob and their seed who wandred up and down some having no certain dwelling place even he who seeth the secret intents of the hearts of the sons of men whose judgements are just and true who rewardeth the proud in his judgements and heareth the cry of the oppressed who will reprove Kings for the sake of the simple and forsaketh not his faithfull afflicted ones who by the man Christ Jesus will judge the secrets of all mens hearts according to his light in them whereby every man shall receive a just recompence of reward according to all their words and actions whether for or against him and his people Wherefore this O man thou art to know that true ●ight and sound judgement is to be by thee performed according to the righteous Law of God which is written in the heart that corrupt judgement cruelty persecution nor receiving of gifts nor entertaining false witness may not be found in thee nor in any of them that Joine with thee whether they are called Sheriffs Justices Jury men Clarks or any other but that according to the Law of God in his fear thou may perform that which the Lord God of hosts certainly will require of thee in the day when all the arme of flesh and honour of the world will not prevent the true everlasting judgments of the most high with fierce wrath and indignation upon all them who pervert true judgment and transgress the righteous Law of God written in the heart The which that thou may not do nor see done before thine eys when thou may prevent it and that thou may escape the wrath of the Almighty which will certainly come upon all who pervert judgment and that in the councell of God thou may come to stand in meeknesse and godly fear to judge for God not for man that his will by thee may be performed that when thou come to stand before the Throne of his eternal judgments thou may not be turned to the left hand with them that forget God and turn his Law behind their backs and oppress his servants and neither visit relieve nor set at liberty the members of Christ in Prison who in these your dayes are in most Prisons where thou come and in Prison have been sick and deprived of that liberty which Thieves and Murtherers have that thou may come to be joyned to Gods witness with it in thee to see rightly to understand the ground and cause of things of which thou art to judge Therefore art thou to be guided by the light in thee which comes from Christ who is the sure foundation and was before-transgression by which the transgression is seen and with it is to be judged which light in thee will let thee see the ground of all transgression by the same out of transgression thou art to be led and then to judge over that which is in the transgression that so those who dare not transgress the righteous law of God thou mayst be a praise unto and all such who reprove sin in the gate market places publick assemblies or els-where and that all who transgress the law of God with that of God in thy conscience thou may be a terrour unto executing true judgment upon that head wch goeth forth from the light into the transgression for that is it for which the Law is added which by the Law which is perfect is to be judged that out of the transgression man may be kept Therefore hear with meekness and in patience understand and consider my words for all the holy men of God who ruled for God and not for men were therein guided by that which is holy pure just and right whereby they were guided in his fear to execute his judgments only upon the transgressor according to the will of him by whom otherwise they themselves were to be judged and they were guided by that spirit in them which gave forth the Law and with that joyned to execute the Law upon them that did transgress the law of God with whom in so doing they were said to be a help-government and such were called Gods who bore not the sword in vain standing in the higher power to which their souls were subject to bring the transgressor in obedience thereunto but such who did not transgress the righteous law of God their souls were already subject to that higher power but when man who should rule for God stood not in his councel but went themselves into the transgression out of the power and judged for reward such the light in them was darkned that they could not see the transgressor but let him go free and punish the just as Pilate and many others did even in the dayes of the Prophets who then cryed out against them because they were become as ravening wolves and then of such it is written I said ye were gods but ye shall dye like men and fall as one of the Princes and because of wrong judgment and the want of true exercise in the perfect law of God have many fallen and been overturned even Kings Princes Parliaments Bishops

when the enemies falleth nor in that the Devils are made subject but in that there names are written among the living but in our affliction I writ the a foregoing paper and sent it to Justice Cob and Betsworth upon the 11. day of the 4. moneth the 6. day of the week and upon the 16. day of the same moneth the 4. day of the week at night the a foresaid Justice Cob was suddenly cut off though no outward eye saw how wch was to the astonishment of his family and many more And the man which the Justice and Priest Bental caused to swear falsly against James Pottar the same man was since that time bruised torn and spoyled with a horse and harrows so that he died very shortly after being before troubled in conscience for what he had sworn yet notwithstanding Scripture is fulfilled when the Lords hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed And it may be observed that we had sent several other papers to the Justice Cob some whereof are herein written all which he little regarded he being a great enemy to Truth and a Persecutor of friends he being as a judge at another sessions was not satisfied with the committing of Stephen Bevis to the house of correction who was before committed by Col. Norton to the common Goal for hearing testimony against Priest Simons false Doctrine but also gave order that he should not be suffered to work at his trade but be put to pounding of hemp or some harder work though he declared his willingness in open court to work at his trade A Copy of a paper to the sessions You at whose hands the dreadful God of life and his Servants doth require right and sound judgement to be by you performed at this present sessions at Winchester LEt our several causes be heard and read in open court and let our innocent sufferings appear in the Light before the eyes of the people and let them by whom we suffer be made manifest and do not shut up things in darkness as at the last sessions not suffering the cause of them who are oppressed to be read in the open Court wherein and in many other things we have been deprived of that which is just and right the wch i● proceeded in will even be a shame unto you for justice Equity and true Judgement is that we do both expect and would gladly see brought forth in you therefore do not wait to lay farther snares to betray the simple whereby to cover that oppression some of you have acted in against the Servants of the living God but let the fear of God guide you that sound Judgement you may come unto whereby rightly to understand what or what manner of evil we have done or what Law of God we have broken and what accusations are against us with the ground and cause of those accusations and take heed of entertaining false witness or joyning with it or forcing men to swear against the members of Christ contrary to Gods witness in them as Thomas Bowrman hath done and if any thing be or hath been proved or any one falsely accused either of the Servants of God or any other you are to see that you do not punish such accused above or beyond the fact or crime charged against them and herein all that rule for God are and should be guided with an understanding heart in the spirit of wisdom and knowledge as Moses Joshua Solomon and others were that none may be oppressed by wrong Judgement nor insnared because of envy and prejudice which lodgeth in the deceitful hearts of men who are out of Gods fear For we who are in scorn called Quakers do wait to have true Judgement set up in the earth in righteousness established in and among the Sons of men and are friends unto and Lovers of all them who judge for God without respect of persons and a praise to them that do well And he that reproves a Hireling that stands praying in the Synagogue doth well for Esaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Micah Malachiah Hosea and Christ and Paul and Peter did reprove and bear testimony against such and for the same things are the members of Christ in your dayes haled out of the Synagogues brought before Rulers and cast into Prison whom you should be a praise unto for therein they do well being moved of the Lord thereunto whose mouthes by men of sin are not to be stopped though they would have us or command us to speak no more in his name who maketh an end of sin and said I am the Light of the world whose Light hath led us out of evil and so are become a prey unto an adulterous generation that know not God whose love in our hearts hath constrained us to obey him rather then man in that wherein man would hinder us in our obedience unto God whose power worketh in ●s mightily which keepeth us from under the bondage of mans corrupt will yet to the higher power our souls are subject even to that power which preserved them who broke the Commands and Decrees of men Hest 3. 2. Dan. 3. Dan. 6 Acts 4. 17. 18. Several papers have we sent to you who should do Justice of our unjust and unreasonable sufferings in prison and little hath it been by you regarded one of which papers we sent by a friend to John Hook called a Justice of Bramshot which friend since gave us an account in writing that when he came to deliver the paper John Hooks Clerk beat him in the house and others also abused him and after he was gone out of the house another who belonged to the house followed him and in a Lane did beat him and kick him very much and this was very evil which you are to punish Here followeth a short Relation of something of the cause of the committing and retaining of the members of Christ in prison Anthony Melledg William Baily Humphrey Smith IMprisoned two weeks without the breach of any Law and since kept in the House of Correction about 17 weeks from their business and from their home because they cannot promise to go home who know no law requiring them to make any such promise and where there is no law there is no transgression Winif. Newman Imprisoned for speaking a few sober words to the hireling Priest who cannot cease from sin 2 Pet. 2 14. after he had ended she being before a servant to a Widow and fatherless and so the hireling Priest by causing her to be imprisoned hath caused both she the widow and the fatherlesse to suffer Daniel Baker Geo Henderson Imprisoned for speaking words of truth to the same Priest and people which Priest said that God was author of evill And another Priest before the Magistrate wrested the Scripture to affirm that Christ did swear when he said Verily verily John Day Imprisoned for reproving the same hireling Priest Robert Dingly who confest he and his flock were full of