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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41363	Phanatical tenderness, or, The charity of the non-conformists exemplified in the practices of many of them in Bristol and others their favourers and accomplices in that city, in London and Pembrokeshire against Thomas Godwyn, sometime Vicar of St. Philips and Jacobs Church in Bristol, and now Rector of Poulchrohan in Pembrokeshire : humbly offered to His Most Sacred Majesty, to His Royal Highness James Duke of York &c. and the lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council.	Godwyn, Thomas.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1001; ESTC R8476	57,008	39

wanting to add fewel to their jealousie which increasing they deserted the Knot of Complicators and not only compounded with me but became also Conformable The rest stood off but not much longer The miss of so many Contributors troubled them for Seditious men as they are Malitious and care not how deeply they engage in mischief so are they for the most part Seditious out of Covetousness These also began to be jealous one of another and by degrees compounded all except Teage and Winston who in conclusion were the Asses which bare the others burdens for they were compelled to agreement on almost arbitrary Terms Thus was the storm over which by most rational mens conjectures would have sunk or wrackt me but Divine Providence reserving me to further trials permitted not this Divice to be successful their own follies ruined what in their first consultations was perniciously resolved Then I had some rest for two years the following Mayors Sir Robert Yoemans and Alderman Streamer being so generously and discreetly affected to Loyalty and the Discipline of the Church that the sly Conventicler durst not attempt by them The Bishop would not be moved and the Law gave him no encouragement The Adversary had during the late times of Confusion concealed the Vicaridge Rights and hoped to have involved them in Custom insomuch that at my first coming thither my yearly accounts of the Vicaridge Tithes Offerings and other Customary Duties amounted not to thirty pounds which by their own wrangling and disingenuous practises chiefly I had by this time raised to be an hundred and ten pounds yearly being perfectly assured they were worth thirty pounds more But I thought I had done enough and was desirous of embracing that tranquility which then seemed to Court me Nevertheless within half an year after the birth of my confidence that I should be at rest having patiently wearied the men of commotion it pleased God that I was afflicted with a violent Quartan Ague which worried me two years together Towards the end of this distemper a certain Quaker named Morrice Williams whose Wife was Master and Governor according to the methods of perverseness in general use among Sectaries fearing a Law Suit for the tithes of many years in arrears came to me and reckoned with me the account arising to twenty three pounds and upward This Debt he said he could not pay in ready mony neither otherwise in regard of his Wifes unmanagable temper But he desired me for the future to take my Tithes in kind wherein I shoul● have no opposition but a free allowance from him so to do and also to take as much more as my Tithes yearly until the Debt should be satisfied T●is was on both sides concluded but not put in execution Morrice Williams soon after dying His Widow I designed to compel to payment being able to prove the account and acknowledgements of her Husband To this end I caused her to be summoned into the Ecclesiastical Court where she was required either to produce and prove a will or to Administer to her Husbands Estate She denied any Will made or to take any Oath in order to Administration Her refusal being entred I administred as Principal Creditor and by virtue of my Administration took into my Possession divers Head of Cattle But Mr. Thomas Day beforementioned being Landlord of what ground Morrice Williams farmed caused the Cattle to be brought back by an illegal Replevin His reasons for fetching them back were grounded upon a pretended Right that he had to ●hem as being made over to him by Morrice Williams in his lifetime and that the cause of this Conveyance was that Williams and his Wife being obstinate Conventiclers if their Cattle should be seised for penalties in meeting contrary to the Tenor of the Acts against unlawful Assemblies they might be disabled from paying his rent So here was a present Fraud to bassle the procedure of Justice out of pretence of an inconvenience that might possibly follow Mr. Day was that year one of the Sheriffs which swelled his confidence and gave his dishonest thoughts the larger Wings But yet this knack of the Conveyance of the Cattle did not look safe therefore at last the Widow ●ued forth of the Prerogative Court Letters of Administration and although not sworn was returned sworn by one Matthew I suppose Hazard a Nonconformist Preacher I opposed my Letters of Administration to hers and upon a Commission inquiry being made what Bona notabilia Morrice Williams had out of the Diocess at the time of his death there was only proof that a certain man owed him five pounds for Hey received from Williams but upon close examination it was found a desperate debt the Debtor owing many hundreds more than he was able to pay whereas it is required that he had of such a value in Goods or Good Debts to make it a Prerogative Case neither could they prove whether this Debtor was then within the Diocess or not This notwithstanding I being confined by sickness to my Chamber and not able to appear in or look after the managing of my Business the Administration was granted to the Widow And after my recovery being in London with my Proctor admiring how the Cause was so carried I received only this satifaction from him This it is to bring into any Court a Cause which is against the interest of the Court. Mr. Day was not content with this Victory nor with ordinary Courses for recovery of Damages pretended to be sustained in driving of the Cattle but sued my Servant to an Outlawry in the Kings Bench. The Outlawry was surreptitiously obtained and the proceedings were in the Kings Bench on purpose to make the Charge excessive before I could be able to make defence Therefore the Writ was taken out in the Middle of Hillary Term and the Man arrested and imprisoned no Bail or Remedy to be taken but that he must continue a Prisoner until by Habeas Corpus he could be brought to give Bail before one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench which could be no sooner than Easter Term. Had not Malice and Zeal to Faction spurred him on that is if bare reparation for a Trespass had been the utmost of his intention the Man might any day or almost any hour of any day have been Arrested the Cause would sooner have come to Tryal and if Justice had favoured him his damages would have certainly not have been the less for his fair and legal proceeding to Judgement However I resolved to stand to Trial having delivered a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the under-Sheriff Mr. Day began some other Phanatical Practises and daily and hourly after the delivery of the Writ some or other from him were tampering with my Servant instilling into his mind many fearful apprehensions of Mr. Days power and his own Danger and at length wheedled the silly Wretch out of three pounds and into a General Release But now I am to relate Passages in comparison

was it warrant enough for you to swear fro then I heard so though since told to the contrary that I brake Prison for you riotously to break open my House to bind and Iron me as you have done Well Sir said Morgan I hope you will be an orderly Prisoner Goaler take off the Irons So once more my Legs were free from Cuffs But Mr. Vndersheriff said I you must take care to send some body to cure my Head shewing him and the Company where it was broken He answered that they were rude abusive fellows in so doing he did not allow them so to do and then rose up and departed Not long after Morgan was acquitted of his employ and Willam Skirm succeeded not by a Deputy but himself And to him I continuing in that joyous Place about the end of Ianuary came a Writ of Habeas Corpus to remove me up to the Kings Bench. Upon the 28th of Ianuary in the Evening Skirm gave me notice to provide for my Journey against Tuesday morning the then 31st of Ianuary I sent home for Boots a Riding Coat and necessaries for my Journey to be brought to me on the Munday but Skirm with an unaccountable malice unless my Death was his Project horst me early the Munday morning that my Journey might be the more remarkable upon the day of my Admired Sovereigns Martyrdom in order to my execution My Journey was the way that my Keepers brought me two hundred and threescore measured miles at least I had no more on my Legs than one pair of single Stockins neither any covering more then what I usually wore within the House nor any mony my servants journey to me with that supply constantly on Sundays being stopt by my appointment for Munday Thus I rode the first days journey to Caermarthen where having met with a Friend who lent me twenty shillings I purchased a Freize Coat and Boots of the same The Taylor sitting up all night to dispatch had not finisht them by the time my Keepers were ready to mount me They urged me to be gone swearing they would not slay but I being in a Friends House refused to travel farther without Cloaths Neither was the stay which caused the controversie above half an hour But I should first have related their carriage towards me at my going to Bed When they had seen me lain down the Keepers one being Iohn the Brother of William Skirm took away my Cloathes and even my Shoos Stockins and Hat and lockt me into the Chamber The same they did at every Inn at which I lodged on the Road the journey being seven days At Caermarthen I had a Fire in my Chamber commanding it as known in the House but every night following being unacquainted on the Road in which I never before travelled these Dowty Gentlemen permitting me to sit by the fire in their Chamber during their pleasure when they thought it Bed-time I was taken by the shoulders and thrust into a Cold Room and then stript and lockt in no respect had to the weather which was extremity of Snow every day but the first not to my pickled condition riding on a low Horse through ways so deep that my feet did frequently even for miles together hang in the dirt and water I being tired with holding them up to avoid it Upon Sunday the fifth of February between four and five of the Clock in the afternnon I was conducted to the Three Cups Inn in Holborn and there detained until the Saturday following no perswasion prevailing with them to bring me into Court or before a Judge not any reason but their pleasure shewn There my usage was of the fame nature but worse for they each night compelled me to go to Bed before seven of the Clock stript and lockt up as before that they might take the opportunity of loose Rambles and then lying late in Bed in the morning by reason of the Evenings Debauchery I must lye still let what importunities soever require my rising Skirm when I demanded the reason of such dealing would swear they would not leave the Company of those Brave Wenches whose Company they enjoyed the last night for to humour a pitiful Parson Seeing they did not as they term it turn me over on Munday upon Teusday I wrote Letters to three Friends to come to me but being about to Seal them Skirm demanded the sight of them which being denied him he took away the Candle and Pen and Ink to hinder my Sealing and Subscribing them telling me that I should not be permitted to send any where any Letter of which he had not first the Reading Neither found I any opportunity of Writing until Thursday when my Bayliffs bringing me to the Tap-house Fire fell to Cards and a Coachman sometime before a Servant to the Right Reverend the now Bishop of Chichester coming in and knowing me conveighed to me Pen Ink and Paper and while the two Honest Men were busie I wrote a Letter to my Brother which the Coachman delivered The day following at Even my Brother came whom they lockt into a Chamber with me promising to return at our call which we said would be within one quarter of an hour but when we called the Chamberlain came to the door and told us that Skirm and Smith were gone abroad with the Key After some stay in a vain expectation of their return I forced open the Door and my Brother departing I went down and sate by a fire until their coming But then Skirm was filled with great wrath and with Dammees and other Execrations askt how I dared to open the Door and would I never leave those tricks of breaking Prison with other such Language mixt with Threatnings But the next day I was brought into Court and turned over a Prisoner to the Kings Bench Prison The pretence for taking away my Cloaths at night was that they feared I would make an escape Whether that was a legal way of securing me I refer to better Judgements But that they could not fear any such thing after my coming to London is manifest by these reasons On Sunday the last day of our Journey Smith exchanged Horses with me I being not able any longer to ride the Jade on which they mounted me Skirm staying behind divers times talking with Travellers and Smith also sometimes I rode before and missing them waited their comin● up They also knew that I very well understood the Road leading from Oxford which we travelled that day and that I as well understood that they knew it not in all which respects my escape had I been inclined to it would have been without difficulty Likewise at the Inn in Holborn as I shewed them after three nights lodging there upon discourse of their misbehaviour an escape was easie For the Window having a large folding Casement and the Chamber being but one pair of Stairs high I could have let my self down by the Sheets tied one to another and covered my self with