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A76750	The Cry of blood. And Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jewes reconciled, and in conspiracy with the dragon, to devour the manchild. Being a declaration of the Lord arising in those people, of the city of Bristol, who are scornfully called Quakers, and of the manifold sufferings, and persecutions sustain'd by them from the priests, rulers, professors and rude multitude, contrary to law, liberty, justice, government, the righteous ends of of the wars, and the Scriptures of truth. Together with a true account of the material passages in substance between the rulers and them at their several examinations, and commitments, and at two general sessions of the publick peace: and of the tumults, and insurrections, with other necessary observations, and occurences. Gathered up, written in a roll, and delivered to John Gunning late mayor of that city (being the fruits of his year) for the private admonition, and conviction of himself, and brethren concern'd, and named therein: with a letter declaring the end, and reason of what is so done, (of which a copy followes in the ensuing pages) / Subscribed by Geo: Bishop, Thomas Goldney, Henry Roe, Edw: Pyott, Dennis Hollister. And now after five moneths space of time published, for the reasons hereafter expressed.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1656 (1656)	Wing B2990; Thomason E884_3; ESTC R27277	101,853	169

11th moneth at which time a Liberate was sent the Jaylor signed Aldworth and witnessed John Gunning Mayor Dated Jan 19. 1654. requiring him to set at Liberty the body of John Warren in that he had found Sureties f●r his being of the good behaviour Whereupon the Keeper would have put him forth But he perceiving the deceit thereby to confess himself an offender and so to give away the innocency of his cause and to administer matter of reproach to the truth and to himself having neither sought Sureties nor found any denyed to go forth thereupon then the Officer would have put him out by force But he desiring a little time to consider wrote a note to the Town Clark and sent it to him in these words Robert Aldworth A Liberate was delivered me His Letter to the Town Clark just now by John Roach the Jaylor for my enlargment out of prison which when I had read over I found that the cause thereof is expressed in these words For that he hath found Sureties for his being of the good behaviour which I cannot accept of in regard that I have not misbehaved myself but have delivered that Message to one that said he scorned the name of a Minister for which I have a Warrant within And because of the not●rious untruth therein mentioned that I have found Sureties for my being of the good behaviour when as I neither directly or indirectly have sought for or found any Sureties for any such thing nor can I and therefore cannot accept of my freedom upon any such Warrant But do protest against it John Worring Notwithstanding he was the same day turned out of the Prison against which upon account of of the Liberate aforesaid he protested when by force he was put out The meek and sober carriage of these prisoners at the Sessions and their not seeking revenge on those who abused and struck them was such as did tenderly take with many who were present and heard the proceeding● An lastly This Sessions endeth not in enquiring Sessions ending after and punishing exemplarily according to Law those Tumults Ryots and Insurrections and other outrages and breaches of the Publick Peace aforementioned which had Judgement been put to the Line and Righteousnesse to the Plummet and Order and Government been respected would have been executed for not so much as one man hath therefore been punished to this day But in the four Orders following which they appoint to be read in all Churches as they call them Order of Sessions That no person or persons do hereafter presume to molest trouble or otherwise disquiet any Minister or Congregation either before or after the Publick exercises be ended And if any person or persons do so offend that in all such cases the Constables or any other Officers shall apprehend take and arrest the Party and Parties so offending and bring him or them before the Mayor and some other Justice of the Peace who are to take care that such offender or offenders be bound with sufficient Sureties to appear at the next General Sessions And in the mean while to be of the good behaviour and for not sinding some Sureties as aforesaid to commit them to Prison Reply The Statute 1 Mary to which they pretend to Justifie their Imprisonments as aforesaid were it in force or fit to be made practicable onely provides for the defence of the Popish Priest during the time of his Masse and Service but for before and after the Masse and Service makes no provision nor for disturbing or troubling as they call it the Congregation at all But these Magistrates having imprisoned and returned again to prison persons for speaking after the Congregation was dismist to Justifie their proceedings and to oppresse the Servants of the Lord for the future turn Legislators and make a Law where the Nation hath made none And enjoyn one another and all Officers to put it in execution viz. That none presume to molest or trouble or otherwise disquiet the Congregation as well as the Minister before and after as well as in the time of publique Exercise And if any do so offend that in all such cases the Officers shall apprehend take and arrest them and bring them before the Maior or some other Justice of the Peace who are to bind them with sufficient Sureties to appear at the next general Sessions and in the mean while to be of the good behaviour And for not finding such Sureties to commit them to prison When as all Lawes made by any Corporation for imprisonment of any mans person are invalid because against the Fundamentall Lawes of this Nation which also provideth That no Law be made or of force or binding but by the common consent of the People in Parliament which is so absolute and an essentiall a right that the encroachments of the late King and his Ministers of State thereupon occasioned the levying of the late defensive Wars by the Parliament And the late King with others his Ministers were therefore executed and abundance of blood shed and miseries sustained not yet to be forgotten And now that the Wars are ended and this Fundamental Right fully vindicated in the behalf of the Nation And the present Government hath provided the same with the Fundamentall Lawes Art 6. Except in some cases See the Government Art 6. Art 30. in point of Necessity expressed Art 30. till the sitting of the then next Parliament In which the single Person and his Councell have power to make Ordinances These Magistrates who endeavoured what lay in them to subvert and destroy it in behalf of the late King for whom the generality of them were in principle affection and action and are not afraid to presume to take upon them this Supream Legislative Authority over the Citizens and Inhabitants of Bristol who have been active for and faithfull to that Interest as any in that City and have adventured their bloods and their all in its behalf and who are of as godly peaceable and unblameable Conversation as any within that Jurisdiction And not onely over them do they thus usurp it but over all Englishmen who come in that City Nor is it in things of a triviall nature that they are thus bold to Legislate it but in matters relating to Conscience and Religion and to the Commands of God In which to have freedom and Liberty hath been a principall end in those honest men who have engaged in the late Wars and which hath been carried thorough the many and high Contests thereabouts in the late Parliaments And is provided for in the present Government And that they may be sure to hit those honest people against whom their malice rageth both upon the accompt of Civill and Spirituall interests they not onely make Law as aforesaid but become Judges of the Law themselves make Whereas the Administrators of Justice are sworn to execute the Lawes made by the Supream Legislative Authority not to make any Those who are

The CRY of BLOOD AND Herod Pontius Pilate and the Jewes reconciled and in conspiracy with the Dragon to devour the Manchild BEING A Declaration of the Lord arising in those people of the City of BRISTOL who are scornfully called Quakers and of the manifold Sufferings and Persecutions sustain'd by them from the Priests Rulers Professors and rude multitude contrary to Law Liberty Justice Government the righteous ends of the Wars and the Scriptures of Truth TOGETHER With a true Account of the material Passages in substance between the Rulers and them at their several Examinations and Commitments and at two general Sessions of the Publick Peace And of the Tumults and insurrections with other necessary Observations and Occurrences Gathered up written in a Roll and delivered to John Gunning late Mayor of that City being the fruits of his Year for the private Admonition and Conviction of himself and Brethren concern'd and named therein with a Letter declaring the end and reason of what is so done of which a Copy followes in the ensuing pages Subscribed by Geo Bishop Thomas Goldney Henry Roe Edw Pyott Dennis Hollister And now after five moneths space of time Published for the Reasons hereafter expressed And they cryed with a loud voyce saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Rev. 6. 10. And shall not God avenge his own Elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily neverthelesse when the Son of man cometh shall be find faith on the earth Luke 18. 7 8. And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together for before they were at Emnity among themselves Luke 23. 12. For of a truth against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together Acts 4. 27. And the Dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered to devour her child as soon as it was born and she brought forth a man child who was to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and her child was caught up to God and to his Throne and the Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the Commandements of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ Rev. 12. 4 17. And the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Rev. 2. 10. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls 1656. To you John Gunning late Maior Joseph Jackson Richard Vickris Miles Jackson John Lock George Hellier Henry Gibbs William Cann George Knight and Gabriell Sherman Aldermen of the City of Bristoll WEE with the rest of the people of God in this City who are in scorn and derision called Quakers have for many moneths together patiently and in silence born and suffered manifold persecutions from your selves and the people of this Town thorough your encouragement without seeking reparation though with a very high hand and with exceeding hard measure they have been executed upon us waiting when the witnesse of God in every one of your Consciences with which we are One and which one day will witnesse us and our sufferings and the Truth for which we suffer eternally upon you except you repent would have been hearkned unto which would have opened the eye in every one of you which the God of this world hath blinded and have shewn you Jesus whom without a cause in us you persecute and have filled your faces with shame for the evill of your doings and have caused you to mourn over him whom you have pierced with a bitter lamentation even as a man that mourneth for his onely son and have raised up in you the righteous principle of God from whence true Judgement would have proceeded that so the Cruell mockings bitter revilings illegal bonds and imprisonments and other grosse abuses with which we have been by you and thorough your means exercised might have ceased and you led to repentance and the Salvation of your souls which are pretious in this great and notable day of the Lord Jesus After which we long and our Bowels earn the Lord is our witnesse even that you might come to the knowledge of the truth thorough Faith in his blood for which things sake all that we have received from yor hands would have become to us sweet and pleasant But seeing neither the forbearance and long suffering of God nor our patient and long abiding under all your wills and lusts nor the fear of man to the penalty of whose Lawes you lie very obnoxious nor naturall affection nor Common humanity which would lead you to tendernesse and mercy and Justice and to do to others as you would be done unto your selves nor the Consideration of what hath been our carriage especially of some of us to you notwithstanding that we have received alwaies the worst of usages at your hands above what you could think of expect or hope for have not prevailed with you but instead thereof you are become more hard rewarding Evil for Good and Cruelty for Kindnesse declaring your sin as Sodom the shew of your Countenance witnessing it against you and having breathed forth new and fresh persecutions against the witnesses of Jesus in which † Temperance Hignell One of them hath lately suffered to the losse of her life When as wickednesse rageth in the streets And who is there found amongst you that doth it punish We have gathered up much of what the Truth and we and our friends for witnessing thereof have suffered by you into one body and have demonstrated how contrary your actions therein have been to Law and Scripture the Rules by which you pretend to order all your affairs and to Liberty and to Justice And although you can expect no such thing at our hands yet that it may appear that another spirit ruleth in us than the spirit of this world and how desirous we are that you should know and be convinced of the evill of your way and turn unto the Lord We do herewit hin the Close of the year before we publish it present it to you even to that of God which is pure and just in every one of your Consciences to which we speak that as in a glasse with the light of Jesus Christ by whom the world was made wherewith he lightens every one that cometh into the world which convinceth you of sin you abiding still and cool therein may come to see what you have done and the spirit and principle from which it hath proceeded to wit of Darknesse and of the Prince of this world who throughout all Ages as now by you hath raised persecution against the Principle of Light the Seed of God as the Scriptures testifie and that by him you may be delivered out of the snares of the Devil by

to him as the Magistrates was to them and therefore where they required things contrary to Law they must not expect therein obedience All which he spake with much mildnesse So they departed the Tumult being made up of some hundreds who continued filling the streets and whooping and hollowing beating the door with other abuses the Constables permitting them so to do About the fifth hour the meeting rose and a little before they departed a Chief Constable being in the house observing the Ryot and hearing the former passages went forth at the desire of the man of the house to require the Peace and to cause every man to depart for the Ryot was very high expecting their coming out but they regarded him not and so they violently assaulted the people of the Lord wirh blowes kicks dirt stones and other vile abuses and reproaches and clamours following them up the streets During this time which from the coming of the Officers was above two hours did neither the Constables nor the Magistrates keep the Peace though the Councel house where they sat was at the upper end of the same street where the meeting was and though some of the Aldermen saw the tumults and abuses yet so far were they from doing their duty therein and causing their own order of Sessions to be observed that Alderman Joseph Jackson and John Knolles Priest laughed openly on the Tolzey as they stood and looked thereon Then the Tumult returned on the house where the meeting was with more violence than before assaulting the door and giving very opprobrious language to the man of the house with great clamor and rage till the 7th hour and in what danger he was could they have gotten in may be well understood and did manifestly appear by their words and actions But during all this time the Magistrates did not endeavor the preservation of the Peace or require any so to do though it was in the view and hearing of several of them Now because so much is rehearsed concerning the Warrant with which the Officers came to search as aforesaid Here follows a true Coppy thereof and whether sufficiently le al to warrant such proceedings let the understanding Judge To all the Constables with in this City City of Bristol and to every of them The Coppy of the Warrant FOrasmuch as information hath been given us that John Camm and John Audland two strangers who were Commanded to depart this City have in contempt of Authority come into this City again to the disturbance of the publick Peace These are therefore to vvill and require you forthvvith to apprehend them and bring them before us to be examined according to Law Given this 22 th January 1654. Signed William Cann Joseph Jackson Gabriel Sherman Richard Vickris Dept. Maior Henry Gibs John Lock This Warrant gives no power to search private or any other houses or signifies any such Crime as Fellony or Treason in which cases only the Law allowes private houses to be searcht Nor doth it mention by nam● George Fox James Nayler Francis Howgill or Edward Burrough whom the Officers demanded to search for nor was it directed to the house they came nor to any other house nor to all houses in general And for the Crimes laid down therein as to John Camm and John Audley whom it mentions they are wholly false For first they were never commanded to depart the City by the Magistrates themselves before whom they were never or by any other at their command either for a time or not to return again Nor did they return to this City again in contempt of their Authority for as they were not commanded to depart and there can be no contempt where there is no command So if they had commanded them it would have been without the Law and the not observing of an unlawful Command is no contempt of Authority But they contemn Authority who Command in their own wills not according to the Law Nor had the Command been just according to the Law of the Nation and they had returned notwithstanding in obedience to the Command of the Lord were it a return as to them in contempt of Authority any more than in the Apostles who were charged to speak no more in that name and to depart their Coasts to return again and to speak in the Will of God whom to obey or man replyed they to the powers is i● better judg ye Nor are they men of that spirit to do any thing in Contempt to any much lesse to Authority though to their persecutors But to pray they may be forgiven And for that clause To the disturbance of the Publick Peace that is untrue for they are charged to make appear the least disturbance of the Peace on their part which the Law calls so and they 'l present their bodies to the punishment the Law provides But disturbed they were and Tumults raised on them threatning their Lives and the Peace broker as aforesaid The Warrant aforesaid being invalid and not carrying with it scandal enough the Magistrates cause another to be formed upon an information found out of one George Coolishaw in these words To the Constables of the Peace of the City of Bristol Ward of and to every of them FOrasmuch as information hath Warrant for apprehension c. as Franciscan Fryers been given us upon oath That certain persons of the Franciscan Order in Rome have of late come over into England and under the notion of Quakers drawn together severall Multitudes of people in London and whereas certain strangers going under the names of John Camm John Audland George Fox James Nayler Francis How gill and Edward Burrough and others unknown have lately resorted to this City and in like manner under the same notion of Quakers drawn multitudes of people after them and occasioned very great disturbances amongst us And forasmuch as by the said Information it appeareth to us to be very probable and much to be suspected that the said persons so lately come hither are some of those that came from Rome as aforesaid These are therefore in the name of his Highnesse the Lord Protector to will and require you to make diligent search through your Ward for the aforesaid strangers or any of them and all other suspected persons and to apprehend and bring them before us or some of us to be examined and dealt with according to Law Hereof fail you not Given the 25th of Jan. 1654. Signed 25th 11th month 1654. John Gunning Mayor Gabriel Sherman Henry Gibbs George Hellier Gabriel Sherman William Cann Joseph Jackson John Lock Richard Vickris Hereunto were there Seals affixed and that Alderman Sherman might be sure his name was down he wrot it twice and Alderman Hellier his Hand and Seal though he was not then sworn a Justice for which and for his acting upon the Bench at the Sessions the 16th of the eleventh moneth 1654. as a Justice and for other his proceedings when he was Maior