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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

Souldiers came unto Christ and askt him Master what shall we do Be content with your wages and do violence to no man accuse no man falsly But for the whole rabble of Duke Marquesse Lord Knight Gentleman by patents I find no room place or example or allowance for in Scripture but that onely declares of as I do believe one Lord one God over all blessed for ever amen who made all kindreds tongues and Nations of one blood and all these earthly Lords and who exercise unjust dominion are come up since and in the Apostacy for in the beginning it was not so and those who are rede●med from the earth and risen with Christ and onely seeks the things above Fathoms and comprehends all these things and are come to the beginning are in that which was before false Prophets Anti-chri●● Babylon Pope or Whores cup was of which the Kings of the earth have drank and been made drunk in which drunken fi● and when all the Nations reeled under the persecution of the beast and false Prophet and the Saints and Martyres blood was swallowed down as other cups of pleasure and the woman was fle● into the Wildernesse and the man-child was caught up to God I say in that black dark night of Apostacy when none was able to make war with the beast when the Kings of the earth fought for the earth was created and by the beasts power at this day is created Lords Knights c. and having lost the Cross of Christ the power of God within a painted cross is borne in your ensign without and that is the sign of your Christianity and so into sects and opinions and the Irreligious have and do kill one another about Religion precedency names titles and the earth and all this is earthly Devilish and sensual THE END Here followeth a relation of some signs examples and judgements for the accursed Generation who desire a sign for many to my face have temptingly said shew us a sign but they are miracles to those that believe and let such reach hither their hands and with me feel and see the wounds that the Lord of life hath received in his members by this unnatural and unparaleld Generation to whom and upon whom these examples are and have been shewen as it is written the wicked shall not live out half their dayes but let the despisers behold and wonder and perish for the work is wrought in their dayes although they cannot believe EXAMPLES ESSEX John Clerk Priest for 20. l. Tythes by him demanded of Robert Nicol of Coln-Engain by warrant from Dio●ysius Wakering and William Harlackenden Justices so called took and drove away from him Cattel worth 50 l. and his greedy mind not therewith satisfied sought after his body to but those his persecutors aforesaid being at London at that time he threatened to go to London to get a Warrant from them to put him in prison but the Lord prevented him for he came home and died in few dayes after SUFFOLK Robert Newton Goaler of Edmund-bury and his wife who had been very cruel to George Fox in the 55 weeks imprisonment he suffered under him by beating him very often and taking from him his bed cloaths and a coat and after his release detained him twenty eight weeks more for as he pretended a years sufficient lodging both the goaler and his wife not long after was cut off by death SUSSEX Priest Cussin● who caused Thomas Leycock to be imprisoned a whole year in Horsham Goal for speaking a few words to the people in love to their souls after he the said priest had done soon after this persecution he was cut off by death John Chatfield Priest of Horsham who caused Thomas Leycock and Bryan Wilkinson to be imprisoned and caused Thomas Patchins Cattel to be drove away soon after fell into a dropsie and remained in a miserable condition half a year and then died Priest Cuffly of Arundel who was a chief instrument in Thomas Leycocks persecution and did strive with the Magistrates of Arundel to have had Joseph Fuse who had faithfully served the Parliament in the wars 11 years sent over Sea as a bond-slave suddenly after this he died The Priest of Green who caused Alice West to be sent to prison for speaking some few words in the Steeple-house suddenly after died Edward Haughton Priest of Nuthurst who was the first in this county that caused friends to be robbed for Tythes was soon after cut off by death Priest Channel called a Doctor one of the chiefest high Priests so counted in this Nation a great opposer of truth was striken with madnesse and is out of his natural senses A Tythe-monger in the Parish of Beding who wickedly and malitiously trod out the corn of Minion Brocket making havock of the same within a week after was cut off by death John Gurden a Justice so called an eminent persecutor of the innocent people of God in this county whose name hath spread to New England among his brethren of the inquisition there hath been smitten by the Lord in a great weaknesse of body and dimnesse of eye-sight and hath appeared as one likely to pine away under the hand of the Lord which is evidently turned against him since he became such a cruel persecutor Roger Gratick a Magistrate and Priest Snelling consenters to much of the persecution of this county both slain with a thunder bolt in one day NORFOLK John Benton being one of Priest Claphams witnesses of Wramplingham whom he procured to swear against Benjamin Lynes in a matter concerning Tythes who was so evidently forsworn and his partner with him that the Justices themselves would not accept of their testimony and soon after which time the said John Benton got into the Steeple-house of Wramplingham and there hanged himself in a Bel-rope Edw. Humt keeper of the prison of Norwich who after Geo-Whit●head was discharged at the Sessions brought his action against him for 4 d. a night and although he had layn on the floor most part of the time yet was by him unjustly detained but the Goaler was soon after cut off by death HARTFORD-SHIRE Geo-Fage an unmerciful Bayliff who for 5 s. Tithe took away goods worth 4 l. from Richard North and entered into his house none being within but two poor children ransacked the poor mans house and took the very covering from off the bed of the children and exposed them to sufferings in the midst of winter for which the Lord God visited him and cut him off suddenly before he had made sale of the goods GLOUCESTER-SHIRE The first three friends that were committed in the County of Gloucester the two Justice of peace which did commit them the one called by the name of Justice Webly the other called by the name of justice Raymond these three friends did all live in or about Thornbury and were called to the Bar that Assi●e next holden for the County of Gloucester one of these Justices which did commit

upon him that for many dayes and nights he could not forbear quaking and trembling the Divels trembled I ●n ● in most dreadful horror that many people wondred at him who though he had food looked as if he had been almost famished and could not die until his flesh rotted away in many places and he most gastly to behold he often uttered horrible words from the pit of darknesse at last dying in a sad and miserable manner terrible to the beholders James Munden Priest of Burton having some Queries delivered to him by Francis Taylor he said he would go and fetch a warrant to have him before a Justice that day but the Justice not granting it he sent the Queries back to Francis Taylor and when his wife came unto him she in a rage tore the paper of Queries and said to him that as she did tear that paper so the Devils should tear his soul in hell hereafter a bad answer to the Queries and other times she abused friends in their meetings and her children threw stones at them Not long after this Priest was suddenly strook dead and never spake word more though he had been preaching two several times that day or rather deceiving the people words and the wages of unrighteousness being cursed to him he died in debt and left his wife and children in poverty and misery Also a young man of the same Parish and a follower of the same Priest being very bitter to friends and sought occasion against his own brother Upon him also the Judgements of the Lord came and after he had been speechlesse for a time hee roared and howled in a loud and hideous manner being in a distracted condition and had many to hold him he shortly after died and many were amazed at him Edward Ireland a tithing-man dwelling in South Periot who scoffed at friends and persecuted them with much cruelty and took some out of there houses and carried them before some called Justices and in the eleventh month 58. he went to Blanford Sessions with Jeremiah French the Priest of South Periot who went there to lay in false information against John Gundry who was cast into prison by Jeremiah French the said Ireland also having a hand in it and at that Sessions I●hn Gundry was brought forth and so fined fourty shillings to the Protector and fourty shillings to the Priest but Ieremiah French and Edward Ireland rode away from Blanford towards South Periot before those called Justices had really fined Iohn Gundry or remanded him to prison again and yet as they rode homeward through Evershot Edward Ireland boasted that Iohn Gundry would be sent to prison again who came home to his house but within two days the Lord strook him dead suddenly in his house which struck a dread in many which had a hand in persecuting the Lords people but especially one Richard Farnham who had also been a great persecuter of the Lords people in that place who came in to see Edward Ireland at the cry of the people and when he came into the house he fell down as dead and many of the people there ran about him and did shake him up and did strive much about him so he recovered life again but the dread of the Lord lay upon him that he was sick for a time after and then for a short season the Lords people had rest from their persecutors D●VO● When I was prisoner at EXETER a Murtherer being condemned to die was brought into the Chamber to us and his hands unbolted and a naked knife in his hand and so left with us but the Lord preserved us from any hurt by him and he was afterwards hanged for killing a man with a knife The Mayor of Tiverton in Devon-shire by whose order many friends had their goods spoiled and taken from them and many were put into prison was about the fourth or fifth month in the year 1658 cut off by the hand of God in a miserable manner his bowels consuming within him and as one Fowler of the same Congregation and fellowship with him and of the same Town told a friend it lay upon him to go to see the Priest and to acquaint him that it was the hand of God upon him for his cruel usage of those people called Quakers One of the Constables of EXETER a notorious Professor hanged himself in his own house The Bridewel-keeper who had done very much wrong to friends who were under his custody and to others that came to visit them in prison making several lies against them soon after hanged himself by his bed side It is reported that many of the Professors in Exon have hanged and drowned themselves since first that place begun to persecute the people of God As Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead were travelling towards Plymouth in obedience to the Lord were apprehended at Honington and sent to EXETER by a guard of Musqueteers from thence to TA●NTON with a sealed letter a guard to Colonel Buffet who as he was enioyned by the said letter wrote another to send them from Tything to Tything until they came to their own Countries but the officer that had the passe and was to be their convoy to the next Tything had not gone above a mile until he fell down in the mire and could not stand upon his feet although they lefted him up thus the Lord made way for their enlargements and manifested his Righteous Judgements upon the Persecutors of the innocent so the Justice seeing the hand of the Lord against their formed weapons and instruments employed against the servants of the Lord released them The first that rose up against the people of God in this County was one Thomas Pentlow called Justice that in two years space committed 9 of the servants of the Lord to Prison and not one of them was proved transgressors either of the Law of God nor the Nation and some of them kept above a whole year in Prison and immediately after the beginning of his persecution the Lord smote him with an incurable disease in his body that he never went forth as formerly he did many times but lay roaring night and day near two years and when he lay thus in torment he committed every one of the people of the Lord to Prison that was brought before him though not any Law was transgressed and never repented to the day of his death Next one John Brown called Justice committed one Henry Williamson to Prison for going into Kettering Steeple-house though he never spoke one word but stood peaceably all the time and as soon as the Priest had done the people dragged him forth by the hair of the head struck him on the head face with their Bibles and he never speaking one word and John Brewa was an eye witness to this barbarous usage of him and never reproved the rude people for it but committed him to an Ale-house with a charge that none of his friends should come near him and

them being come into the Town that morning when the Assize did begin was struck with the hand of God so that he was speechless for many dayes and faint to lye in the Town before they could get him to his own house and since is dead never coming to Assizes or Sessions more and the other Justice which committed them was suddenly after put out of Commission and since is dead And likewise at the first coming of Friends into the County of Gloucester there was a man called by the name of a Captain that did send to a Justice of the Peace wishing him to take a course with these people called Quakers and with some bitterness said else he would take a course with them himself but within a few dayes after near his own dwelling at an Ale-house he fell out with a Rag-man and killed him insomuch that the said Captain was tried for his life the next Assi●e following There were three young Women that were friends coming from a meeting and in the way as they came there were people setting of Beanes and amongst them there was a man and a great Boy which Boy laid himself down over the foot-path and laying hold on one of the young women did abuse her in such an unseemly manner as with modesty cannot be expressed untill the other two did pull her from him and afterwards did set dogs on them and both the man and the boy did follow them with clods and stones for a great way and within a short time after the same man and boy being together so fell out that the boy was wounded by the man and within 24 hours after died and the man was tried at the Bar for his life this last Assi●e held for the County of Gloucester Richard Hobbs who had sworn in behalf of Priest Davis of Frampton for Tithes against John Tyler to the value of 16 or 20 s. for which the said Tyler was ordered to pay ●0 l. 1● s. besides 3 l. 10 s. charges The aforesaid Rich. Hobbs being thatching a Rick of Wheat was questioned by the man he wrought for about his swearing and shewed what errour he had run himself into he seemed to be troubled for it and said if he had known so much before as he did since he would not have done it in a little space after the man was gone the said Rich. Hobb● saw on his hand and on the Rick of Wheat the appearance of fire being troubled thereat left off his work and went to his Master and told him of it who would have perswaded him it was not so but he affirmed it to be so and not many dayes after the said Rich Hobbs he being Clerk of a Parish and as he was Ringing a Bel was taken up with the Bel-rope and tossed up and down that the scull of his head was broken and his body sore bruised that he lay for dead in the place but being recovered again he was carried to his house where he lay senceless 2 or 3 dayes and so died HEREFORD-SHIRE Henry Davis of little Ducburch a Persecutor of many friends who meeting James Merrick of Ross and because the said James did not speak to him turned his Gun after him and threatned to shoot him and in a short time after the said Henry Davis fell off from his horse and broke his neck WORCESTER-SHIRE EVISHAM George Kemp Mayor of ●visham being the first and also an eminent Persecutor of the Innocent people of God in Evisham shortly after the heat of his persecution was out off by death Rich. Martin another of the persecuting Justices was shortly after sued at the Law by his onely Son and thereby being forced to leave his habitation soon after died Edwa●d Youn● Mayor of Evisham aforesaid who exceeded all his Brethren in persecution not long after he was out of his Maiorality he also was cut off by death Samuel Gardner one of the persecuting Justices of Evisham aforesaid not long after his persecuting the people of God he fell distracted so that he was kept tied in his bed Thomas Ordway one of their Council a great professor of the Scriptures a friend to truth lent him a book which was in answer to a Catechism set forth by 42 Priests and after he had looked over it he wrote on the backside of the book It is pitty but all such books were burned and them that made them and set his name to it but very suddenly after was he cut off by death HUNTINGTON-SHIRE Thomas Lawrence Priest who had sued 4 of the Parish of Coln in the Exchequer and one of the 3 friends meeting him on the way asked him what he sued him for the Priest very wrathfully and churlishly answered him I will speak with you another time but within 10 dayes he was cut off and his body laid in the earth LINCOLN-SHIRE Francis Ball of Sibsey who sued and cast into Prison Edmund Woolsey for Tithes and the said Francis had told several people that he was perswaded that if Edmund Woolsey did believe in his Conscience that he the said Francis Ball had right unto the Tithes he would have paid it him and yet for all that he the said Francis Ball kept him in Prison But the Just indignation of the Lord is since fallen upon the Family of the said Francis Ball for his Wife presently after died and two more of that Family the Daughter and her Child and the people hereabout concluded it to be a just Judgment from the Lord. DERBY-SHIRE One Brittlin of Thorncloft a Steward of a hundred Court who had Judged Thomas Boyer to pay about 4 times what the principal of the Tithe came too soon after the Lord did cut him off by death SHROP-SHIRE Edw. Dod who wrote a false accusation against Friends and is a great Proselite of Sam. Smith Priest of Cresit who caused many Friends to suffer fell off from a Bridge and broke his leg and the Priest came to visit him and said one step further and into Hell and he said his people were a damned Crew and he had preached 7 years to them and not one brought to the knowledge of God HAMP-SHIRE Justice Cobb who had been a great Persecutor of Friends in Winchester Goal and would not suffer Stephen Bevi● Prisoner to work in the Prison on his own Calling and he being Judge at another Sessions would no● do any thing towards the releasement of the Servants of God in Prison though their unjust imprisoment was laid before him but gave order to restrain other Friends from coming to them several papers being sent to him for Justice the last of which was that being six men and one women in Prison that the women or any one of them might have the liberty to go forth and provide necessaries for the rest to bring them in work and carry out work and bring in food and such things as were necessary which reasonable and righteous thing was by him denied and within a