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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71043	A cry against oppression & cruelty being a short account of the tryal, and of the sentence that was passed on several innocent people called Quakers, who are inhabitants of the city of Worcester, at the assizes holden there the 16, 17 and 18th days of the 5th month called July, who were imprisoned because they refused to swear in obedience to the commandment of Christ Jesus, &c, and for assembling themselves together peaceably in the name and fear of the Lord, to worship him in spirit and truth, according to his will.	Bourne, Edward, d. 1708.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4162A; ESTC R16278	16,462	26

be as short as we could in publishing a Relation thereof commending our selves with the Controversie between us and our Opposers to be decided by God's Witness in every ones Conscience which shall read or hear the same Worcester Prison the 10th day of the 6 Month 1662. A brief account of the imprisonment and tryal of some more of our friends who are Inhabitants of Worcestershire UPon the 20. day of the 5. Moneth 1662. came a party of Souldiers to the Town of Pershore where some of them were peaceably assembled in the fear of the Lord and lay violent hands on them drawing them forth from the meeting and some out of their houses and off from their own ground with their swords drawn and forcing them along the streets and forced them into an house not showing them any order for what they did until they had been kept several hours in the house where they were close detained prisoners and their friends not permitted to come to them and afterwards took them to Worcester striking them and giving some of them fore blows Some moderate people seeing it desired them to forbear striking them then they fell a striking and cutting the people with their swords and so brought them to the prison in Worcester without any Mittimus Upon the 5. and 6. days of the 6. Moneth Ed. Hall George Fort Henry Gibbs with the rest of our friends who were taken prisoners with them at Pershore vvere brought before the Justices at the Sessions in Worcester to be tried vvith several other of our friends who vvere taken from their peaceable meeting being assembled in the fear of the Lord at Dudly in Worcestershire at the same time as friends in Pershore vvere taken vvhose names are Richard Payton John Newcomb Thomas Denton and Sutton Bagley All these before mentioned vvere tried at the Sessions then holden being made offenders about the oath of Allegiance because they did not svvear the Jury finding them guilty though in the sight of the Lord they are innocent from the breach of any just Lavv sentence vvas passed upon them as follovveth Richard Payton being brought into a Premunire his personal estate was forfeited to the King for ever and his real estate during term of Life and himself to be out of the Kings protection and to remain in prison during the Kings pleasure c. The rest of them viz. Ed. Hall George Fort Henry Gibbs John Newcomb Thomas Denton Sutton Bagley John Johnson William Collins and Ed. Gibbs vvere fined five pounds a piece and for want of distress or not payment of the same in a Weeks time after sentence was past to be committed to the house of Correction and there to be put to hard labour for three Moneths c. And thus for no evil but for keeping a good Conscience with the Lord do we suffer the Scripture being fulfilled in us which saith he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey c. Se● Isa 59. 14 15 16 17 c. Queries to the Compellers in Religious matters VVHether you your selves would be compelled from your Religion or not if not then do ye as ye would be done unto to compel others unto that when as you you would not be compelled your selves Whether that which you compel unto be truth or not if truth who did ye deny it in not practifing it or suffering for it about 8 or 9 years ago if not truth do you well to force unto it Whether to allow liberty in honest and religious matters be not a more sweeter and also an acceptabler sacrifice to God then to oppress or prison about it and to make men Aliens to their own families and strangers to their housholds concerning it Whether it be heavenly or heathenish to force in things pertaining to conscience and whether Christian like or otherwise to neglect the better and to take the worser to be an example herein Whether to limit that which is conscientious in others doth not truly be speak the permitters thereof men rather lovers of vanity then vertue Whether to ruine a man and his family and yet no iniury by them done be truly religious and prevailing vertues to make Proselitos or otherwise What is the ground of oppression and whence had it its descent was God the Author thereof or did good men practice it in any generation Robert Smith THE END