receive him such a day into your Custody Turner Yes and please your Lordship I did Will Rider gave evidence also that he saw him in the Meeting Judge It is enough what say you now Prisoner There is no evil charged against me Judge Set him aside John Noble was set to the Bar c. The Witnesses not appearing the Judge called for the Mittimus Justice Pitfield and his Clark were sworn who made the Mittimus who gave evidence that he was at the Meeting c. Judge You see it here appeares that you were there Prisoner The Lord God of Heaven and Earth will plead my cause Judge Set him aside Nathaniel Harding was set to the Bar c. Tempest the Cunstable gave evidence that he saw him at the Meeting at Mile-end and no more and William Turner gave evidence that he received him into his Custody c. Prisoner I wonder much how any of us can be brought in guilty seeing none doth evidence any evil against us Judge Set him aside Then was Vincent Gerrard set to the Bar c. And being silent the Judge said It s more to be lamented that old men should be such unjust Judges to sentence men for to be Transported for doing well it is pitty young men having good Trades and might live well should bring themselves into these troubles Judge What sayes the Witnesses was the Prisoner at the Bar in the Meeting Clark I will look in the Mittimus if his name be therein to be sure he was there Clark His Name is there Judge Set him aside Then was Edward Mallitrat brought to the Bar c. Judge What have you to say Prisoner Where are my Accusers J. H. Call Justice Marches Clark What say you Tho. Porter My Lord I did not mind him there Judge Sir William Rider what say you My Lord I do not know his face there was so many there Tempest What say you my Lord I brought him to New Gate Will. Turner What say you my Lord I receiv'd him Judge Twisden Now you must clear your self whether you was at the Meeting or not Prisoner What shall I say I may compare you to the Scribes and and Pharisees for they said they had a Law and by that Law they Crucified the Lord of Life Judge Twisden No matter for that have you any thing else to say Prisoner It is to little purpose to say any thing to you So he was set by Then Francis Tarcy was called to the Bar Indictment read c. The Witnesses being Justice Pitfield's Clark and William Turner Turnkey at Newgate who gave evidence that he was at the Meeting and the Clark said he was the first in the Mittimus the Judge said that was sufficient Judge What say you Prisoner I did not meet in any seditious Conventicle neither am I a malefactor or evil doer and I am otherwise perswaded of the Meetings for they are peaceable and are the Meeting-places where the people of God are wont to assemble Judge Set him by Then Martin Croshe was set to the Bar c. The Witnesses gave evidence in this wise That he was at the Meeting and being brought before William Rider at Mile-end who demanded what he came thither for He replyed to wait upon God in his fear Judge Have you any thing to say for your self Prisoner I did meet often at that place in the fear of the Lord which the Lord God commands and allowes men to do now if your Law by which you proceed against me be contrary to this Law of God then I must desire your Councel which of these two you would advise me to obey for you being Judges ought to be my Councellors and to deal impartially and not to flout at me as some of you have done by your disdainful language in biding me medle with my Sizzers I knowing that both my liberty and life may lie at stake I desire to be heard for I have not transgressed any just Law I am not guilty of being at any unlawful meeting wherefore I desire your Councel what I should do in this weighty matter the Law of God commanding and allowing me to wait on and serve him in his fear and your Law prohibiting it in this case pray what must I do or which shall I obey Judge Hide You must go to the Church and leave these factions Prisoner Do you call the Law of God a Faction Judge Take him away Prisoner I am not guilty of those unlawfull things which your Law is made against and falcely charged against me in the Indictment being sure that I am innocent and cleare from any such thing Judge Your impudence shall not serve your turn Judge Twisden Was you at the Meeting to worship God Prisoner I have been at many Meetings to wait upon the Lord in his feare as the Law of God commands and no Law ought to be made against it Judge We do not Try you for any unlawfull thing you did at the Meeting but we have proved that you was at the Meeting ☜ and the Law supposeth that meeting to be unlawful Prisoner Without any unlawful thing done or said Judge Keeleing We care not what you did there we have proved that you did meet Prisoner I understand that God is a spirit and I meet to worship the eternal God in spirit as he perswades my heart and conscience and must I be condemned to banishment for that Judge Keeleing Yes yes for the Law is against it ☜ Judge Twisden He hath confessed that he was there to worship God and their worship is contrary to the Liturgy of the Church of England Judge Have you the Common Prayer Book read amongst you Prisoner I desire to know what Law I have broken Judge Hide This Law meaning the late Act for suppressing seditious Conventicles Prisoner What in meeting to worship God according to my perswation Judge Keeleing Ay. ☜ Prisoner Remember you are executing a Law which is contrary to the Law of God Judge Twisden Go medle with your Sizzers he being a Barber Judge Hide Take him away Prisoner Jury-men I hope you will take notice that I am not proved guilty of these evil things the Law is against and that I am falsly accused of The Jury went forth and soon returned and brought in their Verdict that eleven of the 12. were guilty but they had some doubt about the young man viz. Vincent Gerrard which the Judge pittied it may be to please the Judge so that they did not agree to find him guilty but when they understood the Judges mind more plainly by his biding them go forth again they never went forth to consult any further but presently agreed among themselves that he was guilty also which publickly shewed forth their own weakness and that they were but as a cypher and for a cloak c. Then they soon even that very morning proceeded to sentence and sentenced all the aforesaid 12. persons for to be Transported to
the souls under the Altar slain for the word of God and the Testimony which they held saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the earth I say this Cry hath peirced the heavens and entred the ears of the Lord against this Generation therefore tremble ye uncircumcised in hearts and ears and be smitten with terrour ye persecutors about Religion Church and Worship for behold your portion is the same with Cain your elder Brother who was the first murtherer about Religion and with the Whore your Mother who hath made Nations drunk with the wine of her fornication and who is also drunken with the bloud of the Saints and in whom is found the bloud of Prophets and of Saints of men and all that were or hath been slain upon earth yea in her is found the bloud of all the righteous since Abel to this day therefore all persecutors in Christendome or elsewhere who oppress kill and endeavour to destroy and shed innocent Bloud about Church and Worship Common Service you are Children of this Whore and as you partake of her sins so you will assuredly partake of her Plagues for strong is the Lord that judgeth both her and you and the Lord hath shewed many thousands in this Nation and elsewhere the secret Chambers of your Imagery where you commit Uncleanness and Idolatry and also what is in the golden Cup that your Mother holds forth to the Nations and also what is under her purple and scarlet coloured array and her ornaments of gold precious stones and pearls and to them he hath lifted up her skirts and made her naked and bare and her filthiness and fornication is seen in and under her glorious out side and in vain do you her children endeavour to impose her Sorceries upon such if the Lord permit she may drink yet a little more of their bloud but of the cup of her fornication they dare not nor will not drink for they know the true woman the true Church the Spouse of Christ the Kings daughter who is all glorious within and having seen her beauty and glory and partook of her graces and vertues cannot now follow other lovers nor be forced by the power of the beast which carrieth the Whore nor yet by her fair allurements to forsake and deny the true Church though flouds of persecutions follow her and her Children therefore in vain is the labour of Babels Merchants and the power of the beast which defends them against such a people whose eyes are opened and whose understandings are enlightened and whose souls have not only tasted but daily feed on the bread of life which comes down from above even from the heavenly Jerusalem the mother of all the faithful and the City of their Solemnity I say in vain do Babels Merchants the children of the great Whore and the Beast that carries her endeavour to compell such to partake of her Merchandize to drink down her Sorceries and to become Members of their Church whose glory is outward fair words but foul deeds white garments but black souls the blind the ignorant the dark in heart and understanding the doubtful and unstable the wanton vicious and voluptuous ones these and such like she may prevail upon and of such do her Church consist of these are the Multitudes Nations Kindreds and Tongues on whom she sitteth and over whom she reigneth and hath long reigned but the Lord in his exceeding riches grace kindness and love hath in this latter day caused his everlasting day to dawn and his day Starr to appear and not onely so but the womb of the morning is opened and the Sun of Righteousness is risen in the hearts of thousands even of those over whom she reigned and he hath redeemed them from under her and out of the Nations Kindreds and Tongues and as this Light and Glory Riches and Love encreases and prevails in the hearts of people which certainly is to overcome the Whore will lose her Dominion Seat and great Authority and be cast upon a bed of torment which is the determinate counsel of God to bring to pass upon her for Babylon is faln and must yet fall Sin Violence Oppression Cruelty and persecution had a begining and must and shall have an end and the whole Creation of God longs groans and travails for that day even to enjoy her Sabboths or rests and to see sin and iniquity finished and everlasting Righteousness brought in and Judges restored as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning and the knowledge of the Lord to cover the earth as the water doth the Sea or the deeps but the wicked must fill up their measure of doing wickedly and the Righteous also must fill up their measure of suffering innocently and in the end cometh the Reward of both The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Prov. 10.7 And may it not be said of Christendome as once the Lord said of Israel Sodom thy sister hath not done she nor her daughters as thou hast done and thy daughters Ezek. 16.48 c. Postscript READER I do here present to thy view a Narrative of the most malicious wicked Illegall Process against one of the persecuted and oppressed ones of Christ called John Otter Shoomaker who on the 25. of the 10th Month called December 1664. was taken in a Meeting at Mile-end and from thence had before William Rider and Thomas Player called Justices which Meeting the People of God called Quakers have and do in their usuall manner meet to worship God as he hath made himself known in them and unto them the Relation extracted from his own mouth is as followeth The said John Ottir with some of the people of God called Quakers being seized in the said Meeting was brought before the two Justices so called William Rider asked him his name the Prisoner declared his name unto them then he asked him his Dwelling place or place of abode the Prisoner asked him if declaring his name was not sufficient Then Tho. Player said No but said in his hast that if he declared not his place of Habitation or abode he was to be taken as a Felon or a Vagabond The Prisoner answered that he had a dwelling place where neither thief murderer nor persecuter could come Then W. R. asked where that was he said in God So they committed him to New Bridewell as a Vagabond where he was detained some weeks and the Sessions at Hicks-Hall following shortly after the said Prisoner was called down thither where were Robert Hide and Iohn Keeling two of the Kings Judges with other Justices so called who usually sit there and there was three Malefactors who were Prisoners at the same time that was brought down to the Sessions who was called to the Bar John Otter being also set to the Bar the Judge asked him his Dwelling place the Prisoner answered him as
Another CRY of the INNOCENT OPPRESSED FOR JUSTICE OR A Second Relation of the unjust proceedings at the Sessions held at Hicks's Hall for the County of Middlesex and at the Old Baily London the 6th and the 14th dayes of the 10th Month or December 1664 With and against 32 more of the People called Quakers who were all sentenced for a pretended breach of the late Act. Together with an Account of the most material Passages between the Prisoners and the aforesaid Courts in which it doth appear very plainly That only Meeting to Worship God in the Spirit and in the Truth is by the Judges made and declared to be the matter of Fact deserving so grievous a Sentance Vnto which also is now Added A Brief Short Summary of the Sentencing of 36 more of the aforesaid people in scorn 〈…〉 Quakers at the two places above mentioned 4 at Hicks's Hall and 32 at the Old Baily the 11th and 15th of the 11th Month called Januâ—ry where they were all Sentenced for to be Transported to the Island of Jamaica But ye have despised the poor do not rich men oppress â—ou and draw you before the Judgment seats Do not they Blaspheme that worthy Name by which ye are called Jam. 2.6 7. London Printed in the Year 1664. These are the Names of the Twelve Sentenced at Hicks's Hall Edward Berkly William Mathews John Terry Diggery Marshall William Brend John Goodwin John Noble Nathaniel Harding Vincent Gerrard Edw. Malitrat Francis Tarcy Martin Groshe BIlls oâ— Indictments being drawn up against the aforesaid twelve persons they were deliverd to the Grand Jury who were men generally of the same spirit with the persecutors and Judges for though the Bils of Indictments contained many and divers Criminal Tearms to expresse the matter of fact viz. ☞ 1. For being at an Unlawful meeting or Conventicle 2. For being there under colour and pretence of Religious Exercise 3. That this Religious exercise was in other manner then is allowed by the Liturgie or practice of the Church of England 4. For being there with divers other Malefactors or disobedient persons to the terror of the people and disturbing the peace Fiftly and lastly That they were there to do the aforesaid evils contrary to the form of the late Statute in that case provided c. Now this Grand Jury never so much as called for evidence to prove any one of those crimes aforesaid but all they required of the Witnesses was to give evidence that the Prisoners were met together at such a time in such a place above the number of five c. This was all the Witnesses swore upon which they found all the Bills Their designed work being so far done the aforesaid prisoners on the sixth day in the morning were brought from Newgate to Hick.'s Hall And first four viz. Edmond Berkely William Mathews John Terry Diggery Marshall were set to the Bar and bills of Indictments was read against them containing those crimes before recited and they being asked whether they were Guilty or not answered severally That they were not guilty of those things laid to their charge Then were the other eight called viz. William Brâ—nd John Goodwin John Noble Nathaniel Harding Vincent Gerrard Edward Mallitrat francis Taâ—cy Martin Chroshe one after another called to the Bar and their Indictments read which were for matter the same with the other being all of one foâ—m who being asked Guilty or Not Guilty they answered as the former had done viz. That they were not guilty of being at any unlawful Meeting or Assembly c. and only too of them demanded a Copy of their Indictments but Judge Hyde said Except they would pay eight pence a sheet for them they might not have them so they answered that was extortion and they could not do it Now note how Judge Hydes cruelty and subtilty appears in this his setting so high a price upon the Clerks labour knowing the prisoners would not pay so dear for it and therefore would be the lâ—sse capable to overturn and make void their Indictments For it was noted what would make against the prisoners every way that he and the rest were sure to make use and advantage of And rather than they would want evidences against the prisoners on the other hand the Clerks should loose all their Fees as was observed when the Witnesses did not appear the Judges were angry and very much displeased Then one of the Justices on the Bench told the Judges the reason why they did not appear was because the charge of drawing their Recullizance was so great Then said Judg Hyde to incourage them to be Witnesses who were bound thereto against the Innocent That they should pay nothing And if the Clerks did make them pay a groar he would make them pay ten for it One of the prisoners also said to the Judg What advantage will it be to me if I should plead Judg. If you plead and are not found Guilty you may be cleared by the Jury Prisoner What if the Jury men be overtawed by you that are Judges And if you have already determined the Case as was known the last Sessions before this where some of our friends were sentenced that did plead and some that did not plead And the Jury threatned c Jud. Keeleing You scandalize us but the prisoner spake truth After some more words they were all set to the Bar. Then the Petry Jury was called over sworn and charged according to their usual form viz. Well and truly to try How this was let Gods Witness in all Consciences judg and true deliverance make betwixt the King and the Prisoners at the Bar and to bring in their Verdict according to Evidence c. Clerk Set Edmond Berkly to the Bar who read the Records of the Justices to prove the First and Second pretended offence and the Witnesses were called and sworn to prove a Third One was one of the Justices Clerks who swore that he did see the said Edmond at such a place at such a time Then a Constable present gave Evidence that he did not remember the said Edmond but he did carry the persons mentioned in the Mittimus to the prison of Newgate William Turner also gave Evidence that he received the said persons into Newgate such a time Jud. What say you for your self Pris Their Evidence and so saying doth not prove me to be guilty of being at an Unlawful meeting Jud. That 's not the thing were you not at such a time at such a place if you were the Law doth judg all such meetings to be unlawful Pris The meeting simply as it is a meeting is not unlawful but the unlawfulnesse of it must be proved by something either ☞ done or said Therefore Jury-men take notice that the Witnesses have not proved any thing to make the meeting unlawfull Judg. Set him aside Then was William Mathews set to the Bar and evidence given as before Judg. What have you
to say for your self Pris I was at no unlawful meeting neither have I done any thing to the breach of any mans peace nor in contempt to the Kings Laws but what I did was to worship God and to serve him in the uprightnesse of my heart and to no other end did I ever meet the Lord knows to whom I must give an account Judg. Was you at that meeting such a time naming the day at such a place Pris I was at no other meeting then to wait upon the Lord and if for which service and worship of God and testimony of his Truth I must be separated from my Wife and Children which are neere and dear to me the will of the Lord be done I am freely given up Judg. Take him away Pris Jury-men I would have you take notice that there is nothing of Fact proved neither in word nor deed against any of us Therefore you ought not neither can you with a good Conscience bring us in guilty John Terry at the Bar. Judg. Have you any thing to say Pris I desire to see my Accusers Judg. Swear the Constable Being sworn he gave Evidence that he brought the said John Terry to prison such a day The Clerks boy looking into his book said he saw him at the meeting also William Turner gave Evidence that he received him into his custody Pris This doth prove me but once is doth not prove three times Judg. The other two are plain by Record Pris There are Records that are false for some have been stopped for the Third pretended offence on the First and Second by reason that several men are of one Name Judg. Will. Turner what can you say against this man Will. Turner He hath been three times in prison Prison So hath many Felons Will. Turner He hath been three times committed for being at a meeting the first time he was committed for three moneths and twice since Pris Is it a Crime sufficiently worthy of Banishment to meet together to serve the Lord Judge Hide It 's Crime enough it 's Crime enough set him by Then a friend reply'd and said Record that or Let that be Recorded Then was Diggery Marshall called to the Bar. The Witnesses were sworn one being the Clerks boy to whom the Judg spake and said Did you see this man at such a place The boy looking in a paper said Yes Judg. Did you see him there such a time Boy Yes Judg. Did you see him in the Meeting Boy I cannot tell that but I see him brought before the Justices Pris I suppose he hath not this in his paper Judg. Well he hath enough in like manner the other Witnesses gave their Evidence Judg. What say you If you have any thing to say you may now speak Pris I suppose it is to little purpose to say any thing you will go on as you have determined let me say what I will Judg. No you shall be try'd according to Law and we will do you justice and right Pris I have little cause to expect it for I have seen little done as yet I am here Indicted for being at an unlawful meeting which is not yet proved that the meeting was unlawful Judg. It is proved that you was at a Meeting and the Law judges that meeting to be unlawful and therefore we judg it so it being under a pretence of worshipping God contrary to the Liturgy of the Church of England Pris I do not understand that it is contrarary to the Liturgy for me to meet to worship God in reality and truth and not under any pretence And if we meet really to worship God must we suffer for that Jud. ☞ Hyde Yes that you must Standers by with much grief of heart said Was ever the like known Then Judge Keeling to mend the matter said You shall not suffer for worshipping God but for being at an unlawful Assembly contrary to the Law But this covering is too narrow Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Then was William Brand called to the Bar his Indictment read c. Judg. What have you to say Pris The Indictment is null and void by reason of the Errors that are in it And though I do not trouble my self with your Laws yet according to the Knowledg I have there may be much said in exceptions against the Indictment in the Nicities and Punctillios of your own Law but I matter not these things I shall come to that part of the Indictment in which I am charged for being at an unlawful meeting but the Judge often interrupted him and would not suffer him speak what he had in his heart to declare c. No clear Evidence did appear against him and they were at a stand how to proceed but at last the Judge called for his Mittimus where he found he was one time committed from Wheelers Street which prov'd an Error in their Indictment being * Note this would have quashed an Indictment against a Fellon Indicted for being that same day at Mile-end There was no Witresse to prove the first second or third pretended offence till Thomas Swallow called a Justice whose name the Judg saw at the Mittimus was called to by the Judg and asked Whether he knew the prisoner who said he did not Then the Mittimus was shewed to him to see if he would own it and the book was given him to swear Then said the prisoner If he must swear and be a Witnesse let him come from off the Bench and stand in the Witnesses place but the Judg would not suffer it so to be So he gave Evidence upon the Bench upon his Oath That if the prisoners name was in the Mittimus then he must be in the meeting I own it is my hand said he Judg. ' That 's enough Pris Must we be Judged by Consequence I judge that the Jury should have plain evident proof to proceed upon Judg. They may proceed and take evidence by consequence except you can prove that you were not at the meeting Then the Clerk of Tho. Byde called Justice was sworn Judg. Reach him the Mittimus I own said he this to be my writing Judg. Do you know the prisoner Did you see him at the meeting ☞ Yes For he was praying Judg. Take him away Pris I have something to say to the Jury Judg. We will not suffer you to speak to them So he was hurried away Then was John Goodwin set to the Bar c. Tempest the Constable was sworn Judg Keeling Did you see that man at the meeting such a time Tempest Yes that I did if his name be in the Mittimus Then a young boy was called and sworn Judg. Come what can you say did you see him at the meeting Boy I see him in the Yard by the same token he told the Justices that if he was among the Turks he might find more favour then amongst them William Turner was called Judge Did you
he did the said Justices then after some consultation with the said Justices the Judge pronouced Sentence against him with the rest that he should be Transported beyond the Seas to any of the Kings Forreign Plantations without asking the Prisoner any thing or taking notice in what Capacity he was only he asked the Keeper if he had the Correction of the house who answered he had been in the Stocks five times and so was returned to Prison having received the sentence as a Vagabond their proceedings being signified to the Councel at the desire of two men one called Tho. Coltloth the other Richard Sherrwood men having dealings to Virginia the said Prisoner was granted unto them with the three Malefactors to be sent to Virginia there to be sold Slaves for seven years Now whoever thou art that reads this Narration and the foregoing Relations of the several tryals of the people of God called Quakers comprehended in this Treatise and if thou weighest things in the just ballance of Truth which God hath placed in thee thou wilt see how oppression is added to oppression injury to injury misery to misery and all to set up lust instead of Law and how the Law is strained and stretched to accomplish their envious devices For the Statute made and provided in that case against Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers doth shew and nominate who are such before punishment is proceeded unto as in 39. Eliz. cap. 4. sheweth First That all persons calling themselves Schollars going about begging all Sea-faring men pretending losses of their Ships or Goods on the Sea going about the Country begging all idle persons going about in any Country either begging or using any subtle craft or unlawful Games and Playes or feigning themselves to have knowledge in Physiognomy Palmestry or other like crafty Science or pretending they can tell Destinies Fortunes or such other like fantastical imaginations all persons that be or utter themselves to be Procters Procurers Patent gatherers or Collectors for Goales Prisons or Hospitals all Fercers Bearwards Common Players of Interludes and Minstrils wandring abroad all Juglats Tinckers Pedlars and petry Chapmen wandring abroad all wandring persons and common Labourers being able in body using loytering and refusing to work for such reasonable wages as is tared or commonly given in such parts all persons delivered out of Goales that beg for their Fees or do travel begging all persons as shall wander abroad beging pretending losses by fire and all such persons not being Felons wandring and pretending themselves to be Egyptians or counterfeit Egyptians shall be taken adjudged and deemed Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers and shall sustain such pain and punishments as by this Act is in that behalf appointed Now unto you Judges and Justices who have passed and given your consents unto the sentencing of this innocent man for Banishment and pretend the Law for it I ask which of all or any of the capacities of persons adjudged to be Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers by this Statute did you find this Innocent person which of your doores was he taken begging at or any others or what practice else did you find him in which this Statute doth adjudge what must he be exposed to the uttermost severity mentioned in the same that is banished before you had proceeded to the sentencing for Banishment of this Innocent person under the name of Vagabond Rogue or sturdy Beggar he should first have been proved so to be or it should have been made appear unto you that he had been found in the quality or qualities above mentioned and if you had proved him to be such a one or he had appeared so to be yet that is not sufficient for you who so often repeates your being upon your Oathes and that you must do Justice according to proceed to Banishment for they must appear to be dangerous to the inferiour sort of people where they shall be taken or otherwise be such as will not be reformed of their Roguish kind of life by the former Provisions of this Act If he had been found such a one as you have sentenced him to be nevertheless he was to have been referred to the former Provisions of this Act and so then to have proceeded according but right or wrong whoever they be that fear God and make conscience of their wayes before him if they come but within the verge of your fury their fare is all alike if one snare will not do another ginn shall and so the Innocent are deprived of their Birth-rights outward which is the equity of Laws made and provided to secure every free-born Englishman in his Right and Propriety and the equal and impartial ministration and distribution of them and they are oppressed in their Consciences inward by that persecuting Spirit which seeks to dis-throne God there and exalt it self but be it known unto you we neither can nor shall bow unto that Spirit the way you take to work us to Consormity is a contrary way it is not swords staves halberds nor your Goals and your cruel Exercises imposed there and inflicted on our bodies will do it I tell you we are gentle to lead but otherwise to be driven is unnatural to Englishmen and such as fear the living God and no man this day in England can charge us with evil justly as we are a people and God even God eternal beareth record unto our Consciences of the same you have waded very far in this work considering your day well would it be for you if you laid it to heart and them also who whets you on to this work of whom it may be said as of old Come let us smite with the Tongue and smite you with the Fist and so the Oppression and Persecution of Gods People is divided between you and they are ground betwixt you even you Lawyers and Priests as between two Mill-stones but in due time the Lord will arise and plead our Cause and give Judgement to our enemies yea righteous Judgment and all the Persecutors of his Innocent People shall know it Although we are made in this day even the Spunge of the Nation to drink in the implacable fury of your Malice yet know the very dregs of your Cup is reserved of the Lord for your selves and in due time you shall drink the same and when you are under Judgment then it will be given you to remember them whom you have most injuriously and unrighteously oppressed I say Mind and give good heed unto what is said for your day hastens THE END