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A39879 For the King and both houses of Parliament being a short relation of the sad estate and sufferings of the innocent people of God called Quakers for worshipping God and exercising a good conscience towards God and man. 1661 (1661) Wing F1435; ESTC R29850 12,638 14

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hundred and fifty two Persons at present Prisoners in England for good Conscience sake VVIltshire 21 Cornwel 04 Warwickshire 14 Somersetshire 26 Dorsetshire 07 Gloucestershire 23 Essex 15 Bedfordshire 18 Oxfordshire 02 Yorkshire 13 Northamptonshire 31 Lincoln 04 Merioneth-shire 04 Devonshire 03 Buckinghamshire 18 Shropshire 01 Lancashire 58 Leicestershire 05 Darbyshire 03 Cambridgeshire 13 Nottinghamshire 15 Suffolk 20 Cheshire 02 Norfolk 08 Sussex 02 Rent 12 Staffordshire 34 Worcestershire 07 Hertfordshire 50 Herefordshire 15 Hampshire 04 Middlesex 16 Radnorshire 08 Pembrookshire 18 Glamorganshire 16 Carmarthen 01 Mountgomery 08 Cumberland 08 Huntingdonshire 10 Isle of Man 20 Here followeth a short Account of the sad Sufferings of the People of God in the Forreign Plantations IN New England Twenty six Friends have been banished on Pain of death Four have been Martyred Three have had their Eares Cut. One hath been burned in the hand with the Letter H. Thirty one Persons have received six hundred and fifty stripes One was beat while his body was like a Jelly Five Appeales made to England were denyed by Boston Rulers One thousand Forty five pounds worth of Goods hath been taken from them being poor men for Meeting together in the fear of the Lord and for keeping the Commands of Christ Late Sufferings in New England John Curryer an Inhabitant in Boston having a Wife and five Children was Whipt throw three Townes having ten stripes in a Town with a three-fold Cord-whip with knots at the end of it and for returning back to his Wife and Children was Whipt through three Townes againe and is now in Prison and is to be burned in the shoulder with the Letter R. And six Inhabitants are now Prisoners in Boston And one is to lye in Prison as long as he lives by their Law Anne Needham an Inhabitant a woman of good report a Mother of Children was whipt with ten stripes Thomas Harris was whipt in Boston with Ten stripes George Wilson was Whipt at a Carts taile through three Towns Ten stripes at a Town with a Horse Whip Anne Barker was Whipt in Boston Patent with many stripes and she and two more were put in the stocks Peter Pearson and Judith Brown Innocent People had both of them Forty stripes Twenty stripes apiece Twenty-Eight Forced out of their Jurisdiction Some of them Whipt and were not suffered Husband and Wives to go to their Families and Children and if they did they were to be whipt out again at the Carts tayl And they drove Friends out of their Jurisdiction into Plymouth Jurisdiction and there they had a Law to whip them also where George Wilson and John Bristow were whipt soon after with rods having Ten or a Eleven stripes a piece in Plymouth Patent Robert Hodgshon was whipt also in the same Patent with Nine stripes Mary Parker was taken out of her own House and where Friends were met together and six more and put in the stocks and they were much abused punched and halled and they threw them in holes of water in so much that the very Indians Cryed shame of them And when Friends shewed the Governours the Kings Proclamation Concerning setting Friends at liberty the Kings Subjects he said in open Court to Robert Hodgshon that we were None of the Kings Subjects which Robert said he would prove it by the Kings Proclamation and then Daniel Dennison another Magistrate said that if the King sent over any thing that we should have our Liberty he would Consider of it but he would die at the Point of the Sword he said before we should have our Liberty A cruel Marshal took out of a Friends house Cloathes worth Four pound and afterward he took a Man out of his field in a rage and set him in the stocks all night Goods taken for Fines layd upon Friends for not going to the publick Worship From Iohn Small of Salem a labouring man when he was about to go to Plow being fined Five shillings a day had Goods taken worth sixteen pound Taken from Robert Buffan on the same Account 10 l. A Horse from George Gardner worth Ten pounds From John Southwick for his Wife Thirteen pounds And from his Sister Provided in Cloaths from her back and one Cow worth Eight pounds and would have sold her for a Bondslave if any would have bought her Daniel Southwick they would have sold for a Bondslave but no body would buy him so they attached his House and Land and threatned to put in a Tenant of their own William Parker for entertaining a Stranger had a Cow taken from him worth 5 l. John Rogers his Son and his Daughter being found in a Neighbours house on the First Day had a Cow took from them worth 4 l. Henry Holland for having a Friend in his House and a Meeting was fined 7 l. and for that he had three Cows taken from him worth 12 l. Arthur Howland having a Meeting in his House had an Ox taken from him worth 8 l. John Smith for entertaining some of his Neighbors was fined had taken from him 2 l. Taken from Will. Newland for entertaining of Peter Pearson two Cows worth about 10 l. Taken from Peter Gaunt for receiving George VVilson only so long a time while he did refresh himself two Cows worth 10 l. Taken from Ralph Allen one Cow worth 5 l. Taken from Edward Perry one Ox worth 7 l. Taken from VVilliam Gifford one Ox worth 8 l. Goods taken from Friends at Hampton in New-England for Fines From William Marst●● for lodging of Winlock Christison and Joseph Allen he had taken in dry Ginger and green Ginger 5 l. And from Eliakim Wardal for lodging Winlock Christison and Joseph Allen taken away a Gelding worth 17 l. And they paid him part of the Overplus in the Ginger they stole from William Marston and promised to pay him the rest in Land somewhere in the Wilderness And afterwards came again and took away that Ginger and a Frying-pan besides Josiah Cockshall of Rhoad Island for going into Plymouth Jurisdiction to visit some Friends had his Horse took from him worth 13 l. Mary Dyar was put to death for speaking to the Rulers of Boston to repeal their unrighteous Laws BARBADO'S About Sixty were Imprisoned and some Imprisoned in Cyrinan and banished into the Woods among the Wild Beasts to be devoured but the Lord preserved them mary-MARY-LAND Two hundred ninety nine pounds twelve shillings and two pence worth of Goods was taken from Friends for worshipping of God and Friends were cruelly abused and some whipt besides VIRGINIA One Thomas Owen was Imprisoned for having a Meeting of Friends in his House and was put in a close place and not suffered to go forth to ease himself John Cox a Factor for some Merchants in Bristol and a Trader for himself for not putting off his Hat was imprisoned in the same place and in his Mittimus they called him A Lude Dissolute Person and the Governour caused to be taken from him for the