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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30034	The painted-harlot both stript and whipt, or, The second part of Naked truth containing a further discovery of the mischief of imposition among the people called Quakers by reason of a certain law or edict made by G. Whitehead, S. Crisp, and others of the leaders and preachers of G.F's party ... strictly requiring us neither to forsake, decline, nor remove our meetings like wordly, fearful, and politick professors : whereby their usurpations are mainfest and how they began to exercise dominion over the consciences of their brethren ... / by F. Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1683 (1683)	Wing B5380; ESTC R27234	84,858	88

day of November 1675 c. that E. S. of Lakenheath in Suffolk came before me T. Shelly Esq Justice of the Peace and exhibited a certain Information against G. Friend of Lakenheath F. Bugg and N. Holman of Milden-hall and the said E. S. and upon their Oaths do say that upon the 1st of November instant between the hours of eleven in the Forenoon and two in the Afternoon of the same day they the said E. S. and did enter into the Mansion-House of the said G. Friend where a certain Assembly Conventicle or Meeting was held under Culler and Pretence of Exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgie or Practice of the Church of England and that then and there the said G. Friend F. B. N. H. and every one of them being above the Age of sixteen years and a certain Man to them VNKNOWN who then and there did take upon himself to PREACH and TEACH whose NAME and place of HABITATION was then and yet is unknown to THEM the said E. S. and and also divers other Persons to the number of twenty or more whose Names also then were and yet are unknown to them the said Informants the aforesaid day with Force of Arms in the said house of the said G. Friend where his Family was then Inhabiting not being of the Family of the said G. Friend were present at the said unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Meeting aforesaid under pretence c. And that the said G. Friend did wittingly and willingly suffer the said unlawful Assembly Conventicle and Meeting to be held in his House aforesaid against the Peace of our said Soveraign Lord the King and against the Form of the Statute in the 22d of his said now Majesties Reign in that Case made and provided Whereupon I the said T. S. according to the Power to me given in and by the said Statute have respectively set these several Fines upon the several Persons aforesaid that is to say upon the said G. Friend 5 s. for his Offence and upon the said G. Friend for that he wittingly and willingly suffered the said unlawful Assembly c. to be held in his House a Fine of 20 s. for his Offence Vpon the said F. Bugg a Fine of 10 l. for his fourth Offence Vpon the said N. Holman a Fine of 5 s. for his first Offence and for that the NAME and HABITATION of the Man or Person who took upon himself to Teach and Preach in the said unlawful Assembly Conventicle c. doth not appear to me by the Evidence aforesaid so that a Fine of 20 l. according to the Power to me given by the said Statute CANNOT be imposed to be had and levyed of HIS Goods and Chattles Therefore I have Imposed the said Fine of 20 l. respectively upon the aforesaid Persons who were present at the said unlawful Assembly Conventicle and Meeting that is to say upon the said F. Bugg the Summe of 15 l. and upon the said N. Holman the Summe of 5 l. In Witness hereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year aforesaid Thomas Shelly See also a Copy of the Warrant To the Constables of Mildenhall and to every or either of them c. WHereas F. Bugg and N. Holman both of your Town have been lawfully convict before me for being present at an unlawful Assembly Meeting or Conventicle in other manner than according to the Liturgy or Practice of the Church of England upon the 1st of November last past at the Mansion House of the said G. Friend of Lakenheath in the said County of Suffolk contrary to a late Act of Parliament in the 22d year of his Majesties Reign that now is made and provided and whereas I could receive no Information of the NAME or place of HABITATION of the Person that did take upon him to Preach or Teach at the said Assembly Meeting or Conventicle SO as to levy the Summe of 20 l. upon his Goods and Chattles according to the said Act these are in his Majesties Name to charge and command you forthwith to levy 15 l. part of the said 20 l. of the said F. Bugg and 5 l. the other part of the said 20 l. of the said N. Holman and likewise to levy 10 s. of the said F. Bugg for his Penalty according to the said Act by distress and sale of their and either of their Goods and Chattels and to deliver the Money for the Sale of such Goods arising unto me without delay that the same may be by me distributed according to the direction of the said Act entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles hereof fail you not as you will answer the contrary Given under my Hand and Seal at Tudenham this 15th day of January in the 27th Year of his Majesties Reign Annoque Domini 1675 Thomas Shelley So in pursuance to the aforesaid Warrant M. B. and P.M. came and took a Distress upon my Goods and carried away to the value of about twenty pound So then I apprehending their Proceedings Illegal I went to Council who advised me to appeal and in order thereunto he said I must deposit the Money for until the Fine was levyed Viz. the Money raised the Justice need not accept my Appeal So then I paid the Money and took home my Goods A Copy of the Constables Receipt I shall here insert by reason I would leave things plain and intelligible c. MEmorandum that we Miles Barns and Peter Maxy of Milden-hall Constables have had and received the 21st day of January 1675 of F. Bugg in full for a parcel of Goods which we took by distress from the said F. B. by virtue of a Warrant directed to us from Justice Shelly Dated the 15th of this instant January We say received 15 l. 10 s. by us Witness to it Robert Cook John Green William Maxy Miles Barns Peter Maxy Thus 't is apparent that I suffered this 15 l. for Samuel Cater through his not telling his Name and Habitation And being sensible what a load of Oppression many of us lay under and how frequent it was for the Hearers to suffer these kind of Fines besides their own and Fines for the Meeting Houses I was minded not to bear it but complain under it and thinking it was illegal because it was 15 l. when I thought they could lay but 10 l. I was minded to see whether I could not by Law make void their Proceedings so to Council I went and opened the Case to him who told me that unless he saw the Records of Conviction he could not tell how to resolve me but bid me enter my Appeal suitable to the Advice given me before So I entred my Appeal and soon after my Brother J. Folks and my self being Fined 10 l. each and our goods destrained because of the Poverty of James Webb who dwelt in our Meeting House we both entred our Appeals for those Fines also by reason that no words