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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31659	A true relation of the unjust proceedings, verdict (so called) & sentence of the Court of Sessions ... against divers of the Lord's people called Quakers, on the 30th day of the 8th month, 1662 / published for the honour of God, the vindication of the innocent, and the information of people, by John Chandler.	Chandler, John, 17th cent.	1662 (1662)	Wing C1929; ESTC R35804	14,248	24

A TRUE RELATION OF THE Unjust Proceedings VERDICT so called SENTENCE OF THE Court of Sessions AT MARGARETS HILL IN SOUTHVVARK Against divers of the Lord's People called Quakers on the 30 th day of the 8 th Month 1662. Published for the Honour of GOD the Vindication of the Innocent and the Information of People By JOHN CHANDLER Printed in the Year 1662. A true Relation of the unjust Proceedings Verdict so called and Sentence of the Court of Sessions at Margarets Hill in Southwark against divers of the Lord's People called Quakers on the 30th day of the 8th Month 1662. AFter our appearance at the Sessions at Kingston having been Prisoners at the White Lion in Southwark above nine weeks we were indicted for unlawfully and tumultúously gathering and assembling our selves together by Force and Arms c. under pretence of performing Religious Worship c. Which Indictment Richard Onzlow who sate Judge of the Sessions said was according to a Statute made in the 35th year of Queen Elizabeth the late Act of Parliament made purposely against the Meetings of the Quakers and others being by them laid aside whereunto although most of us were willing to plead and desired a Tryal as knowing our Innocency as to what was laid to our charge which although it was at first promised us yet at last would not be granted us but except we would give Bond to answer at the next Quarter-Sessions we were to return to Prison again and there to remain till that time At length through urgency and importunity for a present Tryal that Justice might not be delayed as it ought not to have been the Sessions was adjourned till the 28th day of the 8th month and because we could not come under Bond for our appearance contrary to our Christian Liberty and Consciences we were remanded to Prison till that time So when we to the number of thirty two persons appeared before the Court in the Sessions-house at Magarets-hill on the 30th day of the same month for Tryal the former Indictment unto which for not giving Bond to appear to plead were committed was laid aside and another Indictment was drawn up against us and presented to the Grand Jury upon the same Statute the form whereof is as followeth Surrey THe Jurors for our Lord the King do present upon their Oath that Arthur Fisher late of the Parish of S. Olave in the Burrough of Southwark in the County of Surrey Yeoman Nathaniel Robinson of the same Yeoman John Chandler of the same Yeoman and others being wicked dangerous and seditious Sectaries and disloyal persons and above the age of sixteen years who on the 29th day of June in the year of the Reign of our Lord Charles the second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland and the fourteenth have obstinately refused and every one of them hath obstinately refused to repair unto some Church Chappel or usual place of Common-Prayer according to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom of England in the like Case set forth and provided after forty dayes next after the end of the Session of Parliament begun and holden at Westminster on the nineteenth day of February in the year of the Reign of our Lady Elizabeth late Queen of England the thirty fifth and there continued until the dissolution of the same being the tenth day of April in the 35th year abovesaid To wit on the third day of August in the year of the Reign of the said Charles King of England the fourteenth abovesaid in the Parish of S. Olave aforesaid in the Burrough of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid of themselves did voluntarily and unlawfully joyn in and were present at an unlawful Assembly Conventicle and Meeting at the said Parish of S. Olave in the County aforesaid under colour and pretence of the exercise of Religion against the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom of England in contempt of our said Lord the King that now is his Laws and to the evil and dangerous example of all others in the like case offending against the Peace of our said Lord the King that now is his Crown and Dignity and contrary to the form of the Statute in this same case set forth and provided This Indictment being read it was replied That this was not the same Indictment with that at Kingston unto which we desired to plead Richard Onzlow answered that they had quashed or nulled that and that they had power to quit one Indictment and to draw up another if the former were not sufficient Then it was required that we might be tryed by the late Act of Parliament Whereto he answered They might try us by what Act they would that was in force So after we saw their bad intent towards us the Country was bid to take notice that there was another Indictment formed against us at Kingston to which we pleaded Not guilty and some that is six Baptists were tryed and cleared by that which they perceiving refused to try us according to their Promise but adjourned the Court that so they might draw up another and that for ought we knew if some of us should be cleared by this they would draw up another that so they might ensnare us To which Richard Onzlow said we should all be tryed by this Then it was desired that that Statute might be read to see whether it contained all the particulars of this last Indictment So then he caused but a part of the Statute to be read saying to the Clerk it was enough whereby the penalty and other particulars were concealed from the Prisoners and from those that were to be of the Jury Then it was openly declared as a Testimony against that wicked Law that the Parliament that made that Act did at that time take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed Also that it was made in the time of ignorance when that people were newly stept out of Popery but now there was more knowledge Also by this the Reader may take notice how unjustly and falsely the first Indictment was framed on the same Statute which mentions nothing of tumultuously gathering and assembling together or by Force and Arms c. or of performing Religious Worship After this we were urged to plead guilty or not guilty to the Indictment Then one desired a Copy of the Indictment and the Court promised it him but instead of giving him the Copy they thrust him out of the Court because he did not plead guilty or not guilty before he had the Copy notwithstanding they promised it him and so bad take him Goaler and bad the Clerk to give the Copy to another because he understood it it being in Latine Then calling another who standing in the fear and counsel of the Lord not daring to answer hastily they bad take him Goaler These with others to the number of ten were violently haled out of the Court as taken as they say pro confesso or for guilty