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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56480	A Particular account of the late and present great sufferings and oppressions of the people called Quakers upon prosecutions against them in the Bishops courts humbly presented to the serious consideration of the King, Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.	Mead, William, 1628-1713.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1680 (1680)	Wing P581; ESTC R19015	19,580	51

A Particular ACCOUNT Of the Late and Present Great Sufferings AND OPPRESSIONS Of the People called QUAKERS Upon Prosecutions against them in the Bishops Courts Humbly presented to the serious Consideration OF THE King Lords and Commons IN PARLIAMENT Assembled LONDON Printed by Andrew Sowle and sold at his shop in Devonshire New-buildings without Bishops-Gate 1680. A Particular Account Of the Late and Present Great Sufferings Oppressions Of the People called QUAKERS Humbly Presented to the serious Consideration OF THE KING Lords and Commons EVER since we have been a People dissenting from the Publick Worship of this Kingdom we have greatly sought and desired to live Peaceably in the Exercise of our Tender Consciences towards God and Man And we can call God Almighty to Witness That such our Dissent from the Practice and Ceremonies of the Church of England has not been as some have judged the Effects of a singular or wilfull Spirit but our sincerity to God and true Religion many People of England have good Experience of it Nevertheless we have been for near Twenty Years last past severely prosecuted by some of the Clergy and by Writs of Excommunicato Capiendo thrown into nasty Goals and Holes where some have lost their Lives others have been kept in a Lingring Imprisonment from their Wives and Families some Four some Five and some Six Years till they have spent most of what they had and have had little left to help themselves and Families A Punishment not much inferior to Death it self And these Troublesome Suits Proceedings against them have been chiefly for Not going to the Church so called and Not paying to the Repair of the same and some for small Tythes to the value of Eighteen Pence Two Shillings and sometimes less as in the Relation following will more particularly appear Now we desire you to judge whether these cruel and uncharitable Proceedings of these Clergy-men towards us are consonant with the practice of the Ministers of Christ in the primitive Times or answer that Meekness and Christian Spirit manifested by them in Instructing those that Opposed and not seeking to Destroy and Ruin them their Families because they could not receive their Doctrine And further We desire you to consider when we are first cited to the Bishops Courts although we do appear and are willing to manifest our Innocency yet because we do not Fee a Proctor or refuse to Swear to our Answer no notice is taken of our Appearance but we are soon after Excommunicated and then thrown into a Noisom Goal and there we must lie Vnbailable how long the Lord God that is Holy and True only knows and in the mean time what a Condition the Poor Family is in at Home you may well consider And whether these Actions do not greatly tend to Grind the Face of the Poor which was an Evil Complained against by the Righteous in all Ages and we hope will be Considered and Redressed by You. And we Pray That the Lord may Incline your Hearts with Patience to Read and Consider the following Accompts and to Afford the Sufferers some Speedy Relief that they and their Families may not be utterly Destroyed Presented to you on the Behalf of the Sufferers by Vs William Mead George Whitehead William Gibson Jasper Batt John Osgood George Watts Clement Plumsted Ezekiell Wooley William Macket Rawland Vaughan Richard VVhitpane William Penn Thomas Rudyard Ellis Hookes William Shewen James Claypoole John Dew James Braines John Etheridge John Vaughton Gilbert Latie London the 15th of the 9th Moneth 1680. A TABLE OF THE COUNTIES Berkshire fol. 1. Bedfordshire 2. Bucks 2. Bristol 3 and 34. Cumberland 3. Cambridgshire 4. Cornwall 41. Dorset 5. Devonshire 6 and 36. Durham 6. Ely 5. Essex 7. Gloucestershire 7. Hartford 8. Hampshire 8 and 37. Huntington 8. Kent 10. Leicester 11 and 35. Lincoln 12. Lancashire 14. Nottingham 14. Norfolk 14 and 38. Oxford 38. Sussex 15. Surrey 15 and 39. Suffolk 17. Sumerset 19 and 38. Stafford 22. Sallop 23. Warwick 23 and 40. Wiltshire 24. Westmorland 26. Worcester 26 and 39. Yorkshire 27 and 40. Pembrookshire 34. Berkshire Reading Goal the 26th of the 3d Moneth 1680. THomas Davie George Ball Richard Nash Thomas Pretty Thomas Draper William Ward and John Wyron all of New Windsor Arrested by Walter Cowdry under Goaler the 13th of the 11th Moneth 1675. by Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo for not going to the Church so called and not paying to the Repair of the same and not receiving the Sacrament were rated as followeth viz.   S. D. Thomas Davie 3 0 George Ball 2 3 Richard Nash 0 4 Thomas Pretty 0 3 Thomas Draper 2 7 William Ward 0 4 John Wyron 3 4 All carried Prisoners to Reading Goal and have remained Prisoners almost Five Years Thomas Marsh of Newbery Imprisoned upon a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo for not going to the Church so called and not receiving the Sacrament the 10th of the 8th Moneth 1678. and still remains a Prisoner Bedfordshire The 1st Moneth 1678. IOhn Barton of Studam in the County of Hartford Taylor for not paying 2 s. 2 d. towards the Repair of the Church so called was taken by a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo and kept Prisoner for some time in his own House in Hartfordshire and about two Moneths after was by special Bailiffs taken and carried to Bedford Goal Nathaniel Fisher called Church-Warden being the Prosecutor and hath remained a Prisoner about Three Years and a half Henry Newman of Seawell in the Parish of Kingshoughton for denying to pay 13 d. towards the Repair of the Church so called was prosecuted by William Foster Commissary of the Bishops Court who obtained a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo against him and threw him into Goal where he hath been a Prisoner above two Years and a half Bucks The 3d Moneth 1680. ABout the beginning of the 6th Moneth call'd August 1678. John Stratton of Ivingoe in the said County Husbandman having a Wife and eight Children was taken Prisoner by a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo upon the Information and Prosecution of Francis Duncomb Priest of Ivingoe whose Son Henry Duncomb was made Bailiff for that purpose and did take and convey the said John Stratton to the common Goal of the said County at Ailsbury where he hath continued Prisoner ever since to the great Discomfort of his Family and Damage of his Estate The Cause of his Imprisonment as signified in the Writ is For not appearing before the Surogates of the late Bishop of Lincoln to answer his absenting from the Parish-Church as they call it of Ivingoe and not receiving the Sacrament there Bristol The 17th of the 12th Moneth 1678. WIlliam Ithell of Bristol Imprisoned upon a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo at the Suit of the Bishop of Bristol for not being Marryed by the Parson of the Parish Imprisoned the 4th day of the 9th Moneth 1678. James Pounset Imprisoned the 23d day of the 11th Moneth 1678. by a