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A45674	The lamentable cry of oppression, or, The case of the poor, suffering & persecuted people called Quakers in and about Fakenham in Norfolk shewing the cruelty, injustice and inhumanity of several magistrates, officers and informers in those parts against the said people for these many years, in the great spoil and havock of their goods and estates ... / by ... Joseph Harrison.	Harrison, Joseph.; Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. Postscript.	1679 (1679)	Wing H898; ESTC R31092	29,850	90

Harrison's and one at Thurning and had taken away in Money 15 s. Joseph Harrison was fined 20 s. for himself and his Wife being at a Meeting at Thurning the 3d day of the 5th moneth 1670. for which the Officers of Fakenham by warrant from Sr. Jacob Ashly so called took away his Horse worth 4 l. 10 s. Edmund Peckover was fined 10 s. for his Wife by a Warrant from the said Jacob Ashly Knight and Justice so called upon the Information of two Informers Richmond and Lynes who informed the said Justice of a Meeting that was they said in the Road-way to Thurning where there were but Four Friends talking together and these two Informers coming past them espyed a Stranger at some distance not one of our Friends and said Now they would Swear it a Meeting and did so and upon the 1st of the 10th moneth 1670. Rich. Collins Warden Roger Henry Constable and John Wortely came to the said Edmund his Shop and for the said Fine took out of his Money-Box 10 s. Joseph Harrison being fined for the same pretended Meeting the Officers the same day went to his Stall in Fakenham Market and took from him forty two pound of Beef worth 7 s. Joseph Harrison being fined for a Meeting at Twyford had taken from him upon the 5th of the 11th moneth 1670. a fat Sheep worth 10 s. Joseph Harrison being fined 5 l. for a Meeting at his House upon the 15th of the 9th moneth 1670. by a Warrant from Nathaniel Shouldham and Christopher Calthorp called Justices and had taken from him by the Officers of Fakenham who came to his House the 2d of the 1st moneth following and took from him half a Bullock worth 2 l. 10 s. The 9th of the same moneth they came again and took for the said Fine the value of three Quarters of Beef and four Quarters of Mutton worth 2 l. 5 s. Again they took as much Tallow as came to 17 s. Edmund Peckover was fined 10 s. for being at the said Meeting at Joseph Harrison's the 15th of the 9th moneth and had taken from him upon the 18th of the 11th moneth following seven yards and three quarters of Linnen Cloth to the value of 14 s. The 17th of the 6th moneth 1671. the Informer William Watt with the Officers Henry Gogney and John Cook Wardens and Roger Henry a Constable went towards another Town where Joseph Harrison used a Pasture-Cloase the Informer went in as it was said and took out two fat Bullocks which were worth 6 l. 10 s. And for this they said they had a Warrant from the aforesaid Nathaniel Shouldham and Christopher Colthorp for a Fine of 10 l. for a Meeting that was at his House upon the 3d of the 3d moneth 1671. And upon the 6th of the 7th moneth next the same Officers came again to Joseph Harrison's for the remainder of the aforesaid fine as they said and took from him three Bullocks which cost him 10 l. 10 s. not offering him any Over-plus thereof Edmund Peckover was fined 10 s. for his Wife being at the same Meeting at Joseph Harrison's and upon the 18th of the 6th moneth 1671. Henry Gogney Warden and Roger Henry Constable came to Edmund's Shop with a Warrant to levy the said Fine and took from him a piece of Green Say of twenty yards and a half worth 1 l. 15 s. The 10th of the 5th moneth 1674. at a Meeting at the House of Joseph Harrison in Fakenham there came William Watt the Informer with the Officers of Fakenham Nich. Hill Christ Overton Rob. Cooper and Covenant Hemsteely who stood till the Meeting was done and then demanded Friends Names who demanded to see their Warrant but they shewed none they took some Friends Names and went away The 19th of the same moneth came the said William Watt and some of the aforesaid Officers viz. Hill Overton and Cooper and took the Names of several Friends and the rest they took and imprisoned till the next day being between forty and fifty in number and had them before him called Sr. Christopher Colthorp who took their Names and dismissed and fined them as after followeth The twenty sixth of the same moneth Friends being peaceably met to wait upon the Lord at Joseph Harrison his House the Officers came into the Meeting and when the Meeting was done took Friends Names and went a-away For these three Meetings was made great Havock and Spoil of several Friends Goods as followeth The 28th of the 6th moneth 1674. the Officers of Fakenham viz. Nich. Hill Constable Christ Overton Overseer and John Read an Informer went early in the morning as it was said to a piece of Land of the Widow Hemsteely's by a Warrant from Sr. Christopher Calthorp so called and took thirty five Sheep to the value of above 10 l. for Fines which were imposed on her Son William Hemsteely for a Meeting at Joseph Harrison's the 19th of the 5th moneth 74. viz. 5 l. 5 s. for Joseph Harrison 5 s. for himself 5 s. for the Widow Mayes 5 s. for her Daughter and 5 s. for the Wife of John Bee in all 6 l. 5 s. Note William 's Mother whose the Sheep were was not one called a Quaker nor was at the Meeting The same day the Officers viz. Hill Overton Cooper and Humphry Moore went to Edmund Peckover's Shop in Fakenham with a Warrant to levy 10 l. viz. 5 s. for himself 5 s. for his Wife and 9 l. 10 s. for Joseph Harrison part of the fine for his House and took these Goods following Five yards of milled Searge thirty yards of French Druggists and fifty two yards of the best Prunella The next day they came again and took twenty four yards and three quarters of Druggists twenty yards and three quarters of Sattin sixteen yards of black Prunella twenty four yards of Ozenbridge The 31th day of the aforesaid moneth they came again and took eight yards of Stuff and ten yards and half an ell of Searge in all worth 18 l. The aforesaid 28th day they went to a poor man's House one William Bullard and for a fine of 5 s. for his Wife 's being at the same Meeting they took his Coal-grate his Kettle having not another to boyl their Victuals in and two Pewter Dishes all worth 10 s. 4 d. The 29th day of the said moneth the same Officers Hill and Overton went to the House of Francis Larder where there was no Body but a Child of about six or seven years of Age himself not being one called a Quaker and for a fine of 5 s. for his Wife 's being at one of the aforesaid Meetings they took a Rugg a Blanket and a Feather Boulster all worth 15 s. The same 28th day of the 6th moneth the said Officers of Fakenham went to the House of Thomas Watson a very poor man having a Wife and Five small Children and nothing but his Labour to Maintain them he having suffered long and tedious Imprisonment upon

THE Lamentable Cry OF OPPRESSION OR The Case of the Poor Suffering Persecuted People called Quakers in and about FAKENHAM in NORFOLK Shewing the Cruelty Injustice and Inhumanity of several Magistrates Officers and Informers in those Parts against the said People for these many years in the great Spoil and Havock of their Goods and Estates Represented to all Moderate Men in Authority their Neighbours and Country Men in this impartial Relation to the end that all may be warned from having a Hand in such Unmerciful and Unchristian Dealings By a Well-wisher to all your Souls and one that through the Lord's Mercy hath been accounted worthy not only to believe but also to suffer for the Truth 's sake known to the World by the Name of Joseph Harrison Ye shall be hated of all men for my Name 's sake but he that endures to the End the same shall be saved Mark 13.13 Whosoever hateth his Brother is a Murderer and ye know no Murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in him 1 John 3.15 What mean ye that ye beat my People to pieces and grind the Faces of the Poor saith the Lord God of Hosts Isaiah 3.15 Printed in the Year 1679. TO THE READER Serious Reader I Do desire thee impartially to peruse these ensuing Particulars and then let the Witness of God in thy Conscience judge whether these Proceedings are agreeable to Righteousness Law and true Justice Should we have set out all the Matter and Manner of Proceedings in the full Extent of it it would have swelled into too big a Volumn and haply have multiply'd the Sorrow of many tender and true-hearted Protestants to hear of such Actions acted by professed Protestants one against another and it may make the Heathen to question the Christian Religion when they hear of those Rending Tearing and Devouring Dealings amongst the Professors thereof Certainly the Papists may Laugh at the great Victory they have gotten by their under-hand accomplishing such a Law as sets one Protestant against another In such a Day as this and that for no other Reason but for their Sincerity to God-ward not for any Vice but for Virtue when they themselves see it Policy to maintain Unity though differing in some Circumstances a thing practised in all Ages But if thou cast thy Eyes thou wilt see the great Promoters and Encouragers of this Stratagem are such as would be accounted the wiser sort in the Age and that upon the same Foundation the Jews would have Christ put to Death We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye John 19.7 The Principal End of our writing is First Thereby to Warn all Magistrates in and about Fakenham to take heed for the future our Cause is committed to the Lord who hath pleaded it and in this day rewarded our Service of Love and given us that Treasure in our Earthen Vessels which is of more Value than all our outward Substance lost if summ'd up all together from the Sense of which we can truly say the Scripture is fulfilled A Little that the Righteous hath is of more value than great Riches and though you have taken our Goods yet our Peace continues and as our Sufferings abound even so our Consolation hath much more abounded so that now in the Lord have we cause to rejoyce and be glad forever and forever 2dly We hope this will warn all Officers one and other to take heed how they any more break up Doors break into Houses though under Pretence of Advice Order and then take away three or four times the value of the sum charg'd making Friends to themselves by selling our Goods at one half of their worth pleading Authority but indeed prompt thereunto by a wicked and revengeful spirit That God that fitteth in Heaven beholds such Unrighteous Actions and when the Whirlewind of his Displeasure arises may scatter what the Ungodly have gather'd of the Spoil of the Innocent for he is a Just God and when he takes Vengeance of his Peoples Enemies none shall withstand his Power and therefore to him we have committed our Cause 3dly To Encourage you our Relations Neighbours who when our Adversaries have gather'd themselves in Companies to destroy have surrounded us with Tears in your Eyes and Pity towards us Well we hope you will now see the difference between such as only profess the Christian-Religion and Gospel-Righteousness out of the Life thereof and those that live a Gospel-Life a Life of Righteousness and in that pure Religion which is unspotted from the World The Actions of Men demonstrate by what spirit they are led If you see a Lyon greedy devouring will you call such a Creature a Lamb no surely Adam considering the Nature of every thing gave it a fit Name and certainly the Proceedings of our Enemies in the meanest Capacity must be adjudged according to its Nature 4thly Consider who have been the Agents to carry on this inhuman Design call them over by Name that have been the Informers see if you can pattern them for ill living in a whole County if it had been a good Imployment surely some good and sober Men would have been imployed in it and accounted it a good Service Dare any of you Justices that have persecuted us say That William Watt and his Wife and several others have not sworn Falsly many times and yet no Check put to them no but you must have all affirmed for Truth that they say and that for no other Reason but because they Swear for the King Oh hard measure Hath not the Lord pointed at this W. Watt with great signal Remarks of his Judgments that you the Justices and other the Officers might be warn'd thereby But have you not been hardned not considering the Hand of the Lord and still encouraged this wicked Informer to proceed have taken his Testimony when he stood a good distance from the House where the suspition of a Meeting was and when he saw three or four come out of Joseph Harrison's Gate concluding it to be upon such an account and no other what proof of Religious Exercise was here what ground to believe that Will. Watt heard either preaching or praying could any such thing be made appear at such a distance and yet what was the Consequence of this insufficient Information but Warrants Distresses Rending and Devouring Do the poor Quakers suffer because they worship God but if our Persecutors have had the Common-prayer often read amongst them surely they have heard that part of it again and again though they have little regarded it that saith From Envy Hatred and Malice good Lord deliver us but what Effects have been brought forth by them is apparent to our impartial Neighbours Oh! do not the Heavens blush and is not the Earth asham'd what can you say for your selves some of you When four poor Quakers so called were travailing in the Way together nothing looking like a Conventicle or Meeting and because that Number

but if the Law-makers did really intend that none should suffer by this Law but such persons as they say were the cause for which they made this Law then Christoph Calthorp and the rest of his Brethren have very much exceeded their bounds in what they have done against their innocent and peaceable Neighbours And Cook in his Institutions who is said to be the Oracle of the English Law in his first part cap. 2. § 3. Book 11. Ever the general words are to be intended of a lawful Act and such interpretation must be made of all Statutes that the Innocent or he in whom there is no Guilt may not be damnified For the Preamble of the Act which expresses the Reason or sole Cause why this Law was made if we may believe the Law-makers is thus exprest An Act to suppress Seditious Conventicles Disloyal Persons who at their Meetings Plot and Contrive Insurrections as late experience has taught c. Now the Question is whether or no any thing of that kind can be proved against Joseph Harrison and the rest of these Sufferers and whether any of these Informers did ever swear that they found Joseph Harrison and his Friends at their Meetings plotting or contriving Insurrections for the preventing and punishing of which Persons the Law was made No there were never nor could be such things proved against them for the Principle which they have received do obey which is the Grace of God teaches them better things which is to obey Christ's Doctrine to do unto others as they would have others do unto them which is but equal And although they have made use of those words in the Act of Five and upwards meeting together besides the Family under pretence of Religious Exercise in other manner than is allowed by the Liturgy to inflict the Penalties of Breach of that Law upon us yet the Five and above the number must have Relation to such as be seditious and contrive Insurrections and are Meeters but in Pretence of Religious Exercise c. But our Meetings are really to worship God in Spirit and Truth and the contrary has not been proved against them neither can he and therefore the Law in that case that is made and provided does not lay hold on them for the Reason why this Act was made we are wholly clean of both in the sight of God and all men for neither in our Meetings nor out of them we never did or is it in our hearts to do to contrive any thing that is or may be hurtful either to Prince or People but we do say that our Meetings are for no other End or Cause but to wait upon God and to call upon his Name for his Power to keep us and to preserve us and for his Grace to teach us and instruct us that so we may alwayes worship him in his own Way which is in Spirit and Truth which all Plotters and Contrivers of Insurrection are out of And if the Liturgy does allow that God should be worshipped in Spirit and Truth then the Informers have Forsworn themselves who swore That our Exercise of Religion is in other manner than the Liturgy allows And I am ready to believe that the Leading-men of the Church of England will acknowledge that they are to worship God in Spirit and in Truth which if so why should it be accounted a Crime for us to confess the same and so great a Crime as if for it there was neither Mercy nor Pity Equity nor Justice to be extended towards us as appears by this fore-going Relation in which Chr. Calthorp with the rest of his Brethren the persecuting Magistrates and Informers have so furiously persecuted their honest Neighbours as if God had made them their Wives and Children to be made a Prey upon and to be oppressed as if it were Religion enough to Ruin and Undo others and to take the Bread from the Poor and Clothes from the Needy whilst these Magistrates themselves live in Fulness of Bread who like Dives fare deliciously and clothed with Rich Attire like the Rich Man spoken of by Christ have not only refused and neglected to relieve the Poor but have been Instrumental by encouraging these evil-minded Informers to take away poor peoples Clothes they wore and their Beds they lay upon and their Bedding and expose them to the Cold without either Mercy or Pity to old or young or sick for when the Officers went to Chr. Bedingfield one of these Magistrates and told him that there was nothing to be had of one Mary Larder for her fine but her Bed on which she lay at that time sick more like to dye than to live the said Chr. Bedingfield bad them Go and take the Bed from under her which said Mary dyed that Night Oh great Cruelty and if this be not to over-pass the Deeds of many of the Wicked I know not what is for Christ does not render Dives himself so bad And now I question not but both Magistrates the Officers and Informers who have done these things would judge it hard dealings if any should do by them as you have done by these your honest Neighbours and for no other Cause than for their Obedience to the Lord then out of your own Mouthes you are judged and that you have not done by them as you would be done unto and therefore you have no cause to blame me and other sober men that hear of your Actions although we do say that the Informers Officers and Justices that encourage such Proceedings as these are are to blame and the Sufferers have just Cause to complain of the great Oppression that so long has lain upon them and to give the World an account of your unmerciful dealing with them and behaviour towards them who have exercised your Cruelty upon them these many years by spoiling their Goods from time to time of them that are alive and yet it appears that all this Cruelty does not satisfie your unreasonable Minds that you have done to the Living but you have shewn your Cruelty to the Dead in that some of you in the Town of Fakenham have pulled the D●ad out of the Grave in an inhumane manner more like Beasts of Prey then People that fear God after the Body was decently buried whereby you discover your selves to be far worse and more Cruel than those accounted Heathen that Abraham lived among who offered him a piece of Ground to bury his Dead in but your Envy is so great against the People of God that you will not let them live at quiet amongst you whilst they live nor let the Body lie quietly in the Grave when it was dead And now I having viewed your Works and taken notice of your Actions which are scarcely to be parallel'd for Cruelty in this Nation considering the long continuance of your Oppression for which you have a large Account to give to the Lord from the highest of you to the lowest that have had any hand in persecuting your innocent Neighbours without any just Cause by them given you And now it is upon me from the Lord to Warn you all that have had any hand in this Work to Repent of this your Cruelty and Abuses offered and done unto his People before it is too late and the Day of your Visitation passes over and you be shut up in utter Darkness and the Lord ceases to strive with you as he did with Jerusalem of old in whose steps you have walked in oppressing his Children and evil-entreating his Servants and Messengers that he has sent amongst you to exhort you to turn from the Evil of your Ways and the Violence that is in your Hands Hearts but instead of receiving them and their Testimony you have caused them to suffer and them that did receive them and their Testimony you have from time to time evilly required them so that you would not receive them your selves nor suffer them that would if by all the Violence you could use hinder them The Lord give you Repentance before it be too late and you be cut off is the Desire of him that chooses rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God than to live in the Pleasures of this World S. Cater THE END Norfolk Note The 26th Day of November was the Day called Thursday Note This was with a Warrant from Fra. Guybon of Thusford