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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63511	A true discoverie of the ground of the imprisonment of Francis Ellington, Thomas Cocket, and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire, who are cast into the common goale in Northampton by the men that are now in commission to do justice, who never read us any law, or any evidence came against us, shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest : he that hath an eye to see, let him see, and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear.	F. E. (Francis Ellington)	1655 (1655)	Wing T2683; ESTC R37161	8,402	13

up thy cross to thy will and untill thou doest it thou art no Disciple of Christ profess what thou wilt for if thou doest profess more than thou doest possess thou art an hipocrite Thus in love to thy poor soul I àm moved of the Lord to write this to thee and if thou hast an ear to hear thou wilt hear it so I remain a friend to that which is pure of God in thy conscience called and known to the world by the name of Francis Ellington The Superscription was This to be delivered to Thomas Pentlow called Justice of the Peace in Wilby I Beeing free in my spirit to go to the general Sessions holden at Northampton the 10. day of the 11. Month called Ianuary 1644. to hear the tryal of the two friends William Dewsbury and Ioseph Stor which were committed by Thomas Pentlow the men called Justices which sat to have done Justice hearing I were there called me into the Court and read this foresaid Letter that I were moved to write to Thomas Pentlow as a charge against me and asked me if I would find sureties for my good behaviour but I replyed and desired them to read me a Law wherein any thing writ in that letter were a transgression of but they denyed to read me any and forthwith commanded the Jaylor to put me in Prison which was accordingly done It were Ordered afterwards that I went forth of Prison upon Bail for appearance at the next Sessions and according to my engagement I did appear upon the 24. day of the second Month called April 1655. at the Castle in Northampton where the Sessions were then holden And at that time there sat upon the Bench Iohn Clark Serjeant at Law George Benson Henry Bartlet Iohn Brown Iohn Thornton and Iohn Mansfield who sat there to have done Justice and when I were called in not any accuser appeared to my face nor any Charge was read but the men that were in Commission required of me to find sureties for my good behaviour till the next Assises I desired them to read me a Law which I had transgressed before they required Bond and here I am present to answer what the Law required But they no Law would read me but commanded the Joaler to put me in prison where I am in the low Goal amongst those arraigned for fellony and murther waiting on the Lord until he Judg my Cause and establish righteousness in the Land Francis Ellington To that of God in all Consciences I lay this before which is formerly written to Judg between me those that proceed against me who hath twice cast me into prison and never read me any Law I had transgressed but hath separated me from my Wife and five Children and my outward calling and employment I had in the world Here by their fruit they are made manifest whose children they are for to satisfie their wills they acts contrary to the righteous Law of God and the Law of the Nation in what they have done but to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who pleads the Cause of the innocent and will arise in his mighty power and deliver his people forth of the hands of all that oppress them on whom I wait and will me deliver out of the hands of these unreasonable men that in their dark minds do they know not what Therefore be warned ye Rulers of the earth and take heed of abusing the power put into your hands to satisfy your wills in oppressing the innocent as the late King and his adherents did whom the Lord hath cast out in his wrath and consumed in his displeasure and if you who hath acted in your wills contrary to the Law of God do not speedily Repent and turn to the light of Christ in your Conscience to guide you in obedience to the will of God to do as you would be done unto The Lord God of Heaven and Earth will cut you off as he hath done and will do the evil doers and Peace shall be upon the Israel of God F. E. A true Declaration of the Ground of the imprisonment of Edward Ferman in the County of Northampton I Being moved of the Lord the 15. day of the second Month called April to go to Farndon Steeple-house and Samuel Glover who the people calls their Teacher being there speaking to the people I went to the place and there stood peaceably and the Priest seeing of me called to the Officers three several times to take me out of the house which they did and forced me forth out of the door and there I stood until the Priest had done and was come down out of his high place and the people were some of them departed then I was moved to go in again and spoke some word unto the people and the Priest seeing me went up again into his High place and named a text of Scripture and called to the people to keep their places but they would not and then he came down and commanded the Constable ro keep me in his custody which he did and the next day Samuel Glover procured a Warrant from John Mansel of Thorp wherein it were expressed that I were a wanderer and an idle person yet I lived within four miles of that place wrought hard for my living with one Thomas Cocket of Dingley in Northamptonshire Shoomaker The Constable the next day had me before John Mansel and John Brown who then was at Thorp aforesaid and when I came before them they told me I were there accused for disturbing Mr. Glover Answer to them was made that before I spake Samuel Glover had done and came down and he was the disturber in going up again and named a text which it was declared to him before the men that there sat to have don Justice that what he did it was for a snare and he answered that he would do so to all that came thither then John Mansel and John Brown a Mittimus made and sent me to the Common Goale in Northampton where they say I must lye for three months where by the power of the Lord I in patience wait until the Lord plead my Cause in his righteousness Edward Ferman A true Declaration of the Cause of the imprisonment of Thomas Cocket in the County of Northampton that no lye might rest upon the truth for the simple sake I am moved to give it forth I Meeting with a friend that walked honestly and soberly in the truth about two weeks after I hearing this friend were in bonds I went to visit him at one William Steel's in Kettering and desired to speak with him Answer were made that he had an order from Justice Brown that none might speak with him I went away and afterwards could find no rest in my spirit until I writ the following lines which was sent to John Brown The Letter is as followeth JOhn Brown I went to William Steel's house where there were a friend prisoner and desired to speak with him he told me he had order from thee that none might speak with him Is this to do as thou wouldst be done unto thou hast a light of Christ in thy Conscience which bears witness with the Law of God and tells the thou shouldst do as thou wouldst be done unto In persecuting one of Christs little ones thou hast done it unto Him and wo is thy portion A lover of that which is pure of God in thy Conscience Thomas Cocket This is the substance of what was writ which was about the 4. day of the first month called March ANd on the 16. day of the second Month called April I heard that Edward Ferman my servant were apprehended with a Warrant for a wanderer and idle person and carried before John Mansel and John Brown who is in Commission to do Justice I went to John Mansels house to justifie that he was no wanderer nor idle person but with me wrought painfully with his hands Iohn Mansel seeing me there required Bonds for my behaviour for writing the aforesaid lines to Iohn Brown and Iohn Brown being there I desired of them to shew that Letter I writ and a Law which that Letter had transgressed but they refused both and told me if I would not find men to be bound I should go to prison so no Law they would me read but a Mittimus made and sent me to the Common Goale in Northampton and a copy of the Mittimus I am denyed by Iohn Snart Keeper of the Goale And at the General Sessions holden at North-hampton the 24. of the 2. month called April I was brought before Iohn Manssil Henry Bartlet and Iohn Thornton who was in Commission to do Justice and the Mittimus was read as a charge against me the substance in it was for writing the foresaid lines to John Brown I desired them to read me the Letter and a Law that any thing writ in the Letter was the transgression of but they denyed to read any Law and they required bond for my behaviour before they proved me a transgressor of the Law so sent me back to prison where I had been and am in the dungeon amongst those arraigned for fellony and murther so am separated from my wife children and family yet through the power of God I am kept in measure to stand as a witness against the unrighteous practices of men and am made to wait patiently until the Lord Judge the Cause of the innocent Thomas Cocket FINIS

A TRUE DISCOVERIE OF THE GROVND OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF Francis Ellington Thomas Cocket and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire who are cast into the Common Goale in Northampton by the men that are now in Commission to do Justice who never read us any Law or any evidence came against us shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest He that hath an eye to see let him see and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear And Judgment is turned away backward and Justice standeth a far off for Truth is fallen in the streets and equity cannot enter yea Truth faileth and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isaiah 59. 14 15. verses LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. A true Discovery of the ground of the Imprisonment of Francis Ellington Thomas Cocket and Edward Ferman c. I Francis Ellington living in Wellingborough in the County of Northampton about the 9. day of October 1654. being in my Calling and employment at a Faire at Harborough in Lecestershire and hearing that there was one Willing Dewsbury a Yorkeshire man at a friends house there and he was that day to declare the word of the Lord to the Consciences of the people and being free in my spirit to go to hear him I went to the friends house and heard him declare the word of life to my Conscience which raised the witness of God in me that did own what he spake to be the Word of the Lord which my understanding did enlighten to see the way to eternal life which I had long sought in my imagination of the Saints condition Then was I moved of the Lord to desire his servant who to me declared His word when he was free in his spirit to come to my house which he did upon the 27. day of the 10. Month called December and a friend with him whose name is Joseph Storre who stayed at my house that day and night and on the morrow Richard Denit Constable of the Town came to my house with a warrant from Thomas Pentlow called Justice and said that he came to apprehend one of those two that were at my house I asked him if he had a warrant he said he had I desired him that he would let me read his warrant which he did and I reading it and finding no name in the warrant of him he should apprehend but for one he called Quaker I replyed that I could not see how he could apprehend any of those two in my house by vertue of that Warrant seeing there was not any name in the Warrant but the Constable laid hands on William Dewsbury and said that he was the man and that he should go with him before the Justice which he did the same day and Joseph Stor was moved to go with him to Thomas Pentlow's house in Wilby then I being free in my spirit did with other friends go along with them to Thomas Pentlows house and there hearing the examination of William Dewsbury and Joseph Stor and after that Thomas Pentlow had made their Mittimus and gave the Constable charge of them the said Thomas Pentlow came forth of the room into another room whete I and other friends were and asked me and one Richard Smith what we did in his house and who gave us leave to come into his house and threatned us to make us answer our affronting him in his house at the next Sessions Then I and Richard Smith told him that we came not to affront him in his house neither could he prove it by our carriage since we came into his house but the occasion of our coming thither at that time was to require of him to do us Justice He asked for whom would you have justice against We replyed for one Bridget Makernes of Findon which was at that instant in his house He asked us what she did to us We answered that about two weeks before the said Richard Smith and my self and another friend with us went to Findon and the said Briget Makernes as we were peaceably passing through the street in Findon did abuse us in throwing water at us and stones and dirt and calling us rogues witches and Divels yet we gave her no cause not spoke not to her but left her and for this abuse and affront done to us we come to thy house to desire justice of thee against the said Bridget Thomas Pentlow answered that she had served us right for ought he knew and further said that hewould not do any thing for us against her but charged us to be forth-coming and he would send a Warrant to the Constable before the Sessions to bring us to answer for the coming into his house We replyed and said that he might do his pleasure and so departed About three days after I was moved of the Lord to write these following lines and sent them privatly sealed up to the hands of Thomas Pentlow The Letter THus saith the Lord God Be wise ye Kings be learned ye that are Judges or Justices in the earth serve the Lord in fear stand not in your own will when you judg between man and man but stand in the will of God and execute true judgment for you must all give an account to him of your deeds done in the flesh whether good or evill and now the Lord begins to roar out of Sion and to utter his voice from Jerusalem and wo to all the inhabitants of the earth saith the Lord God and now the time is come that we shall no more say the Lord liveth that brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt but the Lord liveth that hath brought up and led the seed of Israel out of the North Country and from all Countrys where I have scattered them and they shall dwell in their own Land Jer. 23. 7 8. and now the Lord hath made the tidings out of the North to trouble the inhabitants of Babel and it will more trouble them yet it will make them gnaw their tongues for sorrow and blaspheme the God of Heaven for their plagues shall be exceeding great Now to the light in thy conscience which Christ Jesus hath enlightned thee withal am I commanded to speak these words that with it thou mayest examine and see how thou executest Justice and how thou didst execute Justice upon those two faithful servants of the living God that thou hast committed to prison the Law of God in thy Conscience saith that he that preacheth the Gospel hath a lawful Calling and is no vagabond though he have no outward habitation and the Spirit of truth made it manifest in the person of Christ and he that saith he abideth in Christ ought so to walk as he himself walked and he that is commanded of the Lord to preach the Gospel though he be a Judg Justice or whoever must when God Calls him leave Father and Mother