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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63402	A True and impartial naration [sic] of the remarkable providences of the living God of heaven and earth appearing for us his oppressed servants called Quakers, Nicholas Lucas, Henry Marshall, Jeremiah Hearn, John Blendall, Francis Pryor, Samuel Trahearn and Henry Feast, who most unrighteosly were at Hertford sentenced to be transported beyond the seas from our dear wives, children, parents, and relations, for inoffensively meeting to wait upon the Lord our Maker : and also may serve for an utter refutation of a lying paper published under the hand of one Edward Manning.		1664 (1664)	Wing T2496; ESTC R32899	10,690	18

sat in the boat about half an houre at the least even till the tyde increased the waves and tossed the boat up at one end the boat before being loose upon the beach And all the while we fate there no one man would lay a hand to an Oare to row us aboard the people that were beholders wi●●ing the hands of such as should do it might rot off so when the boat was like to be a float and consequently run a drift we came out of it and walked again by the sea side then we met with Thomas May the Master and asked of him whether he had any thing to say to us he answered if he had he would come again to us Thus he departed from us and we saw him no more for he went aboard that night and in the morning we coming again to the sea side espied the Ship under Sail and there we stood some time the Deputy of the Town happening to be there at the same time also who saw the Ship saile from us and said he could witnesse the Ship went from us and not we from it As appeareth also by the testimonial of many witnesses in this form following We whose names are under written do and shall witness and testifie if we are thereunto called That there were four men called Quakers That is to say Nicholas Lucas Francis Pryor Jeremiah Herne and Samuel Traherne All which were put into a boat by the Order of one who is called Edward Manning upon the twenty fourth day of the last month called November all which stayed in the boat until the sea came up to the boat wherby the boat had like to gone a drift there being no body in the boat but them four above named who came out of the boat again and walked up and down near by the boat and the man that owned the boat to wit Richard Davis haled up his boat upon the full to secure her from the sea the said Edward Manning being present acted no farther towards them That the next morning early the ship called the Anne of London Thomas May Master sailed and left the four persons above named on shoare To the truth hereof we have subscribed our Names the eigth day of the tenth month called December in the year 1664. Richard Jordan Henry S●ripling Jeffery Safferie Francis Robinson John Greene. John Bankes Anne Callo Humphry Biggleston Jane Biggleston John Lawrance William Lawrance Then said we to the Deputy now if thou as a Magistrate hast any thing to say or do to us now the Ship is gone and left us thou maiest he answered he had not but said he wished us well and so we departed that day from the Town towards London whither we came the third day of the tenth month And being well acquainted and having had large experience of the enmity and cruelty of some of the Magistrates of the Town and County of Hertford least they should under the pretence of our being fugitives seize us as Fellons as they had causlesly done our companion Samuel Trahern as is before related we thought it expedient to inform the King of our case and present condition the which accordingly we did in this manner following annexing thereunto the Copy of our forementioned discharge from the Master Thomas May. Be it known unto the King or whom else it may concern that whereas we whose names are hereafter mentioned were sentenced at Hertford for transportation to the Kings forraign Plantatious in order unto which we were brought by the Goaler of Hertford unto London and here imb●rqued in the Ship called the Anne of London Thomas May Commander who brought us down into the Downs and there set us on shoar giving us a certificate signifying the cause and reasons why he would not carry us and the ship being sailed and gone and left us behind we came back in order to go home to our wives and families And thus we thought expedient to informe the King hereof and herewith also to insert a Copy of the Certificate which is as followeth Then followed a Copy of Thomas May's Certificate as is before recited We also added this Postscript And if it be the Kings pleasure to be further informed in this matter by us or any of us we may be found or heard on at our respective dwellings at or about Hertford London the 4. of the 10. month 1664. Nicholas Ducas Henry Feast Henry Marshall Francis Pryor Jeremiah Herne John Blendall Samuel Trahern The which being delivered and read in Council an Order was pass'd thereupon which is as followeth At the Court at White-hall the 7th of Decem. 1664. Present The Kings most excellent Majesty His Royal Highness the Duke of York Lord Arch Bishop of Canter Lord Treasurer Lord-Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Marquess of Dorchester Lord Chamberlin Earl of Berkshire Earl of St. Albans Earl of Anglesey Earl of Bath Earl of Lawderdaile Lord Barkley Mr. Treasurer Mr. Vice Chamberlin Mr. Secretary Morrice Mr. Secretary Bennet Mr. Chancel of the Dutchy Sir Edward Nicholas WHereas Nicholas Lucas Henry Feast Henry Marshal Francis Pryor John Blendall Jeremiah Herne and Samuel Trahern Persons convicted at the last Assizes held at Hertford in the County of Hertford and sentenced to be Transported to some of his Majesties Plantations in the West Indies and who accordingly were put on Board the Ship called the Anne of London whereof one Thomas May was Master and who undertook and engaged himself for their transportation yet set them on shoare in or about the Downs leaving them at liberty to go whether they pleased and it appearing to be a matter of contrivance and design between the said Master and persons before mentioned It was this day Ordered his Majesty present in Councel That the High Sheriff of the County of Hertford now being do cause the said Nicholas Lucas Henry Feast Henry Marshal Francis Pryor John Blendall Jeremiah Herne and Samuel Traherne to be apprehended and secured until means of Transporting them can be made by some shipping bound unto those parts And if it were a contrivanee on our parts Judge thou O Lord our God for thy Judgements are Holy Just and True and even miraculous in our eyes Having thus in Gods fear truly and plainly given relation of the whole matter We leave it to the just measure of God in every mans conscience to judge whether our carriage in this thing from first to last hath not been wholly innocent inoffensive and absolutely free and clear before the Lord from those imputations lies and railing accusations heaped up against us in that pernicious Pamphlet subscribed by Edward Maning Touching whose going down to Hertford bearing his own charges thither paying Fees for Samuel Trahern c. as by way of interrogation is alledged in the said Pamphlet As for Fees there was not one penny paid and his charges was boarn both horse and mans meat and also his horse hire was by us paid for and his going down was from an earnest request of his own to Thomas May who would have went himself to have justified that Samuel Trahern had liberty from him to go down to Hertford But Maning being officious importun'd Thomas May that he might go its like for some bad ends of his own so May wrote to the Magistrates Maning rod down and being May did send or permit him to go we boare his charges horse and man as aforesaid the Lord knoweth And whereas this interrogative lier also sayes Why did you give me thanks for my kindness to you all and especially for my kindness to you at Hertford Why did you promise to attend me to be my true and faithful prisoners and to go on board with me whensoever I should require you c. This is utterly false and he himself knows it to be a meer forged lie for promise we never made any to him and any manner of obligation we never received from him indeed oft-times like one of them called a shirk he thrust himself upon us and eat of our Victuals and drank of our wine which we had provided to have served us at sea other intimacy there never was between us And again we say God knoweth that promise to attend him to be his prisoners or go on board with him whensoever he should require us or the like we never made to him and an obligation of any sort we never received from him and this the righteous God knoweth to be true And what the false man meaneth in charging us in being traytors to him it s with himself for none of us ever received any trust from him and how therefore we could be traytors to him let the reasonable judge As for those texts of Scripture he prophanely quoteth throughout his discourse his several other vain and vile interrogations with those fragments of Latine he also interweaveth therewith with the rest of his confused and non-sensical stuff we judge it not worth a replication it being chiefly in our hearts to declare the truth of Gods dealings with and for us in this matter and not to meet or answer a fool in his folly THE END

A True and Impartial NARATION Of the REMARKABLE Providences Of the Living God of Heaven and Earth appearing for Us his oppressed Servants called QUAKERS Nicholas Lucas Henry Marshall Jermiah Hearn John Blendall Francis Pryor Samuel Trahern and Henry Feast Who most unrighteously were at Hertford sentenced to be Transported beyond the Seas from our dear Wives Children Parents and Relations for inoffensively meeting to wait upon the Lord our Maker And also may serve for an utter refutation of a Lying Paper published under the hand of one Edward Maning Is he not God of the Seas and do not the Winds obey him behold ye despispers and perish for a work is wrought in your day of or concerning which your whole Magicians or Soothsayers cannot inform you Printed in the Year 1664. HAving seen a scurrilous Pamphlet subscribed by one Edward Maning entituled the masked Devil or Quaker neither fearing God nor reverencing man c. the which being so full of non-sence lies and contradictions doth in a great measure confound it self and refute its malicious Author but least it should have ought of influence upon any reasonable creature or that Maning should by his impudent and often affirming untruths against the innocent at last have a will formed in him to believe his own lies We shall in the fear of the Lord simply nakedly and impartially declare the Providences of the living God as in mercy through his out-stretched arm they appear'd to and for us and so leave it to the righteous witness of God in every conscience to judge who is the masked lying Devil neither fearing God nor reverencing man the Author of the Paper subscribed by Edward Maning or the oppresseh people of God called Quakers We N. Lucas H. Marshall Jer. Hearn John Blendall Francis Pryor Sam. Trahern and Hen. Feast were sentenced for transportation the 13. of the sixth month 1664. And in order to the execution of that sentence the Sheriff gave William Edmonds Goaler of Hartford as he the said Goaler affirmed power to treat with some Ship-master for that our transportation which he accordingly did with one Thomas May Master of the Ship called the Anne of London and agreed with him for five pound a head to the Barbadoes and six pound to J●maica which were the two places to which the sentence appointed us to be banished withal telling him that we were free men and six of us would carry goods with us c. In order hereunto the first day of the seventh month the said Goaler brought us up to London and put us into the Bull Inne in Bishops-gate street and in less than half an hours space the said Thomas May came into us the Goaler being with him and asked us whether we were willing to go to sea for the Barbadoes and Jamaica We answered him with one consent we were not willing but were forced for conscience sake by vertue of the late Act Then said he I will carry no man against his will withall telling the Goaler then present that he had told him that we were all free men and would also carry Goods with us c. Well well said the Goaler I know my bargain and so presently both departed from us leaving an under Goaler to keep us fast locked up in a room The next day in the morning being the second day of the month aforesaid we were brought out of the Inne and put into two Coaches by the order of the Goaler and were carried down to Billings-gate and hurried into Boats and rowed to the Ship side when we were come thither the Goaler asked for the Master Thomas May his Mate answered he was not a Board then he asked for the Boatswaine who was not aboard neither said he then to the Mate have you not order to take in seven passengers the Mate answered he had order not to take them in The Goaler asked from whom he had that Order the Mate said from the Master who said the Goaler had you order not to take in the Mate answered the Quakers Then the Goaler was in a great rage and brought us back again and wished that he were rid of us but one of us told him he would not be cleer of us in this world nor in that to come except he repented then he carried us to the dark house neer Billings-gate and locked us up in a room there that day setting his two men to be our Keepers telling us he must go to his Lord Chief Justice to know what he should do with us He also went to the Kings Secretary and swore that he contracted with the said Thomas May for us as convicted persons by the late Act and had acquainted the Master fully what we were whereupon Thomas May was sent for by the Kings Order Who went taking two witnesses with him to prove that he contracted with William Edmonds not knowing he was a Goaler but thinking he had been a Merchant to carry seven men that were free and willing to go But the Secretary told him Oath was given in for the King and that his witnesses would do him no good At night the Goaler returned to us and putting us into two Coaches carried us back to the Bull Inne in Bishops-gate street again and locked us up in a room saying he had order that none should come at us There we were kept close Prisoners many of our Friends being denied so much as to see or speak to us one of our friends also was much abused by the Goaler because he earnestly desired to see us here we continued till the fourteenth day on which day William Edmonds the Goaler came to us and told us we must go aboard One of us asked him if he had an Order he answered he had order from the Sheriff but being asked to see it he said it was a private order and that the Sheriff would come himself also but the Sheriff came not then he brought us out and put us into two Coaches carrying us in great hast down to Ratcliff but driving the privatest and farthest way about that people might not meet nor follow us to take notice that we were banished for conscience sake as they did when we were carried from the Bull Inne to Billings-gate Yet some of our friends hearing of our being carried away hired Coaches and followed to see what would become of us At which the Goalers were angry and threatned to Pistol and cut the Coach-men if they followed so close and as soon as we were brought to Ratcliff men which he had provided stood ready to drag us into a house much like to one called a spirits house and brought us into a private roome and kept us there about half an hour not suffering our wives children or friends to come at us Afterwards they caused us to go down into a dark Cellar from whence they forced us down a Ladder into Boats which the Goaler had also provided and from thence rowing us away to the Ship and compelled