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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