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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34915	God's holy name magnified, and his truth exalted by the testimony of his faithful servants who have suffered the cruel penalty of banishment from their native country by the rulers thereof as also an abstract of their names : with some of the barbarous dealings and useages they received and sustained from the hands of those instruments that were imployed in the imbarquing of them / R.C. Unto which is annexed Englands sad estate and condition lamented / written by George Fox the younger in the beginning of the year 1661 ...	R. C. (Richard Crane); Fox, George, d. 1661. Englands sad estate and condition lamented.	1665 (1665)	Wing C6812; ESTC R24785	24,205	34

which they were drove for Banishment after their long Imprisonment in that Jaques or stinking Cell in which they were held is the thing intended at this time And the first that entred the List of this Conflict and sore Trial for their holy Testimonies are these three Worthyes of the Lord Edward Brush Robert Hayes and James Harding who on the 24th of the Month called March 6 5 4. was very betimes in the morning without any warning scarce given unto them hurried down to Black Friers Staires by some of the Serviles of Newgate where they were put into a Boate and so rowed down to Graves end and there they were forced on Board for Banishment the former of which was very aged and his grey Haires might have wrought compassion in the hearts of his Persecuters besides the testimony of his life amongst whom he lived for he was well known to some Aldermen in this place but the Lord hath drawn out his life unto this time and God hath honoured him in his old age to scale his testimony unto his truth by Cruell Banishment who for his sake only and alone left Wife Child Estate and what ever was neer and deer unto him The second was Robert Hayes as abovesaid who being taken out of the Prison having received no sustenance and his body being very weak he until that very morning having been in a Course of purging Physick and for any thing I know it might not have done operating with him was in this Case carried forth upon the Water and the morning being exceeding cold and no refreshment afforded unto him between that and Graves end within a short time after he was forced a board he dyed and his body was brought up to London which was interred amongst his Brethren and so he sealed his Testimony for God's Truth with his blood and his name is added to the number of the slaughtered Sheep of God in this Generation who have been slain in England he was a Man as to his yeares and according to natures course had it not as I may say been for that inhumane and barbarous useage he sustained that might have lived many yeares So deer Edward Brush and his companion in Tribulation James Harding was the first in England that have tasted the fruit of exile from their native Land in which they were born and out of that City in which their Privileges and Franchises are as ample as the Chief Magistrate himself setting his Office aside but this we know that Pretious in the sight of God are the death of his Saints And thus hath God suffer'd these things to befall these three faithful servants of his in whom his Name is magnified and his truth exalted Praises praises living praises to him be given for ever Yet nevertheless God who loved them was not long before he visited this City with a rebuke and that they might take notice of it within a few doors of that faithful Man's house E. B. a house was shut up as was said of the Plague and indeed it was the first that I ever heard of in the City so the president of your wrath was attended with an example of judgment and that from the hand of the Lord and an entrance being made into this work not withstanding the wrath and fury of the Lord did hang over this City like a Cloud over-burdened with rain and ready to pour forth and having by cruel threats overcome the Shipmasters to make them the Executioners of their cruel edict or Law and taking this advantage by an Embargoe laid upon all Merchants Ships out-bound except a pass from under the hand of the Admiral obtained none might pass forth of the River and many Shipmasters having layn long in hopes of an accomplishment of their intended Voyages were now frustrate for a pass they must go and that would not be granted except they would embarquesome Quakers aboard each of them to be scattered into the several Islands into which they were bound and though several of the Shipmasters did withstand the thing using many good Arguments to avoid the execution of the cruel penalty urging the Law made commanded not them and that there is a Law in England unrepealed that prohibites the transporting of any person out of this Nation without his or her proper consent and as some of these Shipmasters knows and have been given to know the last executive Officer is the Sheriffe and that he is to contract with any Shipmaster for their Transportation but I find not in the Law that the Sheriffe hath power to compell any man to bargain with him no more than any Tradesman hath power to compell any Chapman whatever to buy or sell with him the Shipmaster is left free in all and every such case but all these things must not serve the servants of the Lord must be banished and they must carry them law or not law else they must loose their Voyages the Rulers wills must be done and where a deficiency in Law is or that it answer not fully their ends then high words and threatning speeches of imprisonment and the like must answer all defects and so having wrought upon the extremities of these men and they having consulted their losses if they answer not their wills and also having respect to their private gain more then answering a good Conscience to God an agreement is made and so comes the servants of the Lord to be banished from their native Country the great God permitting it so to be and haveing come over the Shipmasters as is said again they enterprize the sending of seven more of the servants of the most High into Exile and upon the 18. of the 2d month 1665. was it suffered to be done and by the serviles of Newgate whose deligence in those things have been long experienced their Names are Tho. Gibson John Tysce John Terry Edward Maletrat John Goodwin John Hardin Edward Boycot and from the Prison in the morning were six of there faithful Servants of the Lord drove down and led by the Newgate Instruments unto Black-fryars Stairs where a Barge was ready to receive them which was accordingly done but Thomas Gibson refusing to yield an active complyance unto them they prepared a Coach and so fetched him out of Prison into it and carried him down to Tower-Wharfe where the Barge waited to receive him and so he was put into the Barge amongst his Brethren who were from thence carried to Gravesend and forced aboard in order to their Banishment And dear Thomas Gibson whose life with the rest and their faithfulness in their testimonies unto Gods living truth will be a pretious savour in Generations to come and when their lives and sufferings with all their tryals and faithfulness therein comes to be read and compared with the measure they have met withal and received from their Persecuters of this Generation in which they lived and did the will of God surely surely praises praises will be given unto

great busle and hurly burly was made and many words used magistrate like by some of the Emissaries there yet for all that cared not the Seamen so there was a cry to hand out the Tekel to hoist them up and answer was made as I heard that if they were Merchants Goods they would do so Answer was given again they were the Kings Goods But in the end the Newgate servants was faine to fall to work and with much ado they got four of this number aboard and then being tyred the rest were let alone and after sometime was returned to Newgate again where they for sometime was kept Prisoners This was done the 20. day of the 5th Month call'd July 1665. yet notwithstanding all this and the return of these innocent persons to their old Habitation in which many of our dear Friends have lost their lives through the mercies of the Rulers of this Generation which are altogether cruelties and these things related are tokens and marks of them easie to be read of all that fear the Lord and have any bowells of tenderness in them and when they were there safe they were untill the envious spirit got another opportunity which with some small industry was purchased and now seeing the Emissaries of Newgate could not effect their work recourse was had unto the Military power and so a company of Redcoats must execute this barbarity I have known a day when your very selves O Rulers have cryed out upon Redcoat law but that is forgot with you now it seems you think fit it should be ministred unto us God Omnipotent judge between us and you in this matter and so things being thus ordered and the Lord permitting them so to be a day was appointed which was on the 4th day of the 6th month called August 1665. O malice thou Monster will nothing satisfie but the slaughter of the Soul through betraying the life of God by bowing and falling down to thee or the death of the body Lord thy will be done and to do thy will are we freely given up either to live or to die so thou be'st honoured Holy Father thy name magnified and thy truth exalted above all deceipt hypocrisie and all manner of prophaneness And in the morning early great was the preparation and all or most that belonged to Newgate that could either lay hand of arme or leg was summoned to help to get this poor flock a Shipboard and to their work they went and as usually they did so now some they led some they drove in numbers according as the drivers thought best for their ease and thus they got them to the Waterside and into the Barge and this in the face of the City in whose streets the bills of Mortality were the day before handed that signified the cuting off by death 3014. and so as they have encreased the numbers for Banishment the Lord hath increased his Plagues amongst them and this O thou sinful City thou wilt both observe and consider in time and those faithful souls were from thence rowed again to the same Ship to Bugby's-Hole as aforesaid and many Friends did accompany them to the Shipside in other Boats and after the Barge a couple of men belonging to Newgate follows in Boats having Souldiers with them which I suppose they purchased at the Tower to perpetrate that wicked work in hand our Boats lying near the Ship an out-cry was made by one of them get you further from the Ship or else we will sink you but Friends regarded not what they said but lay stil keeping as ne'r the ship as they could So these two Newgate Champions entring the Ship with their armed Men commanded by a Sarjeant or Coporal or some such fellow it matters not what his demenour shewed himself to be a Bruit and having made way in the Ship the Seamen were called but few or none would lay hand on them only two or three Vassals that were hired to help for that piece of service did shew themselves as they were so they placed themselves for the conveniency of their work then the Souldiers descended into the Barge and began to lay hold on Friends and draged them forward and some they kickt and punch'd and heaved up many by Legs and Arms and some they drew up with Ropes fastened about their middles like pieces of Timber and so tumbled them into the Ship and thus in an hours time or thereabout they had finished their work they served Men and Women all alike either lifted them up by violence or hoisted them up by tekell and those two above mentioned standing in the wast of the Ship gave directions and orders and well pleased they were in that dismal sight to see Men drawn up like Cattle and scoffingly they were observed to say hand out the tackle to draw up the Kings goods and take in the Kings goods and this was their game and pastime they made over the bodies of these Servants of the Lord the sight of which caused exceeding grief in Friends who were Spectators of this Tragedy lying by the Ship side O wofull wretches that sport your selves in such Inhumanities as was there exercised for you two above all the rest of Newgate Instruments you should not have sported your selves in that manner for it s known to you that when profession in the Congregated way was in fashion you were for none of this work and when one of you was a Disciple of Parson Griffith then none of this but the Hypocrite God will judge and recompence with his just Plagues as well as the prophane and thus was this great piece of wicked work finished by the Instruments abovesaid and so are these Servants of the most High exposed to cruel Banishment having left behind them a good report for their faithfulness to the Lord and a good favour is their Testimony for God's Truth unto all that have any sence of him in them The Names of those Friends last Banished both Men and Women being in number 55. are VIZ Men Friends Peter Pennington Henry Tayler Thomas Hubbert Roger Roberts Edmund Berkley William Mathews Digory Marshall Vincent Gerrard John Noble Nathaniel Harding William Parker Thomas Rose Lawrence Aplin Francis Tersey Thomas Cox Manasses Howard John Chaplin John Clause William Newman Robert Pate Lawrence Fullove James Pierce William Tillet Christopher Dickeson John Fox Thomas Stoaks Thomas Clark Bartholomew Hall Richard Thomson James Kirton Edward Walker John Gabb John Horsey Matthew Jackson Edward Lee. Arthur Baker William Roberts Women Friends Deborah Harding Anne Priest Elizabeth Ivers Anne Horniblow Rose Atkins Elizabeth Fisher Anne Mercer Jane Powell Mary Middleton Rachel Jackson Christian Ford. Elizabeth Pike Elizabeth Harding Rebecka Trump Anne Royley Dorothy Hall Patience Willson Margaret Jackson Banish'd in all 72. remains in Prison sentenced for Banishment about 72. And these are part of those inhumane usuages which the people of the Lord who are by violence drove out of their native Country into exile have