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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61375	A Discovery of the education of the scholars of Cambridge by their abominations and wicked practices acted upon, and against, the despised people, in scorn call Quakers : brought forth by the young ministers at severall times in the said town, whereby all men may see the unchristian breeding, and the horrible fruits of the university-men, and how that the spirit of the whore and false prophet, and the remainder of the dreggs of popery boyles up in them, in persecution, and madness, and ignorance, and this is written for all sober people to read and consider.	Sammon, Edward.; Peace, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing S537; ESTC R18943	10,542	16

not these a stink in your Nostrills and are these your Ministers you send out into the Nation Is Cambridge become as Sodom there was so many hundreds of them that the Women can hardly pass the Streets but are abused by them here you may see Cambridge Fruits and the Fruits of the Priests which are come from Oxford and Cambridge as let Cheshire and Lancashire witness and the whole Nation What filthy work they make with poor People prisoning them for their hellies even such they do no work for And one Friend was put in the stocks by William Pikering Mayor and set many hours and the Schollars were very rude and did much abuse him and some of them got bread and spread tallow and dirt upon the Bread and put it to the Friends mouth and said They would make him eat it And the Schollars have taken up Excrements and thrown it into the meeting to Friends Now if We should serve Your Mase-Houses so Your old Popish Colledges what a rage would You have been in And it may be taken notice of that several of the Fellows and Proctor of Sidney Colledge have stood by and seen the Schollars act some of this wickedness and brutishness and yet did nor reprove them but rather encouraged them And when Alderman Nicholson went into the Colledge and told the Proctor of the Actions of the Schollars and spoke to him to keep them quiet he told him in plain words he could not nor would not Now these things cannot be otherwise expected from these Proctors Vice-Chancellors and Tutors and Schollars Who have their Bowles their Games and their Tennis-Courts in their Colledges and Fidles and Musick and Musick-Arts and Cards Dice Shovel-Boards and fencing more liker Tinkers and Pedlars and Colliers then Houses for Professors of the Gospel Are these Places to make Ministers for Christ Are these good Examples more liker Taverns for Drunkards Nay there are hardly the Actions as they have Acted before mentioned done in the Taverns and Ale houses in the Nation in their Houses as are Acted in your Houses amongst you Oh this grieves the Righteous and makes the Just sick That the Nation should be loaded with such filth such a House of filth And further the said Smith Priest before mentioned caused the place in the Masse House where the Holy Water as they call it used to be put in to be opened and a Crosse to be put a top of the Steeple-house And at another Meeting as George Whitehead was a declaring the Truth to the People the Schollars came and were very rude and crowded much upon him and cryed our let us smother him and if the Mayor had not appeared presently in the Meeting it is likely they would have mischiefed him besides the said G. W. hath suffered several times by the rude Schollars and the Schollars took Alderman Blacklyes Hatt off his head and threw it away among the rude multitude and he stood bare-headed untill they threw it to him again and John Peace aforesaid had his Coat rent at their publique Commencement for giving some Papers to the Vice Chancellor and he was hurried to and fro and some cryed hang him some stone him some knock him on the head And I homas Nicholson being a sober man Who was the former Mayor understanding some thing of their filthy behaviour at our Meetings and being sensible of their cruelty and wickedness was Resolved the next day to come in Person and so he did and brought half adozen Constables with him and so prevented their mischeivous Ends and Intentions and the said Alderman Nicholson very boldly and valiantly stood upon a forme to the view of all the People some hours and heard the Truth which was of good service to the Lord to stop the violent And several times the Constables have been fain to stand to keep our Meetings Therefore let these things be sufficient which are past and repent and amend your lives lest your wickedness swell to a mountain and your filthiness and ungodliness running out of so many fountains may gather together to be a Sea And is not this the Cage of unclean Birds spoken of in the Revelations Are these the Ministers you lay your hands on to send them out in the Nations to deceive People for dishonest gain and to haul People before Courts because they will not put into their mouths and cast them into Prison that they do no work for Therefore every one High and Low ye have time now prize it and consider in your selves whether these things be not an ill savour both with God and Man Therefore do so no more lest a worse thing come upon you We whose Names are here under-Written have been Eye-witnesses of these filthy and abominable Practises Edward Sammon Robert Letchworth George Clark Thomas Edmondson Mary Godfrey James Blackely Ald. Mathew Blarkely Nicholas Frost John Peace Joseph Coarse John Clark Alexander Parish Here followeth the Coppy of a Letter with some Addition to it which John Peace gave to the Mayor John Ewin From the Lord God of life and Power am I moved this to declare unto thee WHereas the Lord by his Providence hath called thee to be chief Magistrate or Governour of this Town This the Lord God requires of thee Thou having the Sword in thy hand Know this from the Lord that it is not put into thy hand in vain For it is not given into thy hand thereby to rule for thy self or any waies to set up thy self but thou art to rule in the fear of the Lord for God without having respect to any Man's Person for any advantage whatsoever And thou art to defend and protect his People from all manner of Violence Wrongs and Injuries offered unto them which many of the dear Servants of the Lord have suffered and do daily suffer for bearing their Testimony against their ungodly practises But know thou this That they are as dear to him as the Apple of his Eye and what is done to one of the least of his little Ones he takes as done unto himself Therefore in His fear I exhort thee to stir up that noble Principle of God in thee even that which reproves thee in secret and stands a living Witness for God against the least appearance of Evil in thy own particular and that being minded in thy own particular the same will lead thee forth to act for God in the general and it will cause thee to lay thy Sword upon Evil-Doers thereby to cut down all manner of Sin and Wickedness and that thou maist be a terror to all the wicked and ungodly in this Town and to punish all that do Evil and not a praise to them that so Righteousness may be the Fruit of thy Government that so thou maist have the Praise of all them that do well and that thou maist be an Instrument in the hand of the Lord for the staying of the heavy Judgments which will undoubtedly come upon all that do act wickedly and malitiously in this Town against the Servants of the Lord And know thou this from the Lord That if thou wink at Iniquity and call the proud Happy and set up and strengthen the hands of Evil-Doers and turn thy Sword backward like a blind man then the Lord will requite thee who damms not up the ungodly unrighteous floods of Iniquity from running down the streets for the Schollars and young Ministers should be such Plants as should damm up the Ungodly and stop the way of the wicked This is the Fruit of the Plants of Renown which comes from the Nursery of Christ so let your Gates be a praise and not prophane let your Gates be righteous and not ungodly so cleanse this Nursery of ungodly men unfruitful Plants fruitful Plants of Unrighteousness but unfruitful towards God which are the Workers of Darkness with whom no Fellowship is to be had but to be reproved And if thou countenance those that act wickedly in abusing the Servants of the living God thou shalt not escape the Judgments of the Lord but thou with them that do wickedly shall receive a Reward according to your Works Therefore once more from the Lord in Bowels of Love to thy Soul and in pure Subjection to thy Authority so far as thou rulest for God do I desire that thou wouldest discharge thy Conscience in executing Justice and true Judgment upon all Ungodliness that there may be a good savour in your streets And so in obedience to the motions of God I have cleared my Conscience This is from a Lover of Righteousness and a Hater of every evill way and all the Ungodliness of Men Known by the name of John Peace FINIS