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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	heart_n	keep_v	law_n	23,701	5	6.5100	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93359	Something further laid open of the cruel persecution of the people called Quakers by the magistrates and people of Evesham.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4072; Thomason E863_7; ESTC R206668	7,337	8

we three in the Dungeon under them where I and some others have been kept in this Dungeon and Prison with our own dung in the same room from time to time for this fourteen Weeks And as for the Prison or Hole where we are kept it is not 12. foot square and one Goal-hole belonging to four inches wide where we take in our food and straw to lie upon and we are forced to burn candle every day when we have it by reason the Prison is so dark and so close and so many in so little room and so little ayre with the stinck of our own dung all which might have occasioned the death of some of us ere this time one they kept with me in the dungeon until he was sick after turned him out in the night and some others have not been wel by reason of the exceeding closeness of the prison whereby sometimes the stinck of the prison hath been so strong in the streets that people could not endure to stand by it Sometimes when the dayes were hot the breath of some prisoners vvas almost stopped and lay for severall dayes like men asleep and vvhen the dayes are at the coldest vve have not room nor place either to make fire or to vvalk to keep our bodies vvarm yet there is a large prison over our heads where they do sometime prison many of our friends but that large prison they will not let us be in neither could we nor friends for us prevail to have liberty to walk in that prison sometimes by day and to come down into the other prison by night Therefore let all people take notice whose hearts is tender towards the Lord how we are not only deprived of outward liberty without the breach of any law but are also kept in a most barbarous condition worse than thieves and murtherers as the goaler hath said that if we had been in for theft or murther he could have let us have more liberty then now he durst because of the Mayor One day two Countrey men were passing by the prison with their Teams which men came and enquired what we were in prison for and the Goaler being by enticed them in to us and then he locked the door again and went his way so the men were constrained by reason of their Teams to send several messengers with entreating words to the Goaler to come again then they were forced to agree with him for to let them forth for money the which they presently paid Another time one of the town came to see us when the Goaler was there and the doors open and the Goaler locked the door and kept him in that day from his labor and the night and his wife nor her friends could not prevaile with the Mayor nor the Goaler to let him out without money James Wall who had been a souldier many years and served an Apprentiship in the Town and a Freeman thereof and have born severall Offices being a Shop-keeper having for seven years kept a standing in the Market place untill since he was a prisoner for witnessing the Truth yet the Mayor Edward Young forbad his Wife to stand in the Market place which for so many years he had done neither would he let her stand that time where he was wont to do nor in any part of the Market place then she went to him about it and once he said she should have a standing for to open in the market but after he began to speak suttlely to her saying I hear that your Husband doth abuse you She answered my Husband did never abuse me but as for that judgement which he now holdeth once I could not own it but now seeing it is so much persecuted makes me own it because the way of God was alwayes persecuted vvhen the mayor heard that and saw he could have no occasion against her Husband by her words then he said she should not have a standing place for five pounds Also two of Iames Walls Chapmen came to him with whom he had dealed much and their accounts were large and some money he owed them who went to the mayor and proffered him what Baile he would desire for him to come forth one day to perfect his Accounts but they could not prevail with him but the mayor said to them that if they vvould have a Warrant to seize on his Goods they should but the men said they had no reason so to do for the mayor he seeks to ruinate not onely him but all the other also Upon that daye vve came before the late mayor George Kempe I said I ovvn Magistrates that are for the punishing of evill doers and the praise of them that do vvell he ansvvered You vvill finde none such in England And I am sure I finde none such in Evesham Vpon the 17. day of the 9. month Margret Newby and Elizabeth Courten came to this town in obedience to the Lord who had a meeting on the morrow being the first day at Edward Pitwayes house and after the meeting was ended about the fourth hour in the latter part of the day they came to the prison to visit us that were in it and as they were returning the Mayor laid violent hands on them himself and sent for Officers and caused them to be put in a pair of stocks in a prison over us which stocks are worse than ordinary made for hands feet to be put in when the Constable had put them in those stocks the Mayor went up to the prison to see if they were put in bad enough the Constable had put them in one near to another and the Mayor caused the stocks to be opened and removed them one as far from another as might be one at the one end of the stocks and the other at the other and the holes that are for the hands their hands were to little and he made them put in their legs a yeard one from another and the women desired a block to sit on it being a great distance between the place where they were to sit and the places in which their legs were put and the mayor bid the constable fetch a block and thrust it between their legs said they should not have them between their legs which they would have other uncivil words he used and locked the prison door and went his way and would not suffer any to go to them to carry any cloaths or any thing for them to sit on in a most barbarous and cruel manner for the space of fifteen hours and after they had been in all that time he presently after he had caused them to be taken out sent them out of the town a back way without suffering them to go to any place to refresh themselves it being a freezing night And the same first day at evening he caused a friend that came to the prison hole who came to the tovvn the day before him he caused to be put