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A57466	A blast blown out of the north and ecchoing up towards the south to meet the cry of their oppressed brethren being a relation of some of the sufferings and other exercises of several of the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, in and about Richmond, Massam, Coverdale, Wensleydale, and Swaledale, and some others of the adjacent parts and places in the North Riding of the county of York since the beginning of the year 1660.	R. R. (Richard Robinson), b. 1628?	1680 (1680)	Wing R1713; ESTC R6799	35,019	47

for themselves and Children and that without Just Cause will have much ado to clear themselves from being Men of Blood or Blood-guilty or Blood-thirsty Men. And here by the Protecting of Thornaby in his said Perjury as well as in other Cases it may plainly be perceived That it was not so much Joseph Craddock and James Metcalfe ' s Zeal to put the Laws in Execution and increase the King's Revenue by getting of Fines and his Honour by distributing Justice impartially that made them so forward as it was their Envy and Evil Will against the Quakers so called for if it had they would have done Justice upon Thornaby for his False Oathes according to Law 5 Eliz. chap. 9. 14 Eliz. chap. 11. and not have protected False Swearers under the Notion of doing Service for the King who is Dishonoured by such Services and his Name Abused by such Applications neither would they have hindred the King of such a Considerable Sum of Money as upon proof of the said Perjury had been due unto him by the said Law But I may truly say Justice is turned backward and Equity cannot enter for if it could False Oaths and Perjury would not be made the Instruments of ruining men in their Estates as in this Case they were and have been And now whether such Actions and the Proceedings before mentioned were not and are Dangerous Practices and of Bad Consequence against the growing and encreasing Evils whereof a prudent Parliament had more need to provide a speedy Remedy than against the Peaceable Meetings of the Lord's People let the Wise in Heart judge For by the latter God is Honoured his Name and Power Exalted and Magnified his Truth Spread and Increased and by the Protection Toleration and Encouragement thereof the Kingdom and Government may expect to be Blessed and Established But by the former as God is Dishonoured so the King and his Authority is Abused his Laws Violated his Subjects Ruined and their Liberties Infringed and therefore have need to be remedied For it is an antient but honourable Rule or Maxime Salus populi suprema lex i. e. The Safety of the People is the chiefest Law But this seems with these men and in this matter to be laid waste or disregarded while the Hedge which the Law sets for the Protection of every man's Life Liberty and Estate comes thus to be thrown down and laid open for every Wild Bore and Ravenous Beast such as the said Thornaby even as it were the very Scum and Off-scouring of men by False Oaths or otherwise to enter in root up and lay waste the Rights and Interests of Honest Harmles Self-denying People such as the Law in it self principally delights to honour and for whose only Protection the same Law appears to have been chiefly made For even upon these Encouragements and the Oaths and Informations of the said Thornaby and other his Agents and Emisaries were all those Goods taken and Spoil ensuing made most whereof by Warrants from Joseph Craddock and James Metcalfe in the Country and by Thomas Craddock and John Bartlett in Richmond for no other Offence but only for peaceably meeting together simply to wait upon and worship the One True living God in Spirit and Truth according to his Will and not for Plotting or Contriving Insurrections neither for any Sedition or Dangerous Practices these or any of them being not so much as by the said Informers or any of them laid to their Charge And first Taken from the before-ntioned Richard Robinson of Healaugh Park in Swaledale by Warrant from the said James Metcalfe grounded 〈…〉 false Oaths and Informations of William Thornaby Matthew Chawder for a Fine of 5 s. imposed upon himself who was proved not to be at the said Meeting when Thornaby and Chawder were there and for a Fine of 5 s. for his Wife against whom James Metcalfe had no Information neither did she stand convicted before him yet by his Warrant did Henry Watson Constable and William Thornaby about the twenty fifth day of the third moneth 1670. take Pewter from the said Richard Robinson worth about 19 s. By the same Warrant did the same Constable at or about the same time distrain and take from Robert Addeson of Healy three Pewter Platters and one Brass Pot worth about 12 s. And about the same time did the same Constable and Informer by the said Warrant distrain a Mare of one Nicholas Rawes in Swaledale aforesaid for a Fine of 5 ● imposed upon him worth about 2 l. 10 s. Also the same Constable about the same time and by the same Warrant did distrain and take from Simon Harker of Swaledalc aforesaid for a Fine of 5 s. one Brass Pot worth about 7 s. Upon the 22d day of the 3d Moneth called May 1670. did William Thornaby Elder and Henry Spence both of Richmond Informers together with James Metcalf of Bainbrigg Constable and one Robert Jackson of the same place came to the House of Thomas Fawcett of Hawes in Wensleydale where finding some of the aforesaid People called Quakers peaceably met together to Wait upon and Worship the Living God according to his Will in the Way of his Commandments he the said Thornaby and other his Agents begun to take the Names of some of them so met but not coming to his Purpose in respect he did not know them all and thereupon going away he met with one Thomas Shore a most Notorious Bad Man who to the Countrie 's great Satisfaction was afterwards for his bad Carriage removed by the Justice of Charles then Lord St. John now Marquess of Winchester who gave him Information of the Names of several so met which he had not before got upon which Information together with what he had got before he the said Thornaby together with the said Henry Spence went to before the said James Metcalfe and desperately Swore against a great Number of Persons many whereof he knew not That they were at an Vnlawful Assembly or Conventicle at the place aforesaid though such as meet to wait upon the Lord have not heretofore been accounted an Unlawful Assembly but Encouraged Heb. 10. 25. and particularly against one Thomas Winn of Grisedale and Thomas Bedam's Wife of Hawes neither of whom the said Thornaby or Spence saw there for the said Thomas Winn was not that day in Wensleydale as might have been proved And for a further Evidence of this mans Wickedness he the said Thornaby coming into an Assembly afterwards where many of the said People he so Swore against was present he voluntarily Swore He knew not a Face among them but Three viz. Richard Robinson Bartholomew Harryson and John Thompson And yet upon these mens Oathes and Informations together with the Oathes and Informations of others after given and without calling the Parties accused before him did the said James Metcalfe issue forth his Warrants by which these Goods and Chattels here-after-named were taken from the People following in Wensleydale And First

reported about the very same Hour her Son was exercised in taking the Mares aforesaid and the two Mares themselves so taken as aforesaid also shortly after dyed in the Possession of the said Thornabyes or the one of them as others so got before by them likewise did and there was neither King nor Poor got any part out of them but Thornabyes went with the whole which both the said Joseph Craddock and James Metcalfe notwithstanding their pretended zeal for the King could dispence withal Also the Goods of one James Calvert of Burton in or near Bishopdale together with the Goods of a Friend there called Jeremiah Simpson were distrained to a great value by Warrants as was said from Joseph Craddock for we were sometimes forced to take their Words they being unwilling and sometimes resusing to shew their Warrants for the Offence as it was called of the afore-named Stephen Winn who being at Prayer in the House of the afore-named Thomas Simpson in Burton aforesaid where the Porsons distrained on were present and the above-named Thornaby coming in and finding the said Stephen at Prayer as aforesaid after some seemingly wondering Expressions he went away and Informed the said Joseph Craddock but whether his Information upon Oath was That he was Praying only or that he was Preaching and Teaching we know not having never seen the Information neither may be would he greatly scruple what he Swore as may be perceived by his former deportment but whatsoever he Swore it was Prayer only that the said Stephen at that time was exercised in and for which Offence it was said the Goods were distrained by which it may be perceived that neither Law nor Scripture was any Limit to these men in their Proceedings for the Apostle saith 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will therefore that men Pray every where lifting up holy Hands without Wrath or Doubting And the very Law by which they did pretend to proceed imposeth no Penalty upon any for the meer Act of Prayer and if it did yet it were contrary to the Apostles Doctrine 2 Thes 5. 17. who commands To Pray without ceasing and also to Christ's Luke 18. 1. and contrary to Law also as appears by Shepheard in his Grand Abridgment part 3. pag. 9 274. Nay though a Statute should be made to prohibit men to Pray to God yet the same were void as appears by the places afore-cited and those quoted by him Read also the Epistle to the English Translation of the Mirrour of Iustice And as if this were not Wickedness enough they imposed the Punishment of that which they call the Fault of one upon another contrary to the Scripture which they have sometimes though falsly called their Rule which saith It shall no more be said the Fathers have eaten a sowr Grape and the Childrens Teeth are set on Edge for every man shall dye for his own Iniquity and the Soul that Sins shall dye not another and it is also a Rule in their own Law Nemo pro Alieno delicto Punitur But they neither regarded Scripture nor the Law further than they will suit their Envy and Covetous Ends. For having sometimes but falsly condemned the Quakers so by them called for Denying Prayer they in this case Condemn and go about to Punish for Praying and so are all found in the Confusion Lyes and Falshoods The Constable of Bellerby with others about the times abovesaid or some of them did distrain and take from Ralph Ainesly of the same place by Warrant from the Lord St. John Pewter worth about 16 s. and after that by Warrant from Joseph Craddock two Kine one Mare two Stacks of Hay and a Burden of Hay off his Wife's Head together with three Burden Ropes and two Hay-Spades by which it appears they will leave little altogether worth at least 16 l. 10 s. More taken in Swaledale Upon the 21th day of the 12th moneth called February in the year 1670. came Henry Watson Constable Henry Thwaite of Reeth in Swaledale Overseer William Thornaby the Elder William Thornaby the Younger and one John Allison Informers to the aforesaid House of Elizabeth Cherry Widow in Swaledale and under Pretence of the Lord St. John's Warrant and to seek for a Meeting they broke the Door of the said House after they had been informed by one of their own Company which was in the House That there was no Meeting there and having so broken the Door by another Warrant from James Metcalfe they distrained and took out of the House in Bedding Wearing-Apparel and other things belonging to this poor Widow and her Children to the value of about 16 l. The same persons also save Henry Watson the same day by Warrant from the said James Metcalfe did distrain of Jeoffrey Lonesdale of Healy in Swaledale Stockings Wearing Apparel Bedding and other things worth by estimation 20 l. The 1st day of the 1st moneth called March following did the same Henry Watson Henry Thwaite and one Mark Hutchinson by Warrant from the said James Metcalfe distrain of Ralph Peacock of Winterings in Swaledale six Beasts worth about 14 l. Which with some of the other there taken aforesaid they sold to such as would buy them but at what Rates hath not as yet been to the Compiler hereof known Upon or about the 19th day of the 12th moneth called February 1670. came William Thornaby the younger and Iohn Allison both of Richmond Informers together with the above-named Henry Thwaite Overseer to the House of the said Elizabeth Cherry under pretence to search for a Conventicle where finding none besides those of the Family save Ia. Longstaff and the said Widow Cherry's Sister and Elizabeth Orton who was there visiting the said Widow Cherry's Daughter then very Weak and not likely to live which Thornaby perceiving would have gone into the inner Rooms under pretence to see if there were no more there and said He had a Warrant from the Lord St. John to break open the Doors she bid him shew it who pulling it forth began to read it she said He might read what he would for she could not read but said William Orton was a little off intending to go home we shall call him in to read it which being done and William being come into the House to read it told them having read it that that Warrant did not concern that place nor any other except there were an unlawful Assembly nevertheless Widdow Cherry opened the Doors for their satisfaction who searching found no more only Katherine Longstaff who came to see her sick Kinswoman and Edward Williamson came into the House while they were searching which when Thornaby perceived he began to set down their Names but Katherine Longstaff refused to tell hers being as she signified to them one that frequented their Parish Church and came but to see her Kinswoman whereupon the said Thornaby and Allison went to the aforesaid James Metcalfe who as one fit for their design answered their Ends and granted

under pretence of Defeating the King as those poor Buyers and Constable were who all or some of them were had to the Sessions and there threatned and the Constable imprisoned and fined 20 l. as is remembred And herein as well as in other matters the Malice of some men was made manifest and that it was they in this sence that sought Life more than the Quakers Upon the 2d day of the 2d Moneth called April in the Year 1671. came one Richard Murrow then of Burton in or near Bishopdale Constable now deceased together with William Thornaby the Younger of Richmond Son to the aforesaid William Thornaby the Elder Informer into the Assembly of the Lords People at the House of Thomas Simpson in Burton aforesaid where they were met in the fear of the Lord and to wait upon him and coming in the said Constable seeing them met in a Scornful manner said They are pannelled and when they had according to their former use taken the Names of those so met the Constable said He had a Warrant to search and rifle among them which some desiring to see he refused only pull'd out some Papers but what was in them they did not know and being advised To take heed what he did lest he run himself into a Snare he refused to hear and having searched the House and not coming to his purpose they went to the Stable wherein were three Mares one of the mans own who own'd the Stable and two of his Friends which they had borrowed but the Door being bolted and they not getting in the said Constable returned and told the Owner of the House He must open the Door which not being done accordingly but he advised To take heed what he did He Scoffingly refused the Advice and said He would have it opened or he would break it and further said He would Charge others to do it for him which he did but they refused at which he was grieved and said They had as good have held a Cow to the Bull if he lived By which may be seen his Forwardness Envy and Malice whom God did not suffer long to escape whereupon Thornaby the Informer said Charge me and I will do it or to that purpose but the other being as willing as he they both went and having got into the House took thence one Mare which William Hornor had borrowed with a Saddle and Woman's-Seat thereon worth altogether about 2 l. And another which Stephen Winn had borrowed with a Saddle and Woman's-Seat thereon worth about 4 l. 10 s. And a little Mare belonging to the Owner of the House all which they carried away to the Constable's House but a little Girle pluck't off the Halter from the little Mare 's Head whereby she got away which when the Constable perceived he was grieved and came again to the Stable and said They had lost one of their Prizes but she must be made good Afterwards the same day by the Permission or other Assent or Agreement of the said Constable the said young Thornaby the Informer carried away the remaining two Mares towards Richmond whither the next day being the 3d day of the Moneth aforesaid followed the said Constable and came to the House of old William Thornaby to lodge where the next Morning he got his Breakfast prety well and was Cursing of the Quakers so called in the presence of one Thomas Winn who gave the Relation of it but going from thence to the Carriers House in that Town about the sending of a Daughter of his to London where he did also eat and drink he suddainly fell down dead over upon or besides the Table where he had been eating and was about to count Money and part of the Money fell from him A True Evidence of God's Righteous Judgments upon him who had so Audaciously behaved himself against his innocent Neighbours and may give sufficient Warning and Caution to such Officers and Constables in this day and forever hereafter as do not in a Moderate Fear abstain from such Actions as this man pursued whose Intentions were Wicked for when some of his Neighbours which were no Quakers so called asked him What made him so Sawsie he said He had not been so Sawsie but he would be and sometimes said They to wit the Informers Constables and the rest would not leave them to wit the Quakers all a Groat and That they would take a Course with them and such like Wicked Stuff which were too long to relate by which may be seen his Envy and Wicked Intentions but God cutting him off in the midst of his Iniquity before he had accomplished what in Evil Intent he aimed at may signifie to all them that remain and imploy themselves in such Wicked Actions and Spoiling of their Neighbours Goods as this man did who proffered to seek them in the Night-season that it is not the Cloathing themselves with the King's Authority Warrants and saying They have the King's Authority Iustices Warrants and that they must and will Obey that will excuse and deliver in the Day when God comes to plead with men for if that could have been an Excuse and brought Deliverance then the most Mighty men that were in the Army of Nebuchadnezzar might have been excused who had the King's Command and that a Mighty King too for the binding and casting of Shadrach Meshack and Abednego into the fiery Furnace and have pleaded They could not help it they were Compelled to it as some in these dayes have said But this Command though from a Mighty King as aforesaid excused not the matter so but that they suffered Death by Force of that Flame which was appointed for the Destruction of others Which Thing is Worthy to be taken notice of by all the Officers and Constables in England at this day to whom it hath been often in my Heart It is a Figure and therefore had need to be warned and advised by the same that the Command they pursue be Righteous and also that what they do be done in the fear of the Lord for the Lord knows how to deliver the Righteous as he did Shadrach Meshack and Abednego who could not bow to the King's Will in that day no more than the Innocent People called Quakers can bow to the Wills of them that would limit the holy One of Israel at this day and the same God also knows how to reserve the Wicked as he did this Constable unto the day of Judgment to be Punished which we do not rejoyce over as Glorying in any man Destruction but only set forth to the end that others may see and be warned lest they likewise come into the like Condemnation It is also worthy to be further taken notice of That old William Thornaby's Wife and young William Thornaby's Mother who was hardned in the Sin of her Husband and Son having been visited with Sickness much of the time of their afore-mentioned Wicked Imployment dyed the same day and as was

for the said John Chaytor and against the Informers so that upon their Verdict the said John should have had all his said Goods so distrained as aforesaid again But one of the said Constables to wit Henry Shaw having within the time limited by the said Act for Appeal sold the Goods amounting to the value of 33 l to the Informer Thornaby as was said for 20 l. the said Thornaby and Shaw pretending that the said Goods so sold was disposed of that they could not be had again All 〈…〉 the said John Chaytor had or could get without Suit 〈…〉 which he was not willing to make use of notwithstanding their bad dealing with him was only 20 l. the pretended Price the Goods were sold for So that his Loss in this particular besides Charges of the Appeal amounted to the Sum of 13 l. Also the said Iohn Chaytor for having a Meeting in his House on the 25th day of the 4th Moneth called June 1671. was fined 20 l. for which by Warrant from the said Thomas Craddock he had Shop Goods to wit a certain Commodity called Battery distrained and taken from him by Henry Shaw Robert Burton and James Sayer Constables to the value of about 20 l. 16 s. which Goods being delivered to Richard Dawson then Mayor of the said Town of Richmond he kept to his own Use and as is supposed paid down the 20 l. they were distrained for at the next Sessions held for the said Town But his Wife Isabell Dawson being troubled at such Unjust Dealings and Proceedings against an Innocent People upon the account of their Consciences would not have had her Husband to have dealt so by them or in that kind concerned himself with them as I think I have heard but he not regarding her or not submitting to that wholesome Advice given by her unto him did continue the said Goods in his own Possession with intent as it should seem to convert the same to his own use But some time after being out of his Mayorality he dyed and his Estate thereupon coming to be divided between his Children and Widow she the said Isabell then his Widow desired that the same parcel of Goods so taken from the said John Chaytor if it were possible might be made parcel of her share of her said deceased Husband's Goods which thing did accordingly fall out and being in her own Possession or at her Dispose she did enquire of the said Iohn Chaytor the Value and Quantity or Weight of the said Goods so taken from him which when she understood she did Fully restore unto him in Weight Worth or otherwise the Whole Value or Quantity of the said Goods Which thing we do not here make mention of and Report as being a Suffering or an Act whereby the said Iohn Chaytor did come to any Loss for that was made up and Re-pay'd by her in manner as aforesaid but this we make mention of and Record to the intent that so Noble an Act of this Woman so truly worthy and deserving Commendations in this behalf might not be hid in obscurity but that the same might be published to the intent that how far soever this Testimony of the hard Usage of the Lords People by the hands of Unreasonable and Wicked men may go this good Deed of this Woman so truly worthy as aforesaid may in this behalf be also born Testimony of that so no one Person herein concerned may want of that due Weight and Measure that of Right belongs to them but that as the Wicked and Unreasonable meet with the Report of their Wickedness and Unreasonableness to their Shame so the Good Deeds and Upright Dealings of the Honest and Truly Conscientious may also commend them to their Praise knowing and being further perswaded that as this Woman or any other comes to be led and guided by that Principle of Truth and Righteousness in their Inward Parts that led and guided her at this time to the doing of this Worthy and truly Commendable Act the same Principle will never leave them as they are guided by it until it hath led them unto the Light of Life and brought them unto the Banqueting-house of the Lords Love and to that which is truly Praise-worthy before him but being disobeyed and rejected will become their Condemnation notwithstanding any former notable Act done by them therefore let every such one mind to keep to the same and whilst they have a time to prize it More taken in Burton Coverdale and Wensleydale upon the like Account as followeth Upon the 4th day of the 10th moneth 1671. George Ryder Constable of Burton aforesaid and Thomas Crookey Overseer by Warrant from James Metcalfe did distrain and take from Thomas Simpson of the same Burton two Kine and four Sheep worth 6 l. 10 s. The pretended Crime being because some Friends met at his House to wait upon the Lord the 17th day of the 9th moneth in the year 1670. which was informed against as an Unlawful Assembly And upon the same day the Constable did distrain and take from Jeremiah Simpson of the same Burton and Brother of the said Thomas Simpson several Implements of Houshold-stuff to the value of 4 s. Upon the 7th day of the 10th moneth 1671. by the same Warrant from James Metcalfe came Iohn Watson and Thomas Stephenson Constables of Melmerby in Coverdale and Iohn Smithies Overseer with William Thornaby the younger and Henry Spence Informers to the House of Stephen Winn in Melmerby aforesaid who was from home and none in the House but his own Family except two or three Women that came with their Work to bear Stephen Winne's Wife Company the Constable Iohn Watson said He might see what Company there was and he must see if there were not a Conventicle To which Stephen Winne's Wife replyed It is not usual where People come together to worship God to follow their Outward Employments as you see we do they being then at Work or words to that purpose and further told them There was no Conventicle To which William Thornaby the younger said There were three meaning the three Women that were come in and there might be other two within and then there will be a Conventicle and read a Warrant for breaking in if refused to enter where such Meeting is known to be but this Warrant could not reach then to that Place because there was then no Meeting known to be there as indeed there was none at that time which they likely before-hand knew well enough But they having another Design and the Constable too willing and ready to comply with the Evil Intent of the Informers went to an inner Door which being locked they violently broke open and broke and spoiled some things thereby but finding none the Constable bid to open the next Door which Stephen's Wife who perceived their Design refused only told them There was none there but that would not serve for that Door was broken open also and being broken then