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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96395	The grovnds and cavses of our sufferings related in short: who suffer by the cruelty of oppressors, in Edmonds-bury Goal in Suffolk.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Harwood, John.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Rofe, George, d. 1664.; Marshall, Henry, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1931; Thomason E880_3; ESTC R206593	6,039	8

THE GROVNDS AND CAVSES OF OUR SUFFERINGS Related in short Who suffer by the Cruelty of OPPRESSORS IN Edmonds-Bury Goal IN SUFFOLK May 16 LONDON Printed for Thomas Simonds at the sign of the Bull and Mouth without Aldersgate 1656. The grounds and cause of our sufferings related in short who suffer by the cruelty of Oppressors in Edmonds Bury Goal in Suffolk UPon the 30 day of the 5th month 1655. being the second day of the week Gorge VVhitehead and Iohn Harwood passing through a town called Bury in Suffolk who were moved for to speak a few words to some people of that town in which words we exhorted the people in the name and fear of the Lord to fear God and to return from the evill of their ways to the Lord and some other words to the same effect presently near that time while we spake there came a Constable of the said Bury and carried us two George VVhitehead and John Harwood before one Herbert Pellam called a Justice of Peace in that Town but his office is not for the County of Suffolk where we were taken but for Essex nevertheless he examined us two aforesaid but could not give no plain account why he examined us neither when he had examined us could he lay the least breach of any Law to our charge but forthwith sent us by the Constable and some others to one Them as VValdgrave called a Justice of Peace at Smallbridge in Suffolk who also when we came before him examined us some few particulars but when he had examined us he could lay nothing to our charge worthy of suffering nor shew us any law that we had transgressed but nevertheless he sent John Harwood the next day to Bury Edmonds prison and the next day after he was sent to prison George VVhitehead he was also sent to the same prison Also upon the second day of the seventh moneth George Rofe was taken and sent to the same prison by one John Garden called a Justice of Peace for the county of Suffolk and this George Rofe was sent to prison for asking a question of one called a Minister of Stoak neer Naylan after he had ended his Sermon so called so we three before mentioned continued untill the Generall quarter Sessions holden at the said Bury Edmonds the nineth day of the eighth moneth and then we were called before one VVilliam Blumfield called a Justice of Peace for the said county who then and there sate for Judge but no more justice then before could we there have but greater bonds was laid upon us and more cruelty was acted against us three so they sent us to prison again where we ever since have remained in innocency though in the bonds of such cruel oppressors And upon the same day before-mentioned when Iohn Garden was come from oft the Bench and had gotten his cruel intent fulfilled against us three as he came out of the Sessions house door George Fox was moved to speak a few words to him to warn him to repentance for which the said Iohn Garden forthwith sent George to this prison to us where with us he remains and upon the 22 day of the nineth moneth Henry Marshall was taken and sent to this prison by the said Iohn Garden for speaking to one called a Minister at Boxford after he had ended his sermon so called and before he was sent to prison Iohn Garden caused him to sit in a pair of Stocks about an hour so at the next General quarter Sessions being held for the said County in the said Bury the 14th day of the eleventh moneth George Fox and Henry Marshash was then called to be tryed there where one Justice Colthrop for the said County sate for judge but he followed the same example of cruelty against them two that before was acted against us three who at that time and place aforesaid imposed a fine of twenty Marks upon Henry Marshall but did not fine George Fox but sent them both to prison again to us where we all remain and none of us convinced of the breach of any just Law though we thus suffer and are more straitned of our liberty outwardly then Thieves and Murtherers But that freedome which stands in innocency and righteousnes wherein we suffer our Oppressors cannot limit not take away So all people that have eyes to see and any true fear of God in them may see what cruelty and oppression is acted against the innocent by them who are in Authority who are set to do justice and to remove unrighteousness or unjust causes but we see in this age that the righteous seed suffers as ever it did in all ages by th● cruelty of them who pretend to do justice but do not A few of the cruel abuses described which were acted in the Goal of Bury by Robert Newton the Goaler and by some of his prisoners and his servants which he and they have acted against us who are sufferers for the truth by the cruelty of oppressors in the said Goal whom the world calls Quakers The abuses as followeth UPon the 21 day of the 10 month 1655. the aforesaid Goaler did smite George Rose upon the face before several witnesses til he drew blood also upon the 28 day of the 10 moneth the Goaler smote George Fox and Iohn Harwood upon their faces before severall witnesses c. also upon the 21 day of the 11 month the Goaler came to us in the Goal yard and George VVhitehead reproved him for his lies which severall who stood thereby heard him utter forth for which he smote George VVhitehead on the face and mouth til the blood came out of his mouth so one woman of his own generation that stood by seeing his cruelty and fierceness told him he dishonoured the gospel and severall other times the said goaler hath abused us both in words and actions as can be made evidently appear and also his Servant the Tapster hath often abused us and the Goaler hath sometime in our own hearing given him leave to abuse us and the said Tapster hath often threatned us and one time cast a stone violently and hit one of us on the back with it and another time in great rage he took up a stool with it to have smitten some of us or to have cast it at some of us but one present seeing him so violent took hold of it so he was hindered from casting the stool but often he hath slandered and beaten some of us on the faces and buffeted some of us severall times together with his fists violently on our faces for speaking the truth and also we have been often abused by some of the Prisoners for some of them have often taken away our food from us and sometimes have confessed the Goaler bad them or gave them leave to take our Food and the Goaler would have had us to have taken a chamber and beds of him to have laid in to have upholden his Oppression which we denyed as