Day Edw. Bifield John Neeves Will. Davis John Ivear John Dole Ben. Maynard Rich. Gotly Phil. Cook Hen. Moor Rich. Nelson Hugh Hobhouse Tob. Dole Thomas Hilman John Bedford Charls Sanders Jer. Hignell Rog. Oldstone Liming Dickason Will. Noble Will. Hill Art Hyat Iohn Summers Rob. Summers Rowl Dole Nath. Allin Sam. Gibbons Charls Bowen Dan. Gibbons Edw. Payne Iam. Slaughter Rich. Horsman Iohn Styant Iohn Saunders Iohn Cox Ed. Daniel Rob. Weale Iohn Neve Thomas Whitturne Will. Wells Will. Tippet Will. Peachy Sim. Cadle Isa Partridge Cananuel Britten Iohn Price Lew. Rogers Iohn Herne Griff. Bowine Iohn Martin Sam. Rogers Tho. Lofty Will. Cawson Iarvis Wallis Iohn Crump Robert Gerish Iames Toghill Morris Williams Bern. Lidman Anistop Bennet Rich. Griffen William Lane Sim. Potter Iohn Morgan Iohn Hart Will. Maynard Will. Blackway Iohn Bennet Tho. Bowes Tim. Hardiman Tho. Bayly Will. Atkins Rich. Moor Tho. Winfield Bartho Crocker Richard Willis Tho. Stockman Will. Collins Iohn Warwick Tho. Window Calib Hill Step. Cormell Will. Gotby William Williams Will. Saweer Iohn Love Abra. Cole Tho. Watkins 91 Women Mary Prince Han. Iordan Mary North Susan Pearson Mary Nokes Eliz. Sturridge Eliz. Iaques alias Iackson Gartrude Boyte Elen Cole Ioan Tucker Ann Chaffin Ruth Davis Marg. Thomas Mary Naylor Ann Brinckworth Sara Cattle Fran. Styant Ione Holister Dor. Lord Ann Phillips Ione Lippiat Eliz. Child Alice Norden Briget Francis Mary Cole Elen Maud Eliz. Maynard Brightward Geffries Hest Reinolds Briget Wory Mary Turner Mary Hampton Ione Willy Kath. Davis Eliz Morgan Ione Williams Fran. Hobhouse Han. Pitt Ann Bateman Sara Maynard Mary Neve Mary Rice Ione Iones Kath. Hughes Susan Gotby Mary Willis Ioan Weale Barb. Blackdown 48 More were committed of the women which made the number 55. whose names the Mittimus had not who before the mittimus or warrent came might be at liberty for it came not till the 18th of the same month and then it was to keep them Prisoners till the 3d of the 6th month called August following at which time they were set at liberty the Warrant being not to suffer any during that time to joyn with them under the pretence of the exercise of their Religion under the penalty of the Act. Signed John Knight Mayor John Lock John Lawford The next day being the 4th of 5th month thy Sergeant Jones and the Town Clerks man came both to Newgate and to Bridewell and demanded of them to pay 2 s. 6 d. a piece who the day before were fined many of them 6 d. each and committed for non-payment as many were who were not fined at all nor asked to pay as aforesaid and so were fined twice for one offence and committed twice and some committed and then fined and committed and this is the manner of thy wild proceedings which said fine each refusing to pay were committed as aforesaid the Tenor of the Warrant or rather Mittimus for this was not like a warrant though it should have been a warrant according to the Act being the same in both places and coming as aforesaid which hath been a usual thing with thee though without it there is no legal commitment and an Action lies against the Sheriff for so detaining them yea some hereafter to be mentioned were committed and confined many dayes Prisoners and no Warrant of Commitment to this day being contrary to Law yea after thou wast out of thy year several dayes came a Warrant to Newgate for the last 22 committed thither before the expiration of thy Government and what if it were signed John Knight Mayor after thy date was out And this is the trade and this is the work thou drivest at Bristol than which what more arbitrary and this is thy conscience to the Law to the execution of the Law unto which thou pretendest When thou art spoken to about this cruel persecution O the Law sayest thou my oath I must execute the Law I cannot help it I am sorry for it for Gods sake consider of it and do not ruin your selves which if it were a truth it would as well extend to Prisoners under the restraint of the law or rather thine own under the pretence of the Law for Conscience rightly informed and working as it should works uprightly to the one as to the other but these are but shifts of thine by which thou wouldst make people to believe such as are so weak so to do and there are but few of them in this City as if Conscience sate at the Helm and steered these proceedings and that nothing but Conscience was the cause of what thou doest unto us who suffer for our Conscience Now Conscience is not against Conscience vvhere indeed it is so but vvhat Conscience thou hast is in part already manifest and shall further be demonstrated ere we have done vvith this Relation for vvhich purpose viz. to make manifest to thee thine own vvork and to bring it back again upon thee it vvas in part undertaken To give one instance before we go any further in the Case of Mary Gouldney vvhose mother and thine vvere own sisters as thou knovvest and hovv her mother vvas as a Nurse unto thee for her Conscience thou committedst her and her husband T. Gouldney both on the day aforesaid who have as thou also knowest a Shop and great Trade as to Grocery and several children It so fell out that a relation of hers unknown to her laid down half a crown which thou hadst fined her whereupon she was ordered to be set at liberty with which she not being satisfied but fearing some underhand work took the under-keeper with her and went down to thy house and understanding there by thee how the fine was paid and that it stood as her first Conviction being without her knowledge and consent for to consent was all one as to pay it and thereby she should have made her self a Transgressor and by her own action have spoiled her Testimony she declared it to thee and demanded the money to be deliver'd back again which being done thou wast so unconscionable to her who did what she did in tenderness of Conscience lest sheshould sin against the Lord rather than do which she vvillingly offered up what she had in this World that thou deniedst her the liberty to walk sometimes in her own Garden vvhich vvas near the Prison there being no out-let to the Prison vvhich ought to be for the health of the Prisioners for her Milk sake vvho vvas a Nurse to her little Boy it being hot Weather vvhen she asked it of Thee No not for 500 l. thou vvouldst not do it saidst thou to the Keepers Wife and to John Saunders his Wife vvho spake to thee about it not for 300 l. vvhen she vvas vvith Thee about her husband John Saunders his liberty vvho vvas a Grocer also and a man of much business and had many children though her Father Alderman Deyes was thy Mothers own Brother and bred thee up nor vvouldst thou do any
which was held the 18th of the 12th Moneth 1664. and thou being come down as aforesaid to attend it two Bills of Indictment were drawn and presented the Grand Jury the one against those seaven whom thou sentest to Bridewell and then committed them to Newgate when thou wast thy self at Meeting and the other against Joan Hiley That against the seaven the Grand Jury cast out and the other against Joan Hiley had like to have been too had not Heyward the Taylor one of the Grand Iury in the breach of his Oath given information to one of the Sheriffs and so to thee that it would be so if more Evidence vvere not brought in hereupon thou bestirs thy self and caused the Priest to be sent for in prosecution of thy old design which was to make us to suffer and thy expectations was so on tiptoe that thou couldst not forbear to ask the Foreman Whether the Bill was found before he came to deliver it in who gave thee an answer as became a man in his place whose name is Iohn Tyler though thou vventest out of thy place though yet not out of the persecuting spirit that was in thee unbecoming a Magistrate to ask the question So the Court wan adjourned this being the fore-part of the day to the after-noon Then she was had to the Court and set to the Bar and thou faine would'st have had the Tryal put off and spakest to her Husband so to do and to enter into a new Recognizance for that purpose but she could not consent to that so thou wentest on to Tryal and the Iury was sworn and the Priest set by her and the Indictment was read and she pleaded to it Not Guilty and the Evidence was produced of which the Priest was one who said He heard some body speak but could not say it was her And the Iury went aside and much expectation was on the issue for ye thought your Jury would serve your turner and the names of the Jury being looked over they were judged to be all right and Sheriff Streamer as was said was very confident of the matter and was over heard as is said to lay a Wager with Capt. Hicks that it would be so which John Hicks distrusting the other is said to say He would lay his life they would find her guilty and that there were four of them that would dye but they would do it Which appeared to have something in it for the Baily Errand when he spake to the Court said That the Jury were all agreed save four what Working here is to make the innocent to suffer yet the Iury brought her in Not Guilty the Indictment being not laid in the words of the Statute as the Council made appear and as for the Words of the Statute there was not sufficient Evidence to prove that what she said was according to those words So the Lord wrought for his innocent servants which waited upon him and so two petty Juries the Sessions before having failed thee and now the grand and petty Jury made thee misse of thy end and so that thy hands hitherto could not bring to passe the thoughts of thine heart for the Lords arme was against thee and indeed the Citizens began to nawseat this unusual trade of thine in putting them upon the tumbling their fellow Citizens into holes and corners and so thereby thou mightst serve thy will and pleasure upon them and now thou thoughtst it time to hie thee to London again to get some new strength and to recruit thee who hitherto hadst missed and to work thou wentst above to get the matters finished out of the old way of England which was by Juries to the conviction of two Justices as aforesaid and the Bill was past and now thou wast glad and as is reported wept for joy for now thy work thou thoughtest was not likely Sisyphus his stone of which Histories speak to return still upon thee and thou to be laught at which was the thing thou fearedst and therefore its like bespeakest the Citie to be in an ill condition and as if it were ready to be in a tumult which was as still as the stones in the street and thou art said to have suggested that thou couldst not undertake the safetie of the place vvithout some such additional power and vvouldst fain have made it the same through England and now thou vvast paramount and dovvn thou camst and here thou thoughtst to make short vvork And as to other offices vvhereto some of us vvere called to serve thou turn'st them by as a people vvhom thou intendedst to make clear vvork vvith asking vvhy they did choose us for such offices giving the people so to understand and intimating that a shorter course would be taken with us which might put us out of the Capacity of bearing Office and so thou wouldst have us reserved to the greater blow hoping at once to make riddance of us and to quit us the Nation But we shall have a place and name therein when thou art forgotten except it be to shame and obloquie Thus thy heart was lifted up and thou preparedst thy self for the season wherein the Act should take place viz. the first day of the 5th month called July following hoping then and afterwards at once to do thy work upon us and so high were thy spirits boyed to this attempt that thou hadst not patience to stay until the day but before the day thou wentst to work and yet we think thee not very wise in so doing but the Lord suffered thy haste to befool thee and on the 12th of 4th month down thou sentest thy officers who to the meeting came and there played the mad men some of them Jones c. halling and pulling striking and dragging and thy said Serjeant Jones put off his Gown and to work he went for he must do something one way as thou hadst done another and why not seeing he was executioner as thou wast Magistrate and about he swings his Mace and had bruised one our Friends hands therewith in pieces in all likelihood at which he struck if it had not been taken away and here the peace came to be broke on a peaceable people and those of the officers that could not be as mad as he but had some reluctancy against such usages to people of qualitie and their loving Neighbours he used as he pleased in particular William White an old Royalist whom he much in words abused and because we could not bow to his commands he caused some of us to be dragged and had away and carried to Prison as if he were Mayor and Justice and King and Parliament and all and above them all in breaking the Peace which the Law is against whose Names are as follows William Ford Nath. Milner John Love Sam. Taylor Will. James Jos Moor John Johns Israel Bird Robert Claxton Tho. Jaques alias Jackson Will. Emblin Jos Canings Hen. Prichard And. Sole and Tho. Atkins and these
viz. the sending of all away notwithstanding all this bussle and the violence of some of thy Officers particularly John Jones thy Sergeant vvho because Thomas Winfield answered not presently his Command to come down he violently threw him down the stairs from top to bottome with such a fall as had like to have spoiled him the fear whereof seized on many thus breaking of the peace above whilest thou wast below as seeming to sit and keep it yet we say thou didst not accomplish thine end to put up all and so to make clear work for though thou sentest away of Men Women to Newgate 24. and to Bridewel about one hundred forty and six and satest at it so long yet thou wast forced to arise and depart as a man quite tired saying Thou couldest do no more and so there was many of whom thou tookest no notice So thou hadst thy Belly full of Prey this day and as great an opportunity in this kind against the Innocent as thine heart could wish and with thine hands thou didst the desire of thine heart till thou couldst do no more for which the Lord vvill give thee thy reward even blood to drink for thou art worthy and in the Cup wherein thou hast filled shalt thou be filled double as John saw in his Revelations who prophecied of thy day in the fall of Babilon who had made he self drunk with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Iesus Rev. 18.6 In the cup which she hath filled to you fill to her double saith he vvhich shall be thy portion from the hand of the Lord except thou repent And now the City was full of sorrow and much trouble affected the sober people therein vvho before never saw such a day nor heard of in Bristol vvherein their quiet peaceable sober innocent and substantial fellow-Citizens were thrust in heaps into holes after such a manner for their Conscience Bridewel being full of them like the place of a great Fair five and fifty Women in Bridewel not having above four or five beds to lie on about the Bed of vvhich in one Chamber lay about 30 on the form and floor which by reason of the uncleanness of that house in many places of it being cast in there in such numbers on a suddain so that the house could not be cleansed before vvas so filled with vermine that through the going up and down of such multitudes in every place vvho in a manner filled every place was contracted so that sleep could not rest in the eyes of many who had not been exercised vvith such hard lodging and troublesome guests Who were people of Quality many of them and Credit and lived otherwise in the world And in Newgate several such viz. some Merchants some Shop-keepers were constrained to lie on straw that night above Twenty lying in the Circumference of one narrow place for such a number called the Traytors ward and indeed that prison was so full what with our friends before and now committed and what with old and new debtors and felons the time of the Asizes and Gaol delivery drawing on that they were cast thicker in proportion than a man that had regard to his creatures would put his dogs and swine as if so be thou intendedst by infection to have dispatcht them in that noysome hole which is scarce fit for dogs much lest for men such men as they were and had been bred and lived though thou thereby shouldst hazzard thy self the City it being the hot season of the year and in that respect the more dangerous much like to Nero whom Histories report to have caused Rome to be set on fire in several places whilest he standing on a Tower with his Musitians made sport thereat Yet this effected not what thou thoughtst to bring to pass viz. by these things to withdraw the love of the City from us or to deter them from their visiting of us for it increased their love and people by heaps came to visit those of us whom thou hadst cast into prison some by the sixth hour in the next morning were there to visit them viz. at Bridewell and by continual entercourse both there and at Newgate and expressions of their love shewed how much their hearts were touched with their sufferings and let us tell thee it reached further than any thing of this nature had reached before and many were pained at the heart and knew not vvhat to doe such large furrows had these thy cruelties made upon their souls vvhich shevved thee an unwise man in thy Generation thus to Act raising the fire so much the more vvhich thou soughtest hereby to quench and making those the more considerable and to have a deeper root in the City then ever whom thou wouldest and endeavourdest to have rooted out for as was wrote thee aforesaid they being interwoven in the City as a mans spirit is in his flesh and his flesh in his body the suffering of them proved as a mans flesh in his body and his spirit in his flesh and thou camest to be abhorred hereby and thy name to be as stink in the City which as it never before saw such heaps of violence So it never hated a man more that thus did exercise it and so whilest ages and generations lasts this thy work will be thy shame and in the perpetual Monuments of time will brand thy name with ignominy for ever Thou shalt not avoid it except thou repent Nor was it onely in Bristol that these things thus ran but in the Countrey about and in London yea throughout England which whilest it generally stood in a modest sensibility and loathness to such Acts as these had the leisure to hear the sound of these cruelties and to abhor thee so that thou becamest the general talk in City and Country especially at London and not without the like at Court which thought thee hadst gon beyond the limit of the discresion of their affaires and mad man like hadst set all on fire when as two or three sticks some of the principle of them as the Law directs might have tried how that smoak would have proved and ' its like thou hadst no thanks from thence for so doing Yet the Lord was with his people who kept them in prison amidst all these sufferings praising and glorifying his name as he was with them at the meetings and in the sence of his presence gave them the seale of his Apobation that that their testimony to him was accepable in his sight and that they bore testimony to him Whose Names are Newgate Men. Thomas Gouldney Charls Jones Miles Dixin Charls Harvord Will. Taylor Rich. Marsh Will. Taylor of the Castle George Gough Rich. Snead Rich. Belshar Hen. Dedicote Jos Owen John Cole Andrew Sole Erasin Dole John Hunt 16. Women Mary Gouldney Eliz. Pyet Magd. Love Ann Sole Joyce Dole Eliz. Moore Eliz. Gibbons Joan Hiley 8 24 in all Bridewell Men. John Moon John Batho Thomas Lewis Nath.
thing for John Saunders but in the hurt of his Conscience though being committed by thee he lay upon stravv in Traytors Ward for his Conscience And this is thy Conscience and the tenderness of thy heart to thy friends and near Relations for their Conscience yet a great deal of love thou wouldst needs pretend to thy Cozen Gouldney as thou hast to many more of Vs but vvherein it appears is yet to appear Sure We are that she continued a Prisoner till the expiration of the time aforesaid and her husband also and John Saunders as thou doest to us vvhat thou pleasest vvhom vvithout a cause thou pursuest but the day of the Lord is upon Thee and thy Deceit is made manifest The next first day of the Week being the 10th of 5th Mon. thou didst cause the doors of the Meeting-house to be kept fast having had thy belly full of toyl the day before and being willing its like to hear how thy other dayes action vvas resented at Court the Prisons moreover being full and the City discontented and the Sessions drawing nigh so the Meeting vvas in the street vvhich received the Taunts of thy Sergeant Jones vvho had newly bought his office and as the Proverb is speaking by contrarieâ— would needs be good in it and Baal aforesaid vvho seeing two strangers there that came out of Ireland took them away to Bridewell and having taken the Names of whom they pleased went their Way The Sessious being come viz. the 12th of the 5th mon. a Bill of Indictment at Comon Law vvas drawn and exhibited against William Ford and those 14 vvith him that were had from Meeting the 12th of the Moneth before as hath been related and laid in Prison vvhich the Grand Iurie finding they were brought to the Hall in the Afternoon and there put into the Cub where Murderers and Felons are used to be placed though W. Ford and Nath. Milner were thy neare Neighbours and men of dealing in whom the Poor were much concern'd and of good Reputation and the Indictment being read to them there For being at an unlawful Meeting by force and Arms c. They pleaded except Thomas Atkins and Iohn Iohns Not Guiltie The Witnesses viz. thy Officers were examined who swore That in the Kings Name they made Proclamation for them to depart When as a Month before when thou committedst them they swore that it was in thy Name for which thou then reprovedst them saying It should have been in the Kings which in a Months time it seems was become so This the Prisoners observed and pleaded against the Validity of their testimony who swore one thing one moneth and another thing as to the same matter another moneth as they did against the falshood of the matter of their Testimony This thou undertook'st to justifie and would'st needs to shew how thou wa'st still concern'd in the Prosecution of our suffering prove by Consequence thus Thou wert the Kings Officer they made Proclamation in thy name who wast an officer of the Kings therefore it was in the Name of the King Fine Logick in Law But a Bill of Indictment as to Perjurie before a Righteous Jury thou not being the Judge for thou art concern'd and no righteous Judgment can be expected at thy hands would clip the ears of thy Offiers and give them other sufferings of fine and Imprisonment and then how could thy Logick serve them For Words of Evidence ought to be plain and the same not one day one thing and another day another thing and thy Name is not the Kings and the Kings Name is not thine in point of Proclamation especially unless thou wilt needs be King in Bristol which it seems one of the Judges of the Kings Bench saw cause to place upon thee as aforesaid Take heed John Knight of these things Ego Rex meas I and my King cost Cardinal Poole something thou must not come too near here though thy mind aspires too much Remember the saying of old viz. Kings and Concubines admit no competitors Take heed Iohn Knight of Tower-hill the Axe there hath an edge for all save Kings and once know that Proclamations as to Law must be in the Name of the King not thine Iohn Knight unless in the Name of the King so thou maist stay thy hast least thou repent at leisure These things rendred thy Witnesses in view of the Hall not fit to testifie having appeared forsworn But thou didst not think so that was not to the business thou hadst in hand viz. Right or Wrong as it seems to make them suffer so false Witnesses may serve any thing that is like that 's call'd a Witness that hath a syllable or two like the matter may serve the turn the matter is judged already viz. They shall suffer The same was in the case of Thomas Speed c. as aforesaid So Robert Edwards Sergeant swore Positively that W. Ford was in the meeting when as he met William Ford in the street and there took him up and when W. Ford asked him In what place he saw him in the Meeting he hung down his head and said nothing The same he also swore as to Iohn Love whom he saw coming down the stairs of the meeting Roome But all men that are in their wits do know that the stairs to a place is not the place and Evidence in point of Testimonie ought to be Positive both as to Place and Time Yet this was the Entertainment that they met with at thine and the hands of thy Officers But this is not all after these thy Witnesses had said what they pleased thou spakest a few words to the Jurie and then they withdrew forthwith not having heard the Prisoners who though they called upon them to stay and to hear what they had to say for themselves for Qui Judicat aliquid altera parte in audita haud equum facit Judicium That is He that judgeth anie thing the other part being unheard can hardly give right Iudgment as the Maxim is Yet away they went as if having heard thee it was enough and that the knowledge of thy mind were sufficient so giving to understand as if there were a Confederacie between You to make them to suffer which one of them intimated to thee in a Letter hereafter to be mentioned Whereupon the Prisoners called aloud to thee and the Town-Clerk to cause them to stay in which being importunate as indeed it did concern them thou and the Town-Clerk called to them to stay yet they would not return to their place to hear them but vvent in and after they vvere vvithdrawn Gunter the Fore-man of the Iurie an Officer formerly in the Militia and a known inveterate enemie to us came forth with the Book of Statutes under his Arme desiring to know of the Town-Clerk against what Statute it was when the Indictment was at Common Law So vvell prepared vvas this Fore-man and the Iurie as men use to say by the contraries and
being so near the prison and the prison of Newgate having no outlet though the Kings Bench the Fleet and other considerable Jailes in England have that so heaps upon heaps men might not be smothered to death and prisons be made places of execution and holes of murder but thou wouldst not consent thereunto but as if by all that thou couldst do thou sought'st their ruine or to bow their conscience to thee which was worse thou didst as aforesaid Haman like but Mordecai the true Jew in the Spirit cannot bow to thee though thou seekest therefore to cut of the whole Race of the Jews as aforesaid which as it did to Haman will prove thine own portion if thou dost not repent in the day of the Lord who will render to thee according to thy deeds Indeed Mary Gouldney told thee in the meeting that thou shouldst have provided wholson prisons for them before thou hadst committed them seeing thou knewest it was in thy mind to commit them and not to throw them up in heaps into Prisons so full as were these which was good counsel if thou couldst have hearkened thereto and then the Blood of the innocent might not so have come upon thee but as the swine thou wast when she spake these things and said to thee moreover that the bread thou brakest would be broken to thee again and as thou hadst shewn no mercy so mercy would not be shewn to thee to which purpose Joane Hiley also spake then unto thee We say like to the swine thou wast thou turn'dst and rent them and on Ioan Hiley laidst violent hands thy self for which she reproved thee there and Baal that bloody * He boasted how many of us he could dispatch in a day He said if he we e is the Major he would make our guts hang about our beds as our hats about oâ—r heâ—ds That those that feared the Lord would burn us alive hanging was too good for us when one spake to him to fear the Lord that the hoped to see us burnt at a stâ—ke with fire and faggot that if we were in France and Spain we should see what they would do to us that he could bâ—yle our limbs and scum them who professes himself to be a Roman Catholick and hath acknowledged that he worshâ—ps Images This is our executioner and this bloody villain is made our Judge Hangman of thine did the same on Mary Gouldney whom he had like to have thrown down the staires whom for so doing though in thy view thou didst not reprove Well these heaps upon heaps thus thrown together as hath been yet satisfied thee not but more thou must have as Hell and the grave which are never satified and therefore the next first day of the week viz. 14th of 6th month to work thou goest again making it another day of muster for so were those dayes made from time to time till thy date was out and so company after companies thou sentest on those daies to thy Jailes to fill up thy measure and having brought Alderman Sandy with thee poor man sorely against his heart for he loved not these things though he knew not how to avoid thy impetuous commands who makes representations of all that please thee not thou erectedst thy Court in the Meeting room there again and sent'st to Newgate Men. Thomas Speed Thomas Gouldney Tho. Callowhill John Hert Hen. Comely and Rowland Dole 6 Women Eliz. Pyol Magdalen Love Mary Dedicot Joice Dole Jane Tucker Deborah Watkins 6 12. in all And to Bridewell Men. Charles Harvoâ—d Abraham Cole John Batho Sam. Rogers Christ. Newman Charles Horsington Jeremy Hâ—gnel Morris Williams W. Collins W. Blackway Iohn Northal 11 Women Dorcas Lloyd Alexandra Perkins Mary Willis Dorcas Hewlet Mary Browchil Alice Moor Brightweed Ieffries Mary Leech Mary Hunt Eliz. Hogford Anne Brinkworth Eliz. Chamberlein Anne Mogs 14 25 in all this muster Roll of this day being thirty and seven who were committed by thee till the 6th of the 7th month following though those imprisoned by thee the day before were to the 19th Now at this thy high Court thou wast up with thy old trade again and to sirrahing of T. Speed thou wentest again forgeting thy self what thou wast what thou must be and Tom was up again so that sober people judg'd thee little better then a Man distracted and why all this Because he coolely spake to thee to convince him first that he had transgressed the Law before thou sentst him to prison as a transgressor of the Law So then a Rebel he must be and thou calledst him so but he told thee That thou wast a rebel against the God of heaven and shouldst have thy reward At which words of sobernesse and truth thou wast so incenst that had not a Serjeant perceiving what thou wouldst likely have done put him down the staires thou seemest as if thou wouldst have thrown him down thy self and with thy cousin Gouldney thou keptst great ado much after thy old wont So the Prisons became full but thy belly was not Too much liberty yet thou thoughtst some of these prisoners to have thy milstones ground not close enough together Edw. Pyot Geo. Bishop who were now bringing about the year of their imprisonment Thomas Speed and T. Gouldney bore up yet these to the old prison must go though cramm'd as aforesaid and no nay there must be for it and Sheriff Strâ—a … must give orders though George Bishop was his brother in Law Thomas Speed his uncle and Th. Gouldney one with whom he dealt and thy cousin as aforesaid Away they must go to the old execution house and there that must try what that could do to them and Roach must have orders so to do and his orders he signifies The prisoners thought it convenient so far to be unconcern'd in their own suffering whatsoever might happen to signifie to Sheriff Streamer in what condition the prison was and how there was no place fitting for them into which he had ordered them to be cast and therefore Geor. Bishop wrote a Letter to him and desired him to come down himself and to let his own eyes satisfie him as to the view of the prison who the day following towards the evening this being the second day of the week and the 15. of the 6. month coming down and viewing it himself with the Sword-bearer saw such an inhabitation of stench and company that he continued things as they were and moreover granted liberty to all women with child to make their houses their prisons and all that were sick Lidiah Lovy being that morning passed to her long home upon the foot of vvhat thou hadst formerly done as aforesaid vvith vvhich order of his thou declarest thy self content and so ended this great contest vvith some addition of Liberty to the prisoners as aforesaid through the Blood of their friend Thus Bloud touched Bloud yet thou couldst not give over but on the 21st of 6th month sentest thy Officers to