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A96961	The wounds of an enemie in the house of a friend. Being a relation of the hard measure sustained by Miles Halhead, and Thomas Salthouse, for the testimony of Jesus: particularly in a long, and sore, and close imprisonment, first at Plymouth, and then at Exeter in the county of Devon, though they have neither offended the law of God, or of the nation. Published for the clearing of their innocency from the cloud of transgression, of which they are supposed highly guilty, and by reason of their silent abiding such sharp, and long, and cruell sufferings.	Halhead, Miles, 1613 or 14-1689 or 90.; Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3665; Thomason E870_7; ESTC R2977	52,373	80

to wit that they must expect to suffer persecution was instrumentall and on what was then said to him being in truth no otherwise then what have been said as ten honest men of Plymouth then present have attested under their hands which is hereunto annexed is laid the pretended ground of the long and cruell sufferings which they have and doe still undergoe hereafter mentioned For on the third day of the week following being the 21 of the month called May the day before they intended to depart the Town Miles and Thomas being at a meeting of friends in Robert Caryes house in the Town the Counstables came thither with a Warrant from John Page Mayor out of which they took them and their friend of Bristoll and them having apprehended they brought before the Mayor at his house who after a few words spoken to them sent them to Prison at the Gild-hall without signifying any crime they had committed that might deserve a restraint The next day they were brought from Prison before the Mayor Magistrates and Counsell and the Priest of the Town and severally examined the doores being shut and all who were their friends turned out by the Constables not one being suffered to be present at their Examination who any wayes favoured them to testifie in their behalfe and having examined them after this manner for the space of about three hours they released their friend of Bristoll and returned the other two to Prison In which having continued them some dayes a friend applyed himselfe to the Mayor and desired of him to know for what they was committed who positively answered that they were detained for denying the Trinity and that there had been Oath taken before them for that purpose to which accusation though they had fully answered at their examination yet that their innocency might more clearly appear they wrote a Letter to the Mayor declaring what they held therein according to the Scriptures against which they excepted not After the perusall of which the friend aforesaid went to the Mayor againe to know whether that had given him any satisfaction and if so to know what further he had to say against them to which the Mayor finding nothing of exception in their Letter concerning the Trinity which would beare any weight answered that they were detained for refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration and upon suspition that they were Jesuites though many who are any ways ingenious freely declared they had no such thoughts of them as indeed they afforded no matter for any such suspition being plain husband-men and such as had never been out of this Island whereupon they sent the Mayor a second Letter wherein they set down more plainely the grounds wherefore they could not sweare then they were admitted to manifest at their examination though for refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration the Proclamation that inforceth it gives no power of imprisonment nor injoyns any such thing Notwithstanding all which having kept them then Prisoners for the space of a week the Mayor sent them in custody the 28 of the same month to the common Goal in the Castle at Exeter with a Warrent under his hand wherein he chargeth them not with the denyall of the Trinity or refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration of Popery the causes as he before said of their Imprisonment but as Being apprehended as disturbers of the publick peace and for divers other high misdemeanours against a late Proclamation prohibiting the disturbing of Ministers and other Christians in their assemblies and meetings and against an Ordinance of his Highnesse the Lord Protector and his Counsell lately made against Duels and Challenges and all provocations thereunto And for refusing to give sufficient Suretyes for their personall appearance at the next generall Sessions of the peace to be held for the County of Devon and in the mean time to be of the good behaviour against his Highnesse the Lord Protector and all his leige people as by the copy of the Warrant at large appeareth when as they disturbed not the Peace in the least nor them whom they call Ministers nor other Christians in their Assemblies and Meetings for they were with none of them nor were any other whilst they had been in the Town but disturbed they were in their Meetings by the Mayor who by his Constables and Warrant took them out from their Meetings and imprisoned them without a cause and contrary to the said Ordinance and to the Government which Article 37 saith in these words That all that professe faith in God by Jesus Christ though differing in judgement from the doctrine worship and discipline publickly held forth shall not be restrained from but be protected in the profession of the faith and exercise of their Religion so as they abuse not this liberty to the Civill injury of others and to the actuall disturbance of the Peace on their parts Provided that this liberty be not extended to Popery Prelacy and to such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practice licentiousnesse Nor Challenged they any to Duells or gave any provocation thereunto The Principle by which they are guided leading out of strifes debates and quarrellings and the root from whence they proceed to wit the Spirit that is in men that lusteth unto envy and with all men have they peace as far as is possible And for that clause For refusing to give Sureties for their good behaviour c. It would be a matter of admiration that the Mayor did not blush to give such a notorious untruth under his hand when as he knowes two sufficient able men as to the outward to wit Robert Cary and Arthur Cotton of that Town were bound before him in such a Recognizance for their appearance as he required though the next day he made it voyd were it not that his illegall and oppressive proceedings and the manifest other lyes with which the Warrant is filled renders him as one that will know no shame All which more at large appeareth in their Answer to this Warrant and the Testimony of eleven honest men of that Town who were eye and ear Witnesses of these passages delivered under their hands to Major Generall Disbrow before the Sessions hereafter mentioned to the truth of their said Answer And for the divers other high misdemeanours they are yet to mention and therefore there needs nothing in Reply for all men who understands the Law know That a generall Charge requires no particular Reply and is as much as nothing Only this may be observed That he who had so contrary unto Law imprisoned them and kept them for the space of a week and during that time had shifted from one thing to another as the cause thereof as hath been said and then sent them to Exeter Prison with this Warrant full of other abominable falshoods there being not one true Assertion therein would no doubt have formed something or other in relation thereunto had it

the men in severall parts who are summoned by Prelaticall Malignant and Presbyterian Justices so called to abjure Popery or their Names and Habitations to be taken and returned into the Exchequer for the Sequestration of their Estates and these are the men who are taken up in the Country as they are upon their lawfull occasions against whom there being no accusation in Law this Oath is put to them which because they refuse to take out of conscience to an Oath not daring to swear at all because of the Command of Christ Jesus the great Law-giver are imprisoned where many of them have a long time layn and doe yet lye though contrary to Law not unknown to the Chief in Authority some of whom have personally pressed it And not only is this exercised upon men but on women also who till this day since the times of Popery were never known to be so used but have been forborn as that which hath been accounted below the dignity and spirit of a man to exact And the next word now to any one who is reproached with the name of Quaker who are known out of Conscience not to dare to Swear at all is usually give him or her the Oath of Abjuration of Popery though he be their Neighbour whom they know to be and their Consciences tells them is far from any such thing and there they are sure to catch him and to have their revenge on him for Witnessing the Truth as it is in Jesus when otherwise they cannot get him into the compasse or pretence of any Law and having fast here there he may lye for the Eternall Truth for which he suffers seeks not to man for deliverance and those who should regard care little for the matter and the cry of their oppressions seldome enters into their ears Thus in all Ages hath Error sought to support it self against the Truth and to ensnare the Consciences of those of her Children with Oaths when other manner of Persecutions have not reached that so she might be secure and never know sorrow Which Oaths as they are out of the Doctrine of Christ so a Curse have they proved instead of a Defence and the beginner and certaine Fore-runner of the Destruction and Finall Overthrow of that Kingdome as these and former Generations have witnessed though before in never so promising and flourishing condition and seeming in its own eye to want nothing but Oaths to establish it And now the Witnesse of God is drawn forth against this and all manner of Swearing and it is Witnessing in sufferings at the hands of those on whom was pressed the Oath c. And the Covenant and who in their time Suffered by and Testified and Fought against those who imposed and sought to establish both and also against the Bishops Oath Ex Officio which required a man to Swear against himself and Whether the imposing of an Oath upon a man to abjure what is supposed to be his conscience wherewithall to worship God upon the penalty of loosing his Estate if he refuse be lesse let the Wise in heart judge And Whether upon the same ground and by the same Rule the like Oath may not be imposed as to any other thing and exacted upon the same penalty The Witnesse of God hath its time of Raigning as well as Suffering and will as certainly Raigne as it doth Suffer it was ever so in all Ages these later above any have known it so and so it will be in this and in the Ages to come Let those whom it concerns who have had a time of Suffering and Reigning and now cause others to Suffer consider before it be too late The Judge standeth at the door and according to the Greatnesse and Majesty of the Truth that is witnessed and the Sufferings that attend its Testimony and the condition of those who cause it to Suffer as having been Witnesses and Sufferers themselves and the Sword of the Lord upon that which hath caused to Suffer and have known his Presence and Mighty Power therein wonderfully and his strange Overturnings whereby to cause to Raigne what hath been so testified unto by Sufferings will be the Judgement Except they repent You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore will I punish you for your iniquities saith the Lord Whilst they are the sufferings of Sion who is there that considereth or layeth them to heart but the Rod of the wicked shall not alwayes lye on the back of the Righteous there 's a time when the Testimony of the Truth in sufferings will be finished and other men will have their Day who have cryed Aha and nagged the head and stamped with the feet and helped on their sufferings and caused them to suffer and looked on their brethren in the day of their distresse wherein the Lord will mock at their calamity and their sorrowes which shall come upon them as on a woman in travell and they shall not escape whilst the righteous who have mourned in Sion joy in the Lord and rejoyce in the God of their salvation having beauty for ashes the Oyle of joy for mourning and the Garments of praise for the spirit of heavinesse for God is Judge The next day they were brought before the Bench again Court Will ye confesse that you wronged G. Brookes in calling of him Thief and be sorry for it and make him satisfaction Answ One of us did not speak one word to him and therefore I deny to make him satisfaction or to be sorry for it and what was spoken was no such thing therefore we will not lye for our liberty nor confesse that we are sorry for that which we never spoke Court You are fined five pound a piece and must goe to the House of Correction till payment and to find Sureties for your good behaviour and for refusing to take the Oath we shall take course to send to the North to seize on your Estates according to the Proclamation And so to Prison were they returned and what followes entred as the Record of their proceedings A Calender of the Prisoners Tryed and Delivered at the Generall Sessions of the Peace publick holden at the Castle of Exon. July 10. 1655. THomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead for provoking words against George Brooks Clerk who refused to be Tryed by the Countrey fined 5 l. a piece committed to Bridewell till payment and finding Sureties for their good behaviour And thus as the day before they were returned to Prison instead of being admitted to a Tryall according to Law after the Indictment against them was read and they had made a sufficient Legall Plea thereunto and Desired their Accusers might be brought in and they liberty to speak in their own Defence as aforesaid so now Judgement is given against them without a Tryall or Hearing or bringing in so much as one Accuser and yet the Record saith A Calender of the Prisoners Tryed Have such things as these before these dayes been

heard of in this Nation Is it not hereby manifest that nothing but to cause the Innocent to suffer is sought after by them who to help those to right that suffer wrong and to relieve the oppressed are entrusted by the Law And is not the Justice and Relief of the Law hereby made voyd and of none effect and trampled under foot by those who are in Commission to execute Justice What is become of Liberty of liberty for tender consciences If things must be so talke no more of Law let not liberty come forth of your lips When they were first imprisoned at Plymouth the Mayor said they were detained for denying the Trinity then for refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration then he sent them to the common Goal at Exeter and charged them with disturbing of the Peace and Other high misdemeanours against the Act prohibiting the disturbing of Ministers and other Christians in their peaceable Assemblies and against the Ordinance for preventing of Duells and for not finding Sureties for their good behaviour At this Sessions they are Indicted for disgracefull provoking words spoken to G. Brookes calling him Thief c. That being read They are had a way and being brought again the Oath of Abjuration of Popery was tendred Them after which they are returned to Prison and the next day are demanded To confesse that they had wronged G. Brooks in calling him Thief and to be sorry for it and to make him satisfaction What turnings are here and falshoods traversed to destroy the Innocent When as One of them spake not a word to him and the Other no such word nor to any such purpose as is contained in the Indictment as is already manifested and as in their Answer to the Warrant by which they were committed and the Attestation of ten honest men at Plymouth delivered to Generall Disbrow and in another Declaration of theirs all hereunto annexed at large appeareth and notwithstanding no accuser was ever brought to their faces and thy heard in their own Defence or to speak for themselves though both at Plymouth and this Sessions they demanded it and because they denyed to make him satisfaction for what they never did and to be sorry for words which they never spoke and so to lye for their liberty A Legall Tryall is denyed them and without a Tryall or Hearing Judgement given against Them wherein they are Fined 5 l. a piece and committed to Bridewell till payment and finding Sureties for their good behaviour after their having been kept Prisoners for above seven weeks before and in that manner as aforesaid by those who had broke the Law upon them in taking them from their peaceable Meeting waiting on the Lord when as they had transgressed no Law And to make sure work have they cast them into a place which is no Prison in Law and therefore a remove cannot be had out of it by a Habeas Corpus to the Upper Bench nor falls it under the consideration of the Judges in their Circuits Doth our Law judge a man before it hear him and know what he doth And indeed well might they avoyd it and be ashamed of their Cause and Proof for besides a Cloud of Witnesses which could have been brought and divers that were then present ready to give Testimony to the contrary as hath been mentioned and of the Innocency and Harmlesnesse of that Meeting and what was said therein upon which is grounded as is pretended the cause of all their sufferings Peter Pepham one of the Witnesses which were ready to Swear against them was heard to say the day before his going to Exeter to this effect I am going to Swear against the Quaker and if Swearing will doe it I will make them to suffer soundly He being a known Cavaliere and sometime a Servant to Duke Hamilton And besides G. Brookes and his two Witnesses there is not one to be found of these many who made up the Meeting of whom divers came out of novelty to Testifie what they affirm but the contrary for what they spake was generally well approved of And to mention only one particular One who had been a Captain in the Kings Army very well known in Plymouth did freely declare to a friend That having a scorn and contempt of the men and their way his end in coming to hear them was to see what he could catch from them to render them odious but having heard them he confessed that he thought them to be harmlesse innocent honest men and he would not lift up a finger against them if he might gain thereby ten thousand pounds And he freely declared to both the Witn●sses with whom he was very well acquainted That if they Swore any evill against them they would be perjured men Also that he never was so much convinced of the evill of his wayes and the power of God by any Minister that he had heard for many years before And for G. Brookes himself he is one whole conversation stinks in the Nostrills of those who savour of Civility and honesty who know him and his Conversation There needs to this no further instance then of his beastly wicked behaviour in the Nightingale Friggot of which he was then Priest which was such that even some of the Seamen of that Ship justified one who reproved him to his face of the Vanity Madnesse of his Conversation about three weeks before the Meeting aforesaid and told the said George Brooks that They should not be so wicked in their wayes were it not for his example And the Steward of the Ship aforesaid in the presence of two or three Witnesses affirmed That he was had and wicked enough before the said George Brooks came into the ship but since he was ten times worse and that he and some other in the ship could not endure to hear him Preaching or bauling as he called it yea a friend of the said Priests who manifesting some dislike in the Garden at the Meeting aforesaid that his friend G. Brooks should be questioned by what Spirit he spake at length confessed That his life was not conformable to his Doctrine And so abominable was his filthinesse that in the same Frigot was he made a publick Example for his Drunkennesse having a Quarter Canne hanged about his Neck and is since for that and his other wickednesse set on shore or turned out or the said Ship as appeareth by the Certificates of the Captain of that Friggot and two other Captaines of Friggots hereunto annexed And yet in the Cause and behalf of this Son of Belial so full of lyes and falshoods in every particular are the Innocent servants of Christ Oppressed and Afflicted as if they were not fit to live and after almost two months imprisonment lying on the ground because they refused to confesse and be sorry for calling him Thief which they never did nor was there any one that made proof thereof to their faces after their long and hard bonds

we Answer THe fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisedome hath taught us to regard and honour all men in the Lord and that Act we own which is made against quarrelling and fighting and cursed speaking which is the fruit of the flesh and that the Magistrates bear not the sword in vain but adds the penalty to the transgression of it and not to add the Law where there is no transgression proved And we doe declare and many can witnesse that unlesse you call the Scripture disgracefull words there was none spoken to him by us And we doe affirm that one of us did not speak one word to him and yet we are both accused and imprisoned and if this be the penalty of the Act that if one man offend two must suffer let all that know the Law of England with moderation judge And whether discoursing of the Scripture be a transgression of that yea or nay For what was spoken many of our friends of Plymouth which you confesse to be honest people that are friends to the Common-wealth of England did hear us you say Yet might they not be permitted to hear us examined before the Mayor and Magistrates of Plymouth upon the 23 day of the third month in the Common Hall in the presence of neer one hundred people and all our friends that heard the discourse and know the truth of it were put forth of the Hall and the door kept fast And we desired that if either man or woman had any thing to lay to our charge they might then speak But we never had our Accusars brought before us that we might see them or hear them speak And for that George Brooks spake concerning the three persons of the Trinity these words was spoken by one of us I know no such Scripture that speaks of the three persons in the Trinity but the three that the Scripture speaks of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and these three are one And the Baptism by one Spirit into one body and the Father the Word and the Spirit the Scripture declares to be one and he that hath the Son hath the father also And this we doe own he that can receive it let him And no such word was spoken by us as calling him a deluding spirit and therefore the Accusation is false Neither did we say that he came to draw away the hearts of the people from God as you say for he stood up and vindicated what we had declared to be truth and that of God in his conscience will witnesse against you in this thing And in that you say We spake to the people not to hearken to him and that he was a THIEF and pointed to the Bible which was then in his hand and other harms to the said George Brooks against the peace publick Here under a cloak of maliciousnesse have you made Lyes your refuge but with the light you are comprehended and your works of darknesse brought to it and reproved for we did neither call him Thief nor say he had stollen the Bible that was in his hand which you say we pointed at And you speak of other harms against George Brooks and say We meaned that he lyed And here you make use of meanings as if here were not false Accusations sufficient to drive on your design of Persecution you might have mentioned those other harms you speak of if you knew of any but it 's like you have mentioned the worst you heard of which we declare to be false as many can witnesse that heard the discourse that are inhabitors of Plymouth and friends to the peace of Englands Common-wealth So all yee that take your Oaths and give informations consider what you doe for because of Oaths the land mourns and the Lord God will come near to judgement and will be a swift witnesse against the lyar and the false Swearer that are out of the doctrine of Christ who saith Swear not at all but in all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay nay for whatsoever is more is evill And every one of you in particular take heed to the light of Christ in your consciences and there is your Teacher loving it that will keep you from accusing any man falsly and lead you out of all controversie and strife up to Jesus Christ who is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth on him who brings peace on earth and good will towards men who is the Prince of Peace of whose Government there shall be no end who is God over all blessed for evermore This we have written in Answer to the Bill of Indictment against us Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead Prisoners for the truths sake in Bridewell in Thomas Parish neer Exeter in Devonshire Record of the Sentence given against them at Sessions Devon A Calender of the Prisoners Tryed and Delivered at the Generall Sessions of the Peace publick holden at the Castle of Exon. July 10. 1655. THomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead for provoking words against George Brooks Clerk who refused to be Tryed by the Countrey fined 5 l. a piece and committed to Bridewell till payment and finding Sureties for the good behaviour The Answer of Miles and Thomas thereunto TO you Justices by whom we are committed we Answer as we did when we were before you and doe affirm that one of us spake not a word unto him George Brooks and to satisfie all such as may hear this thing under which we suffer as if we were Thieves or Murtherers we shall lay open to the view of all people the ground of the Discourse We being met together at a friends house neer Plymouth to wait upon the Lord there being more people then the house would contein we went into a Garden and after we had spoken some words of Exhortation to the people and had declared the truth of the experience we had found manifested in us of the free grace of God that brings salvation provoking them to love and to good works according to the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles as the Spirit gave us utterance at that time Then George Brooks unknown unto us stood up and spake to the people with the words of Paul to the Corinthians and said Take heed that yee receive not the grace of God in vain with many words in Vindication of what we had spoken witnessing that it was the eternall truth which we had spoken So after all was ended some began to enter into some discourse with him and one of us asked him whether he could witnesse what he had spoken to be from the life and power of it saying Thou hast uttered many Scriptures and good words but it 's he that hath the witnesse in himself that sets to his seal that God is true Then directing my speech to all that were there by way of Exhortation I spake the words of Paul to the Ephesians Let him that stole steal no more

Page Mayor The Answer of Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead to the above written Warrant A True Copy of a Miltimus by which we Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead are committed to the Goal at Exon. by John Page Mayor of Plymouth with Answers in defence of the truth to the false accusations cast upon us to make truth odious but for Sions sake we cannot hold our peace and suffer lyes to goe for truth First Accusation Disturbers of the publick Peace ANswer The Accusation is false for we have not disturbed the publick peace nor have we fellowship with any such as break the peace but have freely declared the way that leads to peace and doe desire that Grace and Peace may be multiplyed publickly to the ends of the earth and that all the occasion of strife and envy may be taken away and that the feet of them that are running on in the broad way that leads to destruction may be turned into the way of peace The second Accusation For divers other high misdemeanors against the late Proclamation by his Highnesse the Lord Protector prohibiting the disturbing of Ministers and other Christians in their Assemblies and Meetings ANswer The breach of this Proclamation we charge upon thee who when we were assembled and met together in a friends house to wait upon the Lord as hath been the practice of all Christians in former Ages and which the Law of this Nation doth allow Thou sents the Constables with a Warrant from thee and fetchest us out of the house from among our friends and broughts us two before thee and thou saidst thou hadst not time then to examine us but sents us to Prison Here let all people that love the light whose eyes are open judge whether we or our accusers have broken and transgressed this Proclamation which we and our friends claim our priviledge in we being free born men and friends to the Common-wealth and have disturbed none in their Assemblies nor were we at any publick meeting that thou canst charge upon us but amongst our own friends as many can witnesse for us if they may be heard And here we charge upon thee that which thou callest misdemeanours for we are clear in the thing and what is charged upon us here is false as many can witnesse that our demeanour hath not been disorderly nor contrary to the Lawes of God nor the Lawes of this Nation And although the word diverse be mentioned yet none in truth can be laid to our charge nor proved against us The third Accusation Against an Ordinance of his Highnesse the Lord Protector and his Counsell lately made against Duells Challenges and all provocations thereunto ANswer This Accusation against us is falsly charged upon us the Act we own and the Magistrates sword of Justice we own which is for the punishment of evill doers and the incouragement of them that doe well Our weapons are not carnall but sprituall nor have we challenged any man nor done violence to any nor provoked any nor used any other language then Scripture holdeth forth as Thee and Thou to a particular person whether he be King Priest or Prophet Judge or Justice and if any be offended by this or provoked by it let him speak or write the unlawfullnesse of it for against fightings quarrellings challenging and provoking one another to wrath by corrupt communications doe we declare freely knowing the ground of it for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evill worke The fourth Accusation Whereas Thou sayest We have refused to give Sureties for our personall appearance at the time and place mentioned ANswer Let the light of Christ in thy own conscience judge Thee and witnesse against Thee for us and for our friends that can bear us witnesse that sufficient Security was proffered to Thee for our Appearance but to make thy selfe manifest and thy Counsellors how hast thou written these lyes in the name of the Lord Protector and strengthned thy self to accuse the Innocent by using his name but to the Children of light is thy deceit discovered and laid open The fifth Accusation And whereas thou sayest In the mean time to be of the good behaviour ANswer We doe affirm before Thee and all the word that we are of the good behaviour and seek to be at Peace with all men and we know that in the truth you cannot charge us with any evill behaviour or that we walked disorderly amongst you wherefore be witnesse against thy self for out of thine own mouth Thou shalt be judged for that thou hast charged upon us we are not guilty of as many can witnesse for us And under these lyes and false Accusations doe we lye in Prison at Exon in Devon whose names are Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead Whom the world scornfully calls Quakers The Copy of a Warrant aforesaid with the Answer above written to it was given in to the hands of General Disbrow at Plymouth with this following Testimony to the truth thereof WE whose names are hereunto subscribed doe testifie That the severall particulars in this Answer made by our friends are true to wit That they did not at all disturb the publick peace Nor were they at any other Meeting but that which was appointed by us to disturb any Ministers or other Christians in their Assemblies and Meetings Nor are they guilty of any Challenges Duells and Provocations thereunto in the least measure whilst they were amongst us And as for their refusall to give security two of us whose names are Robert Cary and Arthur Cotton had given security to the Mayor by entring into Recognisance for their appearance at the next Sessions the day before their sending to prison but that the Town Clerk made it void the next day pretending it could not be according to Law Ralph Fogg Arthur Cotton Robert Cary Richard Smith Anthony Todde John Harris the younger Thomas Faulkner Nicholas Cole John Martindale Richard Lepincote John Harris the Elder The Copy of a Letter from the Mayor of Plymouth to Generall Disbrow concerning Miles and Thomas Plymouth 1 June 1655. Right Honourable CAptain Hatsell hath communicated to me what you rote him in reference to those two men Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead of whom and of their imprisonment your Honour had heard something from some persons of this place and received a copy of a Letter which they sent me By the inclosed copies of their Examinations your Honour will see some part of the cause of their confinement which was on their refusall to give Bayle for their appearance the next Generall Sessions to be held for the County of Devon they being as I conceive offendors within the late Ordinance of his Highnesse the Lord Protector and Counsell made against Duells Challenges and all provocations thereunto and also his Highnesse his late Proclamation against Quakers and they still refusing to give Bayle for their appearance as aforesaid went from hence to the Goal at Exon. on Tuesday last Indeed Sir