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peace_n	case_n	justice_n	session_n	2,687	5	10.4872	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56805	The conformist's fourth plea for the nonconformists wherein several considerations are offered for Christian forbearance : with some relations of some of their sufferings ..., together with some account of the infamous lives and lamentable deaths of some informers / by a charitable and compassionate conformist, author of the former Pleas.	Pearse, Edward, 1631-1694.	1683 (1683)	Wing P974; ESTC R34547	112,844	120

his Death as is verily believed Mr. Tho. Bakewell Rector of Rolleston and afterwards Lecturer of Burton upon Trent in the County of Stafford was suspended by B. H. for preaching in his own House and was taken by a Warrant together with Mr. Ford an eminent Minister as he is said to be his then Auditor and brought before Sir who demanded Sureties for the Behaviour Mr. B. asked if Preaching was a Breach of the Behaviour The Justice said It was Then said they both We will give no Bond against Preaching Upon which they were imprisoned ten Weeks and released without any Imposition of Bonds or Security After the Oxford Act he left his Wife and Family at Burton and kept away for many Months till be saw the Edg of his Adversaries abate preaching and shifting from House to House When the King's Declaration came out he was invited to preach eight Miles off and to keep himself from the Officers that had Warrants against him and the People they congregated in Lanes and wooddy Places But the Huntsmen sent their Dogs after them from place to place and took Names and informed and Distresses were made for Persons but not for the Common on which they met not being known to be in any Parish It is observed That all one Summer which was wet they were not wet with Rain while they met insomuch that the Country-People said They can have fair Weather to keep their Conventicles when others could not get fair Weather to get in their Harvest He was confined to his own House as a Prisoner not daring to go forth without great circumspection for some Years and by strange Providences like Athanasius escaped great Dangers and narrow Searches Mr. Tho. Jollie Minister of Altham upon his Ejection broke up House and with three small Children was put to wander for a considerable time without any certain Dwelling-Place When he was a Sojourner at Healy Octob 9. 1663 he was seized upon by a Lieutenant and three Souldiers in a rude manner was set on Horseback behind one of them not permitted to draw on his Boots nor put on his Hat These carried him to Burnley and committed him to a Guard He was examined about keeping Meetings which could not be proved but yet he must find Sureties for the Behaviour and as if that was too little he must be sent out of his Country When he was at Family-Duty in a House to which he was committed by a Colonel a Captain came in boysterously pretending it was a Conventicle and with some Words of Blasphemy plucked the Bible out of his hand and drew him to the Court of Guard where he must sit all Night insulted over and was not suffered to lie down till towards Day when he was permitted to lie on a little moist Straw He was contrary to the Order of a Justice of Peace and without the Command of the Colonel set away on the Lord's Day in extreme Rain to Skippon in York-shire and there lay under the Marshal's hand till sent back because the Officers there knew not to what purpose or for what Cause he was committed Novemb. 4. 1663. he was taken Prisoner by three Troopers not shewing him any Warrant or Order and not telling him whither they would have him but carried him to York and put him under the Marshal's hand who lodged him in a cold Room without Fire in the depth of Winter and no Crime objected to him there after a great Expence and Hazard of his Life he was sent home in Peace Feb. 12. 1664 he was taken at a Meeting by the same Captain his Souldiers brake down the Doors by his Command When the Captain came in among them his Courage failed him and his Countenance fell so that he went away and left Mr. J. to his Souldiers one of whom W. raged against him in vile and bloody Expressions Soon after which he and another Souldier were taken away by Death in a terrible manner He and others were carried before two Justices who sent him to Lancaster Goal where he continued the full Time appointed by the first Act against Conventicles After his Release he was again Novemb. 23. 1665. seized by Order from the Lord Lieutenant and Deputies and by them turned over to the Justices to give Bond for the Behavior or to be sent to Goal but Justice Rigby confessed it was without Precedent and therefore sent him home upon promise to surrender himself if he sent for him within a Fortnight After the Five-Mile Act came out he was separated from his Friends and forced to leave his own Estate and put to continual Night-Travels to enjoy Divine Ordinances for many Years by which he contracted Diseases to the danger of his Life Being upon a time taken Preaching for which a Warrant of Banishment for the third Offence was sent out against him but it miscarried and he escaped April 25. 1669 he was taken by Captain and his Man who brought him before some Deputy-Lieutenants who sent him to Lancaster Goal for six Months for preaching within five Miles of Altham where he had been Minister In October he was sued for Forty Pound upon the Five-Mile Act by the said Captain N. which Suit cost Mr. J. about Eighty Pounds Decemb. 5. following a Warrant of the Behaviour was served upon Mr. J. for as he saith fulfilling his Ministry in feeding his Flock according to his solemn Vow made at his Ordination About June 14. 1674 before he knew his License from the King was out he was taken preaching in one of his licensed Places by Captain N. who commanded him to come down or he would pistol him holding his Pistol at him in the Pulpit and swearing blasphemously and calling him shamefully After the Captain had detained him as a Prisoner being made a Justice he sent forth a Warrant to distrain Twenty Pounds upon Mr. J.'s Goods and because his Goods were removed out of the way he sent out two Warrants to distrain upon two of his Hearers which Goods of theirs Mr. J. redeemed because taken instead of his Another Warrant was sent out for Twenty Pounds for the House The whole of the Fines for that Meeting came to about Forty four Pounds which was all imbezelled without paying to the King his part or giving to the Poor theirs save only one Forty Shillings The King did graciously remit to the Sufferers his part but the Captain would not obey the Order of the Lord Treasurer Yet this is for the King The same is known to be true of a Justice in Lancashire About Novemb. 7. 1678. Mr. J. with several other Dissenting Protestants were presented among the Plotting Papists They made their Appearance and desired their Business might be put off till the next Sessions which the Justice granted because the Parliament had the Case of Dissenters before them Yet the Clerk of the Peace returned him and the rest into the Exchequer thereby as he saith cheating them out of their Liberty of Traverse This was