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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39880	For the King and both Houses of Parliament for you (who have known sufferings) now (in this the day of your prosperity) in the fear and vvisdom of God, to read over and consider these sufferings of the people of God in scorn called Quakers, which they have suffered in the dayes of the Commonwealth, and of Oliver and Richard Cromwel, and which they now suffer in your day for conscience sake, and bearing testimony to the truth, as it is in Iesus ...		1660 (1660)	Wing F1436; ESTC R35539	42,758	40

people who are incouraged and by their leaders caused to err persecuted in pretence of warrant from the King and power given from him and as it was in Olivers time done by them unto us so is it now and our sufferings in many places greater and the hand of the evil doers more strenghthened against us who since we were a people have not persecuted any or sought revenge against our persecutors in the least manner but with patience have suffered what hath been done unto us knowing that all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and be hated of all men for his Names sake and do rejoyce that we are counted worthy These Friends of the truth whose Names are under written who do give their Testimony of the truth and of Things herein mentioned who were present at the time of this persecution Nicolas Rawson John Jackson Michael Renold Anthony West William Overhead John Barber with many more Friends Darlington the eighteenth of the ninth Month 1660. This day week our meeting was broken and some had before one called a Justice who theatened if we met again to send us to prison South-hampton Friends being met together in the fear of the Lord in Portsmouth videlicet On the twenty one day of the eight Month last past they met together in silence at a Friends house where as they were waiting upon the Lord there came a guard of Souldiers and beset the house and some they hailed out of the meeting and dragged the man out of the house down the street to the main guard and then brought him up to his house again and shut him with the rest in the house until the second day about the seventh hour at night and then turned them forth and withdrew their guard then upon the next first day being the twenty eight day of the eight Month as Friends were met together there was likewise a guard of Souldiers beset the house and kept about twenty and one persons close prisoners in the Friends house which was all that were then gathered together and there kept them not suffering any provision to come to them but 〈…〉 they kept them all there until about the sixth day of the week following and then came and haled forth such as was not of the Town and set them at liberty but the rest being about ten Friends they keep still prisoners in the house then the last first day those that were not Imprisoned met together in another place at a Friends house and them they haled forth of their meeting and committed the men to a prison in the Town called Felltons hole where they stil remain and all this is as they say because Friends will not promise them not to meet any more in Town as the baptists hath done This is a short relation of their cruelty in that place towards Friends Monmouth-shire David Jones Imprisoned in that County for not coming to the steeple-house who if he would pay 1. s. per week for 12. Moneths past all which time he hath not been there which comes to 2. pounds 12. s. he might be releast Fleet London John Pollard and Joseph Pollard imprisoned first in Colchester Castle 13. Moneths and 2. weeks then returned from Colchester to the upper Bench prison and there kept prisoner five Moneths and a week and is since committed to the Fleet Prison at the suit of Mathias Armiger Farmer of Tythes who with Benjamin Maddock for less then 2. years Tythes valued to be worth about 35. pound have taken 57. Cows and Bullocks with one Bull in all worth about 12. score pounds from the said John and Joseph Pollard and returned nothing again and is kept a Prisoner besides York-shire Samuel Thornton being in a Meeting at Leeds with many more of the Lords people though he be a free man of the same Town was taken violently out of the Meeting by Martin Iles and John Dawson Alderman and hailed to Prison and there detained 5. dayes with several others which was also haled forth of the same Meeting which were Inhabitants within the said Borrough and the said Samuel Thornton by the said Alderman was ordered to be whipt and sent from Constable to Constable which was done accordingly though the place of his natural birth was but three miles from thence and he well known in the said Town Also Samuel Thornton was taken forth of a peaceable Meeting of the people of God at Holbetk by order of the Priest there and haled to Leeds before the said Alderman with two more who caused a Mittemus to be made and sent him to the Correction-house at Wakefield for a Vagrant where he was detained three Moneths and he had been an Apprentice in the same Town and after was called to the Sessions and there fined 10. pounds and sent to Prison again though he had broken no known Law nor for any other thing but for being in a peaceable Meeting amongst Gods People Dudly Templer of Wethersfield in Essex sent William Allen to Prison for no other cause but for coming to the Town of Wethersfield to a Meeting there and since from time to time his Clerk with many of the Town in a violent manner have pulled us out of our Meetings and not suffered us to be at quiet but sometime set guards of men in several places to keep us from meeting and sometime fined several for coming to our meeting and from John Child by a warrant from him or by his Order they pretending a warrant they took a horse Sadle and Pillion and what belonged to him and kept him three weeks but one day and then sent him home without sadle bridle pillion and the rest which they keep to this day notwithstanding have been oft demanded of them And they beat many friends much for coming to the Town and suffered rude boyes and others without reproof to abuse sober people to the shame of Justice and the possession of their Town and this hath been done in the presence and hearing of him the said Dudly Templer and not reproved And he himself hath scoffed at Friends and evil intreated many and set the rude people on to hale us out of the Town when if any thing could have been charged against us he being a Justice and a Commander of a Troop of Horse might have brought any of us to tryal and not in such a manner contrary to Law and Justice have abused us and broken the peace of this Nation and so rendred himself uncapable to to Rule and is to be ruled by Justice himself And of this his proceedings hundreds can testifie who have been eye-witnesses and sufferers by him and his Clerk and others of the Town of Wetherfield Essex At a Meeting in Thaxted in Essex the People of God being met peaceably together to wait upon the Lord a great company of rude people of the Town gathered otgether about the house swearing and cursing what they would do to the Quakers as they called

greatest in the form of Godlinesse but denyed the power 7. And for not paying Tythes for Conscience sake that bears Testimony to the everlasting Priesthood that ends the first that takes Tythes who redeems out of the earth have suffered long and tedious Imprisonment besides the losse and spoil of their goods while at the same time their bodies have been kept in prison in those holes and nasty Dungeons 918. and some have suffered as aforesaid for small summs as four pence twelve pence eighteen pence and two shillings and for about 706. pounds 8. shillings and 11 pence demand for Tythes the Priests and others have taken 3000 pound 3 shillings and eight pence and some of them have not been contented with treble damages but some of them have taken ten times more then their pretended due hath been which we never read that so many did suffer in the Apostles and primitive times for not paying tythes to the Jewish priesthood which Christ ended and tythes or to the Gentiles as we have done in our age within this nine or ten years nor in all these heads or particulars above mentioned though many of the Martyrs we believe have suffered for not swearing and not paying Tythes since the Apostles dayes by them who are called Christians as you may read in the book of the Martyrs that suffered and bore their Testimony to the life of Jesus which used the word Thou to a single person 〈…〉 as we 〈◊〉 for Conscience sake and cannot give men the honour below and though we would have all men cloathed with that honour which is from above and we have all men in esteem and would have them be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth Imprisoned in the Kings name Because for Conscience sake they cannot swear as Christ commands they should not swear but keep to yea and nay in their Communications 74 persons Hartford-shire Richard Martin Edward Fag Thomas Sellet Committed to prison the ninth of the fifth moneth 1660. the cause was they were summoned at a Sessions to appear as Jurors which they did and were willing to serve their Country but because they could not swear the Court fined them five pound each of them and to lie in prison until they paid it one James Cooper being the chief Judge of the Court. Oxford-shire Thomas Goodaire Benjamin Staples Committed to Prison the fifteenth day of the seventh month 1660. by Sir Wiliam Walter so called and Sir Thomas Pennaston because for conscience they could not swear and the Oath of Allegiance being tendred to them the second time for refusing again to swear the said William Walter being Judge with the rest of the Bench passed this sentence against them following You are out of the Kings protection and all your Lands Goods and Chattels are forfeited and to be seized upon for the use of the King and you are to remain in prison during the Kings pleasure Cheshire Alexander Parker imprisoned in Chester common Goal because for Conscience sake he could not take the Oath of Allegiance c Twenty of these following were committed to the common Goal in Chester because for Conscience sake they could not take the Oath of Allegiance the eighteenth of the eighth moneth 1660. by Grosvenor and Peter Dutton called Justices William Thomlisson Richard Thomlisson Randle Coxton Randle Hare Thomas Taylor John Madocks Iohn Badly William Hill John Parker Roger Smith Owen Painter John Newton Richard Thomlisson Henry Morcy Ed. Acton White William Lake John Maddock Thomas Probbin Robert Prichard Roger Andrews Iohn ap Vrian Roger ap Vrian William Matthews Glamorgan-shire Twenty of these following were taken out of a peaceable meeting and had before the Governour of Cardiff and the rest of them called Justices who profered them the Oath of Allegiance and because for Conscience sake they could not swear they are committed to prison in Cardiff with the other two and there remains Edward Edwards Iohn Richard Toby Hody Rowland Thomas Matthew Ienkin. Iames Thomas Thomas Iohn William David Perc. Robert Jenkin Evan. James Lewis John Mayo Walter William Morgan Harvy John David Thomas Roberts Evan Phillip William Harvy William Moor. Thomas Williams Francis Gauler Richard Adams Wilt-shire Thomas Troud of Dinton being summoned to serve in a Jury at the last Assizes at Sarum he did appear intending to do the said service as truly and justly as the Lord should enable him but refusing to take the Oath was fined ten pounds and committed to prison in Fisherton Anger and there remains Cumberland John Bewly committed to the Goal in Carlisle the nineteenth day of the seventh moneth 1660. by John Eylonly and John Deuton called Justices because for Conscience sake he could not swear James Adamson committed to the aforesaid Goal by him called Sir Francis Sawkeld the seventh day of the eighth moneth 1660. because for Conscience sake he could not swear William Laithwait committed to the aforesaid Prison by the said Francis Sawkeld the same day the cause was there being a great contention about James Adamsons words which he had spoke to the Justice between the Justice and the people the said William standing by said take heed of adding to his words at which the Justices Clerk swore so William said to the Justice if justice were rightly executed it would take hold on swearers then said the Justice laughingly well I le take ten groats of him another time then the swearing Clerk spoke to the Justice to proffer William the Oath of Supremacy c. And because he said he could not break the Command of Christ who saith Swear not at all he was committed to Prison as aforesaid and there remains Northampton Daniel Wills George Robinson William Acton All committed to Northampton Goal in the Seventh Month 1660. Because for Conscience sake they could not take the Oath of Allegiance c. Lancashire Iohn Lawson William Gibson James Smith Imprisoned in Lancaster-Castle because for Conscience sake they could not take the Oath of Allegiance Surrey Thomas Patchen and Henry Gill Imprisoned for not swearing by Daniel Harvey Adam Brown and Nicholas Carew Berkshire Henry Hedges John Giles Humphrey Knowles Leonard Cole Andrew Pearson All in Prison in Reading Goal because for Conscience sake they could not take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy Cornwall John Kirton Edward Angier Imprisoned in Lanceston because for Conscience sake they could not swear Pembrookshire Thomas Barret David Gibbon James Picton Imprisoned by one called Sir William M●rton and one Simon Degg because they could not take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy Thomas Symins Hugh Symins Committed to Prison by James Lloyd and James Bowen called Justices upon the complaint of one Jenkin Lewis Clerk that they had neglected the Parish Church for one whole year the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy was tendred to them and because for Conscience sake they could not swear they were sent to Prison William Bateman Morgan Eynon Henry Reely Committed to Prison because they could not take