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A66544	Strange and wonderful news from Italy, or, A true amd impartial relation of the travels, adventures, and martyrdome of four eminent Quakers of York-shire who in the year 1672 travelled through France, Italy, and Turkey to propagate their religion : wherein is fully and faithfully declared the deigns, endeavours, and attempts of these zealous Quakers for the conversion of the Turk and Pope : with a summary account of the event and success of the business and of all the most remarkable occurrents : as also a faithful narrative of their private discourses, conferences, and disputes which passed between these Quakers and the Pope, the Cardinal Nephew, and Cardinal Barbarini : also of their voyage to Constantinople and of their most barbarous, cruel, and bloody death by the special command of the Mufti and the Vizier Bassa / faithfully and compendiously related by Elias Wilson.	Wilson, Elias.	1673 (1673)	Wing W2891A; ESTC R26383	7,889	10

Strange and Wonderful News from ITALY OR A True and Impartial Relation of the Travels Adventures and Martyrdome of four emient Quakers of York-shire Who in the Year 1672. Travelled through France Italy and Turky to propagate their Religion Wherein is fully and faithfully declared the Designs Endeavours and Attempts of these zealous Quakers for the Conversion of the TURK and POPE With a summary account of the event and success of the business and of all the most remarkable occurrents As also a faithful Narrative of their private discourses conferences and disputes which passed between these Quakers and the Pope the Cardinal Nephew and Cardinal Barbarini ALSO Of their Voyage to Constantinople and of their most barbarous cruel and bloody death by the special command of the Mufti and the Vizier Bassa Faithfully and compendiously related by Elias Wilson Esquire who was an eye-witness to a great part of these transactions LONDON Printed by John Lock living in the Long Walk near Christ-Church Hospital over against the sign of the Drawers 1673. IT was towards the end of March in the year 1672. that John Watson William Stubbs Nathaniel Golden and Rowland Jenkins all of Yorkshire and eminently known in that County to be Leading-men among the Quakers It was I say about that time that these men said they had the spirit of Burning and the Holy Anointing in them and were called and sent by God to preach the everlasting Gospel to the Nations and Heathens And they said that the child Jesus within them had assured them of great success and that the Lord would be wonderfully with them in this Dispensation that they should break the Bread of Life to the Nations and that the Springs of Life should break forth out of their Bellies It is a wonder to fee what strange effects and boldness these Enthusiastical perswasions and Phanatical Dreams caused in these poor Men. They were now swelled with hopes and expectation of Wonders They now resolved to leave England and embark for France and begin this great work of converting Nations and Heathens Reader I do intend to give you a true and impartial account of these mens actions in Forreign parts as I have received it from their own mouths and also been fully and faithfully informed by several other Persons of known worth and integrity who were eye witnesses to the same John Watson was a Gentleman of a pretty considerable Estate and had been well educated he had spent some years at Vniversity and had also formerly been a Traveller into France Spain and Italy all which Languages he throughly understood and spake very fluently The other three were plain Country-men and knew no other language but their own but fully perswaded themselves they should have the Gift of Tongues and be indued with power from above It is not my intent to write a Journal of these mens actions for that would swell this little Pamphlet into a huge book I intend only to relate some of the most signal and most remarkable of their affairs and transactions which I heard from their own mouths when I was in Italy and which have been also related and attested by other Persons of known integrity In Easter-week they took Shipping at Dover and were soon wafted over to Calis I find not that they had any Impulse of Spirit to say or attempt any thing but that they travelled on very peaceably and quietly paying for what they had and so came to the great City Paris where they spent 2 days only and then advanced towards Lyons where they continued about a Fortnight Here it was that the tumultuous spirit began first to exert and shew it self to the French Nation On April 27 William Stubbs said he had received a command from God to speak and he signified as much to John Watson and the rest On the next day which was Sunday about 10 of the Clock in the Forenoon they went all 4 to the great Cathedral or St. Johns Church where they were celebrating high Mass as they call it about the middle of the Mass William Stubbs on a sudden climes over the ralls and goes up to the high Altar where as he was beginning his Discourse in English for as yet he had not received his Gift of Tongues the Church Officers presently lay hands on him and carry him out and commit him to Prison until the next day On Monday the Officers have him before the Magistrate who refuses to meddle in this case but causes him forthwith to be sent to the Arch-Bishop The Arch-Bishop is highly offended with him for his bold attempt and resolves to punish him with all severity imaginable he remits him to Prison and orders that the next day at 10 of the Clock in the Morning he be brought before him again On Tuesday he is strictly examined what his intentions were how he durst be so bold to commit so great a crime in so publick and confident a manner His answers were altogether impertinent and withall so insolent and sawcy that the Bishop sent him to the House of Correction where he was soundly lashed On Friday morning the Bishop ordered him to be brought before him again and seemed to be much incensed against this poor Phanatick Now the reason why his Grace was so fierce against this poor Man was because some of his Servants had malitiously suggested to him that he was set on and encouraged to offer this publick affront to their Divine Service by some of the Hugonot Ministers which was a most malitious untruth for as yet these Quakers had not had any the least correspondence or converse with any Protestant in France as they did all very soberly attest to me in Italy The Bishop was resolved to give him a full hearing and to sift the business to the bottom He asked him if he was not set on to do this irreverent action by the Hugonot Ministers He replyed no he was moved by the Spirit of God within him and that it was the Spirit of Burning and the Holy Anointing that had caused him to do what he had done And here he entred into a long discourse telling the Arch-Bishop and the Canons who were there present that the Law of God was written upon Mens hearts and that now the time was come that they should all be taught of God Now the Lords people were all to be Prophets they were all to have fresh springs arise in their hearts And that the Lord had sent him and three Friends more into these parts to break the bread of Life to the Nations to open the hidden Mysteries of Christs Kingdom to overthrow the Babylonish Practices of Rome to break the Serpents Head and wound the great Leviathan The Arch-Bishop the Canons and the whole Company were much astonished at this Mans confidence and his wild and Fanatick discourse and answers and began now to relent and to pitty this poor Man and look upon him as a mad-man and one out of his senses so

accordingly gave order to have him to the Hospital of mad people and there carefully to be looked after until he gave further order About a week after this 3 English Gentlemen hearing what had passed and how that an Englishman who was mad was committed to the Hospital of mad men The Genttlemen went immediately to the Hospital to enquire the truth of the matter when they came the Keeper very courteously informed them of the whole business brought them to the sight of Stubbs who was locked up in a small Cell by himself alone and an iron Chain about his Leg and his head shaved for it is the custome here to shave all mad people When the Gentlemen came in they found him sitting in a melancholly sullen postuee he would not so much as look up or speak one word to them for the space of above an hour and half notwithstanding they spoke very kindly to him and asked him concerning his condition and the causes of his distemper and promised him all the assistance kindness that lay in their power At last this sullen Spirit was overcome and he began to enter into a long discourse of the spirit within him and that God had sent him and his 3 Friends to break in pieces the great Leviathan of Rome Now the Gentlemen quickly perceived his Spirit and plainly discovered him to be no mad-man but a Quaker They asked him concerning his other Friends where they were And withall promised to do their utmost for his releasment and so giving the Keeper some Money to be kind to their Country-man they bid him farewel At Evening they went to the Inn to vifit the other 3 Quakers and had much discourse with them endeavouring to perswade them to desist from this so hazardous and fruitless an enterprize and speedily to return to their own Country demonstrating the great dangers and inconveniences they would thrust themselves upon if they did still persist or any farther prosecute this fond and ridiculous undertaking and so they parted The next day they addressed to the Arch-Bishop who was pleased to entertain them with much civility and respect They returned humble thanks to his Grace for his great care of their Country-man in sending him to such a place where he was so well accommodated in all thing in order to his cure and withall represented to his Grace his condition quality and Religion and how that he was not a mad-man but one of those Sectarians which in England are called Pha●aticks and Quakers And withall informed the Arch-Bishop and Canons how that party do desire to appear different from all others in their manner of speech their apparel and manners And also humbly petitioned his Grace for a releasment promising within a day or two to dispatch them out of the Town The Arch-Bishop-readily condescended to all their demands and presently gave order that Stubbs should be set at liberty which was accordingly performed And the day following they all 4 left the Town and hasted their Journey to Italy When they came to Milano in Italy they had another enthusiastical impulse of Spirit And now John Watson Nathaniel Golden and Rowland Jenkins who hitherto had been silent or as they expressed it themselves humbly waiting at the Feet of Jesus who had now given them command to begin to preach the Everlasting Gospel to the Italians Here Stubbs accompanied with his 3 friends did now as formerly at Lyons in France upon Sunday enter the Domo or Cathedral of the City and made a great and publick disturbance when they were in the height of their solemnities Watson began to make a discourse in Italian but was presently seized and carried forth and had before a Magistrate who forthwith committed them all 4 to Prison but withall gave order they should be civilly used and lack for nothing until further order About 4 or 5 days after they were commanded to appear before the Governour of Milan himself who was resolved to have a full account of the matter The Governour when he saw their uncivil behaviour their sullen looks and heard their wild discourses he presently concluded them mad-men and gave order to have them confined and carefully looked after and also appointed 2 Physitians to visit them and to do their utmost for their recovery The Physitians presently made a visit to the Hospital and had a long discourse with Watson who spoke Italian well And then returned to the Governour to give him their sentiment of the business they told his Excellence that they were mad as did evidently appear to them by their very countenance and manner of discourse and that one of them meaning Stubbs had a manifest and signal token of his distemper viz. his head was shaved according to the usual practice of all Physitians in the World who always use to shave mad-men thereby to cool the brain and for the more comodious applying fomentations and other proper Remedies for the Head the seat and subject of the distemper They added also that they did verily believe they were Dutch-men who had made an escape from their Keepers The Governour was well satisfied with this account the Physitians gave of the Quakers and accordingly ordered them to take care of them and let no means be wanting that might be used for their recovery and that they should be used with all tenderness imaginable The 2 Doctors return to the Pazzi or mad-men and cause them to be shaved and purged and the next day they bleed them all in the arms feet every day twice a day cause their heads to be bathed with cold water and their whole bodies also in a pond made for that use only Here the poor Quakers went through a rigorous course of Physick for in a months time they were let blood about 17 or 18 several times besides frequent and violent purgings Golden a fortnight after he had been thus confined forbore eating whether it was out of a sullen dogged humour or out of an enthusiasme or expectation of new Revelations I cannot certainly affirm but by his wilfull and contumacious abstinence he gave up the Ghost and died after he had been a month thus shut up The other 3 by bleeding and purging were brought very low the Physitians now were much troubled disheartned and did altogether despair of their recovery and did signifie as much to the Governour withall telling his Excellence that they supposed it was some Religious melancholly that these men were afflicted with that it was insuperable not to be overcome by any Art so desired the Governour to release them which was accordingly performed After they had regained their liberty they continued some days in the Town and would frequently make speeches in the Churches and exhort the people to imbrace their Doctrine and follow the Light which was within them The Italians after their enlargement were very civil to them and if at any time they caused any disturbance in the Church the Officers would