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A60436	The fruits of unrighteousnes and injustice Brought forth by John Bulkley, and Thomas Bowrman, and the rest of the rulers in Hampshire, against the innocent people of God called Quakers. Who in words and writings have often declared their unjust sufferings; as also at two sessions, and two general assizes holden at Winchester, requiring justice and equity, and their right and liberty in the nation; of the which being still most unjustly deprived, it is now publiquely declared, that they and others seeing their deeds of darknesse brought to light, may be warned, and learn to do justice, and to relieve the oppressed. Also the sounding voyce of the dread of Gods mighty power to all the judges and rulers of the earth, who rise up aginst the Lamb, and to all the host of powers of darknesse who fight against God. By the servants of Christ ... called Humphry Smith. Anthony Melledg. George Henderson. James Potter. Will: Baily. Daniel Baker. John Day. Winifred Newman.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4061; ESTC R216933	45,374	58

of Christ to be so afflicted being sick in prison and the hypocrite might well be affraid least we should be persecuted to death and our innocent blood come upon his head but though thy heart was somewhat judged at the time when thou write thy Letter to that uncleane beastly Woman thou calls Mrs. Hobs● yet soon after thy heart was hardned again like Pharaoh At the Sessions following John Bulkley sent his Clark to us to see if we would promise to goe home and so to release us if we could but onely have spoken some such words to satisfie their wills the which we durst not do And therefore being retained in Prison we writ to them concerning such a promise as followeth WE are not only free-born of England but we have also purchased our freedome in the Nation and the continuation thereof with many years hard service the losse of the lives of many hundreds the spoyling of much goods and the shedding of much blood in the late war by which at last the Lord overturned them who then sought to enslave our persons and infringe our liberty in the Nation in the which liberty now we do expect to worship God in spirit and in truth according to the Scriptures and to speak the word of the Lord as any one of his servants is moved by his spirit we also expect liberty to follow our employments which are honest in the fight of God and all men that fear his Name and the Magistrate to be a praise unto such and by the wholsome Lawes of the Nation us herein to defend England being as an English mans house or home and wherein any of us are deprived of these things we are deprived of our Rights and infringed of our Liberties in the Nation the which done and continued will be an evill example unto other Nations amongst whom also sometimes I had and have businesse I having been much at Sea for almost twenty years and have some occasions at and beyond Sea at this present and I have also severall lawfull occasions in divers parts of the Land about which I now travelling was taken up and sent to Prison and my horse lay at charge by me my goods which I had with me being sent up to London whether I should also go to make sale of it or passe my selfe with it and more over Sea some such businesse at Sea and Land being my present employment for the maintenance of my self and family all which I am now deprived of and kept in Bridewell because I cannot promise to go home and so leave my employment and businesse undone which is the way to ruinate men and their families And as for William Baily he was travelling but to South-hampton upon severall lawfull occasions but before he came there was taken up with me and brought to a Prison which is further off his home then he intended to go and in it kept from his home many weeks longer then he did intend to stay and there yet kept from his businesse because he cannot make a promise to go home and is not this the way to make us servants and slaves to mens wills And as for Humphrey Smith though his Wife came to the Sessions many miles from her habitation and brought two men and a horse for her Husband to ride away with her yet is he also kept in prison because he cannot promise to go home and which of you is it that can promise what to do on the morrow Therefore out of all these promises we stand in submission to the will of the Lord Knowing that they who will live godly must sufler persecution And seeing we have broke no Law nor intend any evill against any man or woman but abide in all watchfulnesse to keep a conscience void of offence towards God and man c. Anthony Mellidge This Paper being little regarded by them that are set to do Justice for they still kept us in prison because we durst not make a promise wch is more then they themselves can wel do if they stood in the feare of God as may appear by him who was called Justice Cobb who sate as Judge at the Sessions whose heart was then and there and afterwards hardned against us like Pharaoh refusing to let us go but suddenly in a moment not long after the Lord cut him off and then what promise could he himselfe perform Oh! that this might be a warning to all oppressing Rulers who are as grasse A Copie of another Paper You who are set to do Justice and to be Ministers of known Laws and are to relieve the oppressed and do that which is just in the sight of God and all men that feare his name and should be a terrour to such as do evill and a praise to such as do well which is according to that of God in all consciences THis we say unto you that since we have been taken from our Callings and Imployments and imprisoned and also caused to be kept in outward bonds by some of you we have seen such as have been accused of divers manners of Theft Witchcraft and Murther receive their sentence or punishment according to your Law or otherwise quit released and freed out of outward bonds And we have seen a man whom we have known to be an idle person and a drunkard and so a transgressor of the Law committed to the house of Correction for wandring or idleness and received his punishment and released Likewise a Tinker committed to the house of Correction received his punishment and released Also two men and a boy that came out of Ireland who appeared to be wanderers and suspective persons who said they had no money and were transgressors also of the Law by fighting if they were not Papists and these also as the other were committed since we and released in short time though we still kept prisoners And this also we say unto you that if we have broken or transgressed any Law or if any evill is or can be proved against us then our bodies are ready and we are willing to suffer the punishment according to the Law for any such offence if charged upon us that the Law being satisfied we might have our liberty again as others to travell about our lawfull occasions And this would we know of you First by what Law of God or man we are herein deprived of that right and liberty which Theeves Murtherers Witches Wanderers and other known transgressors have Secondly what Law you have to keep us in the house of Correction untill we engage or promise to go home If you have any such law let us know it that we might submit thereunto for we are ready to submit unto all your Laws either actively by obedience thereunto or passively by suffering under it for a testimony against that which is unjust but where there is no law there is no transgression Thirdly whether you do intend to keep our bodies in prison untill death unlesse

for him as they did for their King and he orders them dayes to fast and pray with and for him as their King did and this is their Protector who protecteth them by whom hundreds of us do suffer who fought with him against them their Bishops and their Kings but certainly the Lord God will turn both them and their prayers backward therefore let the Protector take heed how he set these treacherous changeable cursed Children 2 Pet. 2. 14. To pray for him or with him in his fasting dayes or otherwise for the same spirit in them which did pray for their Kings doth now pray for their Protector and the Lord is as much and more against them now then he was in the dayes of their Kings and all that joyn with them or upholds them for he changeth not though they do therefore I who was alway and am a friend to the just liberty of the Nation do desire all Magistrates to take heed of these Priests least they by their fallasies and flatteries exalt them in that which God is against until his wrath break forth against them all together for reasonable men may almost see that they are not like to stand long there is such a stir and a cry among them and so much praying and crying dayly for the upholding of their trade for such a noise there was with long and lowd Hypocritical Prayers a little before and at the very time that their Bishops and Kings were overturned for ever and the Priests or Prophets of Baal and the Prophets of the groves they were many of them and they also had dayes set apart to offer sacrifice and they prayed long and cryed aloud but none heard nor answered and this was a little before they also were destroyed forever But to return to this Priest Dingly in particular after the Servants of God a fore named bad been kickt beaten with a staff and fists of wickedness upon his fasting day and had caused them to be imprisoned by the help of Thomas Bowrman then from the prison did they write unto him who was so brutish like the Pastors before Jer. 10. 21. That he would not read the Letter nor open it but in a filthy fottish manner took a payer of tongs and held it to a Candle and burnt it saying he would try whether it were bewitched or the Devil in it but he himselfe is in the witchcraft not obeying the Truth as may easily be proved Gal 3. And envy which is of the Devil is found in himselfe the which Spirit of the Devil that guided him therein would also burn their bodies that sent it if he had but a Law and such a power as his fathers the Bishops had who burnt the Martyrs and he also then said the Devil is in you but people may see there is something of God in us guiding us in patience to undergo much sufferings and all manner of evil that is done or spoken against us for his names sake who is in us which to us turns for a testimony against the world that we are of God Luke 21. 12. 13. And it is because of the Spirit of Christ in us which testifies against the world that we are hated and that Spirit of Christ in us is that which Priest Dingly call eth a Devil saying the Devil is in you but it being Christ in us the hope of glory he is an open Blaspemer and a denyer of Christ that is come in the flesh and so he is an Antichrist Therefore all are to beware of hearkning to his Doctrine being found a Blaspemer though he may speak never so smooth words for he is not only full of envy but also of conveteousness for he claimed 3 l. or less for tythes of John Dayes who desired not his Ministery and then instead of less then 3 l. he caused four cows to be taken from him worth above 12 l. and so he is not only in filthy Lucre contrary to the Scripture whose mouth should be stopt but also unreasonable therein to demand 3 l. of a man that owed him nothing and then to have above four times so much as he ask't for taken from him Hosea might well number such as he amongst Robbers and Murtheres Hosea 6. 9. and this is not all neither for after he had caused these 4 cowes to be taken from him he also caused the man himselfe to be cast into prison because he came into his own Parish Steeple-house and spoke some words there and as for coming into the Steeple-house he had as much right as another man of their Parish and sometimes the Priests and Rulers would force friends to pay 2s 6d because they do not come to their parish steeple-house and when they do come they send them to prison for coming was ever the like wickedness practised by any Priests and Rulers before And in all these things Thomas Bowrman was a Servant to the corrupt coveteous will of this persecuting Priest for by his order also or warrant was John Dayes cowes taken away and he himselfe sent to prison where he is now committed to the house of correction And moreover R. D. did cause Winifred Newman to be imprisoned for speaking a few words in his Steeple-house after he had done and she was a servant to a Widow and the fatherlesse and from them the Priest caused her to be taken to prison and such as he Isaiah cryed against Isa 56. 10 11. for in his dayes also widowes became their prey and they robbed the fatherlesse Isa 10. 2. And what an unreasonable thing was this to rob the Fatherlesse and Widow of a servant who was daily serviceable unto them but now they commit iniquity by their Law but the Law of God is made for men-stealers 1 Tim. 1. 10. And T. B. sent her to Prison also and so consented with the Thief Psal 50. 18. and was in all these things a ready servant to this ungodly Priest whom at present I leave untill the hand of God overturn him and all the rest that they may leave their names for a hissing and a curse like the Bishops before them who were as loath to come down as the Priests are to follow after Here followeth something in short of the long unjust imprisonment of James Pottar being also a husbandman taken out of his hohonest employment by the means of the Priest of the Parish of Baghust whose name is Edward Bental I Who am clear in the fight of God of the breach of any law either of God or of the Nation by which I may justly suffer or of any evill intent or purpose against the person of any man or woman whatsoever but have and do desire to keepe a conscience void of offence towards God and man as the Lord of life whom I serve in my spirit knoweth yet was I by order from Richard Kingsmill and William Withar who are set to do justice in the County of Southampton taken out of my honest lawfull employments without