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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37361	A Declaration of some of the sufferings of the people of God called Quakers		1660 (1660)	Wing D624; ESTC R37718	40,561	35

warrant from the Lord Harbert to take us we requiring the warrent to be shewed but could not see it they gave order first to hale our women and children forth and then said they would send for pistols and when they had discharged three or four amongst us we would be willing to go forth but we were not willing to break our meeting so they began to hail and teare and push us forth adoors and ran against us as wee passed along the streets we acquainted them that the King had promised us our liberty in worship one of the Constables made answer that the King had promised no such thing so they brought us to prison and thrust us in and gave the Jaylor orders to keep us there untill the Comissioners came to Town and at present there we remain prisoners for the truths sake Thomas Onyon Robert Newcome Walter Howlings John Roberts Philip Gray Richard Townsend Thomas Barnfield John Silvester Thomas Elridge William Hinton Richard Bartlot John Ovendell Henry Stacy Richard Bowly Thomas Knight John Clark Thomas Bowly John Cripes Jacob Howlings Roger Sparks William England Durham Darlington the third of the tenth Month 1660. Where we the people of God called Quakers had a meeting peaceably and waiting upon the Lord in the aforesaid Town the Captain sent some Souldiers and violently broke up our meeting and carried away forty or more of us to the Castle of Durham and as we were passing along we met the Captain and the Justice who threatened us much in high expressions and five of us they single out and said we should go to prison if we did not give bond for our good behaviour and four of them is sent to Durham Castle for no other cause but for meeting together to worship God in spirit according to Christs Doctrine which now is come to be fulfilled and witnessed Portsmouth the second of the tenth Month 1660 As the people of the Lord were met together to worship God in the spirit peaceably in the said Town Captain Sprag sent several files of armed men with firelocks and violently haled out of our meeting eighteen men and women and punched them dragged them along shut the Gates men and wives were turned from their habitations and children and families and callings and are not permitted to come in again though some came in again yet were turned out of the Town again from their Families and imployments some desiring to have their Instruments to labor withal was not permitted besides were kept in a house where Friends met by a guard nineteen daies denyed to see their wifes Families Children and gave commandment no victualls should be brought to them and a Officer said if they turnd us out of the Town and set Souldiers to plunder our houses they served us well enough though we never acted any thing against this Goverment Ireland FOr speaking the truth to people in Steeple-houses Markets and other place● have sufferred in the Nation of Ireland and for other causes herein exprest have been fined whipt Stockt Imprisoned and suffered loss of their goods 94 persons For meeting together in the fear of the Lord in their own houses according to the practice of the Apostels and the true Churches in the Scriptures mentioned have been Imprisoned c. nineteen persons For speaking the truth to the people in Steeple-houses and Markets and other places have been Whipt and Imprisoned and some stockt and shamefully beaten and abused thirty four persons For not swearing as Christ commands they should not swear two persons had goods taken from them worth eight pounds ten shillings and one had taken from him seventy barrels of Salt For not paying Tythes for conscience sake that bears Testimony to the everlasting Priest-hood that ends the first that takes tythes eight persons for two pounds sixteen shillings four pence demanded for Tythes have had taken from them goods worth thirty four pounds ten shillings Stopt as they were passing the streets and high ways about their occasions and Imprisoned twelve Persons For receiving Friends and for visiting Friends in Prison one was Imprisoned and another fined five pounds Sufferers for other causes for the truths sake eleven Persons An Account of the sufferings of Friends in Scotland where there hath suffered for the causes hereafter exprest in all ninety one Persons SCOTLAND For denying the Priest practices have been Excommunicated forty five Persons For meeting together in the fear of the Lord have been stoned and beaten eleven persons For speaking the truth to people in Steeple-houses and Markets and asking Priests questions have been Imprisoned and some stockt and whipt and some banished in all fifteen Persons There was likewise Imprisoned and otherwise abused and some banished and no cause why shewed in all eighteen persons A Declaration of some Part of the Sufferings of the People of God in scorn called Quakers from the Professors in New-England onely for the exercise of their Consciences to the Lord and obeying and confessing to the Truth as in his light he had discovered it to them TWo honest and innocent women stripped stark naked and searched after such an inhumane manner as modesty will not permit particularly to mention Twelve strangers in that Country but freeborn of this Nation received twenty three whippings the most of them being with a whip of three cords with knots at the ends and laid on with as much strength as they could be by the arme of their executioner the stripes amounting to three hundred and seventy Eighteen Inhabitants of the Country being freeborn English received twenty three whippings the stripes amounting to two hundred and fifty Sixty four Imprisonments of the Lords people for their obedience unto his will amounting to five hundred and nineteen weeks much of it being very cold weather and the Inhabitants kept in Prison in harvest time which was very much to their loss besides many more Imprisoned of which time we cannot give a just account Two beaten with pitcht roops the blows amounting to an hundred thirty nine by which one of them was brought near unto death much of his body being beat like unto a Jelly and one of their own Doctors a member of their Church who saw him said it would be a miracle if ever he recovered he expecting the flesh should rot off the Bones who afterwards was banished upon pain of death there are many witnesses of this there Also an Innocent man an Inhabitant of Boston they banished from his Wife and Children and put to seek a habitation in the Winter and in case he returned again he was to be kept Prisoner during his life and for returning again he was put in Prison and hath been now a Prisoner above a year Twenty five Banishments upon the penalties of being whipt or having their Ears cut or branded in the hand if they returned Fines laid upon the Inhabitants for meeting together and edifying one another as the Saints ever did and for refusing to swear it