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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29476	A brief relation of the persecutions and cruelties that have been acted upon the people called Quakers in and about the city of London since the beginning of the 7th month last, til this present time : with a general relation of affairs, signifying the state of the people through the land.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4629; ESTC R1091	16,542	23

of the Corporation and so by the Law not accountable at the County-Sessions But the morning before the Sessions the Mayor Steward and Company gathered together and went to the County Justices and told them we were a people too mighty for them to deal with and therefore desired them to take us into their cognizance So we four persons whose Names are under subscribed were called after a few words spoken to us on the account of our Indictment for not going to hear Common-Prayer some said Tender them the Oath of Allegiance So we pleaded to our former business and asked if we were discharged from that They said we were onely paying our Fees which we denyed but they made haste to the Oath having intended what to do before and read the Oath to us and asked us to swear We asked time of consideration which he called the Lord Fanshaw acknowledged to be a reasonable question so they would grant us till the morning but withall we must say whether we would take it or not then so they recorded the refusal On the next day we were called again for they were so eager on it as if they were in great haste and took so much pains as if that were the onely business they had to do and some in the Court said three or four of these would do the Work or to that purpose They had prepared an Indictment and read it to us and besides alledged many Scriptures to prove the lawfulness of swearing but when we spake to those Scriptures as they asked us to do then Fanshaw would cry out Grand Imposters and yet would often in his words pity us and say he would help us but the Law would not permit unless we would take the Oath When the Jury were going forth with the Indictment we would have spake to them but they would not permit us and said we must not speak to the Jury until they came in which is contrary to the Law Some few words we did speak to the Jury and some of them said they were more sorry than we were but they could not help it and some or one of them said that they would not have found it but that they durst do no other and though they are reputed but Enemies to us most of them yet they said That scarce one was willing to find it After some more time about three quarters of an hour they brought in the Indictment and found us guilty So without sentence we were sent away to Prison And after about three hours we were called again the Lord Fanshaw being gone and but few Justices left the Judge of the Sessions one Hen. Chansie and about four more present after some impertinent quotations of Scripture to prove the honorable esteem the servants of the Lord had of swearing he said That he was sorry that it was his hard misfortune to pronounce so sad a sentence as this was against us and bid the Clark of the Sessions to read our sentence which was That we should be put out of the Kings protection have no benefit of the Law and to forfeit our Lands Goods and Estates to the King and to answer it before the King and his Council or else Processes of Premunire to be issued forth against us and we to be kept close Prisoners the which we are continued And it was said by the Gaoler That we should be kept without pen ink or paper and he to be fined 20. l. if he let any come at us beside such as brought us provision but this latter is not so executed on us They have not yet seized our Estates but they say they expect it hourly and many are their threats against us that the loss of our Estates and thus imprisoning of our persons is not all but to send us beyond sea and that one hath begged us for that end already but we are kept above the terror of these things knowing that our God can if he see it good for us deliver us out of all these things This we thought meet to lay before you and if you think it for truths advantage that any thing further should be done let us hear from you And so we remain your Friends in the pure truth Henry Sweeting Rich. Thomas Abraham Rutt Iohn King Hartford the 14th of the 8th Month 1662. From Durham Friends and Brethren THe Beloved of God our Saviour and the Lord Iesus Christ foras much as it hath pleased God through the riches of his Grace to make us partakers with you in this suffering fellowship of the Gospel as also of the love joy peace and presence which attends all who in uprightness of heart suffer in the like sort though indeed ours is not to be compared to what we have heard hath been in the City by a certain intelligence which hath its date as I remember from the first 6th mo to the first 7th And gives us a full and ample account during that time and we do credibly believe it to be according to truth and it much satisfies us here to see their rudeness and cruelty so rightly Stated Wherefore we shall give you a short hint of what was done in these our Sessions concerning the said people commonly and scornfully called Quakers use it as you shall see fit Upon the 8th of this instant 8. month 62 the prisoners being called all but those three whom we hinted to you in our last were so unlawfully Praemunir'd the last assizes being prosecuted against and cast into prison upon the late Act against unlawful Assemblies and Meetings until the time of the Iudges sitting here and then at that self same time run into this relapse and here left with several others who were cast in here and lies upon the account of Tythes who were not as this time called forth Upon the first day of their Sessions was called one William Foster a man of sober and good repute in his Country who hath laid here since the Assizes for not consenting to find Bond for the good behaviour he not being convinced of any evil that he had done but contrariwise suffered that peaceable people to meet sometimes in his house to wait upon God was called forth and asked if hee could yet find Sureties for the good behaviour which he for conscience sake denying is cast into prison again as formerly there to continue That self same day in the evening some more of the said people were called the Bishop being then upon the Bench after the reading of the Act made against that people and some debate betwixt him and the Iustices about their proceedings at the other Sessions which he thought the said Bishop not to be cruel enough towards them yet said he loved mercy in his heart But the very first that was called before him having been fined 50 s. before and then coming upon the second account the Bishop sitting as Iudg of the Court and will not let to be accuser al●o being a furious man had