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William Penn, the pretended Quaker discovered to hold a correspondence with the Jesuite's at Rome to which is added A winding sheet for Ann Docwra / by Francis Bugg.
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Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?
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Wing B5399; ESTC R35453
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House in Milden-Hall which Will. Bennet Preached at when for refusing to tell his Name and Habitation the Poor Quakers were Fined for him and their Cows driven away and Sold so that John Mason and my self were Constrained to lend them Money to help to get more whilst this Infallible Preacher Lost nothing I also was Fined Ten Pound for another Meeting for the Poverty of Ja. Webb at whose House the Meeting was And besides all these Ten and Twenty Pound Fines four of them for the Poverty of the Dwellers in our Meeting-Houses and one Twenty Pound Fine for a Meeting at my own House I also was Fined Seven or Eight small Fines insomuch that I was Distrained at Milden-Hall besides those mention'd at Ely in Wooll Yarn Stuff Cloth and Houshould Goods to the Value of above 50 l more which in all makes more then 100 l. Loss by Fines for Meetings Now Reader Had not this Woman a Forehead well Enlaid with Impudence how dare she appear in Print with such bare Fac'd Lyes As that I suffered the least of any she knew that had Estates to Lose That I suffered but two Fines That my whole Loss by Fines was hut 5 l. As for the Fine of 15 l. she mentions for an unknown Preacher my Book Reason against Railing c. did so effectually Confute all their false Accusations as that to this Day they never Reply'd to it tho' Writ near 20 years since to which I Refer my Reader Oh Cousin Dockwra for Shame Cover thy Face wear a Vail and sit down and mourn for thy Sins Till then never pretend more to Religion Remember Cherry-Hynton thy former place of Abode Reader these two Books of Ann Dockwra's viz An Apostate Conscience c. and The Second part of an Apostate Conscience were both Wrot by the Quakers Spirit of Truth that cannot Err being Infallible Yea and also approved by the quaker-Quaker-Church i. e. their Second-Day Meeting that Infallible Club of Inspired Doctors with whom she has been in the Unity this 36 years as she says herself p. 35. These Books are also Sold by Tacy Sowle the Quakers Bookseller as a Sign both of their Approbation and Unity The first stands Convicted of 18 Lyes and in her Second she has not cleared herself of any one of them And I do now recharge them upon her and as many fresh Lyes in this Last let her come forth if she thinks she can clear herself and I am willing also that she take her Gentleman Quaker G. Whitehead to her Assistance Again I find in p. 12. Ibid That rather then she will want Authors for her Villany she 'll Father her Lyes upon me viz. He Fran. Bugg told me so himself Again He Fran. Bugg told me many years ago that when he bought his House that his Wives Father help'd to buy it And made his Fran. Bugg's Wives Portion better then a 100 l. This he told me All which I Positively Deny Indeed my Father-In-Law was very desirous that I should buy the said House for I Rode on purpose to Wellingborrow to Consult him and thus far he was Assistant Namely to hire me â—0 l. of Mr. Thomas Bruce a Tobacconist his Neighbour and was bound with me for it and I was in some hopes he would have given it me but as soon as he had got what some Aim'd at and what pleas'd him he so ordered the matter that Mr. Bruce in little more then a years time called in his 60 l. which I paid to a Penny And more of this Nature I could mention but shall forbear nor had I done this but in Vindication of my own Reputation avouching still for a Truth what I have said in Jezebel Withstood c. p. 2. And which my Brother John then Living might have gainsaid if he could All which shews this Treacherous Womans design which was to set my Wives Relations and me at Variance Unless she took me to be such a Tame Fool as by my silence to say Amen to all her Lies and Forgeries But her inveterate Malice ends not here Quakerisme must shew its self exact New Rome and in this instance exceed her Elder Sister for as the Papists took up the Bones of Wickliff many years after he was laid into his Grave and burnt them as a Sacrifice to their Infallible Malice no more can the Quakers let my Honoured Father alone in his Grave But near 40 years after his Death they must rake in his Ashes and lay false Imputations to his Charge And that which Aggravates the Malignity of their Implacable Malice is he never gave them Cause he never was concerned in this Controversy Whereas in excuse of the Papists Fury they have this to say That Wickliff was a Vigorous Warrier against Romish Idolatry and had wrote more than two hundred Volumes against their Errors and Superstition This indeed did Anger the Romish Church as my self and others have angred her Younger Sister yet I never read that the Papists meddled with Wickliff's Father Grandfather Yea and Great Grand-father as the Quakers have done with my Dear Father Grand-father and Great Grand-father For in her first Book An Apost Cons c. p. 26. She thus saith Robert Bugg his Father dwelt with him Fran. Bugg some years after he Marryed he rose from Dinner one Day and went out and was found Drown'd in Water where he had no occasion to go As Fran. Bugg and his Wife relateth To this I replyed in my Book Jezebel Withstood c. p. 2. saying Here is Lye upon Lye four Story high First my Father never dwelt with me a week since I Married much less some years 2. He never rose so from Dinner 3. Nor was so found Drown'd Nor did I or my Wife so relate Now instead of clearing herself of these Notorious Lies she being Fool-hardy and filled Brimful with Prejudice against our whole Family for my Sake she in her Second Part c. p. 13. thus enlarges I heard my Brother Barnadiston speak of it some years after That Francis Bugg's Father Drowned himself as most People believed c. Yet this Wicked Woman in the very next Page Acknowledges to her own Confusion viz. But the Coroner and Jury did not find it wilful Murder c. Now let the World Judge whether this be not meer Malice in the superlative degree in this Incendiary That because her Brother Barnardiston living near 20 Miles distance from my Fathers Dwelling that upon his telling her she knew not when nay I question whether at all that most People talked so That therefore she should have the Impudence near 40 years after this Accident to take upon her to Try this Tryed Cause de novo And by her Infallible Super-abounding Confidence to Confront both Coroner and Jury Render them Perjured who then had the opportunity to hear Witnesses to examine all Circumstances and when they found it casual and Accidental they brought their Verdict in Accordingly And this she says herself p. 14.
But the Coroner and Jury did not find it Wilful-Murder And I do now Challenge Aâ—n Docwra to say it was self-Murder for I deny it and will to her Face and to the Faces of all her Approvers and Abbettors otherwise to what end have we Courts of Judicature Judges Juries and Witnesses If every Proud Varlet and Envious Man may stir up Strife in Towns and Cities and charge Persons with Crimes after they are acquitted by Legal Tryals Neither is it agreeable to the Rules of Law or Justice to Impeach men afresh or recharge them after they are cleared c. I do acknowledge the Accident was sorrowful enough to my self and my Fathers Relations and Loving Neighbours But if my Grandfather who was born Anno 1579 which was about 50 years before this Crazy Woman was Born No nor yet my Great Grand-father who was Born many years before him no Marvel that she now falls upon my Deceased Father and Reflects upon my Son also for Malice is like Quakerisme it hath no Botom nor no Banks can keep it in due bounds it s like the Raging Sea Foaming out it s own Shame casting forth Mire and Dirt for suppose it had been as she falsely relates how could I have helped it or wherein does the Misfortune of any of my Relations affect the controversie now on Foot But that I may draw the exact Picture of this old Dissembling Hypocrite Ann Dockwra as Compleatly as Father Penn's is drawn in the Quakers Synod and set her forth in her proper Dress with all her Features see p. 14. ibid where she thus says as if she were an Excellent Friend of mine viz. I Write not this to Vpbraid Fran. Bugg but to warn those that have Incouraged him in Scribling his Estate away to be Bountiful to him c. Here the Cloven Foot appears tho' Disguised for Malice and Hypocrisie walk Hand in Hand under a Quaker-Bonnet for says she in her Preface It is matter of Admiration says she to me that they i. e. the Clergy should Entertain Fran. Buggs Books and give Credit to them a Man of a Seared Conscience of Desperate Fortunes of a Shattered Head his Seared Conscience Imboldens him to Write all manner of Lyes and Forgeries whilst she proves not one to get Money like High-way Men a Beggar c. I think I need not Comment upon this her Inconsistency First In saying she does not Write to Upbraid me whilst she Upbraids me in the Highest Nature the Devil and Malice can Invent. And this I can say that as no Man ever Incouraged me to Scrible away my Estate But that from First to Last I have seen a Necessity to Unmask this Painted Harlot so thanks be to God I can say with a good Conscience I never Wrot for Money nor was I ever a Beggar nor have I wanted a sufficient support to this Day but have Lived well in Meat Drink and Apparrel and Maintained my Family with all Necessaries I never wanted a good House to Live in nor a good Horse to Ride on and Money in my Pocket and if I have Applyld my self to the Clergy that thereby I might be Inabled to Desend my Christian Profession against the Powerful Fund of the Quakers it is no more then Fox Whitehead and other of the Quakers have done who at first were not able to Print a Book at their own Charge which I did fifteen years together without Assistance from their hearers to whom they apply'd themselves by Papers which did fly like briefs FOR MONEY MONEY FOR THE MINITSRY Wherefore Cousin Dockwra for the Dicision of this Controversie which on your part is chiefly Personal and founded upon Charges without Proof against which in many Cases a Negative Evidence cannot take place and I being the Party Accused am willing to put my self upon Tryal If you will joyn Issue giving you all the Advantage you can reasonably expect or desire as also the Assistance of your Gentleman Quaker viz. Appoint your self any Day or Days from the first day of October next to the fifth day of November following at any convenient Place in Cambridge and chuse you six Men where you Please and upon timely Notice of your Accepting this my Proposition I will chuse me six Men and let us both subscribe an Instrument to stand to and abide by the award of these twelve Men under what Penalties you Please And if they cannot agree then let us both be Obliged to stand to the Award of the Right Worshipful the Vice Chancellor and the Right Worshipful the Mayor of the University and Town of Cambridge for the time being oâ— to two Delegates by them two respectively Chosen and if you prove the several Charges exhibited against me in your two Books I shall freely submit to any Penalty which shall be awarded against me but if you fail of Proof and be found a false Witness and guilty of a Lying-Tongue I shall â—xpect your Submission accordingly and if I do not prove the Letters mentioned to be yours in my several Bookâ— to be of your own Hand Writing as fully and satisfactory as any thing of that Nature can be Proved I shall likewise submit to any Penalty assigned by them To this I subscribe my Name June 29. 1700. Francis Bugg POSTSCRIPT REader the Account touching William Penn's having held Correspondence with the Jesuites in the height of his Quakerism I Received from a Minister of the Church of England who is ready to attest it whereby I find the Truth of what a Worthy Member of the Honourable House of Commons said to me the last Session of Parliament upon my Presenting my Book A Modest Defence 〈◊〉 i. e. The Devil and Jesuitism is at the Bottom of Quakerism a Fruit in their Doctrine in A. Dockwra I have herein briefly Discovered F. B. FINIS