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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

to release Iohn Boulton Iohn Crook and Isaac Gray the three persons formerly convict of Praemunire who were committed during the King's pleasure and had their Estates seized upon according as ye have formerly heard which Order contained thus much That whereas the said three persons stood convicted of Praemunire and was committed during the pleasure of the King his Will and Pleasure was thereby signifyed That the said three persons should forthwith be enlarged and set at liberty c. According to the intent and meaning of the said Letter the said three persons are delivered out of prison after their five months imprisonment and the hard sentence passed upon them The same day Rebecca Travers was committed to the New-Prison by the Lievtenant of the Tower who being moved to go to him on the behalf of some Prisoners that he had committed for being at Meetings in some discourse with him pressing upon him for pity and compassion to poor men he was much discontented and she being passing away from him one of the Keepers used some violent speeches towards her at her departure to whom she replied and exhorted him to be good in his place while it was the Lords Will he had it c. At which he was so vexed that he went back speedily to the Lievtenant and swore she had spoken Treason for which her Mittimus was made and she immediately committed where she now remains Thus instead of hearing her sober requests in the behalf of the poor prisoners he committed her also So this is the sum of proceedings in and about this City There remains at this present of our friends Prisoners in Negate twelve in New-Prison four and in Southwark near eighty And for these late Weeks Meetings are generally quiet and much pity in the hearts of sober people raised up towards friends who have observed the patient and long-suffering spirit of the Lord amongst us through this hard time of trial and persecution and to continue in the same we are resolved through the strength of Christ Jesus even till our deliverance come and we shall never seek vengeance against our Enemies nor rise up against them to redeem our selves by our own strength and we desire like-mindedness among all that love us for the Lord will accomplish his own Work in his season At a Meeting at Ham five miles out of the City divers Friends have been taken of late through the instigation of a wicked Priest who hath stirred up the Officers of the Town to disturb the Meeting and they have sent divers friends some to Colchester-Gaol and some to the House of Correction And one Friend in particular was dragged at a Horses tail for some part of the way Thus the cruelty of the Priests is daily made manifest to their shame and reproach through the Land even these men who were themselves in a suffering condition some of them and yet without regard either of God or man stir up the hearts of men to be cruel towards the Innocent By late Letters from Norfolk Suffolk and Essex we have lately understood That for the most part our Friends Meetings are quiet and peaceable in all them East-Counties except in some places where the Officers are violent and rude men and are willing to do our friends mischief and there our friends are most molested But there are not many of our Friends Prisoners in them parts at this present By Letters lately received from Plymouth and Bristol and out of the West we understand That there are very few of our Friends in prison in them parts At Bristol three remains taken from meetings some Weeks since two of whom are convict by the late Act against meetings and the other detained for refusing the Oath In Exceter some lately released out of the prison who were committed for meetings though meetings at this present are generally quiet in the West For our Friends are so well known to be of peaceable deportment and of inoffensive conversation and their meetings so clearly for the Worship of God that sober men have no great mind nor desire to use violence to their honest neighbors in halling them out of meetings and carrying them to prison for all sober men must needs confess That such kind of dealing towards our Friends as of late practised in this City by persecution and cruelty acted upon them can never make in the effect of it for the happiness of the King and Government but 't is liberty and freedom in the exercise of Conscience in spiritual matters that must make for the prosperity of the King and his subjects By Letters lately received from the North we understand that in York Castle there are about an hundred of our friends prisoners committed for meeting together in the Worship of God some of whom have lately been tried at the sessions and some are fined 40. s some more some less and some sentenced into Premunire and all returned back to prison again saving some about Wakefield-side who were released And thus they go on to persecute the innocent through their enmity till the Lord arise and work the deliverance for his people In Leicestershire and Northamptonshire divers were released out of prison this last Sessions though some are committed again since for meeting together to worship God Also we have been given to understand of late that very much goods have been distrained from our friends in the Countreys for meeting together and for not going to Parish-Houses to hear Common-Prayer and for Tythes and Priests hire so that great are the sufferings of the innocent every way the wicked plow furrows upon their backs and are like pricking briars and thorns unto upright men and this is a very trying day unto all that fear the Lord whether they will suffer for the truth they profess or whether they will deny their God and Religion But blessed and happy are the faithful this day who follow Christ through suffering for they that suffer with him shall reign with him At Hartford last Sessions four honest Friends were tryed for refusing the Oath of Allegiance and sentenced into a Pramunire and are kept close Prisoners ever since Take the account of it in the Letter following Dear Friends IN the bowels of endeared love and perfect unity in that measure of Light and Life which we are made partakers of in the Father do we salute you with the rest of our dear Friends and suffering brethren in bonds for the testimony of a good Conscience in the Prison of Newgate We thought it convenient to acquaint you from our own hands with the cause of our suffering in these bonds and to give you some brief account of the Sessions-proceedings against us On the 6 th and 7 th days of this Month was the Quarter-Sessions for the County of Hartford where we with divers other of our friends were arrested with Sessions Processes for not going to our Parish Church as they called it where is to be observed that we are Inhabitants