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A84839	The West answering to the North in the fierce and cruel persecution of the manifestation of the Son of God, as appears in the following short relation of the unheard of, and inhumane sufferings of Geo. Fox, Edw. Pyot, and William Salt at Lanceston in the county of Cornwall, and of Ben. Maynard, Iames Mires, Ios. Coale, Ia. Godfrey, Io. Ellice, and Anne Blacking, in the same gaole, town, and county. And of one and twenty men, and women taken up in the space of a few dayes on the high wayes of Devon, ... Also a sober reasoning in the law with Chief Justice Glynne concerning his proceedings ... And a legall arraignment for the indictment of the hat, ... And many other materiall and strange passages at their apprehensions and tryals ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1988; Thomason E900_3; ESTC R202187	140,064	174

of a mans innocency and the defence of his liberty As he hath outstripped the Jews who said to Paul and his Companions men and Brethren if ye have a word of exhortation to the people say on Acts 13.15.16 and all manner of honesty and justice in urging a man to go to the assembly to hear and then judge and when he hath heard patiently till all was ended and every one silent then speaking a few words of soberness and truth to stir up the people to hale him out who before attentively heard him to call to the Constable to take him away to call such words of truth vilifying to say such things were not to be suffered to send him to prison with a warrant filled with lyes false accusations as there is non sence in that passage untill you he be thence delivered to bid the Constable to sell his horse to bear the charge And insultingly to tell him when he had done all this that he would warrant he might now lye long enough in prison who by reason of him had stayd 235. dayes in prison a little before as hath been aforesaid This is P. Ceely and his communion of Saints this is he whose unparalleld wickedness is the burden of this relation with whom it begins with whom it ends whose iniquity hath no end whose rage hath no bound whose cruel●y is without mercy and whose inhumanity is without naturall affection who is envious malicious proud fiery a boaster a blasphemer a filthy speaker a curser a scoffer a reviler a railer a lyar a persecutor an oppressor a truce-breaker a false accuser a despiser of those that are good a traytor heady high-minded cruell implacable unreasonable whose heart is as hard as the neather milstone whose conscience is seared as with an hot Iron whose forehead is as Brass and flint and whose neck as of Iron sinnews impudent hard hear●ed who makes the last days perilous who hath filled up a large measure of iniquity as this very relation beareth witness one who hath sold himself to commit wickedness who after the long illegall cruell barbarous monstrous causelesss unheard of sufferings of the innocent occasioned by him as hath been said and much more which is past over in silence contrary to the Law of God and of man civill and naturall to modesty justice reason honesty and all humanity as one not satiated therewith still ravening after the Blood of the Innocent cast's W. Salt into the same prison again within 6. dayes after his release from under t●e hand of his mercilesse cruelty and insatiable bloodiness with such treachery fa●shood and ungodliness as hath been in part expressed thus treasuring up unto himself after the hardnesse impenitency of his heart wrath unto the day of wrath and Revelation of the righteous Judgement of God which shall destroy the adversary and render unto him according to his deeds And all this is but part of what the Innocent servants of the Lord have suffered in the Goale of Lanceston in the County of Cornwall and do yet suffer in the Goale of Exon in the County of Devon where they are still continued though one of them be lately (*) Jane Ingram committed by John Champion Justice so called and recommitted by Judge N●cholas one of the Fruits of the Order for the Guards for which the Justice of the righteous God they must answer dead divers others of them sick with the poysonous nastiness of that filthy place where they were cast in heaps together in and amongst the fellons and murderers first by the Justices then by Judge Nicholas And if any man aske wherefore is all this It is answered for none other cause then for giving forth a paper in compassion to the ignorant at the movings of the Lord stirring them up to prise their time and shewing them the way to salvation in the words of the Scriptures of truth as the paper it self at large in the beginning of this relation manifests and for going to visit the Innocent thus and for this cause cast into prison and under such cruell sufferings is this England are these the people that have gone through such wars which have made the world to ring for liberty of conscience Who talk so much of Christ and his glorious Gospell and yet thus persecute the life of the Son of God now made manifest Not that our lives are in these things is this written but that every thing may be shewn and laid in its own place But this is not all yet this generation have yet to fill up the measure of their iniquity in this their hour the powers of darkness they must yet shew themselves to be more blind and bru●tish cruell and unreasonable than the generations whom they have succeeded in persecuting of the just and to be such as are as unsatiable as hell whom the sufferings and blood of the Innocent doth not suffice or make them once to say it is enough they must make it to appear that one and the same spirit of ravening and cruelty is in and acts through the diversities of painted formes of Godliness without the power and the glorious outsides of profession without the life as is in and acts through the outwardly more dark and filthy part of the world against the truth of the living God where it is made manifest and that they and them all are of the same stock lineage and kindred having all one Father him who aboad not in the truth the Devill the murderous persecutor of the seed of God throughout all ages from the beginning Therefore the wisedome of God sent again some of his Innocent servants who had long and sorely suffered in and were released out of the Goale at Lanceston as hath been said into that County of Cornwall to trie and prove this generation further and to bring forth to the light what had layn hid in the bottome of the hearts of some under the cover and shew of friendship and sence of their sufferings Which will appear when that which follows of the apprehension and imprisonment of Joseph Coale one of the late prisoners aforesaid by P. Ceely and the return of him and W. Salt from the Sessions at Bodmin prisoners to Lanceston by Collonel Bennet aforesaid who sate Judge of the Court and the carriage of Coll. Bennet towards them in the Court and the passages there now to be rehearsed as the close of this relation being added to what hath been but now said of the imprisonment of W. Salt by P. Ceely shall together be considered with moderation and weighed in judgement Joseph Coale having been after his imprisonment aforesaid to visit some friends in Cornwall as he vvas travelling peaceably on the vvay about the 30. of the 7. month Peter Ceely met him vvho envying to see him at liberty and free of adversity and bonds out of his unsatiable cruelty and murderous malice for no other cause than for seeing of him travell quietly on

Katherine who was she that spake but it was after all was ended as hath been said there to abide till she found sureties for the good behaviour though in that Steeplehouse they were assaulted by the Constables and the people who threw them down almost to the breaking of their bones and kept in Plymouth near three weeks during which time the Mayor denyed friends to visit them and would not accept the tender of friends body for body for Priscilla that she might pass home to see her Husband a Shop-keeper in the town who was taken very sick and returne again to Prison and when she vvas sent from thence to Exon Gaole because she staid but till her servant brought her a pair of shoes one of the tvvo fellows that the Mayor sent with them laid violent hands on her and drew her along the Street almost to the murthering of her and then produced an order of the Mayors for his so doing And six times was she brought before this Iudge and alterations made in the paper of lyes exhibited against her which she denyed and said that there was no truth therein which the Clerk of the Court altered and the Iudge said let it be so and because she took notice of their proceedings and spake to them to do that which is right he caused her to be had away and at length a paper was formed against her by way of Indictment to vvhich he demanded guilty or not guilty She said it was a false paper and because she did not say guilty or not guilty but as aforesaid which was a sufficient Plea in Law denying the Indictment for to say the words guilty or not guilty is onely required in cases of Fellony or life by the Law of England he grew outragious whereupon she saying to him art thou a man to Iudge for God and canst not rule thy self but art angry be sober man and fear the Lord and do justice and let not passion rule thee he raged the more and said Gaoler have her away have her away I cannot endure thers for a certain space of time and being now brought they desired to know what it was they were imprisoned f●r seeing they layd nothing to their charge but what was done then in the Court having shewn no Law to which it was contrary and one of them who had been in prison a quarter of a year askd of the Justice present that committed him what he had to say to him and where was his accusers but he answered not a word And they said in conscience to the Law of God they could not put off their Hats And that they were not guiltie of affronting the Magistrate or the breach of any Law But because they did not answer guiltie or not guiltie in those their words though what is exprest to have been said viz. that they were not guiltie of affronting the Magistrate or of the breach of any Law with vvhich crimes that Indictment did charge them be a sufficient Plea in Law as is known to those who understand the Law for that the Indictment was not grounded upon the Law but Will and to say guiltie or not guiltie to that which is not Law is inconsistent with libertie and an upholding of Will as and in the place and authority of the Lavv vvhich they could not do They were had away vvith violence from the Bar to the Prison and then brought to the Bar again and demanded guiltie or not guiltie and were told that after they had answered guiltie or not guiltie a Law should be shewn them but they refusing to answer in those words till a Lavv vvas first shewn them vvere not permitted to speake but commanded away again and one of them viz. Ioseph Cole thrown to the ground before the Court by the under-Gaoler without reproof and though the Judge said one of them should speak when he asked vvhether they could not have the priviledge the Heathen gave Paul yet he caused them all to be had away not suffering any of them to speake vvhich the Country people disliked saying it was truth vvhich the prisoners spake and so to close prison they were had avvay again the Judge saying he would give judgement against them if they ansvvered not in those vvords And the third time for three severall dayes vvere they brought before the Court and some of them severall times in a day they vvere brought to the Bar again and demanded as before Iohn Ellice having by that time got a Copy of the Indictment t●ld the Judge that for that Swaunton the Clerk made his wife pay thirteen shillings saying that otherwise she should not have it and asked the Judge whether that was not extortion To which he answered Gaoler speedily have them away wh●ch he did with violence and because they onely said in answer first shew us a Law that we have broken before we be demanded to plead to an Indictment guiltie or not guiltie they were haled away to prison without being further permitted to speake and the Gaoler who pretended himself sick till he heard of the Iudges usage of the prisoners being in Court that day struck Ioseph Cole over the face with his staffe and punchd Iohn Ellice by the Arme which filthiness the people saw and cryed out against And there were they detained whilst the Iury past upon them to whom he said that they viz. the prisoners had broken the Law of God and of man Nor did he cause them to be brought before him when he gave judgement against them that they might hear the judgment and have libertie to move in arrest thereof as is the Law But whilst they were in prison fined them in 20. marks a piece and imprisonment till payment who had suffered so long and with such crueltie as hath been in part exprest whom he would not suffer to speak of their imprisonment or cruell usage or in their own defence nor brought one accuser or witness to their faces nor enquired into their sufferings or the cause of them And this is the justice and relief the innocent at Launceston received as their brethren and friends had hefore at Exon from this Iudge Nicholas whose vvill he set up for a Lavv and because they could not in Conscience to God nor in respect to the Law of this N●tion vvhich judgeth arbitrariness bovv to his Image or answer to his vvill guiltie or not guiltie as the lavv requires to vvhat it commandeth and so could not obey and observe his vvill equall vvith and as the lavv his vvrath rose and the form of his visage vvas changed and in the rage of his fury and passion prepared a Furnace a Bill of Indictment he heated seven times vvith the fire of vvickedness into which he cast them bound because of the Hat and vvithout it vvhen as Nebuchadnezar an Heathen King cast the three Children into the fiery furnace bound in their Coats their Hosen and their Hats and their other Garments vvhich novv comes to be

had said to him come hear and judge as aforesaid was offended and his countenance fell and became pale and called for a Constable to take him away which was forthwith done and then P. Ceely passed a●ong with the young Priest saying such things were not to be suffered though what was done was against no Law and was but what himself had said and urged him unto and came directly to the house where he had set up his horse where he framed a warrant to send him to prison without any examination which when he had written he gave to the Constable requiring him to take W. Salt into custodie bidding him if he wanted mony to sell W. Salts horse to pay the charges and to W. Salt he said he would warrant he now might lie long enough in prison who after he had spoken to him to come there to do as hath been said with his other friends afore mentioned had layne two hundred thirty and five dayes before in prison upon occasion of his commitment and under the cruel sufferings from which he was but then at liberty as hath been said and so went his way and W. Salt was conveyed to Lanceston and delivered to the Goaler there in custody with a warrant a copy whereof is as followeth Cornwall To the Keeper of the Goale at Lanceston or his lawfull deputy These I Send you here withall the body of W. Salt late of London who came this day into the Congregation at Guithen and there irreverently demeaned himself in time of prayer keeping his Hat on and at close of the exercise before the Minister came out of his pulpit vilified him and disturbed the Congregation contrary to the command of God Law of this Nation These are therefore in the name of his Highness the Lord Protector to will and command you that you take him into custody and him safely to keep untill you he be thence delivered by due course of Law and hereof fail you not as you will answer the contrary at your utmost perill Given under my hand and Seal this 14. day of September 1656. P. Ceely Into the Congregation W. Salt came being moved of the Lord to which Pet. Ceely and his companion often urged him as hath been said and now chargeth him with so doing There he stood in the reverence and fear of the Lord God who regards not the prayers of the wicked which are an abomination unto him nor can his saints who pray to him in spirit and worship him in spirit bow to such and modestly and mildly did he there demean himself Vilifie the vaine Lad whom he calls a Minister he did not nor interrupt him as they call it but heard with silence though he told the people a storie of a Mule cloathed in a Lions skin and then would tell them the Morall of it when he was the Lion in the mules skin as it afterwards appeared The truth he spake the speaking of truth is not vilifying He exhorted the people to mind Christ the Bishop of their souls that him alone might be their teacher where they would find rest to their souls and told them that he that made them was come to teach them and those who come hither need not go forth This is what he said and this it seems is vilifying in P. Ceelies account as he called the paper given forth by G. F. directing people to the way to Salvation by Jesus Christ only in the words of the Scriptures of truth mentioned in the beginning of this treatise sinfull and wicked and tending to the disturbance of the peace and therefore committed them under which they have suffered without mercy as hath been exprest so let him who reads and understands see what a profane person and unheard of blasphemer is this P. Ceely and when W. Salt asked P. Ceely whether that was to vilifie to bid people turn to the light so to Christ the true shepherd from all the false Prophets blind guides P. Ceely bad the people take notice And in his warrant he ought to have expressed wherein he did vilifie him in which he is silent And speak he did not till the young Priest was gone out of his pulpit so here is another lye under his hand and Seale Nor did he disturbe the Congregation for the people were very attentive to hear untill P. Ceely stirred them up to hale him out so P. Ceely was the peace-breaker as he hath shewn himself in this particular again a lyer and one who in this whole action and warrant hath acted contrary to the command of God and the Law of this Nation though he chargeth W. Salt with both which are two lyes more For first in obedience to the movings of the Lord he came thither and at his command spake in the words of soberness and truth as hath been said And the Apostle saith ye may all Prophesie one by one that all may learne and all may be comforted if any thing be revealed to another that stands by let the first hold his peace 1 Cor. 14.30.31 but P. Ceely in stopping W. Salts mouth as he was speaking something which to him was revealed and which to speak God had commanded him and calling for a Constable to take him away and taking him away and committing him to prison for so speaking hath acted against the command of God and persecuted him who the command of God obeyed for being obedient thereu●to as he hath also in affirming so many lyes in his warrant as hath been instanced there being not one true sentence therein nor were the things true which are alleadged therein are they matter in Law wherefore to imprison Now God ordaineth his arrows against the PERSECUTORS Psal 7.13 and the Devil is the father of lyes who is a lyar from the beginning and aboad not in the truth and the lyar is for the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone there to be tormented with the Devil and his Angels And for the Law of the Land there is not the least tittle thereof that W. Salt hath offended no not Queen Maries which was made to defend the Mass Priests and Jesuits in time of their service for that guards such but whilest the Priests are speaking and declaring But on the contrary the Government Art 37. saith such shall be not restrained from but shall be protected in the profession of their faith and exercise of their Religion who profess faith in God by Jesus Christ and that all may prophesie one by one and if any thing be revealed to another that stands by let the first hold his peace is a true profession of the true faith and exercise of the true Religion which the Saints professed and exercised on record in the Scripture and Paul commanded it who was an Apostle of Jesus Christ not by man nor the will of man which P. Ceely ●ath broken as he hath the other Laws of the Nation which have so carefully provided for the preservation

The WEST Answering to the NORTH IN The fierce and Cruell PERSECUTION of the manifestation of the SON of GOD As appears in the following short RELATION Of the unheard of and inhumane SUFFERINGS of Geo. Fox Edw. Pyot and William Salt at LANCESTON in the County of CORNWALL AND Of Ben. Maynard Iames Mires Ios Coale Ia. Godfrey Io. Ellice and Anne Blacking in the same GAOLE TOWN and COUNTY AND Of ONE and TWENTY men and women taken up in the space of a few dayes on the HIGH WAYES of DEVON as they were peaceably travelling thereunto and from visiting of the aforesaid Prisoners by ARMED GUARDS set up throughout the COUNTY by order of the Generall Sessions for that purpose and thrown in heaps into the Common Gaole of EXON amongst the Fellons where divers of them are sick and one of them viz. Iane Ingram there lately DEAD And of Katherin Martingdale and Priscilla Cotton of PLIMMOUTH and two others in the same Gaole at EXON and of another in Bridewell in the same City ALSO A sober reasoning in the LAW with Chief justice GLYNNE concerning his proceedings against Geo. Fox E. Pyot and W. Salt at LANCESTON ASSIZES 25. of the 1. month 1656. in a Letter sent to him by the Prisoners And a legall ARRAIGNMENT of the Indictment of the HAT the new founded FURNACE into which are cast the children of LIGHT who in obedience to the Lord cannot BOWE the Hat to the WILL of men nor to their persons who with such a base thing are confounded And many other materiall and strange passages at their apprehensions and tryals at severall Assizes and Sessions and in the Intervals of each and of the MONSTROUS Inventions of ETCETERA warrants Watches Wards Armed Guards c. to cause the Innocent to suffer weighed in the BALLANCE of LAW and EQUITY Behold the day behold it is come the morning is gone forth the Rod hath blossomed Pride hath budded Violence is risen up into a Rod of wickedness Woe to the Bloody City it is full of lyes and Robberies the Prey departeth not her Iudges are Evening Wolves they gnaw not the Bones till the morrow They have made ready their heart like an Oven whilst they lye in waite Their Bakers sleepe●h all the night in the morning it Burneth as a flaming fire They are all hot as an Oven and have devoured their Iudges and their Kings are fallen and their is none that calleth upon me And they consider not in their heart that I remember all their Wickedness Now their own doings have beset them about they are before my face Doe ye indeed speake Righteousness O Congregation Doe ye Iudge uprightly O ye Sons of men yea in heart you work wickedness ye weigh the Violence of your hands in the earth How long will ye Iudge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked Defend the poor and fatherless Doe Iustice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy Rid them out of the hand of the wicked They know not neither will they understand they walke on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out of course Arise O God and Iudge the earth for thou shalt inherit all Nations when he maketh Inquisition for blood he remembreth them be forgetteth not the cry of the humble London Printed for Giles Calvert at the West end of Pauls 1657. To the sober Reader VVE are not the men to the intent who gives forth things to lay open nakedness but that men may take warning and fear and come to know themselves and what they act and practise whereby with the Truth they may be covered and others may take warning by their examples seeing such bad fruits from such flow whose intent from us is to cover that simplicitie and Innocencie might rule Though these things be open and layd open for their understandings and Instructions that they may know both the Law of man and of God and how they act contrary both to Reason and the Law of God whose actions we cover and do forgive who we do forgive who doth answer the Light in every man which Christ hath enlightned him withall and might not appear themselves to be a shame to the Nation and a scorne amongst men to see them act contrary to Reason and Modestie and the Law of God and the Nation but if the righteous Law take hold of them and make them smart let them not say but that they have had warning And that men should be cloathed who are naked and their uncomely parts and shame covered to the intent and end is this given forth that seriousness modesty truth and Justice and plainess and innocency and righteousness may be set up in Towns and Streets of the things whom they do concern they may take notice The VVEST Answering to the NORTH c. ABout the middle of the eleventh month 1655. George Fox being on his Journey with Edward Pyot of Bristoll nnd William Salt of London from the farthermost parts of Cornwall towards Bristoll was moved of the Lord in bowels of compassion to the Ignorant in those dark corners of the Nation to give forth a paper for the directing their minds to the way of salvation and the stirring of them up to prize their time and the day of their visitation a true Copy whereof is as followeth THe migthy day of the Lord is come and coming that all hearts shal be made manifest the secrets of every ones heart shal be revealed with the light of Jesus which comes from Jesus Christ who lighteth every man that cometh into the world Who saith learn of me This is my welbeloved Son hear you him saith God that lighteth every man that cometh into the world that all men through him might believe the world through him might have life And Christ is come to teach himself the second Priesthood and every one that will not hear this Prophet which God hath raised up which Moses spake of and said Like unto me will God raise you up a Prophet him shall you hear every one that doth not hear this Prophet is to be cut off They that despised Moses Law died under the hands of two or three witnesses but how much greater punishment shall come upon them that shall neglect this great salvation Christ Jesus who saith Learn of me I am the way the truth and the life who lighteth every man that cometh into the world which light lets him see his evill wayes his evill deeds that he hath done but if he hate that light and goes on in the evill this will be the condemnation the light saith Christ Therefore now you have time prize it this is the day of your visitation and salvation proffered to you every one of you having a light which lets you see you should not lye nor do wrong nor take Gods name in vain nor steale this is the light that shews you these evill deeds which if you love it it will lead you to Christ who is the way

every man that cometh into the world that all men through him might believe the world through him might have life and Christ is come to teach him self the second Priesthood and every one that will not hear this Prophet that God hath raised up which Moses spoke of and said like unto me will God raise up a Prophet him shall you hear Every one that doth not hear this Prophet is to be cut off They that despised Moses Law died under the hands of two or three witnesse● but how much greater punishment will come upon them that shall neglect this great salvation Christ Jesus who saith Learn of me I am the way the truth and the life who lighteth every man that cometh into the world which light lets him see his evill wayes his evill deeds which he hath done but if he hate the light and go on in the evill this will be the condemnation the light saith Christ with what else is contained in the paper aforesaid concerning Christ Jesus the way to the Father and peoples being called upon to prize their time and that day of their Visitation in the words and according to the Scriptures of Truth to be tending to the disturbance of the publick Peace who will assuredly be payd his wages as his reward he shall also receive for affirming the paper containing the things before rehearsed to be sinfull and wicked than which what higher blasphemie is there greater abhomination or more horrible wickedness 3. Whereas he chargeth them with not being able to render any lawfull cause of coming to those parts It is answered For an English man to travaile or be in any part of England or the Dominions thereunto appertaining which is his Country and his habitation is his right as a free-born English man his naturall Right his birth-Right as essentiall to him as his being and it is as lawfull as for him to be and travell in those parts of it where he was borne or usually hath resided and so to be without any consideration of declaring of what is his business unless in the cases provided by the Law viz. to hues and cryes fellonies gaming 's begging freeing the Parish from charge with such like is his liberty and to abridge him hereof is to abridge him of his liberty and right unto which the Law is a defence and Guard and which for to preserve cost the blood and miseries of the late Wars in which the Lord so much appeared and is as unreasonable and unnaturall as to deny him ayr to breath in And many cases there are as the causes of a mans travelling and changing his habitation lawfull and good which if a man should declare might be his undoing as it would be cruelty to exact it Nor doth the Law set down affirmatively what is a lawfull cause for a man to travell or be in any part of these Dominions but understands this whole Dominion to be every English mans Countrie his habitation wherein he may lawfully be and unaccountable unless he by due information by two sufficient witnesses is charged with any thing done by him that is contrary thereunto And here as he hath shewn his ignorance of the Law which to execute he is sworn in making that a crime worthy of Bonds which the Law takes no notice of but is contrary thereunto as hath been demonstrated so this his charge is a lye for he was told they were there to visit the People of the Lord and to do good which the Lord required of them and the Government allows and saith that such shal be protected and defended 4. And whereas he saith being persons altogether unknown and having no pass for their travelling up and down the Countrie Persons altogether unknown they were not for as it hath been already said one or two of the Town came into his house and declared that they knew Ed. Pyot to be a Merchant of Bristoll and that there was his dwelling and of none of them But of Edward Pyot did he demand a pass So this that he affirms is another lye nor doth the Law require those who travell up and down the Countrie upon their occasions to have passes And hereof the Law he again manifests his ignorance 5. Whereas he chargeth them with refusing to give sureties of the good behaviour according to the Law in that behalf provided Of the good behaviour they are according to the Law of an endless life Nor any behaviour that is contrary to the Law of the Land did they manifest whereby they ought to give sureties of the good behaviour according as he saith to the Law in that behalf provided For but of one of them viz. of Edw. Pyot who was known to some of the town present did he demand sureties Who answered shew me a Lavv that I have transgressed and I will find sureties which not being produced he could not be charged with refusing to give sureties of the good behaviour according to the Lavv in that behalf provided nor could he do so vvithout vvronging his Innocencie and making himself an offender And they vvho vvere not asked to find sureties at all as vvere not the other tvvo cannot be said to refuse so to do And so a lye in every particular is this his Allegation in this Warrant as his Ignorance of the Law is also apparant for had they indeed misbehaved themselves contrary to the Law which provided in that behalf sureties to be given or Imprisonment The Warrant of a single Justice is not sufficient in the Law whereby to imprison them unless the misbehaviour had been particularly mentioned therein as is known to them who understand the Law of this Nation And because the impudencie of this man who when he had molested injured and abused them and towards them had so misbehaved himself contrary to the L●w and all that is of good report amongst men as hath been expressed yet doth he not blush to send them to Prison with a Warrant charging them with such a manifest lye as their refusing to find sureties for the good behaviour according to the Lavv in that behalf provided as the cause of their Commitment after he had thus villified and abused them And yet he stiles himself one of the Iustices of the Peace of the County of Cornwall See the Proclamation for the Oath of Abjuration 6. Nor is that all his pack For in the next place he chargeth them with refusing to take the Oath of Abjuration When as the preamble of the Proclamation manifests as doth also Equitie and Justice that to such as deny and vvitness against all kind of Popery and Popish Religion Root and Branch the Oath for abjuring Popery vvas not intended but for Papists Therefore it saith For as much as of late time there hath been a great neglect in putting the Laws in execution for Convicting of Popish Recusants by means whereof the penalties imposed upon such cannot be leavied or required which hath been a great incouragement

warrant he should lye long enough in prison to adde affliction to his bonds because he was not one of that sect that every where was spoken against but laboured to do him right not to wrong him to hear both sides and then themselves to judge what they had heard declaring boldly and nakedly like men of courage notwithstanding the high Priests and chief of the people their thoughts concerning him not passing judgement or entertaining prejudice because of the report they had heard of him and this was manly and of a good report to keep themselves clear And when he came to Rome they d●d not put him into the Common Gaole among other Prisoners or commit him to a man to make a prey upon him to put him where he should spend most mony or else be put into Doomesale but when the Centurion delivered up his Prisoners to the Captaine of the guard Paul was suffered to dwell by himself he dwelt two years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him preaching the kingdom and teaching those things which concerne the Lord Jesus Christ withall confidence no man forbidding him Now we do not read that liberty of Conscience was one of the Fundamentalls of the Roman Gevernment yet they suffered it none not so much forbidding any to come to the Apostle which was far from making laws against them that visit prisoners men for visiting their friends to be taken up and put in prison for it Again you that be men in authority to do justice between man and man and to execute the Laws this would I know of you whether a law once made and afterwards repealed be again of any force yea or nay or whether the priviledges of the law extend to any but those whom the law qualifies thereunto and makes capable thereof whether then by the Act of 1. Eliz. Cap. 2. last clause that of the 1. of Mary be not repealed which saith all Laws Statutes and Ordinances wherein or whereby any other services administration of Sacraments or Common Prayer is limited established or set forth to be used c. shall be henceforth void and of none effect and that of the 1. of Mary is for the establishing of the Mass and all Popish services and whether Nicholas Hide when chief Justice of England gave not his judgement that it was wholly repealed And if Queen Maries law be repealed what Priests are they that flye for refuge to it to uphold their Ministry now Or is it reasonable to put men in prison as many have been and some are and there be kept when they have nothing to plead for their so doing but that law And whether the Priests now claiming the priviledge of Queen Maries law made for the defence of the Jesuits and Priests in the excercise of the Popish and Idolatrous worship and services against the servants of the Lord many of which then suffered Imprisonment and some in flames of fire for witnessing against them then do not manifestly declare themselves to be no Ministers of Jesus Christ And whether these are otherwise to be accounted of then such by which that law was made that flye to it to guard them If the whole body of Popery be removed whether then that law be not also null and void seeing the effect ceaseth with the cause whether he that hath the law hath not the supremacie and so whether he that hath the Popish Law to guard him have not the supremacie of the Pope to guard him And why is not the oath of abjuration to be tendred to such Priests if the intent of it be to extirpate Popery rather than unto them who have both declared and writ against Popery publickly and all them that are in the likenesses imitations and traditionall invention● out of the power of God So you all being kept in the dread and fear of the Lord God no unjust thing will proceed from you your hearts will be tender there will be a loving of mercy and doing of justice both and here you come to answer the end of Magistracie a terror to the evill doer and a pra se to them that do well rightly qualified men fearing God ruling others in the fear of God men of truth to find out the truth and judge down the deceit not covetous nor given to filthy lucre for that blinds the eye of the wise such were them that were Judges at the first and Councellors at the beginning and when the dross is taken away such shall be restored again according as the Lord hath promised Now ye all coming to the light by it to be led which comes from Christ the light of the world who enlighteth every man that cometh into the world who was given for a witness to the people a leader and commander to the people the light which you have received from him you following and obeying it you come under his command and leading this will bring you to s●e the foundation of many generations raised up and here the restauration will come to be witnessed for the law of the Lord restoreth the soul and the law is light he that hath an ear to hear let him hear From one who is a lover of all souls truth righteousness and peace who waits for the establishing of it and against all injustice cruelty envy and oppression now stands a witness in outward bonds William Salt The next morning the Prisoners wro e to Collonel Bennet concerning his proceedings with them and sent it to him before he was departed the town as followeth Bodmin the thirtieth day of the eighth Month 1656. Friend THou hast denyed to hear my papers in open Court as thou didst those that were against us either concerning the wrong I sustained from P. Ceely or the Gaoler or the abuses we received from those whom P. Ceely sent since we came into this town so that we are on all sides wronged and none we have found hath the courage or that will appeare to right us instead of righting us thou thy self hast proposed a question to us which unlesse we answer yea or nay thou saist we again must go to prison but what sattisfaction or redresse is there made us for being wronged we gave a cleare and full answer in the Court to the satisfaction of all forasmuch as we could perceive besides thy self in the Court and when we had spoken the words thou thy self hadst little to except onely didst say it was somewhat darkely as was thy own expression yet thou denyedst our friend Humphery Lower to let us have our libertie unless we would make a promise Now promises or engagements we do utterly deny to make to any man whatsoever neither can we enter into engagements with any man for we are come to him who is the Covenant to Jesus Christ the light of the World who was given for a Covenant to the people a Light to the Gentiles So that Covenants with Death we cannot make neither are we at

mentioning the saying of Christ Search the Scriptures for in them ye think to have eternal life and they are they that testifie of me saith Christ And the man that accused her declared to the Judge of the Court that she so said viz. the Scriptures were a true Declaration but Christ was the Word Yet much ado the Judge made for her to say yea or no to his question that so he might ensnare her And though she answered him in the words that she spake to the man that accused her which was as much as legally or in reason could be expected and he who accused her affirmed it was so as hath been said yet commanded he the Goaler to take her away and required the man who accused her to prepare a Bill of Indictment against her which contrary to his minde and to what he had said in evidence the Clerk of the Sessions and the grand Jury drew up wherein she was charged as a Felon and as they said the Bill was found by the grand Jury but what ground they had in Law to form a Bill contrary to the Evidence or to make that matter of an Indictment suppose it had been spoken by her as they placed it and would have it to be which is none in Law for all Indictments are invalid where the offence charged therein is not bottom'd on a Law or to make that Felony by form which is no offence in substance and what consciences such a grand Jury have as to form or finde such a Bill for the taking away of life made as hath been said without ground in Law or truth or honesty in form nay contrary to the Evidence yea to the witness his declaring to them at what they had drawn up was not according to his minde is plainly manifested and their cruelty therein to the sober and men of understanding by what hath been already said and what a generation of blind and bloody Monsters exceeding in impudent wickedness all that have gone before them this age so high in profession and so eminently delivered by the hand of the Lord brings forth against his living truth and innocent servants but is made further apparent and the due weight and right measure of this charge by the witness against himself who wrote to Edw. Raddon Secretary to General Disborow who with General Disborow was then at Exon as followeth To his honoured Friend Edward Raddon Secretary to General Disbor●w these present Sir MY service presented to you Being at Exon l●st Sessions I came forth and witnessed against one Margaret Killam what I heard her speak viz. That when in discourse we sp●ke concerning her walking according the light within I said it is true but the Scriptures or the Word of God is the rule for us to walk by Said she Jesus Christ is the Word It is true but there is a written word O thou art an ignorant person and dost not understand the Scriptures said she At which words the Judge of the Sessions demanded of her whether the Scriptures were the Word of God or no She did not confess it or deny it before them but they enjoyned me to draw up a Bill of Indictment against her which as the Clerk under you drew up but not according to my minde but as both they and the grand Jury said it must be so according to the form of the Law In that case I onely can witness neither more nor less than above but I cannot neither ever did I swear that she should say the Scriptures were not the Word of God but it was a Declaration of the minde of God Jan. 25. John Cawse And how far Justice Vowell the Judge of the Court was of the same minde appears in that being spoken to by a Friend that the Law might proceed on her and that on her if she had transgressed the Law might have its course he replyed to that Friend to this effect Will ye have them hang'd out of hand Whereby he intended with her Richard Lippincot of Plymouth and Thomas Hooton who were then Prisoners for some such thing And so by his question it appears that to say that Christ is the Word and the Scriptures a true Declaration of him for those were the words which she onely said and which her Accuser witnessed to be so in his judgement is matter of hanging Was ever such a thing heard of before this day to come forth of the mouth of a Judge professing Christ The Jews who put him to death denyed him and they which persecuted his Apostles and Witnesses dis-owned their testimony of him whom they declared but this generation profess him in words and call themselves Christians and yet seek to murther them who testifie of him Hang them th●t say Christ is the Word and the Scriptures a true Declaration of h●m what more blasphemous bloodiness damnable Antichristianism and Mahometan hellishness Can a Turk say more What would not this generation do to the Truth and the innocent Lambs of Christ were there power in their hands How soon then would his Doctrine be made Blasphemy and his Disciples Blasphemers and their blood poured out on the ground for owning of him to be that which he is and which the Scriptures testifie of him Is not the spirit of giddiness and of deep sleep poured forth on this generation How are they drunk with blood and besotted with rage and madness who would kill a man for witnessing what themselves profess Own him in words to be the Word and the Scripture to be Truth which declare him so to be and yet hang them who say and witness him to be the Word and that of him the Scriptures are a true Declaration O monstrous contradiction whither would not this rage run what cruelty would it not effect were it not he that putteth the sands as a band to the S●a saith unto it hitherto shall thy rage proceed and no further O ye Lambs of Christ what quick havock would be made of you and speedy riddance from off the face of the Earth were it not that ye are kept in the arms of the Almighty and hid secret in his pavilion where ye are preserved even your Enemies themselves being Judges That Sessions ended without bringing her to a trial on that Indictment notwithstand●ng that the Friend aforesaid desired that the Law might have its course which he moved lest they should put her off to the next Sessions And continued in Prison she was till the 15. of the 12. month 1655. at which time she and the other two Friends viz. Richard Lippincot and Thomas Hooton were ●eleased by a VVarrant from Colonel Copplestone Sheriff of the County of Devon as followeth THese are to will and require you on sight hereof to set at liberty Richard Lippincot Thomas Hooton and Margaret Kellum wife of John Kellum now in your Goal for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under my hand and seal this 13. day of February 1655. John Copplestone