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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57466	A blast blown out of the north and ecchoing up towards the south to meet the cry of their oppressed brethren being a relation of some of the sufferings and other exercises of several of the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, in and about Richmond, Massam, Coverdale, Wensleydale, and Swaledale, and some others of the adjacent parts and places in the North Riding of the county of York since the beginning of the year 1660.	R. R. (Richard Robinson), b. 1628?	1680 (1680)	Wing R1713; ESTC R6799	35,019	47

for themselves and Children and that without Just Cause will have much ado to clear themselves from being Men of Blood or Blood-guilty or Blood-thirsty Men. And here by the Protecting of Thornaby in his said Perjury as well as in other Cases it may plainly be perceived That it was not so much Joseph Craddock and James Metcalfe ' s Zeal to put the Laws in Execution and increase the King's Revenue by getting of Fines and his Honour by distributing Justice impartially that made them so forward as it was their Envy and Evil Will against the Quakers so called for if it had they would have done Justice upon Thornaby for his False Oathes according to Law 5 Eliz. chap. 9. 14 Eliz. chap. 11. and not have protected False Swearers under the Notion of doing Service for the King who is Dishonoured by such Services and his Name Abused by such Applications neither would they have hindred the King of such a Considerable Sum of Money as upon proof of the said Perjury had been due unto him by the said Law But I may truly say Justice is turned backward and Equity cannot enter for if it could False Oaths and Perjury would not be made the Instruments of ruining men in their Estates as in this Case they were and have been And now whether such Actions and the Proceedings before mentioned were not and are Dangerous Practices and of Bad Consequence against the growing and encreasing Evils whereof a prudent Parliament had more need to provide a speedy Remedy than against the Peaceable Meetings of the Lord's People let the Wise in Heart judge For by the latter God is Honoured his Name and Power Exalted and Magnified his Truth Spread and Increased and by the Protection Toleration and Encouragement thereof the Kingdom and Government may expect to be Blessed and Established But by the former as God is Dishonoured so the King and his Authority is Abused his Laws Violated his Subjects Ruined and their Liberties Infringed and therefore have need to be remedied For it is an antient but honourable Rule or Maxime Salus populi suprema lex i. e. The Safety of the People is the chiefest Law But this seems with these men and in this matter to be laid waste or disregarded while the Hedge which the Law sets for the Protection of every man's Life Liberty and Estate comes thus to be thrown down and laid open for every Wild Bore and Ravenous Beast such as the said Thornaby even as it were the very Scum and Off-scouring of men by False Oaths or otherwise to enter in root up and lay waste the Rights and Interests of Honest Harmles Self-denying People such as the Law in it self principally delights to honour and for whose only Protection the same Law appears to have been chiefly made For even upon these Encouragements and the Oaths and Informations of the said Thornaby and other his Agents and Emisaries were all those Goods taken and Spoil ensuing made most whereof by Warrants from Joseph Craddock and James Metcalfe in the Country and by Thomas Craddock and John Bartlett in Richmond for no other Offence but only for peaceably meeting together simply to wait upon and worship the One True living God in Spirit and Truth according to his Will and not for Plotting or Contriving Insurrections neither for any Sedition or Dangerous Practices these or any of them being not so much as by the said Informers or any of them laid to their Charge And first Taken from the before-ntioned Richard Robinson of Healaugh Park in Swaledale by Warrant from the said James Metcalfe grounded 〈…〉 false Oaths and Informations of William Thornaby Matthew Chawder for a Fine of 5 s. imposed upon himself who was proved not to be at the said Meeting when Thornaby and Chawder were there and for a Fine of 5 s. for his Wife against whom James Metcalfe had no Information neither did she stand convicted before him yet by his Warrant did Henry Watson Constable and William Thornaby about the twenty fifth day of the third moneth 1670. take Pewter from the said Richard Robinson worth about 19 s. By the same Warrant did the same Constable at or about the same time distrain and take from Robert Addeson of Healy three Pewter Platters and one Brass Pot worth about 12 s. And about the same time did the same Constable and Informer by the said Warrant distrain a Mare of one Nicholas Rawes in Swaledale aforesaid for a Fine of 5 ● imposed upon him worth about 2 l. 10 s. Also the same Constable about the same time and by the same Warrant did distrain and take from Simon Harker of Swaledalc aforesaid for a Fine of 5 s. one Brass Pot worth about 7 s. Upon the 22d day of the 3d Moneth called May 1670. did William Thornaby Elder and Henry Spence both of Richmond Informers together with James Metcalf of Bainbrigg Constable and one Robert Jackson of the same place came to the House of Thomas Fawcett of Hawes in Wensleydale where finding some of the aforesaid People called Quakers peaceably met together to Wait upon and Worship the Living God according to his Will in the Way of his Commandments he the said Thornaby and other his Agents begun to take the Names of some of them so met but not coming to his Purpose in respect he did not know them all and thereupon going away he met with one Thomas Shore a most Notorious Bad Man who to the Countrie 's great Satisfaction was afterwards for his bad Carriage removed by the Justice of Charles then Lord St. John now Marquess of Winchester who gave him Information of the Names of several so met which he had not before got upon which Information together with what he had got before he the said Thornaby together with the said Henry Spence went to before the said James Metcalfe and desperately Swore against a great Number of Persons many whereof he knew not That they were at an Vnlawful Assembly or Conventicle at the place aforesaid though such as meet to wait upon the Lord have not heretofore been accounted an Unlawful Assembly but Encouraged Heb. 10. 25. and particularly against one Thomas Winn of Grisedale and Thomas Bedam's Wife of Hawes neither of whom the said Thornaby or Spence saw there for the said Thomas Winn was not that day in Wensleydale as might have been proved And for a further Evidence of this mans Wickedness he the said Thornaby coming into an Assembly afterwards where many of the said People he so Swore against was present he voluntarily Swore He knew not a Face among them but Three viz. Richard Robinson Bartholomew Harryson and John Thompson And yet upon these mens Oathes and Informations together with the Oathes and Informations of others after given and without calling the Parties accused before him did the said James Metcalfe issue forth his Warrants by which these Goods and Chattels here-after-named were taken from the People following in Wensleydale And First

Burton aforesaid having as is remembred a long Hazle Staff in his hand some-what in length resembling a Hunting Pole which as is remembred he took by the small end in both his hands and there-with he smote Samuel Watson of Knight-stainforth who was then among the aforesaid People so peaceably met together to wait upon the Lord as aforesaid so violently upon or about the Head that with the Violence thereof he to wit the said Samuel fell to the Ground and in that Condition for some considerable time lay as one in a manner dead or bereaved of his Life to the terrifying of those who had so rudely behaved themselves and also of the doer thereof and several of them began to shrink or as it were draw back or aside and excuse themselves as not having a hand in it fearing as it should seem that he had been dead but after he through the Mercy of God was in some sort recovered they to wit the wild Company returned to their former Barbarous Behaviour and Deportment again Hailing Beating Mis-using Punching and Driving several of the said People so met as aforesaid in a Barbarous Inhumane and Uncivil manner out of the Town not leaving them as is remembred until they set a great part of them some considerable space out of the same after they had a little left them as is remembred the said Samuel going to Prayer some of the aforesaid Rude Company came again and in a Rude Uncivil Uncomely Inhumane manner behaved themselves towards the said People both Men and Women which is now too hard to be particularized only one William Farnaby drawing his Knife cut several of the Horses Bridles And so after much Abuse having driven away the said People they to wit the rude Multitude departed many of them Glorying in what they had so done but the just Revenger of the Upright who knows how to deliver the Righteous and how to reserve the Wicked to the day of Judgment to be punished though he may and doth oft-times as in this Case he did spare long and give a large time yea several Years to Repent in yet if they will not Repent and be Reconciled so as the Lord may pass by and Pardon them and Heal them he doth sometimes bring them to become Examples of his Wrath as may be observed in this man to wit John Hudson who was the man that smote down the said Samuel Watson who though he lived several Years after yet going to Richmond about some Business in the Year 1678. in or about the 6th Moneth of the same Year and about the 17th day of that Moneth as is remembred and being going overthwart the Market-Place of the same Town as though he intended to go towards the Door of Anne Hopps Widow another man being with him as he drew near the said Door suddainly he fell down flat upon his Face and there finished his days The said Anne Hopps being by who saw it and gave the Relation of it and was never by her seen more to move And thus he who some time before had in the Wickedness of his Mind smitten down an Innocent man without any just Cause or Offence given or administered unto him so that he lay for a considerable time as a man wholly dead or without Life yet by the Mercy of God was recovered was by the hand of the same just God against whom he had sinned in this behalf smitten down so that he never rose again which may be a Caveat and ought to give Warning to all men of what Degree or Condition soever they be of to beware and have a care what they do and how they behave themselves for though the Lord by many may be looked upon as one that delayes his coming yet at last he may be expected to come unto such and when he comes his Reward is with him to give unto every man suitably as his Works shall be Tribulation and Anguish to every Soul that doth not Righteously but Peace and Joy to the Upright in Heart So while there is a time let all men prize it Upon the 31th Day of the 6th Moneth called August in the Year 1662. being the first Day of the Week came James Metcalfe of Nappa in the Country of York and then in the Commission of Peace to the Door of James Wetherald in Askrigg in the same County where some of the People of God in Scorn called Quakers were peaceably met together only to wait upon and worship the One True and Living God in Spirit and Truth according to his will and those manifestations of him they had received And though he the said James Metcalfe had often known or heard of their so peaceably meeting together at that place before that time and for no other purpose save only as aforesaid to wait upon and worship the Lord yet to the intent to render the said People more Odious or Dangerous or else to render his Appearance the more Terrible he brought with him a great Company of Armed men and being on this wise come to the Door of the said House they caused Friends by the said Armed men to be had out and brought before them where upon Promise made to appear before the said James Metcalfe the next day they were all save Richard Robinson let go and him the said James Metcalfe committed to the Custody of Richard Besson of the same Askrigg then Constable who let him go Home also and coming again the next day the said James Metcalfe committed Nineteen of them to the Common Jayle at York and Four to the House of Correction until the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for the North-Riding of the said County of York But by the Kindness of the said Constable Rich. Besson to whose Charge they were committed they were stayed at Home most part of a Moneth and then through the Threatnings of the said James Metcalfe sent to Prison until the said Sessions where after much Discourse those Persons here after-named with others were fined and the Fines levied as followeth First Richard Robinson of Countersett in Wensleydale was fined 2 l. for which he had a Mare distrained by Christopher Todd of Middleham Edmond Blades and Bartholomew Blades of Askrigg aforesaid or some of them about the 3d day of the 11th Moneth in the Year 1662. worth by the Owner's Estimation of her 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. Richard Rowth of Hawes was fined 10s for which the aforesaid Persons or some of them did distrain and take a Cow at or about the same time worth about 3l 10s Bartholomew Harryson of Countersett and Isabell his Wife being fined either of them 12d had distrained for the same by the aforesaid Persons or some of them about the time aforesaid some Cloth and Apparel but the same was released by a Neighbour and returned back again only the party got some other Commodities and stayed so much as the Fines came to in Payment for the same James