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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lead_v	spirit_n	true_a	4,122	5	5.5406	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28923	The Quakers cruelty, deceit & wickedness presented to the King and Parliament / by Thomas Boyce ; with a copy of the paper the Quakers put forth against me ; also my neighbours testimony, and Sir Richard Ingoldesby's certificate concerning me.	Boyce, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing B3902; ESTC R23391	7,449	14

wronging of my own Conscience But if I had so done Tho. Padleys words would have proved true and I should have been as he said of me viz. a Knave a Traitor and a Judas and that might have vexed me for ever and for ever But I not answering William Penns desire therein the Quakers dealings to me have been worse then before which may appear if permitted by your Honors to have a hearing thereof in the behalf of him who is not only his Majesties poor Subject but his and your Honors faithful Servant to the utmost of my Power to serve my Generation till Death Thomas Boyce This following is the Copy of the Paper the Quakers put forth against me and dispersed several of them to the Worlds People as they call them VVHereas Thomas Boyce by Trade a Taylor dwelling in Horsy-Down-street hath for some time past come to the Meetings and Assemblies of the People of God called Quakers whereby his resorting to the said Peoples Meetings hath given occasion to some to judg and believe that he is in Fellowship and Unity with them But for the Information of all people by whom he may be so thought and judged We the People aforesaid having had a good sence and discerning of the Conversation and Spirit whereby he is guided that it is not according to the Spirit of Truth and Righteousness but rather of an unsetled envious Ranting Spirit Do therefore give forth this our Testimony that we have not nor never had Unity with that Spirit by which he is led and acted but do now and ever shall declare That we have no more Fellowship with him and such as he is than Light hath with Darkness or Truth with Error unless true and unfeigned Repentance be witnessed which is our desire he may be found in before he goes hence and be no more seen Given forth by the People called Quakers at their Meeting at Horsie-Down the fifth day of the sixth month called August 1674. Some of my Neighbours being sensible the Quakers had abused and wronged me gave forth this following Certificate concerning me THese are to certifie all whom it may concern that Thomas Boyce is an Inhabitant of the Parish of St. Olave in Southwark in the County of Surry and by Trade a Taylor living on the place known by the name of Horsly-Down near the Alley called by the name of Prichets-Alley above the term often years Concerning which foresaid Thomas Boyce we whose names are here under-written do testifie That he is both an honest Man and a peaceable Liver in the place where he dwells and alwayes when able was a laborious man in his Calling taking care to maintain his Family decently according to the best of our observations and makes conscience of what he does and sayes so far as we know Further we the said under-written Witnesses do testifie that the said Thomas Boyce was lately under the afflicting hand of God in a strange manner being taken dumb and could not speak and so continued in a weak distracted condition for some months and all that while uncapable of working whom now the Lord hath been graciously pleased to restore again to him alone be the glory And and all this we testifie by knowledg of the truth hereof upon our words as we are honest men In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names July 1. 1674. Luke Talbut Bartholomew Collingwood John Stacy John Johnson Joseph Mewse Francis Aldwin John Bembridge Samuel Wier William Richardson Richard Tuder Leonard Hoare William Wickins George Hamton Here follows Sir Richard Ingoldesby's Certificate THese are to certifie all whom it may concern that the bearer hereof Thomas Boyce was heretofore a Servant to my Father Sir Richard Ingoldesby Knight so long as my said Father lived and afterwards to my Mother in all about twelve or fourteen years all which time he was honest and faithful so far as I know or believe in the Trust reposed in him which Trust was very great In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th of Aprill 1675. Ri. Ingoldesby What hath been done by me in publishing these things I was constrained thereto without the advice or counsel of any for none can give me a better understanding in this my concern than I have in my self The chiefest of all the Quakers viz. George Fox was with me twice in my Affliction who said both then and since he did believe I would have spoke to him if I could and though he had formerly declared he had power to bind and to loose whom he pleased yet could not or at least did not unloose my tongue or help me out of my Affliction Others of their Ministers said I might have spoke if I would in the said time of my being speechless which was not only an absolute untruth but also a contradiction to George Fox aforesaid And since my speech was restored me I complained to some of the Magistrates of the wrong and Injury I had received from some of the said people whereupon Thomas Rudyard told one of the said Magistrates that he believed that I was a Dissembler and pretended my self to be Madd and Dumb and might have spoke if I would and told me since that the Magistrate believed what he said and William Meade also informed them that I was a distracted man and also produced a Letter from one of the said Magistrates to the other which James Parkes one of their Ministers told me he saw which I apprehend was the cause of my then proceedings being stopt Time would fail to relate what I have undergone concerning the things herein contained and I am satisfied whatever these people may pretend against me to cover themselves they know they have done me much wrong and that by these their dealings they have given occasion to other sorts of people as well as their own to believe that I am not only a distracted man but likewise guilty of great wickedness by which false suggestions they have shut up the hearts of most against me and thereby endeavoured and do still what in them lyes to hinder me from having any Food to eat or Clothes to put on or to provide for my Family and one of them lately pronounced the curse of God upon me my Wife and Children as others of them had done to me before However I have been made able to bear it all neither have I fainted yet and doubt not but a time will come when it will be known to all people What and for What and whose wickedness I was made a sign of which is already known to the Judg of all the whole World who is the Right Honorable and ever Renowned Worthy worthy of all praise for ever By me T. B. How I became Dumb or how my Tongue became to be bound that is the Question but how it was unloosed is without Question for I am satisfied it was the Lords doing alone Shall not the Judg of all the Earth do Right THE END