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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65840	A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1680 (1680)	Wing W1894; ESTC R19963	71,889	142

had remained some Moneths in Prison he fell sick of a Feavour and about the 6th moneth 1665. he finished his Course and was taken away from the many Tryals and Troubles that the Righteous suffer in this World Henry Day of the Parish of Magdalens Bermonsey in the County of Surrey Taylor Imprisoned in the County Goal upon a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo prosecuted by George Nutkins William Browne John Arnold and Richard Burgin Wardens and Overseers of the said Parish for not paying towards the Repair of the Church so called after he had lain some time in Prison fell sick and dyed the 20th day of the 7th moneth 1677. a Prisoner for the Testimony of a good Conscience John Farmer of the same Parish Carpenter Imprisoned by the same Writ at the same time and for the same cause prosecuted at the same mens suit remained a Prisoner until he dyed which was the 12th day of November 1680. Suffolk THe 22d day of the 10th moneth 1678. Robert Tomson of Broadfeild and several of the People of God being assembled in a Yard being kept by the Officers out of the house they used to meet in at Woodbridge there came Thomas Bacon called Justice and Edmund Broome Priest and some Officers to break up the Meeting and the said Justice committed eleaven of them to Prison to Melton Goal where the said Robert Tomson soon after he was in Prison dyed a a Faithful Witness to the Lord's Truth and for assembling with his People to Worship the Righteous God Northton JOhn Samm of Howend in the Parish of Haughton Conquest in the County of Bedford a faithful Minist●r and Labourer in the Lords Work William Lovel of Hardingston and Joseph Gamage of Buggbrook being with several others assembled in the fear of God to worship him in Spirit and Truth at Nuskutt the 23d day of 6th moneth 1663. were apprehended by Warrant from John Willoughby called Justice who committed them to the common Goal where there were above 〈◊〉 tha● lay in the low Goal twelve steps below the Ground and in the night they had but little Air being lockt d●wn betimes and so kept close until the seventh hour the next Morning and John Snart the Wicked Goaler would not suffer their Friends to come at them with this hard Usage several of th● Prisoners fell sick and dyed the said John Samm dyed the 26th day of the 1st moneth 1664. William Lovel dyed the 11th day of the 2d moneth and Joseph Gamage dyed the 2d day of the 2d moneth William Carr of Kislingberry committed to Prison upon the false Oath of Richard Harris Priest of Kislingberry who Swore That William Carr gave a Treasonable Paper to one William Law but he being present before the Justice offered to take his Oath That it was given him by another nevertheless the Justice committed William Carr under a pretence of spreading Treasonable Papers in which Paper there was indeed no Treason but was written by a faithful Servant of the Lord and though William Carr was had to the Sessions where instead of trying him about the Paper the Oath of Allegiance was tendred to him a Snare the Justice knew would hold him for that for Conscience sake he could not Swear and for refusing to take an Oath he was sent to the Goal again where after eleaven Weeks Imprisonment in the low Goal on the 25th day of the 1st moneth 1664. he dyed Richard Ashby on the 6th day of the 7th moneth 1662. was taken out of a Meeting where divers were assembled to Worship God at the House of Joseph Gamage at Buggbrooke and being carried before John Willoughby called Justice he tendred him the Oath of Allegiance and because for Conscience sake he refused to Swear he was committed to the common Goal where on the 26th day of the 1st moneth 1664. he dyed in the true Faith and bore a good Testimony to the Glory of God Thomas Arnold of Heyford Imprisoned at the suit of Priest Seller of Stow because for Conscience sake he could not pay him Tythes he patiently took up the Cross and followed the Lord and forsook his Wife Children Houses and Land freely and laid down his Life willingly for the precious Truth 's sake after a Year and a halfs Imprisonment he dyed on the 1st day of the 2d Moneth 1664. And note further the Cruelty of this Priest he was not satisfied with the Blood of Thomas Arnold but on the 30th day of the 5th Moneth following sent T. A's tender Wife to Goal because she could not pay Tythes William Ewins of Farthingstone Imprisoned in the County Goal at the Suit of Thomas Hogg Priest of the said Town for not paying him Tythes he was Prisoner for the same one Year and a half all which time he was kept in the patience of the Lamb until he dyed which was on the 1st day of the 2d Moneth 1664. and his Wife dyed at home soon after and his Son and Daughter were both Sick of the same Disease being infected in the nasty Hole where William dyed And after the Young man recovered because he refused to pay Tythes the Priest cast him into Goal also in the same Year Norfolk EDward Shooter being at a peaceable Meeting in the fear of God in Lyn on the 7th day of the 12th Moneth 1663. was with others taken by Souldiers and put into a nasty noisom stinking place call'd a Cage where they were kept for the vulgar Rabble to deride till towards Night and then were had before the Mayor who tendred them the Oath of Allegiance and because for Conscience sake they refused to Swear they were all sent to Bridewell where they were kept two or three Nights and Dayes and then sent them to the Goal where they were severely used and kept most of them to l●dge on the hard Boards for a long time the Goaler being so Cruel that he would suffer neither Fire nor Straw to be carried in to them but what a poor Woman privately brought in as if it had been Victuals in a Basket and in this condition they continued four or five M●neths the Goaler also boarding up the Windows so close that he deprived them what he could both of Light and Air and often denyed their Friends to come at them In these deep Sufferings the aforesaid Edward Shooter fell sick and finished his Testimony to the Truth by Death Mary Mawley of Wor●well in the County of Norfolk Widdow committed Prisoner to Norwich Castle for the Tythe of a Goose by Priest Mingly then Priest of the said Town who kept her a Prisoner in Norwich Castle till she dyed there John Norris Imprisoned in Norwich Castle upon the Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo and there detained a Prisoner until he dyed Francis Gardner late of Tivitshall in the Year 1675. was subpaened into the Exchequer by Chistopher Burrel Priest of Pulham for not paying Tythes and the said Priest caused him to be kept close Prisoner in the Castle at Norwich

Word of God 1670. One called a Justice in the Isle of Ely perceiving after much Cruelty used they could not prevail to make the People called Quakers forsake their assembling themselves together he was much enraged and went and beat several of them very much and knockt down Steven Clarkson to the Ground in so much that the Standers by said So there is one knockt on the Head but he came to himself again and lived about five moneths after but complained of that blow to his dying day John Feast of Sutton Imprisoned by John Marshall Priest in the same Town for Tythes dyed a Prisoner on the 11th day of the 4th Moneth 1674. John Addams of Haddenham dyed a Prisoner for Tythes being buried the 27th day of the 2d Moneth 1674 John Beadles of Chatteris Imprisoned by Owen Fan of Ramsey dyed a Prisoner for Tythes Peter Hill of the same Town Imprisoned by William Strong Priest in the same Town dyed a Prisoner for Tythes Cornwall EDward Anger of Minster-Parish Imprisoned the 17th of the 3d Moneth 1675. by John Austis prosecuted being Register of the Arch-Deacons Court because for Conscience sake he could not pay towards the Repair of the Church so called and dyed a Prisoner the 9th day of the 4th Moneth 1676. Thomas Deeble Imprisoned for the same cause by a Writ De Excommunicat● Capiendo at the Suit of the said John Austis the 7th Moneth 1676. and dyed a Prisoner in the 11th Moneth 1677. Devonshire IOnathan Collier of the Parish of Culleton Rawleigh Imprisoned in Stoak Cannon the 30th day of the 5th Moneth 1669. being prosecuted by John Pope and William Tricky Wardens of Culleton for not going to the Steeple-house and for not paying to the Repair of the same for which he was Excommunicated by Edward Master called Doctor of Law and Vicar general to the Bishop of Exon in Spiritual things and upon that Excommunication the said Jonathan was apprehended by a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo and imprisoned and remained a Prisoner until the 15th day of the 1st Moneth 1670. and then finished his Testimony by Death bearing a faithful Testimony to the Lord and his Truth Thomas Burgan of Artacton Taylor was Imprisoned by a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo for not going to the Steeple-house and for a Contempt of the Bishops Court in not appearing prosecuted by Richard Cr●ssen Priest and Andrew Slathen Warden of Artacton The said Thomas Burgan was brought to Prison to the Sheriffs Ward in Thomas Parish in Exon the 9th of the 2d Moneth 1676. and was continued a Prisoner until he dyed which was on the 19th day of the 4th Moneth following and all the time both in Health and Sickness whilst a Prisoner witnessed a good Confession and left a good Testimony behind him William Woolcott of Bridford Parish Weaver a labouring man having a Wife and two small Children and their dependancies was on the Labour of his Hands was presented to the Bishops Court through the Instigation of Bernard Gillard Priest of the said Parish stirring up his Parishoners and gathering Money to pay the charge of a Writ De Excommunicato Capiendo to Imprison him for having Meetings at his House and not conforming by which Writ he was apprehended and sent to Prison and after he had been there eighteen Moneths the Bailiffs said They must have 20 s. of him Being a very poor man the Keeper took pity on him and let him have Liberty to go forth to Work but the Bishops Officers hearing of it threatned the Keeper to have him fined and put out of his place whereupon this poor Man was kept from working and was forced to be relieved by his Friends his Wife being a sickly Woman and in a distressed condition And the said William Woolcott was continued Prisoner till the 27th of the 3d Moneth 1676. and then departed this Life a Prisoner being a good Savour to the Truth all the time of his Imprisonment Witnesses John Gannicliffe Robert Welch Durham RIchard Errington of Gretham near Stockton Farmer taken from a Meeting a● Thomas Yooles the 9th of the 7th Moneth 1665. and had before Ralph Davison and Joseph Naylor Justices and by them committed to Durham Goal upon the Act for Banishment at the Quarter-Sessions the 4th of the 8th Moneth following being brought to the Bar Samuel Davison Judge of the Court past Sentence on him viz. to be banished to Barbadoes and to be kept Prisoner in the House of Correction till he could be Shipt where he remained until he became weak in Body and being not likly to recover his Friends moved for a removal of him to a Friends House for better Conveniencies but it was denyed so that about the beginning of the 6th Moneth 1667. he laid down the Body for the Testimony of the Truth after he had suffered Imprisonment near three Years Gloucestershire UPon the 10th day of the 5th Moneth 1670. there being a Meeting of the People of God called Quakers in Cirencester there came one Thomas Masters called a Justice with others to break up the Meeting he asked them what their end in Meeting was one replyed We meet in the fear of the Lord and for no Evil end the Lord knows but to wait upon him And to worship him too Do you not said he To which Answer was made Yes That 's enough said he we need no further Evidence But proceeded to Fine them and in a Rage laid Hands on them calling his Company to help him pull them down Stairs the Meeting being in an upper Room John Cooke one of the Officers a wicked man cryed Clear the Stairs And thereupon Robert Jenkins one reported to be a Hang-man threw several down Stairs and amongst the rest the Widdow Hewlings an Antient honourable Woman who by the Violence of the fall was lamentably bruised and her Shoulder seperated so that she could not be recovered but dyed within a Moneth after a Woman greatly beloved in those parts and much missed being a skilful Midwife and ready to do good unto all John Webly of Brockworth a Man about fourscore and seven Years of Age for the value of about 20 s. Tythes was by Christopher Guy Impropriator in the Year 1660. cast into Gloucester Goal among Thieves where he lay a full Year and there dyed the same day was a twelve Moneth that he was committed Henry Guy Brother to the said Christopher asked his Wife when he was sick in Prison Whether she would pay or not she denying the payment he told her If her Husband dyed he should not be buried but carried up to the top of the House and the Walls should be beset and the Fowles of the Air should eat him This he spoke in the hearing of their Son and Daughter John and Hester Webly Richard Wetmore for not Conforming Imprisoned by an Excommunicato Capiendo Writ sued by the Chancellor of the Bishops Court at Gloucester soon after he was put into the Goal dyed Hampshire 1661. WIlliam Rutter of Portsmouth