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water_n	john_n	richard_n	thomas_n	3,599	5	10.6259	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39880	For the King and both Houses of Parliament for you (who have known sufferings) now (in this the day of your prosperity) in the fear and vvisdom of God, to read over and consider these sufferings of the people of God in scorn called Quakers, which they have suffered in the dayes of the Commonwealth, and of Oliver and Richard Cromwel, and which they now suffer in your day for conscience sake, and bearing testimony to the truth, as it is in Iesus ...		1660 (1660)	Wing F1436; ESTC R35539	42,758	40

Bible there came in some Souldiers and fetcht them before the Captain who askt them several questions to ensnare them about the King and would have forced them to drink the Kings health and when he saw they would not be subject to his will he began to rage and enquired for the stocks and then he called for a halter and put it about one of the Friends neck and so they put it over an iron hook and strained it as if they would have immediately taken away his life and then he committed them into the hands of the Constable and about two hours after they were brought before him again and he asked them about the King again and being not answered according to his will he was much enraged against them and struck them several times on their bare heads with his Pistol and then after much threatning he let them go And the same Captain Abbington came that day to Nailsworth where Friends Meeting was and got Bear and would have had one Friend to drink the Kings health but he refused and said if the King were there himself he did believe that the King would not require it of him then one of the Souldiers presented a Pistol towards him and threatned to shoot and struck fire and the same Souldiers beat and abused other friends at that time and one of the Souldiers fell upon one Friend and drew his sword and threatned to run him through and afterwards put a rope about his neck as if that they would have hanged him At another meeting of Friends on the first day of the 4th moneth 1660. the same Souldiers with a drum beating came violently into the meeting place with their swords drawn and Guns and other weapons and one of the Souldiers with a naked sword in his hand puld down the friend that was a declaring and forced him out of the room and took away him and most of the men that were there as Prisoners and the Mayor of Gloucester committed two of them to prison where they yet remain On the third day of the fourth Month Friends being peacably met together to wait upon the Lord at Chillingham there Game a Souldier under Captain How and said he had Orders to Break up the meeting and hailed one out and because he could not break up the meeting himself he said he would fetch more Souldiers who when they came said they had Orders to break up such meetings then the Friends asked them to shew their Orders but one replyed his sword was his Order and asked whether they would have it adn so fell upon them and haled them forth violently out of the meeting and one of the Souldiers drew his sword at a Friend and said he would run him thorow Cambridge upon the eight of the second Month called April 1660. The Scholers with other rude People came into our meeting place where we were met to worship God did fall violently upon us beating us until they drew the blood of many pulling us out by the hair of the head having no regard to old or young men nor women with child but tearing their cloaths casting them into the nasty and loathsome Channels in the streets and those things they continued to us as a practice in our meetings upon the thirteenth of the third Month called May in the like manner they came into our meeting and violently broke the Locks and boults with great hammers shamefully abusing many and no Magistrate appearing to suppress these things but Alderman Blakely whom they also abused in the like manner throwing him in the Channel Again upon the twenty seventh of the same Month the Scholers joyned themselves together in a great number falling upon us with sticks and struck Friends on the heads faces and hands to the hurting of many a Justice of peace being in the room charged them in the Kings Name several times to be quiet and to keep the peace but they not regarding that Authority proceeded in violence and got a Smiths great hammer and broke open four doors and broke a wooden window and took pieces of the boards and beat us with them and drew us out into the streets and there knocked several of us down shedding the blood of twenty four persons that the blood lay upon the stones in the street in the sight of the People and thus having broke down all the seats windows and stairs that the people could not get up into their lodging chambers and having pulled us out into the streets some they held untill others put dirt into their mouths at the same time also they stabbed two women in the street as it is judged with penknives the one being an Aldermans Wife in the Town the other a widow woman And in the like manner every first day of the week do they continue abusing of us more or lesse And the Mayor of the Town who should discourage and punish these evil doers doth countenance and incourage them in it setting his Officers to stop us from our meeting saying we shall have no more meetings and hath given order unto his Officers to hinder us the next first day These are but a hint of things to represent the whole Witnesses hereof Henery Forster William Allen John Smith John Webb Samuel Nottingham Mathew Blakely Edward Salmon John Moone Eusebius Read Thomas Golden John Peace Thomas Read Thomas Hawkes George Nash Philip Williamson Clement Crabb John Harte Ruben Stevens Jeremiah Rose Richard Steaton Edward Wright Samuel Cater Robert Letchworth Gregory Tingy James Blakely Alderman John Cranwell John Parnell Bark-shire the twenty seventh of the third Month called May 1660. Friends being peacably met together at Kingstone-lye in that County there came to the meeting place many rude people four of whom went into the meeting with swords drawn to break up the meeting and one friend desiring to know their Order for so doing their answer was their swords was their order and so they violently abused Friends as followeth Richard Greenway was dragged by the hair of the head out of the meeting and thrown into a standing poole of stinking water and mud Richard Ballers was wounded with a sword John Clerk was pricked with a sword Edward Ballard was pricked with a sword Robert Crook had his head broke and was thrust into a pond and Edward Walter had his head broke Barth Mayling and Thomas Coeburn were both thrown into a pond and beat Robert Samson was beaten Adam Lawrence thrust into a pond and beat Andrew Pearson thrown into a pond head-long these were all dragged to the pond by the hair of the head and many others were abused York-shire the thirteenth of the third Month called May 1660. Friends being met together at Bellerby in the County aforesaid in the worship and service of God there came to the door divers armed men crying where be these rogues we have order to break up your meeting some of them saying we will cut you as small as bread whereupon a