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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54125	The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being a farther account of the late unjust and cruel proceedings of unreasonable men against the persons and estates of many of the people call'd Quakers, only for their peaceable meetings to worship God : presented to the serious consideration of the King and both Houses of Parliament : with a postscript of the nature, difference and limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority, and the inconsistency of such severities with both, recommended and submitted to the perusal of Cæsar's true friends / by the author of England's present interest, &c.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1675 (1675)	Wing P1270; ESTC R18856	19,683	36

in the Heart And Conscience is my Throne upon that will I sit and rule the Children of Men in Righteousness and who ever lives soberly righteously and godlily in this World shall be my good and 〈…〉 s and they will certainly make no ill ones for C 〈…〉 Virtue is the end of Government and renders hi● S 〈…〉 more easie safe then before Had I any other Des●g● then ●●is would I suffer my Self to be reproached traduced and per●ecuted by a conquered people were it not more my 〈◊〉 to suffer then revenge would not their many provocation have drawn from me some instance of another Nature then the Forbearance and Forgiveness I teach Certainly were I animated by another principle then the perfection of Meekness and Divine Sweetness I should not have forbiden Peter fighting 〈…〉 ing put up thy Sword or endoctrinated my Followers to bear Wrongs but revenge all Affronts and by Plots and other Stratagems have attempted Ruin to my Enemies and the Acquest of worldly Empire and no doubt but they would have fought for me Nay I am not only patiently and with Pitty to Enemies sensible of their barbarous Carriage towards me for my Good Will to them for their Eternal Happiness I only seek but I foresee what they further intend against me they design to crucifie me and to do it will rather free a Murderer then save their Saviour they will perform that Cruelty with all the Agravation and Contempt they can deriding me themselves and exposing me to the Derision of others for they will mock my Divine Kingship with a Crown of Thorns and in my Agonies of Soul and Body for a Cordial give me Gall and Vineger to drink but notwithstanding all this to satisfie the World that my Religion is above Wrath and Revenge I can forgive them and to secure Caesar and his People from all Fears of Imposition whatever Authority I have and how many Legions of Angels soever I might command both to my Deliverance and the Enforcement of my Message up●n Mankind I resolve to promote neither with worldly Power for it is not of the Nature of my Religion and Kingdom and as I neither assume nor practise any such thing my Self that am the great Author Promoter and Example of this Holy Way so have I not only never taught my Disciples to live or act otherwise or given them a Power I refuse to use my Self but expresly forbad them and warn'd them in my Instructions of exercising any the least Revenge Imposition or Coertion towards any This is evident in my Sermon preached upon the Mount where I freely publickly and with much Plainness not only prohibited Revenge but ●njoyned Love to Enemies making it to be a great Token of true Discipleship to suffer Wrongs and conquer Cruelty by Patience and Forgiveness which is certainly a great Way off Imposition or Compulsion upon other Men. And when I was strongly bent for Jerusalem and sent Messengers before to prepare some Entertainment for me and my Company in a Village belonging to the Samaritans and it seems the People refused because they apprehended I was going to Jerusalem this provoakt some of my Disciples particularly James and John to that Degree that they asked me if I were willing that they should command Fire from Heaven to destroy those Samaritans as Elias in another Case had done I turned about and rebuked them saying Ye know not what Manner of Spirit ye are of for I am not come into the World to destroy Mens Lives but by my peaceable Doctrine and Example to save them At another Time one of my Disciples relating to me some Passages of their Travails told me of a certain Man they saw that cast out Devils in my Name and because he was not of their Company nor followed them said he we forbad him as if they had thereby served and pleased me but I presently testified my Dislike of the Ignorance and Narrowness of their Zeal and to inform them better told them they should not have forbid him for he that is not against us is for us my Drift is not Opinion but Piety they that cast out Devils convert Sinners and turn Men to Righteousness are not against me nor the Nature and Religion of my Kingdom and therefore ought to be cherisht rather then forbid That I might sufficiently declare and inculcate my Mind in this Matter I did at an other Time and upon a different Occasion preach against all Coertion and Persecution for Matters of Faith and Practice towards God in my Parable of the Sower as my Words manifest which were these The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a Man which sowed good Seed in his Field but while Men slept his Enemy came and sowed Tares among the Wheat and went his Way but when the Blade sprung up and brought forth Fruit there appeared the Tares also so the Serv●nts of the House-houlder came and said didst thou not sow good Seed in thy Field from whence then hath it Tares he answered an Enemy hath done this the Servants said unto him wilt thou then that we go and gather them up but he said NAY lest while ye gather up the Tares ye root up also the Wheat with them let both grow together till the Harvest and in the Time of Harvest I will joy to the Reapers gather ye together first the Tares and bind them in Bundles to burn them but gather the Wheat into my Barn And that I might not leave so necessary a Truth mis apprehended of my dear Followers or liable to any Mis-constructions my Disciples when together desiring an Explanation I interpreted my Words thus He that soweth the good Seed is the Son of Man the Field is the World the good Seed are the Children of the Kingdom but the Tares are the Children of the Wicked One the Enemy that sowed them is the Devil the Harvest is the End of the World and the Reapers are the Angels This Patience this Long-Suffering and great Forbearance belong to my Kingdom and the Subjects of it my Doctrine speaks it and my Example confirms it and this can have no possible Agreement with Imposition and Persecution for Conscience And that I might sufficiently deter my Followers from any such Thing as I profess my self to be their Lord and Master so have I commanded them to love one another in a more especial Manner but if instead therof any grow proud high minded and beat or abuse their Fellow Servants in my religious Family when I come to take account of my Houshold he shall be cut asunder and appointed his Po●●tion among the Unbelievers behold the Recompence I appoint to Imposing Lordly Persons such as count others Infidels and to make them such Believers as themselves will exercise Violence towards them and if they prevail not will call for Fire from Heaven to devour them and if Heaven refuse them will fall a beating

William Barber being informed against by John Gibbs a Priest of Glissing for Meeting had Cows Carts a Plough Harrows and Hay taken from him to the Value of Fifty Pounds the said William's House hath been rifled TEN Times and he is now a Prisoner upon a Writ of Excommunicato capiendo At Fakenham several Persons have been fined Wat the Informer and his Wife being the only Witnesses against them Goods have been taken to a great Value they left one Joseph Harrison not so much as a Bed to lye upon but he his Wife and Children were fain to lye on Straw Cambridge FOR a peaceable Meeting at the House of William Brasier Shoemaker in Cambridge he was fined Twenty Pounds by John Hunt Mayor and John Spencer Vice-Chancellor upon the Information of Stephen Perry a Tinker The Officers that came to distrein for this Twenty Pounds said They had Warrants for Fifty Five Pounds more They took his Leather Lasts and the Seat he workt on wearing-Clothes and Sheets where he lay though on Straw having taken his Bed before not leaving him any Thing to cover him withal so that he was fain to lodge abroad till he could get some old Things to cover him at Home And there hath lately been taken from several Persons for meeting in and about Cambridge Goods and Cattel to the Value of Sixty Three Pounds and upwards At Littleport Ely and other Places in the Isle of Ely several Persons were fin'd had their Goods taken for their peaceable Meetings viz. Cloth Stuff Houshold-Goods and Cattel from one Woman the very Bed she lay on in all to the Value of One Hundred Ninety five Pounds and upwards Edward Partridge and his Favorite Thomas Richman the old Informer used great Violence to several Edw. Partridge struck Samuel Cater twice and being at Prayer pulled him down by the Nose beating Men and Women till he broak his staff He also struck one Person standing quietly at the Meeting-house Door and felled him that the Standers by said There is one knockt on the Head yet he revived in a little Time but within six Moneths after dyed and to his dying Day complained of that Blow Note William March Justice fined one Man no Quaker Five Pounds for refusing to help to carry away the aforesaid Sufferers Goods which Five Pounds the poor Man paid but wanting but Two Pence thereof the said Justice forced him to borrow it to make up the sum and shortly after the poor Man dying on his Death-Bed he much rejoyced That he had no Hand in taking away his Neighbour Adams his Goods Witnesses William Brasier Samuel Cater Oxford-Shire FOR a Meeting at Alvskoet near Burford Walter Powel Priest of the Town being Informer who before the Meeting had spoak to the Justices at their Peril to be at the Meeting several Persons were fined and had Goods taken away to the Value of Forty Four Pounds and upwards Sommerset-Shire THirty two Persons were fined for being at a Burial for which they had taken from them in Cows Corn and other Goods to the Value of Eighty Two Pounds and upwards by Warrant from Fra. Pawlet Justice who when none else would buy the distreined Cattle he sent Men to buy them for himself One Margery Osmond who was not at the Buryal and yet was fined by F. Paulet went to him to know the Names of them that had sworn against her and desired Justice of him he said It was a Mistake by which it did afterwards appear he was willing to excuse the Informers howbeit he then read in a Book in the hearing of several Persons in which Bayner and Withey were recorded Informers against the said Assembly at the Burial and said withal That she should prosecute them for Perjury at the next Sessions and that the Record at the Sessions should be Evidence against them or to that Effect but he was not so good as his Word for at the Sessions Witnesses were present to testifie that she was not at the said Burial but Fra. Pawlet in Favour to these Informers left Withey's Name out of the Record and put in another's Name who was not present and also left out her Name so there could be no Proceedings against the Informers for their Perjury albeit he had issued out his Warrant to levy the Fine imposed on her The said Justice Pawlet for the same Burial fined several persons Twenty Four Pounds for an unknown Preacher yet sent a Certificate to the Mayor of Bridgwater to distrein Twenty Pounds on the Goods of John Anderton for preaching at the Burial that Day so he would have Forty Four Pounds in all Note this is Twenty Four Pounds more then the Rigour of the Law allows of admitting it had been a Conventicle for the Preacher known one unknown when in Truth there was none spoak but John Anderton that Christianly exhorted the People to consider their latter End And when Mary Tyler the Widdow of the deceased who was fined Four Pounds for being at her Husband's Burial and had Goods taken for it spoke mildly to him to shew him his Injustice he told her It did not become Women to go to their Husbands Burials And several Persons for being at Meetings at Glastenbury and Gregory Stoake in this County have lately had Cattle Corn and Goods taken from them to the Value of One Hundred Forty Five Pounds and upwards by Warrant from two Persons called Justice Waldron and Justice Cross At this Day there remain Prisoners in this County for the Testimony of Jesus Twenty one Persons And there hath dyed in Prison Sufferers for good Conscience sake in this County since the Year 1660. Eighteen Persons Witnesses John Cuff Henry Clothie George Taylor Berk-Shire THomas Curtis fined Three Pound Fifteen Shillings had a Mare taken from him worth about Seven Pounds by Warrant from Justice Craven and though an Appeal was tendered according to the Act it was refused and though the Officers voluntarily offered the Justice the Fine yet he would not take it but had the Mare valued at Four Pounds and kept her The 7th Day of the 8th Moneth 1675. William Armourer and George Goswel Mayor of Reading came to the Meeting and because the Women came not forth so soon as they would have them W. Armourer pluckt out of his Pocket a sharp Instrument and prickt several of them in a Shameful Manner till it fetcht Blood and afterwards tendered the Oath of Allegiance to seven of them on purpose to ensnare them and because for Conscience sake they could not swear at all they were sent to Goal where they now remain And the Mayor Thrust some Women in a very Abusive Manner perticularly an Antient Woman without regard to Age or Sex Of which Cruelty and much more many in Reading are Witnesses Cheshire JUstice Daniel of Daresbury hath fined one Meeting near him several times over and hath taken from T. Briggs and other the Value of One