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Show The Cantinued C~y of t be Oppreffed. VbL. 1, 706 167). Jig ion now eflab/ifoed, rbat. in tbe Exuution of t.bem have ge.MraDy inur/er- ~ ed wit1J tbofe Laws that g1vt and preferue Enghlh Fteedoms, m. tha{ lf.lnZclreds of us have been Jmprifoned, an.i o11r GorJd.t /reqpetztly fpoded, to t1Jt utur Ruin of 'nany FaN;ilies, wit~out any Legal Procefs ~'Trial by Peers .; tJitd ThH not for refufing ~nfornnry to tbe Stat~, or denyzng Czfar bti D11e, or beint chargeable to Ptmfher, or ufdejs to the Government, bur only he· uufeof our confciffltibllf Di_ffenr [ffJtfl the prefent Cb111Cb: And jince rbw Jums to be mf .A.lttl"{]tion in the a»&itnt Englifh Government, by making an Ecdefb.ftical Conformity the Grand and Nece.ffary ~ualificntion in Eogli(h .. men tiJ rbe Peaceablt Enjoyment of their Natural and Civil Inheritances; and forafmucb a1tfJH Courfe tends to a manifeft Deely of Trade (tbt.Po/l. tical Life of thH Ijlwnd) Difcouragement of Strangers, Depopulation oft he Country, Jmpoverijhing of tllany Tbouf~nd Ufefut lnhJ_birants,, 0.1 wd tu that jitch Sevuirirs about A'Iatters of Confcten~e are lnconji.ftent uutb the Doflrine end Exampk of Cbrijt and his Followen mall .Ages, tl!ld repugnant, not only to the very WA"~ of true C~nviOion,_ but tb.e Do{/rin~ of ancient Prore/lants, who(e Proteftauon ot the D1n "' Spua agamfl Coercton zn Mauers of R.eli_t;.. on, was the Oc((lfion of t1Jtir bei.ng Ct!lle4 Proteftants: And becaufe m~ml tna/iciotl! and covet om Perfons (under Pretence of domg God, the King and . '·: Cmntry Service) have taken Jidvantnge by tbefe Laws to vent their Pt'.ffiOnt . ail their Reve'!te, t1nd purfue their Worldly Intereft, beyond all Law ttnd Hu: - manity, tU wojulll appears by the annexed Particulars, ready to be proved. WF therefore tntreat; Firit, That' it would pknfe you to peruft the •nne xed - Particulars for your better Information of the Nature of our Cafe and .Alle· gationr. . Secondly, That you would be pleafed, for the Removal and Prevention of the likr. Mifchie[s, to repeal or;ualifie tbofe Laws, whereby the Perfan$ qnd Eflntes ~J many Tboufands o the ,teaceah!e People of tbH Ki'!lJom are boprly expofed to Huin in this JVor!d, Jor meer Omjciencc, about Tbing1 rt· Mting to the next World, that being ajfureJ, the fweat of our Brewr, and bnPd·t.otten Bread for our Families jhaU. not be made a Forfeit for our peqre· able Confriences, we may be better encouraged, for the Time to come, to all virtUOIIS and induflriotH Living untl,r the fir_tjent Governmenf,l rzt bntb Qj .. tberto been, thro11gh God's Grace, ottr daily Pra8ict. - .A few Tnjlanm oNt of ma11) rvhich might be givm, of the gmt 9 p. g RES S 10 NS an. C RUE LTI E S late'J affed u~op Innocent ]'erfons and Tm!.•JirioU< Families, chieJiy in Purjuance (as is pretended) of she latt AB: again!l: Conventicles, for their meeting in peooe· able Mann<r to worfhip Go•: Read, Confider, and Redrejs. Leice~erfbire. FOR a Meet in~ at Lot~g- Ciaxton, or Clawfon, four Perfons were fent to Prifon, and io much Goods at divers Times taken from fome of the 1aid Meeting, that they had not a Cow left to give their young Chil<!ren Milk; their \•ery Bed-Clothes, wearing~Clothes and working· Tools efcaped.. not the Violence or Avarice of their Perfecutors ; the total Sum amounts to above. Tw-o Hundred thirty 'fix Po~nds; nor did this fatisfie our PerfetP,· tors, for they cruelly dragg'd fome Women in the ·Srreet.s by the Necks, ull they were near ftifted, tearing the Clothes oft their Heads and Backs. On~ Woman that gave Suck was fo beaten and bruifed on bet Breaft, that it feftered and broke, with which fhe hath endured many Weeks Mifery and Torture: Another Woman of Seventy Five Years of Age was violently thrown down upon the Ground by one W. Guy Conltable; the Men were forcly beaten, drawn and dragged out of the Meeting, fome by the HeelS', , foi!UI V<>!. 1. TEe Cmtinued Cr·) o~" tbe 0 . l'r d. J ~ ppreue • · fome by the Hair of the Head and fc ! • • 707 to follow their Day· Labour. ~thers ~:e fo h.~utfed, that they were not . ran down; there was one th'ey fu. fley WliJpt on the Face till th BIJ.ble 16J.~. ~ his Mouth and Nofe. To nou y trod upon tilllllood e ood I..C"v"'v fro_m one _of the Prifo~ers h~~p~;;.:tat~e ~atter, th~ Informe~~~;k 0 3ut of guu:r Ne;ghbour, but a Prifuner of n . oney, as 1!. he had nor bee:Jy ftgned ~no fhort Fit of Cruel WJr · ~~or was this accidental b a this bitter Rate have they tretfte~~~'!:tr: extfcraordtl'n:iry Provocation'. b~td~; 10r evera Months. , Witndfes, Edward HaOam, WJUit~m Afarr WiUiam Smith, RicbarJ Rtr/e~t, John Wilford, , . Nottingbamjbire. UNder. Pretence of profecutin the 1 . Penifion Wb,tley a Jufl:ice ~nd 00 3 ~/ft:. agatnfi Conventicles One CT¥,1/Iur, .both ~oformers, .have ~tterly ru~n'd:grave a Bum-Bailiff, add one ounty In thet~ Eltates, h:tvin taken or ,many poor Families in this ~chrfons about Seven Hundred ~ounds th~als& to b~de .taken frt;>m feveral ree or Four Times the Vilue of the p· u ICe t dtng the OfficeJ;,S take Pen~y·~orths, never returning, as we are i t~es, that they might fell goed v1:Cbou t.nro the Seffions, except forcc;d by p 0fimed, any ~ne Record of Con .. and William Hulfon of Liule Greenly ap f·r ons appeahng: John God riCk ordered them their Money 3 ain b. P£a tni tq the Seffions, the Sefiion detains Sixty Pounds in his ~nd~ c~t t e a orefaid Fenijlon Whaley ttnf notwithftandingjt has been divers Tim~r~ry .to dthe Orders of the Seffions T. Sampfon by Warrant from G ]\. ., ema~ ed. ' taken from him NinereenHead of.Be:fi~' ln1Ge, for two Meetings had P?unds and upwards, :t! was valued b rh . oods to the Value ofSixty htm not a Cow to give his Children Jnk: ~etghbours i fo that they left be done by fuch as count themfelves Ch ·if/. at ever thefe Things fhould Jefus, who fuffered, blit would have non:'t 1 o ~•nUfl ir,e ra 1~0dr hF~tsl lRoewleigrsio no.f Chriff Wi tnelfes, Abr a ha m SampJon, Francis Harilkr. Roherr Porur. 'Jmore; Norfolk. f 0 R {~vera! Mehihgs in and about Cockle C . h:~d Goods taken from them to the 'J lay feveral Perfoni have I uun_Wat being Informer. John Palter jon h~~ t~w of fifry three Pounds·, from hl!fl wonh, Etghty Pounds. WiUiam B h b .o. H.undred Sheep taken ~obn Gibbs a Prieft of Gliffing, for Meetinar h d ~ng tnformed againft by arrows and Hay talCen from him to th g. a ~ws, Catts, a Plou b ViOiam's Houfe hath been rifted TENT~ Value of fifty Pounds, rhe a:i: W · ~ . Jmes and he is p · • · ~n a nt de l:>XCOintnUnttaJo capjtnJo. At Fde~bam fc rpw a rtfoner up· uned~ r~at the Informer, and hi$ Wife bein tb evera e_rfons have been them, and Goods ha\'e been taken to a g e only Wnneffes a_gainft liarrifon. not fo much as a Bed to lye u~~e:~ \alu~; thh~y left one Joftpb dren were fcdn to lye on Srrario. ' Ut e, IS Wtfe and ehil· ~ . Cambridgejbire. F 0 R a peaceable Meeting at the H fi f w:·n· Cambridge he was fined Twent 0f e 0 1 zom Brty1'tr Shoemaker In John Spencer Vict:·ChanceUor upon ;h 0J'£ds by. Johti H11n1 Mayor, and :rinker · The Oflice'rs th · ' . e .n ormauon of Supben Perry a Tbcy bad Warrantt for Fif:; ~?v~ep:~,~ftrem .fTh this Tke~ty PoundS faid, and the Se:u he work'd on, wearing Cl~~1°:S: ·and Sh:~~ ~~~;e~~htarY L~~~'. Xxxx2 'Q!J |