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Show 71o The Continued Cry of the Oppreired. VbL. j; r67). raigntd him for his Life, as a Felon; but he was acquitted b); the Judge i..fV""\,.J and Jury. . . , .. -- - s)o Taken from feveral in and abofif :Nantwicb, by Warunt from Jaftic.e ft1a11waring, for Eighty Seven Pounds in Fines, Goods to the 'Value of One' Hundred and one Pounds, in Kine. Bacon, Bedding, Brafs, Pewter! Corn Cloth Shoes and Checfe: And fram one Man was taken all, _from the Bed~ ..,. the F;milf lay on to the very Dungh'il, which they alfo c~nied' away. Some ot the Sufferers appealing, the J~ry acquirte~ them, but the ]u)llces , would not receive their Verdi a; but at the next Seffions the Jufiices gave Judgment for the Informers; and not contented with this, they gave them1 TREBLE Colt. . ]\'ore The Chief Informer in thefe Suffetings, was one John lViddowbury of hanktow, called an Efquire, who did it to be revenged on TbomtU Br41 .. fey (one of the Meeting) for demanding Forty Pounds of hi"lo which he Owed unto Tbomm Braijey upon Bond, which, that he mipbt (as appears) defraud the f::tid Tbomtlf Braifcy of, he hath fince (by rev1vin9 an old Excommunication) fent him to Prifon, and fwears he will fend hiS \Vife after him from her four SMALL Children. \.Vitneffes, Henry Fltubtr, Jonat1J4n F/eubtr, Samuel E!JH. Torkjhire. HAving in a former Narrative acquain~ed you, that Goods to the Value" of Two Thoufand Three Hundred Etghry One Pounds, Ten Shillings, by the late Afl againfr Conventicles, have been taken from us, with fomc: other of our he:J.\'Y Preffures and Sufferings in the County of York, for the Exercife of our Confciences towards God; and having yer obtained no Red refs, but rather an lncreafe of our Sufferings, One having fince died in Prifon at York, where Twenty Four yet remain Prifoners, and fame Hun· dreds of Families like to be ruin'd by Profecurions, both in Temporal and Ecdefiafiical Courts, becaufe for Confcjence fake we cannot conform to th~ Religion and Worlhip impofed on us, nor deny the Religion and \Vorlhip, which we have been taught by the Spirit of God, accordil)_g to the Holy Scriptures:; and our conftant adhering to the Religion and WorShip in Spi· a rir, which we believe,God requires of us, can iniure no Man~ but the Denial of it would greatly injure us, becaufe every Man muft give an Account to God for himfclf: 0 why then fhould we by Law ·be expofed to Ruin and DeftruO:ion for the Exercife of our Confcience towards God, fince by our Ruins none are like ro be raifed, unlefs it be a few Informers, Appar~· o- tors and other inferior Officers in the faid Courts; bnt the Dama~e that may come to the King, and the whole Nation, by Difcouraging, Perfecuting or Ruining an indufirious innocent People, is like to be very great : Therefore we defire that you would be plea fed to put a Stop to the vexa· tious Proceedings of the faid Informers and Courts, and confirm to us, youfl felves and Pofterities, the Liberty of our Confcitnces towards God, that we all may worlhip and ferve Him, as we believe he requires us; fo fhall we he accepted of him, and receive his Bleffing, and Peace, and Tranquility in the whole Nation. \Yitnelfes, John WhitehtaJ, John HaU. In divers other Counties in this Nation, there are many more Inftances, both of great Havock and Spoil of Goods, impoverifhing and ruining many innocent Families in their Trades and Livelihoods which for Brevitic's Sake are at prefent here omitt~::d. · ' Note. A PoA:fcript, to this Cry of rhe Oppu./Jed, is here omitted.; it be· ing comprehended in the Sixrh Seaion of the Second Pan of .An Addrifs to Proreflanu, pdmed ,Anno 1679, and hereaftei infened. . , SAUL VoL, 1. SA U L Smitten to the Ground; Being a Brief, b,ut Faithful N A R & A t IV E, 0 F THE Dying Ren10rfe of a Ia:te Living Enein:y, (To the People called Q. u AKERs, and their Faith 4nd Worlhip) MATTHEW HIDE~ ' Attefted by Eye and Ear Witneffe~, whereof hlsW I D 0 w is One: With an APPEND I X both to Foes and Friends on this Occaiion. By TV I L L I A lfl pENN. , J~r~xx~· /11{/{;, nfur rbat 1 Waf Turnl'rl, I Repenud; and •fur that 1 tea~ n ru e ' more Upon my Thi&b; I was .Afoamcd; jea, even coitfounded. , WHifd_41 o[t~r near Twenty ~ears Public!c OpjJofirJon, 1110~ hy Matthew l c, ogamj1 the People ca6ed Q.uakers and th · p. · · l .r Light wirbilr, in rbeir PJJblick Jtffcmblies tbieJI/ iir. and "b "~'~L'P d 01 r~e bb~rbc!':r_nftt! the Lord im~nediare!J and fe~retlJ to S111ite a;/~f/Ja;n ob". : . t, ts nJcunce, and /o bnng the Burden of his Ini u·'j . b' til 1111 l1l :•for)• t' ~eath (though he wa. not the worjl ;J 0;,nuS;;o)e;, ",/,/'D~oy~ ers I at e WtU ntccffirated to maRe a .foltmn Confdfi h I} d' llr rbe Trlltb; in rbe Preftnce of Almighty God and fe , o7t' thea' '!J llniiJ his Wife, and fome or hers, before be cauld ~11ietlD o'rer~,·t0 fi ~ttf:'0.Peopdlt, "dr rb · L;{, Tb · · · :z 'I' ..., ~a IIJa ton e- D ~~ 1:· d u .. ts gn)tn .our ttl a true nfd fa,rbful Narrative o/ bir Lafl an ')tng vo~ .r, ttl a Teflrmony }or God'J Tr11rb and Pea It 0 a· .n JipDjlates, Gamfa;'ers. 1ntd Oppifers Jb"'ereof, rbar /11th may tdf WaJi:nJI4~ whom there yer re»ltllnJ a Place of Repentance. 'g, Jl ON the l)th. of the T?t~ Month, I675, Cdtton O~des heaiin tbar ("J ~1auhcw H1d~ was Wtlhng to fpeak to fome o.f our Friends,gcalled ;i""'tlws, wen~ to hun, and told him, if he bad any TbiHg to foj to dear •undif&jf. he mt~ht fpeak, fui.,g be h•d oppifeJ FriendJ in tbtir Dt~luariolfs n .r-rtrycrs .. b lfl. Hide fignifiod t.~o's much, That be was forry /or what be baJ Jotu · for I ry roere tbc People o; God. ' R C, Oades alk'd him, lf he bad 4ny Tbing in biJ lfliiul to nnj p.micular ;'ends, nominating G. Wbiubead and W. Gibfon or 4ny otber · a11J w£e .. I er be would be wiOitlg an'J of rbemjhould he fenr/or l ' M.llidc reply'd, A111tany a1 plettft may lOJ!It, • · Whert· • |