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<P>The Lamentable SUFFERINGS of the Church of GOD in <HI>DORSET-SHIRE.</HI></P>
<P>And the per&s;ecution there; Whipping &s;ufficient men of their own County as vagabonds, and how bruit|i&s;h they behave them&s;elves and unmanly, di&s;honou|ing their Magi&s;tracy, and &s;haming their Mini&s;tery; How they have &s;tocked, impri&s;oned, whipped, and &s;ent away with pa&s;&s;es the &s;ervants of the Lord God, and what havock they have made of the Church of God; acting without the fear of God, and as men regarding neither God nor man, and as though they had never heard talk of God, Chri&s;t, Prophets nor Apo&s;tles, nor &s;criptures, as though they never had read their examples of &s;uch as turned again&s;t the Ju&s;t, and were the per&s;ecutors; But the wicked|ne&s;s of the wicked &s;hal <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">y them&s;elves, and the Lord is the reward of the Ju&s;t, and the protector of the Innocent, and carries his Lambs in his armes, and Rebukes the adver&s;aries, yea Kings, for the Annoin|ted-Elects &s;ake; Therefore let your doings and vio|lence be &s;o no more, lea&s;t the Lord make you ex|amples.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Simmons</HI> at the <HI>Bul</HI> and <HI>mouth</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate,</HI> 1659.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>FRIENDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YO&V; may &s;ee in this following Relation your fruits, with uncivil, unde&s;creet, unmoderate, untemperate carriages you u&s;e, and hath been done by you to the people of God, to whip &s;ufficient men, able men, as Vagabonds, which are the &s;ervants of the Lord, the mo&s;t high God, and impri&s;on men and women for reproving &s;in in the gate, and &s;uch are your prey; or in your places of wor&s;hip, how unlike the Church of God are you, or the Apostles, which &s;aith, you may all prophecy one by one? how unlike <HI>Peter</HI> are ye, and <HI>Joel,</HI> that &s;aith, the Lord would pour on his &s;ons and daughters, and they &s;hould prophecy? and &s;uch you impri&s;on that prophecy to you, and strike, beat whip as Vagabonds, or as deceivers; (the Phari&s;ees title) now did ever any of the Christians per&s;ecute and make &s;uch havock and &s;uch preys, and laid &s;o many &s;nares to intrap and catch and in&s;nare the Innocent as you have done? as you may read in the&s;e following papers your fruits; to all &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er people you are a grief, you &s;hame your Office, and di&s;honour the name, you pro|fe&s;s God and Chri&s;t, you make the Name of God <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">|phemed in your Countrie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">|lice is again&s;t &s;uch which <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> formerly hath borne Ar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> cau&s;e they lay down their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters">ward Armes, their carnal weapons, now you make a prey upon them, who by your &s;nares and plots &s;eek for them; becau&s;e you knowing they cannot &s;wear nor put off their hats, &s;uch as deny the honour below, and &s;eek the honour of God, &s;uch by evil &s;nares you make a prey upon; is it not a &s;trange thing that you &s;hould make a prey, or be &s;o ridged again&s;t the &s;ervants of the Lord, which by you in &s;corn are called <HI>Quakers?</HI> for your ridgedne&s;s was formerly again&s;t them when you were in outward Armes against them; And &s;o <HI>Dorcet-Shire;</HI> to many of you. Is it not a &s;trange thing that you &s;hould be perver&s;e, but the Lord forgive you, and let you &s;ee your &s;elves, for you have &s;hamed your &s;elves, your names you have &s;et upon record, to be &s;uch that turn again&s;t them that be guided by the Spirit of God in the life of Je&s;us Christ, which &s;hews all your &s;ervice hath this long time been in the lip, what is in your hearts is now manifest; therefore let this time be &s;ufficient you have &s;pent, and wickedne&s;s and mi&s;chief you have acted against the &s;ervants of the Lord, and learn
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">humility that goes before the honour, and &s;oberne&s;s, and temperance, and gravity, and that will be of good report to you; Is this the end of your Ministery and Church, and profe&s;&s;ion and Christianity, to whip, pri&s;on, fine, &s;uch as will not give you honour below? Is that it that di&s;turbs you, and fine &s;uch as are gathered together in the Name of Chri&s;t, and will not break the Commands of Chri&s;t, do you think all the &s;ober people in the Nation doth not take notice and view your fruits? Let the witne&s;s of God in all your con&s;ciences be a witne&s;s for the Lord again&s;t you, to your Condemnation; from a friend to your Souls and your eternal good, but a grief to &s;ee your practizes and a&s;hamed of it. Therefore now you have time, repent, lea&s;t you &s;ay, you had time, and it is pa&s;t; come do you read in the Apo&s;tles Api&s;tles or the Prophets, that they acted &s;uch things as you acted, or among the Apostles of Chri&s;t? read the Scriptures and try your practizes by them, and let them mea&s;ure your rule, and let you &s;ee who you are like, the per&s;ecutors, or the Apo&s;tles that were per&s;ecuted? Was not the Prie&s;ts in all ages &s;uch as &s;tirred up the Ma|gi&s;trates again&s;t the Prophets, Christ and the Apostles? are the Magi|&s;trates, become to be their Executioners (for which cau&s;e the Lord over|turned many) Will not this fall upon you? It lyes upon you to con&s;ider it, the Lord will do Justice to his children, who Judges among the Judges; therefore do that which is of good report, and &s;avory and com|mendable in the eyes of God and his people, and all &s;ober people, that to &s;uch you may be a good &s;avour, for many would hardly believe there had been &s;uch fruits and actions and carriages among you, in making &s;uch havock of the Church of God, and the people of God, by di&s;turbing them and haling them from their peaceable meetings, and &s;o much vio|lence in you towards them through the Prie&s;ts per&s;wa&s;ion; Be not ye their pack-hor&s;es, nor executioners to raven after the Innocent, and to de&s;troy them for a thing of naught; But do Ju&s;tice and keep peace, and walk humbly with God, and &s;top the way of violence, that will be the way whererby ye may come into a comfortable life with God and his people, which if not, you will be Judged by the Lord God and his peo|ple, and that in all your Con&s;ciences &s;hall witne&s;s it at la&s;t, which now you kick against them, per&s;ecute and impri&s;on them; and if they went into everla&s;ting puni&s;hment, that vi&s;ited not Chri&s;t in pri&s;on, What will become of you that ca&s;t him in pri&s;on? But con&s;ider the&s;e things, you who have acted like men without rea&s;on, or true under&s;tanding or knowledge, as though you never regard the Law of God nor man; How do you love enemies that per&s;ecute, is this your intertaining of &s;tran|gers?
<PB N="4" REF="3">The Law &s;aith, thou &s;halt not vex the stranger: which Law you have ca&s;t behind your backs, and Chri&s;ts Command, and you per&s;ecute the &s;ervants of the Lord God as Vagabonds; What would you have done to <HI>Abraham,</HI> that had not a foot of ground? and to Chri&s;t, that had not room to lay his head? or the Apostles, that had no certain dwelling-hou&s;es, if they had been in your dayes? Are not you a&s;hamed to pro|fe&s;s their Words, and walk contrary to their practizes? And was not <HI>Cain</HI> a Vagabond, that built a City, and had not a habitation in God, the per&s;ecutor; The murderer that ro&s;e again&s;t faithful <HI>Abel?</HI> And now though you have habitations on earth, yet not in God, you are in the &s;ame condition; therefore look to your &s;elves betimes, for it is not pa&s;t. Or how are you like <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> that Magi&s;trate, that &s;aid, would all the Lords people were Prophets? Which you Magi&s;trates ca&s;t the Prophets of the Lord, and his &s;ons and daughters in pri&s;on; And are not you not an ill &s;avour in this, doth not your fruits declare it?</P>
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<HEAD>Here followeth a true Relation of the unju&s;t impri&s;on|ment of <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> and <HI>John Gundry,</HI> by them called Ju&s;tices, at a &s;itting of them at Sherborn in the year, <HI>1657.</HI></HEAD>
<P>UPon the &s;econd month in the year, 1657. <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> and <HI>John Gundry,</HI> then living in <HI>Ever&s;hot.</HI> in the County of <HI>Dor&s;et,</HI> were by a Warrant, called, a peace proce&s;&s;e, carried before <HI>Walter Foy</HI> of <HI>Melbury Bub,</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, the &s;aid <HI>Walter Foy</HI> having nothing to accu&s;e them of, he cau&s;ed them to appear at the next general Se&s;&s;ions held at <HI>Sherborn</HI> in the County afore&s;aid, and when <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> and <HI>John Gundry</HI> appeared before the Court at the Se&s;&s;ions, they began to be light and vain, and &s;aid here were <HI>Quakers</HI> come, and having nothing to accu&s;e them of; Then they called Ju&s;tices bid them put off their hats and be uncovered; But <HI>S.C.</HI> and <HI>I.G.</HI> &s;tanding there innocent be|fore them, knowing them&s;elves clear as to the breach of any known Law; de&s;ired to know what law they had broken that they were brought hither, or who was their accu&s;er? Then they called Ju&s;tices, cau&s;ed the Cryer to make proclamation that all men &s;hould &s;tand uncovered in the face of the Court; then tho&s;e called Ju&s;tices &s;aid they will not put off their hats; But <HI>S. C.</HI> and <HI>I. G.</HI> de&s;ired to &s;ee what law they had broken? but they could not &s;hew any, neither had they any one to ac|cu&s;e them of any thing, that they had done; Then one of them &s;aid, that they had made a law for them (to wit that they &s;hould put off their hats) but <HI>S. C.</HI> and <HI>I. G.</HI> &s;aid that they &s;hould &s;hew them a law that was made before they came to &s;it there, which was in the &s;tatutes of <HI>Engl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd,</HI> which was made by <HI>Parliament</HI> (for they were not law-makers) &s;o when they could not &s;hew them any law they had broken, nor ac|cu&s;e them of any evil that they had done, then they com|manded them to depart, and to give attendance to the Court, and appear again when they were called, then after dinner
<PB REF="4"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> as they were commanded, but in the mean time, after they had been the fir&s;t time before them, they framed them&s;elves an indictment again&s;t them; and when they were come before them they read their indictment, that <HI>S. C.</HI> and <HI>I. G.</HI> &s;tood in contempt of the Court, which was fal&s;e, for they them&s;elves did command them to &s;tand there before them; Then they asked them if they were guilty or not guilty? then <HI>S. C.</HI> and <HI>J. G.</HI> asked them what law they had broken? then they, called Ju&s;tices &s;aid, that they &s;hould plead guilty or not guilty, then <HI>S. C</HI> and <HI>J G.</HI> &s;aid, that they &s;hould &s;hew them what law they had broken, that they were guilty of the breach thererof; Then one of them called Ju&s;tices &s;aid, that they &s;tood in contempt of the Court, Then <HI>S. C.</HI> asked them wherein they &s;tood in con|tempt of the Court, &s;aying that they were commanded by them to &s;tand there, and being there, whether they did not &s;tand as &s;ober men? and that they &s;tood not in contempt of the court; but not any one of them called Ju&s;tices, could &s;hew them any law that they had broken, nor yet where they &s;tood in con|tempt of the Court as they fal&s;ly accu&s;ed them; Then <HI>William Hu&s;&s;ey</HI> of <HI>Sha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tone,</HI> Judge of that County &s;tood up and &s;aid to <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> and <HI>John Gundry</HI> that this court doth fine you ten pounds a piece, or to lie in Pri&s;on until you pay it; &s;o they were pre&s;ently committed to pri&s;on, becau&s;e they could not pay them money who had broken no Law, neither could any man accu&s;e them of any evil they had done, but contrary to law and e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uity &s;ent them to pri&s;on, &s;o that equity could not enter, and tho&s;e that refrain from evil, becomes their prey, <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 59.14 15. and doth not the Lord &s;ee the&s;e? and doth it not di&s;plea&s;e him that there can be no judgement found? and are not the&s;e &s;uch Judges as the Prophet &s;peaks of <HI>Zeph.</HI> 3.3. &s;aying, her Judges are evening wolves, who put a&s;ide Ju&s;tice for a thing of nought, even for a hat; and thus were two men fearing God, taken out of their hone&s;t imployments, and then in&s;nared and unju&s;tly impri&s;oned, and tho&s;e that did it have not learned to love their neighbour as them&s;elves.</P>
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<HEAD>The &s;ufferings of the Lords people in the town of <HI>Brideport,</HI> by the hands of <HI>Nicholas Samp&s;on</HI> and <HI>Robert Prince</HI> Bailiffs of that Town.</HEAD>
<P><HI>GEorge Bewly</HI> a Servant of the Lord, and Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and <HI>John Ellis</HI> and <HI>Humphery Sprague,</HI> Servants of the Lord, coming to this Town of <HI>Brideport</HI> the 2d day of the ninth Moneth 57, being the &s;eventh day of the week to a meeting which was in the Town the next day, being the fir&s;t day of the week and having been at the meeting that day, the Bayliffs &s;ent the Con&s;tables, who&s;e names are <HI>Nicholas Way</HI> and <HI>John Davie</HI> with a warrant that night to bring them before them, the Con&s;tables having carried <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">orge Bewly, John Ellis,</HI> and <HI>Humphery Sprague,</HI> the Bayliffs they &s;aid they were wan|derers, and &s;ent them to pri&s;on that night, and the next day &s;ent for them to the Town Hall, and cau&s;ed them to be whiped, and the day after being the third day of the week, &s;ent them away with pa&s;&s;es for vagabonds and wanderers, <HI>George Bewly</HI> was taken up in the &s;treet the third day, and halled out of the Town without his hor&s;e and cloaths, he de&s;ired of them that he might go back to his Inne where he lodged in the Town to fetch his hor&s;e and cloaths, and pay for what he had taken there, but they would not &s;uffer him.</P>
<P><HI>George Bewly</HI> having pa&s;&s;ed &s;ome miles from the Town, and being freed again, came back to this Town again to fetch his hor&s;e and cloaths, was taken up again by the Con&s;tables before named, and carried before the Bayliffs <HI>Nicholas Samp&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Robert Prince</HI> who carried him to the Hall, and cau&s;ed him to be whipped again; telling him that he was come back from his Te&s;timonial, but he told them that he was come back for his Hor&s;e and cloaths; then they &s;ent him away with another pa&s;&s;e without his hor&s;e and cloaths.</P>
<P><HI>George Bewly</HI> the Lords Servant having pa&s;&s;ed &s;ome miles from the town, he was again &s;et at liberty, and then went to <HI>South Periot,</HI> where he had a meeting, and declared the word of the Lord, and then came to this town again the fir&s;t day of the tenth moneth 57 to fetch his hor&s;e and cloaths, and three Friends of <HI>South-periot,</HI> and thereabouts came with him, who&s;e names are <HI>Samuel Curtis, Richard Lincoln.</HI> and <HI>William Partridge,</HI> he tarried about one hour or two in the Town, and then was
<PB N="8" REF="5">on hor&s;e back riding out of the Town, the Con&s;tables before mentioned, came and laid hands on his hor&s;e bridle, and car|ried him before the Bayliffs again, who carried him to the Hall, and cau&s;ed him to be whipt again the third time, telling him that he was come back from his te&s;timonial again, who an&s;wererd that he was come back for his hor&s;e and cloaths, and was on hor&s;e-back riding out of the Town; the next day they &s;ent him away on his hor&s;e with another pa&s;&s;e, who having his hor&s;e and cloaths, returned not again, being &s;ent with a pa&s;&s;e from tithing to tithing for a vagrant per&s;on, he being a &s;ufficient mans Son, his Father being worth many hundred pounds.</P>
<P>Al&s;o <HI>Richard Polbery</HI> of <HI>Lime-king</HI> then convinced, and com|ing into this Town the &s;ame day that <HI>George Bewly</HI> did, being the 21 day of the 9th. moneth 57 to the meeting the next day, and pa&s;&s;ing along the &s;treet with <HI>George Bewly</HI> the Lords Ser|vant, when they haled him out of the Town the fir&s;t time, being the 24th. day of 9th. moneth 57. and being out of the liberty of the Town, and in the Pari&s;h of <HI>Bradpole, Nicholas Samp&s;on</HI> one of the Bayliffs of the Town haled him into the Town again to the Town Hall, and cau&s;ed him to be whipt, and &s;ent him away with a pa&s;&s;e from Tithing to Tithing for a wanderer and vagabond, who came to a meeting of the Lords People but &s;ix miles from his Fathers hou&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Frances Williams</HI> &s;tanding in the &s;treet, while&s;t <HI>George Bewly</HI> the Servant of the Lord was examined, when he was in <HI>Bride|port</HI> the &s;econd time, being the twenty &s;ixth day of the ninth moneth, 1657 was afterwards taken up and &s;ent to pri&s;on by the Bayliffs before mentioned, writing on his <HI>mittimus</HI> for gathering together in a riotous manner, to above the number of three, &amp;c. which is fal&s;e, he being but going along with <HI>George Bewley</HI> the Lords &s;ervant, and &s;tanding there to &s;ee what they would do with him, and this they enviou&s;ly call a Riot.</P>
<P><HI>Francis Williams</HI> his Wife &s;tanding in the &s;treet al&s;o to &s;ee what they would do with <HI>George Bewly</HI> was by <HI>Robert Prince</HI> on of the Bayliffs &s;trook two or three times on her brea&s;t wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his elbow forcibly, &s;he being with child near her time.</P>
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<PB N="9" REF="5" MS="y">taken up and &s;ent to Pri&s;on, with <HI>Francis Williams,</HI> writing in his <HI>mittimus,</HI> for gathering together in a riotous manner, to above the number of three, for laying violent hands on <HI>Robert Prince,</HI> one of the Bailiffs, which is fal&s;e, he being going along with <HI>George Bewly</HI> the Lords &s;ervant, and &s;tanding there to &s;ee what they would do to him, and this they enviou&s;ly call a Riot.</P>
<P><HI>Walter Hallet</HI> &s;tanding in the &s;treet, and being going up the &s;tairs to the Hall, where they examined <HI>George Bewley</HI> again, af|ter they had examined him at the Bailiffs hou&s;e; was by <HI>Robert Prince</HI> one of the Bailiffs (who is al&s;o called a Ju&s;tice of Peace) &s;trook many blowes on his head, very violently with a Cane.</P>
<P><HI>Bartholomew Lugge</HI> &s;tanding in the &s;treet, was al&s;o afterwards by the &s;ame Bailiffs &s;ent to pri&s;on, writing in his <HI>mittimus,</HI> for gathe|ring together in a riotous manner above the number of three, and for hindring the execution of Ju&s;tice, which is likewi&s;e fal&s;e, he being going along with <HI>George Bewly,</HI> and &s;tanding there to &s;ee what they would do to him; and this they enviou&s;ly call a Riot.</P>
<P><HI>William Eliot</HI> the younger, &s;tanding in the &s;treet al&s;o, when <HI>George Bewly</HI> was examined, was afterwards &s;ent for by the &s;ame Bailiffs, and by them &s;ent to Pri&s;on, writing on his <HI>mittimus,</HI> that he had abu&s;ed the officers of the Town, in the execution of Ju&s;tice, and di&s;turbed them in the execution of the &s;tatute made for the puni&s;hment of Rogues and &s;turdy beggars: <HI>George Bew|ly</HI> being a &s;ufficient mans &s;on, worth hundreds of pounds; and <HI>William Eliot</HI> going with <HI>George Bewly</HI> the Lords &s;ervant, and &s;tanding there to &s;ee what they would do to him, and this they enviou&s;ly call an abu&s;e and a di&s;turbance to hinder the execution of Ju&s;tice, which is fal&s;e, while they them&s;elves did fal&s;ly ac|cu&s;e and puni&s;h a &s;ervant of the Lords, <HI>George Bewly</HI> unde&s;er|vedly.</P>
<P>Some time after, the &s;ame Bailiffs &s;ent for <HI>Anne Weber,</HI> again&s;t whom <HI>Anne Egarton</HI> the wife of <HI>John Egarton</HI> of <HI>Brideport</HI> had &s;worn, that when <HI>George Bewly</HI> was in the Town, &s;he &s;hould wi&s;h that fire and brim&s;tone might come down from Heaven and con|&s;ume them, which &s;he &s;ayes is fal&s;e, the words &s;he then &s;pake, as &s;he &s;ayes, are the&s;e, That there is a Ju&s;t God in heaven which &s;aw their actions, and would reward them accordingly, or to that pur|po&s;e; &s;o they &s;aid, &s;he had cur&s;ed, and for that cau&s;e as they pretended, they put her in the &s;tocks.</P>
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<P> <HI>Francis Williams, Nicholas Stone, Bartholomew Lugg</HI> and <HI>Wil|liam Eliot,</HI> remained pri&s;oners until the third or fourth month, 1658. and then being the Se&s;&s;ions for the Town, they were brought to the Se&s;&s;ions, <HI>Francis Williams</HI> was freed, <HI>Nicholas Stone,</HI> again&s;t him there was two Bills read, again&s;t <HI>Bartholomew Lugg</HI> there was one Bill read, and again&s;t <HI>William Elliot</HI> there was one Bill read, all which Bills they knew to be fal&s;e, and therefore were not free to be tryed by a Jury: &s;o then they fined <HI>Nicholas Stone</HI> 10 l. and <HI>Bartholomew Lugg</HI> 5 l. and <HI>William Elliot</HI> the younger 5 l. &s;o the&s;e three, <HI>viz. Nicholas Stone, Bartholomew Lugg</HI> and <HI>William Elliot</HI> the younger remains yet pri&s;oners in <HI>Brideport, Nicholas Stone</HI> ha|ving a wife and five children, and <HI>William Eliot</HI> a wife and four children, who&s;e maintenance depends mo&s;t upon their labours, they being poor men.</P>
<P><HI>Nicholas Samp&s;on</HI> and <HI>Robert Prince</HI> Bailiffs of the Town of <HI>Brid|port,</HI> upon the &s;ixth day of the ninth month, 1657. &s;ent for <HI>Lore Bagg</HI> the wife of <HI>Richard Bagg,</HI> and her &s;on <HI>Thomas Bagg,</HI> and three of her daughters, <HI>Sarah Bagg, Mary Bagg</HI> and <HI>Abigal Bagg,</HI> five of one Family, and demanded two &s;hillings and &s;ix pence a piece of them for wandring and prophane walking, as they &s;aid on the Sabbath day, which was onely for coming from their meeting, from one <HI>Francis Williams</HI> hou&s;e, where they were met together to wait upon the Lord in his fear, and for going from his hou&s;e where the meeting was, to the hou&s;e where their outward abode is, both hou&s;es being in the Town of <HI>Brideport,</HI> about a how &s;hot and a half a&s;under, were thus accu&s;ed <HI>viz.</HI> for prophane walking and wandring, they refu&s;ing to pay the money deman|ded of them, knowing them&s;elves not guilty of the breach of a|ny Law of this land, they let them pa&s;s to their outward home again, telling them it had been better that they had paid the mo|ney they asked of them.</P>
<P>Upon the 15th. day of the 7th. month, 1658. they were all &s;ent for again, by the &s;ame Bailiffs, when they came before them, they told them that at the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions there was a peace proce&s;&s;e given forth again&s;t them, and demanded &s;ureties of them to ap|pear at the next Se&s;&s;ions; they asked them for what they &s;hould give &s;ureties, telling them they had broken no Law of this land; then they &s;aid, they &s;hould know wherefore at the Se&s;&s;ions; they refu&s;ing to give any &s;ureties, were then forthwith &s;ent to Pri&s;on,
<PB N="11" REF="6" MS="y">by the &s;ame Bailiffs; they remained there untill the Se&s;&s;ions, which was on the 4 and 5 dayes of the 8th. month, 1658. and were then brought to the Se&s;&s;ions; as &s;oon as they came before them, they <HI>viz.</HI> the Bailiffs, <HI>Lyonel Brown</HI> and <HI>John Cou&s;&s;ins,</HI> and <HI>Nich. Samp&s;on</HI> &amp; <HI>Robert Prince</HI> called Ju&s;tices, &amp; <HI>John Hoskins</HI> the Recorder, fined <HI>Thomas Bagg</HI> thirteen &s;hillings and four pence, for not putting off his hat; then there was a Bill read again&s;t each of them, that upon the fir&s;t of November 1657. they being before the Ju&s;tice of the peace of the Town, were then convicted that on the fir&s;t of November 1657. they were at no Church, nor Chappel, nor other place of publick meeting, where the wor&s;hip and &s;ervice of God was performed, nor the Lords day duely ob|&s;erved, but wholly neglecting the &s;anctifying of that day, and the performance of all Holy and Religious duties; which was fal&s;e, they having been at a meeting of the people of God, who wor&s;hipped God in the Spirit and in the truth, as the Apo&s;tles and Chri&s;tians did of old, <HI>Rom.</HI> 16.5: as the Church did in the hou&s;e of <HI>Epenetus;</HI> Did not the&s;e wor&s;hip God, that had no Chappel nor Steeple-hou&s;e, which the Papi&s;ts &s;et up &s;ince their dayes? then they asked them, if they were guilty or not guilty, they an&s;wered they were not guilty of any &s;uch thing as was read again&s;t them; then they asked them, if they would be tryed by a Jury, they an&s;wered, that they did de&s;ire to be tried by a Jury: then they bid them lay down their money for their traver&s;e, to enter their plea: then they an&s;wered them, they &s;hould not tell them of traver&s;ing, they had taken them from their outward im|ployment, and &s;ent them to Pri&s;on, and told them that they &s;hould know wherefore at the Se&s;&s;ions, and now they were brought to the Se&s;&s;ions, &amp; did de&s;ire to know wherefore they were &s;ent to pri&s;on, &amp; al&s;o to be tried by a Jury according to the Law of this Nation; but as for giving them money, that they could not do; &s;o they would not grant them a Jury unle&s;s they could give them money, and buy Ju&s;tice: they told them that Murderers had more priviledge of the Law then they had; <HI>Lyonel Brown</HI> one of the Bailiffs &s;aid, that Murderers had a priviledge above them: &s;o then becau&s;e they could not give them money, when as they had broken no Law, they were &s;ent to pri&s;on again, committed for two &s;hillings and &s;ix pence a piece until they did pay it: <HI>Lore Bagg</HI> being above three &s;core years old, and her husband <HI>Richard Bagg</HI> being left alone,
<PB N="12" REF="7">all his Family being taken from him, he being a mercer, driving a con&s;iderable trade in the Town of <HI>Brideport,</HI> and which in this condition he is altogether unable to manage his trade; and the&s;e were long kept in a clo&s;e Pri&s;on, and abu&s;ed, and &s;uffered hard|&s;hips, but the Lord pre&s;erveth the faithful, and his enemies he confoundeth.</P>
<P><HI>Bartholomew Lugg</HI> being a pri&s;oner before, was called at the Se&s;&s;ions, who formerly was fined, they told him his fine was ta|ken off, and he was to be freed if he would pay fees, which he refu&s;ed to do, having broken no Law, then he was taken away by the Keeper, and was afterwards called again; when he came be|fore them the &s;econd time, then they fined him thirteen &s;hillings and four pence, for not putting off his hat, and &s;o &s;ent him to Pri&s;on again.</P>
<P><HI>Nichlas Stone</HI> being a pri&s;oner before, was brought to the Se&s;|&s;ions, and a Bill was read again&s;t him, wherein was written, that he came into the Church wilfully and di&s;turbed the Mini&s;ter in that Town; then they asked him if he were guilty or not guilty; he bid them prove what there was read again&s;t him, and asked if there were any that would prove it again&s;t him; they told him it was proved already, but there was none came forth there, nor el&s;ewhere before him to prove it; &s;o then they committed him to the Bridewell to hard labour for five Months, though when he went into the Steeple-hou&s;e he &s;pake not a word until the Prie&s;t had ended.</P>
<P><HI>William Eliot</HI> the younger, being a pri&s;oner before the Se&s;|&s;ions, remains a pri&s;oner as before, lying &s;ick then, near unto death.</P>
<P><HI>Jo&s;eph Cole</HI> a &s;ervant of the Lord, being moved of the Lord to declare the Word of the Lord, in <HI>Lime</HI> in the &s;treet on a market day, was by the Mayor <HI>Robert Buridge,</HI> and <HI>Ignortius Turner</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, taken up and impri&s;oned, the next day &s;ent to <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> Pri&s;on with a <HI>mittimus,</HI> which was written to the Keeper of the Common Goal in <HI>Dorchester,</HI> who was therein commanded to take into cu&s;tody the body of <HI>Jo&s;eph Cole,</HI> and him &s;afely to keep in Pri&s;on, until he was thence delivered according to Law, he refu&s;ing, as they &s;aid, to give &s;ureties for his appearing at the A&s;&s;i|zes, and to be of good behaviour, he having in this Town in a market day vented his own imaginations in a publick manner,
<PB N="13" REF="7" MS="y">tending to &s;edition, as they &s;aid; his <HI>mittimus</HI> was dated the 25th. day of the &s;econd Month, 1657. Here tho&s;e blind and envious men call good evil, and put light for darkne&s;s, and call the Word of the Lord an Imagination, and tending to &s;edition; even as <HI>Paul</HI> the &s;ervant of the Lord, for declaring the Word of the Lord in the &s;treets and market places, was called a Sectarian.</P>
<P><HI>Jo&s;eph Cole</HI> being committed to <HI>Thomas Wi&s;e,</HI> to carry him to <HI>Dorche&s;ter,</HI> they came into the Town of <HI>Brideport</HI> the &s;eventh day of the week at night, &amp; lay in the Town that night, the next day being the fir&s;t day of the week, <HI>Jo&s;eph Cole</HI> being moved of the Lord, went to the Steeple-hou&s;e in <HI>Brideport,</HI> where <HI>John Eaton</HI> an hireling Prie&s;t doth teach for hire; and after the Prie&s;t had ended, he ac|ked him a que&s;tion, and forthwith the people came to him and kicked him, &amp; haled him by the hair, &amp; u&s;ed him very bruiti&s;hly, and &s;o haled him away to Pri&s;on, where he remained until the next day, then the Bailiffs having de&s;ired the <HI>mittimus</HI> of <HI>Thomas Wi&s;e,</HI> which he had to carry him to <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> with, they kept is from him, and &s;ent away <HI>Jo&s;eph Cole</HI> with another <HI>mittimus,</HI> and a man of <HI>Brideport</HI> with him to <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> Pri&s;on, &s;o they having taken <HI>Thomas Wi&s;es</HI> pri&s;oner from him, and kept away his <HI>mitti|mus,</HI> he went to <HI>Lime</HI> again, the Bailiffs of <HI>Brideport</HI> then were <HI>William Bal&s;tone</HI> and <HI>Morgan Bull.</HI></P>
<P>The la&s;t day of the 6th. month, 1657. <HI>Humphrey Smith</HI> a &s;er|vant of the Lord, and Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, came to <HI>Dorchester</HI> that night, and al&s;o <HI>Thomas Woodrow</HI> a &s;ervant of the Lord; <HI>Hum|phrey Smith</HI> had a meeting of the Lords people to wait upon the Lord in that Town where was much di&s;turbance by many, and the Con&s;tables ordered the Watch-men to take up them that came there to the meeting, they took up &s;uch as were &s;tran|gers that they met with, they took up <HI>Francis Taylor</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;ias Moris,</HI> and put them in the Blind-hou&s;e all the night; the next day being the fir&s;t day of the &s;eventh Month, 1657. <HI>Thomas Woodrow</HI> went to the Blind-hou&s;e to &s;ee tho&s;e friends that had layen there that night, notice thereof being given to the Mayor <HI>Thomas Si|mons,</HI> he with the re&s;t of the company &s;ent for <HI>Thomas Woodrow,</HI> and cau&s;ed him to be whipt, and &s;ent with a pa&s;s from tithing to tithing.</P>
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<PB N="14" REF="8">
<HEAD>Sufferings of the Lords people in <HI>Sherburn</HI> and <HI>Longburton</HI> [in <HI>Dorcet-Shire.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>John Fits-Iames</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, a great per&s;ecutor of the Lords people, living at <HI>Lu&s;sone</HI> hou&s;e, in the Pari&s;h of <HI>Longburton,</HI> did &s;end <HI>Winyfred Winzer</HI> and <HI>Anne Colborne</HI> of his Pari&s;h, to the Bridwell in <HI>Sherburn,</HI> where they were kept many weeks, becau&s;e they would not come to the Seeple-hou&s;e; he did pretend fir&s;t it was becau&s;e they did not get them Ma&s;ters to live with, when one of them lived with her Aunt; but afterwards when they were to go to the Bridwell, the Officer told them, that if they would go to the Steeple-hou&s;e, which he called the Church, they &s;hould be freed; and after <HI>Anne Colborn</HI> was come to <HI>Sherburn,</HI> where the Bridwell was, the Officer that brought her there told her, that if &s;he would but go to the Steeple-hou&s;e there, there being that day a Lecture of the Prie&s;ts, then &s;he &s;hould go back again and be freed; &s;o that if we go not to the Ma&s;s-hou&s;e we are impri&s;o|ned, and if we are moved to go there, we are impri&s;oned al&s;o.</P>
<P>And al&s;o he cau&s;ed <HI>John Hide</HI> and <HI>Robert Hart</HI> to be taken up with his Warrant and brought before him, and impri&s;oned part of two dayes, and then put into the &s;tocks, becau&s;e they would not go to the Steeple-hou&s;e.</P>
<P>Another time <HI>John Hide, Robert Hart, John Scote; Abraham Farant</HI> and <HI>Samuel Atkins</HI> going to the meeting in <HI>Longburton,</HI> were taken up by his Warrant and brought before him, and kept Pri&s;oners, becau&s;e they would not go to the Steeple-hou&s;e, and after let go again.</P>
<P>And <HI>Francis Taylor</HI> being moved of the Lord to go to the Stee|ple-hou&s;e in <HI>Longburtone,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Fitts-Iames</HI> him&s;elf laid hands on him and thru&s;t him out, &s;aying if he would not got out, he would &s;end him to Pri&s;on:</P>
<P><HI>Francis Taylor</HI> coming there the &s;econd time upon another day to the Steeple hou&s;e, <HI>Iohn Fitts-Iames</HI> laid hands on him a|gain, and pulled him down to the ground, and then cau&s;ed him to be dragged by the heels, and then took him up and threw him forth into the portch, with much violence, that his head came fir&s;t to the &s;tones, and one of them cry|ed, knock him on the head, and then they took him up and threw him upon the graves, that many &s;uppo&s;ed he had been
<PB N="15" REF="8" MS="y">dead, yet <HI>Iohn Fitts-Iames</HI> commanded the people to throw him farther, and when few were &s;o mercile&s;s to abu&s;e him more, <HI>John Fitz-James</HI> took him up him&s;elf, and &s;o did help to hurle him into his fathers hou&s;e, and there threw him on the ground, and then &s;et a guard upon him, and &s;o made his fathers hou&s;e his pri&s;on; And when <HI>Francis Taylor</HI> went upon &s;ome outward occa&s;ion to the Prie&s;ts hou&s;e, who&s;e name is <HI>Sam|ways,</HI> he was moved with envy towards him, and having a profe&s;&s;or by him, who&s;e name is <HI>William Dighar,</HI> he beat him, and thru&s;t him out of his hou&s;e.</P>
<P>Upon the 22th day of the &s;eventh Month; 1657. <HI>Thomas Stickland</HI> and <HI>Francis Dumberfield</HI> of broad <HI>Saron,</HI> were com|manded to appear before <HI>Iohn Fitz-Iames, Walter Foy</HI> and <HI>Frane is Hollis</HI> called Ju&s;tices, at <HI>Robert Shepherds</HI> hou&s;e at a privy Se&s;&s;ions in broad <HI>Saron</HI> in the County of <HI>Dor&s;et,</HI> who there de|manded of them, why they did not come to the place called the Church? when they had given them a &s;ufficient an&s;wer to it, they committed them to Pri&s;on for wearing their hats in their pre|&s;ence; &s;o this was their &s;nare whereby to &s;end poor men to Pri|&s;on, making their <HI>mittimus</HI> for divers and &s;undry mi&s;demeanors committed in their pre&s;ence who &s;ent them to Pri&s;on, the next day being the 23th. day of the &s;eventh Month, 1657. and there remained pri&s;oners until the eighth day of the eighth Month, 1658 and then were brought to <HI>Brideport</HI> at the next general Se&s;&s;ions, and there by them called Ju&s;tices at the Se&s;&s;ions were fined two pounds a piece, for no other thing, but for not putting off their hats, and &s;o were &s;ent back to Pri&s;on again, they being two poor men, having five children a piece; who wrought with their hands to maintain them&s;elves, their wives and chil|dren, &amp; were taken from their labours and &s;ent to pri&s;on, becau&s;e they could not put off their hats and bow to proud men; Was not that the cau&s;e that proud <HI>Haman</HI> was wroth with <HI>Mor|decai,</HI> becau&s;e he could not bow to him? and <HI>Saul</HI> though a King or Magi&s;trate, yet when he broke the Command, was departed from the Righteous Law of God: then he &s;aid, honour me before the people; Thus they left their wives as widows, and many children to peri&s;h for wearing the hat, which was without Law or mercy.</P>
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<PB N="16" REF="9">
<HEAD>Sufferings of the Lords &s;ervants in <HI>Dorche&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Richard Fair-man</HI> and &s;ervant of the Lord, and Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, was pa&s;&s;ed through a place called <HI>Winfreth</HI> in <HI>Dorcet-&s;hire,</HI> being pa&s;&s;ing along towards his outward habitation, one <HI>Petfield</HI> Prie&s;t of <HI>Winefreth</HI> &s;ent a Watch-man after him on the high way, and fetched him back again, and carried him before <HI>Roger Cla|vil</HI> a Ju&s;tice, who &s;ent him to <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> Pri&s;on, where he re|mained in pri&s;on twenty weeks and more.</P>
<P><HI>Matthew Thomas</HI> a &s;ervant of the Lord, coming to <HI>Blandford,</HI> was &s;ent to <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> Pri&s;on, by one <HI>Major Dewye</HI> called a Ju|&s;tice.</P>
<P><HI>Anthony Meledge</HI> of <HI>Lime,</HI> went to <HI>Corfetown</HI> to vi&s;it his mo|ther a widow, and his friend <HI>Humphrey Smith</HI> with him, <HI>Hum|phrey Smith</HI> being declaring the Word of the Lord there in the hou&s;e, were by one Doctor <HI>Gibbons</HI> and <HI>Richard Iones</HI> di&s;turbed, who came with a Warrant, and carried them before <HI>Roger Cla|vil,</HI> and he &s;ent them both to <HI>Dorchester</HI> Pri&s;on, where they were pri&s;oners twenty weeks or above.</P>
<P>Upon the one and twentieth of the fourth Month, 1657. <HI>Bartholomew Lugg</HI> of <HI>Brideport</HI> came to a meeting of the Lords people to wait upon the Lord in <HI>Dorche&s;ter,</HI> the Con&s;tables came into the meeting and took <HI>Bartholomew Lugg</HI> out of the meeting, and carried him before <HI>Iohn Whiteway</HI> of that Town, called a Ju&s;tice, it being the fir&s;t day of the week, he did nothing to him but appointed him to come to him the next day, and when he came to the Hall, <HI>Iohn Whiteway</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, and <HI>Thomas Simons</HI> Mayor with others of the com|pany cau&s;ed <HI>Bartholomew Lugg</HI> to be whipped for breach of the Sabbath, as they &s;aid, and made him a pa&s;s the two and twentieth day of the afore&s;aid Month, and &s;ent him home from tithing to tithing, which is counted but twelve miles.</P>
<P>Upon the fir&s;t day of the fir&s;t Month, 1658. <HI>Elizabeth At|kins</HI> then living in South <HI>Periot,</HI> was &s;ent to Pri&s;on at <HI>Dor|che&s;ter</HI> the County Goal, by <HI>Walter Foy</HI> of <HI>Bubdown</HI> called a Ju|&s;tice, &s;he having been the fir&s;t day before, and the fir&s;t day two weeks before at the Steeple-hou&s;e in South <HI>Periot,</HI> where <HI>Ieremiah French</HI> the Prie&s;t being in his high place, and when he had done &s;he &s;pake &s;ome words to the people, then pre&s;ently <HI>Richard</HI> the Con&s;table took her up, and carried her away to an Ale-hou&s;e, and
<PB N="17" REF="9" MS="y">kept her pri&s;oner, &amp; the next day he carried her before <HI>Walter Foy</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, and <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> him&s;elf &s;wore before <HI>Walter Foy,</HI> that <HI>Elizabeth Atkins</HI> had di&s;turbed them the day before in their Steeple-hou&s;e, and that he was di&s;turbed as &s;oon as he &s;aw her come into the hou&s;e; wherefore <HI>Walter Foy</HI> &s;ent her to <HI>Dorchester</HI> Pri&s;on until the next &s;e&s;&s;ions which was kept at <HI>Sherburn,</HI> where &s;he was brought forth, where <HI>Jeremiah French</HI> Prie&s;t of South <HI>periot</HI> came and did &s;wear that &s;he had di&s;turbed him in his Steeple-hou&s;e; wherefore <HI>Wil. Hu&s;&s;ey</HI> Judge of that Court, who&s;e dwelling is at <HI>Shaston,</HI> with the re&s;t of them called Ju&s;tices, at the Se&s;&s;ions kept in the &s;e|cond moneth, 1658. did &s;end her to the Brid-well in <HI>Sherborn,</HI> there to be kept for &s;ix moneths.</P>
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<HEAD>Sufferings of the Lord People in <HI>Weymouth,</HI> and <HI>Milcom Regis.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ABout the 21 day of the 4 moneth in the year 56. <HI>Geo. Bayly</HI> a Servant of the Lord moved of the Lord, went into the Steeple-hou&s;e of <HI>Waymouth,</HI> &amp; <HI>Melcom Regis</HI> &amp; begining to &s;peak unto the people, he &s;aid, hear the word of the Lord God eter|nal; whereupon the rude people fell upon him and haled him forth, and then <HI>Thomas Waltham</HI> of <HI>Waymouth,</HI> and <HI>Milcom Re|gis</HI> afore&s;aid, being Mayor of the Town, committed him to pri|&s;on in that town, where they kept him three dayes and three nights, and then had him up into the Town Hall, where they asked him many idle, vain, frivolous que&s;tions; as what his name was, and where he was born, and how long he had been from home, and &s;uch like things, having not any crime to charge him with, nor the breach of any known Law; and yet notwith&s;tanding returned him to pri&s;on again, and the next day made him a <HI>mittimus</HI> and &s;ent him to the Pri&s;on in <HI>Dorchester</HI> it being the County Pri&s;on.</P>
<P>Upon the 16th day of the ninth moneth 1656. <HI>Ja&s;per Batt</HI> a Servant of the Lord, being moved of the Lord, went into the Steeple-hou&s;e of <HI>Waymouth</HI> and <HI>Melcom Regis,</HI> where he found <HI>George Thorn</HI> Prie&s;t of the &s;aid Town, in the chief &s;eat of the Synagogue, and demanding of him if he were a Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t, he an&s;wered he was, whereupon <HI>Ja&s;per</HI> bid him prove
<PB N="18" REF="10">his Mini&s;try, but he like a hireling fled away from his flock, who like a company of Lions fell upon him, and beat and ha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed him to pri&s;on, where he was detained until the evening, and then let him forth; he was committed by <HI>Thomas Waltham</HI> dep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y Mayor in the ab&s;ence of <HI>James Gare</HI> Mayor.</P>
<P>Upon the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">0th day of the tenth moneth 1656. <HI>John Scafe, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">field, R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hard Adams, Jo&s;iah C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> and <HI>John Allen</HI> Servants of the Lord, being moved of the Lord to go into the Steeple-hou&s;e of <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">th,</HI> to declare again&s;t the Idolatrous wor&s;hip, &amp; to declare the truth of that place, were (by &s;ome of the Prie&s;ts followers, who are &s;aid to be of a gathered Church) very de&s;picefully u&s;ed, being bearen and haled out of the a&s;&s;embly; and afterwards <HI>John Scafe</HI> a Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t being &s;peaking in the grave-yard to the people was plucked down from the place where he &s;tood by violent hands, and were all of them dragged through the market to the Town <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all, from whence they were committed to pri&s;on by <HI>James Gare</HI> Mayor of <HI>Weymouth,</HI> where they were kept all that day and might following, and the next day &s;et at liberty again.</P>
<P>About the &s;econd moneth, in the year 1657. <HI>Ambro&s;e Rig</HI> a Servant of the Lord and Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t coming to the town of <HI>Weymouth</HI> and <HI>Milcom Regis,</HI> was moved of the Lord to go into the Steeple-hou&s;e, where he &s;tood in &s;ilence until the Prie&s;t had done his exerci&s;e, and then beginning to &s;peak as he was moved of the Lord, the Prie&s;ts flock came upon him, haling, pulling, beating, and tearing his cloaths like &s;o ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s; and after they had put him forth of the A&s;&s;em|bly, they had him to the Town Hall, where they asked him di|vers frivilous que&s;tions, &amp; after this he was committed to pri&s;on in that Town by <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e</HI> Mayor of <HI>Waymouth</HI> and the next day towards the evening, an officer was &s;ent from the Mayor to the Pri&s;on to tell <HI>Ambro&s;e Ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> that if he would the next morn|ing depart out of the Town towards his home, and not trou|ble them any more, he &s;hould then have his liberty; but he being not free to make &s;uch a promi&s;e, he was then kept al&s;o that night in the &s;ame Pri&s;on, and the next morning came Officers from the Mayor with a <HI>mittimus</HI> under his hand to take him forth thence, and carry him to the Pri&s;on in <HI>Dorche|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> it being the County Pri&s;on which was accordingly done;
<PB N="19" REF="10" MS="y">&s;o that he was impri&s;oned becau&s;e he could not go out of the Town, who have not learned to entertain &s;trangers.</P>
<P>Upon the fourth day of the fir&s;t moneth 1658. <HI>Dorothy San|ders</HI> who&s;e outward habitation is in <HI>Weymouth,</HI> and <HI>Milcom Regis,</HI> was moved of the Lord to go into the Idol Temple in that &s;ame Town, to bear Te&s;timony again&s;t the Idol Wor&s;hip, and the Idol Shepherd, he being a &s;tranger who was exerci&s;ing in the high place that day, who &s;eeing her come in, his coun|tenance fell, and &s;he &s;tanding &s;ilent near a quarter of an hour, and hearing his vain prayer offered up from an evil heart (which is an abomination to the Lord) &s;he groaned in the &s;pirit, and he that prayed cea&s;ed; then <HI>George Thorn</HI> Prie&s;t of the Town &s;itting near that place called the Pulpit where the other Prie&s;t was exerci&s;ing, beckened with his hand to have her taken away, his flock being ready to fulfill the de&s;ire of their leader, who like unhumane bruit bea&s;ts fell upon her, and haled her out of the A&s;&s;embly, and &s;hut the doors after her, and being in the &s;treet waiting on the Lord what to do farther, &s;he could not depart without going in again, which accordingly &s;he did, and got up near the place where the Prie&s;t was, and as &s;he was beginning to &s;peak, the rude multitude fell on her as at the fri&s;t, and &s;topped her mouth, and hurled her out of the Steeple-hou&s;e, and then <HI>Stephen Edwards</HI> of <HI>Waymouth,</HI> and <HI>Milcom Regis</HI> who is called a Bayliff, and cho&s;en by the Town to have done ju&s;tice for that year, committed her to pri&s;on, where &s;he was kept until the &s;eventh day of the &s;ame moneth late at night, by which action <HI>Stephen Edwards,</HI> who is called an elder of the Prie&s;ts Church, did &s;ufficiently manife&s;t his &s;pirit of cruelty and per&s;ecution, for &s;he being a woman of a very weak body, and the weather &s;o exceeding cold, &s;he was brought &s;o low, that it was believed by all that came near her, that &s;he would have lain down the body, and had it not been that <HI>Stephen Edwards</HI> feared that &s;he would have died in pri&s;on, and &s;o her blood had lain upon his head, its likely &s;he had lain there long enough.</P>
<P><HI>Here you may &s;ee how they quench the &s;pirit of God, in the Daughters for Prophe&s;ying.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Sufferings of the Lords People in <HI>South-Periot.</HI></HEAD>
<P>UPon the &s;ixteenth day of the &s;ixth moneth 1657. <HI>John Gundry</HI> living in <HI>South-periot,</HI> was moved of the Lord to go to the Steeple-hou&s;e in <HI>South-periot</HI> (it being the fir&s;t day of the week) where <HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">remiah French</HI> is Prie&s;t; who then being in his high place, when he had ended and was come down out of his high place, <HI>John Gundry</HI> &s;pake to the Prie&s;t, and to the people in the Name and &s;ear of the Lord, warning them to repent|ance; and while <HI>John Gundry</HI> was &s;peaking to the people, the Prie&s;t ran violently again&s;t him and &s;truck him, and then like a hireling fled away, and the next day <HI>Edward Ireland</HI> a Tith|ing man in that Pari&s;h came with a warrant from one <HI>Walter Foy</HI> called a Ju&s;tice living at <HI>Bubdown,</HI> having a company with him with Pike and &s;taves, and took him up, and carried him the next day before <HI>Walter Foy</HI> at the Lecture of the Prie&s;t at <HI>Yea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> where <HI>Jeremiah French</HI> Prie&s;t, and <HI>Richard Far<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ham</HI> one of his di&s;ciples came and &s;wore that <HI>John Gundry</HI> had di|&s;turbed him, <HI>Jeremiah French,</HI> the Prie&s;t, the fir&s;t day before (in his Idol Temple) wherefore <HI>Water Foy</HI> committed him to <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er</HI> pri&s;on until the next general Se&s;&s;ions, but he being &s;ick in the pri&s;on where he indured a great &s;ickne&s;&s;e, even near unto death, was not brought forth until the &s;econd Se&s;&s;i|ons after, in the eleventh moneth, kept at <HI>Blandford,</HI> where the Prie&s;t <HI>Jeremiah French,</HI> and <HI>Edward Ireland</HI> that was the Tithing man that took <HI>John Gundry</HI> up, appeared there at the Se&s;&s;ions again&s;t <HI>John Gundry,</HI> and an indictment was framed, and <HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn Gundry</HI> called and his indictment read, which was fal&s;e (here the Prie&s;t manife&s;ted his fruits, and Chri&s;t &s;aid that by their fruits you &s;hall know them) fir&s;t he broke the command of Chri&s;t, who &s;aid <HI>&s;wear not at all, Mat.</HI> 5.35. and al&s;o to &s;wear to a fal&s;e indictment; and then <HI>William Hu&s;sey</HI> who&s;e dwelling is at <HI>Sha&s;tone</HI> called Judge of the Court, with the re&s;t of them called Ju&s;tices, fined <HI>John Gundry</HI> 40. s. to the Protector, &amp; 40. s. to <HI>Jeremiah French</HI> (here the Prie&s;t covets for money) who &s;at at the bench among them called Ju&s;ti|ces, while <HI>John Gundry</HI> was before them, <HI>John Gundry</HI> was &s;ent to Pri&s;on by <HI>Walter Foy</HI> for going to the Steeple-hou&s;e, and at
<PB N="21" REF="11" MS="y">the Se&s;&s;ions an indictment framed and read again&s;t him as to that effect, for breaking the Law, in mole&s;ting, hindering, and di&s;turbing Mr. <HI>Jeremiah French,</HI> Mini&s;ter, but when he was brought before them, then they called Ju&s;tices, &s;aid he &s;tood in contempt of the Court, and &s;o fined him, although he &s;tood &s;ober before them, being brought forth before them by the Keeper of the Pri&s;on, <HI>John Gundry</HI> was called, and his indict|ment read the 15th day of the eleventh moneth 1657. the &s;ame day the Prie&s;t <HI>Jerem. French,</HI> and <HI>Ed. Ireland</HI> rode towards their home (before <HI>John Gundry</HI> was fined, for after that the indict|ment was read, and &s;ome words had pa&s;t from them called Ju|&s;tces, J<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Gundry</HI> was put by again, and not called until the 7th. day of the eleventh moneth 57 and then fined forty &s;hillings to the Protector, 40 &s;hillings to <HI>Jerem. French</HI> the Prie&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> South-<HI>Periot,</HI> or el&s;e to lie in pri&s;on until he pay it, and as they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e riding homeward through a Town called <HI>Ever&s;hot, Edward Ireland</HI> that was a tithing man, reported that <HI>Iohn Gundry</HI> would be &s;ent to pri&s;on, who came home to his hou&s;e, and the eighteenth day of the &s;ame moneth being the &s;eventh day of that week, in the evening the Lord &s;truck the &s;aid. <HI>Edward Ireland</HI> dead &s;uddenly in his hou&s;e, which &s;truck a dread in many who had a hand in per&s;ecuting the Lords people, and e&s;pecially one <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> the Con&s;table of that &s;ame place, a wicked envious man, who hath often and mali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iou&s;ly per&s;ecuted the Lords People in that place, as afterwards will appear; this <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> came into <HI>Edward Irelands</HI> hou&s;e to &s;ee him at the cry of the people, and when he was come into the hou&s;e, the dread of the Lord fell upon him al&s;o, and he fell down even as dead in the hou&s;e; then many of the people that were gathered together there ran about him to &s;hake him up, and after much &s;triving and &s;tirring, he recovered to live again, (his mea&s;ure of wickedne&s;&s;e being not yet full) but the dread of the Lord lay on him, &s;o that he was &s;ick for &s;ome time after it, and then for a time the Lords people had re&s;t from this cruel per&s;ecutor, who when he was again recovered to health, &s;oon after forgot the hand of the Lord that fell upon him, and went on maliciou&s;ly to per&s;ecute the Lords innocent people again.</P>
<P>Upon the ninth day of the &s;eventh moneth 1657. there was
<PB N="22" REF="12">a meeting of the Lords people to wait upon the Lord at the hou&s;e of <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> in South-<HI>Periot,</HI> and after the meeting was ended, many Friends not being pa&s;t away, there came <HI>Edward Ireland</HI> the Tithing man, and the a forenamed <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> with &s;everal others, having a warrant from one <HI>Wal|ter Foy</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, to apprehend all Rogues, Vagrants, wandering per&s;ons and &s;trangers, that cannot give a good ac|count of any worldly occa&s;ions for their travel, and under pretence of this warrant, they came into the hou&s;e of <HI>Samuel Curtis,</HI> and &s;o made a di&s;turbance among&s;t many &s;ober men, and did there examine &s;everal of the Lords People as Rogues and Vagrants, becau&s;e they were &s;trangers to them (when the Apo&s;tle &s;aith be careful to entertain &s;trangers, <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.2. and the Lord commanded the Jews that they &s;hould not vex the &s;tranger, nor oppre&s;&s;e him, <HI>Exod.</HI> 22.21. being much &s;et on by <HI>Ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd Far<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">m</HI> again&s;t them, and when he could not f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd any thing to be evil in them, but was made to confe&s;&s;e with his mouth in the hou&s;e before many people, that he did believe that they were hone&s;t men, and that they did look like hone&s;t me, yet this man <HI>Edward Ireland</HI> examined them where they d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, who gave him an account, yet neverthe|le&s;&s;e he told them, <HI>viz.</HI> the Lords people, that he had a war|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ant to apprehend Rogues, Vagrants, wanderers and &s;tran|g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and they were &s;trangers to him, and by his warrant he mu&s;t apprehend them although he confe&s;t that he did believe that they were hone&s;t men) and &s;o &s;aid that they mu&s;t go with him to the Ale-hou&s;e that night, unle&s;&s;e that they would pa&s;s t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eir words to him to be forth comming the next morning; but they told him that they &s;hould not promi&s;e him any &s;uch thing, but they w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> free men or p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;oners, and if he had any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> to &s;ay to h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m, they were there then, and as for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">a&s;ion to pa&s;&s;e away in the morning <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arly if they were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">hed; &s;o that if he had ought to ac|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen pre&s;ent, but as for his war|ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;uch people as his warrant <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> did h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters">ant concern them in the lea&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Curtis</HI> to have pa&s;ted his word that they &s;hould be forth-coming in the morning, but he re|fu&s;ed (here this wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ed man would have numbred the Lords
<PB N="23" REF="12" MS="y">Servants who had been at a meeting of the Lords people, among Rogues, Vagrants, and wanderers; but the &s;ervant is not greater then his Lord, for the captain of our &s;alvation was numbred among tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors) but this wicked man being confounded in him&s;elf (although much &s;et on by <HI>Richard <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ham</HI> an envious per&s;ecutor of the Lords people) he went away, &s;aying, he did believe they were hone&s;t men; yet neverthele&s;&s;e the next day early in the morning, the&s;e men, <HI>Edward Ireland</HI> a Tithing man, and <HI>Richard Faraham</HI> gathered together in the &s;treet with &s;ome other, and <HI>Hannah Guier</HI> one of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ords people, who had been there at the meeting then, and that night lay at a Friends hou&s;e in <HI>South Perint,</HI> &s;he being that morning going to <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> his hou&s;e to &s;ee friends there, and &s;o to pa&s;&s;e away to her outward being, which was but five miles from <HI>Sou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h-periot</HI> at a place called Ea&s;t-<HI>Cokar,</HI> tho&s;e wicked men being in the &s;treet (as men that hunt for blood) they took up <HI>Hannah Guier</HI> and brought her to <HI>Samuel <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> his hou&s;e, and when they &s;aw that the Lords Servants there were pa&s;&s;ed away (who&s;e names were <HI>Ja&s;per Bat, John Petman, John Collins, John A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en John Day</HI>) then <HI>Richard Farn|ham</HI> was in a wicked rage, and threatened the Tithing-man that it &s;hould co&s;t him five pounds, becau&s;e he had not the la&s;t night &s;ecured them, the Lords People, which had been there at a meeting, and met together to wait upon the Lord; then the Tithing-man got two men with him, <HI>viz Henry Gray</HI> a Bai|ly that goes about to arre&s;t men, and one <HI>Ge&s;ting Guppy,</HI> and draged her along by the arms through dirt and water, and halled her over gates and &s;tiles that were in their way as they carried her to a Town called <HI>Bemi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er</HI> about three miles from <HI>Periot,</HI> it being a very wet and rainy day, and that day at <HI>Bemi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ter</HI> was a private Se&s;&s;ions, where &s;at <HI>Edward Butler</HI> of <HI>Romer</HI> hou&s;e, and <HI>Edward C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ieck</HI> of <HI>Gabr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> called Ju&s;tices; before whom they brought <HI>Hannah Guier,</HI> where came the Prie&s;t <HI>Jere|miah Fren<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> al&s;o, and when they, called Ju&s;tices, had examined <HI>Hannal Guier,</HI> and &s;he having given them an account of her bu&s;ine&s;&s;e at <HI>South-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t</HI> which was to come there to a meet|ing of the Lords people, coming to wait upon the Lord, and &s;he had been at the meeting, and &s;he was going to &s;ee her Friends at <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> his hou&s;e, and &s;o to pa&s;&s;e away to her
<PB N="24" REF="13">outward being, forthwith for which cau&s;e, they called Ju&s;ti|ces, <HI>Edward Chu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> and <HI>Edward Butler</HI> made her a pa&s;&s;e, and &s;ent her back to <HI>South-Periot</HI> again, and from thence to be &s;ent home to <HI>Ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ok<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> five miles from <HI>South-Periot,</HI> from Tith|ing to Tithing as a Vagrant and wandering per&s;on, not be|ing able to give any account of any worldly occa&s;ions for her travelling, as in her pa&s;&s;e is &s;et down; here by the&s;e men the Lords people are accu&s;ed for wanderes, and called Vagrants for going five miles from their outward being to a meeting to wait upon the Lord.</P>
<P>Upon the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">th day of the ninth moneth 1657. there was a meeting of the Lords people, to wait upon the Lord at the hou&s;e of <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> in <HI>South-Periot,</HI> after the meeting was ended, &s;ome friends being pa&s;&s;ed away, and many being be|hind in the hou&s;e which were ready to pa&s;&s;e away; <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> then being Con&s;table, came into the hou&s;e with a company with him, and al&s;o one <HI>John Lane</HI> a bloody man, who &s;aid we are a company of people not fit to live upon the earth, and the &s;aid <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> laid violent hands upon <HI>Nich<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">odworth,</HI> a friend that was there of the meeting, and haled him out of the hou&s;e, &amp; dragged him to his own hou&s;e, where he kept him a pri&s;oner; and then he came again to the hou&s;e of <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> the &s;econd time with his rude company, and exa|mined <HI>Robert G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le,</HI> another friend what his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was there that day, he an&s;wered, that he came there to the meeting of the Lords people) to wait upon the Lord, then <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> demanded of him a better account; then <HI>Robert Giles</HI> asked him whether that was not a &s;ufficient account for him to come to the meeting to wait upon the Lord, then <HI>Richard Far|nam</HI> &s;aid that it was a &s;ufficient account whereupon, he was at a &s;tand, and yet neverthele&s;&s;e pre&s;ently after, with rage he laid hands on <HI>Robert Giles</HI> to hale him forth out of the hou&s;e, then <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> de&s;ired to know of <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> where he had a warrant for what he did, &s;o to come into his hou&s;e in &s;uch a manner and hale his friends out of his hou&s;e? but he an|&s;wered him he &s;hould not know whether he had a warrant or not, then <HI>Sam. Curtis</HI> told him he ought to &s;hew his warrant for coming into his hou&s;e in &s;uch a manner, but <HI>R. Farnham</HI> &s;aid he would not; then <HI>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mas King</HI> one of the &s;ame Pari&s;h, who&s;e
<PB N="25" REF="13" MS="y">dwelling is in <HI>South-Periot,</HI> &s;aid it was but a rea&s;onable thing for him to &s;hew his warrant; Then <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> asked <HI>Thomas King</HI> whether he would re&s;i&s;t him, who an|&s;wered he would not re&s;i&s;t him; then in his madne&s;&s;e he laid his hands on ROBERT GILES and THOMAS KING both and haled them out of the hou&s;e, and carried them to his own hou&s;e, where the other Friend was, and &s;et a guard upon them, and kept them pri&s;oners for near an hour, then he came again the third time to SAMUEL CUR|TIS his hou&s;e, the doors being &s;hut, and never demanded to come into his hou&s;e, but violently drew open his doors and came in, and ran up and down his hou&s;e with his rude company after him through his chambers and other rooms; and then SAMUEL CURTIS demanded of him where he had a warrant for what he did, for doing &s;uch things in his hou&s;e; Then <HI>Richard Farnham</HI> an&s;wered and &s;aid, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e tell thee that another time, and when he had hunted up and down his hou&s;e as one that hunted for blood, as if he could not be &s;atisfied &s;oon enough, he pa&s;&s;ed away and went to his hou&s;e again, and after a little time he called N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">CHO<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">AS Woo WORTH, and ROBERT GILES apart one at a time, and read an old warrant that he had got which did belong to a former Tithing man the year before, which Tithing man was out of his office, and the warrant was for the apprehending of Rogues, Vagrants, and &s;trangers that could not give a good account of their Worldly bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, and with this old warrant he came to abu&s;e and di|&s;turb the Lords people, who had met together to wait up|on the Lord, and then pretended he had a warrant to co|ver him in his wickedne&s;&s;e, but his covering is too narrow, it is &s;een thorow in this the day of the Lord, it will not cover him, for <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> and all his Generation is &s;een, their coverings will hide them no longer; but at la&s;t, let them all three go again, having nothing to &s;ay to either of them, nor ought to accu&s;e them of.</P>
<P>Upon the the twenty fourth day of the eighth moneth 1657. being the &s;eventh day of the week, HUMPHERY SMITH came to <HI>South-Periot</HI> to the hou&s;e of SAMUEL CURTIS
<PB N="26" REF="14" MS="y">he being then riding towards <HI>Exmi&s;ter</HI> in <HI>Devon</HI>-&s;hire to a meeting there near the Town, at a place called <HI>&V;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hay,</HI> and S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">MU<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">L CU<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">IS rode with him the next day being the fir&s;t day of the week, had there a peaceable meeting among&s;t many, in whom there is m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch de&s;ires after the li|ving truth of God; and the next morning being the &s;e|cond day of the week, SAMUel CURTIS was to return to <HI>Chard</HI> Market to buy commodities that he wanted for his trade, he being a clothier, and being pa&s;&s;ed forth of the Town on his way towards, <HI>Chard</HI> and his friend <HI>Humphe|ry</HI> SMITH with him, there came a wicked man from <HI>Hauck-Church</HI> riding with much violence, and a Tithing-man behind him with a warrant from <HI>Thomas Bampfield</HI> of <HI>Polety|more</HI> hou&s;e in <HI>Devon-&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re,</HI> to apprehend HUMPHERY SMITH, and any vagrant per&s;on wandering in his company, where|by they were both brought back to <HI>Exmi&s;ter</HI> again, and car|ried to a place called <HI>Bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">-Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> (about &s;ix miles from <HI>South-Periot</HI>) where <HI>John Hodder</HI> Prie&s;t of <HI>Hauck-Church,</HI> &amp; <HI>Thomas Bampfield</HI> called a Ju&s;tice came, who con&s;ulting together, <HI>T. Bampfield</HI> examined where they had been, they told him at a meeting of the Lords people to wait upon the Lord; then he demanded where they were going, and SAMUEL CURTIS told him he was going to <HI>Chard</HI> Market, and from thence to <HI>South Periot</HI> his outward dwelling place, and his friend HUMPHERY SMITH with him, yet neverle&s;&s;e al|though he had not any thing to accu&s;e them of, he com|manded the Con&s;table to &s;trip them both naked, and whipt them for vagrant per&s;ons, and then he would make each of them a pa&s;&s;e, and &s;end them home from Tithing to Tithing; Then SAMUEL CURTIS being a Clothier, and but &s;even miles from his outwad habitation, asked <HI>Thomas Bampfield,</HI> how, or by what law he could make him a Va|grant per&s;on, and &s;o to whip him, he being a trads-man, and going on his way to <HI>Chard</HI> Market on purpo&s;e to buy things which he wanted in his trade, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Curtis</HI> being a man of e&s;tate; <HI>Bampfield</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, &s;aid he would do it (<HI>viz</HI> have him whipt for a vagrant) and then he &s;hould take his remedy again&s;t him afterward; &s;o they were both
<PB N="27" REF="14" MS="y">whipt naked to the midle, &amp; in a clo&s;e by the hou&s;e where were many people, and &s;ome &s;eeing it &s;aid, that if this were the liberty that they had &s;o long fought for, they had fought for a liberty indeed, to be taken up on the high way going to market &amp; whipt, and &s;o &s;ent home with a pa&s;s for vagrants; &s;aying al&s;o, if they do this already, what will they do next? SAMU<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">L CU<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">TIS being known therea|bouts, both to the man of the hou&s;e and &s;everal others, the man of the hou&s;e who&s;e name is <HI>Robert Buridge</HI> who was much troubled to &s;ee &s;uch actions, which being done, one good book, and many good papers were taken from us, and mo&s;t of them burnt by <HI>Thomas Bampfield,</HI> who com|manded the Con&s;table to take them from us, and they took from <HI>Samuel Curtis</HI> &s;everal notes which were his ac|counts, but they gave him his accounts again, but many good papers which <HI>Thomas Bampfield</HI> had taken from them which were for &s;preading abroad of the truth, <HI>Thomas Bampfield,</HI> burnt in the fire, and then although one way did lead to the place of their abode, as he called it, yet he &s;ent SAMUEL one way, and HUMPHERY another, with each of them a pa&s;&s;e, and Officers from Tithing to Tith|ing, the place where they were whipped being &s;ix or &s;even miles from SAMU<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">L CURTIS outward dwelling hou&s;e; the copie of his pa&s;&s;e as followeth.</P>
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<P><Q>SAMUEL CURTIS of <HI>South-Periot</HI> in the County of <HI>Dor&s;et</HI> Cloathier of a middle &s;tature, black hair, aged about forty years, was taken vagrant, and wan|dering at <HI>Exm<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> in the &s;aid County of <HI>Devon</HI> this pre&s;ent day being the 26th day of <HI>Octob.</HI> 1657 and was then, and there Lawfully whipped therefore, and he is appointed to be carried from Tithing to Tithing by the re&s;pective officers to <HI>South-Periot</HI> in the afore|&s;aid County of <HI>Dor&s;et</HI> which is (as he &s;aith) the place of his abode, and he is to go by <HI>Mar&s;hal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">-hay,</HI> and &s;o to <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd&s;or</HI> and is allotted till to morrow nine of the clock and no more, at his peril, given under my
<PB N="28" REF="15">hand and &s;eal this 26th of <HI>October</HI> 1657. <HI>Thomas Bamp|field.</HI></Q></P>
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<P>This <HI>Bampfield</HI> was Speaker in a late Parliament.</P>
<P>PETER MABER, and GEORGE HARIS dwelling in <HI>Black|more</HI> in <HI>Dor&s;et-&s;hire,</HI> were both committed to pri&s;on by <HI>John Fitz-James,</HI> and <HI>Walter Foy</HI> called <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;tices, for no other thing they had to charge them with, but for not putting off the hat before them at the fiting at the Crown in <HI>Sher|burn</HI> the twenty third day of the &s;eventh moneth, 1658. as followeth.</P>
<P>They with &s;ome others, a little time before they were committed to pri&s;on, were at the town of <HI>Sherburn,</HI> where HUMPHERY SMITH a Servant of the Lord and Mini&s;ter of Je&s;us Chri&s;t had a meeting, where they were unhumane|ly abu&s;ed by a rude multitude, they not re&s;i&s;ting any in the lea&s;t, were dawbed with dirt and dung and the filth of the Town, and many great &s;tones ca&s;t at them, &s;ome their heads broak, &s;ome thrown down on the ground, many hundreds compa&s;&s;ing them about with great &s;houts and houps, following them into a hou&s;e, they being not wil|ling to go forth, lea&s;t there &s;hould have been more blood &s;hed, tarried all night in the hou&s;e; they like the <HI>Sodomites</HI> compa&s;&s;ing the hou&s;e about, laying wait at the bridge mo&s;t part of that night.</P>
<P><HI>John Chaffen</HI> a Captain in <HI>Sherburn</HI> he hearing of the up|roar, and how the peace was broken (he not being at home that day) and one of his Sons very much abu&s;ed, he got a warrant from <HI>John Fitz-James,</HI> and <HI>Walter Foy;</HI> then <HI>John Chaffen</HI> &s;ent to them <HI>Peter Mabber</HI> and <HI>George Haris</HI> to come before them to te&s;tifie how they were abu&s;ed, who being free born in the Nation, and being not willing to be murdered by con&s;ent, went but to lay the thing before them, for <HI>John Fitz-James</HI> told them he would execute ju&s;tice upon the evil doers, but they told him that they came, not thither to have them puni&s;hed, but did freely forgive them all as they then declared, yet becau&s;e they did not put off their hats, they were &s;ent to pri&s;on, and
<PB N="29" REF="15" MS="y">they at liberty that abu&s;ed them, and made the uproar.</P>
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<P><Q>WE &s;end you herewith all the bodies of <HI>Peter Maber</HI> and <HI>George Haris,</HI> who were both required to put in &s;ureties for the good behaviour and appearance at the next general Se&s;&s;ions of the peace for this county, to an&s;wer divers and &s;undry mi&s;demeanours committed by them in our pre&s;ence, and they refu&s;ing &s;o to do, the&s;e are therefore to require you to take them into your &s;afe cu&s;tody, &s;o that they may an&s;wer the premi|&s;es at the Se&s;&s;ions afore&s;aid.</Q></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our hands and Seals <DATE>the twenty third day of <HI>Sep.</HI> 1657.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Fitz-James, Walter Foy.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The &s;eventh day of the eighth moneth 1657. they appeared before ten or eleven of them called Ju&s;tices at the general Se&s;&s;ions at <HI>Bride-port;</HI> when they were fir&s;t cal|ed forth to the bar, they cau&s;ed the cryer to &s;ay, that this Court did charge and commanded all manner of per&s;ons to be uncovered in the face of the Court, they &s;tanding as before, becau&s;e they did not put off their hats, they called Ju&s;tices, &s;aid that they were not &s;ubject to authority, PETER MABER &s;aid that they were &s;ubject to the Law, and that they were bound over to an&s;wer the Law without a Law; they &s;aid, if they would not &s;ubmit to the Court, they would proceed again&s;t them as contemners of Authority; <HI>Peter Maber</HI> &s;aid, to the Law they would be &s;ubject, but to their will they could not; then they read an indictment that they had framed again&s;t them; and were judges &amp; witne&s;&s;es them&s;elves, &amp; they bid them hold their peace, &amp; asked them whether they were gilty when they had broke no Law, then they &s;aid, they did know no Law that they had broke, &amp; how could they be guilty? they asked a|gain by whom they would be tryed; PETER MABER &s;aid, they had no need to be tryed, except they had broken the law; then they de&s;ired the &s;tatute might be read that
<PB N="30" REF="16">they had broke, they &s;aid they had a commi&s;&s;ion from the Lord-Protector; then they read &s;omething to them, but to fine them for not putting off the hat was not in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, then they fined GEORGE HARIS ten pound, and PETER MABER five pound.</P>
<P>But before they were all agreed upon it, there was much whi&s;pering one to another, and to the Recorder, with much lightne&s;&s;e and laughter, one of them who&s;e name is <HI>Francis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">is</HI> kept his hand before his mouth, that his laughter might not be &s;een, and <HI>Roger Clavi,</HI> one of them called Ju&s;tices, cryed often give them the oath (as if one &s;nare at a time were not enough) then they read the udge|ment that they had pa&s;&s;ed on them, &amp; read their names in a confu&s;ed manner, calling them by other nams; then they which before laughed at them, laughed one at another to hear them called out of their names, and &s;o made &s;port of the innocent; their <HI>m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ttimu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> was made by a Quarterma&s;ter of the late Kings army, who is often imployed to be their Clerk, and they who ever have been faithful to the States, having much arrears behind, have this for their re|ward.</P>
<P><HI>Dewens Morry</HI> being moved to go to the publick meeting in the Pari&s;h of Haw Church, in the County of <HI>Dor&s;e,</HI> upon the 2 th day of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">th mouth 65<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Where <HI>John Hodder</HI> Pari&s;h teacher, prayed that they might walk holy, as Chri&s;t walked, with more words to the like purpo&s;e; when he had ended his exerci&s;e, &s;hee was moved to ask him whether he did believe that it was po&s;&s;ible to be attained to what he had prayed for: at the fir&s;t he have her no an&s;wer as &s;hee remembers; then &s;hee asked him again, and he an&s;wered, I might: then &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e mention d that he had prayed, that they might walk as Chri&s;t had walked holy; to which he an|&s;wered, That they had a promi&s;e for it, he granted that they might &s;o walk in a proportion: &s;hee &s;aid that Chri&s;ts wal was without &s;in, Chri&s;ts walk was a perfect walk, and that he had owned perfection: Further &s;hee &s;aith, &s;hee ha|ving
<PB N="31" REF="16" MS="y">received a me&s;&s;age from the Lord of Ho&s;ts for to de|clare among them, as &s;hee was declaring of it, the &s;aid <HI>John Hodder</HI> was &s;peaking of Officers, and before that &s;hee was gone out of the Publick Hou&s;e, he &s;aid that he was &s;orry that the Officers had no more care; &s;hee went away to a friends Hou&s;e, where &s;hee had lodged the night before, where &s;hee had not been long before; one of the Officers came thither, and que&s;tioned <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er concerning her &s;peaking in the Publick, and told her that &s;hee mu&s;t an&s;wer it; &s;o he went away again, after dinner he came again, and brought the Act with him, by vertue of which he command|ed her to go with him, which command &s;he obeyed; &s;o he would have her to go into the &s;aid <HI>John Hodders</HI> Hou&s;e, which &s;he did; but <HI>John Hodder</HI> was much inraged for it, and &s;aid that he had nothing to &s;ay to her, and that he was not to receive &s;uch into his Hou&s;e; and gave the Officer a charge of her, and bid her go out of his doors; &s;o &s;hee was kept Pri&s;oner part of that day, at a Hou&s;e where there was Bear to be &s;old, afterwards &s;he was let go to the friends Hou&s;e again untill the next morning, then &s;hee was com|pelled for to go about &s;ome 6. miles, to one of them called Ju&s;tices, where the &s;aid <HI>John Hodder</HI> came for to accu&s;e her, where he complained that &s;hee had much di&s;turbed his Congregation, &s;o &s;hee demanded of him what evill &s;hee had done? he told her that a Woman mu&s;t not &s;peak in the Church; &s;hee denied it to be the voyce of the Woman that &s;pake, &s;hee &s;aid it was the voyce of the Spirit of God that &s;pake; &s;hee asked him what Law <HI>Paul</HI> had for a Woman if &s;hee did &s;pake in the Church? he told her that <HI>Paul</HI> had no Law, but that <HI>Paul</HI> did wi&s;h that he had had a Law: &s;o after many more words had pa&s;t both with him, and him called Ju&s;tice, it was ordered that &s;he &s;hould go back again to Haw-Church that night, and there &s;hee was to be whipt untill the bloud did come, which thing was done the next morn|ing early, &s;hee received many cruel bloudy &s;tripes, and &s;o was &s;ent home with a Pa&s;s from Tithing to Tithing. But the bloud of her and many more, will not &s;atisfie the Prie&s;ts.</P>
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<P> Behold the wicked &s;hall be as chaffe, and the Enemies of the Lamb as du&s;t, for ever a perpetual &s;hame &s;hall cover them all for ever, and the Lambs &s;hall &s;pring up and flouri&s;h in the power of the Fathers love, and the devourer &s;hall cea&s;e, and the faithfull &s;hall multiply, and righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e &s;hall flouri&s;h for ever, and a bed of torment is prepared for the per&s;ecu|tors, and all the wicked who&s;e day is come.</P>
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