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A84839	The West answering to the North in the fierce and cruel persecution of the manifestation of the Son of God, as appears in the following short relation of the unheard of, and inhumane sufferings of Geo. Fox, Edw. Pyot, and William Salt at Lanceston in the county of Cornwall, and of Ben. Maynard, Iames Mires, Ios. Coale, Ia. Godfrey, Io. Ellice, and Anne Blacking, in the same gaole, town, and county. And of one and twenty men, and women taken up in the space of a few dayes on the high wayes of Devon, ... Also a sober reasoning in the law with Chief Justice Glynne concerning his proceedings ... And a legall arraignment for the indictment of the hat, ... And many other materiall and strange passages at their apprehensions and tryals ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1988; Thomason E900_3; ESTC R202187	140,064	174

those who come to visit them the Letters he finds on such he breaks open and detains as he pleaseth their Cloaths and Pockets he searcheth and rifles their persons he abuseth with filthy and unsavory expressions he searched a womans head for Letters with his own hands taking her fowl Cloaths out of her Hat and searching them also A Cheese sent to Edward Pyott the Gaoler violently took away saying he would carry it to the Mayors for therefore was the Watch and Ward set at every Gate to stop all things that should go to and from them which is not restored to this day And William Salt after his being taken by order of the Sessions out of that noysome poysonous hole called Domesdale where he had been ill in his body walking to Poulsons Bridge that parts Devon and Cornwall being a mile or thereabouts out of the town to take the wholesome ayr upon encouragement thereof and of Captain Bradens having given securitie for their true Imprisonment for that very end that they might not be closely restrained and cruelly used as they had been by the Gaoler This Mayor having notice thereof caused to be taken and brought before him having set out Scouts and Watches to meet him at his return and having himself rifled his Pockets and taken away his Letters to the darke house he committed him telling him he would shew him a Law to morrow and after he had lyen two nights and a day there by his order sent for him and scoffed him and asked him whether he would go into Devonshire again and so sent him to the Gaoler who was a Prisoner in the County prison a prisoner upon security for his true Imprisonment over whom the Mayor had no power but the same Spirit of crueltie ruling in him against the Innocent as in the Gaoler he seeks and takes every opportunitie to manifest it and in this merciless act hath exceeded the Gaolers unreasonable practice and inhumane brutishness But by that time he comes to understand by feeling the wages of his unrighteousness what he hath done herein and in the disturbing of peaceable people in their travelling searching them and breaking open their Letters taking away and detaining their Books and Papers and misusing them as hath been said he will have little cause to boast or glory but the contrary And thus from this Gaoler Recorder and Mayor have the Innocent suffered without mercy These are they who have joyned hand in hand together to make up the threefold Cord of their cruell persecution He that reads what hath been rehearsed of these three may see their faces hearts and hands one and the same as is the Spirit that rules them The first causeth them to suffer the second helps on and then laughs at their sufferings on the seat of judgement instead of doing them right The third reacheth forth his hand to make them further to suffer where the two former cannot But the Recorder is the Counsellor from him proceeds the encouragement and strength of the other two This is he as is said that was one of the secluded Members of the long Parliament who after the Kings death being asked in whose name the Orders of Court should pass answered in the name of T. Gewen Esquire Recorder of Lanceston when as the Act of Parliament said In the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England who in disdaine and scorn asked who they were Who in the last Parliament was very zealous for a King and a House of Lords The Mayor is he who was once put by that office for his disaffection to the Common-wealth and the prisoners in their day having borne their testimony against those interests as they do now against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness no wonder if at their hands they receive all manner of cruelties now that they are put under their feet and delivered up as a prey and a scorn to all who as to the interest of the Common-wealth to which they firmly stood could not be overcome by the Sword or War but overcame the Interests that these men pursued and therein these men and all their Accomplices And no wonder to see such men as these creeping into places of power thereby to have their opportunities of revenge on such and of making the Government under which they are to stink and become intollerable because of oppression and crueltie and of separating between those who are chief in Rule and their former constant friends And is it not a fair game thus to play whilst it passeth undescerned acting under the power of authoritie which when it is become sufficiently naked weak and abort'd if a blow then come it may be sure to hit and repentance may be too late Men walk not in such mystery in these dayes but they are easily discerned as opportunitie serveth their old interest appears to lie in the bottome sure and unmoveable though their faces look another way thither they rowe hath it not very lately appeared so throughout England is it not a fair warning Ethiopians cannot change their Skin nor Leopards their spots Let not men be mistaken so they shall find it In the sufferings of these Innocent servants of the Lord who have been thorougly faithfull to the Common-wealth mentioned in this relation in this County of Cornwall appear no less than two of the eleven Members whom the Army impeached viz. John Glynne then Recorder of London dismist of that place as an enemy to the Common-wealth and Army now Chief Justice of the upper Bench and Anthony Nicholls who knows how much he had a hand in bri●gi●g in the Scotch Army in 1648. into England and how well known it was then as was his other actions and its like may remember who it was that was proclaimed a Traytor by the Army and sought after as such a one who its like should be called to a strict account for what he hath now done to the innocent con●rary to Law would flie from it himself and lay it on the back of the Priests as he did the former when the Army had him Prisoner To whom he said that the Priests laying it upon them in the Parliament as no less than damnation that such a Company of Hereticks and Schismaticks as were the Army should pass into Ireland which lay then viz. the honest interest in a sad bleeding and dying posture was the reason of what they did and of their attempt to break the Army which they endeavoured under the pretence of the relief thereof and placing such Officers for conduct as might serve that end under whom they knew the Souldiery would not engage Yet this man now oh how warme is he how secure doth he think himself under the Government of the Army and the Chief Officers thereof Two inn●cent men he sent to prison who have suffered as hath been in part related with the cause of their suffering under which they yet lye and whosoever comes

smiting your friends you will not have Christ to reign you will not have sin to reign in your markets and streets and if they reprove sin in the gate he is made a prey upon that doth it you will have pleasures to reign and not have them reproved he is called a mad man among you that doth reprove you or a fool you will not have drunkards reproved nor swearers nor cursed speakers in the ale-houses or in the streets abroad but he is looked upon to be a peace-breaker or a gatherer of tumults And here you may see what you will to reign that which the sword should be turned against which the Lambs of Christ turn against therefore against the Lambs of Christ ye turn your swords And again hirelings and such as seek their gain from their quarter such as divine for money and such Teachers as teach for money that go in Cain's way and Balaam's way these ye will have to reign and cannot endure they should be cryed against and will not have Christ reign but uphold them with a Law that none shall speak to them while they are speaking without a Prison Was ever such Christians seen Are ye not gone beyond the Jews in the letter for the Jews in the spirit might speak to them Were there ever so many imprisoned in their time of any of the Jews in the spirit as now by you who are Christians in the letter the Christians in the spirit that be in the spirit that gave forth the letter see ye now in the steps of the Jews walking and rather worse but it is that which John saw the Beast the Dragon and the false Prophet should all make war against the Lamb and the Saints but the Lamb should get the victory and overcome Let this be read among all the Synagogue-teachers and Professors who call it either Synagogue Temple or Church who are crying up your Church and the Scriptures among you as you may reade the Jews did the Temple of the Lord and the Law of the Lord was with them and the Prophet told them they did commit adultery they did steal they sware falsly they walked after their abominations and they walked after the vanity of their own hearts both Priests and People given to covetousness they were all out of the old-way Therefore for these things did the Lord visit them and doth you who are found in these steps and persecuting them that be in the life that gave forth Scriptures and are come to the Church that is in God During the time aforesaid was the general Assizes at Exeter for the County of Devon of which chief Baron Steel and Baron Nicholas were Judges before one of whom viz. Judge Nicholas were these who were thus imprisoned at the Assizes brought and the rest also as they were taken on the high-wayes in the time of the Assizes of this Judge Considering his place and office justice might have been expected and a vindication of the Law and a zealous helping those to right who had thus suffered wrong but no such thing found they from him but the contrary even the same spirit ruling and working in him as made the Law aforesaid and put it in execution against he Innocent who could not be found Transgressors of any Law of the Nation For as the Sessions made a Law and set up Watches to apprehend them if they were but found travelling on the high-wayes and did so apprehend and imprison them without so much as making proclamation or giving publick warning forbidding such to travel in that Countrey after such a day but immediately as soon as they had made their Law put it in execution on those who were in their way before it was made or had publick warning thereof or the allotment of a certain space of time of it to take notice which the Law of the Nation observes so the Judge will have a Law of his own making as to the Hat for that there is no Law of the Nation that requires a man to put off his Hat and imprison him for not so doing and denies him hearing or justice whatever be his innocency or sufferings if he puts not off his Hat to a Seat of Justice will anon appear when this new-found Indictment of Hats shall be scann'd as in some part it hath already been in the Letter aforesaid sent to chief Justice Glynne and presently he will have it put in execution though his Law be made after the fact done after their so appearing unto which they could not bow in conscience to the Law of God of which he is convinced to be a Transgressor that respecteth persons for he that doth so committeth sin Nor can it be bowed to in respect to the Law of the Land which declares against arbitrariness which Law arbitrariness subverts and overthrows which arbitrariness his duty is to do justice upon being entrusted with the execution of the Law and this his Law standing in his own will the founder thereof it is arbitrary and not to be obeyed but in the overthrow of the Law of the Land and a slighting of all the blood shed in the wars against arbitrariness and is less to be endured and submitted to in him than in any of the Judges and chief Justices that have gone before him whom justice hath cut off for arbitrariness or in Strafford Canterbury Charles Stuart or of any of these later generations since it is but the other day that these Nations came out of many years wars and dreadfull desolations and destructions even to the hazarding of all to vindicate the Rights and Liberties of England and the Laws the guard of them from will and power And this Judge was one who in that day appeared against that generation and for that cause was made a Judge by the Parliament and therefore for him to act against Law which he is sworn to execute not to make And the Legislative Authority that made him a Judge and the righteous ends of the Wars for Liberty and Law in which he appeared and these innocent servants of the Lord who have been all of them alwayes faithfull to the honest interest of the Nation and many of them for it have drawn the sword and fought in the field from first to last because they cannot submit to this his will which is contrary to the Law of God and the Nation and the righteous ends of the Wars is the more abominable and to be denyed and witnessed against Thus then were the proceedings of this Assizes as to these Before Judge Nicholas they were brought by Officers before him they stood covered in conscience to the command of the Lord that their Hats should not be taken off he commanded that so within the compass of his will they might be brought Their names he asked one after another they gave their names in meekness and in the fear of the Lord and the Clarke of the Assizes wrote them down to record the contempt of his will he

actions without straining or wresting let the sober judge And what is said may also serve as some answer to the false accusotions and slanders therein For the Priests being troubled and moved as hath been said to see and hear of so many to pass through the County to visit the Prisoners gave the Justices no rest nor would suffer them to be quiet till they had contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Nation and to the liberty unto which every Englishman is freely born as his Inheritance of which Liberty the Fundamental Laws are the guard and defence which Liberty and Laws for to defend hath cost the blood and miseries of many Wars heretofore and those of late and to true Rel●gion which visits the Prisoners and doth violence to none and to all moderation and humanity ordered as followeth which with the cruel effects thereof comes now to be related Devon At the General Sessions of the Publick Peace held at the Castle of Exon in the said County the 18. day of July 1656. WHereas the number of sturdy Beggars Rogues and wandring idle persons is greatly increased and although there hath been excellent good Laws made for the punishment of them yet because of the remisness of some inferiour Officers the same hath not been duely executed and now lately divers other persons called by the name of Quakers disaffected to the present Government do wander up and down the Countrey and scatter seditions Papers and Books to the deluding of many weak people undermining the Fundamentals of Religion denying the Scriptures to be the Word of God and the godly Ministers of England to be the true Ministers of the Gospel and so as by them many Heresies and Blasphemies are by them vented and broached abroad to the great dishonour of Almighty God and grief of all pious and religious people and to the disturbance of the peace of this Common-wealth It is therefore ordered that the Constables of every Hundred within this County shall forthwith issue out their Warrants to the several petty Constables of their several Parishes within their Hundreds We particularly requiring them thereby upon receipt thereof to cause good Watches and Wards to be kept at the Bridges and High-wayes within their several Parishes where it shall be most convenient for the apprehending of all Beggars Rogues Vagabonds and wandring idle and suspicious persons and such as shall be therewith apprehended take care that they be punished and conveyed according to Law And that they likewise apprehend all such persons as travel under the notion or name of Quakers without a lawfull Certificate satisfying from whence they came and whither they are travelling or shall have or do scatter publickly or own any such seditious Books and Papers as aforesaid or shall interrupt or disturb any Ministers in the Congregations or otherwhere and thereupon bring them together with such Books and Papers before some Justice of the Peace of the said County thereby to be dealt with as the Law requireth And that this service may be the better performed it is ordered that persons of place and abilities with weapons sufficient be set to watch and ward and if any shall refuse or neglect their duties herein the Constables are thereupon forthwith to certifie the same to the next Justice who is desired by this Court to binde over such persons to the next Sessions to answer the said neglect This Watch and Ward to continue till further order Henry Fitz-Williams Deputy-Clerk of the Peace That the Warrant aforesaid might prove the more effectual it was sent enclosed to the Constables in a Letter signed by Major Blackmore as followeth Gentlemen YOV will here enclosed finde a Warrant from the General Sessions of the Peace held for this County which I hope seasonable and necessary in this juncture of affairs I suppose you will hardly judge it cannot but sadden every good and honest heart to observe the great Apostacy that hath happened of late and that notwithstanding the clear sun-shine of the Gospel amongst us yet the wicked one hath sown his tares and they are grown up exceedingly so that it is high time for the Magistrates to appear for the supporting of these great Truths which have been so long professed amongst us and for the preventing of this great contagion that infects almost every corner of this Nation Now the Authority of this County having begun to do their parts in the enclosed Order I shall make it my earnest request unto you that as you tender the foundation of all our hopes of salvation by Jesus Christ the good of poor souls and the peace of the Common-wealth you would do your utmost to see this Order put in execution that it may not be a dead letter but * * The Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 3.6 the power of God the Gospel of salvation What Blasphemy is this and horrible wickedness so to speak of a filthy Order made to persecute the life of God the Gospel of salvation which is the power of God and to limit the saint which giveth life and the Children of Light and to imprison them to death and as such to press the execution thereof which hath proved the death of one of the Lambs of Christ whose blood on him and them all cryes for vengeance living direction to all within your Division to prevent if the Lord please the designs of Satan and his Instruments and therefore send several Copies of the Order and of this Letter if you please to all your petty Constables that so it may be put in practice and wherein my small interest or assistance for encouragement may be usefull both you and they may be confident of the same and that I am Your assured loving Friend John Blackmore The duty or office of Justices as well in Sessions as out of Sessions and of the Judges is not to make Laws but to see that the Laws that are made be duely put in execution with this they are entrusted unto this they are sworn and where they swerve from this they act arbitrarily and are liable to punishment Were the power of making Laws of such Laws as these in them what need is there of Parliaments To what end have been all the sharp conflicts industrious carefulness hard strugglings and bloody contests for many hundreds of years past especially of late years in the behalf of Parliamentary Authority and the Fundamental Laws which from them sprang and which declare their Authority supream and absolute To what purpose have been the hangings by the neck the cuttings of the throat at Tyburn the imprisonments confiscation of estates and other exemplary punishments executed on Judges Justices and Ministers of state for arbitrary acting of which the Records of this Nation speak Why was Strafford's head cut off and Canterbury's and Charles Stuart's as Traitors for endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England And what justice was there in all these if a

which were it in the time of the former generation wherein much was said of a little in comparison to what is in this day acted would increase into an entire and voluminous discourse which scarcely with the bare relation is now passed over Such are the excesses of cruelty because of conscience in this day of the highest profession by the highest Professors that that which yesterday made the whole Nation to ring and drew forth the sword of war to relieve it passeth this day over in silence and without observation being look'd upon rather as favour than cruelty as kindness than a furious persecution and it is accounted well where the extremity of sufferings are not the Companions of those who have the testimony of Jesus This Warrant lyes plain enough to be understood by him whose eyes are in the least measure opened who when he hath read the Priest of Talcots name that drew it which is Whaire and the Constable which robb'd that friend of the prisoners money which is William Norcut of Clayton is left to judge thereof as it is The Guard apprehends him whom they call Quaker at Clayton as he was peaceably passing on the way with necessaries for the prisoners the Authority is the Order of Sessions the Priest draws the Warrant and in the Warrant uttereth his mischievous desires the Justice signs and seals it the Constable robs him of the money sent by him to the prisoners to supply their necessaries after this commitment whom so to do the Priest sets on and then sends him to Exon Goal with a Guard so they wrap it up But not a word is there in this Priests Warrant of the Protector no they like not the 37. Article of his Government therefore a new Authority have they in this County found out and raised where withall thus to persecute viz. the General Sessions and so the Warrant runs in the name and authority not of the Protector though in his name all administration of Government is to pass but of this Bench and yet chargeth them whom it called Quakers as disaffected to the Government one of whom this Priest hath much ado to call by his proper name so full of malice is he but with a name of reproach this Quaker there being one that owns the name of a Quaker brought before me I do therefore in pursuance of the said Order issued from this Bench commit the said Quaker to the Goal of this County c. And by these presents I do require the Keeper of the said Goal to ●ake him the said Quaker whose name as he saith is Thomas Rawlinson into his custody and him safely to keep untill by authority not a sillable of the Protector or his authority he be set at liberty Given c. Doth not this shew that the Priests have as little minde to the Protector as they have to the people called Quakers That the same spirit that imprisons them for coming into their coasts leaves his name out and his authority and yet directs it to all Mayors Bayliffs Sheriffs Constables Tithingmen and all Officers c. Doth not here appear from the grave the spirit that was in Christopher Love Priest and his fellow traitors who being within the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth took upon them to commissionate divers men to treat with Charles Stuart the proclaimed Traitor of the Government at Breda and with the Scots for the putting him into what they called his Father's Throne and Dominion in England for which and his other Treasons he lost his head at Tower-hill the 22. of the 5. month 1651. See the Book entituled A short Plea for the Common-wealth and therein the Priests treasons Doth not the sprouts of the Bishops appear in the ET CETERA in the Warrant Is Christopher Love dead and the Scots and Charles Stuart overcome and that Countrey subdued and the Presbyterian Malignant power broken in pieces and are the Bishops plucked up root and branch and these things so Is it not time to look about What is next These are some of the fruits of the Ministry Magistracy Authority and Profession of the County of Devon Apples of Sodom Grapes of Gomorrah clusters of bitterness wine of the poyson of Dragons of the cruel venome of Asps These are some of the effects of the loud cry of the Order of Sessions some of the executions done by them to whom Major Blackmore makes it his earnest request as they tender the hopes of salvation by Jesus Christ the good of poor souls and the peace of the Commonwealth to do their utmost to see this order put in execution These are some of the living works of darkness from them to whom his request is made and his dead letter sent for their direction copies of which he desires if the Constables please what a low condescention is here to be sent to the petty Constables that so it may be put in practice and lo here it is here is the practice a wicked robbing bloody practice as it hath proved Behold what his bidding them be confident wherein his small interest or assistance filthy hypocrisy which conceives that great which it expresseth small and would have it accounted great when it expresseth it little for encouragement may be usefull and that he is their assured loving friend of which he would have them be confident hath brought forth See to what his interest and assistance and encouragement is and whether this be the preventing of the designs of Satan and his instruments or his stratagems and the carrying on of his designs and the acting of his instruments therein and that in the name of the Lord let the sober judge And yet this Major Blackmore when the Constables have brought him some of the Friends aforesaid whom they have taken up with these armed Guards as they were peaceably passing on the way to visit their Friends in prison at Lanceston at his earnest request in his Letter aforesaid and by vertue of the Order for that purpose which he moved the Sessions to make hath seemed to be angry with the Constables for bringing them to him when they have brought such before him so apprehended and refused to meddle with their commitment as if he disliked the action and had nothing to do in the Guards and the raising and placing of them for their apprehensions as he hath sought to be understood in his discourse to some of the Prisoners blaming the Justices for imprisoning of them and saying that he imprisoned none Is not this man worse than Pilate who apprehended not Jesus but sought to release him knowing that for envy they had delivered him and often ask-asked them what evil hath he done I finde no fault in him nor Herod and when he saw he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made he took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying I am innocent of the blood of this just person see ye to it And is he not as bad as the