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A51574 The acts of the witnesses of the spirit in five parts / by Lodowick Mvggleton ..., left by him to be publish'd after's death. Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698. 1699 (1699) Wing M3040; ESTC R11186 121,881 188

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I said whereupon I pronounced the Sentence of eternal damnation upon Four or Five Men there 17. And they being inraged at it they thought to prosecute us both and they went to the Maior and Aldermen of the Town to see what could be done unto us 18. And the Maior and Aldermen said they could not tell what to do in it seeing there was no Law against any Man for saying a Man is damn'd but if you bring them before the Maior and if they cannot give a good Account where there Habitation is they may be set in the Stocks for Vagabonds if they stay in the Town any more than so many days But we did not know this till afterwards 19. And while they were ploting this Mischief we not thinking of it Thomas Hudson was to go Fifty Miles further so Edward Fewterer and I took Horse and went a matter of Fifteen Miles on the Way with Mr. Hudson Upon this the Quakers reported that I fled away from Chesterfield to Bake-well for fear of a whiping when as we did not know there was any Mischief intended against us 20. Besides Edward Fewterer and I came back again to Chesterfield the same Night but none sought after me as I heard of and in two days afterwards I departed from Chesterfield to Notingham again And as I stay'd there Three days more there was a Conspiracy amongst those I had passed Sentance of Damnation upon how to apprehend me 22. For every place in the Country where I had any that beleived and that was a Friend to me there was a many Enemies that sought to do me harm only they had no Law on their side but I being of Mr. Sudbury's Acquaintance and at his House the Maior or Sheriffs would do nothing in it 23. And it came to pass afterwards that the Sheriff's Wife came to be a true Beleiver unto this day her Name is Mary Barker 24. So after Three days I departed for Notingham to London to my own House This was in the Year 1663. CHAP. VIII The Prophet travels into Cambridge shire and Kent And of his Marriage to his Third Wife and of his Second Jorney into Darby-shire and of his being brought before the Maior of Chesterfield Of his Examination by the Priest and of his Commitment 1. AFTER this I travelled into Cambridge-shire to see several Friends there and they were very joyful to see me at Cambridge and the Countries round about for there were a many of Beleivers in that Country 2. I stayed there but a matter of Three Weeks and then returned to London again And a little while after I travelled into Kent to visit some Friends 3. And there was one John Martine a Tanner at East-Malin in Kent which did truly beleive in this Commission of the Spirit and so did his Wife He had Two Sons and one Daughter his eldest Son Thomas did not beleive but his youngest Son John and his Daughter Mary were both true Beleivers and his Daughter Mary was very zealous and strong in the beleif of it 4. And it came to pass a while after this John Martin dyed and I going thither again afterwards I took his Daughter Mary to Wife with her Mothers Consent and I married her according to the Law of England as I did my other two Wives before 5. I had been a Widdower Sixteen years before I took this Maid to Wife she was Twenty Five years of Age when I married her and I was about Fifty Three years old when I took her to Wife She was of a good meek innocent and just Nature besides the strong Faith and Zeal she had in this Commission of the Spirit so that she was very sutable both i● spiritual and temporal Qualifications unto my Nature 6. After this it came to pass the same year that I was married great Troubles did befal me both upon a Spiritual and Temporal Account as may be understood in the following Relation 7. It came to pass that one Richard Hatter a true Beleiver had some Business at Law at the Assizes at Yorke He had a mind to go by Notingham and Chesterfield to see those Friends there and if I would go with him he would bear me Company so far 8. Now these Friends had greatly desired me to come down into the Country to see them so I was glad of his Company and we jornyed together but Mr. Hatter stay'd But one Night at Notingham and went his way and left me there at Mr. Sudbury's and I stayed there a few days And in that time there came several Quakers Beamonites and Indipendants religious Men and Women to discourse and dispute with me 9. But several of them dispised and blasphemed against what I said whereby I gave Sentance of eternal Damnation in that they had sinn'd against the Holy Ghost a Sin which God will not forgive Which made them very angry and spread it abroad the Country where ever I was known And after a few days I went form Notingham to Chesterfield 10. And in the middle of the way there is a Market Town called Mansfield and there I used to bait my Horse and myself and that Town is full of Quakers and when I did Inn there the Quakers and others they would press into the Room where I was to see me and talk with me And they being an obstinate and stiffnecked People against a personal God many of them came under the Sentence of Damnation at Mansfield and they had reported it at Chesterfield before I could come there 11. And when I came to Dorothy Carter's House after I had been two or three days there came several Persons to speak with me in that Town being a Market Town and they were wicked Dispisers of a personal God 12. And several of them were damn'd at Mansfield and Chesterfield and about twelve But these at Chesterfield were most of them Independants and they consulted with the Priest of the Parish with the Maior and Aldermen of the Town to persecute me and the Quakers were glad the Independant People did so 13. So the Priest being a more subtil Serpent than all the Beasts of the Feild he consulted the Maior and Aldermen to send a Constable for me before them and he would examin me and see what Words he could get out of me to have Matter to accuse me of For said he we can do nothing to him for saying a Man is damn'd 14. So the Constable was commanded to fetch me before the Maior and he came where I was and said I must go before the Maior 15. I asked him if he had any Warrant for me he said No then I said I will not go Said he I can command Aide then he commanded the Man of the House where my Horse was at grass but the Man was loth to do it but he commanded him in the Kings Name to aide him 16. So the Man took hold of one Arm and the Constable by the other and led me to the Hall where the