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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25493	Another out-cry of the innocent & oppressed being a true account of the unjust and illegal proceedings of Richard Rainsford and Roger Norwich and others against Thomas Allen, Francis Child, Richard Coe, and William Line, being such as are called Quakers, at the general Quarter Sessions holden at the castle in Northampton on the 12. and 13 days of the 10th moneth, 1665, where Rich. Rainsford sat in judgment and when Richard Rainsford saw that the plague was somewhat ceased, as Pharaoh did Exodus 9, 34, he hardened his heart, and those called justices joyned with him so their hearts were hardened that they attempted the second time unjustly to pass sentence to transport the servants of the Lord to the island of Barbados.		1665 (1665)	Wing A3273; ESTC R16388	8,907	13

by which many Trees were torn up by the Roots and Houses laid on heaps after that a strange infectious disease fell among Horses such a one as hath not usually been heard of whereby many hundreds died in several places to the great damage of Husbandmen and others after that a great rot of Sheep for two years together by which many men were ruined whose substance consisted principally in those Cattle and now of late a sore Judgment of the Plague such as never was in the memory of man in so much that the Plagues of England hath been well nigh equal to the Plagues of Egipt and besides all these the trade and prosperity of the Nation is so much decayed that things never looked with such a face in England as they do at this day But whiles he was thus speaking to them they were commanded to go forth so they went and stayed a pretty while and at their coming in it was asked whether or no they were agreed upon their verdict they answered yes then the Clerk asked them who should speak for them but they being men altogether unacquainted with such a service made no Answer then it was asked again if the Foreman should speak for them they said Yes then said the Clerk how do you find them the Foreman said Guilty twice well then said the Clerk you find them guilty the Foreman said Yes upon this the Clerk recorded them all guilty and the Judge passed sentence upon them to be Transported unto Barbados and no more The business being done some of the Jurymen told the Prisoners that things were not rightly done according to their agreement for the agreement was to acquit them whereupon the Prisoners asked them why they did not speak when they see such a gross miscarriage in the Court their answer was they feared if they should have spoken the Judge would have laid them by the heels Here all may see the gross malicious wickedness and corruption both of Richard Raynsford Judge and Randolph that was Clerk First in denying the Prisoners the benefit of the Law which others have had at several times in the like case and have been acquited thereupon without any other proceedings Secondly in trying them by a Jury not allowed nor approved by the Law Thirdly in not allowing the Prisoners their exception made against them nor their lawful reasons why Lastly in perverting the Judgment and verdict of the Jury and passing sentence thereupon Oh thou County of Northampton who art placed upon the middle and top of the Nation whose Waters falls from the East West North and South into the Ocean thou hast in this work of persecution exceeded all the Counties of this Nation thou wert the first that in all the South of England eleven years ago imprisoned the true Prophets of the Lord whom the Lord had raised in the North Country William Dewsberry John Whitehead Thomas Stubs and Thomas Coodaire with many more the Devil hath had his chief Inland Garrison in the midst of thee and his Instruments hath continually to this day cast into thy Prison the servants of the Lord and they have there borne their faithful Testimonies for the Lords truth and no wickeder cruel Goalers hath been found in England then hath been there to this day and the Priests there hath put to their strength at all times to drive on the Magistrates to persecute and never had they one more at their command then Judge Raynsford is for them at this day who hath been the alone Magistrate that hath caused Persecution of the Lords People and to execute the cruel and unmerciful Act in banishing of them John Whitfield Priest of Bugbrook and one Richard Harris and Thomas Hog the Priests of Keslinberry and Farthingston are they which ride upon the back of the Beast to make him be the executioners of their bloody intents these Priests have cast into the Prison this last year divers of the Lords people because they could not for Conscience sake pay them Tythes at the beginning of Harvest and when they were in Prison they carryed away the poor peoples Grain in some places above half that grew upon their Land and some asked them why they did so they answered that they might take what they would there was no Law for the Quakers now and still keeps their bodies in Prison to this day Thus O County of Northampton thou wilt one day be even a shame to the Nation but this we say in honour of those Magistrates that have been true suffering Royalists not one of them that formerly suffered for the late King but hath and doth shew themselves like men in their places and will have no hand in Persecution but those that have been Turncoats of the Amalekitest breed they are the men that drive on the Devils work of Persecution in this Country for they having never done no good for their King before Now they think there is no other way to merit and get into the favour of the King but by persecuting of the people of the Lord and at last they will prove the greatest enemies to the King in the Nation and a hissing unto all people In this County was the first bloodshed in the beginning of the late War that was shed in England and at Nasby the late King upon the very top of England had his last and total overthrow upon the top of this Nation John Lambert was taken and had his great and last overthrow four years ago the Lord sent a Rain in May that drowned a Town called Weedon and other Towns on the top of England to the damage of many thousands of pounds and never did no hurt in places where it went lower and now this last Visitation this year no less then 16. Towns were visited with the Plague and yet they repent not of their wickedness but still go on to provoke the Lord. The Cause of the Innocent spread before the Lord and the unjust Proceedings of the Rulers against them before all People Luke 18.7 Now shall not God avenge his Elect which cry day and night unto him yea though he suffers long for them I tell you he will avenge them quickly Therefore all ye Rulers of this Nation of England that have set your selves in battle ray with all your might and power against the Lord and against his seed that according to what his true Prophet Jeremiah declared the Lord hath raised in this Northern Island which he hath said must dwell in their own Land you through the envy and wickedness that rules in your hearts seeks to murther banish imprison persecute and to root out and to destroy this seed whom the Lord hath raised and that he hath blessed and will bless now henceforth and for evermore Now that your wickedness may appear even to your own veiw and that you may be ashamed for that which you have done and are a doing against the Lord and against his people here amongst you I would have you to