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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65840	A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1680 (1680)	Wing W1894; ESTC R19963	71,889	142

A Brief ACCOUNT Of some of the Late and Present SUFFERINGS Of the People called QUAKERS For Meeting together to Worship God in Spirit and Truth Being prosecuted by the Statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. 1. Entituled An Act to prevent suppress seditious Conventicles By the Prosecution of which Act many Families have had their Estates wholly Wasted and Ruined contrary to the Law of God the Antient Laws of the Kingdom and to Nature it self Together with a particular Account of such of the above said People who have dyed Prisoners from the Year 1660. to 1680. I. For Meeting together to Worship God c. II. For refusing for Conscience sake to Swear in any Case III. For not going to the Parish Church and not paying to the Repair of the same and not paying Offering Money small Tythes c. Humbly presented to the King Lords Commons in Parliament Assembled London Printed by Andrew Sowle and are sold at his Shop in Devonshire New-buildings without Bishops-Gate 1680. TO THE King Lords and Commons IN PARLIAMENT Assembled THe daily Accounts we receive of the great Oppressions of our Friends in several Counties upon the prosecution of the Statute 22th Car. 2. cap. 1. Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles constraineth us yet further to make our Complaint to you hoping that upon your weighty Consideration thereof some way to relieve us may be found by you In the perusal of the following Accounts you may see what Destruction and Spoil hath been made upon our Estates within these two or three years last past many poor Families being wholly ruined and Tradesmen that helped to imploy and relieve others are now so impoverished that they are fain to shut up their Shops and be helped themselves and the industrious and laborious are become a prey to the rapine of dissolute idle Informers and o●hers who after they have devoured all they could find in one County have gone to the next hunting from Meeting to Meeting nothing satisfying them till they have devoured all our outward Substance all which Oppressions we have endured with much patience and long-suffering knowing that our assembling is in good conscience towards God and that we have always endeavoured to exercise a Conscience void of Offence towards men and in such case where we could not obey what the Law of men required we have yielded our selves patiently to suffer the Penalties inflicted on us and have never Plotted nor Contrived to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom or sought Revenge under our Sufferings though they have extended not only to the Spoil of our outward Estates but to Imprisonment Banishment and loss of Life it self and that of some Hundreds of us since the King's Restoration as in the Relations following will particularly appear and that chiefly for our peaceable Meeting together to Worship God a Duty so incombent upon us and so conscientiously performed by us that if the Law had been made to take away our Lives as it was to destroy our Estates we could not have forborn our assembling together except we should have been Treacherous to God and our own Consciences And further we desire you to consider the inequality of the aforesaid Act the mercinary Informers who Swear against us gain part of our Estates to themselves and we are convicted by the Arbitrary Determinat●on of one Justice of the Peace who in our absence is both Judge and Jury And what-ever wrong is inflicted on us our Appeal must not lie in any other Court but only before the Parties themselves complained of to do us the wrong who are many times sole Judges in their own cases the Juries being often over-awed by them so that they are afra●d to act or speak their own Reason and Sence but forced to bring in such a Virdict as pleaseth our Judges which Proceedings are conceived to be expresly against the Constitution of our English Government and the antient fundamental Laws of the Kingdom which did expresly forbid the seizure of mens Liberties and Estates without a lawful judgment of their Peers How repugnant these Severities inflicted upon us are to the Indulgence formerly promised to us by the KING you may judge when you call to remembrance the many Declarations he was pleased formerly to make for the Liberty of tender Consciences that should not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom And also we shall leave i● to your Impartial Judgment Whether we have done any act or thing whereby we have justly incurred the forfeiture of such Indulgence If the Lord shall put it in your Hearts to relieve us from these our great Oppressions we humby propose to you Consideration the repeal of the Statutes 22th Car. 2. cap. 1. made against Conventicles and the Statute 13th and 14th Car. 2. by which last Statute so many of our Friends suffered Imprisonment till Death for conscientiously refusing to Swear in any case and for their peaceable Meeting to Worship God Signed on the behalf of the Sufferers by us George Whitehead William Gibson Jasper Batt Alexander Parker William Penn Richard Mew John Etheridge James Claypoole William Mead Ezekiel Wooley Clement Plumsted James Braines George Watt Willi●m Shewen John Dew Thomas Rudyard E●lis Hookes London the 20th day of December 1680. A Particular Accompt of these Distresses following in each County upon the said Act of the 22 Car. 2. Cap. 1. were Printed and given to the late long Parliament and therefore are only herein summed up in short and there was at that time much more leavyed upon that Act of which an Accompt could never be procured   L. S. D. BErkshire 0190 00 00 Bedfordshire 0357 00 00 Bucks 0040 00 00 Cumberland 0344 13 00 Cheshire 0409 08 00 Cambridgshire 0608 16 00 Cornwall 0497 13 00 Devonshire 0222 10 06 Dorsetshire 0163 05 04 Derbyshire 0397 14 10 Durham 0865 19 00 Essex 0494 11 07 Gloucestershire 0799 08 00 Hampshire 0077 15 06 Hartfordshire 0770 10 00 Huntingtonshire 054● 15 06 Herefordshire 0330 12 04 Kent 0191 13 00 Leicestershire 0569 18 ●8 Lincolnshire 0497 13 08 Lancashire 0428 15 11 Nottinghamshire 0707 01 06 Norfolk 1244 07 05 Oxfordshire 0223 12 06 Sumersetshire 1459 03 08 Surrey 0380 03 04 Sussex 0066 00 00 Suffolk 1294 01 07 Sall●p 0051 00 00 Staffordshire 0075 04 00 Westmorland 0270 17 00 Wiltshire 0434 09 00 Worces●ershire 0081 03 00 Warwickshire 0069 06 10 Yorkshire 2384 18 00 A Breviate of the most Remarkable I●stances of Injustice and Cruelty contained in the ensuing Treatise WHen an Appeal was made at the Sessions the Justice that prosecuted pressed the Oath of Allegiance might be tendred to the Appealants Page 2. In●ormers Persons of no Estate but live upon the Spoil of others feeling Goods for what Price they please and taking what and as much as they please never accounting for any Overplus Page 8. The Justice bid the Officers break open the Doors to make Distress and he would stand by them Page 10. A