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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30049	William Penn, the pretended Quaker discovered to hold a correspondence with the Jesuite's at Rome to which is added A winding sheet for Ann Docwra / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1700 (1700)	Wing B5399; ESTC R35453	9,455	16

l. nor no Sin against his Wife or her Relations that I gave my Son such a part of my Estate as I then thought and did believe I could Spare and consequently no need of such Inquiry nor of so affirming c. Not that hereby I design to Lesson my Daughter-In-Law's Portion but do grant that she was worth 700 l. and a better Penny when he Married her and to this day I never understood any Dissatisfaction either in my Son or my self about her Portion nor yet in my daughter-in-Daughter-in-Law or in any of her Relations about what I gave my Son upon Marriage which was every way Answerable to her Portion But still I say he had not 700 l. No he had but 300 l. in Money and 400 l. in House and Land which had she Dyed without Issue that Estate of hers had devolv'd back and now Blessed be God she hath Issue which I dearly Love even as if begot by my own Body and wish them all the Blessings of this and the other Life yet if they Dye and their Mother Then my Son is but a Termer for Life to that part of it which is Freehoold and that too by the Courtesie of England for unless a man have the Inheritance of an Estate in fee Simple it cannot be said to be his own otherwise then as before described for he can neither Sell Mortgage nor give it Thus have I gone further then I needed or indeed was willing did I not believe it necessary to Remove those Evil and Pernicious suggestions which this dark Spirit of Quakerism would raise against me for the sake of the Discovery I have made of its Inconsistency with Christianity But says this old Woman Fran. Bugg hath Conveyed his Estate to his Son In her first Book it was Fran. Bugg Sold his Estate to his Son So Jezebel withstood c. p. 2. from p. 55. of her Apost c. So that it is plain that by conveyance here she means and would have it believed that this conveyance was by Deed of Sale when it was no such thing but by Deed of Gift not in Consideration of any part of his Wives Portion to me or for my use But in Consideration of the Natural Love and Affection I had to my only Son who hath been a Dutiful Child from his Cradle And to this Day never was Blemish in his Reputation until this Infamous Woman has attack'd him But may I not think that this Woman hath still a further design then to render both Father and Son Knaves First In setting my daughter-in-Daughter-in-Law whom I Love and Respect as my own Child and her Kindred against me and not only so but if my Son remain Dutiful as that I have no cause yet to fear then to set them and me against each other and for this G. Whitehead hath set her a Copy not only in the case of my self and Wife but in the Case of Mr. Crisp Mr. Mucklow Mr. Bridgman and their Wives and Relations But to pursue this and to Illustrate the Jesuitical Practice of her Gentleman Quaker I have not Room in this Winding-Sheet Let it suffice then that I am well satisfied in my Son and Daughter and they both are as kind to me as I can desire I never yet desired any Kindness of my Daughter-in-Law but she as readily granted it and I pray God to Bless them both and their Offspring and to give 'em a sight of the Errors of the Quakers in which I shall endeavour to be as Instrumental as I can Again Secondly p. 25 Ibid. He Francis Bugg suffered the least of any I know that had Estates to lose the Fines were Two one was 15 l. for an unknown Preacher the other was 10 l. for the Poverty of the Man that kept the Meeting at his House Of this 25 l. he got 15 l. of a near Relation of his by Fraud and the Justice that Prosecuted him gave him 5 l. of the Money again so that his whole Loss was but five Pounds Reader I am Astonished when I consider the vain Boasts and high Pretences of this People to Justice Truth Equity Righteousness Purity Self denyal Meekness yea to do as they would be done by when they so Generally Act the Contrary You see she says I suffered but two Fines that I was the least Sufferer that she knew of that had Estates to Lose that my whole Loss by Fines was but 5 l. And yet says that Sam. Cater suffered 6 years imprisonment together and this but one of the 7 or 8 times of his Imprisonement which I deny Let her produce Proof if she can As also that he lost 20 l. and 40 l. or the like I do still aver That the Goods Distrain'd for his 20 l. Fine for Phakenham Meeting was return'd and that he had 10 l. sent him from their Fund And that Papers or Petitions were sent up and down to assist him and others to support them in their Preaching and Writing against the Christian Religion and that these Papers did fly like Briefs Money Money for the Ministry c. as in my Pilgrims Progress p. 125. I have made to appear from W. Rogers and Confessed too by Thomas Elwood and Confirmed by this old Womans own Letters still by me And why may not the Bishops of the Church give me Recommendations to Support me to Write in Defence of the Church as Warrantably as their Teachers gave me Papers formerly to Collect Money to support them which I did Neither doth the Bishop of Norwich want the Dark-Lanthorn Light of this Crazy Woman to give him Knowledge how to Act. Well but to the Matter Namely To discover the horrible Lies of this Crack-brain'd Woman He F. Bugg Suffer'd said she the Least of any I knew c. But Two Fines His whole Loss by Fines was but 5l We have an old Proverb A Lyar had need to have a good Memory She should have consider'd this First Then I demand of her in her next to shew any one Man in the County where I dwelt that Suffered longer Imprisonment than I did that suffer'd more Fines for the Poverty of others and for themselves than I did that gave more to the building a Meeting-House than I did that Entertain'd their Teachers more than I did or that Spent his Estate for the propagation of Quakerism more then I did and of this Service to their cause there are yet amongst them many Witnesses First Then at Ely I suffered three Ten Pound Fines for the Poverty of G. Thorrowgood at whose House the Meeting was kept beside as many small Fines for my self And for which I was distrained by Nicholas Rush Robert Rainer and others in Cloths Stuffs Yarn and Wooll and others Goods above the value of 50 l. without one Penny or Pennyworth Returned Ann Rogers my then Maid and Thomas Bird my then Journey-man and now a Quaker of good Repute amongst them knew this Again I was Fined Twenty Pounds for a meeting at my