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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

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 that 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 Printed in the Year 1665. Another Out-cry of the Innocent and Oppressed c. UPon the 13. day of the 10th Moneth in the Afternoon when the other business of the Country was ended the Prisoners were brought from the Goal where they had been kept near five Moneths and being come were set to the Bar Richard Raynsford who was Judge commanded the Goaler to take off their Hates which was done then one of the Prisoners named Thomas Allen said unto them if ye were men of Wisdom and understanding ye would not seem to take notice of such a beggerly Rudiment as the Hat whereat some of them laughed like Children in a Play but the Court being silent again the Judge commanded the Clerk to read the Indictment which was done the substance of it was that the Prisoners being formerly taken at an unlawful assembly Meeting or Conventicle at the House of Thomas Allen in Dingly together with divers Malefactors to the number of 30. persons or above and being thereof twice lawfully convicted before Obrian Cockain Lord Viscount Cullaine Roger Norwich Baronet and Lewis Palmer Esquire and being since that taken again at the same place and committed to Prison by the said Roger Norwich and Lewis Palmer as disturbers of the publick peace stood lawfully indicted for the same c. much more of falshood and lies was added unto it as it is ordinarily known to them that are acquainted with their Practice nevertheless the Judge spake to Thom. Allen Are you guilty of this Indictment or not to which he answered The Indictment I find is false and may have as many lies in it as lines at which the Judge seemed angry saying Lies lies the Prisoner answered A lie is a lie and how should I otherwise express it then the Judge said again Well are you guilty or not then the Prisoner answered I am not guilty of what is contained in the Indictment Then the Judge called Francis Child Art thou guilty or not guilty To which he answered I have something to say before I plead to that I am very glad the Lord hath found me worthy at this day to bear witness to his truth against a hard hearted and cruel Generation I desire we may be removed from our strict Imprisonment to work for our bread for I believe we might find more mercy amongst the Turks The Judge said again are you guilty or not of this Indictment Pris I am not guilty for there are many lies in it therefore I fear you not do your work that you may have your wages for the Lord hath yet more Arrows to shoot at you Judge called to William Line saying are you guilty or not guilty Prisoner I am not guilty I have been but twice convicted by your Law Judge What have you to say for your self Pri. I am a Labouring man and have a Wife and five Children and if you take me from my labour it may go hard with them Richard Coe being demanded the same as the other by the Iudge he answered that he was not guilty Then a sort of poor Country men whom they had prepared on purpose for their service were called and sworn to this effect that they should well and truly try betwixt the King and the Prisoners at the Bar according to the Evidence exceptions were made against some of them by the Prisoners knowing them to be men as were not capable of doing such a service telling the Court that by a Law lately made they might not serve having not Land of such a value but one Randolph a known enemy to the truth of God executing the Clerks Office said they may serve your turn and would not allow of our exceptions but proceeded to the examination of Witnesses that were brought in against us which being done Thomas Allen having the Act there read and shewed to the Court and Jury a Proviso in it in these words following Provided alwayes that no person shall be punished for any offence against this Act unless such Offenders be prosecuted for the same within three Moneths after the Offence committed Nevertheless the Judge refused to allow us the benefit of the Law in that particular although we had been in Prison near five Moneths and had so much exceeded the limit of the Act and pleaded against us saying the Sessions was adjourned because of the Sickness and upon that account the day upon which they should have been kept and this are both one day which were more then two Moneths after then Thomas Allen answered Nay they are two dayes besides many dayes betwixt nevertheless the Judge knowing they had a Jury upon whom they could set their own stamp as easily as upon a lump of Clay stood opposite to the thing although allowed and approved by several others upon the like occasion then the Iudge said you are such as will not be subject to the King's Lawes to which Thomas Allen answered art thou a man siting in Judgment and hast no more to say against us the very Rabble in the Streets can say as much as that but tell us if thou canst what Lawes of the Nation there are which we are not more subject to then you your selves save only those which concern the Worship of God which King and Parliament have nothing at all to do with for what power and authority is that which will dare to take upon them to prescribe a way for God's Worship I say this is Antichrist the highest presumption in all the earth then the Judge said do not you prescribe a way the Prisoner answered nay we prescribe none Then the Judge spoke to the Jury to go forth Thomas Allen said what need they to go forth are we not clearly acquited by the Act to which the Judge would give no Answer the Jury standing still in the Court Randolph the Clerk told them they must go forth then they begun to go away but Thomas Allen called them to stay a while which they did then he spake to them in these words Friends I would have you to take notice of the great Judgments of God which have come upon this Nation since these cruel Lawes were made and put in execution against us you know we had some years agone a great and tempestuous wind

consider what the Lord hath done for you ye Rulers of England remember were you not in a low condition not many years since and was it then in your hearts to do to us as now you have done if the Lord would but restore you into your power and places again if you were at that time so resolved to do your tongues and declaration did not at that time declare the same thing but it was promised that none should suffer for his Religion in case he lived peaceably in the Nation and these promises were not by force forced from you but it was done freely by you and it was the Lord that made the termes with you and not man and after that time the Lord gave your enemies into your hands and without your Sword or Bow or the valour of your men of War the Lord brought you again into your possession and the Lord performed what he had decreed as concerning your Restauration and it had been well for you and this Nation if you had performed what you had promised to the Lord in the behalf of his people but to this day the Lords people hath and doth grievously suffer under your power who hath lived peaceably under you and hath never at any time molested your Authority neither have they ever made any plot or Conspiracies against you or your Authority nor never joyned with any that did to this day and yet ye have made us the only mark that ye shoot at contrary to what ye have promised unto us and before the Righteous God we have spread our innocent cause and sufferings and he hath heard our cry and now he is arisen to plead our Cause and wo and misery and destruction will assuredly be the portion of all those that are found fighting against him as you are at this day Hear O yee Rulers of England the Lords controversie against you you have contrary to your promises abused persecuted imprisoned his servants and you have made an unrighteous Law to banish them forth of the Land and you have put in execution this your unnatural Law are still putting it into execution you have hardned your hearts far beyond Pharaoh and your cruelty towards the Lords people hath far exceeded his towards Israel he never imprisoned the Israelites neither did he ever shut them up that they might not labour for their livelihood but you have shut up thousands of the Lords people in Prisons and Dungeons and there they are at this day and by that means they cannot labour with their hands to get bread for themselves and their families and yet you are so cruel that you force your taxes from them O cruelty far exceeding Egipts bondage and Pharaoh's sin was he would not have had Israel gone from him out of his Country when the Lord sent for them by Moses but your sin is this you have made a Law to force the Lords people out of their Native Country where the Lord hath raised them and placed them therefore as you have exceeded them in cruelty towards the Lords people so will the Lord multiply his Plagues upon you as upon Egipt untill you be made to let Israel alone to Worship the Lord as his good Spirit shall lead and direct them and notwithstanding you have thus rebelled against the Lord and abused his servants ever since the Lord hath restored you into power yet hath the Lords mercy been shewed towards you and his good spirit hath a long time striven with you and the Lords servants whom you call Quakers have at all times been faithful unto you and they have told you the mind of the Lord and what would come upon you in case you went on with your wicked work of persecution of the Innocent but to this day you have regarded them not but have persecuted and abused them both Rulers Priests and People and you have dealt far worse and cruel with them then Pharaoh did by Moses and Aaron and now the Lords wrath is kindled against you and there is like to be no remedy for you have hardned your hearts against the Lord and you have not believed his Prophets therefore you cannot prosper thy Judges O England have perverted the Law and by that means hath made many widdows and fatherless Children and their cry hath entred into the ears of the Lord of Hosts who now will surely plead their Cause and will reward into thy bosom for the wrong thou hast done unto his Chosen and as thou hast notwithstanding thy warnings hardned thy heart against the Lord and his people so now hath he given thee up to hardness of heart the greatest of all Judgments and the nearest to destruction and thou hast shut thy eyes against the light and would neither see nor hear nor take notice of the mighty works of the Lord that he hath made manifest in thee and now great is the darkness that hath covered thee John saw in the Revelation three unclean Spirits like Frogs come out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophets and they have come unto thee to stir thee up to battle against the great day of God Almighty and to two of these thou hast lent thy ear and took their Councel O how hath thy false Prophets deceived thee and perswaded thee to carry on thy work of persecution and banishing the righteous out of thy Land and though the Lord appeared in his Judgments against thee ever since the very week that thou begins to banish his servants yet have they not given over but both in Cityes and Countryes they have made it their work to preach to the People that the Plague would not cease but did increase because the Rulers had not banished the Quakers forth of the Land and so Judge Rainsford said this Sessions in open Court that the Reason was that Gods Judgments were so in the Nation because they had not removed the Quakers out of the Land but he and other Judges and Rulers being blind cannot or will not see what is the cause no more then Pharaoh could when the Lord struck off his Chariot Wheels when he was pursuing Israel into the Sea For ye Judges and Rulers if that is the cause that Gods Judgments are so upon the Nation then why did you not make more hast to remove Gods Judgment have not you seen how the Lord hath fought against you ever since you have gone about this cursed work of Persecution and especially of banishing the Lords people have you ever prospered since you have begun in any thing that ever you have put your hands unto how hath the Lord fought against you will all his four Elements as Winds Fire and Waters and those creatures that have fed upon the Earth how have they been corrupted and brought to nothing to the impoverishing of thy Inhabitants how hath thy Trading decayed both in Cityes and Countryes so that the peoples hearts even now begins to fail them and these going before to forewarn

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