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A58446	A Relation of the inhumane and barbarous suffering of the people called Quakers in the city of Bristoll during the mayoralty of John Knight, commonly called Sir John Knight commencing from the 29 of the 7 month 1663 to the 29 day of the same month, 1664 / impartially observed by a private hand, and now communicated for publick information by the said people.	Reinking, William, fl. 1645-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing R838; ESTC R33989	86,091	151

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Speed could not be permitted one hour to be at home to finish an Account with an Exceter Merchant who it seems for that purpose made the desire and thou didst hope by all this to have bowed them unto thy will through the necessity of their affairs for many friends were hard put to it having several of them themselves and servants in prison and the fair being the time of their harvest as it were for most of the year following but the Lord was vvith them though thou vvast so cruel and unmerciful and kept them in this great Tryal vvherein they vvere proved and seeing they had done vvhat appertained and vvhat in a good Conscience they could do to their families submitted to the Will of the Lord and vvere content that he through their sufferings might be glorified for vvhich the Lord will be their Reward they having chosen rather to suffer their Estates and Liberties to be forced than to force their Conscience Now on the 24th of 5th Month the day before the Fair and the first day of the Week thou vvast otherwise imployed than to be at the Meeting for thy going to James Steeple-house vvhich vvas in the Fair with thy train hindred thy coming thither lest thy Pomp should be lessened by thy attending upon us so the Meeting had some rest from the trouble of thee and thy Officers that day though the strangers were not altogether free at thy Worship whom to put in those that followed thee thou thy self as was said vvith thy own hands coming out of thy Pew most unlike a Maior but some such vvork thou must needs be at as with us pulledst out forgetting it seems where thou vvast The first day of the week following viz. the 31 of the 5th month was much like this the Officers came and took some Names but went their wayes without making any other disturbance at least such as they were wont to make in that place For indeed till the third day of the next moneth was over the expiration of the date of thy first Commitments thou knewest not well where to put them the Prisons there being full would then have some ease who on that day were set at liberty those in Bridewel being a Considerable number going in a Body to the Tolzey together and then to their several habitations as they were free So the Prisons being somewhat eased the next first day thou camest unto thine old vvork again being the 7th of the 6th month and with such a greedy appetite as a Wolf long vvitheld from his vvonted prey thou fell'st upon the Meeting and there having set up thy vvonted Court and caused an O Yes to be made Ald. Creswick being vvith thee thou didst send to the Prisons these that follow Newgate Men. Nath. Day William Davis W. Taylor W. Lane Rich. Snead W. Pope Christ Bennet John Brook Jos Kippin Joh. Dowell Robert Nokes Benjamin Maynard George Gough 13. Women Mary Gouldney Han. Jordan Joan Hiley Isabel Yeamans Eliz. Rogers Mary Smith Martha Smith Mary Corbet Bathsheba Speed Grace Withers Ann Day Sarah Bennet Lidia Tovy Joan Dixin Mary Belshar Eliz. Maynard Eliz. Moor Ann Sole 18. Bridewell Men. Dan. Gibbons Charles Marshal W. Davis Jam. Neves Phil. Cook Sam. Godfrey Charles Bowen Jam. Dimond Joh. Martin Edw. Bifield Rog. Oldstone Griffith Lascomb W. Cannings Rob. Weale John Styant John Herne Ralph Cock Sam. Gibbons Nat. Allin Barth Crocker Thomas Bayly Rich. Willis Edw. Daniel John Seward Griffith Browne Thomas Saunders Will. Sawser Jam. Toghill Leming Dickason Phil. Peak Joh. Warwick John Crump Will. Hill Will. Tovy Caleb Hill Wil. Atkins Jam. Wallis Joh. Price Ambrose Scot Peter Hadeing Char. Saunders Will. Wells John Neves Will. Britton Edw. Paine Tho. Wickdow Lewis Rogers John Martin Sim. Cadle John Packer Will. Cawson John Jennet Nich. Horseman W. Peachy Rob. Gerish Tho. Hilman W. Pludwell Tim. Harding Tho. Bourne Joh. Wear Joh. Bennet Joh. Dale Cananuel Britton Bern. Lidman Sam. Plumnely Tho. Lofty Joh. Knut Joh. Cox Edw. Bennet Jam. Slaughter Thomas Stockman John Summers Will. Gotby Hugh Hobhouse Richard Gotlies 75. Women Sarah Peak Sar. Snead Joan Day Eliz. Driver Sar. Maynard Mary Lindey Sus Pearson Blanch Bough Elinor Lewis Ann Long Sus York Elin. Cole Ann Hawkes Martha Chock Joan Crew Bridg. Wory Joan Tomlinson Rebecca Howell Han. Balle Merlin Jones Eliz. Stevens Joan Britton Joan Farmer Mary Jones Dorcas Gibbons Joan Hill Ann Davis Ann Phillips Edith Byfield Sus Styant Frances Styant Ann Watkins Ann Britton Eliz. Price Kath. Wakeliffe Elizab. Matthews Emme Simons Joyce Warren Joan Younger Jane Weale Sarah Davis Ann Hill Eliz. Eagles Mary Evans Mary Neves Ann King Margery Lovell Mary Naylor Eliz. Turford Mary Leveret Rebecca Jennings Grace Eaton An. Sampson Elin. Maud Sus Gotby Kath. Hughes Ann Price Mary Harvord Eliz. Ariell Sarah Morris Mary Rice Alice Kill Mary Cole Mary Cockman Mary Lovell Mary Knight Ann Mayes Mary Brock Margr Thomas junior Mary Chambers Mary Toghill Joan Williams Mary Hampton Elizab. Wilkinson Gartrude Boiste Ann Bateman Eliz. Martin Eliz. Walker Elinor Traverse Eliz. Holder Alice Slaughter Marg. Thomas senior Ann Chaffin Mary Perry Joan West 88. The whole number of this dayes commitment to Bridewell of Men and Women being One hundred sixty and three and to Newgate Thirty and one One Hundred Ninety and foure in all And many of these vvere Wives and Servants and Masters and Husbands and Children the husbands of some in one place and the wives in onother for thou vvillingly wouldst not suffer any to pass so greedy wast thou and amongst the rest were three Women whose Husbands were distracted and had been so for a long season and several of these were poor whose Families depended upon their liberty for their maintenance yet one and the other old and young master and servant children and parents husband and wife in poverty or abundance all must go to no sort or sex or age or condition hadst thou regard but of thy devouring spirit of rage and envy all must partake and be lodg'd in these prisons however they come out dead or alive all was one to thee Nay if so be they yea all the generation of us who fear the Lord might have been so disposed of as that they never more might have seen the Sun or been heard of it had pleased thee well unto whom the Innocent are a burden and thou wouldst be rid of it but upon thee must their sufferings rest till time is no more and Eternity be the everlasting portion of thy torment if thou dost not Repent For certainly they are the people of the Lord and he brought them thither and it is Jesus in them that thou persecutest who kept them in their meetings as he brought them thither though thou saw'st him not who is with them in the Prisons and in all their afflictions is afflicted with them who will raise them up over all your heads to reign for ever and ever Now at this meeting thou

self and the Deputy Lievtenants who some of them that very night denyed that any such thing was ordered by them had ordered them to be sent to Bridewel so to Bridewel they were brought a place of reproach appointed for Rogues and no Prison of the Kings though they were pretended to be the Kings prisoners though some of them were Citizens and men of quality therein Now it is to be noted That Sheriff Streamer being Major of the Regiment and so having command of the Guard coming to the Guard and understanding who were brought thither whereof one was his near relation viz. his Brother-in-law and his friend viz. George Bishopp if so be his business was to have him up and that that was the end of that dayes work came not into the Guard understanding him to be if not seeing him there but went his way to to the meeting house and there in person dismist the rest without making so much as one a Prisoner Which unnaturalness and high ingratitude he learnt no doubt of thee who as the sequel of this relation signifies wast well skilled in things of that nature and his orders no doubt he received from thee who as thy Buffoon or Martin-ape as men use to say most artificially followed the dictates of thy mad and hasty spirit who hadst not nor had he learnt that moderation which the whole series of transactions in this generation the most remakable of any that had been in the world vvould have taught thee as vvould also the saying of him vvho lives for ever vvho is the Judge of all viz. To do to others whatsoever you would should be done unto your selves that is to say when you are in power so vvarily to extend it as that you may live with your Neighbours and have their love when your power is gone and gain the good reputation of moderate men For the vvheele turns round and as the history of former ages have proved on this Date obulum Belisario For Gods sake give a half-penny to Belisarius comes to be the portion of many which befel that great Captain Belisarius vvho in the dayes of Justinian the Emperor did so behave himself in Persia Affirica and Italy that he had the honour of this Effigies on the other side of the Coin vvith this inscription Gloria Romanorum decus The Glory and Grace of the Romans And of this you vvanted not vvarning if you would have taken heed nor good Examples before you but as it was said in another case in a wrong spirit by Balack to Balaam may be said truly of you The Lord hath kept thee back from honour Numb 24.11 Or the infatuation of the Almighty because of your lust to oppression hath been so upon you that in your day you have not known the things that belong unto your peace that is to say you have not taken the course that wise men have steered in all generations upon the guidance of their observation of the revolutions of this World viz. so to behave your selves whilst ye are in Power as hath been said as that you may live in good reputation with your Neighbours vvhen you are out of it that is to say that you may be men when you have no power And this let us say to you all who are joyned together in this persecution of the innocent if such a hand had been carried toward you and this City in former dayes as you have done in this neither you had been so nor this City that is to say neither had you nor this City been so as at this day And some of them whom with so much despight and ignominy you now rule over have been instrumental that you and the City have not been otherwise and this is the requital you make of all that which hath sought to and hath saved you thus to do But this your work will be your shame and the day is at hand wherein you shall hear of it with both your ears that is to say the Lord will so work as that you shall see both where you are and what you have been doing when repentance with some of you we fear may be too late and the place of repentance you will not find though you seek it carefully with tears But to proceed for thou must throughly be dealt with ere this is finished Having lodged the aforesaid Prisoners at Bridewell the next morning thou hadst them to the Council house the Keeper of Bridewell being their leader and having set guards of Musquetiers at the Tolzey door contrary to Law which is that Courts of Justice and Proceedings at Law be open keeping out whom they pleased thou saidst to them what came into thy mind And though they in moderation told thee that they had done no new thing but what they had many years before even ever since they had been a people And that experience had shewn in the greatest revolutions that had been in this Nation that they and what they professed and did was not inconsistent with the publique peace but that they and the peace of the place and Nation might be And that what they did was not in obstinacy and contempt as thou wouldst have rendred it but in Conscience to the Lord whose worship was in Spirit and he sought such to worship him viz. in Spirit and in truth Joh. 4. And that their suffering Chearfully whatsoever might be done to them in reference to this thing who had Estates Relations Families Callings who knew as your selves might judge what it was to get and to loose their Estates Libertie Countries did speak that there was something more in it then of this world that made them willing thus to offer it up And though they told thee moreover that as to Government they were not against but did own the Second Table as well as the Frst Masters Parents Magistrates c. but all in the Lord and that where they could and not sin against the Lord they were obedient and where they could not they did quietly suffer And that ye had experience of them in such things as they could do that they rather went before you then otherwise And though they asked thee what thou would have them to do seeing their Conscience was not satisfied Suppose said they to thee that we are mistaken which said they we are not but are certain of what we do wouldst thou have us to do that which our conscience is against because of what may be done to our bodies before we are convinced of the contrary Said not the Apostle Happie is he that condemneth not himself in the thing that he allows Yet thou wouldst not hear and though thou pretendedst to a great deal of fairness at first and that thou hadst received a Letter from the Kings Council giving thee direction to take up the Heads of us and secure them till the Assizes unless they should give Security for their appearance And told that there vvas the ‖ Not