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B01449	The defence of the people called Quakers: being a reply, to a book lately published by certain priests of the county of Norfolk, under the pretended title of The Quakers challenge. And containing, some brief and modest animadversions upon the book it self. Several certificates, which detect the errors in those of West-Dereham, and clear the people called Quakers of the said challenge. The letters that passed between them and the priests.	Ashby, Richard, 1663?-1734.	1699 (1699)	Wing A3939; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.20[18]; ESTC R1295	32,665	56

such Occasions belonging Provided as aforesaid you think Meet in your own Names or any other of your Cloth to Charge us And through the Lord's Assistance you shall hear from us or some others of us whom you or some of you have endeavoured to Traduce and we Doubt not Publickly to put aside that Disguise that by others have been put upon us and to make it appear to all unbiassed Persons that we really are in the Truth and Simplicity of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Your Real Friends Richard Ashby John Hubbard Philip Tassell Rich. Marler Stephen Stanton Daniel Phillips Matth. Harrison John Hunter Tho. Buckingham Richard Case John Brown The Priests Answer to the foregoing Letter Friends IT has not been from any Distrust of the Goodness of our Cause or any backwardness in us to Defend It that we have been thus long in returning an Answer to the Challenge you sent us but partly from not being able to resolve immediately at that Distance we Live from those we had to Consult how far it was fit to Comply with some of your Terms that appeared unreasonable to us and partly from the difficulty of getting your Books which you might with greater Justice expect in this Case we should Read if they were permitted to go more freely than yet we can find into other Hands as well as those of your Friends But having with a great deal of Trouble in some Measure got over this Stop we shall not insist upon Francis Bugg's bearing any Part in the Intended Dispute nor Wave the Challenge you have turned upon us instead of accepting of his which yet we think you ought to have done Notwithstanding what you Precariously affirm in your own Cause of his being Unreasonable and Answered already But your excluding him shall not hinder us or some of our Brethren from giving you a Meeting in Answer to your Challenge And that we may prevent Tumults and Confusions and that our Meeting may obtain the Design we all Hope for God's Glory and the Hearers Edification we think fit to acquaint you with these our following Propositions I. That the Place to Meet in be West-Dereham Church being pretty Capacious and well Gallery'd II. That the time of our Meeting be on Thursday the 8th of December at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon and so on as many Thursdays following us there shall be occasion for III. That but Six of a side be permitted to Dispute and those Six to be known Inhabitants within the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk or the City of Norwich and that there be but one of those Six to speak at a time and that he be not interrupted unless he runs out beyond the Term of Five Minutes at a time IV. That no Personal Reflections shall be made one against another that are Forreign to the Cause V. That a Notary of each side be appointed to write down the Objections and Answers that are made by either Party and that they be compared at the end of every Meeting if there shall happen to be more than one The Matters we Charge you with are as follow I. We Charge you with Blasphemy against God II. With Blasphemy against Jesus Christ III. With Blasphemy against the Holy Scriptures IV. We Charge you with great Contempt of Civil Magigracy and the Ordinances which Jesus Christ Instituted viz. Baptism by Water and the Lord 's Supper with Bread and Wine V. We Charge you that the Light within as taught by you leaves you without any certain Rule and Exposes you to the forementioned and many other Blasphemies Hen. Meriton John Meriton Lau. Parke A Reply to the Priests Letter The 31st of the 8th Month 1698. Friends YOUR Paper with the Charge upon the People call'd Quakers without a Date came to the Hands of our Friend John Hubbard on the 27th Instant You were pleased to call the Offer we made to you in Writing a Challenge which Term we think is no ways Applicable to it For taking Notice of your readiness to Espouse Francis Bugg's Charge and Challenge we look'd upon it very Reasonable and Prudence in you as Wise Men to hear our Defence therefore referr'd you to several of our Printed Answers which if you had desired of us to have seen them we would have procured them for you but not one word of that from you in so many Weeks time And for our excluding F. B. from any part of the intended Dispute we have so much Cause and Reason for it we believe as will sufficiently Justifie us in the Opinion of all Judicious Persons And whereas you render it difficult to procure our Friends Books we are willing to Expose them to any that desires them as is well known and as you might have prov'd if you had made Trial. And now before we take Notice of your Propositions we judge it necessary to enquire into the Extent of your Charge whether it be upon the whole Body of the People called Quakers or upon particular Persons or upon the Writings of particular Persons Especially your Three first Charges If you Charge a whole Body of People you are not Just in your Limitation that the Persons that have a share in the Dispute be only known Inhabitants in Norfolk Suffolk and City of Norwich and at the same time Charge all the said People Generally If it be against particular Persons we judge you ought to name Them in your Charge if it be against the Writings of particular Persons it is necessary for you to name the Authors and the Titles of the Books and the Pages this we Insist upon These things Premised we take Notice of your Propositions I. As to the place in West-Dereham we do not object against it but are Indifferent as to that II. The Day perfixt being the Eighth of December next will not be Convenient for some of us being in Stoakfair Week III. That Six Persons only of a side be Permitted to Manage the Dispute and those Six to be known Inhabitants in Nolfolk Suffolk and Norwich we agree to provided your Charge reaches not to any Person or the Writings of any Person that lives not in either of the said Counties or said City but if it doth we expect and account it very Reasonable to be left to our free Liberty in the Choice of our Six and allow the same Liberty to you And that but One be allowed to speak at a time is very necessary and we like it well but not to be Limitted Precisely to the space of Five Minutes yet to endeavour Brevity and before Answer be made that there be a little Pause IV. V. Your Fourth and Fifth Propositions we like as stated by you and do expect an Explanation of the Extent of your Charge as is abovesaid to be sent us without delay waving to Repeat or Object against it or any Article thereof but refer that until we hear further from you We are your Friends Richard Ashby Richard Case