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A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers


A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers, for the testimony of a good conscience from the time of their being first distinguished by that name in the year 1650 to the time of the act commonly called the Act of toleration granted to Protestant dissenters in the first year of the reign of King William the Third and Queen Mary in the year 1689

Vol. 1, Published London, 1753

CHAP. VI. CAMBRIDGESHIRE, and ISLE of ELY

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ANNO 1656. It was at this Time adjudged penal to entertain any Quakers, and for that Cause only, William Holmes and Thomas Jobson were indicted at the Assizes, sent to Prison, and afterwards fined; and the Former had taken from him by Distress, two Mares worth 8l. and the Latter an Horse worth 10l.

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ANNO 1666, John Wayman and Thomas Wayman, both of Over, for a Demand of 5s. for Tithe, were imprisoned in Cambridge Castle at the Suit of Dudley Pope Impropriator.

CHAP. XIX. HUNTINGDONSHIRE.

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ANNO 1659. Daniel Maddy was by some Justices of the Peace committed to Prison for refusing to Swear, but at the next Assizes was released by Judge Hales. About the same Time Richard Jobson and Thomas Jobson were taken out of their Beds, and kept under Guard at the Crown Inn at Huntingdon twenty four Hours: After which, though they refused to Swear, they were dismist, but their Houses, as also that of Robert Raby, were searched for Arms, on a groundless Suspicion of their Disaffection to the Government.

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ANNO 1684. About the 2d of December, Richard Jobson and Elijah Lovel of Huntingdon, were accused before the Mayor and other Justices of the Peace, for being at three several Meetings in the said Richard Jobson’s House: Upon their refusing to find Sureties they were sent to Prison.

CHAP. XXV. LONDON and MIDDLESEX.

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ANNO 1670. On the 18th [May], the City Marshal came to the Meeting in Grace-church-street, and pulled down Alexander Parker then preaching, and carried him, together with George Whitehead and John Boulton, who were sitting with him, before the Lord-Mayor, who fined Alexander 20l. and the other two 5s. each.

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ANNO 1683. On the 4th of the Month called March 1683, at Horslydown, the Friends, being kept out of their Meeting-house, were assembled after their usual Manner in the Street, when the Constables came and took away William Shewin, Anthony Tomkins, Joseph Wase, Edmund Tiddeman, Richard Post, Thomas Lurting, Joseph Rawbone, John Bridges, John Holliday, George Bradford, Edmund Curle, and Percival Parsons, whom they carried before William Spiers, a Justice at the Bridge-house, who committed them all to the Counter in Tooly-Street as Rioters.

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