A brief relation of some part of the sufferings of the true Christians, the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, in Ireland, for these last eleaven years, viz, from 1660 until 1671 with an occasional treatise of their principles and practices briefly stated, whereby the innocency of their cause, for which they so suffer, is not only plainly demonstrated, but also from all false asperations and causeless pretences sufficiently vindicated / collected by T.H. and A.F.

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Title: A brief relation of some part of the sufferings of the true Christians, the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, in Ireland, for these last eleaven years, viz, from 1660 until 1671 with an occasional treatise of their principles and practices briefly stated, whereby the innocency of their cause, for which they so suffer, is not only plainly demonstrated, but also from all false asperations and causeless pretences sufficiently vindicated / collected by T.H. and A.F.
Author: Holme, Thomas, d. 1695.
Publication: [S.l. :: s.n.],; 1672.
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Subject terms: Society of Friends -- Ireland.
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Waterford City.

1666. William Wright, for working and following his law∣ful Labour on a Week day (by some called a Holy-day) was Excommunicated, and after a Harsh and Cruel manner taken up, and had to Goal (by the Bishop's means) and there kept a close Prisoner a long time, and not suffered to go to his Fa∣mily (it being a great prejudice to him and his Trade, being a Joyner) and the subsistance of his Wife, Children and Family de∣pended on him.

☞ And it is to be Noted, That the said Bishop Gore caus'd one Jer. Hankes, for the very same cause, to be Excommunicated, and likewise committed to Goal, where he was also kept close Prisoner a long time, and at last falling sick, the Bp. was desired to grant him leave to go home, in or∣der to his recovery, but the cruel Bishop refused, and so the Prisoner dy'd in Goal, leaving his Body there, as a Testimony against the observation of days (set up at first by the Pope, and since commanded to be kept) without Scrip∣ture Authority, which allow 6. days in the week to work on) also leaving his Wife and poor Children to the Charity of well-minded people; for the man was but (outwardly) poor, and by Trade a Shoe maker: The reason why we mention this mans Sufferings, is because (though he was not one of us, yet he was so much of our Principle, as to bear his Testimony (with the loss of Li∣berty and Life it self) against the (originally Papal) Institution of observing Holy-days (so called) and also, to manifest the cruelty of the said Bp. who would not admit the poor Prisoner to go out of Goal, to endeavour the preser∣vation of his Life; an account of his Death, or loss of Life, in that manner must assuredly be rendred to God: Let the Party concern'd deeply consider this & lay it to heart, and repent, & beware of being any occasion▪ or guilty of the like for the future: and will not all sober people judge it just & equal, that the said Party do take care for his poor Wife and Children, that if it be possible this Blood may be expiated, which otherwise cannot but ascend to the Lord God that created him, and the Cry of the Widdow and Fatherless reach unto his Ear.