Sufferers in Surrey.
AMbrose Rigg was committed to Prison from the Sessi∣ons at Croyden by Stephen Harvy, the Judge there,
The second part of The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being an additional account of the present and late cruelty, oppression & spoil inflicted upon the persons and estates of many of the peaceable people called Quakers, in divers counties, cities and towns in this nation of England and Wales (chiefly upon the late act made against conventicles) for the peaceable exercise of their tender consciences towards God in matters of worship and religion.
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- The second part of The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being an additional account of the present and late cruelty, oppression & spoil inflicted upon the persons and estates of many of the peaceable people called Quakers, in divers counties, cities and towns in this nation of England and Wales (chiefly upon the late act made against conventicles) for the peaceable exercise of their tender consciences towards God in matters of worship and religion.
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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- [London :: s.n.],
- 1676.
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- Conventicle act. -- 1670.
- Society of Friends -- England.
- Persecution -- England.
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"The second part of The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being an additional account of the present and late cruelty, oppression & spoil inflicted upon the persons and estates of many of the peaceable people called Quakers, in divers counties, cities and towns in this nation of England and Wales (chiefly upon the late act made against conventicles) for the peaceable exercise of their tender consciences towards God in matters of worship and religion." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54212.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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the eleventh day of the eleventh moneth; 1676. be∣cause for Conscience sake he could not pay 11 s. 6 d. for Fees.
William Bowman; Henry Franklin, Joan Stringer Widow and Rebecca Almond, were taken from their Dwellings by Iohn Fisher Bailiff, and committed to Prison, and from thence carryed to the Sessions held at Croyden the day and year a∣bove said, because for Conscience sake they could not pay 3 s. apiece, imposed upon them there by Stephen Harvy Judge, for three first dayes Absence from the Steeple-house, and were committed close Prisoners in the M••••shalses, where they remain to this day.
Richard Stubbs committed the same time for the same thing, who remains a close Prisoner to this day.
Thomas Seaman Was committed to Prison upon a Writ of Capias about the middle of the 6th moneth, 1676. being presented by the Wardens of the Parish of Sheer, because he could not go to hear Thomas Duncomb Priest there, where he still remains to this day.
Thomas Woods and John Woods were committed to Prison upon a Writ of Capias about the middle of the 7th moneth, in the year afore-said, being presented by John Chandler and John Tuersly Wardens of the Parish of Wittly in Surrey, be∣cause for Conscience sake they could not pay to the Repair of the Steeple house.
Stephen Smith and Richard Baker were committed to Pri∣son at the Suit of Gabriel Offley Priest of VVorplesdon, be∣cause they could not pay him Tythes, about the 20th of the 9th Moneth, 1676.
All these were committed to the Marshalses Prison in the Burrough of Southwark, where they remain this day, being the 25th of the 11th moneth, 1676.
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John Blatt and John Hatcher were brought to Sessions by Richard Bonnick Bailiff.