1665.
John Shield another of the Labourers in the Work and Service of God was taken out of a Meeting at Horse-lie-down, and committed to Prison to the White Lyon, where
A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.
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- A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.
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- Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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- London :: Printed by Andrew Sowle, and are sold at his shop ...,
- 1680.
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"A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65840.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.
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he remained a Prisoner till about the 6th or 7th moneth, 1665. and then finished his Course as a faithful Witness for the Lord and his Truth.
John Fothergill was taken out of a peaceable Meeting of the People of God at Glinford, and was had before one called a Justice, who committed him to Prison to the White Lyon, and being twenty five Miles from London, he was unwilling to put the Constable to so much trouble to guard him to Prison, but went himself, the Constable giving him his Mittimus; and after he had remained some Moneths in Prison he fell sick of a Fea∣vour, and about the 6th moneth, 1665. he finished his Course, and was taken away from the many Tryals and Troubles that the Righteous suffer in this World.
Henry Day of the Parish of Magdalens Bermonsey in the County of Surrey, Taylor, Imprisoned in the County Goal, upon a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo, prose∣cuted by George Nutkins, William Browne, John Arnold and Richard Burgin, Wardens and Overseers of the said Parish, for not paying towards the Repair of the Church (so called) after he had lain some time in Prison, fell sick, and dyed the 20th day of the 7th moneth, 1677. a Prisoner for the Testimony of a good Conscience.
John Farmer of the same Parish, Carpenter, Impri∣soned by the same Writ, at the same time and for the same cause, prosecuted at the same mens suit, remained a Prisoner until he dyed, which was the 12th day of November, 1680.