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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Society of Friends -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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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 May 3, 2024.
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descriptionPage 126
1665.
John Nicholson of the East Riding committed to York Castle, by Warrant from the Deputy Lievtenant, be∣ing taken from his House without any just cause of Of∣fence: In the Year 1665. after he had been some time in Prison fell sick and dyed.
☞Note, he was prosecuted by Henry Latly and Francis Cobb, the one of which fell Distracted, and the other Killed himself.
John Brookbanck committed the 30th of the 11th Moneth, 1673. for not paying Tythes, (being a Servant to his Mother) and dyed in Prison the 8th of the 5th Moneth, 1675. and for want of the Goal Fees was bu∣ried by the Goaler on the back-side of the Castle.
Richard Leng dyed a Prisoner in York Castle, for his Testimony against Tythes, the 25th of the 3d Moneth, 1676.
John Green dyed in Prison the 12th of the 5th moneth, 1676. being Imprisoned for non-Conformity, not go∣ing to hear divine Service, (so called) and not receiving the Sacrament (so called.)
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