The Quakers shaken, or, a warning against quaking. Being I. A relation of the conversion and recovery of John Gilpin, of Kendall in Westmorland, who was not only deluded, but possessed with the devill. II. A vindication of the said John Gilpin, from the aspersions of the Quakers. III. Twelve lying blasphemous prophecies of James Milner of Beakly in Lancashire; delivered by him Novemb. 14, 15, 16. IV. A relation of a horrid buggery committed by Hugh Bisbrown, a Quaker, with a mare. V. A relation of one Cotton Crosland of Ackworth in York-shire, a professed Quaker, who hanged himself.

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The Quakers shaken, or, a warning against quaking. Being I. A relation of the conversion and recovery of John Gilpin, of Kendall in Westmorland, who was not only deluded, but possessed with the devill. II. A vindication of the said John Gilpin, from the aspersions of the Quakers. III. Twelve lying blasphemous prophecies of James Milner of Beakly in Lancashire; delivered by him Novemb. 14, 15, 16. IV. A relation of a horrid buggery committed by Hugh Bisbrown, a Quaker, with a mare. V. A relation of one Cotton Crosland of Ackworth in York-shire, a professed Quaker, who hanged himself.
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Gilpin, John, 17th cent.
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London, :: Printed by S.G. for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Globe in Saint Pauls Church-yard.,
1655.
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Gilpin, John, 17th cent -- Early works to 1800.
Millner, James -- Early works to 1800.
Bisbrown, Hugh -- Early works to 1800.
Crosland, Cotton -- Early works to 1800.
Society of Friends -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Quakers shaken, or, a warning against quaking. Being I. A relation of the conversion and recovery of John Gilpin, of Kendall in Westmorland, who was not only deluded, but possessed with the devill. II. A vindication of the said John Gilpin, from the aspersions of the Quakers. III. Twelve lying blasphemous prophecies of James Milner of Beakly in Lancashire; delivered by him Novemb. 14, 15, 16. IV. A relation of a horrid buggery committed by Hugh Bisbrown, a Quaker, with a mare. V. A relation of one Cotton Crosland of Ackworth in York-shire, a professed Quaker, who hanged himself." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86014.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2025.

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The Prophecies and other passages of James Milner a Taylor, Novemb. the 14. 15, 16. 1652.

1. HE told the people (I mean the gadding Tribe) who flocked to his house those three dayes, that he had fast∣ed fourteen dayes and nights, and that he was to fast two dayes more for the saving of two souls, which (he said) were Dorothy Barwick, and the Wife of Brian Fell of Ʋlverston.

2. That he must suffer as Christ did; and setting a drie and empty Bason in the midst of his house, he went many times a∣bout it, Thomas Hutton holding a knife over his head all the time; at last he asked the standers by, whether they saw not drops of water and blood? Hutton answered, yes, and then (as Milner himself said) he gave up the Ghost as Christ did.

3. That the fifteenrh day must be the day of judgement, and the last day of the old Creation, and that Thursday the sixteenth must be the first day of the new Creation.

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That there must come down from heaven a four-cornerd she•••• with a sheep in the sixteenth day, for confirmation (as was conceived) of his prophecies, but the event not being answera∣ble to his prediction, and the Quakers expectation, he told them, they were faln amongst the wicked, and so a Company of them (about twelve) were sent with a Constable to search the house of John Goads in the night time, for a stolne sheep, but found none.

4. He said there must be a Silver Myne in his Garden, a Mynt-house in his fold, and James Barwick must be the Coyn∣er; and trampling a long time upon a part of his Garden, he asked the people if they saw not Silver arise out of the earth: but they gave no answer. I know none shall see it (saith Mil∣ver) but the Prophet▪ Hutton and my Wife, whereupon she said she saw Silver bubble up like pin-heads.

5. He told them there must be a Coal-pit in Sheep Park, and he paced out the ground where it should be.

6. That a Mill must be built, and the water that should make it go, must come out of a Well near his Garden, which (though it hath seldome water in it) he said should be a Well for ever.

7. That there should be the eighteenth day a great draught of Fishes which he himself with Zebedee must draw, which (as tis reported) proved to be but a Codling.

8. He said he was Abraham, and Adam, and his Wife was Eve, that Beakeley, (the town where he lived) must be called Z••••r, and Gleastn, another Town not far off must be called Ni∣nive.

9. That George Foxe was John the Baptist, and he it was that was to come after, whose shoo-latchet Foxe was unwor∣to unloose.

10. That he must live four hundred years upon earth, the cloaths on his back must never be worn, nor he ever greater or lesser.

11. That Richard Myars, the younger, must go and prophe∣sie into other Countries, and Thomas Hutton must prophesie in his own Country.

12. That there must be no more Judges at Lancaster, neither any more Rents, or Tythe paid.

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This pretended Prophet lives at Beakely in Lane ashire, where he delivered these lying Oracles, whereof there were many, both eye, and ear witnesses, and amongst others John Kilner, and George Fell (called Zebedee by the said Milner) who are rea∣dy to attest what is here related, if called unto it: They were both before that time bewitched with the delusions of the Quakers, But afterwards never followed them more, blesling God, that he had open'd their eyes to see the delusions of Sa∣than, and those manifold snares, wherein they had been entan∣gled.

Reader, these following relations may at first view seem in∣credible to thee, by reason of the abominable nature of the mat∣ters of fact contained in them: But however I shall not conceal from thee what is notoriously known and certainly beleeved, in those parts where it was acted, that so thou maist have a fur∣ther testimony of their grosse and palpable blindnesse, who ae so great pretenders of the light.

In the year 1653. In Summer time Hugh Bisbrwne living at, or near Beethom, was seen by two severall persons, committing the detestable sin of Buggery with a Mare, but being discovered in the very act, and knowing the penalty due thereunto to be death, he soon after (upon information given in against him) betook himself to his heeles, and hath not since that time been seen publickly in the Country: This horrid fact was committed upon a Common in the Parish of Warton near Silver-dale: the Parties who saw it were, Ʋnica Bake, and the Wife of Rich. Clarke, both of Beethom, who offer'd to depose before a Justice of the Peace, that they saw them carnally conjoyn'd: The Qua∣kers since that time deny him to have been one of their Sect, be∣ing ashamed of him by reason of his béastly wickednesse, but the evidence thereof is very clear from the testimony of the Neigh∣bours thereabouts, who do affirme with one consent, that for a long space before, he never attended upon the publick Mini∣stery, but was frequently present at the mettings of the▪ Qua∣kers, refused to use any Civill Salutation, and in all things else whatsoever symbolized with them: & had he not been act∣ed by that power (spoken of in I. G. his relation) he had ne∣ver been carried out to such abominable filthinesse; Nor would the beast in all probability have stood so quietly without the

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least motion (as the witnesses affirmed she did, whilst he was doing that vild act) had not the same power by his means been very prevalent in her.

Somewhat before the time above written, one Cotten Crosland of Ackworth (neer Pontefract in York-shire) a professed Quaker, pretending that he knew far more, and higher things than ever any Minister did, or could discover to him, hang'd himself, and lies buried in a Crosse-way upon Ackworth Moor, with a Stake driven thorow him, which may be as a standing mark to warn Passengers to take heed of quaking, seeing that Spirit which is the cause of it, leads men into such fearful miscarri∣ages. Let the unprejudiced Reader judge whether the light that leads men to such practices, be not gross darkness. Let it be the prayer of every Christian Reade that he who commanded light to shine out of darkness, would illuminate their understandings, who for the present lie in it.

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