The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker.

To the Major, and for the Aldermen to read also.

Friend,

TAke heed (as thou wilt answer before the Throne of the Majesty on High, even the Lord God of Judgment, who from Generation to Generation did and doth, and yet will plead the Cause of the Guiltlesse, whether men do it or not) that thou yet pursue not Evil to thine own Destruction, in consenting to, or joyning with any in Testimony, or Judgment, against the Innocent, lest the weight of innocent Blood lye heavy upon thy Conscience: The Living God, (behold I testifie) hath an Eternall Witnesse, that is true, in thy Conscience; And in love, (whether thou hear or forbear) I warn thee also, that thou take heed of justifying any thing, or Witnesse, or Testimony, which the Everlasting Witnesse, (the Light of Jesus) in thee condemns; or, on the contrary, that thou persist not to condemn any thing which the Pure and True Witnesse of the God of Truth in thee justifyeth: For he was a wise Man, that said by the Spirit of the Lord, He that condemneth the Just, and justifieth the Wicked, even They both are an Abomination to the Lord.

And, O Ye Rulers, wisely consider, whether you are so, or a praise to the Lord, who is our All, God, blessed for ever. I commend my Testimony freely to the witnesse of God in Your consciences, to be answered in the Day of God whether you now hear or forbear: Know Ye, that I am a Servant of the Living God, and a Friend, and not an Enemy to any one mans Person, upon the Face of the whole Earth, therefore not an enemy to the

King God is my Witness, that I am a Friend also to sound Justice, and Judgment, Good Magistrates, Good Government, Good Lawes, and am subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake, called of men, (who am clear of Your Guilt, and False Accusations, and Swearings.)

DANIEL BAKER, by Scorners called QUAKER.

Worcester Prison, This 22^d of the 8^th Month, 1660.

From the Lords Prisoner for the Testimony of Truth. D. B.