For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a brief and general account of the late and present sufferings of many of the peaceable subjects called Quakers, upon the late act against Conventicles, for no other cause but meeting together to worship God according to their perswasions and consciences.
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For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a brief and general account of the late and present sufferings of many of the peaceable subjects called Quakers, upon the late act against Conventicles, for no other cause but meeting together to worship God according to their perswasions and consciences.
Author
Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.
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[London :: s.n.],
1675.
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Society of Friends.
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"For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a brief and general account of the late and present sufferings of many of the peaceable subjects called Quakers, upon the late act against Conventicles, for no other cause but meeting together to worship God according to their perswasions and consciences." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44361.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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TAken from 69. Persons for 311 l. 5 s. fines laid upon them in the yeares 1670.1673, 1674. In Goods and Cattle, to the value of 497 l. 13. s. 8. d. Henry Williams a poor man, stript so near that they left him neither Breeches to ware, nor Bed to lye on, and took his very Hatchet, he should work withall; from ano∣ther poor man, for 15 s. fine, they took his wives wearing ap∣parel.
And there are lately several persons fined, to the value of 147 l. for which distresses are not yet taken.
Also many are proceeded against upon an old statute against Po∣pish Recusants, and returned into the Exchequer for a Seizure, of two thirds of their Estates, and a writ of enquiry sent down to Commissioners, to enquire into their Estates.
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