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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Title: 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.
Publication: [London :: s.n.],; 1675.
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Nottinghamshire. 1670, 1674.

TAken to the value of 695 l. 3 s. 6 d. in Cattle and Houshold-Stuff, from some all their goods, excepting a Barrel of Beere, a Cradle, and some Bread and Cheese, which the Officers for pitty hid, and told the women of it; the Justice bid the Officers take three or four times as much as the fines that they might allow good penny worths. They took from a poor fatherless Boy, his Coat and Breeches; not leaving the Woman at one house a Stool to sit on to dress her Child: Two persons appealing to the Sessions, they ordred them their mony again; but Pennistoni Whaley, called a Justice, fraudulently detains 60 l, in his hands contrary to the orders of the Sessions.

Note, Colgrave the grand Informer, swearing falsly several times, as that persons were at a Meeting, when they were not, and that there was preaching, when there was not one word spoken; and that divers were not worth 10 s. though it was proved in open Court, they had Horses, Beasts and Sheep of their own at that time.