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A TRUE DECLARATION OF The bloody Proceedings OF The Men in Maidstone in the County OF KENT: Who write themselves, John Allen, May∣or, Lambert Godfrey, Recorder, John Chantler, Constable, against John Stubs, William Caton, who by the scornful generation of men are called QUAKERS.
AFter nine or ten weeks travel and labor of VVilliam Caton, and Iohn Stubs, into several towns & villages in the County of Kent, wee came into Maidstone upon the 27 day of the third moneth, being the first day of the week, about the third hour in the after-part of the day, having bin at a Baptist-meeting the former part, at a place called Bauton Green, 2 or 3 miles distant from the said Maidstone, & coming thither as aforesaid, we went to one VVhetstones house, tho unknown to him or any man outwardly in the town; and continuing there about half an hour, one of us went to the Steeplehouse, where a people called Presbyterians meets, and the other went to a place where a people called Independants were, and when they that were set up to teach amongst them had done, & all silent, we spoke; but with scorn and contempt I who were at the Steeplehouse was put forth, but in the Steeplehouse-yard I spoke something to the people, til that one Iohn Chantler, Constable, came to me in sury, & put me away, & gave another Constable charge with me, & by him carried to the Stocks, where I was kept awhile, & then brought me forth, and was had before one who writes himself Lambert Godfrey, cal d a Justice of Peace & Recorder, & there by him was e••amined what I was, and from whence I came; my education in my youth, & what vocation I had followed from my youth up unto this present, and many subtil & needless queries not worth mentioning; but what I was free in the Lord to answer to, I did notwithstanding his malicious intentions against me, as afterward appeared; I told him for the most part, from a child I was kept at the School, until I was seve••teen or eighteen years of age; and some yeers after I was banished forth of my own Coun∣trey, in the Bishops and Prelates time, for the testimony of a good conscience, because