A copy of a letter sent from a person that was present at the apprehension of Mr. Meade and five more E. M. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A50531 of text R10790 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M16). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A50531 Wing M16 ESTC R10790 13568088 ocm 13568088 100343 2264211094

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A COPY OF A LETTER , Sent from a Person that was present at the Apprehension of Mr. Meade and Five more . SIR ,

ON Sunday Night last , there were Apprehended upon Suspition , Six Persons at Bradwel juxta Mares ( being a Town in the Hundreds of Essex ) whereof the one is Mr. Preston of Milend , a Grazier , the other Five were brought down by him in Order to their Conveyance beyond Sea , to which purpose a Vessel was Hired from Deal in Kent , to take them in at Bradwell , which accordingly came thither that Night about Eleven or Twelve of the Clock , but was likewise Seazed , together with the Men. One of the Six is Mr. Meade of Stepney , a Nonconformist , who went under the Name of Richardson , another owns his Name to be Bourne , and pretends to be a Brewer in St. Giles's . Another of them is one Shrimpton , a Linnen-Draper in London , as they Confessed upon their Examination before a Justice , although they went under other Names before .

They are all found to Contradict one another in their several Examinations , and accordingly were sent to Goal at Chelmsford on Monday last .

He that calls himself Bourne , hath a Gold Watch , and a Gold Tobacco-Box , and was richly Habited , though Disguised with an Old Coat , and is indeed one of the most Compleat Men I have seen .

They all Confessed ( except Mr. Preston their Guide ) that they intended either for France or Holland , they cared not which , so they had got off from hence .

A little time will bring to Light the Hidden Works of Darkness , which is heartily Pray'd for , by

SIR Your Humble Servant E. M. FINIS .

LONDON , Printed by R. W. 1683.