To the King, and both houses of Parliament, thus saith the Lord; meddle not with my people because of their conscience to me; and banish them not out of the nation, because of their conscience: for, if you do, I will send my plagues upon you; and you shall know that I am the Lord. / Written in obedience to the Lord, by his servant, Geo. Bishope. Bishop, George, d. 1668. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76761 of text R170665 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B3008A). 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. 1 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 A76761 Wing B3008A ESTC R170665 45578153 ocm 45578153 172110 2240883409

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A76761) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172110) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2615:6) To the King, and both houses of Parliament, thus saith the Lord; meddle not with my people because of their conscience to me; and banish them not out of the nation, because of their conscience: for, if you do, I will send my plagues upon you; and you shall know that I am the Lord. / Written in obedience to the Lord, by his servant, Geo. Bishope. Bishop, George, d. 1668. 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], Bristol, : the 25th of the 9th month, 1664. Reproduction of original in the Friends' Library, London. eng Liberty of conscience. Quakers -- Persecutions -- England. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo To the King, and both houses of Parliament, thus saith the Lord; meddle not with my people, because of their conscience to me; and banish them not out Bishop, George, 1664 2 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2012-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-04 Sampled and proofread 2013-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the King , And both Houses of PARLIAMENT , Thus saith the LORD ;

MEddle not with my People , because of their Conscience to me ; and banish them not out of the Nation , because of their Conscience : For , if you do , I will send my Plagues upon you ; and you shall know that I am the Lord .

Bristol , the 25th of the 9th Month , 1664 , Written in Obedience to the Lord , By his Servant , Geo. Bishope .