When
William
James
had
received
this
Letter
,
he
without
any
more
ado
issued
out
another
Warrant
to
distrain
my
goods
,
unless
I
would
pay
four
shillings
for
not
coming
to
their
Worship
;
and
on
the
30th
day
of
the
8th
Moneth
,
called
October
,
65.
Simon
Godard
,
one
of
those
called
Churchwardens
,
took
away
a
good
Harrow
,
worth
near
seven
shillings
.
And
toward
the
latter
end
of
10th
the
Moneth
,
called
December
,
65.
William
James
issued
out
another
Warrant
,
after
his
usual
manner
,
and
on
the
29th
day
of
the
same
Moneth
,
the
said
Simon
Godard
,
took
away
two
pieces
of
Pewter
,
because
I
came
not
to
their
Worship
:
Thus
they
took
away
my
Goods
three
times
for
not
going
to
their
Worship
,
after
I
was
Excommunicated
therefrom
;
and
the
said
William
James
did
threaten
the
Officers
for
not
selling
the
Goods
,
who
complained
they
could
not
sell
them
to
the
worth
,
he
replyed
,
that
if
they
were
worth
twenty
shillings
,
and
they
sold
them
for
five
shillings
,
he
would
bear
them
out
in
it
.
And
on
the
28th
day
of
the
same
10th
Moneth
,
65.
a
Friend
came
to
my
house
,
who
had
a
Testimony
to
bear
for
the
Lord
,
and
several
Friends
came
there
to
wait
upon
the
Lord
,
and
some
of
the
Town
,
my
Neighbours
,
were
there
,
who
a
long
time
had
a
desire
to
bear
one
speak
of
the
things
of
the
Lord
,
and
I
did
let
them
know
,
and
there
came
pretty
many
;
and
when
the
Friend
had
declared
a
pretty
while
,
the
Priest
being
informed
of
it
,
being
at
home
with
his
Family
,
having
some
others
at
his
house
playing
at
Cards
;
but
when
they
heard
of
a
Meeting
at
my
house
,
they
left
their
Card-playing
,
and
the
Priest
sent
〈◊〉
the
Tything
man
,
who
dwelt
nigh
him
,
to
come
away
and
break
up
the
Meeting
;
but
neither
he
nor
the
Constable
were
at
home
,
for
they
were
peaceably
Assembled
,
with
many
others
at
my
house
,
who
not
at
all
suspected
the
Priest
should
be
hatching
such
a
wicked
device
:
but
the
Priest
having
no
Officer
to
assist
him
,
without
any
more
ado
,
came
himself
to
my
house
,
only
the
Card-players
came
to
assist
him
;
and
he
began
to
threaten
the
people
that
they
should
go
before
the
Justice
,
and
some
of
the
people
being
affraid
because
the
Priest
threatned
them
,
would
have
gone
away
;
but
one
Francis
Dayly
,
the
Priests
Journey-man
,
stood
and
kept
the
door
,
and
told
them
,
he
must
know
what
they
were
before
they
went
forth
;
and
the
Priest
interrupted
the
Friend
that
was
Speaking
and
Declaring
the
Truth
,
and
demanded
his
name
and
place
of
abode
,
and
charged
the
Constable
to
see
them
forth-coming
the
next
morning
;
and
the
Priest
being
then
passing
away
,
called
forth
the
Constable
,
and
commanded
him
to
set
men
to
keep
the
Friend
that
spake
,
and
another
that
came
with
him
,
until
the
morning
;
and
some
of
the
people
hearing
it
,
came
in
again
,
and
caused
the
two
strangers
to
go
forth
into
the
Orchard
until
the
Constable
was
gone
,
and
the
Constable
coming
in
against
his
will
to
apprehend
them
,
and
finding
them
not
within
,
passed
away
.
But
the
Priest
,
to
prosecute
his
work
which
he
had
enviously
begun
,
sent
early
the
next
morning
the
Parish
Clark
(
Lodowick
Yeamons
,
by
name
one
likewise
that
had
much
withstood
the
Truth
)
to
Wiliam
James
for
a
Warrant
,
who
presently
answered
the
Priests
end
,
or
desire
,
granted
and
sent
it
to
the
Constable
of
the
Hundred
,
requiring
him
to
bring
the
Constable
and
Tything
men
of
Boxford
,
and
as
many
more
as
the
Priests
Messenger
,
the
said
Lodowick
Yeamons
could
name
,
that
he
saw
at
the
Meeting
,
to
appear
before
him
and
the
others
,
called
Justices
of
the
Peace
,
at
the
Sign
of
the
Three
Swans
at
Hungerford
,
on
the
30th
day
of
the
10th
Moneth
65.
I
being
in
the
Warrant
appeared
with
the
rest
,
according
to
the
contents
thereof
,
and
my
Servant
man
also
was
intended
by
the
Warrant
,
but
they
mistook
his
name
,
therefore
he
went
not
.
When
we
were
come
to
Hungerford
,
and
had
staid
there
some
time
,
there
came
three
of
those
called
Justices
;
viz.
John
Elwes
,
William
Dormer
,
and
William
James
,
and
when
they
had
called
the
Constable
and
Tything
men
,
and
others
that
were
amongst
them
,
where
was
one
poor
man
which
they
promised
to
set
free
,
if
he
would
upon
his
Oath
give
them
the
names
of
the
rest
of
his
Neighbours
that
he
saw
at
the
Meeting
,
which
the
said
poor
man
for
fear
of
Suffering
presently
did
;
then
they
called
me
,
and
pressed
me
much
to
discover
the
names
of
the
two
Friends
that
kept
the
Meeting
at
my
house
,
urging
,
that
thereby
I
should
free
my self
from
suspition
of
entertaining
Jesuits
and
dangerous
persons
,
tending
to
the
disturbance
of
the
Peace
of
the
Kingdom
;
I
told
them
they
were
known
to
be
honest
men
,
and
were
never
suspected
to
be
disturbers
of
the
Peace
,
nor
of
doing
injury
or
harm
to
any
man
;
they
answered
,
my
words
would
not
satisfie
them
,
nor
clear
my self
,
unless
I
would
discover
them
;
adding
further
,
that
if
they
were
honest
men
what
need
I
fear
to
tell
their
names
;
I
answered
,
I
was
unwilling
to
tell
their
names
,
because
I
would
not
occasion
their
Sufferings
;
but
if
they
would
promise
that
they
should
not
trouble
nor
molest
them
,
I
would
presently
tell
who
they
were
;
William
Dormor
promised
,
that
if
they
were
honest
men
,
they
should
not
be
medled
with
;
so
I
told
their
names
,
and
places
of
abode
,
and
after
some
more
words
by
way
of
Examination
,
they
proceeded
to
the
imposing
of
Fines
,
and
fined
James
Basford
10
s.
which
they
compelled
him
to
pay
down
presently
;
and
the
rest
they
fined
12
d.
a
piece
;
and
because
I
could
not
for
Conscience
sake
stoop
under
them
,
as
they
did
,
to
promise
not
to
go
to
any
more
Meettings
,
and
to
confess
my self
guilty
,
as
an
Offender
in
that
which
before
the
Lord
,
and
all
just
men
,
I
was
innocent
,
they
fined
me
5
l.
or
else
to
endure
three
Moneths
imprisonment
,
upon
the
first
offence
,
so
called
;
and
not
paying
their
demand
.
I
was
sent
Prisoner
to
Reading
Goal
for
three
moneths
.
But
yet
this
satisfied
not
the
Priest
,
for
within
four
dayes
after
I
was
committed
,
William
James
sent
another
Warrant
for
my
man
,
for
being
at
the
forementioned
Meeting
(
who
had
been
at
home
but
a
little
time
since
he
was
a
Prisoner
at
Reading
,
being
committed
for
two
moneths
to
the
house
of
Correction
there
,
for
being
at
Meeting
)
and
he
accordingly
appeared
,
and
William
James
committed
him
(
William
Coules
by
name
)
to
the
house
of
Correction
at
Abingdon
for
four
moneths
,
for
only
being
at
home
at
his
Masters
house
.
Now
though
I
never
came
to
hear
this
Priest
,
nor
never
had
one
penny
worth
of
Service
from
him
,
yet
he
hath
by
force
and
violence
gotten
wages
,
ruling
by
force
and
cruelty
over
the
Consciences
of
men
,
like
those
whom
the
Prophet
was
sent
of
the
Lord
to
cry
wo
against
,
read
Ezek.
34.
his
proceedings
have
been
farther
on
this
wise
.
First
I
was
summoned
by
a
Subpenae
to
appear
at
the
Court
of
Exchequer
at
Westminster
,
and
when
I
appeared
according
to
the
express
words
of
the
Writ
,
the
12th
and
13th
dayes
of
the
nineth
moneth
,
66.
there
was
none
as
I
knew
to
prosecute
,
or
lay
any
thing
to
my
charge
;
and
then
he
would
not
proceed
any
farther
in
the
Exchequer
,
but
procured
a
Justicious
Warrant
,
so
called
,
from
the
Sheriff
of
the
County
,
and
sent
two
Bailiffs
,
and
took
away
my
Horses
,
and
kept
them
in
the
Bailiffs
custody
at
Newbury
,
and
put
my
Cows
in
the
Pound
,
and
lockt
them
in
,
and
both
Priest
and
Bailiff
was
so
hard-hearted
,
that
they
took
no
order
to
give
them
any
meat
;
so
that
if
I
had
not
carried
Fodder
to
them
,
in
all
probability
the
Cattel
might
have
suffered
much
,
and
have
been
lost
:
and
then
one
of
my
Relations
went
to
the
under-Sheriff
,
and
past
his
word
that
they
should
have
the
Goods
when
they
demanded
them
;
and
thereupon
,
after
they
had
kept
them
seven
or
eight
dayes
,
they
were
returned
to
me
again
.
And
on
the
8th
day
of
the
2d
Moneth
,
1667.
the
Sheriff
kept
his
Court
at
Abingdon
,
whether
this
Priest
repaired
,
and
imployed
a
Lawyer
,
who
drew
forth
a
Declaration
against
me
,
wherein
were
many
untruths
;
and
some
of
my
Relations
caused
an
Attorney
to
make
an
appearance
,
and
the
Attorney
said
,
that
the
Priest
could
not
have
a
trial
for
Tythes
in
that
Court
,
or
words
to
that
purpose
;
and
I
heard
no
more
of
this
Law
in
four
or
five
moneths
,
so
that
I
was
ready
to
think
the
Priest
had
let
fall
this
Suit
also
:
But
on
the
26th
day
of
the
6th
Moneth
,
1667.
he
procured
a
trial
in
the
same
Court
,
which
was
so
subtilly
and
privately
prosecuted
,
that
I
had
no
certain
knowledge
of
it
,
before
the
Bailiff
came
with
an
Execution
,
which
was
early
the
next
morning
after
the
Trial
;
and
the
Bailiff
Richard
Smith
by
name
,
suddenly
approached
,
and
search'd
my
house
,
and
took
away
Three
pounds
of
Money
,
and
drove
away
all
my
Cows
and
sheep
,
amounting
in
all
to
the
value
of
Thirty
pounds
,
or
thereabouts
,
and
the
single
value
the
Priest
sued
for
was
Six
pounds
Eight
shillings
.
The
unreasonableness
of
this
Priest
doth
surpass
most
in
this
Nation
;
for
there
was
one
,
who
out
of
natural
affection
to
me
,
sent
to
him
,
without
either
consent
or
knowledge
of
mine
,
by
several
of
his
Neighbours
,
men
dwelling
in
the
Parish
of
Boxford
,
that
if
he
would
take
two
indifferent
men
,
and
let
them
value
what
the
Tythes
of
my
Living
was
worth
,
he
would
be
engaged
to
pay
it
,
but
the
Priest
would
not
,
accept
of
it
,
but
said
,
he
would
rout
me
out
of
the
Town
,
or
words
to
that
effect
;
and
also
his
envy
and
malice
was
so
great
,
that
he
did
even
shew
murther
in
his
face
;
for
on
a
certain
time
,
calling
me
Heretick
,
he
said
to
me
,
that
if
the
King
would
but
grant
a
Law
,
he
would
be
the
first
man
that
would
set
a
Faggot
to
my
Tayl
;
and
at
another
time
he
said
,
that
if
the
King
would
grant
a
Law
,
he
would
be
the
first
that
would
have
me
burnt
;
and
again
at
another
time
he
said
the
like
words
;
whereby
it
is
manifest
what
lodges
in
this
mans
heart
,
and
what
Papistical
and
Jesuitical
cruelty
he
would
act
,
had
he
a
little
more
power
,
for
it
was
they
who
exercised
their
cruelty
in
that
way
toward
conscientious
People
,
who
could
not
pay
them
Tythes
,
and
uphold
them
,
as
History
do
testifie
,
in
setting
Faggots
to
their
Tayls
and
Burning
them
;
and
this
it
seems
he
would
do
,
nay
,
he
says
,
the
first
that
would
do
it
,
if
the
King
would
grant
a
Law
,
which
God
forbid
he
ever
should
,
for
the
tender
mercies
of
James
Anderton
,
and
such
as
he
is
,
would
be
very
great
Cruelty
,
as
he
already
doth
declare
,
which
may
be
caution
enough
,
any
wise
man
would
think
,
to
the
People
of
Boxford
,
yea
,
and
all
People
in
England
,
to
beware
of
such
men
,
and
to
mark
,
and
take
notice
of
them
,
what
ever
they
may
pretend
,
and
how
smooth
and
fair
soever
their
words
at
some
times
may
be
,
till
their
ends
be
accomplished
;
and
I
say
the
Lord
give
men
understanding
to
consider
.
Well
,
but
farther
also
his
envy
hath
been
manifest
in
this
particular
;
for
after
I
was
Excommunicated
,
as
is
before
mentioned
,
he
said
,
that
none
must
have
any
thing
to
do
with
me
,
either
to
buy
or
sell
,
or
the
like
,
to
which
intent
the
Miller
was
forbidden
to
grinde
my
Corn
;
yea
,
the
Priest
threatned
one
man
that
did
work
for
me
,
that
if
he
did
not
leave
off
working
for
me
,
he
would
present
him
into
Oxford
Court
,
and
the
severity
of
the
Law
should
be
prosecuted
against
him
,
and
bid
him
work
for
me
if
he
did
dare
;
and
the
man
,
for
fear
of
the
Priest
,
left
off
,
and
did
not
dare
to
work
for
me
any
longer
at
that
time
;
but
,
about
a
year
after
,
the
same
man
,
almost
forgetting
the
Priests
threatnings
,
did
work
for
me
again
;
but
it
is
evident
the
Priest
had
not
forgot
to
deal
wickedly
by
him
,
for
he
was
presented
,
and
the
Parater
came
to
summon
him
to
appear
;
and
the
man
being
in
doubt
what
should
be
the
issue
,
and
fearing
the
envy
of
the
Priest
,
agreed
with
the
Parater
,
and
gave
him
money
to
prevent
further
trouble
,
&c.
One
thing
more
I
shall
mention
,
which
is
this
:
As
I
was
lately
digging
a
Trench
,
or
Gutter
,
under
the
eves
of
my
house
,
next
the
Mass-house
yard
,
that
the
water
might
pass
away
,
for
the
Tower
formerly
fell
down
,
and
the
rubbish
thereof
lay
so
high
against
the
side
of
my
house
,
that
it
did
much
hurt
:
but
when
the
Priest
saw
me
there
at
work
,
he
came
on
,
with
open
mouth
,
as
if
he
would
have
devoured
me
,
and
violently
took
the
Mattock
from
me
,
and
threw
down
my
Garden
bounds
,
on
the
side
next
the
Steeple-house
yard
,
flat
on
the
ground
,
and
caused
the
Trench
to
be
filled
afterwards
;
and
with
the
clamor
that
he
made
several
of
the
Neighbours
came
,
and
the
Priest
asked
me
before
them
,
whether
I
would
own
that
Letter
I
lately
sent
to
him
,
I
bid
him
produce
it
,
and
read
it
to
them
,
for
I
would
assuredly
own
it
,
but
he
would
not
produce
it
.
The
occasion
of
my
writing
this
Letter
to
him
was
this
:
after
he
had
taken
away
my
goods
for
Tythes
,
as
is
before
recited
,
some
of
my
Relations
saw
that
my
goods
were
like
to
be
sold
under
hand
,
they
made
an
agreement
with
the
Priest
for
to
pay
him
twenty
pound
,
and
they
to
sell
the
Goods
,
and
(
as
they
say
)
the
residue
they
will
keep
for
him
till
another
time
,
that
he
makes
war
again
;
but
I
do
here
testifie
,
that
I
am
so
far
from
consenting
to
this
Agreement
,
or
having
any
hand
to
bring
about
this
conclusion
,
that
to
the
utmost
of
my
power
I
endeavoured
to
hinder
and
withstand
it
,
as
the
Lord
,
who
knows
,
bears
me
witness
;
and
when
this
Agreement
was
thus
patch'd
up
,
there
was
a
general
Release
under
the
Priests
hand
and
seal
sent
to
me
,
which
I
returned
back
again
to
him
with
this
Letter
,
a
Copy
whereof
follows
.