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A true and faithful narrative, of the unjust and illegal sufferings, and oppressions of many Christians : (injuriously, and injudiciously call'd fanaticks, holding all the fundamentals of the Christian religion, believing all the articles of the Christian faith; and whose lives and conversations are as consonant, and agreeable to the laws of God as theirs that persecute them) under, and by several of His Majesties Justices of Peace, and others, who are no officers, but informers, in the county of Devon, since the tenth of May, 1670 from a pretended zeal, to put the law against conventicles in execution : as also, of the most malicious prosecution of nine innocent persons, to take away their lives, under a false pretence of murdering an informer : and of the tryals that were betwixt Matthew Hele, of Halwel, in the parish of Pool, William Bastard, of Garston, in the parish of West-Alvington, Esquires, and Mr. Edmund Reynel, and John Bear, (called by a nick-name Cocky Bear) two informers for pretended neglects, of putting the act against conventicles in execution, and the hard measure they met with from the judg; with the horrid perjuries of the witnesses brought against them, at the assizes held at Exon, in the county of Devon, April 1671.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hickes, John, 1633-1685.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persecution--England--Devon--Early works to 1800.
- Persecution.
- Martyrs--England--Devon.
- Martyrs.
- England--Devon.
- Physical Description:
- 34 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- True and faithful narrative
- Fingerprint:
- m,on ofg- ntat tifo (3) 1671 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year 1671.
- Notes:
- Attributed by Wing to John Hickes.
- Place of publication from Wing.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has "Arrata" tipped in.
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), H1881
- ESTC, R5989
- OCLC:
- 5961739
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