Chap. V. The HIS T 0 R Y of the Pu.ittTANS. 593 rd and mrjl horrid treafon and rebellion in this city of London; in which ChK~"C !I they avow their loyalty to the king, and promife that their practice fi1all :~~~. ' be conformable ; fubfcribed by William Kif/en, Henry Den, John Batty,~ 'l'homas Lamb, <J'homas Co1vper, and about twenty-nine or thirty other names. They alfo addreifed the king, that the innocent might not fuf~ fur with the guilty; protefiing in the mofi folemn manner, that they had not the leafi knowledge of the late infurreClion, not' did directly or .indireCtly, contrive, promote, affift, or approve of it. They offered to give fecurity for their peaceable behaviour, and for their fupporting his majefiy's perfon and government. But notwithfianding this, their religious affemblies were di!lurbed in all places, and their minifters imprifoned; great numbers were crouded into Newgate, and other prifons, where they remained under clofe confinement till the king's coronation, when the general pardon publifhed on that occafion fet them at liberty. The quakers alfo addrdfed the king upon this occafion in the follow• ing words: Oh king Charles ! ,.,o U R defire is, that thou mayefi live for ever in the (ear of God, By the qua· " and thy council. We befeech thee, and thy council, to read ~rs•. << thefe following lines, in tender bowels, and compa"ffion for our fouls, 3 66,net; P• '"' and for your good. . " And this confider, we are about four huhdred imprifoned in and about " this city, of men and women from their families; befides, in the coun– n try gaols above- ten hundred. We defire, that our meetings may not " be broken up, but that all may come to a fair trial, that our innocency " may be cleared up -- " London, I 6th day eleventh month, I 66o. On ~he 28.th of the fa~e month, they publiihed the declaration refer- Ib. p. ·a6¥ ted to m thetr addrefs, enutuled, a declarattonfrom the harm/ifs and innotent people of God called Q._U AKERS, againjl allfidition, plotters andfighters in the world, for removing the gr~und if jealo'1fj and Jujpicionfrom botb tnagjflrates and fe~ple in the kingdom, c/Jilcerning wars andjightings. Prefen~ed t~ the. kmg the ~Ill day of the eleventh month, 166o. Upon whtch hts maJefiy prom.tfed .t~em, on the wo~d of a king, that they !hould not fuffer for thetr opm10ns as long as they lived peaceably· but his promifes were little regarded. • VoL. II. , 4 G
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