{"id":1280,"date":"2020-08-27T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newtrial.qfhs.co.uk\/?page_id=1280"},"modified":"2020-12-09T22:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:41:21","slug":"essex-sufferings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/?page_id=1280","title":{"rendered":"Essex Sufferings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Surname<\/th>Name<\/th>Description<\/th>Location<\/th>Dy<\/th>Mo<\/th>Year<\/th>Event\/Charge<\/th>Nature of Suffering<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Abbott<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201cof Colne\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 2 years and 4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abraham<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Hamsted-End<\/td><\/td>6<\/td>1682<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fined and had good taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adams<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Hadstock\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a32 14s.<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a327<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adams<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adams<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Hadstock\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adams<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201cof Feering\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of 10s.<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adams<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adcock<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allen<\/td>James<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allen<\/td>James<\/td>\u201cof Halstead\u201d<\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For \u201crefusing to pay the usual assessment toward the repairing the steeple-house\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned at Chelmsford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allen<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined. Having not enough goods to cover the fine, recommitted to prison for 3 more months.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allen<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Samford\u201d [Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned \u201cabout a year\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ames<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ames<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amy<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Archer<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo[i]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arnold<\/td>Stephen<\/td>\u201cof Lawford\u201d<\/td><\/td>22<\/td>7<\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol. Released on bail, but in October refused to give sureties for good behaviour and was recommitted for 15 weeks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bacon<\/td>George<\/td>\u201cof Old Samford\u201d [Great Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bailey<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Plaistow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1682<\/td>For attending a meeting at which William Falkner preached<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baker<\/td>Jacob<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Balls<\/td><\/td>\u201cWidow\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 20 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Balls<\/td><\/td>\u201cWidow\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Balls<\/td><\/td>\u201cWidow\u201d, \u201cof Horsley\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Refused to pay a demanded tithe of 9s. 10d<\/td>Had five cows taken worth \u00a320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Balls<\/td>William<\/td>Son of Widow Balls<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 20 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bappon<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barker<\/td>Mary<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1667<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Gaoled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barnadiston<\/td>Giles<\/td>\u201ca man of note\u201d \u201cwho had formerly been a colonel\u201d<\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1663\/64<\/td>Attacked by troops at meeting<\/td>\u201cundauntedly hazarded his life for his testimony\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barnard<\/td>George<\/td>\u201cof Finchingfield\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>For tithes of a farm of \u00a350 per annum<\/td>Had goods taken valued at \u00a340<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barnard<\/td>George<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had goods taken valued at \u00a330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barnard<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Alfastone\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barnard <\/td>Phineas<\/td>\u201cof Mountnessing\u201d<\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsfor Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battell<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Rabness\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bayles<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bayles<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>1<\/td>11<\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from a meeting<\/td>Sent to the Moothall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beard<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bell<\/td>Abraham<\/td><\/td>Felsted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For 9 s. 4d. demanded for their rate by the churchwarden<\/td>Committed to Chelmsford Gaol on a significavit of contumacy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bell<\/td>Abraham<\/td><\/td>Felsted<\/td>2<\/td>4<\/td>1679<\/td>For refusing to pay churchwarden\u2019s rate<\/td>Imprisoned under a writ of excommunicato capiendo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bell<\/td>Mary<\/td>Sister of Abraham Bell<\/td>Felsted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For 9 s. 4d. demanded for their rate by the churchwarden<\/td>Committed to Chelmsford Gaol on a significavit of contumacy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bell<\/td>Mary<\/td>\u201cwidow\u201d<\/td>Felsted<\/td>2<\/td>4<\/td>1679<\/td>For refusing to pay churchwarden\u2019s rate<\/td>Imprisoned under a writ of excommunicato capiendo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennett<\/td>Mary<\/td>\u201cwidow\u201d<\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td>5<\/td>6<\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennet[ii]<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennet<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Waltham Abbey\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Imprisoned and had two thirds of his estate seized<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennet<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Flamsted-End [Hertfordshire]<\/td><\/td>6<\/td>1682<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fined and had good taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennett<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td>5<\/td>6<\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had cloth taken from him worth \u00a370<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennett<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending a meeting at Flamsted End in Hertfordshire<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bingham<\/td>Bridget<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bishop<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blundal<\/td>Katharine<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boggas[iii]<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1667<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Gaoled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boggs<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bolt<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td><\/td>8<\/td>1665<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fine \u00a35, for non-payment of which were held at House of Correction in Barking for 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bourne<\/td>Mary<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boyce<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from home and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boyce<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for being at at Meeting. Refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boyse[iv]<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bramham<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a37 19s. 6d. He \u201chad not a bed left him, nor was he worth so much more as was thus taken away.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brand<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brewer<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bridge<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bridge<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo[v]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bridge<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brown<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Plaistow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1682<\/td>For attending a meeting at which William Falkner preached<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brown<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>28<\/td>10<\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from a meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brunton<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from meeting by troopers<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bullock<\/td>Jeffrey<\/td><\/td>Horsley<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201ctaken out of a meeting <\/td>\u201cset in stocks for 6 hours for coming there on the Sabbath-day\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bundock<\/td>Jonathan<\/td>\u201cof West Bergholt\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bundock<\/td>Jonathan<\/td><\/td><\/td>24<\/td>4<\/td>1666<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bunting<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Halsted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from the National Worship<\/td>At Assizes \u201cindicted on the statute of \u00a320 per month\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bunting<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burgis<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burles<\/td>Richard<\/td>\u201cof Feering\u201d<\/td>Hatfield Broad-Oak<\/td><\/td><\/td>1684<\/td>Picked up while passing in the street<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burnish<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burrough<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td><\/td>Detained for visiting Friends in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bush<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Flamsted-End [Hertfordshire]<\/td><\/td>6<\/td>1682<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fined and had good taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Butcher<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cadney<\/td>Sarah<\/td>\u201cof Much Braxsted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes <\/td>Had 2 cows seized valued at \u00a311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cakebread<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Great Samford\u201d [Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a31 19s.<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a36 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cakebread<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Old Samford\u201d [Great Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cakebread<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cakebread<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Samford\u201d [Sampford]<\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes. At Assizes, was \u201cindicted on the statute of \u00a320 per month, for absence from the National Worship.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cakebread<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1690<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had corn taken from him.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carter<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For preaching<\/td>Was fined \u00a320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cast<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catchpool<\/td>Zachary<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chandler<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapman<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td>Stebbing<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Taken from meeting at direction of the priest<\/td>Held in in an alehouse, under guard, overnight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td>Braintree<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Returning from Colchester where she went to visit her husband in prison<\/td>Detained in an inn yard overnight in cold weather and fined 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Felsted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For riding to a meeting<\/td>Had his horse taken away for 3 weeks after which it was returned without bridle, addle, pillow or cloth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Felsted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from the National Worship<\/td>At Assizes \u201cindicted on the statute of \u00a320 per month\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Zachary<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Zachary<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Travelling to a meeting at Weathersfield on the Sabbath<\/td>\u201cstopt by Wardens in the street, and sorely beaten and abused by a Justice\u2019s Clerk\u201d <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Zachary<\/td><\/td>Braintree<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Returning from Colchester where he had accompanied Anne Child to visit her husband in prison<\/td>Detained in an inn yard overnight in cold weather and fined 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Child<\/td>Zachariah<\/td><\/td>Felsted<\/td>2<\/td>4<\/td>1679<\/td>For refusing to pay churchwarden\u2019s rate<\/td>Imprisoned under a writ of excommunicato capiendo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chiswell<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chitham<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For working on the Sabbath<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chopping<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Because his wife was seen returning from a meeting<\/td>Fined and had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chopping<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chopping<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusal to pay \u00a311 10s. in tithes<\/td>Had corn taken valued at \u00a327 2s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Churchman<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Churchman<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Churchman<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Wendon<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For holding a meeting at his house<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a313 6s. 6d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Churchman<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Summoned before mayor for being at meeting and refusing oaths<\/td>Imprisoned 11 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo[vi]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>Josiah<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>Margaret<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo[vii]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clark<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201ca poor man\u201d<\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting in the street as the doors of the meeting house had been nailed shut.<\/td>Informers \u201cstript his coat from off his back and carried it off.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claydon<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Hadstock\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned 16 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claydon<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claydon<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Hadstock\u201d<\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cockerton<\/td>Mary<\/td>\u201cof Kelvedon\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For absence from the National Worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cockerton<\/td>Mary<\/td>\u201ca widow\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1685<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cole<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Lexden\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>For tithes of 20s.<\/td>Had 11 cows and a bull taken valued at \u00a350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cole<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from meeting by mayor<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cole<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Lexden\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had 9 cows taken worth \u00a330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cole<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Lexden\u201d<\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>For 20s. in tithes<\/td>Had taken from him 11 seam of wheat, 18 seam of barley, and 25 seam of oats worth \u00a354<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cole<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Lexden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1668<\/td>For a demand for 2 years tithes at \u00a310<\/td>Had taken from him 2 horses, one mare, 10 cows and bullocks, 44 sheep, 20 lambs and 5 seam of wheat valued at \u00a364 while the priest called out to the bailiff \u201cdisable him, disable him\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Condon<\/td>Arthur<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For refusing \u201ca demand for 4s. toward the charge of trained bands\u201d<\/td>Had a coat taken worth 20s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cooke<\/td>Mary<\/td>\u201cof West Bergholt\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conyers<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Great Baddow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for meeting in the house of Thomas Fretton and preaching \u201cand other spiritual duties\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornall[viii]<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken worth \u00a37 15s. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornwell<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Chiswell<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cotton<\/td>Mary<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Court<\/td>Elizabeth<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Travelling to a meeting on the Sabbath<\/td>\u201csent to the House of Corrections where she was whipt, being kept without Candle oe Fire in the cold winter\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Court<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cragg<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Belsham Pauls\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cragg<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Paul\u2019s Belsham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1682<\/td>For being absent from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cragg<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crane<\/td>Walter<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Creek<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crisp<\/td>Stephen<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crisp<\/td>Stephen<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested at Meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crisp<\/td>Stephen<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>25<\/td>10<\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from a meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crosier<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a35<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a323<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crosier<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 21 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crosier<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Felsted\u201d <\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cross<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cross<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td>Horsley<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201ctaken out of a meeting <\/td>\u201cset in stocks for 6 hours for coming there on the Sabbath-day\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crouch<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crow<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Barfield\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1659<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle \u201cfor some years\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crumplin<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Curtis<\/td>Cornelius<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davidge<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned 1 month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davidge<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Steeple<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned at Colchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davidge<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Great Baddow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for meeting in the house of Thomas Fretton and preaching \u201cand other spiritual duties\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davidge<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Great Baddow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for meeting in the house of Thomas Fretton and preaching \u201cand other spiritual duties\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davies<\/td>Moses<\/td>\u201cof Felsted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a36<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a328<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davies<\/td>Moses<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 21 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day<\/td>Matthew<\/td>\u201cof Newport\u201d<\/td>Wendon<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending a meeting at the home of John Churchman<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a323 5s..<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deacon<\/td>Daniel<\/td>\u201cof Colchester\u201d<\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned over 10 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Debnam<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dednam[ix]<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from meeting by mayor<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Desborow<\/td>Joane<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Desbrow<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dunbar<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Broad-Oak<\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1684<\/td>For attending meeting for worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eatney<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eatney<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ede<\/td>George<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned in Bridewell Prison where he was also \u201ccruelly whipt\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elcock<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elcock<\/td>Roger<\/td>\u201cof Much-Baddew\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1682<\/td>For being absent from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellam<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Much Easton\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1659<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle \u201cfor some years\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellis<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellis<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellis<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellis<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td><\/td>Detained for visiting Friends in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eltham<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Summoned before mayor for being at meeting and refusing oaths<\/td>Imprisoned 11 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emerton<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1667<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Gaoled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Empson[x]<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emson<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Barfield\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1659<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle \u201cfor some years\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enniver<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Broxted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1659<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 22 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evans<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Much Easton\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1659<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle \u201cfor some years\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evans<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eve<\/td>Francis<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eve<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eve<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Summoned before mayor for being at meeting and refusing oaths<\/td>Imprisoned 11 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fann<\/td>Rebecca<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feast<\/td>Henry<\/td><\/td>Royden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Along with John Page had 3 cows taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fell<\/td>Henry<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For offering \u201cChristian Advices and Exhortations\u201d<\/td>Abusive treatment by the populace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fox<\/td>George<\/td>\u201cthe Younger\u201d<\/td>Harwich<\/td>16<\/td>5<\/td>1660<\/td>For saying of a crowd threatening a meeting \u201cWo, Wo unto the teachers and rulers of this nation, who suffer such ungoldiness as this and do not seek to suppress it\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned without charges. Sheriff of Essex ordered to bring them to London to appear before the House of Commons. Given bail, but refused to pay \u00a350 sergeant\u2019s fee and 10s. per week for rent of their cell. Held further \u201cfor a considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fraling<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Freak<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201cof Ashden\u201d [Ashdon]<\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>4<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear oath of allegiance while meeting in the street, the meeting house being closed<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Freeton[xi]<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Mundon\u201d<\/td>Southminster<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>A horse taken worth \u00a314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
French<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fretton<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned at Colchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fretton<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fretton<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Great Baddow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for meeting in the house of Thomas Fretton and preaching \u201cand other spiritual duties\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fritton[xii]<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusal to pay \u00a34 in tithes<\/td>Had 6 cows taken valued at \u00a336<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fritton<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Much Stambridge<\/td><\/td><\/td>1669<\/td>For \u00a316 in tithes at treble damages<\/td>Had 16 cows and a bull taken worth \u00a356<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fritton[xiii]<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusal to pay \u00a31 19s. in tithes<\/td>Had a cow taken valued at \u00a35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fromantle<\/td>Solomon<\/td><\/td>Colchester <\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1663\/64<\/td>Attacked by troops at meeting along with about 60 Friends<\/td>Severly beaten <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fromantle<\/td><\/td>[wife of Solomon]<\/td>Colchester <\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1663\/64<\/td>Attacked by troops at meeting along with about 60 Friends<\/td>Severly beaten trying to protect her husband who was near death from beating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Furly<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Colchester\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to send an horse and man, when summoned to serve in the county militia\u201d<\/td>Goods taken valued at \u00a33 5s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Furly<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Colchester\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td>12<\/td>1660<\/td>Refused the Oath of Allegiance<\/td>Imprisoned. Refused again at the Sessions and remanded to prison for 10 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Furly<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Furly<\/td>John Jr.<\/td>\u201cof Colchester\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to furnish soldiers for the trained-bands\u201d<\/td>Fined and had goods taken worth \u00a318<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gage<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gage<\/td>Nathanael<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting in the street as the doors of the meeting house had been nailed shut.<\/td>Informers stripped him of his coat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gainford<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>28<\/td>10<\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from a meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garnford[xiv]<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td><\/td>Detained for visiting Friends in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garrett<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gatewood<\/td>Paul<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
George<\/td>Edward<\/td>\u201cof Thaxted\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gibson<\/td>Nathanael<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from meeting by mayor<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goddard<\/td>Jonathan<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td><\/td>Detained for visiting Friends in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Godfrey<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Great Baddow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for meeting in the house of Thomas Fretton and preaching \u201cand other spiritual duties\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goodwin<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graffingham<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td>16<\/td>5<\/td>1660<\/td>For objecting to the arrest of George Fox \u201cthe Younger\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned without charges. Sheriff of Essex ordered to bring them to London to appear before the House of Commons. Given bail, but refused to pay \u00a350 sergeant\u2019s fee and 10s. per week for rent of their cell. Held further \u201cfor a considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grant<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grant<\/td>Edward<\/td>\u201cfather of [Solomon] Fromantle\u2019s wife\u201d, aged about 70<\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1663\/64<\/td>Attacked by troops at meeting<\/td>\u201cwas knockt down, and survived the fatal stroke but a few days\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grant<\/td>Edward jr.<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gray<\/td>Margaret<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned in Bridewell Prison where she was also \u201ccruelly whipt\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Griffin<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Broad-Oak<\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1684<\/td>For attending meeting for worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Groom<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Dedham<\/td><\/td><\/td>1677<\/td>For a meeting held at his home<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a313 3s. 6d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guyon<\/td><\/td>\u201cWidow\u201d<\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guyon<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hall<\/td>Benjamin<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken by troopers from meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hall<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Halley<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Horsley<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201ctaken out of a meeting <\/td>\u201cset in stocks for 6 hours for coming there on the Sabbath-day\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harding<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harding<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Alfastone\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harrison<\/td>Edwin<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harvey<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hasleham<\/td>Henry<\/td><\/td>Southminster<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For holding a meeting at his house<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a328 5s. 4d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Havens<\/td>Henry<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken by troopers from meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Havens<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Havens<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken by troopers from meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Havens<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from meeting by mayor<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hawes<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td><\/td>Detained for visiting Friends in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hayward<\/td>Susan<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hicks<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td> <\/td><\/td>8<\/td>1665<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fine \u00a35, for non-payment of which were held at House of Correction in Barking for 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hodson<\/td>Matthew<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Holman<\/td>Stephen<\/td><\/td><\/td>14<\/td>7<\/td>1667<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Gaoled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horton<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Houchin<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Feering\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1684<\/td><\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hubersty<\/td>Stephen<\/td>\u201cof Burnham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned 5 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hudson<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Steeple<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned at Colchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humphry<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned in Bridewell Prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Inghill<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Isaac<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Left a written message \u201cto warn the people\u201d at the steeple-house<\/td>Imprisoned and fined 20 Marks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Isaac<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Isaac<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Halstead\u201d<\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For \u201crefusing to pay the usual assessment toward the repairing the steeple-house\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned at Chelmsford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jarvis<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johnson<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joslin<\/td>Simon<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Broad-Oak<\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1684<\/td>For attending meeting for worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Knowles<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lack<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Langley<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Twice imprisoned. The first time for 10 weeks and the next for 15 weeks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lanking<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending a meeting at Flamsted End in Hertfordshire<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lark<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lea<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lea[xv]<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Steeple<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear oaths. Charged with being a preacher<\/td>Imprisoned at Colchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leage<\/td><\/td><\/td>Great Baddow<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for meeting in the house of Thomas Fretton and preaching \u201cand other spiritual duties\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lee<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Steeple\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For working on the Sabbath<\/td>Fined 20 s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Levett<\/td>Josias<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td>5<\/td>6<\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Levett<\/td>Josias<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Levitt<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201cof Stebbing\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned and had fine trebbled and had corn and other goods seized valued at \u00a350, \u201cnotwithstanding which he remained a prisoner about three years.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Levitt<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had goods taken valued at \u00a320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Levitt<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had 3 cows and corn taken worth \u00a316<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Levitt<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1669<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had goods taken valued at \u00a323 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ludgater<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ludgater<\/td>Robert Sr.<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ludgater<\/td>Robert Jr.<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mace<\/td>Hannah<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a32 1s. 4d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manly<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mansfield<\/td>Richard<\/td>\u201cof Ashden\u201d [Ashdon]<\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>4<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear oath of allegiance while meeting in the street, the meeting house being closed<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Leigh<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For 8 years of tithes at \u00a326 <\/td>Priest received \u00a353 13s. 4d. plus \u00a315 10s. 10d in legal costs for which \u00a3100 in goods were taken. He was also imprisoned 2 years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marloe<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for being at at Meeting. Refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marlow[xvi]<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a35 13s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marriage<\/td>Francis<\/td>\u201cof Stebbing\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor being married in another manner than according to the form of the Directory\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marriage<\/td>Francis<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marshall<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Finchfield\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marshall<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mascall[xvii]<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Finchingfield\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1690<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had corn taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthews<\/td>James<\/td>\u201cof West Ham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1682\/83<\/td>For holding a meeting where his wife preached<\/td>Had goods seized valued at \u00a3104 13 s. 3d. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthews<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Harwich\u201d<\/td><\/td>22<\/td>7<\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol. Released on bail, but in October refused to give sureties for good behaviour and was recommitted for 15 weeks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthews<\/td>Hester<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melsop<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miller<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miller<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mines<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mixer<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td>Dedham<\/td><\/td><\/td>1677<\/td>For a meeting held at the home of Samuel Groom<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monk<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Sandon\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned 2 years and 4 months.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moore<\/td>Stephen<\/td>\u201cof Lawford\u201d<\/td><\/td>22<\/td>7<\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol. Released on bail, but in October refused to give sureties for good behaviour and was recommitted for 15 weeks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mootham<\/td><\/td>\u201cWidow\u201d<\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morel[xviii]<\/td>Edward[xix]<\/td>\u201cof Thaxted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morrell<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Stebbing<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Taken from meeting at direction of the priest<\/td>Held in in an alehouse, under guard, overnight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morrell<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo[xx]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morrell<\/td>Edwin<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Summoned before mayor for being at meeting and refusing oaths<\/td>Imprisoned 11 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morrell<\/td>Edwin<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken worth \u00a351 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mosse<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mullar<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mumford<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Saling\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 2 years and 4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nichols<\/td>Hugh<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nichols<\/td>Martha<\/td>\u201cwidow\u201d<\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nichols<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201cof Colne\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a320<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norden<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td>9<\/td>5<\/td>1684<\/td>For non-payment of tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norden<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norton<\/td>Richard<\/td>\u201cof Coggeshall\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to swear\u201d<\/td>Fined \u00a36 and had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Norton<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to pay the usual assessments toward the repairs of the parish worship-houses\u201d<\/td>Seizure of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nottay<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has timber taken worth \u00a321 5s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Osbeston<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Alfastone\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Osborn<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Page<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Royden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Along with Henry Feast had 3 cows taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Palmer<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from home and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Palmer<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Gelsingthorp\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parke<\/td>James<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parmentor<\/td>Joseph<\/td>\u201cof Paul\u2019s-Belsham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1682<\/td>For being absent from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parmentor<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parmentor<\/td>Samuel<\/td>\u201cof Otten-Belsham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1680<\/td>For absence from public worship<\/td>Suffered distress of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parmentor<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parnell<\/td>James<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1655<\/td>Challenging a priest<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle, where he died after serving 10 or 11 months.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Partridge<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peachy<\/td>Peter<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peachy<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pemberton<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pennistone<\/td>Anthony<\/td><\/td>Wendon<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending a meeting at the home of John Churchman<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a38 12s. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pennystone[xxi]<\/td>Anthony<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken worth \u00a38 5s. 8d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pennystone<\/td>Anthony<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined and had goods taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perry<\/td>Griffith<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to swear\u201d<\/td>Fined 20s. and had two cows taken valued at \u00a311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perry<\/td>Griffith<\/td>\u201cof Linsel\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a32 10s.<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perry<\/td>Griffith<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perry<\/td>Griffith<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from a Meeting at the house of Edwin Morrell. Refused the oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perry<\/td>Griffith<\/td>\u201cof Old Samford\u201d [Great Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perry<\/td>Griffith jr.<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from a Meeting at the house of Edwin Morrell. Refused the oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pettitt<\/td>James<\/td><\/td>Chiswell<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pettitt<\/td>Michael<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pettitt<\/td>Michael<\/td>\u201cof Wimbish\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pettitt<\/td>Michael<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from the national Worship<\/td>Prosecuted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pike<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Horsley<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201ctaken out of a meeting <\/td>\u201cset in stocks for 6 hours for coming there on the Sabbath-day\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pike<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>25<\/td>10<\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from a meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pinner<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Chiswell<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pinnerson<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken worth \u00a38 5s. 8d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plumb<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Broad-Oak<\/td><\/td>5<\/td>1684<\/td>For attending meeting for worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plumsted<\/td>Nathanael<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks[xxii]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pollard<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Steeple\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a350<\/td>Had \u201ccorn, etc.\u201d seized to the value of \u00a3322 and \u201calso imprisoned in Colchester Castle for fourteen months, in the Upper Bench five months, and in the Fleet some years after.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poole<\/td>Robert<\/td>\u201cof Paul\u2019s-Belsham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1680<\/td>For absence from public worship<\/td>Suffered distress of goods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poole<\/td>Robert<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Potter<\/td>James<\/td>\u201cof Marks-Tey\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td>11<\/td>1658<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle \u201cfor several years\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Potter<\/td>James<\/td>\u201cof Marks-Tay\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1673<\/td>For a demand for \u00a36 for tithes<\/td>Had taken 5 cows and 3 \u201cother kine\u201d valued at \u00a322 10s.. The bailiff considering this insufficient, took another cow worth \u00a33 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Potter<\/td>James<\/td>\u201cof Marks-Tay\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Potter<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Summoned before mayor for being at meeting and refusing oaths<\/td>Imprisoned 11 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Potter<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Taken from meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pridden<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Priden[xxiii]<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td>5<\/td>6<\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prigg<\/td>Nicholas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pritman<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending a meeting at Flamsted End in Hertfordshire<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pryor<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quick<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quick<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quick<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken by troopers from meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rand<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Little Baddow\u201d<\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsfor Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rand<\/td>Splendine<\/td><\/td>Dedham<\/td><\/td><\/td>1677<\/td>For a meeting held at the home of Samuel Groom<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raven<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raven<\/td>Edmund<\/td>\u201cof Cressing\u201d<\/td><\/td>9<\/td>4<\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raven<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Steeple<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned at Colchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raven<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>For refusing to answer on oath<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raven<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Feering\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Read<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Read<\/td>Thurston<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For teaching school without a license<\/td>Imprisoned by the mayor in the Moothall, where he died<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reader<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Chiswell<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a34 6s. 7d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reader<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken worth \u00a38 5s. 8d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reeve<\/td>Richard<\/td>\u201cof Colchester\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683[xxiv]<\/td>For non-payment of tithes<\/td>Continued imprisonment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reynolds<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Southminster<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For holding a meeting at his house<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reynolds<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Great Chesterford\u201d<\/td>Strettell<\/td><\/td>1<\/td>1681\/82<\/td>Refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in the county gaol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richardson<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Chelmsford<\/td>1<\/td>7<\/td>1670<\/td>For teaching without a license<\/td>The Judges at Quarter Sessions finding not enough evidence to proceed tendered him the oath of Allegiance, which refusing he was imprisoned till the next Assizes, where he had a sentence of praemunire past and continued in prison for another 2 \u00bc years. He was discharged in 1672 in a general amnesty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roberts<\/td>Israel<\/td>\u201cof Belsham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For 3 years of tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol during which time the priest took corn from his land<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roberts<\/td>Israel<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robinson<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rolfe<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Tolsbury<\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>Taken while \u201cspeaking to the People by way of exhortation, in the grave-yard\u201d. Refused oaths<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rose<\/td>George<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned for 5 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salmon<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Steeple<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned at Colchester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salthouse<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td><\/td>8<\/td>1665<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fine \u00a35, for non-payment of which were held at House of Correction in Barking for 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saward<\/td>Rebecca<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scotcher<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined and had goods taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewel<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Gestlingthorp\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewel<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsfor Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewel<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewell<\/td>Edmund<\/td><\/td>Southminster<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For holding a meeting at his house<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewell<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>27<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Summoned before mayor for being at meeting and refusing oaths<\/td>Imprisoned 11 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewell<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sewell<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shackerly<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shakerley<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Flamsted-End [Hertfordshire]<\/td><\/td>6<\/td>1682<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fined and had good taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shakerly<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending a meeting at Flamsted End in Hertfordshire<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shaft<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from meeting by troopers<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shepherd<\/td>William<\/td>\u201cof Wickham\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Had goods taken worth <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Shortland<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shortland<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For working on the Sabbath<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shortland<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Silvester<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsfor Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simon<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simonds<\/td>Martha<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned for 4 months. Two friends who visited her were each imprisoned 3 days.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simons<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined and had goods taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simson<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201cunder a religious concern, passed through the streets, with his body naked as a sign to the people\u201d<\/td>Whipped. The man who whipped him later falling down dead.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skillingham<\/td>Samuel<\/td>\u201cof West Bergholt\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skillingham<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Travelling to a meeting at Weathersfield on the Sabbath<\/td>\u201cstopt by Wardens in the street, and sorely beaten and abused by a Justice\u2019s Clerk\u201d <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skillingham<\/td>Samuel<\/td>\u201cof Felsted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>Refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skinner<\/td>Solomon<\/td><\/td>Braintree<\/td><\/td><\/td>1672<\/td>Was summoned, along with other Friends, to the death bed of John Hunswick, an informer who had persecuted him, \u201centreating them to forgive him, and to pray to go for him, telling them he was so troubled in conscience, that he could not die in peace.\u201d<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skinner<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Detained for visiting Friends in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slaughter<\/td>John<\/td>\u201cof Upminster\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For refusal to pay 39s. in tithes<\/td>Had cow and other goods taken worth \u00a311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Andrew<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1660<\/td>For refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 7 months and then in the Fleet for over 4 months and goods taken valued at \u00a326<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Henry<\/td>\u201cof Saling\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Humphry<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined and had goods taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo[xxv]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Joseph<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Has goods taken worth \u00a350 17s. 9d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td>\u201cof Little Samford\u201d [Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of \u00a310<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a345<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td>\u201cof Little Samford\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1662<\/td>For tithes, the rent of whose farm was \u00a378 per annum<\/td>Had barley, wheat and cows taken valued at \u00a366 15s. 6d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1663<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had barley, wheat and oats taken valued at \u00a342 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Had corn taken worth \u00a336 6s. 10d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For not sending a man to serve in the militia<\/td>Fined \u00a35, for which a horse worth \u00a36 was taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1665<\/td>For not serving in the militia<\/td>Fined \u00a35, for which a horse worth \u00a312 was taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1665<\/td>Troops search his home for arms in his absence<\/td>A fowling piece taken worth 30s. On his return he was detained as a prisoner \u201cfor being a friend to the Quakers\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith<\/td>Josiah<\/td>\u201c\u201dof Little Samford\u201d [Sampford]<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>For tithes \u201con a suite for trebble damages\u201d<\/td>Had 18 cows, 3 horses, a wagon, 14 seams of barley, 9 seams of wheat, 21 seams of malt, and other things seized valued at \u00a3140. So that within the space f about five years the distresses made upon his goods for tithes amounted to \u00a3400 being more that the whole rent of his farm for that time, which was \u00a378 per annum.\u201d the distresses <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smith <\/td>Josiah<\/td>\u201cof Horsley\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol.[xxvi]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sparrow<\/td>Nathanael<\/td><\/td>Coggeshall<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sparrow<\/td>Nathanael<\/td><\/td><\/td>9<\/td>5<\/td>1684<\/td>For non-payment of tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spencer<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spurgeon<\/td>Job<\/td><\/td>Dedham<\/td><\/td><\/td>1677<\/td>For a meeting held at the home of Samuel Groom<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spurgeon<\/td>Job<\/td>\u201cof Dedham\u201d<\/td><\/td>22<\/td>7<\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol. Released on bail, but in October refused to give sureties for good behaviour and was recommitted for 15 weeks. He was so weak he could not lie down and mostly sat in a chair.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stammage<\/td>Anne<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stanbridge<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Hamsted-End<\/td><\/td>6<\/td>1682<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fined and had good taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Starr<\/td>Henry<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined and had goods taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stinton<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stow<\/td>Katharine<\/td><\/td>Pedmarsh<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For holding a meeting at her house<\/td>Goods taken valued at \u00a326 12s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stow<\/td>Katharine<\/td>\u201cthe Elder\u201d<\/td>Pedmarsh<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For 2s. Easter offering<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 2 years and 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stow<\/td>Katherine<\/td>\u201cthe Younger\u201d<\/td>Pedmarsh<\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For 2s. Easter offering<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 2 years and 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Suffall<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Taken from meeting<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sutton<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swan<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Halstead<\/td><\/td>3<\/td>1664<\/td>Troopers attack Friends in meeting<\/td>Troops \u201cfell to striking violently on old and young, men and women, without distinction\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swann[xxvii]<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For absence from the National Worship<\/td>At Assizes \u201cindicted on the statute of \u00a320 per month\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swinton<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor<\/td>Christopher<\/td><\/td>Chelmsford<\/td>1<\/td>7<\/td>1670<\/td>For teaching without a license<\/td>The Judges at Quarter Sessions found not enough evidence to proceed.[xxviii]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor<\/td>Christopher<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined. Having not enough goods to cover the fine, recommitted to prison for 3 more months.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taylor<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Hamsted-End<\/td><\/td>6<\/td>1682<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fined and had good taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomson<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td>5<\/td>6<\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomson[xxix]<\/td>Edward<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thorn<\/td>Michael<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thornton<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomlin<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Imprisoned in Bridewell Prison where he was also \u201ccruelly whipt\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomlyn<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For working on the Sabbath<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trigg<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Littlebury\u201d [Ashdon]<\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>4<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear oath of allegiance while meeting in the street, the meeting house being closed<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>Elizabeth<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Turner<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for over 3 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Turner<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Coggeshall\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1684<\/td>For \u201crefusing to pay toward the charges of the trained-bands\u201d<\/td>Had goods taken valued at 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tyler<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1674<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Indicted at the Assizes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tyler<\/td>Thomas<\/td>\u201cof Waltham Abbey\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1678<\/td>For absence from National Worship<\/td>Imprisoned for 8 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tyler<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Waltham Abbey<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending a meeting at Flamsted End in Hertfordshire<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandewall<\/td>Daniel<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor assembling in a religious meeting\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandewall<\/td>Daniel<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a325 3s. 6d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandewall<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from home and refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandewall<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken worth \u00a34.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandewall<\/td>Mary<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1661<\/td>Arrested for being at at Meeting. Refused to swear oaths<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vandewall<\/td>Mary<\/td><\/td>Harwich<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vangover<\/td>Abraham<\/td><\/td>Dedham<\/td><\/td><\/td>1677<\/td>For a meeting held at the home of Samuel Groom<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waite<\/td>Richard<\/td><\/td>Horsley<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>\u201ctaken out of a meeting <\/td>\u201cset in stocks for 6 hours for coming there on the Sabbath-day\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waite<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td>18<\/td>12<\/td>1682<\/td>For refusing to swear the oath of allegiance while meeting in the street after the meeting house had been closed<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 months until Sessions and fined and had goods taken.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walford<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Warner<\/td>James<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Warner<\/td>Samuel<\/td>\u201cof Boxted\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>For tithes of 10s.<\/td>Had goods seized to the value of \u00a35 10s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Warner<\/td>Samuel<\/td><\/td>Dedham<\/td><\/td><\/td>1677<\/td>For a meeting held at the home of Samuel Groom<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wastell<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td>2<\/td>12<\/td>1683<\/td>Summoned to appear before Petty-Sessions \u201cfor no other apparent cause than their religious dissent.\u201d Refused to provide surety for good behaviour.<\/td>Imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol for 3 months until Sessions, where they were set free until the Assizes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Webb<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hadstock<\/td>13<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting to Saffron Walden where refused oath. Then sent to Sessions at Chelmsford where again refused oath.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle for \u201ca considerable time\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Webb<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Welch<\/td>Zachary<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wetherly<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from meeting and \u201crefusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance an Supremacy\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned for 9 weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wetherly<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Colchester<\/td>1<\/td>11<\/td>1663<\/td>Taken from a meeting<\/td>Sent to the Moothall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wetherly<\/td>George<\/td>\u201cof Colchester\u201d<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1667<\/td>\u201cfor refusing to furnish soldiers for the trained-bands\u201d<\/td>Fined and had goods taken worth \u00a32 6d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whitehead<\/td>George<\/td><\/td>Saffron Walden<\/td><\/td><\/td>\u2020<\/td>Disturbing the peace<\/td>Set in stocks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Williams<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td>20<\/td>1<\/td>1660\/61<\/td>Taken from Meeting and refused to swear the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.<\/td>Imprisoned in Colchester Castle <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Williams<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td><\/td>8<\/td>1665<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fine \u00a35, for non-payment of which were held at House of Correction in Barking for 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winter<\/td>William<\/td><\/td>Chiswell<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wiseman<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Tolsunt Knights<\/td>3<\/td>3<\/td>1683<\/td>For refusal to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned \u201cby an attachment out of the Exchequer\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wood<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For \u201cbeing absent from established worship\u201d<\/td>Imprisoned by writ of excommunicato capiendo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woodward<\/td>John<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>1664<\/td>For refusing to pay tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woodward<\/td>John<\/td><\/td>Southminster<\/td><\/td><\/td>1675<\/td>For holding a meeting at his house<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woodward<\/td>Mary<\/td><\/td>Thaxted<\/td><\/td><\/td>1670<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woolridge<\/td>Philip<\/td><\/td>Hatfield Peverill<\/td><\/td><\/td>1683<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Had goods taken<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woolsey<\/td>William<\/td><\/td><\/td>1<\/td>4<\/td>1667<\/td>For tithes<\/td>Imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yoakley<\/td>Thomas<\/td><\/td>Eastham<\/td><\/td>8<\/td>1665<\/td>For attending meeting<\/td>Fine \u00a35, for non-payment of which were held at House of Correction in Barking for 2 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n

Essex Sufferings Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2020 A specific year is not given. However, the initial act which led to the suffering occurred between 1656 and 1659. These actions were all taken during the years of Protectorate.
[i] He appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.
[ii] Probably the same person as Thomas Bennett.
[iii] Possibly the same person as William Boggs.
[iv] Probably the same person as Edward Boyce.
[v] He appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.
[vi] He appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.
[vii] She appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.
[viii] Probably the same person as Thomas Cornwell.
[ix] Probably the same person as Robert Debnam.
[x] Possibly the same person as John Emson.
[xi] This may be the same person as William Fretton and\/or William Fritton.
[xii] Probably the same person as Thomas Fretton.
[xiii] Probably the same person as William Fretton.
[xiv] Probably the same person as Thomas Gainford.
[xv] Probably the same person as Thomas Lee.
[xvi] Probably the same person as William Marloe.
[xvii] This may be the same person as John Marshall \u201cof Finchfield.\u201d
[xviii] Probably the same person as Edward Morrell.
[xix] Edward Morrel and Edwin Morrell may have been the same person.
[xx] Assuming that Edward and Edwin Morrell are the same person, he appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.
[xxi] Probably the same person as Anthony Pennystone.
[xxii] Nathanael Plumsted may have been imprisoned on another occasion, perhaps under a sentence of praemunire, as there is a note that he was among those released in the general amnesty of 1672.
[xxiii] Probably the same person as Richard Pridden.
[xxiv] It is not clear when Richard Reeve was first imprisoned as Besse\u2019s note is that he and Josiah Smith \u201cwere still continued Prisoners for Tithes.\u201d
[xxv] He appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.
[xxvi] Josiah Smith appears to have still been in prison in 1683 as Besse notes that in that year he and Richard Reeve \u201cwere still continued Prisoners for Tithes.\u201d
[xxvii] Probably the same person as William Swan.
[xxviii] Unlike Richard Richardson, who was tendered the Oath of Allegiance during the same Assizes, there is no mention that this was done to Christopher Taylor, nor that he was held over further in prison had a sentence of praemunire passed against him.
[xxix] Probably the same person as Edward Thomson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Essex Sufferings Notes \u2020 A specific year is not given. However, the initial act which led to the suffering occurred between 1656 and 1659. These actions were all taken during the years of Protectorate.[i] He appears to have been discharged from \u201cthe common gaol\u201d as part of a general amnesty in 1672.[ii] Probably the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1280","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280\/revisions\/1960"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfhs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}