18. And the Mayor and Aldermen faid, they could not tell what to do in it, feeing there was no Law against any Man for faying a Man is Damn'd; but if you bring them before the Mayor, and if they cannot give a good Account where their Habitation is, they may be set in the Stocks for Vagabonds, if they stay in the Town any more than fo many Days; but we did not know this till afterwards.

And while they were plotting this Mischief, we not thinking of it, Thomas Hudson was to go Fifty Miles further, fo Edward Fewterer and I took Horfe, and went a matter of Fifteen Miles, on the Way with Mr. Hudson. Upon this, the Quakers reported, that I fled away from Chesterfield to Bakewell, for fear of a Whiping, when as we did not know there was any Mischief intended against us.

20. Befides Edward Fewterer and I came back again, to Chesterfield the fame Night, but none fought after me as I heard off, and in two Days afterwards, I departed from Chesterfield to Nottingham again.

21. And as I ftay'd there three Days more, there was a Confpiracy amongst thofe I had paffed Sentance of Damnation upon, how to apprehend me.

22. For every Place in the Country, where I had any that believed, and that was a Friend to me, there was a many Enemies that fought to do me harm, only they had no Law on their fide; but I being of Mr. Sudbury's Acquaintance, and at his House, the Mayor or Sheriffs would do nothing in it.

23. And it came to pafs afterwards, that the Sheriff's Wife came to be a true Believer unto this Day; her Name is Mary Barker.

24. So after three Days I departed for Nottingham to London, to my own House: This was in the Year 1663.

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The Prophet travels into Cambridgeshire and Kent; And of kis Marriage to bis third Wife; and of his tecond Journey into Darbyshire; and of his being brought before the Mayer of Chefterfield. Of bis Examination by the Priest; and of his Commitment.

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FTER this I travelled into Cambridgeshire, to fee feveral Friends there, and they were very joyful to fee me at Cambridge, and the Countries round about, for there were a many of Believers in that Country.

2. I ftayed there but a matter of three Weeks, and then returned to London again: And a little while after I travelled into Kent, to vifit fome Friends.

3. And there was one John Martine, a Tanner, at EastMalling in Kent, which did truly believe in this Commiffion of the Spirit, and fo did his Wife: He had two Sons and one Daughter; his eldest Son Thomas did not believe, but his youngest Son John, and his Daughter Mary, were both true Believers; and his Daughter Mary was very zealous and strong in the Belief of it.

4. And it came to pafs, a while after this John Martin Died, and I going thither again afterwards, I took his Daughter Mary to Wife, with her Mother's Confent, and I Married her according to the Law of England, as I did my other two Wives before.

5. I had been a Widower Sixteen Years, before I took this Maid to Wife, fhe was Twenty-five Years of Age when I Married her, and I was about Fifty-three Years Old when I took her to Wife: She was of a good, meek, innocent and just Nature, befides the ftrong Faith and Zeal fhe had in this Commiffion of the Spirit; fo that the was very fuitable, both in fpiritual and temporal Qualifications, unto my Nature.

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6. After this it came to pafs, the fame Year that I was Married, great Troubles did befal me, both upon a fpiritual and temporal Account, as may be understood in the following Relation.

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It came to pafs, that one Richard Hatter, a true Believer, had some Bufinefs at Law, at the Affizes at York. He had a Mind to go by Nottingham and Chesterfield, to fee thofe Friends there; and if I would go with him, he would bear me Company fo far.

8. Now thefe Friends had greatly defired me to come. down into the Country to fee them, fo I was glad of his Company, and we Journeyed together; but Mr. Hatter stayed but one Night at Nottingham, and went his Way, and left me there at Mr. Sudbury's, and I ftayed there a few Days; and in that time there came feveral Quakers, Beamonites, and Independants, religious Men and Women, to discourse and difpute with me.

9. But feveral of them defpifed and blafphemed againft what I faid, whereupon I gave Sentance of eternal Damnation, in that they had finned against the Holy Ghoft, a Sin which God will not forgive, which made them very Angry, and spread it abroad the Country, wherever I was known; and after a few Days I went from Nottingham to Chesterfield.

10. And in the middle of the Way there is a Market Town, called Mansfield, and there I used to bait my Horfe and myself, and that Town is full of Quakers; and when I did Inn there, the Quakers and Others they would prefs into the Room where I was, to fee me and talk with me; and they being an obftinate and ftiff-necked People against a perfonal God, many of them came under the Sentance of Damnation at Mansfield, and they had reported it at Chesterfield, before I could come there.

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And when I came to Dorothy Carter's House, after I had been two or three Days there, came feveral Perfons to speak with me in that Town, being a Market Town, and they were wicked defpifers of a perfonal God.

12. And feveral of them were Damn'd at Mansfield and Chefter

Chesterfield, and about Twelve: But these at Chesterfield were moft of them Independants, and they confulted with the Priest of the Parish, with the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town to Perfecute me, and the Quakers were glad the Independant People did fo

13. So the Priest being a more fubtil Serpent than all the Beafts of the Field, he confulted the Mayor and Aldermen, to fend a Conftable for me, before them, and he would examine me, and fee what Words he could get out of me, to have Matter to accuse me of; for, faid he, we can do nothing to him for faying a Man is Damn'd.

14. So the Conftable was commanded to fetch me before the Mayor, and he came where I was, and faid I must go before the Mayor.

15. I asked him if he had any Warrant for me; he faid, No, then I faid, I will not go: Said he, I can command Aid; then he commanded the Man of the Houfe, where my Horfe was at Grafs, but the Man was loath to do it, but he commanded him in the King's Name, to Aid him.

16. So the Man took hold of one Arm, and the Constable by the other, and led me to the Hall, where the High Prieft fat, for he was one of the Commiffioners of the Ecclefiaftical Court, with the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town, and the Town-Clerk, and all the Officers of the Town, were gathered together against me,

17. My Examination before them was as follows: The Prieft's Name was John Cupe, the Mayor's Name John Allwood, the Recorder's Name was Needham, and the Conftable's Name was Slater, and the Aldermen, one was Clarke, and another his Name was Pinder; the reft I did not know their Names.

18. The first thing the Priest asked was, what I came into that Country for?

19. I faid, I came to vifit fome Friends at Nottingham, and Chesterfield, and that I was fent for: He asked me where I Lived, I said at London, and what Trade I was of; I said, a

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Taylor by Trade, and that I lived in Trinity-Lane, and had Fined for moft Offices in the Parish where I lived.

20. Then he waved that, because he thought I was no House-keeper, but a Lodger, that hath no certain abiding Place, but as a Vagabond that goeth to and fro, and hath abiding every where; fo when he faw he could do nothing here, then he afked me whether I did believe the Three Perfons in the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

21. I answered, No, 1 did believe there was three Names, or Titles, of Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, but one Perfon, the Lord Jefus Chrift.

22. He rejoiced at this before the Mayor, and faid, This was enough, and caufed the Recorder to fet it down, the fame Words.

23. Then he asked me if I was one of the two Witnesses fpoken of in the 11th of the Revelations.

24. I answered and faid, I was one of thofe two Witnesses of the Spirit, fpoken of in the 11th of the Revelations; then he commanded the Recorder to set these Words down.

25. Again he asked me, if I had Power to Damn and to Save.

26. I answered, and faid, I had Power to give Sentance of Damnation upon those that defpifed my Doctrine that I declare, and to pronounce the Sentance of Salvation upon those that truly believe it.

27. And that you may know that I have Power, I do pronounce you Curfed and Damn'd both Soul and Body, from the prefence of God, elect Men and Angels to Eternity.

28. Then was the Prieft ftruck Dumb for a Seafon, and when he had recovered himself to his Senfes again, he faid to the Recorder, fet that down, but did not mention a Word that the Prieft was Damn'd.

29. Then faid the Mayor, Mr. Mugleton, we do not believe you, we do believe the Apostles.

30. I answered, and faid, That will do you but little good

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