A True Testimony Of What was done concerning the Servants of the Lord, At the Generall Assizes, holden at Northampton The one and twentieth day of the fifth Month 1655. Where Edward Atkins sate Iudge of life and death, before whom was brought VVilliam Dewsberry, Ioseph Storr, Henry VVilliamson, Iohn VVhitehead, Marmaduke Storr, Thomas Cocket and Francis Ellington, whom the world in scorn calls quakers, who have been and is in Bands for the truths sake, and as neare as remembred, the substance of what the Judge (who made a Goal- Delivery of all the transgressors of the Law) did express to the Servants of the Lord, that was brought Prisoners before him, whom no breach of Law was pro- ved against, and also as near as remembred, here is declared the substance of what the Servants of the Lord did express, so long as they were permitted to declare the truth, which did stop the mouth of all that did object any thing against it; and though the Judge could not gainsay the truth declared by them, nor read them a Law that they had transgressed, yet were they not suffered to have the be- nefit of the Law that Murtherers and Felons had, that their accusers might ap- pear face to face, and they have a tryall, and spake for themselves, to clear the truth from false accusations, cast upon it and them, but we are again committed to Prison, as the following Lines make manifest. With a true discovery of the persecution of Iohn Huchin, Michael Petteson, and Thomas Goodayre, who is imprisoned in Northampton, for the truths sake, wherein the great enmity that is in Thomas Andrews, Priest of Wellinbor- row, and Thomas Pentlow, of Wilby called Iustice, and also of the Magistrates of Northampton is made manifest. Also, The VVord of the Lord to the Rulers and Iudges, and all that plot against the righteous Seed, the world in scorn calls quakers

Atkins, Edward assize judge, Northampton | 1655