The late barbarous and inhumane cruelties inflicted upon certain persons called Quakers for their peaceable religious meetings, in the county of Leicester, by the instigation of Thomas Cotten, priest, and divers officers of the parish of Broughton, and his man being present when some of these wretched abuses were transacted intimated in a letter from the sufferers themselves.

Title

The late barbarous and inhumane cruelties inflicted upon certain persons called Quakers for their peaceable religious meetings, in the county of Leicester, by the instigation of Thomas Cotten, priest, and divers officers of the parish of Broughton, and his man being present when some of these wretched abuses were transacted intimated in a letter from the sufferers themselves.

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London :: Printed for Benjamin Clark ...,

1682.

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Subject terms

Cotten, Thomas.

Society of Friends -- England -- Leicester -- History.

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"The late barbarous and inhumane cruelties inflicted upon certain persons called Quakers for their peaceable religious meetings, in the county of Leicester, by the instigation of Thomas Cotten, priest, and divers officers of the parish of Broughton, and his man being present when some of these wretched abuses were transacted intimated in a letter from the sufferers themselves." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49675.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• A short Account of some of the Violent and Inhumane Cruelties Acted upon the Peaceable People of God called Qua∣kers, at Broughton Meeting in Leicestershire: From 27.9 Month. to the 30 of the 11 Month, 1681.
• Here followeth some Account of the wicked and Il∣legal Proceedings of John Smith an Old Infor∣mer, and William Cole a Justice (so called) an Old Assistant of his.
• MEMORANDƲM,