Innocence vindicated : by a brief and impartial narrative of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions in Bristol against Ichabod Chauncy, physitian in that city, to his conviction on the statute of the 35th Eliz. on the 9th of April, and to his abjuration of all the Kings dominions for ever, Aug. 15, 1684. Together with some passages subsequent thereunto / Published by the said I. Chauncy.

Ichabod Chauncey

Date:: 1684

Credit: Innocence vindicated : by a brief and impartial narrative of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions in Bristol against Ichabod Chauncy, physitian in that city, to his conviction on the statute of the 35th Eliz. on the 9th of April, and to his abjuration of all the Kings dominions for ever, Aug. 15, 1684. Together with some passages subsequent thereunto / Published by the said I. Chauncy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$f 1.5 ) To may undo both my felf and Family : And therefore can¬ not but make a few Remarks upon it. Firft they lay, That in the Names as well of Our Selves as of all His Maft flies Faithful and loyal Sub]eels with- t» thisCityflVe returnOur moflHeartyThanks to thisCourt and all others concerned in the Profecution again(l Icha- bod Chauncy, Upon the Statute of 24 Eliz n There are toco (befides DilTenters) in Bristol (and about it) that will neither concur with you in, nor thank you for your Thanks, For that to Our Knowledge he hath been a great Zea¬ lot for the Factious Party. ] ’Tis no new thing to have the belt of men ft) Reputed^ AH. 24. 5. We have Re a fan to belhve, by Reafan of his Employ¬ ment^ he oath had very advantagious Snccefs, in atnwg to their Caufe ; 2 I verily believe there is not one Dif {enter the more for me in England. ( Unlefs mv fe- vere Profecution have made fbme.) Neither can they name one ( of thofe many Numbers of Profe- lytes which they fay, I have made and cherifhed 'l that I ever foliated to fbrfake the Church. ) He was their Champion to fight out the Battels of that Party, whenfaever it came in Qmflirn before Our Ma^- f rates, d I was never before the Magiftrates of that City, but when forced to it, and that in my own Caule, except once to vindicate my Wife, who was near five of thy Clock in thei Afternoon on a Sabbath Day, taken up in die Streets, and fent to Bridewd ■ as fuppofing % was coming from a Conventicle. & By which means he got of them the Character of a 'flout Constant f I never till now thought my Reputation had been io great among them for Valour. ( C Tei . . v • '* *• ' • • ' 'i- • % f ' . . / J$

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