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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$ranee of my Fidelity to the Government, by taking th e ufijal' Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy* And let them alfo, if they can, teftify againit me of any Injuflice or Unmercifulnefs toward my Neighbour, or Infobriety and Intemperance to¬ wards my felf. And as for my Religion, I own my felf a Proteftant j and for- my Faith, do believe all the Doctrinal Principles Contained in the Articles of the Church of England ^ and as for W or (hip, have Accomodated the fame ( as near as I could ) to the Rule of Gods Word, and the belt Examples of Primitive Saints; and wherein I have in any thing differed, from the publick in- ftituted way of Worfhip, have always laboured to manage my felf, with the leaf; Offence imaginable, towards thofefrem whom I have Diffented *, avoiding all Cenforioufnefs of others, differing from me. If thefe things be otherwife, I dare fay with Job, Chap. 31» 3 5, 36) 37. Let my Adverfary write it in a Book) end ('if he can ) prove the contrary, &c. As to my prefent Sufferings, in Order to a due Underftand- ing thereof, \is needful to Refled upon the Caufe and Occa- fion, as well as the manner of managing thereof: The internal moving caufe thereof, tI take to be an implacable Prejudice for¬ med in the mind of Mr. Rom fey our Town-dark of Briflol, garnft me 3 occafioned chiefly after this following manner, if I miftakenot, (though he had declared before that, fome Pre¬ judice againft me./) Soon after the breaking out of the late Piot, it became a common Difcourfe, that all the. Kings-Head Club in London, were concerned in it; and that the Horfe-fhooe Club in Briftol (fo called, becaufe during the time of the laft; Eledion of Parliament-men, feveral Citizens intending to ehofe Sir Robert Atkins and Sir Jonathan Knight Senior, Parlia¬ ment men for that City, did frequently Affemble there, about that Affair ) were a Branch of the fame *, and that all the faid? Club fhould be Indided, and divers of them fent for up to the Councel-Tablepn order to which,dive: s. were convened before our Juftices, to be examined about it, among which 1 was one when I came before them , among other things they queftioned! me, what Perfons ufed to meet there ? Seeing Mr. Rcmfey Sit¬ ing by, ( and writing Letters as I judged about that matter )* I named him for one, whomet (though not in the fame place . yet)]$

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