The suffering case of William Gutheridge, of Banwell in Sommersetshire, truly stated, and committed to the tender consideration of all true English men Gutheridge, William, d. 1706. 1689 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A61967 Wing S6157A ESTC R212844 99825493 99825493 29875 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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ABout the Year 1676. James Crosman , Vicar of Banwell and Puckson in Sommersetshire , procured a Writ of Attachment against the said William Gutheridge , because for Conscience sake he could not Swear to an Answer to his Bill in the Exchequer for small Tythes ; and by Vertue thereof had him to Ilchester Goal , and kept him there Four Years . The Value of the said Tythes appears by the Affidavits of three men to be between Forty and Fifty Shillings a Year ; as also by the Certificate of Ten substantial Men of the Neighbourhood , Witnessed under their Hands ; For which , after Four Years Imprisonment at Ilchester , he , with Thomas Tegg , an Impropriator , had him up to the Fleet Prison in London , where he hath remained about Nine Years ; and while so a Prisoner , the said James Crosman , caused him to be Indicted at the Quarter Sessions in Sommersetshire , upon the Statute of Recusancy , for being Absent from his Parish Church Eleven Months : the Penalty Two Hundred and Twenty Pounds , which put him to great Trouble and Charges . And not only this , but hath Prosecuted him in the Exchequer , and hath Sworn his small Tythes to be worth Six Pounds ten Shillings a Year ; and thereupon hath obtained a Sequestration against him , and hath Enter'd upon his Goods and Chattels , to the value of One Hundred and Fifty one Pounds seven Shillings , as appears by the Appraisement that he and the Sequestrators have Returned into the Court of Exchequer , but are really worth about twice as much . And hath also Seized upon his Lands and Tenements , to the value of Sixty or Seventy Pounds a Year , which the Sequestrators , by the direction of the said James Crosman , keeps in their hands ; and notwithstanding , keeps the said William Gutheridge in Prison , saying , He shall never come out , he being separate a Hundred Miles from his Wife and Family . And thus deprived of his Estate by the unheard of Cruelty of this Priest James Crosman , and his Merciless Proceedings . William Gutheridge .