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• Faithful Unto Death: An Account of the Sufferings of the English Franciscans During the 16th and 17th Centuries, From Contemporary Records (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1892), by J. M. Stone, contrib. by John Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• A loyal appeal to the Protestant dissenters, who unjustly complain of a present persecution. (London, : Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, 1681), by W. R. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A true & exact relation of the death of two Catholicks : who suffered for their religion at the summer assezes, held at Lancaster in the year 1628 ... ([T. Meighan?], 1737), by Cornelius Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the ministers, lecturers, masters, and fellows of colleges and schoolmasters : who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by or before, the Act of Uniformity ; design'd for the preserving to posterity the memory of their names, characters, writings, and sufferings (London : Printed for J. Lawrence, 1713., 1713), by Edmund Calamy (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Acts of English Martyrs, Hitherto Unpublished (London: Burns and Oates, 1891), by John Hungerford Pollen, contrib. by John Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII, in 1885 and 1895 (reissue, 2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), ed. by Bede Camm
  • Volume I (Martyrs Under Henry VIII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Martyrs Under Queen Elizabeth): multiple formats at archive.org
• La persécution religieuse en Angleterre sous Elisabeth et les premiers Stuarts (Sociéte de Saint-Augustin :, 1883), by Cyrille Jean Destombes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of missionary priests and other Catholics of both sexes : that have suffered death in England on religious accounts from the year of our Lord, 1577 to 1684 (Printed by Mark Wardle, No. 84 Spinning-field, Deansgate, for T. Haydock, 16, Tib-Lane, 1803), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• La persčution religieuse en Angleterre : sous les successeurs d'Élizabeth, Jacques Ier, Charles Ier, Cromwell et Charles II (J. Lecoffre, 1864), by Cyrille Jean Destombes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of missionary priests, as well secular as regular, and of other Catholics, of both sexes, that have suffered death in England, on religious accounts, from the year of our Lord 1577, to 1684 (Printed [for F. Needham?], 1741), by Richard Challoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of the English martyrs (Religious Tract Society, 1867), by Charles Benjamin Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secret chambers and hiding-places : the historic, romantic & legendary stories & traditions about hiding-holes, secret chambers & c. / by Allan Fea, with numerous illus. by the author. (S. H. Bousfield, 1901), by Allan Fea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secret chambers and hiding-places : the historic, romantic & legendary stories & traditions about hiding-holes, secret chambers, &c. (S.H. Bousfield, 1904), by Allan Fea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An appeal for judgement unto the righteous principle of God in every conscience, against the persecutors of the innocent. (Printed at London : [s.n.], 1664), by R. C. (Richard Crane) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Declaration from the people of God called Quakers against all seditious conventicles, and dangerous practises of any who under colour or pretence of tender conscience, have, or may contrive insurrections, the said people being cleer from all such things, in the sight of God, angels and men. ([London : s.n., 1670?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse concerning riots occasioned by some of the people called Quakers, being imprisoned and indicted for a riot, for only being at a peaceable meeting to worship God / written by one of that people, Thomas Ellwood. (London : Printed for Thomas Hoskins ..., MDCLXXXIII [1683]), by Thomas Ellwood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true discoverie of the ground of the imprisonment of Francis Ellington, Thomas Cocket, and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire, who are cast into the common goale in Northampton by the men that are now in commission to do justice, who never read us any law, or any evidence came against us, shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest : he that hath an eye to see, let him see, and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear. (London : Printed for Giles Calvert ..., 1655), by F. E. (Francis Ellington) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a further relation (in brief) of the cruel havock and spoil, made on the persons and estates of the people of God in scorn called Quakers; for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth. ([London : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The slanderer rebuked, or, The vindication of Thomas Grantham against the malicious slanders of one Mr. Toathby, a seller of wool in the city of Norwich ([London : s.n., 1691]), by Thomas Grantham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A plain record, or declaration shewing the origin, root and race of persecutors together with the nature, practice and end of that generation ... so their reward will be according to their work / [by] H.F. (London : Printed for Robert Wilson, 1661), by H. F. (Henry Fell) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from a person of quality to an eminent dissenter to rectifie his mistakes concerning the succession, the nature of persecution and a comprehension. (London : Printed by T.B. for Randolph Taylor ..., MDCLXXXV [1685]), by George Hickes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An exhortation to friends in and about the county of Worcester and elsewhere (London : Printed for Thomas Northcott ..., 1689), by William Sankey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A general summons from the authority of truth, unto all ecclesiastical courts and officers wherein they may see what truth objecteth against their practice and proceedings in cases of conscience / by William Smith. (London printed : [s.n.], 1668), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A second relation from Hertford containing the unjust proceedings of some called justice there at the general quarter sessions, upon the tryal of one and twenty innocent persons called Quakers for a pretended breach of the late act, with an account of the most material passages between the prisoners and the court, the 3d, 4th, and 5th dayes of the 8th moneth, 1664 : whereby it appears that meeting to worship God in spirit and truth is the great crime for which they are under so grievous a sentence, and that whatever is pretended by those that love the title of justice, yet in very deed they hate justice it self, as by their proceedings appears / by W.S. ([London : s.n., 1673]), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Some queries proposed to the bishops and ministers of England, for them, or any of them, to answer that there may be an understanding why persecution is so violently prosecuted / [by] W.S. ([London : s.n., 1664]), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open, or, A few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness ... (London : Printed for Giles Calvert ..., 1655), by George Whitehead and John. To all you rulers Harwood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from a gentleman in the city to a gentleman in the country, about the odiousness of persecution wherein the rise and end of the penal laws for religion in this kingdom, are consider'd : occasioned by the late rigorous proceedings against sober dissenters, by certain angry justices in the country. ([London? : s.n.], 1687), by A. N. and William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of the unjust proceedings, verdict (so called) & sentence of the Court of Sessions ... against divers of the Lord's people called Quakers, on the 30th day of the 8th month, 1662 / published for the honour of God, the vindication of the innocent, and the information of people, by John Chandler. ([London?] printed : [s.n.], 1662), by John Chandler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The New and strange imprisonment of the people called Quakers in the city of Bristol, by nailing them up in their meeting-house the 7th of the third month, called May, 1682 and the result of the tryal, upon the pretence of a riot against them : signified by persons of credit, and immediate sufferers in the said city : to be added to their late distressed case. ([London : s.n., 1682?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Continued cry of the oppressed for justice. Part 2 ([London : s.n.], 1676), by William Penn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reall persecution, or, The foundation of a general toleration, displaied and portrayed by a proper emblem, and adorned with the same flowers wherewith the scoffers of this last age have strowed their libellous pamphlets (London : Printed for John Hancock, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Saints testimony finishing through sufferings: or, The proceedings of the court against the servants of Jesus, who were called before them to be tryed at the late assizes (or sessions) held in Banbury in the county of Oxon, the 26 day of the seventh moneth, 1655.: Also a relation of Margret Vivers, going to the steeple-house in Banbury, after the assize (or sessions) as aforesaid: and a testimony against false prophets, and false doctrine; ... And the manner of Richard Farnsworth imprisonment at Banbury, with a short examination and answer. And the cause of his detainment. Also, a warning from the spirit of the Lord (in his hand-maid Anne Audland) to the persecuting priest and people, &c. And a letter of Robert Rich to the magistrates of Banbury, ... Likewise a letter of Tho. Curtis to the professed minister called Samuel VVells in Banbury. And a certificate wherein is manifested the diligence that was used to know the causes of the prisoners commitments ... (Anne Audland, Iane VVaugh, Sarah Tims, and Nathaniel VVeston) as wel as Robert Rich, ... With a paper relating the sufferings of the innocent. (London : Printed for Giles Calvert, at the Black-Spread-Eagle, neer the west end of Pauls, 1655), by Margaret Vivers, Anne Audland, Robert Rich, and Thomas Curtis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A free flowing of the father's love to the heirs of the kingdom, with all that are seeking the peace and righteousness of it: ([London : s.n., 1664]), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The ravenous beast discovered and the devourer pursued: in a short account truly stated for the unjust proceedings and cruel dealings by Dove Williamson, priest of Elton in the county of Nottingham, against William Claytor of the same town / [by] William Smith. ([London : s.n., 1659]), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the ld. mayor & other justices & aldermen of the city of London, the case of the prisoners, commonly called Quakers in the said city, humbly presented ([London? : s.n., 1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Persecution of them people they call Quakers, in several places in Lanchashire [sic].: ([London? : s.n., 1656]), by William Addamson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The cry of Newgate with the other prisons in and about London in which dismal holes and cels [sic] are imured about three hundred persons of the innocent people of God called Quakers, for no other cause but for their unspotted testimonies in God, held in clear consciences / to you magistrates, priests, and people of the city of London, and elsewhere whom these may concern, are these words uttered by R.C. (London : [s.n.], 1662), by R. C. (Richard Crane) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Behold a cry! or, A true relation of the inhumane and violent outrages of divers souldiers, constables, and others,: practised upon many of the Lord's people, commonly (though falsly) called Anabaptists, at their several meetings in and about London. : Together with the violence offered some of them in Newgate (where they are now prisoners) by the fellons in the same place. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the king and both Houses of Parliament,: (who have made laws and decrees, and caused them to be put in execution, to restrain and prohibit people from having the liberty of their consciences in the exercise of the worship of God) this is sent as a warning from the Lord. ([London : s.n., 1664]), by Josiah Coale, John Crook, England and Wales Parliament, and England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse concerning riots: Occasioned by some of the people called Quakers, being imprisoned and indicted for a riot, for only being at a peaceable meeting to worship God. Written by one of that people, Thomas Ellwood. (London : printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-Street, MDCLXXXIII. [1683]), by Thomas Ellwood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief collection of certain instances of Holy Scripture, and ancient laws of England concurring against persecution, oppression and injustice, recomended to the serious consideration of all sincere friends to the King and kingdom / by William Holgate. ([London? : s.n.], 1686), by William Holgate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Comfort in affliction, or, Advice to Protestant dissenters in times of persecution together with remarks on the just judgments of God upon this city and land, since the prohibition of the Gospel, by mulcts and penalties / by J.O. (London : Printed for R. Jones, 1682), by J. O. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true narrative of the examination, tryall, and sufferings of James Nayler in the cities of London and Westminster, and his deportment under them.: With the copies of sundry petitions and other papers, delivered by severall persons to the Lord Protector, the Parliament, and many particular Members thereof, in his behalf. With divers remarkable passages (relating thereto) before his journey to Bristol, whither he is now gone towards the filling up the measure of his sufferings. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year, 1657), by James Naylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Something further laid open of the cruel persecution of the people called Quakers by the magistrates and people of Evesham.: (London : [s.n.], Printed in the yeer, 1656), by Humphrey Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ad general. session. pacis Dom. Regis tent. apud Doncaster, per adjourn. in & per le West Rid. Com. præd. decimo sexto die Januarii, Anno Regni Dom. nostri Caroli secundi nunc Regis Angl. &c. tricesimo quarto: the humble presentment of the Grand Jury at the said sessions, as followeth. (London : Printed for Walter Davis, 1683), by West Riding of Yorkshire (England). Grand Jury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of the excellency of the heavenly substance which is useful for the present, and so may be for future times. (London printed : [s.n.], 1673), by John Hickes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The memorial of the just shall not rot, or, A collection of some of the letters of that faithful servant of the Lord, William Wilson who departed this life the tenth day of the fifth month 1682 ... together with several testimonies concerning his faithfulness in his day : unto which is added a brief accompt of some of the buffetings, imprisonments, and spoiling of goods he patiently suffered for his testimonies sake. (London : Printed for Thomas Northcott ..., MDCLXXXV [1685]), by William Wilson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Declaration of some of the sufferings of the people of God called Quakers ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• For the King and both Houses of Parliament for you (who have known sufferings) now (in this the day of your prosperity) in the fear and vvisdom of God, to read over and consider these sufferings of the people of God in scorn called Quakers, which they have suffered in the dayes of the Commonwealth, and of Oliver and Richard Cromwel, and which they now suffer in your day for conscience sake, and bearing testimony to the truth, as it is in Iesus ... (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons, 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• For the King and his Councill at White-hall being a brief relation of some of the cruel and inhumane usage and great persecution and imprisonment of above four thousand two hundred and thirty of the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, for worshipping of God and meeting together in the fear of the Lord, and for obeying Christs commands who saith swear not at all, and for testifying to the truth and keeping their consciences clear toward God and man. (London : Printed for Robert Wilson, [1661]), by Robert Westfeild (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Cry of the innocent and oppressed for justice, or, A brief relation of the late proceedings against the prisoners called Quakers in London and the manner of their tryal at the sessions holden at Hick's Hall and Old-Bailey on the 14th, 15th and 17th day of October 1664, at which places thirty-one of the said prisoners were sentenced for banishment ... together with some animadversions or observations upon the said proceedings ... published for the information of all that desire to know the truth of these things. (Printed at London : [s.n.], 1664) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The lamentable sufferings of the church of God in Dorset-shire and the persecution there, whipping sufficient men of their own county as vagabonds, and how bruitish they behave themselves and unmanly, dishonouring their magistracy, and shaming their ministery ... (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons ..., 1659), by Samuel Curtis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The word of the Lord to all the inhabitants in England from the highest to the lowest, that they may know his determination, and so be entreated to break off from their sin, in true obedience unto him, that they may escape in the day of his dreadful appearance when no flesh shall stand before him / William Dewsbery. ([London] printed : [s.n.], 1666), by William Dewsbury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Farther account from several letters of the continuation of the cruel persecution of the people called Quakers in Bristol, without regard to age or sex with copies of several warrants, by which some of them were committed. (London : Printed for John Pringhurst ..., MDCLXXXII [1682]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• For the King and both Houses of Parliament being a declaration of the present suffering and imprisonment of above 600 of the people of God, in scorn called Quakers, who now suffer in England for conscience sake ... together with a particular relation of some of the late inhumane cruelties inflicted on some of the aforesaid people ... (London printed : [s.n.], 1664) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The captives complaint, or, The prisoners plea against the burthensom and contentious title of tythes with a true relation of the prisoners spiritual progress, & travel towards the new and heavenly Jerusalem ... ([London] printed : [s.n.], 1668), by Tho. Carleton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Last words and actions of John James at his execution at Tyburne the 27 of Novem. 1661 wherein you have his confession and prayer under the gallowes, immediately before his execution. (London : Printed by R. Vaughan ..., 1661) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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