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The second part of The cry of the innocent for justice being a brief narrative of the illegal apphrehending and imprisoning of about seven score of the people called Quakers, by souldiers without justice or due prosecution of the law, who now suffer in Newgate for the testimony of a pure conscience, and because they cannot sin against God. And also a short relation of the proceedings of the court at the sessions at Old Baley, towards the said prisoners, held the first day, and the fifth day of this instant month called July. As also divers particular proceedings of Alderman Brown towards that people truly related and worthy of sober mens observation; with quotations of divers antient laws of England proving the unjustness, and how contrary to the law of the land, the said apprehending and imprisoning of the said people is. Collected and put to publick view by the aforesaid prisoners.

Title:The second part of The cry of the innocent for justice being a brief narrative of the illegal apphrehending and imprisoning of about seven score of the people called Quakers, by souldiers without justice or due prosecution of the law, who now suffer in Newgate for the testimony of a pure conscience, and because they cannot sin against God. And also a short relation of the proceedings of the court at the sessions at Old Baley, towards the said prisoners, held the first day, and the fifth day of this instant month called July. As also divers particular proceedings of Alderman Brown towards that people truly related and worthy of sober mens observation; with quotations of divers antient laws of England proving the unjustness, and how contrary to the law of the land, the said apprehending and imprisoning of the said people is. Collected and put to publick view by the aforesaid prisoners.
Note:[London] : Printed for the author, 1662
  
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Subject:Society of Friends -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Prisoners' writings, English -- Early works to 1800
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