The late barbarous and inhumane cruelties inflicted upon certain persons called Quakers for their peaceable religious meetings, in the county of Leicester, by the instigation of Thomas Cotten, priest, and divers officers of the parish of Broughton, and his man being present when some of these wretched abuses were transacted intimated in a letter from the sufferers themselves.

Abstract

"Here followeth some account of the wicked and illegal proceedings of John Smith, an old informer, and William Cole a justice (so called), an old assistant of his." p. [1] at end. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.