By the Rev. Thomas Miles. 



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to the common stocke of match and gunpowder for the country. 



4. — Attempt hath beene made to cause Dr. Greene to contribute 

 with ye parishioners to the King's Bench Marshalsie and maimed 

 soldiers whiche thing Mr. John Toppe, high sheriffe, hath effected 

 in one or two other parishes where he ha'th to doe. 



5. — Dr. Greene hath beene required to pay to his Maties pro- 

 vision. 



6. — Dr. Greene's servant, his right hand for temporall affaires, 

 hath beene threatened upon any presse to bee sent for a soldier, 

 and it is openly professed that it is as lawfull to presse clergie- 

 meiis servants, as lay mens. The encouragement in all these 

 proceedings is both given and taken by a pretended decision of all 

 the judges in the lande under theire handes (upon occasion of some 

 differences betweene the clergie and freeholders of Dyrrham), 

 wherein they say that the glebe of rectories is subject to all 

 manner of payments as far forth as farmers and other possessions 

 of lay men, a copy whereof Mr. John Toppe, Ilighe Sheriffe of the 

 Co. of Wilts hath gotten and divulged thereby possessinge men 

 that all these vexatious proceedings are according to lawe." 



"The Grievances of Dr. Green, Parson of Stockton, in the County 



of Wilts. 



1. — Dr. Green's curate was foure severall tymes served with 

 common warrants, by the Tithingman, under the justices handes 

 to appear before them for refusing to wryte passportes for vagrantes, 

 ex-officio, and to receyve into Dr. Green's house (then resident at 

 Bristol,) for an apprentice, a girl of the age of 9 or 10, dissolutely 

 bred, the daughter of a notorious harlott (though Dr. Green pro- 

 ffered money to place her elsewhere with some trade). 



2. — One of these common warrants was for Dr. Green himself as 

 well as for his curate, one other for the curate to answere matters of 

 misdemeanour ; whereas he appearing, no other thing could be ob- 

 jected against him, save that he refused to make passportes for, &c. 

 Two of them were disgracefully served on the curate upon Sunday, 

 immediately after evening prayer in the churchyard in the face of 

 the whole parish. 



