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Whitehead was frequently jailed. The first of several incarcerations occurred in 1654. While he was visiting St Peter's Church in
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When he had examined us, he could not lay the least breach of any law to our charge, nor show anything contrary to the
Scriptures... For in it we were termed laborers of Bures and accused of several times disturbing the magistrates and ministers, and with having been several days at Bures before we
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magistrates, for non-payment of tithes, and kept them detained in prison, chiefly on contempts, as their term is for not swearing upon oath to the priests' bills and complaints.
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to plead for a continuation of pardons and rights for the religiously persecuted. The meeting was successful and would influence the king in the creation of the
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were the only teenaged males counted among the sixty (Elizabeth
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for voiding the declaration. Again a declaration was issued that pardoned more prisoners of religious persecution. His wife died in 1686.
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