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A true and faithful narrative, of the unjust and illegal sufferings, and oppressions of many Christians : (injuriously, and injudiciously call'd fanaticks, holding all the fundamentals of the christian religion, believing all the articles of the Christian faith; and whose lives and conversations are as consonant, and agreeable to the laws of God as theirs that persecute them) under, and by several of his Majesties Justices of Peace, and others, who are no officers, but informers, in the county of Devon, since the tenth of May, 1670 from a pretended zeal, to put the law against conventicles in execution. As also, of the most malicious prosecution of nine innocent persons, to take away their lives, under a false pretence of murdering an informer: and of the tryals that were betwixt Matthew Hele, ... William Bastard, ... and Mr. Edmund Reynel, and John Bear, (called by a nick-name Cocky Bear) two informers for pretended neglects, ... at the assizes held at Exon, in the county of Devon, Ap