An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the…

But Mr. Henry being the greatest Criminal, and having done the most Mischief, must needs be animadverted upon accordingly, and therefore he was fined 40 l. the pretence of which was this: In the Year 1679. Oct. 15. Mr. Kynaston of Oatly, a Justice of Peace in Shire, meeting him and some others coming as he supposed, from a Conventicle, he was pleased to Record their Conviction, upon the notorious Evidence and Circumstance of the Fact: The Record was Filed at Salop the next Sessions after; but no Notice was ever sent of it, either to Mr. Henry, or the Justices of Flintshire; nor any Prosecution upon it, against any of the Parties charged (the reason of which Mr. Henry ⟨p. 151⟩in a Narrative he wrote of this affair, supposeth to be not only the then favourable posture of Public Affairs towards Dissenters, but also the particular Prudence and Lenity of Mr. Kynaston) so that having never smarted for this, he could not be supposed to be deterred from the like offence; nor if he were wronged in that first Conviction, had he ever any opportunity of making his Appeal. However, the Justices being resolved he should have summum jus, thought that first Record sufficient to give denomination to a second Offence, and so he came to be Fined double. This Conviction (according to the direction of the Act) they certified to the next adjoining Justices of Flintshire, who had all along carried themselves with great Temper and Moderation towards Mr. Henry, and had never given him any disturbance; tho' if they had been so minded, they had not wanted opportunities; but they were now necessitated to Execute the Sentence of the Shropshire Justices. 'Twas much pressed upon him to pay the Fine, which might prevent his own Loss, and the Justices Trouble. But he was not willing to do it, partly because he would give no Encouragement to such Prosecutions, nor voluntarily Reward the Informers, for that which he thought they should rather be punished for; and partly because he thought himself wronged in the doubling of the Fine. Whereupon his Goods were Distrained upon, and carried away; in the doing of which many passages occurred, which might be worth the Noting, but that the Repetition of them would perhaps grate and give offence to some.

But Mr. Henry being the greatest Criminal, and having done the most Mischief, must needs be animadverted upon accordingly, and therefore he was fined 40 l. the pretence of which was this: In the Year 1679. Oct. 15. Mr. Kynaston of Oatly, a Justice of Peace in S•shire, meeting him and some others coming as he supposed, from a Conventicle, he was pleas'd to Record their Conviction, upon the notorious Evidence and Circumstance of the Fact: The Record was Fil'd at Salop the next Sessions after; but no Notice was ever sent of it, either to Mr. Henry, or the Justices of Flintshire; nor any Prosecution upon it, against any of the Parties charged (the reason of which Mr. Henry