"John TnoMsox of Bedford, In ye County of "Westchester, gentleman, aged 40 years and upwards being sworn before Thomas Wenham, Ac, saith, that there having been no divine service according to ye ceremonies and usages of the Church of England in the said town of Bedford, the said deponent hath often gone to the Dissenting meeting in that town, where he hath heard one John Jones, as the minister of the Dissenting Congregation, preach, and hath heard him frequently in a very bitter and inveterate manner reflect on the present Constitution and Government of the Church of England, and particularly this deponent heard him say, that he cared not for the said Church of England, and in his sermon he used, to the best of this deponent's memory, these words, viz: come out of her (meaning yc Church of England) my people lest ye partake of her plagues, comparing likewise the said Church to ye Church of Rome, and saying at other times, likewise in his sermon to his congregation, yc are in a dangerous government, where they do not pray nor serve God, and that he would preach reprobation and defiance of principalities and powers, and that ye, speaking to his congregation, may tell 'em so at York, for yt he did not care for my Lord -- and this deponent further saith, that being one day with the said Jlr. Jones at the house of one Zachariah Roberts, at Bedford aforesaid, this deponent heard the said John Jones say, he would bum the Church of England books, &c,