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A57718 New-England a degenerate plant who having forgot their former sufferings ... are now become famous among the nations in bringing forth the fruits of cruelty ... published for the information of all sober people who wish to know how the state of New-England now stands ... / the truth of which we are witnesses (who by their cruel hands have suffered) Iohn Rous, Iohn Copeland, Samuel Shattock, Nicholas Phelps, Josiah Soutwick. Whereunto is annexed a copy of a letter which came from one who hath been a magistrate among them. Rous, John, d. 1695. 1659 (1659) Wing R2043; ESTC R28819 13,811 20

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are required to execute this Order accordingly Edw. Rawson At a General Court held at Boston the 11. of May 1659. IT is Ordered That Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra his Wife Samuel Shattook Nicholas Phelps Joshua Buffum and Josiah Southick are hereby Sentenced according to the Order of the General Court in October last to Banishment to depart out of this Jurisdiction by the eighth day of June next on pain of Death and if any of them after the said eighth day of June next shall be found within this Jurisdiction they shall be apprehended by any Constable or other Officer of this Jurisdiction and be committed to close prison there to lye till the next court of assistants where they shall be tryed and being found guilty of the breach of this Law shall be put to death This is a true Copy taken out of the Courts Records as attests Edw. Rawson Secretary The true cause of the banishment of those six Inhabitants of Salem in New-England was because they went not to their Meeting and met together by themselves at each others houses the cause being so small they were ashamed its like to tell the crime or what it was for in this their sentence seeing also they had imprisoned whipt and taken away great sums of money from them for the same thing before The Law for paying 5. s. a week for such as go not to their Meeting IT is ordered decreed by this Court Authority thereof That wheresoever the Ministry of the Word is established according to the Order of the Gospel throughout this jurisdiction every person shall duly resort and attend thereunto respectively upon the Lords Days and upon such publike Fast-Days and dayes of Thanksgiving as are to be generally kept by the appointment of Authority And if any person within this Jurisdiction shall without just and necessary cause withdraw himself from hearing the publike Ministry of the Word after due means of conviction used he shall forfeit for his absence from any such publike meeting five shillings all such offences to be heard and determined by any one magistrate or more from time to time This Law was made in the year 1646. and of late have been executed upon many Inhabitants to the taking away land and houses cattel and other goods from many that could not in conscience join with them in their Worship because their hands are defiled with blood There is certain information sent That the last General Court held in the third Month called May that they have made a Law and proclaimed it in all their Government That all such children and servants and others that for conscience sake cannot come to their meeting to Worship and have not Estates in their hands to answer this foregoing Law of 5. s per Week must be sold for slaves to Barbados or Virgenia or other remote parts to pay their Fines A Copy of a Law made at New-Plymouth in New-England in the first Month 1658. VVHereas there hath been several Persons come into this Government commonly called Quakers whose Doctrines and Practises manifestly tend to the subverting of the fundamentals of Christian Religion Church-Order and the civil Peace of this Government as appears by the Testimonies given in several Depositions and otherwayes It is Enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That no Quakers nor persons commonly so called be entertained by any person or persons within this Government under the penalty of Five pounds for every such default or be whipt and in case any one shall entertain any of those persons ignorantly if he shall testifie on his Oath that he knew them not to be such he shall be free of the aforesaid penalty Provided he upon his first discovering them to be such do discover them to the Constable or his Deputy It is also enacted by the Court and the Authority thereof That if any ●anter or Quaker or any person commonly so called shall come into any Township within this Government and by any person or persons be known or suspected to be such a one the person so knowing or suspecting him shall forthwith acquaint the Constable or his Deputy on pain of Presentment and so liable to censure in Court who forthwith shall diligently endeavour to apprehend them and command them to depart out of the Township and this Government and in case any such person delay or Refuse to depart then the said Constable or Deputy shall apprehend them or him and bring him or them before the Magistrate in their Township if there be any where there is none to the Select men appointed by the Court for that purpose who shall cause him or them to be Whipt by the Constable or his Deputy or pay Five pounds and then conveighed out of the Township and the same course is to be taken with every of them as often as any of them transgress this Order in case of extremity for Harbour or Food the Constable or his Deputy shall Reserve them for their Money Provided They suffer not any person or persons to Resort unto them whilest they are under their custody And forasmuch as the Meetings of such persons whether strangers or others proveth to the destructing of the peace of this present Government it is therefore enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That henceforth no such Meeting be assembled or kept by any person many place within this Government under the penalty of 40. s. a time for every Speaker and 10. s. a time for every Hearer and 40. s. a time for the owner of the place that permits them so to meet together And if they meet together at their silent so called then every person so meeting together shall pay 10. s. a time and the owner of the place 40. s. a time Forasmuch as it was ordered at June-Court last That all such as were house-keepers or at their own dispose that were not Free-men and have not taken the Oath of Fidelity to this Government should take the said Oath by the time then pre●xed or to be fined to the Collonies use the sum of 5. l. And whereas divers persons notwithstanding all patience and long-forbearance refuse to take the said Oath and yet make their residence amongst us It is therefore enacted by the Court That every such person or persons shall every General Court be summoned to make their appearance thereat during the time of their abode in this Government and if any such person or persons shall refuse to take the said Oath shall be fined the sum of 5. l. to the Collonies use Whereas the multitude of Free-men is but small and the Inhabitants of the Townships many more who have equal votes with the Free-men in the choice of Deputies who being the body of the Free-men Representative together with the Magistrates have equal votes for the enacting of Laws who by weakness prejudice or otherwaies it hath or may come to pass that very unfit or unworthy persons may be chosen that