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A79504	New-Englands Jonas cast up at London: or, A relation of the proceedings of the court at Boston in New-England against divers honest and godly persons, for petitioning for government in the common-wealth, according to the lawes of England, and for admittance of themselves and children to the sacraments in their churches; and in case that should not be granted, for leave to have ministers and church-government according to the best reformation of England and Scotland. Together with a confutation of some reports of a fained miracle upon the aforesaid petition, being thrown over-board at sea; as also a breif [sic] answer to some passages in a late book (entituled Hypocrisie unmasked) set out by Mr. Winslowe, concerning the Independent churches holding communion with the reformed churches. / By Major John Child.	Child, John, Major.	1647 (1647)	Wing C3851; Thomason E384_5; ESTC R201443	15,799	25

of fidelity thereunto seeming notwithstanding to be evil-affected to the Government here established In and upon the 18. day of the first Moneth last past at Hingham aforesaid in the presence of about thirty persons did utter divers speeches which are upon record tending to sedition and contempt of the said Government contrary to the law of God and peace and welfare of the Country Upon which Return of the Jury the Court fined him Twenty pounds and bound him in Forty pounds to be of good behaviour and to appeare at next Quarter-Court and Mr. Peck bound himself in twenty pounds for the good behaviour and appearance of Mr. Peter Hubbard at the next Quarter-Court Increase Nowel Secret The Court on this Triall was kept by these persons Mr. Winthrop Governour Mr. Dudley Deputy-governour Mr. Pe●●im Mr. F●m Mr. Hibbins Mr. Nowel Mr. Bellingham Mr. Broadstreet Only Mr. Bellingham and Mr. Broadstreet required their Dissent to be recorded To the Worshipfull the GOVERNOUR the Deputy-governour and the rest of the Assistance of the Massachusets Bay in New-England together with the Deputies of the generall Court now assembled in Boston The Remonstrance and humble Petition of us whose Names are here under-written in the behalf of our selves and divers within this Jurisdiction HUmbly showeth That we cannot but with all thankfulnesse acknowledge your indefatigable pains continuall care and constant vigilancie which by the blessing of the Almighty hath procured unto this Wildernesse the much desired fruits of Peace and Plenty while our native Land ye● the Christian world is sharply afflicted with the devouring Sword and the sad consequents of Intestine wars And further That you whom the Lord hath placed at the helm of these Plantations and endowed with eminent gifts fit for such honourable callings are best able to foresee the clouds which hang over our heads the 〈◊〉 and tempests which threaten this poor Handfull here planted and timously to amend them Notwithstanding those who are under 〈◊〉 being at present unfit for higher imployments may perceive those Leaks which will inevitably sink this weak and ill compacted Vessell if not by your Wisdoms opportunely prevented We therefore in the behalf of our selves and divers of our Countrymen laying our hands on our breasts and seriously considering That the hand of our good God who through his goodnesse hath safely brought us and ours through the great Ocean and planted us here seems not now to be with us nay rather against us blasting all our designs though contrived with much deliberation undertaken with great care and proceeding with more then ordinary probability of succesfull events by which many of good estates are brought to the brinks of extreme poverty yea at this time laying His just hand upon our families taking many away to himself striking others with unwonted malignant sicknesses and noysome shamefull diseases Have thought it convenient with all respectivenesse to present these our sincere requests and Remonstrance to this honoured Court hoping we have found out the speciall Leaks which concurring with the many and great Sins of this place which our Consciences know and our Brethren of England are not ignorant of are the speciall causes of the Lords turning his face from us leaving us to our selves and consequently to strife contention unfaithfulnesse idlenesse and other lamentable failings not blessing us in any of our endeavours so as to give us any great hopes of Staple-commodities and consequently of comfortable subsistence though we to the utmost of our powers these many years even to the exhausting of our estates and spirits have endeavoured the same but contrariwise all things grow worse and worse even to the threatning in our apprehensions of no lesse then finall ruine Not doubting but you will receive these our Requests and Remonstrance with the same candor of mind which we not aiming at novelty and disturbance but at the glory of God our allegiance to the State of England and good of these poor Plantations if our hearts deceive us not present them unto you though for want of skill and other necessary helps roughly drawn up and hope that you will be more diligent in an ending then we in the searching out the causes of these our present calamities 〈◊〉 Not to trouble you who are imployed in the most serious affaires of these Plantations with many wor●● wee shall briefly referre them to those Heads 1. Whereas this place hath been planted by the incouragements next under God of Letters Patents given and granted by His Majesty of England to the Inhabitants hereof with many priviledges and immunities viz. Incorporation into a Company liberty of choosing Governours setling Government making Laws not repugnant to the Laws of England power of administring the Oath of Allegiance to all c. as by the said Letters Patents more largely appeareth Notwithstanding we cannot according to our judgements cleerly discern a setled form of Government according to the Fundamentall lawes of England which may seem strange to our Country-men yea to the whole World especially considering we are all English Neither do we so understand or perceive our own Lawes or Liberties or any Body of Lawes here so established as that thereby there may be a sure and comfortable enjoyment of our Lives Liberties and Estates according to our due Naturall rights as Free-born subjects of the English nation By which many inconveniences flow into these Plantations viz. Jealousies of introducing Arbitrary Government which many are prone to believe construing the procrastination of such setled Lawes to proceed from an over-greedy spirit of Arbitrary power which it may be is their weaknesse such proceedings being most detestable to our English Nation and to all good men and at present a chief cause of the intestine War in our dear Country Further it gives cause to many to think themselves hardly dealt with others too much favoured and the scale of Justice too much bowed and unequally ballanced From whence also proceedeth feares and jealousies of illegall Commitments unjust Imprisonments Taxes Rates Customes Levies of ungrounded and undoing Assesments unjustifiable Presses undue Fines unmeasurable Expences and Charges of unconceivable dangers through a Negative or destructive Vote unduly placed or not well regulated in a word of a Non-certainty of all things we enjoy whether lives liberties or estates as also of undue Oaths being subject to exposition according to the will of him or them that gives them and not according to a due and unbowed rule of Law which is the true Interpreter of all Oaths to all men whether Judge on Judged Wherefore our humble desire and requesti●● That you would be pleased to consider of our present condition and upon what foundation we stand and unanimously concurre to establish the Fundamentall and wholsome Lawes of our native Country and such others as are no way repugnant to them unto which all of us are most accustomed and we suppose them best agreeable to our English tempers and your selves obliged thereunto by the Generall

MASSACHUSETS IF any man after legall conviction shall have or worship any other god but the Lord God he shall be put to death Deut. 3.6 c. and 17.2 c. Exod. 22.20 2. IF any man or woman be a Witch that is hath or consulteth with a Familiar spirit they shall be put to death Exod. 22.18 Lev. 20.27 Deut. 18.10 11. 3. IF any person shall blaspheme the Name of God the Father Son or Holy Ghost with direct expresse presumptuous or high-handed blasphemy or shall curse God in the like manner he shall be put to death Lev. 24.15 16. 4. IF any person shall commit any wilfull murther which is Man-slaughter committed upon prnmeditate malice hatred or cruelty not in a mans necessary and just defence nor by meer casualty against his will he shall be put to death Exod. 21.12 13 14. Num. 35.30 31. .5 IF any person flayeth another suddenly in his anger or cruelty of passion he shall be put to death Num. 35.20 21. Lev. 24.17 6. IF any person shall slay another through guile either by poysonings or other such devilish practice he shall be put to death Exod. 21.14 7. IF a man or woman shall lie with any 〈…〉 by carnall copulation they shall sure 〈…〉 the beast shall be slain and buried Lev. 〈…〉 8. IF a man lieth with mankinee as 〈…〉 both of them have committed abo● 〈…〉 surely be put to death Lev. 20. ●● 9. IF any person committeth adultery v● 〈…〉 ●sed wife the Adulterer and Adulte 〈…〉 to death Lev. 20.10 18.20 De 〈…〉 10. IF any man shall unlawfully have carnall ●●peration w●● any woman child under ten years old either with or without her consent he shall be put to death 11. IF any man shall forcibly and without consent ravish any maid or woman that is lawfully married or contracted he shall be put to death Deut. 22.25 c. 12. IF any man shall ravish any maid or single woman committing carnall copulation with her by force against he will that is above the age of ten years he shall be either punished with death or with some other grievous punishment according to circumstances at the discretion of the Jvdges and this Law to continue till the Court take further order 13. JF any man stealeth a man or man-kinde he shall surely be put to death Exod. 21.16 14. JF any man rise up by false witnesse wittingly and of purpose to take away any mans life he shall be put to death Deut. 19.16 18 19. 15. JF any man shall conspire or attempt any invasion insurrection or publike rebellion against our Common-wealth or shall endeavour to surprise any Town or Towns Fort or Forts therein or shall treacherously or perfidiously attempt the alteration and subversion of our frame of Polity or Government fundamentally he shall be put to death Num. 16. 2 Sam. 3. 18. 20. Per exemplar Incre Nowel Secret THE OATH OF A FREE-MAN I A. B. being by Gods providence an Inhabitant and 〈◊〉 within the Jurisdiction of this Common●● 〈…〉 ●nowledge my self to be subject to 〈…〉 ●fe And therefore do here swear 〈…〉 ●ful Name of the Ever-living God 〈…〉 faithfull to the same and will ac● 〈…〉 ●ce support thereunto with my 〈…〉 equity I am bound and will also 〈…〉 ●aintain and preserve all the liberties 〈…〉 of submitting my self to the whole● 〈…〉 ●inde and established by the same And further that I will not plot or practice any evill against it or consent to any that shall so do but will timely discover and reveal the same to lawfull Authority now here established for the speedy preventing thereof Moreover I doe solemnly bind my self in the sight of God that when I shal be called to give my voyce touching any such matter of this State in which Freemen are to deal I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in mine own conscience may best conduce and tend to the publike weal of the body without respect of persons or favour of any man So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ Concerning the throwing the Petition over-board as a Jonas it was as followeth WHen the first ship that came this Year 1646. from New-England was almost ready to come from thence Mr. Cotton in his Thursday-Lecture at Boston preached out of that Scripture Cant. 2.15 Take us the little Foxes c. In his Uses took occasion to say That if any shall carry any Writings Complaints against the People of GOD in that Country it would be as Jonas in the ship with many words to perswade from such Complaints in England saying that they should seek for remedy of those things that were amisse in that place tell it not in Gath nor publish it in Askelon He also advised the Ship-Master that if storms did arise to search if they had not in any chest or Trunk any such Jonas aboard which if you find said he I do not advise you to throw the Persons over-board but the Writings or words to that effect Whereupon having great * In the winter-season all passages from N. England are tempestuous storms as could not be otherwise expected some of the Passengers remembring Mr. Cottons Sermon it seems were much affected with what he had said and a woman amongst them came up from between the Decks about midnight or after in a distracted passionate manner to Mr. William Vassall who lay in the great Cabin but for the present was in the Sterage-door-way looking abroad she earnestly desired him if there were any Jonas in the ship that as Mr. Cotton had directed it might be thrown over-board with many broken expressions to that purpose He asked her why she came to him and she said because it was thought that he had some Writings against the people of God but he answered her He had nothing but a Petition to the Parliament that they might enjoy the liberty of English subjects and that could be no Jonas and that if the best of New-Englands friends could shew him any evil in that he would not prefer it After this she went into the great Cabin to Mr. Tho. Fowle in like distracted manner who told her he had nothing but the Copy of the Petition which himself and others had presented to the Court at Boston and shewed and read it to her and then told her That if she and others thought that to be the Cause of the storm she and they might do what they would with it but he professed that he saw no evil in it neither was his Conscience troubled with it So she took it and carried it between Decks to them from whom she came and they agreed to throw it over-board and it was thrown over-board but the storm did not leave us upon the throwing of this Paper over-board as it is reported for they had many great storms after that much lesse was the great and wonderfull deliverance which by Gods mercy he gave unto them from shipwrack and drowning at