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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

divulged is a thing out of your jurisdiction you cannot discerne or judge of it therefore according to our Word above wee leave it as a Parable to you as all the holy Word of our God ●● as your conversation in all points as in this daily declareth in a word when wee have to doe in your jurisdiction wee know what it is to submit to the wise dispensations of our God when you have to doe amongst us in the liberties he hath given to us wee doubt not but you shall find him Judge amongst us beyond and above any cause or thing you can propose unto us and let that suffice you and know that you cannot maintaine a jurisdiction but you must reject all inroads upon other mens priviledges and so doe wee in the meane time we● shall as wee thinke good be calling over againe some matters you have had up and had the handling of amongst you to see what justice or equity we find hath beene exercised in them and redresse them accordingly for wee professe right unto all me● and doe no violence at all as you in your prescript threaten to doe to us for we have learned how to discipline our children or servants without offering violence unto them even so doe wee know how to deale with our deboist rude yea inhumane neighbours or if you will Nabals without doing violence but rather rendring unto them that which is their ●●e Nor shall we deprive a witnesse of his modest testimony for the out-cryes and clamours of such a one as ill-br●d apostatized Arnald that fellonious Hogge Killer being the partie to be testified against or for the oath of any interested in the cause nor shall we be forward to come so farre to find you work upon your request till we know you to beare another mind then others of your Neighbours doe with whom we have had to doe in this Countrey whose pretended and devised Lawes we have stooped under to the robbing and spoyling of our goods the lively-hood of our wives and children thinking they had laboured though groaping in great darknesse to bring forth the truth in the rights and equitie of things But finding them to be a company of grosse and dissembling hypocrites that under the pretence of Law and Religion have done nothing else but gone about to establish themselves in wayes to maintaine their owne vicious lusts we renounce their diabolicall practice being such as have denied in their publicke Courts that the Lawes of our native Countrey should bee named amongst them yea those ancient Statute Lawes casting us into most base ●asty and insufferable places of imprisonment for speaking according to the language of them in the meane while breaking open our houses in a violent way of Hostility abusing our wives and our little ones to take from us the volumes wherin they are preserved thinking thereby to keep us ignorant of the courses they are resolved to runne that so the visiosity of their owne wils might be a Law unto them yea they have indeavoured and that in publicke expressions that a man being accused by them should not have liberty to answer for himselfe in open Court dealings of like nature wee find in the place whereof you stile us your Neighbours on whose unbridled malice we find a higher then you putting a ●● be and yet in your account and reckoning we are the parties that are still doing the wrong and must beare the guilt in your most mature sentence in whomsoever the spot ariseth and abideth but the God of vengeance unto whom our cause is referred never having our Protector and Judge to seeke will shew himselfe in our deliverance out of the hands of you all yea all the house of that Ishbosheth and Merib-bosheth nor vvill he fayle us to utter and make knovvne his strength vvherein vve stand to serve in our age and to minister in our course today and tomorrow and on the third day can none deprive us of perfection for hee hath taught us to know what it is to walke today and tomorrow and the day following also when a perishing estate cannot rise out of Ierusalem though she be the only one yea none but she that kils the Prophets and stones them that are sent unto her Behold ye that are looking after and foretelling so much of the comming of Christ driving the day before you still for certaine years which some you say shall attaine unto and unto the day of death for the rest ye blind Guids as your Fathers have ever done so doe ye Behold we say when he appeareth your house which you so glory in shall be left unto you de●o●●●e it shall be turned into nothing but desolation and confusion for Babel is its name nor shall you see him to your comfort in the glory of his Kingdome untill you can say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord when the authority and power of man appeareth to be the building of Babel unto you and the name and authority of God only to be that wherein the blessing consists and that in such wise also as is nothing but a way of reproach in the eyes of all the world that a King should ride into his chiefe Citie ● so strangly furnished upon an Asse borrowed her furniture ●id over-worne Garments and accompanied with none but poore meane excommunicate persons such as your Elders ●●cribes Pharisees Lawyers and all your credible persons among you make full account they are not only accursed by but also destitute and void of all Law when you can find Hosanna in the highest arising out of such contempt and shame then and then only shall you sing unto him with comfort in the meane time acknowledge your portion which is to ●ru●● and stay your selves on the name of man and in his beauty to delight and glory which shall fade as a Leafe and like the grasse shall wither when it is fitting it selfe for the Over such is man whose breath is in his Nostrils and the sonne of sorry man in whom you have deligh● to trust his power and policie brings forth nothing else but as you shall see and heart in the Countrey from whence we are brought we are not ignorant of those shamefull lies and falsities gone out against us and the daily wresting of our words to cast contempt upon us thinking to bow downe our backs under ignominy and reproach neither of the straits and difficulties they have cast us upon in the things that concernes this present life to the taking away of the lives of many if our God had not been seene beyond and above what their thoughts could reach unto as their owne confession hath witnessed doing it in such a way of painted hypocrisie and false glosse unto the eye of the world that we might seem unto it selfe executioners we resolve therefore to follow our imployments to carry and behave our selves as formerly we have done

the issues whereof are pressing on unto perfection whose arri●all is waited for with that hope that never makes ashamed we may not therefore forbeare To require an explanation of what you intend by the Lands of Pumhom and Soccononocco for we know none they have or ever had within your jurisdiction if you should therefore so farre forget your selfe as to intend thereby our Land lawfully bought and now in our possession and inhabited by us called Shaw-omet together with other parts near adjoyning Give us your minds and meaning in plaine terms under your hands And whereas you conclude for such our lawfull aboad and residence to prosecute against us by course of Law unto death we resolve upon your answer with all expedition to wage Law with you and try to the uttermost What right or interest you can shew to lay claime either to our Lands or our Lives and shall take it as your own Act urging us and constraining us thereunto to look● after our right in the havock and spoyls you have already made among us which otherwise God hath taught us to suffer joyfully the robbing and spoyling of our goods if you did not necessitate us to look after recompence from you We expect your answer by this Bearer and in case you returne it not speedily we conclude your order of Court to intend no such thing as to drive us from our lawfull possessions as above-said but that you used such te●mes as scar-crows imagining you had children to deale with or as a starting hole to evade part of that danger that may insue nor can you put us off for answer till the Court sit againe being a generall Act and you but one now to answer for we know you may better open unto us the in●●nt of the Court for our satisfaction then you could expell us out of any part of your jurisdiction before the time set by the Court contrary to the liberty it had given unto us By the order or government of Shaw-omet John Warner Secretary Sufficient witnesse being taken of our plaine and man-like dealing with you herein A true Copie of a Letter sent to the Government and Governour of the Massachusets the day and year above said In witnesse of or in presence of Ralph Earle John Anthony Here Followeth a true Copie of the Governours answer to our Letter above-said set downe here verbatim and is extant under his own hand To Samuel Gorton John Warner and the rest of that company FOr satisfaction of what you require by your writing of March 26 1644. This is to let you know that the expression and intent of the order of our last generall Court concerning your comming within any part of our jurisdiction doth comprehend all the Lands of Pumhom and Soccononocco and in the same are included the Lands which you pretended to have purchased upon part whereof you had built some houses be the place called Shaw-omet or otherwise so as you are not to come there upon perill of your lives This I testifie to you Boston 2. i 1644 Iohn Winthrope You must know withall that the C●urt did not intend their order should be a scar-crow as you ●●●i●● for you will find it reall and effectuall if you shall tr●●sgress● it Thus far the Governors Letter written with his own hand Now upon our comming to Road-Iland the Indians of that great Countrey of the Nanhyganset●earing ●earing of our return without the losse of our lives they won●red having observed the causelesse cruelty they had offe●●d unto us some of them being within the hearing of the sho● of the Guns whilst they lay intrenched against us as also ●ow we were used in the Massachusets and the constant report whilst we lay amongst them that some of our lives should be taken away or else kept as slaves so long as we lived considering these and the like things they marvelled much at our deliverance and release from amongst them Now our countrey men having given out formerly amongst the Indians that ●● were not English men to encourage them against us b●●ause the awe of the English hath been much upon them ●nd being they could not father the name of any Sectary or Sect upon us but we could clearly demonstrate we were no such opi●ionated persons they then called us Gortoneans and told the Indians we were such kind of men not English now the Indians calling the English in their language Watta●onoges they now called us Gortonoges and being they had heard a rumour of great war to be in Old-England and that it was a land s● furnished with multitudes of people they presently framed unto themselves a cause of our deliveranc● im●gining that there were two kinds of people in Old-England the one calle● by the name of English men and the other Gortonoges and concluded that the Gortonoges were a mightier people ●he● the English whom they call Wattaconoges and therefore the Massachusets thought it not safe to take away our liv●s b●cause how ever there were but a few of us in New-England in comparison of those that came out against us yet that g●●at people that were in Old-England would come over and p●t them to death that should take away our lives from us without a just cause Whereupon the Sachims of the Nanbyganset cons●lting together presently sent Messengers unto us to come and speake with them and being they were those of whom wee had bought our Land which now the Massachusets had taken away from us as all that inhabite upon that Bay have done they being very importunate to have us to come over to speak with them we not knowing what the occasion was yeelded unto their request a matter of halfe a dozin or seven of us took boat to goe over the Bay to them they seeing the vessell come newes was brought to the Sachim who sent aband of lusty well armed men who met us as soon as we were come to Land to conduct us to old Sachim Conaunicus his house multitudes of Indians as we passed along coming forth and seemed joyfull which we taking notice of neither the one nor the other being usuall amongst them some of us began to be a little jealous that the Agents of the Mssachusets who lived near unto us had gone about to betray us into their hands upon some false suggestion concerning the death of their Sachim Myantonomy who lost his life immediatly before the Massachusets came against us and however he was suddenly sl●ine by an Indian coming behind him as he marched upon the way yet there were English present at the doing of the act which we were a little jealous the above-said Agents might have suggested that we might be consenting thereunto which all the Indians tooke for a most injurious act not onely because he was so famous a Prince amongst them but also how ever he was taken in a stratagem of warre by the Indians yet a great ransome was paid for his Redemption and his life taken away also and they