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A31781	Caines bloudy race known by their fruits, or, A true declaration of the innocent sufferings of the servants of the living God, by the magistrates, priests and people in the city of Westchester, who lives in a profession of God, Christ, and the Scriptures, as their forefathers did, who slew the prophets, persecuted Christ and the apostles, as is declared in the scriptures of truth, &c.	Hutchins, Anthony.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Sale, Richard.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing C208A; ESTC R20269	33,131	48

he would undertake to prevail so far with Mr. Mayor as to procure his enlargement and likewise said if any man would come and passe for him as is said he would pass his word to him he should never be troubled for so doing Vpon the 21. of the tenth moneth 1656. Some of those that had been with the Mayor before went to him again about the same business but he would not suffer them to speak with him but sent them word by his door-keeper that they should attend him upon Fryday it being the three and twentieth of the tenth month and bring a surety with them and he should be released so as they were appointed they came to the Pentice and brought a surety with them as the Mayor had appointed them to do now the Mayor and many more being present they made known their businesse to them so they said as they had before not knowing there was any to passe for him that if any would passe for his good behaviour he should be released or else not Then the man spoke and said he would passe for his good behaviour when the Mayor and the rest heard that any would passe for him they then denyed to release him upon sureties unless Edw. Morgan would come himself before them and desire it with his hat in his hand if so then they would release him upon sureties or else some of them said there he should rot so they were all dismissed Now any who are in the least measure turned to the Light wherewithall Christ Jesus hath enlightned them may see their deceit for at the first the Mayor said it was John Johnson and Richard Bird that committed him and he could not release him because they did it Rich. Bird said What they did was by the Mayors appointment but both said Bring a surety to passe for his good behaviour and he should be released but when a surety came none would release him unlesse he would come before them with his hat in his hand and desire his enlargement of them himself or else some of them said he should rot there but in the end all were made manifest to be lyars for upon the second day of the first month 56. After he had endured eleven weeks imprisonment the Mayor sent a Constable to the keeper of the prison to release him privately it is beleeved because the general Sessions for the County drew neer least their actions there should have been made publick In the time of Edw. Morgans inprisonment as aforesaid he sent a modest Letter to Peter Leigh Mayor by the hands of Deborah Maddock she finding him in the Pentice did deliver the Letter he asked her from whence it came she told him he said What dumb Spirit hath set them on work now then the Mayor said unto her That such Huswifes as she was fitter for the stocks or to be ducked in a Cuck-stool then to carry letters and come before Magistrates to deliver them so unreverently she said There is no respect of persons with God the Mayor called for a Constable and sent her into little ease the hole in the Rock where she was kept about 4 hours Richard Sale being a Freemans son of this city went to Peter Leigh Mayor to demand his Freedom as in right it could not be denyed him upon the one and twentieth day of the tenth month the Mayor asked him his name he told him the Mayor said I thought you had been in prison long enough to have learned better manners but seeing you have not I will teach you some if I can Rich. Sale answered Evil words corrupt good manners and thou hast heard none from me yet the Mayor said he would teach him to com with more reverence before Magistrates and called for a Constastable but being none ready he sent him to a Constables house the Constable asked the man that brought him what he must do with him he said bring him to prison R. Sale said thou received no such orders then the Constable went to the Mayor himself to know what he must do with him so when he came back he came to R. Sale and said If he would promise him not to trouble the town any more neither meddle with their Ministers he might go his way but he denyed to condition with him at all who when he could get none let him go without Vpon the 4th day of the 11th month 56. it being the first day of the week Rich. Sale as he was waiting upon the Lord in a meeting in Chester then was commanded of the Lord to go to a place in the City called the Minster so he comming there he met John Glendall Priest and was moved to speak to him there passing by a Constable one told the Priest thereof the Priest bad the Constable take Rich. Sale to the Mayors house and keep him there untill he came to him So the Constable being ignorant of his place did take him as the Priest commanded him and there kept him a great while but the Priest came not as he said he would for to them it is a light thing to lye then at last Rich. Sale was taken before the Mayor who asked him Why he disturbed the Ministers of the Gospel ●he answered He did not disturb any Ministers of the Gospel then the Mayor demanded of him sureties for the keeping of the Peace he told him he had not broken the peace therefore he denyed to put in sureties to keep that he had not broken so the Mayor commanded him to be put into prison untill the next day so the next day he sent for him forth of prison and gave order he should not be brought before him but put into little ease the hole in the rock where he was kept about 8 hours it being a very cold day in which place he could not sit kneel stand nor lye yet before they would let him forth they would have had him to have promised them not to have disturbed their Ministers nor Magistrates or else they said they must not loose him forth But he denyed their propositions and was made rather willing to give his body up to be murdered by them then to yeeld to their wills Then to cover their cruelty they said he pulled Priest Glendals cloak from off his back when he did not so much as touch any part of his garments unless they meant it by laying open the fruits of his Ministery and pulling off his Cloak of hypocrisie and if so they meant we shall not say against it Then Peter Cowsnock being in the Town and seeing how the Mayor had used Edw. Morgan and Rich. Sale it lay upon him of the Lord to go to the Mayor and to speak to him concerning his usage of them as is said so upon the 5. day 11 month 56. the Mayor and Sheriffs and many more being met together in the Pentice he went in amongst them and spake to the Mayor his message once and again the Mayor seemed as

their FRUITS FIrst Under Edward Bradshaw Mayor Richard Hubberthorne coming into Chester City about the 29th of the 9. Month 1653. the occasion of his coming at that time was to visite a brother in the truth who was for the truths sake a prisoner in the County-Goal his Name was Iohn Lawson so he Richard Hubberthorn being in the House where he lodged all night peaceably not giving the least occasion of offence to any but was writing in a Book he then had of his own so as he sate writing came in Richard Golborne a Lawyer and took his Book from him and gave him envious and threatning words and went his way and informed Edward Bradshaw Mayor what a dangerous Fellow was in the Town and caused him to be brought before the Magistrates into the Pentice so when they and the chief Priest had examined him and finding the Law not by him transgressed he being clear in all things from the least breach thereof they caused him to be put a-part into another Room until they had devised wicked and unlawful devices against him for this was the time when the Lord first tryed them how they could bear the sincerity and plainnesse of the innocent truth and Gospel of Christ which was then beginning to spread abroad in the Nation which Truth and the servants thereof doth onely seek the Honor which comes from God and doth only give the Honor to God and doth not seek that Honor which comes from men neither can give that Honor which men seek one of another and for this cause was the Wrath of the Magistrate lifted up until they had lost both the knowledg of the Law and of Reason who in their Wrath sent him into prison no breach of the Law being found by him only by the information of Richard Golborne who had broken the Law in taking his Goods from him contrary to all the Laws of this Nation only this they said they imprisoned him for because he could not promise them to go out of the Town when they commanded him But Festus who was a Ruler amongst the Heathens he well might be called Noble for to him it seemed unreasonable to send a Prisoner and not to shew the causes of offence that was laid against him But these Magistrates which say they are Christians they manifest themselves to be void of understanding sence and reason having sent many to prison without so much as signifying a just occasion against them So when R. Hubberthorn had suffered about three moneths imprisonment he was called before a Sessions and they finding nothing against him again asked him if he would go forth of the City which if he would they said he should be set free which he denyed to promise them and stood in the Authority of the Almighty over their deceit being they could lay nothing to his charge then their Wrath arose and commanded him to be put into prison and kept close that none should come to him all which the Keeper obeyed for about eight dayes and then the Mayor and the rest of his Brethren joyned together to make a Passe to send him from Constable to Constoble into Lancashire but when the Lord had tryed them to the full then they broke their Order which was sealed with seven Seales and he was onely brought forth of the City and set free Thomas Holme coming into this City had a Meeting in the same about the nineteenth day of the first Month 1653. where he and many more were met together to wait upon the Lord in a house in the same City then Thomas Holme spake as he was moved of the Lord Edward Bradshaw then Mayor being informed thereof sent one of his servants and commanded him to bring Tho. Holme before him so he committed him to prison to the Common Goal for the City where he was kept about six Weeks in which time he was much abused and beaten by Robert Emis●ne Keeper of the Prison who is a common notorious Drunkard Before Tho. Holme was released Edward Bradshaw sent Samuel Elcock unto him to know if he would promise him to depart the City which if he would he might be released who said he could make no such promise Now Tho. Holme having a Letter by to him which was sent him from Rich. Hubberthorne directed Edward Bradshaw he gave it to Samuel Elcock to give it as directed who did so when Ed. Bradshaw had read over the Letter he said that Tho. Holme should be whipped and as we are informed had a man in readinesse to do it he thinking all this while it had been Tho. Holme which writ it to him so Thomas Yarwood hearing what was intended against Tho. Holm and understanding it was because of that Letter went to Edward Bradshaw and said Friend Tho. Holm did not write that Letter to thee it was Rich. Hubberthorne but Tho. Yarwood not dossing his Hat Edward Bradshaw committed him to the Stocks where he was kept about an hour and a half at the least then the next day after Tho. Holme was committed as aforesaid Edward Bradshaw sent for Rich. Hickock and Edward Morgan they being two that was at the Meeting the day before and committed them to prison upon the twentieth day of the first month 1653. and kept Rich. Hickock fifteen Weeks and Edw Morgan nine Weeks Elizabeth Levens and Jane Waugh coming to this City to visite their Brethren in prison and as they were passing peaceably through the Streets were tooke up by a drunken man and brought before Edward Bradshaw and by him committed to prison who were a great part of their imprisonment kept in a stinking place where for the most part thieves and murderers are kept the whole time of their imprisonment was about five Weeks who when they were released were sent from Constable to Constable as Vagabonds into their own Countrey Anne Fara coming to this City was moved to go to a steeple-house and spake unto the Priest she was much abused by the rude multitude and by them took before Edw. Bradshaw and by him committed to prison for many dayes Richard Hickocke was moved to go to a Steeple-house in the City where was a High-Priest called Samuel Eaton who when he had ended that he called his Sermon Rich. Hitkock spake some Words to the people but they pulled him down and did much abuse him yet neverthelesse Edw. Bradshaw committed him to prison and commanded the Keeper to put him into a dark stinking Room where he saw a Snake and other venemous creatures it is such a place that none is put into at any time but such as are condemned to dye and therefore is called The dead Mans Room and likewise Edw. Bradshaw commanded Irons to be put on him all which his commands were executed to the highest degree of malice that might be in which condition he was kept 13 Weeks and upwards and it 's believed by some the Priest and he together intended to destroy the outward man though he had a

the people how the Mayor had appointed him to come for Justice but when he came was denyed of the same because he would not bring people to swear therefore is Justice perverted by him and Judgment turned backward for instead of doing him Justice the Mayor sent him into little ease the hole in the Rock by two Officers but they seeing it could not be locked but judged it would either bruise his face or limbs they being not so cruel as some others took him forth again put him into the City gaol where he remained above 2 hours then came a Constable with another man and took him forth of prison and brought him into Little ease again but they likewise found it such a cruell place it could not be locked unless as they beleeved they must lame him they only reared a block of wood to the door and said they would go to the Mayor and inform him that if he would have any put in there that was in mans stature the place must be made bigger unless he would lame them so in that place he was kept five hours and when he was let forth he was charged straitly to keep him forth of the city but the next day he came to the city again notwithstanding all the threats of his enemies Vpon the 19th day of the 5. month 57. Rich. Iones was coming to a meeting of Saints in Chester City and was by a Constable taken up and his horse taken from him and he let go then when the meeting was broken up he went to look after his horse and with him went Edmund Ogden the Constable took them before the Mayor and Iohn Ratcliff Recorder who asked them many vain questions but in the end committed them both to prison where they were kept untill the next day in the evening and then released Vpon the 4. day 7. month 57. Richard Scostrip coming to this city was moved to exhort people in the street to Repentance and was then taken up and brought before Peter Leigh Mayor who asked him from whence he came he told him from Yorkshire then the Mayor asked him if he knew in whose presence he was he told him yea he was in the presence of the Lord he said I will teach you to know you are before a Magistrate and straitway sent him into Little ease in the Rock where he was kept about two hours Then the next day Rich. Scostrip was moved to reprove sin in the Gate when he had said what he had given him to say he went his way with an intention to depart out of the town he being clear of the same and was gone as far as the Gate of the City but was fetched again by a Constable and put into the House of Correction who gave the man that kept the House strait orders to keep him to hard labour where he was kept part of four days and then released and not at all called before any Magistrate neither when he was committed to prison nor when he was taken forth of prison Such are their Laws in this City Upon the 28th day of the 7th month 1657. I Anthony Hutchins did then send a true Declaration of some of the innocent sufferings of the Saints in Chester to Peter Leigh Mayor by the hands of Iohn Owen the Mayor sent him into the House of Correction and kept him two days Upon the seventeenth day of the eighth month 1657. there was at Peters Steeplehouse in Chester a Sermon as it s usually called to the hearing of which many people did assemble themselves and the more in regard this was the day that they in the City made choice and elected new Officers as Mayors Sheriffs c. and it being said to be a free place where any may come to hear Rich. Sale came in amongst the rest and stood as peaceably and gave as good heed to what was there said as any there did and against what was spoken did not utter a word yet notwithstanding a man came to him and by violence pulled him forth and put him into the house of correction who at the end of three dayes was released by the command of Richard Minshal who was newly elected Mayor Now observe for not going to their Assemblies we are by them reproached and accounted as Hereticks then if any of us go and take that liberty which the true Church allowed 1 Cor. 14. 20. 30 31 32. then are we cast into prison as breakers of the Law and disturbers of their Ministers then will they say Cannot you come and be quiet and take what you like and let the rest alone and let our Ministers alone and you need not be thus imprisoned and now Richard Sale came as is said and stood as civilly as any did and neither spoke against their Minister as they call him nor any other and yet as is said was not suffered to stay not only so but sent to prison Now whether these proceedings be lawful and honest I leave it to the Reader to judge There hath been much more sufferings of the innocent people of God the Saints in this City of Westchester which is not here mentioned these being sufficient to shew what fruits the proud covetous hireling-Priests have brought forth in the same And now I shall give you a true description of this Little-Ease or hole in the Rock so often in this Book spoken of which Peter Leigh Mayor hath made the Executioner of his cruelty madness and folly against the innocent and harmless people of God Surely the wrath of man shall praise the the remainder of wrath shall thou restrain IT is a hole hewed into the Rock the bredth and cross from side to side is 17. inches from the back to the inside of the great door at the top 7. inches at the shoulders 8. inches at the brest 9. inches and an half from the top to the bottom one yeard and half now to take in the height of that as their malice puts them on they have draw-boards which shoot over crosse into the two sides to a yeard height or thereabout Now let any sober-minded man in this Nation judge if such inventions as these were ever invented by any that feared God to torture their fellow-creatures in for not putting off the hat or speaking to a Priest in the street sound and sober words or for desiring to have the Law shewed them they have broken when they have endured much punishment and have not known for what and instead of shewing them the Law themselves have broken the law in drawing their blood and put them into this hole when they have done or for disturbing pipers with saying wel or for calling for justice when their faces have been bruised or for exhorting people to repentance or for reproving sin in the Gate or for delivering a meek and sober Letter or for desiring a priest when he hath done to clear what he hath said by Scripture or for complaining of a drunkard or

Messengers and slat dirt in the faces of some of them and yet by the Priests in this City and other professors is accounted a religious Woman her name is Kathern Hinde and my Candle was pulled forth of my hand and I ill abused but I declared the Word of the Lord in much power until I was taken up by the Sword-Bearer and delivered to a Constable to be brought into prison where I was kept about a Week the same corrupt Will which imprisoned me sent for me forth I neither being convinced accused nor examined what Law I had broken but turned me out privily whose actions would not abide the light to discover them From him who is a sufferer for the testimony of the Truth Richard Sale NOW while Rich. Sale and William Simson were in prison as aforesaid they sent two several Letters to Peter Leigh Mayor to put him in mind of his unjust dealing with them but the Bearers of both he caused to be put into Little-Ease for many hours though neither of them knew what was written in the Letters having not heard them read over Upon the next third day of the VVeek after VVilliam Simson was released forth of prison he was moved of the Lord to go into a Steeple-house in the City where many people were assembled where he stood peaceably among them until the Priest had done then another Priest stept up and desired the people to stay the Ordinance of baptism which was the sprinkling of an Infant in which discourse he laboured to confirm that to be an Ordinance of God and the child thereby made a Member of a visible Church VVhen he had done this Discourse VVilliam Simson desired Priest Nab in moderation to clear those things by Scripture to wit That the Church of God is visible and sprinkling of Infants is an Ordinance of God but no answer could he get from him but was ill beaten by the people and thrust forth of the doors then the Priest came forth and passed by him he desired the same thing of him that so the people might be satisfied but he would not answer but the hireling fled because he was an hireling and went into an house then VVilliam Simson spake a few words to the people in the street but a man shortly took hold on him and put him into Little-Ease the hole in the Rock where he was kept eight hours or thereabout Upon the third day of the fourth Month 1657. Edward Morgan being peaceably at his outward imployment there then came Joh. Fletcher who was il drunken a notorious common drunkard known to be all the City over this Fletcher came and called Edw. Morgan Cuckold and his VVife a VVhore in the presence of many people and railed so on Edw. that he could not in quiet follow his imployment then at last Edward went to Peter Leigh Mayor and informed him thereof and told him he was now at his shop ill drunk the Mayor said to Edward Will you swear he is drunk he said Nay what need I to swear when the man is to be seen said the Mayor I will order you both and called for a Constable and called Edward Morgan a perjured fellow for his unreverent coming before him and straightway sent him into Little-Ease for no other cause then as is said For complaining of a drunkard who had abused him but the drunkard was not at that time questioned Many being sensible how it was and saw Edward punished and the drunkard go free cryed out against it and their cry coming to the Mayors ear three dayes after he sent for the drunkard and sent him to prison until he had drunk a pot or two of strong drink and then released him Little-Ease being too course a place for a drunkard And now let all honest hearted people judge if ever the like thing was done by any Christian Magistrate as he professeth himself to be yea or by Heathen Magistrate either that a Drunkard should go free and he that was abused by him and made complaint against him should be punished because in conscience he could not doss his hat when he made his complaint He that justifieth the wicked and condemneth the just even they both are abomination to the Lord Edmond Ogden coming to a Meeting of the people of God in Chester City one first day and another man came with him of Cains generation into the Town and was with him when the Constable took Edmond up yet they suffered the other man to go and took Edmond Ogden before Peter Leigh Mayor who committed him to the Stocks where he sate about half an hour and then taken and put into Little-Ease four hours or thereabout Upon the 10th of the 4 month 1657. it being the 3. day of the VVeek Richard Sale was moved of the Lord to come to Chester City and to go into Pepper-street where he found it his place to abide and there fate down and within a short space after there were carryed forth a dead Corps out of Richard Golbornes house and two priests going before it and as they passed by him he was moved to charge them in the Name of the living God to make good their practice by plain Scripture and shew by it where ever any of the Apostles or holy men of God preached any Funeral-Sermons but they returnd him no answer then he was made to declare against them and their practice they being found out of the Doctrine of Christ and practice of the holy men of God Then there following after them a company of proud ungodly ones he was made to cry out from the burthen of the Lord against their pride covetousnesse violence and oppression which many of them lived in and was made to declare that all their worship and sacrifices offered up in that nature they lived in was but as a smoke in the Lords Nose all the day long Then one Ionathan Goldson being more cruel then all the rest though one of the chief pillars of the pharisaical church came out of the company in great rage and laid violent hands on him calling him Rogue and giving him many more unsavoury speeches holding his hand up many times as if he would have strucken him and gnashed upon him with his teeth and took him to a constable and he brought him before Peter Leigh Mayor he ordered him to be put into Little-Ease who did with much cruelty where his body endured the strength of four men before they could get the door to lock in which cruel place they kept him four hours neither his friends nor others being admitted to come to him but by the power of the living and unchangeable God he was preserved without pain declaring his word in much power to the confounding of all gain-sayers Then when he was released the constable offered to take hold on him thinking he was unable to stand but he denied his help and was made in the power of God to go as well as before though his

for passing quietly through the streets to a meeting to wait upon the Lord all which things before mentioned which this is a short relation of hath been done by the command of Peter Leigh Mayor of the City of Chester and suffered by the innocent people of of God in this Little-Ease or hole in the Rock to the truth of which lest any should doubt as they might do if they were not witnessed to by some they being such unheard-of cruelties as never were acted by any who profess themselvs to be Christian Magistrates nay nor by the worst of Heathen Magistrates that ever I read of and I being an eye-witness to most of them as they were executed upon the innocent shall be ready if called thereunto to answer to the truth of them Anthony Hutchins You that be Magistrates in the City of Chester who hath thus acted with prejudice against the people of God and servants of God you have turned your Sword backwards against the just and ye have not been a praise to them that do well but your fruits and actions have been a shame to men that four God to modesty them that own true justice and equity you make men offenders for words and you persecute them that reprove sin in the Gate and they is made a prey upon by you you have provided a torturing place a squeezing pressing place for such as declare truth amongst you you are become rebels against the truth truth is fallen in the streets and equity cannot enter the door to that is shut ye become abominable amongst men your doings the Lord hath taken notice of ye are boisterous and perverse yea envious in the persecution of the Lords servants and the Lords presence hath been amongst them in all their sufferings yea in the greatest of your cruelty can you be proud and boast when you have done that you would have all to see your peevishness the beholders by that ye may be upon record brought Doth not your fruits and actions before mentioned dishonor the place of a Magistrate We number not the just with the wicked nor the godly with the profane but put a difference What have you gotten by all your actions but shewed forth your spirits whereby they are tryed not to be the spirit of Christ nor the Apostles who saith Love your Enemies but you persecute your Friends the Lord forgive your persecutions persecutors were ever blind you have manifested the end of your Religion in this the day of the Lord and the fruits of your Teachers and the end of your profession and the order and government of your Church and Ministry as before-mentioned declares besides all the abuses the people of God the Saints have had in their Meetings which was never rebuked by the Magistrates George Fox UPon the 28. day of the 6th Month 1657. I sent a Copy of all these things before-written save only some which have been acted against the innocent since and likewise some things which were acted before which was not then in remembrance which is added in this to Peter Leigh Mayor of Chester City The direction that I writ in the beginning was to this effect That if he or any other who was therein concerned could object against the truth of any thing therein written they might do it before I went on with what I intended wch intent of mine was to print the Book though at that time I denied to certifie them so much but the Bearer thereof Peter I eigh Mayor sent into Little-Ease in the Rock but I heard nothing from them until the eighth day of the 7. Month and then the Mayor sent for me up to the Pentice by two Constables and when I came in before them I found Peter Leigh Mayor John Ratliffe Recorder Edward Bradshaw Justice of Peace the two Sheriffs and many more then present the Mayor asked me if I had seen that Book it lying before them which was the same I sent him as aforesaid I said I had He asked me if I wrote that Name at the latter end thereof which was my own Name I said I did not but I told him I had gotten it written fair over after one that I had writ Then he said Do you own it I said I did He asked me if I read it over I said I had Then he gave me many threatning words Then I asked them whether committed the greater evil They that act cruelty or they that write down cruelty when acted by another The Recorder said Who must judge of that I said Let that of God in your own consciences judge whether committeth the greater offence The Recorder said Many a one hath had their ears nailed to the Pillory for a lesse offence I said If he deserved to have his ears nailed to the Pillory that writ these things down what did they deserve that acted them Then they gave me threatning Words I told them I desired no favor from them but that I might have fair Plea in the face of a Court and if I had transgressed the Law I was willing to suffer by it Likewise I told them I judged it not equal they themselves should be Judges in their own cause One of them said they would not twelve men should judge it but the Recorder said twenty four men should judge it Then the Mayor said I was a railing fellow I turned to the people and asked if any of them heard me rail since I came he said I did in the Book I told him if I should say such words to them as Paul said to Elimus they then would say I railed though truth might be written and Names and Titles might be given to men answerable to their actions as Paul said to Elimus whose Name was Elimus yet Paul called him a child of the Devil and an enemy to all righteousnesse but I said I had used no such Words to them The Recorder said Paul might say so to Elimus who was a Sorcerer I said All the Priests in England which preach for hire and divine for money are Sorcerers for thereby the right ways of the Lord comes to be perverted The Recorder said I must not judge them I said Their practice judged them Then I charged them concerning their hard usuage of my Friends in that Little-Ease or hole in the Rock and asked them where they ever read of such a prison as that wch bruised mens bodies in such a cruel manner told them the Law hath so much respect to men though transgressors of the same as to provide large prisons to secure their bodies in and not such holes as these to presse and bruise them in or words to this effect I told them I could see drunkards and swearers passe up and down the Streets but I heard of none of them that was put into that place The Mayor told me if I saw such things I might come and inform him thereof and then see if he did punish them I said So I might