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A77941	A declaration of the sad and great persecution and martyrdom of the people of God, called Quakers, in New--England for the worshipping of God. Wherof 22 have been banished upon pain of death. 03 have been martyred. 03 have had their right-ears cut. 01 hath been burned in the hand with the letter H. 31 persons have received 650 stripes. 01 was beat while his body was like a jelly. Several were beat with pitched ropes. Five appeals made by them to England, were denied by the rulers of Boston. One thousand forty four pounds worth of goods hath been taken from them (being poor men) for meeting together in the fear of the Lord, and for keeping the commands of Christ. One now lyeth in iron-fetters, condemned to dye. Also, some considerations, presented to the King, which is in answer to a petition and address, which was presented unto him by the general court at Boston : subscribed by J. Endicot, the chief persecutor there; thinking thereby to cover themselves from the blood of the innocent.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing B5994; Thomason E1086_4; ESTC R13926	22,607	32

Banishment against them upon Pain of Death such was their dangerous impetuous and desperate Turbulency to Religion and to the State Civil and Ecclesiastical as that how unwilling soever could it have been avoided the Magistrate at least in Conscience both to God and Man judged himself called for the Defence of all to keep the Passage with the Point of the Sword held towards them this could do no harm say they to them that would be warned thereby their willingly rushing themselves thereupon was their own act and we with all humility conceive a Crime bringing their blonds upon their own heads By way of Answer to this let it be Considered 1. What Means was for a long time used before they put them to Death is shameful to mention was it not by the means of cruel Whippings Banishment Imprisonment cutting off Ears and taking their Goods by violence It is true by this means the Petitioners dealt with the Quakers and never by any Christian-like means for the very first of our Friends that ever came among them they made them prisoners ere they came on shore and inhumanely dealt with them and banished them and this was the first and fairest means that ever was used by them which are not Gospel-Means nor the Way by which the Church of New-England ought to have proceeded had our Friends been in Error and such as they say of them it had been their duty to have gained them by Love by Mercy and by long-suffering these are the Weapons of the Spirit of God which ought to be used towards them that are in Error in order to the Converting of them from the Error but contrary to this the Magistrates and Church-Members of New-England took Cains Weapons and dealt Cruelly and not like Christians nor like sober men towards the Innocent but their thus proceeding was in vain as themselves acknowledge for notwithstanding the Gospel of Christ grew and encreased and many were Converted to the Faith of Christ Jesus throughout New-England 2. Let it be Considered What their dangerous and despera●e Turbulency was to States Civil and Ecclesiastical Did ever these poor People whom they condemned and put to shameful death lift up a hand against them or appear in any Turbulent gesture towards them Were they ever found wi●h any Carnal Weapon about them Or what was their Crime saving that they warned sinners to Repent and the ungodly to turn from his way We appeal to the God of Heaven on their behalf whom they have Martyred for the Name of Christ That they had no other Offence to charge upon them saving their Conversation Doctrines and Practices as Saints of the Most High God and this is witnessed by many of their Neighbours though themselves have hardened their hearts against the reproof of Gods Witness And we certainly believe it was their Malice and Envy that constrained them to passe Sentence of Death upon them and not the Equity of either just Law of God or Man for they deserved not the merit of Death such was the Innocency of their Cause and they are no more safe by the taking away the lives of our guiltlesse Brethren than they were before no more safe I say but more liable to the Justice and Terrour of the Almighty and to the Justice of the King and the good Laws of England for and because of their Barbarous Cruelties but as I have said we leave Vengeance to the Lord and commit them to the Justice of Gods hand which we doubt not but it will passe upon them in his day and season 3. Whereas they would seem to extenuate their Crime of putting to shameful death the Lords servants they tell the King as if they only kept the Passage with the point of the sword held towards them as if they had no intention to hurt them and this the Magistrate did both in Conscience to God and man I say it is to be considered what occasions were given them to stand in the passage with the point of the sword towards this People Was it for any cause on their part but as aforesaid for reproving their sin and crying against their wickednesse when as their lives and conversations were harmless and innocent amongst them I say this was no just cause for the Magistrates to stand in the passage with the point of the sword and therefore they were unjust in so doing if they had done no more and proceeded in the way of Insolent Usurpers for what reason had they to stop the passage with the point of the sword for hindring of as good Subjects as themselves to passe thorow the Kings Dominions Is not this derogating from the Honour and Authority of the King for the subordinate Magistrates of New-England to usurp such Authority over free-born People of England as to prevent them from Egress and Regress in lawful occasions in any part of the Kings Dominions and I suppose this will be found contrary to their Patent and Prescription delivered them by CHARLES the First even this standing in the Passage with the point of the Sword toward the Innocent and imposing great Fines upon men that came to their Harbour to sell their lawful Commodities if they had but the name of Quakers though no other thing could be charged against them yet they were imposed upon by Fines and Imprisonment and the point of the sword was held out against them and all this I suppose is contrary to their Patent and in Derogation and Dishonour to KING CHARLES the Second 4. But to extenuate their own fact of put●ing to shameful death the Innocent they charge their Death to be a wilfull rushing and their Death was their own Act and their Blood was upon their own Heads Concerning which let it be considered they no more wilfully rushed upon their Death neither is their Blood on their own heads more than the Prophets and Apostles that were slain for the Testimony of Jesus But these Petitioners do plead These Quakers so called knew there was a Law proclaimed against them Sentence of Banishment upon pain of Death but they would not keep away but came again and run themselves upon the Sword point and after this manner of arguing they would make it appear their death was of themselves and their blood was on their own heads But these poor Evasions and favourable Interpretations of their own Cruelties ought not to cover them from the Justice of God nor from the Justice of t●e King for it 's to be considered that where God commands one thing and men another God ought to be obeyed rather than men and it is fully believed by us that these Sufferers did not go into New-England in their own cause but in Gods Cause and in the Motion of his Holy Spirit and in good Conscience towards God they did rather suffer the losse of their own lives for their obedience towards God than to disobey him to keep the Commandments of men and this was the Apostles case when they were

commanded to preach no more in the Name of Jesus Did they at all obey it for fear of Man And when the three Children were commanded to bow to the Image did they do it for fear of Man Or if they had dyed for their disobedience of the Kings Commandment could it have been said That their Blood was upon their own heads and that they rushed themselves upon it and this is in part the like case that our Friends suffered under the Injustice of these Petitioners who would now cover themselves like men of guilty Consciences but the God of Heaven will let them know one day and the King may justly do it That the blood of our Brethren lyeth upon the heads of the Magistrates of New-England and they are guilty of their cruel death for they put them to death not for any evil-doing between man and man but for their obedience to God and for good Conscience sake towards him Again The Petitioners say The Quakers dyed not because of their other Crimes how capital soever but upon their superadded Presumptions and incorrigible Contempt of Authority breaking in upon us notwithstanding the Sentence of Banishment had they not been restrained there was too much cause to fear that we our selves should quickly have dyed or worse and they would not be restrained but by death Nay had they at last but promised to depart the Jurisdiction and not to return without leave from Authority we should have been glad to have said they should not dye In Answer to this it is considerable 1. What these other Capital Crimes were which the Sufferers were guilty of here is a secret Charge of Crimes without nomination and this is the part of Slanderers to accuse in general without particular proof but this is still to extenuate their own horrid fact of putting the Innocent to death and that the King may believe better of them than indeed he hath cause and the superadded Presumption and incorrigible Contempt of Authority What was it any more than that unjustly and without reason they commanded them to depart or if they did not they should be put to death when as no reason could possibly be rendred for such Law and Commandment but because they were called Quakers and were different in matters of Faith and Judgment concerning Spiritual things for as I have said no Sedition evil-dealing Drunkennesse Lying nor any of these things could be charged against them and therefore the Law and Commandment of Banishment was unjust and could not be actively obeyed by our Brethren but they returned again not in contempt of Lawful Authority but as they were moved and upon their occasions which was lawful and just in the sight of God and Men deporting themselves harmlesly towards all people and this is stiled Superadded Presumption and Incorrigible Contempt of Authority but they must needs put a Good Name upon their Bad Work and render the Innocent as high Offenders as excellency of speech can demonstrate 2. There can be no just cause rendred wherefore they should fear our Brethren except the Guiltiness of their own Consciences for as I have said they were never seen with any Sword or Staff amongst them nor any Carnal Weapon nor ever held Designs of Mischief and for them thus wickedly to suggest unto the King as if they would have killed them or worse this is back-biting and slandering in the highest degree and punishable by the Laws of God and Men and it 's true them whom they have killed are restrained but the Principles and Practices of the Quakers so called hath entred into New-England and passes thorow the Consciences of people without restraint and it 's a shame for themselves to mention how all the Pastors and the whole Church of Boston overcame three Innocent persons and what weapons they overcame them by not the weapons of the Spirit of God but the weapons of Cruelty and Hard-heartedness even as Cain overcame Abel and as the Jewes overcame Christ and so did the Church of New-England overcome our Brethren And this is all the confession they can make of Restraining our Friends that they cruelly put them to Death and thereby overcame them And it is not known to us that the Court at Boston hath such Absolute Power as that the free Subjects of England may not come and return again and again according to their lawfull occasions without leave from the Authority of Boston Court I say this seems to be usurped Authority rather than lawfully established upon them by CHARLES the First but it is apparent and the King knoweth it that in this case the Magistrates of Boston have taken too much upon them and proceeded further than they can justifie either before God or the King in Imprisoning Whipping cutting off Ears Banishing and putting to Death the good Subjects of England without either President Example or any Power derived from the Lawful Authority of England And we have cause to say They were so far from desiring to spare their lives as they would suggest to the King that they thirsted for their blood and nothing else could satisfie them but the extinguishment of their lives by shameful torture Again The Petitioners fawn and flatter in these words say they Let not the King hear Mens words your servants are true Men fearers of God and the King and not given to Change zealous of Government and Order We are not seditious to the Interest of Caesar c. In Answer to this many things are considerable 1. Why should the Petitioners seem to exhort the King Not to hear Mens Words Shall the Innocent be accused before him and not heard in their Lawful Defence Must not the King hear the Accused as well as the Accusers and in as much Justice I hope God hath given him more Nobility of Understanding than to receive or put in practice such Admonition and I desire it may be far from the King ever to condemn any Person or People upon the Accusation of others without full hearing of the Accused as well as their Enemies for it is Justice and Equity so to do and thereby shall his Judgment be the more just 2. They pretend to be Servants to the King and that they fear him and are not given to Change I shall not seem to intrude into the Matters to which I am a stranger but I leave this Case to the King to Consider what their former Actings and the Current of their Spirit hath been towards the King I shall only instance one Particular well known to me in a Letter to one Gurden dated at Boston and Subscribed by some of these Petitioners where they say There is more Danger in these Quakers as they call them to trouble and overcome England than in the King of Scots and all the Popish Princes in Germany these be the Petitioners own words whereby it is manifest what the current of their Spirit was against the King then though now they have changed their Tale and call

Him High and Mighty Prince and Dread Soveraign and such like and that they are the Kings Servants c. when as not long since they have signified by their words quoted against them That there was Danger in the King of SCOTS as they called him and reputed him a Troubler of ENGLAND and numbred him with the Popish Princes of Germany or amongst them Let but the King Consider their own words and he shall plainly read as well the temper of their Spirit against him not long since as he shall see their Hypocrisies and fawning flatteries at this time and he may fully perceive that these Petitioners are given to Change though they would make him believe otherwise And this their Address unto the King is like the approach of the uncircumcised Gibeonites unto Joshua ch 9. who wrought wilily and deceitfully using the same words to Joshua We are thy Servants as these Petitioners have used to the King whose deceitful Address is equally parallel with that mentioned The Case is worth observing Joshua 9. vers 4 6 9. 3. As for being Zealous of Government and Order not Seditious nor Schismaticks as they say it is to be Considered That their Government and the Order thereof is not only different and contrary to the Goverment and Order of the Churches of Christ but different and contrary also to the wholsome Constitution of the Civil Government of England who have made Laws and executed them to Banishment and Death without any Power derived from the lawful Authority of England which is absolute contrary to their Pattent by which they Hold their Jurisdiction which saith They shall make no Lawes contrary to the Lawes of England c. And I shall not Charge them in the Kings Presence further of Sedition and Schism than Himself believeth concerning them Again The Petitioners say They could not live without the Publick Worship of God and they were not permitted the use of Publick Worship without such a Yoak Subscription and Conformity as they could not Consent unto without sin c. In Answer to this this is to be Considered That these Petitioners have laid heavier Yoaks of Subscription and Conformity upon others than ever was laid upon themselves Witness their Imposing Fines upon such as cannot conform to their Worship some ten shillings some forty shillings and some five pounds if any shall be absent from their Assembly it is so much a day and if any keep any Meetings different from their Way of Publick Worship it is so much a time and these are unjust and illegal Impositions and it is a heinous yoak of Tyranny put upon the neck of the Kings good Subjects without any Power derived in this case from the King This they themselves do and yet are Complaining of such Impositions and Yoaks laid upon them by the Bishops which were not compareable to these which discovers their own just Condemnation in the same Matters for which they Accuse others And thus these CONSIDERATIONS are Presented to the King in Vindication of that Innocent People called Quakers whom these Petitioners have Accused as Guilty of heinous Crimes that themselves might appear Innocent of the Cruelty and Injustice and shedding of the Blood of Iust men without Cause being men of Guilty Consciences upon whom the Terror of God and of the King seems to be because of what they have done But now let the King rightly Consider of the Case between Us and Them and let him not hide his Face from the Hearing of the Cry of Innocent Blood And for a further Testimony of the Wickedness and Enmity of these Petitioners and to Demonstrate how far they have Proceeded contrary to the good Lawes and Authority of England and contrary to their own Pattent Hereunto is Annexed a Breif of their unjust Dealings towards the Quakers so called E. B. A DECLARATION Of some part of the SUFFERINGS of the People of God in scorn called QUAKERS from the Professors in NEW-ENGLAND Only for the Exercise of their Consciences to the Lord and Obeying and Confessing to the TRUTH as in his Light he had discovered it to them 1. TWo Honest and Innocent Women stripped stark naked and searched after such an inhumane manner as modesty will not permit particularly to mention 2. Twelve Strangers in that Country but free-born of this Nation received twenty three Whippings the most of them being with a Whip of three Cords with Knots at the ends and laid on with as much strength as they could be by the Arm of their Executioner the stripes amounting to Three hundred and seventy 3. Eighteen Inhabitants of the Country being free-born English received twenty three Whippings the stripes amounting to two hundred and fifty 4. Sixty four Imprisonments of the Lords People for their obedience to his Will amounting to Five hundred and nineteen weeks much of it being very cold weather and the Inhabitants kept in Prison in harvest time which was very much to their losse besides many more Imprisoned of which time we cannot give a just account 5. Two beaten with Pitched Ropes the blows amounting to an hundred thirty nine by which one of them was brought near unto death much of his body being beat like unto a jelly and one of their own Doctors a Member of their Church who saw him said It would be a Miracle if ever he recovered he expecting the flesh should rot off the bones who afterwards was banished upon pain of death There are many Witnesses of this there 6. Also an Innocent man an Inhabitant of Boston they banished from his Wife and Children and put to seek a habitation in the Winter and in case he returned again he was to be kept Prisoner during his life and for returning again he was put in Prison and hath been now a Prisoner above a year 7. Twenty five Banishments upon the penalties of being whipt or having their Ears cut or branded in the Hand if they returned 8. Fines laid upon the Inhabitants for meeting together and edifying one another as the Saints ever did and for refusing to swear it being contrary to Christ's Command amounting to about a Thousand pound besides what they have done since that we have not heard of many Families in which there are many Children are almost ruined by these unmerciful proceedings 9. Five kept Fifteen dayes in all without food and Fifty eight dayes shut up close by the Jaylor and had none that he knew of and from some of them he stopt up the windows hindring them from convenient air 10. One laid Neck and Heels in Irons for sixteen hours 11. One very deeply burnt in the right hand with the letter H. after he had been whipt with above Thirty stripes 12. One chained the most part of Twenty dayes to a Logg of wood in an open Prison in the Winter-time 13. Five Appeals to England denied at Boston 14. Three had their right Ears cut by the Hangman in the Prison the Door being barred and not a Friend suffered to

be present while it was doing though some much desired it 15. One of the Inhabitants of Salem who since is banished upon pain of Death had one half of his House and Land seized on while he was in Prison a month before he knew of it 16. At a General Court in Boston they made an Order That those who had not wherewithal to answer the Fines that were laid upon them for their Consciences should be sold for Bond-men and Bond-women to Barbados Virginia or any of the English Plantations 17. Eighteen of the People of God were at several times banished upon pain of Death six of them were their own Inhabitants two of which being very aged people and well known among their Neighbours to be of honest Conversations being Banished from their Houses and Families and put upon Travelling and other hardships soon ended their dayes whose Death we can do no lesse than charge upon the Rulers of Boston they being the occasion of it 18. Also three of the Servants of the Lord they put to Death all of them for obedience to the Truth in the Testimony of it against the wicked Rulers and Laws at Boston 19. And since they have banished four more upon pain of Death and twenty four of the Inhabitants of Salem were presented and more Fines called for and their Goods seized on to the value of Forty pounds for meeting together in the fear of God and some for refusing to swear These things O King from time to time have we patiently suffered and not for the transgression of any Just or Righteous Law either pertaining to the Worship of God or the Civil Government of England but simply and barely for our Consciences to God of which we can more at large give Thee or whom thou mayest order a full Account if Thou wilt let us have admission to Thee who are Banished upon pain of Death and have had our Ears cut who are some of us in England attending upon Thee both of the Causes of our Sufferings and the Manner of their disorderly and illegal Proceeding against us Who begun with Immodesty went on in Inhumanity and Cruelty and were not satisfied until they had the Blood of three of the Martyrs of JESUS Revenge for all which we do not seek but lay them before Thee considering Thou hast been well acquainted with Sufferings and so mayest the better consider them that suffer and mayest for the future restrain the Violence of these Rulers of New-England having Power in Thy hands they being but the Children of the Family of which Thou art Chief Ruler Who have in divers of their Proceedings forfeited their Patent as upon a strict Inquiry in many particulars will appear And this O King we are assured of that in time to come it will not repent Thee if by a Close Rebuke Thou stoppest the Bloody Proceedings of these Bloody Persecutors for in so doing Thou wilt engage the hearts of many honest People unto Thee both there and here and for such Works of Mercy the Blessing is obtained and shewing it is the way to prosper We are Witnesses of these things Who Besides long Imprisonments and many cruel Whippings Had our Ears cut John Rous John Copeland Besides many long Imprisonments divers cruel Whippings with the seizing on our Goods are Banished upon pain of Death and some of us do wait here in England and desire that we may have an Order to Return in Peace to our Families Samuel Shattock Josiah Southick Nicholas Phelps Joseph Nicholson Jane Nicholson Here follovveth a brief Relation of the Bloody Sentence of Death passed on Three of the Servants of the Lord by John Endicot viz. William Robinson Marmaduke Stevenson and Mary Dyar And also the Manner of their Execution at Boston in New-England VVIlliam Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson two Servants of the Lord called Quakers were imprisoned in Boston in New-England and at the beginning of the 7th Month 59. they were called before the Court of Assistance by whom they bo●h were Sentenced to be Banished upon pain of Death yet notwithstanding the Sentence aforesaid they made a Decree to have William Robinson whipt and Commanded the Constable to get an able man to do it which thing being accomplished they caused William Robinson to be brought into the open Street and there stript him and having put his Hands through the holes of a Carriage of a great Gun where the Goaler a Member of their Church held him till the Executioner gave him twenty stripes with a Three-fold Cord-whip with Knots at the ends which stripes were laid on in a violent manner according to the Desire of some of the Blood-thirsty Rulers who commanded him to be Whipt severely whereupon he together with his fellow-Sufferer M. S. were shortly after Released Yet it being laid upon them from the Lord not to depart that Jurisdiction they in obedience thereunto passed abroad and had great Service for the Lord within the Jurisdiction aforesaid many being by them convinced of the Evil of their wayes for the Power and Presence of the Lord of Life was with them to the confounding of their Enemies And upon the 13th of the 8th Month it being upon them so to do they Returned again to Boston where they with seven other Friends were Apprehended and cast all of them into Prison But William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson were delivered to the Custody of the Goaler to be kept in Chains in a Room by themselves which accordingly was done and they had Chains laid upon their Right Leggs But the next Week on the 20th of the 8th Month 1659 William Robinson Marmaduke Stevenson and Mary Dyar of Rhode Island were had into the Court where John Endicot with others of the Council were Assembled And being called to the Bar John Endicot Commanded the Keeper to pull off their Hats which accordingly was done Then John Endicot began to speak unto them very faintly as a man possessed with much fear in these words That they had made several Lawes an● tryed and endeavoured by several wayes to keep them i. e. the Quakers from amongst them and neither Whipping nor Imprisoning nor Cutting off Ears nor Banishing upon pain of Death would not keep them from amongst them And further said He or They desired not the Death of any of them Yet notwithstanding his following words were Give eare and hearken to your Sentence of Death which words as was said before passed from him very faintly Then William Robinson desired that he might give them an Accompt of the Cause and Reason why after Banishment upon pain of Death they stayed in their Jurisdiction But John Endicot being filled with fury would not permit it to be done but soon after in Envy called W. R. by his Name and said unto him Hearken to your Sentence of Death William Robinson this is your Sentence You shall be had back to the place from whence you came from thence to the place of Execution to be hanged on the Gallows till

hid it from me it lyeth upon me in love to your Souls thus to perswade you I have no self-ends the Lord knoweth for if my Life were freely granted by you it would not avail me nor could I expect it of you so long as I should daily hear or see the Sufferings of these People my dear Brethren and Seed with whom my Life is bound up as I have done these two years and now it is like to encrease even unto death for no evil doing but coming among you Was ever the like Laws heard of among a People that profess Christ come in the flesh And have such no other weapons but such Laws to fight against Spiritual Wickedness withall as you call it Wo is me for you of whom take you Counsel search with the Light of Christ in ye and it will shew you of whom as it hath done me and many more who have been disobedient and deceived as now you are which Light as you come into and obeying what is made manifest to you therein you will not repent that you were kept from shedding Blood though it were from a Woman It 's not mine own Life I seek for I chuse rather to suffer with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasures of Egypt but the Life of the Seed which I know the Lord hath blessed and therefore seeks the Enemy thus vehemently the Life thereof to destroy as in all Ages he ever did Oh hearken not unto him I beseech you for the Seeds sake which is one in all and is dear in the sight of God which they that touch touch the Apple of his Eye and cannot escape his Wrath whereof I having felt cannot but perswade all men that I have to do withal especially you who name the Name of Christ to depart from such Iniquity as shedding Blood even of the Sain●s of the Most High Therefore let my Request have as much acceptance with you if you be Christians as Esther had with Ahasueras whose relation is short of that that 's between Christians and my Request is the same that hers was and he said not that he had made a Law and it would be dishonourable for him to revoke it but when he understood that these People were so prized by her and so nearly concerned her as in truth these are to me as you may see what he did for her Therfore I leave these Lines with you appealing to the faithful and true Witnesse of God which is One in all Consciences before whom we must all appear with whom I shall eternally rest in everlasting Joy and Peace whether you will hear or forbear with Him is my Reward with whom to live is my Joy and to dye is my Gain though I had not had your forty eight hours warning for the preparation to the Death of Mary Dyar And know this also That if through the Enmity you shall declare your selves worse than Ahasuerus and confirm your Law though it were but by taking away the Life of one of us That the Lord will overthrow both your Law and you by his Righteous Judgements and Plagues powred justly upon you who now whilst you are Warned thereof and tenderly sought unto may avoid the one by removing the other If you neither hear nor obey the Lord nor his Servants yet will he send more of his Servants among you so that your end shall be frustrated that think to restrain them you call Cursed Quakers from coming among you by any thing you can do to them yea verily he hath a Seed here among you for whom we have suffered all this while and yet suffer whom the Lord of the Harvest will send forth more Labourers to gather out of the mouths of the Devourers of all sorts into his Fold where he will lead them into fresh Pastures even the paths of Righteousness for his Names sake Oh! let none of you put this good day far from you which verily in the Light of the Lord I see approaching even to many in and about Boston which is the bitterest and darkest Professing place and so to continue so long as you have done that ever I heard of let the time past therefore suffice for such a Profession as brings forth such Fruits as these Lawes are In Love and in the Spirit of Meekness I again beseech you for I have no Enmity to the Persons of any but you shall know That God will not be mocked but what you sow that shall ye reap from him that will render to every one according to the deeds done in the body whether good or evil Even so be it saith Mary Dyar A Copy of this was given to the General Court after Mary Dyar had received the Sentence of Death about the 8th or 9th Month 1659. A further Accompt concerning Mary Dyars Martyrdom MAry Dyar being freed as aforesaid returned to Road-Island and afterwards to Long-Island and there was most part of the Winter over the Island where she had good Service for the Lord and then came to Shelter-Island whence she thought she might pass to Road-Island and being there sometime she had Movings from the Lord to go to Boston and there she came the 21 of the 3d Month 1660. and the 30th day was their Governour Chosen and the 31 of the 3d Month in the former part of the day she was sent for to the General Court The Governour said Are ye the same Mary Dyar that was here before speaking of one in Old-England that Returned and would have made them believe he was not the same man with more words to that purpose and said Have not you such Evasions Mary Dyar I am the same Mary Dyar that was here the last General Court The Covernour said You will own your self a Quaker will you not M.D. I own my self to be so reproachfully called The bloody-minded Goaler having now opportunity to have his blood-thirsty Will fulfilled said She is a Vagabond The Governor said The Sentence was passed upon her the last General Court and now likewise You must Return to the Prison from whence you came and there Remain un●il to Morrow at Nine of the Clock then from thence you must go to the Gallows and there be Hanged till you are Dead Mary Dyar said This is no more than that thou saidst before I I the Governour said and now it is to be Executed therefore prepare your self to Morrow at Nine of the Clock being the first day of the 4th Month 1660 Mary Dyar Answered and said I came in Obedience to the Will of God the last General Court desiring you to Repeal your unrighteous Lawes of Banishment upon pain of Death and that same is my work now and eanest Request because ye refused before to grant my Request although I told you That if ye refused to Repeal them the Lord will send others of his Servants to Witness against them John Endicot asked her Whether she was a Prophet She said She spake the words that the