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A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

was imprisoned from the first of the fifth Month July till towards the latter end of the ninth Month called November and nothing could be charged on us but for meetting together on the first day of the Week and coming before them with our hats on Now in the time of our imprisonment one of us Josiah Southwick sent to the Governor and Magistrates at their meeting desired a little liberty to go home his goods being on the spoile and he would give bond to come again faithfully to the prison at their appointed time but they denyed it Now there was one William Marston that lived at Hampton they finding two little Books in his House one was John Lilburn's little Book sent to his Wife from Dover-Castle and the other was a Sheet of Paper of William Dewsberry's called The mighty day of the Lord for the vvhich they took from him ten pounds this man withdrew from the publike meeting at Hampton they rated him three pounds to the Priest for his Wages and took it violently from him and was also fined five pounds for not coming to their Meeting and took away a Barrel of salted Beef that he had provided to send to sea more moneys they took from him but the true account of all we yet had not besides many other particulars which would be too tedious to mention which the Inhabitants of the Masathusets endure with what more may be expected in the prosecution of this unjust and unrighteous Law which if there may not be an allowance of Appeals from the State of England to the Inhabitants their Subjects in New-England it 's like to be a bloody time amongst us for they have not onely combined to kill and banish amongst themselves in the Masathusets but as we hear have by all means used to hedge up all wayes of succor to us in the Neighbour-Collonyes which some of them had more tenderness then themselves But our trust is in the Most High vvhose living presence is the fulness of all satisfaction to us in all outward straits All these particulars have been since Septemb. 1657. to this present writing 28. of the 9th Month 1658. in which time they drunk thirty and two draughts of cruel whippings of strangers and Inhabitants and three strangers they cut their ears off All these vvhippings and ear-cuttings vvas done privately in the private Prison-Houses This William Marston as is before exprest coming through Salem when we were in prison Josiah Southwick's Wife sent some provision to her Husband and Lau. Southwick's Daughter sent some to her Parents then in prison by this man who was for it carryed before the Governor and by him vvas committed to prison and there vvas kept two Weeks and made pay five shillings Fees to the Gaoler and let go This affirmed under our hands Samuel Southwick Josiah Southwick Laurence Southwick Samuel Gasken Josiah Buffum Now after all this there was a Court held at Salem the last day of November 1658. this Court sent for about fifteen of the Inhabitants for not coming to their Meeting twelve of which did appear of these nine of them were fined for sixteen Weeks absence four pounds a piece one was fined three pounds fifteen shillings and one fined twenty shillings the other did now enter into pay The sum of what was fined by this Court was forty pounds fifteen shillings And now the Devil being let loose for a little season he rages and goes into utter darkness ●nd fetches up all the Powers of darkness and they combine together to fortifie his Kingdom that so none but he who was a murderer from the beginning may have any rule in the Town of Boston or the Jurisdiction thereunto belonging and now he thinks his Kingdom is sure The last piece of Work which the Rulers have done for their Master is as followeth An Act made at a General Court held at Boston the 20th of October 1658. Whereas there is a pernicious sect commonly called Quakers lately risen who by word and writing have published and maintained many dangerous and horrid Tenents and do take upon them to change and alter the received laudable customs of our Nation in giving civil respect to equals or reverence to superiors whose a●●ions tend to undermine the civil Government and also to destroy the Order of the Churches The people called in scorn Quakers are risen up from under the powers of darkness and they are come forth from the rising of the Sun where the morning hath appeared without Clouds and though set at nought by you yet they are a mighty people and of the Royal Off-spring even of his Family who is the first-born of every creature and the heir of all things the Shout of a King is among them who is greater then Abaddon or Appolyon his living presence is with them and they shall come upon you hypocrites and dissemblers as mortar and clay and though you lift up your horns high and pusheth every way with them against the Lamb and his followers yet your horns shall be broken by him who is their King by his horn of Salvation which now is lifted up far higher then the horn of an Unicorn and you shall be as ashes under their feet We are not ignorant of the swelling of the Sea nor of the strength of the Beast which hath risen out of the Sea We were not ignorant of his strength in New-England but he is brought among the Quakers and dwells in their Tabernacle who is able to make war with the Beast and his followers though you have cast up your banks very high and fortified your selves as the Pope by his Inquisition yet you must be gone over and be made level and yet not by Clubs nor Staves nor Whips nor hot Irons Cain's Weapons the Weapons of the Murderer which you have taken up which shall be broken though your bows be as steel yet they shall be broken by the arm of the Lord the Quakers strength And what is the horrid tenents and dangerous things they hold out that you open your mouths so wide The horrid and dangerous Tenent is They alter the laudable customs of your Nation Would not thou judge Reader when there hath been so many great Words and Accusations that some capital Fact would be laid down But behold the Capital Crime The Quaker will not put off his hat nor his coat nor none of his clothes to his equals nor to a persecuting fellow who hath a few Buttons and a few Ribbans who calls himself a Superior and here is a crime indeed which deserves banishment and death nothing below this will be able to satisfie Justice for this Crime by the Judgement of the Law-makers of Boston And when became this such a laudable custom that it is worthy of so much praise Ye blind and ignorant have you not read the Scripture He that respects persons commits sin and he that hath mens persons in admiration will transgress for a Morsel of Bread And ye never

Court was sitting We vvere brought before them in the night where one Simon Broadstreat sate as Judge Daniel Denison William Hathorn with another Assistant Simon Broadstreat asked us if we knew before vvhom vve vvere Then after they had pulled off our hats they asked our Names We told them They asked us if vve vvere Quaker We answered We were of those vvhom the World in derision calls so Simon Broadstreat s●id he never saw any of us before and he began to tell us we held dangerous Errors We bad him declare what they were Then like the rest of Cain's race he began to accuse us We denyed that Christ that suffered at Jerusalem and that we denyed the Scriptures But vve declared the contrary and that we owned no other Jesus but he that suffered at Jerusalem and the Scriptures of truth vve owned And then they said We were much wronged and further said What we had declared concerning Christ and the Scriptures they owned Then they would know our call to come into those parts We answered We came to visit the Seed in captivity Then they began to threaten us with their Law and before confessed they owned what vve said We asked wha● they had to lay to our charge but they had nothing but said they had a Law against such a people as we owned our selves to be of and according to that Law sent us to the house of Correction and bid the Constable take us away and kept us prisoners Some of Salem people which were summoned to answer for being at the Meeting before-mentioned six of them were sent to prison with us to Boston The second day of the fifth Month being the sixth day of the Week and the presence of the Lord was vvith us and we stayed at Laurence Southwick's house where we had a meeting of friends vvhich passed some part of the way vvith us after we had given up our selves to the Lord by prayer ●nd supplication And vvhen we came to Boston vve were seperated into several rooms in the Prison and we into a room that the bloody Gaoler had provided to put us in he hearing we were taken resolved in his wicked heart to torment our bodies or to make us bow to their wicked and cursed Law as he said to us He took us up into a high room in the inner Prison had stopped it so close that he left not a hole for any air to come in nor suffered any to come at us and stopped all necessaries from us as Food and whatsoever might be serviceable to us neither let us have any Victuals for our money but after some time he brought a few Pottage and a piece of Bread We would have given him money for it but he said he would have nothing but Work for it and further said If we did eat he would make us work for it so he kept us without any five dayes On the second day of the Week he called us down to be whipped which was executed upon us in twenty blows with a three-stringed Whip with knots at the ends with as much fury and violence as ever he could lay it on So after I spoke a few words against their bloody Law which lay upon me to witness against by which we suffered he locked us up again as before-mentioned and about an hour after he came to signifie to us That we were clear according to the Law and might pass away if we would pay the Marshal to go with us out of the Collony Oh inhumane We to pay a man for banishing of us the Answer was If he would set open the doors for us we would pass away And after he demanded Whether we would work his work We refused Then he began to threaten us what he would do to us and said he would put me in Irons that night so the next day he came with his Irons and put one Iron on each thigh and another about my neck and he locked them together with a Horse-Lock that there was no more liberty between the Irons then the Lock allowed so that my body was crumbled together my head close to my thighs those Irons was upon me from about the fifth hour in the morning till after the ninth hour at night which was sixteen hours And when I lay in the Irons I was strengthened in the power of the Lord The next day in the morning he came as he did before to know vvhether I had occasion to go dovvn I vvent dovvn and vvhen I came into the lovver room vvhere his Mill stands he haled me tovvards the Mill and bid me go to vvork he took a Rope about an inch thick and laid upon me as hard as he could lay upon my back and arms until his Rope untvvisted and then he left off and as it vvas said by the Prisoners he gave me about twenty blows at the least so that with those blows my back and arms were swelled Then I went up into the room where we were locked in then he brought another Rope bigger and stronger then the former and haled me down again into the lower room and said as he often did that he would make me bow to the Law of the Countrey he bid me work wch I could not do for all the worlds frowns or favours It being in the heat of Summer I had nothing but a Searge Cassock upon my shirt then he began to lay on again vvith his Rope upon my back that had been vvhipped but tvvo days before and the day before lay in Irons and had laid so many blovvs upon me before that morning but he like an unreasonable man had no compassion but vvith violence laid four-score and seventeen blovvs more on me as hard as he could lay them on and if his strength and his Rope had not failed him he vvould have laid more on but he threatned to give me as many more the next morning if I vvould not bovv to the Lavv and also that friend that vvas vvith me if he vvould not yeild but the Lord prevented this cruel man of his purpose So he locked us up in the room as at the first and yet the Lord did bear me up that I fell not under the strokes of this vvicked man being kept from dyet five dayes and my body vveakned both for vvant of ayre and dyet and having lain in Irons so many hours and receiving so many blovvs that soon after I vvas laid dovvn upon the boards I felt the parts of nature decaying and natural strength to fail me that my body vvas turned as cold as the earth and a striving there vvas in nature for life vvhich vvas near departed from me so that at last all my sences vvere stopped that I had neither seeing feeling nor hearing for some time but the Povver of the Lord broke through me and life broke through death and the breath of the Lord breathed into my nostrils and a noise went forth into the Town among the people so the vvickedness

case being so hard he desired that he might then look out for a habitation in another Jurisdiction So they gave him but two or three dayes time to depart the Collony so he was forced from his Family having his Wife and four small Children The time proved so troublesom that it was the desire of some to look out for a habitation in Road-Island Patten So there went three from Salem John Small John burton Josiah Southwick towards the Island and the first night came to a Town called Dedham and went to the Inne to lodge they had not been long there but the Captain of the Town came his name is Cushar and examined them of matters of Religion and whether they owned their Churches and Ministers Who being not free to answer according to his will told them he would send them where they should They told him upon what account they went but he got them secured that night and the next morning sent them back to B●ston with a Constable and tvvo men vvith a Halbard and black staff as if they had been murderers and carryed them before the Deputy Governor vvho threatned them to send them to prison but they desired to go to the Governor who had a little more consideration then the other and said That they could not hinder men from that So let them go but did afterwards send a Warrant to the Marshal to levy 12. s. upon them to pay the men for bringing them back again to Boston the Governor and Deputy-Go●ernor's hand was to it After this there came two men more to Salem of those called Quakers and it was their desire to have a meeting with us so there was a meeting and about twenty persons and upwards of the Inhabitants and whilst we were peaceably together there came one Edmond Batters a Commissioner with a Cons●able with him it was about 5 or 6 miles from the Town at a Farm-House who came in with great rage and took account of our names the Court being at Sal●m the follovving week we were sent for some of us were kept prisoners two days by our own houses at another house out of these the Court chose six persons to send to prison as axamples to the rest their names are after expressed these they sent to the house of Correction as Quakers they did earnestly desire to know what a Quaker was They answered him that spake saying Thou art one because thou comest in with thy hat on He replyed again That was a horrible thing to make such cruel lawes of whipping and cutting off ears and burning thorow the tongue for not putting off the hat So we were sent to the house of Correction and four of us was whip't the other two was before whipt as is before-mentioned Lawrence Southwick and his son but his wife was whip't the second time and the names of the Inhabitants were ●awrence Southwick Cassandria Southwick Josiah Southwick Samuel Shattock Iosiah Buffum Samuel Gasken Now besides the six Inhabitants they sent the two strangers to prison the one was William Brend that was a dweller in the city of London and the other was an inhabitant of Barbado's his name is William Leddra Now the strangers were put into the Goal and the inhabitants in the house of Correction the Goaler a cruel tyrant he required the strangers to work but they refused to do his work and for the cruelty the Goaler exercised on William Brend the passages are before mentioned some of their own society vvas dissatisfied because the Goaler vvas a Church-member and would have had him been cast out of the Church but vvhen he vvas called before the Church Iohn Norton the Teacher vvould hardly suffer any to blame him but did countenance him in it so he vvas past by and let alone Now the same Week came one Humphrey Norton a stranger and one Iohn Rous they were put in prison also so the ●oalor required them to work but they refused and did desire to eat their own bread so they were cruelly whip't and because they would not work Iohn Indecot Governor and Richard Billingham Deputy-Governor wrote an Order of cruelty to the Goaler That all the Quakers then in prison should bee severely whip't twice a Week beginning with fifteen lashes with a cruel Whip and every time to exceed three which was barbarous cruelty which they put in execution but compassion was in some of the towns-men that they paid their fees and released them now in the end of three Weeks some of the inhabitants were released such as had not been in prison once before now these cruel acts made more of the Inhabitants of Salem with-draw from their Assemblies because their hands were defiled with blood Now about three Weeks after the former Court at Salem the Court did again sit and had divers persons brought before them upon this account for not comming to the Meeting the General Court having now made a Law the first Law was to pay five shillings a Week for not coming to them now to adde to that we must pay ten shillings every time we meet to worship the Lord together and if any one spoke in our Meeting they must pay five pounds a time each person Amongst those that were presented came in one Nicholas Philps vvith his hat on vvho hearing them say that the Quakers deny Magistrates and having a Paper in his Pocket that did express under some of their hands that they ovvned Magistrates did give it to them they asked if he vvould own it He answered Yea then they fined him forty shillings for ovvning that and for not putting off his hat sent him to Ipswich Correction-house where he was whipt at first entrance the Gaoler requiring him to work he told him if he would let him go home to his Work he would vvork for he thought it unreasonable for them to require him to vvork for them and for the Gaoler to take eight pence out of every shilling that he got and he the mean time to hire men at home about his own Harvest and told them Houses of Correction in England vvere for such as vvas not fit to guide themselves idle persons and Vagrants and not to take men from their Families and Employments that did help carry on the common charge of the Countrey But they vvhipt him for not vvorking he vvas vvhipt three times in five dayes a poor vveak crooked man These Courts vvas carryed on by Simon Broadstreet Magistrate Major Denison and William Hathorne Now about six or seven Weeks after that there vvas some of us quietly and peaceably met together to worship the Lord and shut the door about a mile from the Town the Constable and one more came and required us to open the door but we answered them not so he took an Ax and broke up the door upon us and took notice of our Names and soon after vvas Ipswich Court vvhere some of our Names vvere sent in the Magistrates chusing out four of us

if there be Used not you and the rest of the Clergy to pray for the conversion of the Jews And are you now angry if any of them be turned from darkness to light But none can escape thy slanderous tongue without reproach Thou saist The juncture between the Jesuits and these Hereticks is strong Thou art nearer joined to the Jesuits then the Quakers for they and you in New-England are working one and the self-same work Will not most people in the Regions know thy lyes Is it not publikely known in many Countreys that two of the Quakers were imprisoned by the Pope and Jesuits at Rome lately and hath been put in the Inquisition and one of them prisoned till death and the other remains in prison under cruel bonds to this day and now read whether the juncture between the Jesuits and you be not great who are acting in one and the self-same Work and brings forth one and the self-same fruit the Apples of Sodom and the Grapes of Gomorah whom God destroyed which will be the end of all the wicked except they repent There is more danger thou saith in this people to trouble and overcome England then the King of Scots and all the Popish Princes in Germany Thy tongue is set on fire of Hell which makes thee utter forth all these horrid Lyes and false Accusations and bitter things against the Lord and his people and will not all sober people in England see thy envy Hath not England had sufficient proof of our fidelity against the King of Scots and the Popish Princes and Confederates with him And thousands in England shall be witness for us against thee and all thy false Accusations Thou saist They strengthen all disc●ntents against the present Government and hatch all Plots and encourages all combinations and insurrections The present Government of these Nations will be a witness for us against thee That amongst all the people in the Nations we have been most passive and suffering and the discontents and plots and combinations from time to time have been amongst the Presbyter-Priests and their Faction of whose stock and off-spring you are And further thou saist They vent horrid blasphemy against God which ought to be persecuted with the severest censures Thou art of that generation that called the Master of the House Beelzebub and in the steps of the persecuting Jews who said He hath spoken blasphemy what need we any more witness But how can we speak evil or blaspheme him who is our life And in the day when he ariseth to judge all the Earth in righteousness he will justifie us and clear us and condemn thy malignity and thy hard speeches and vain thoughts which lodge in thy corrupt heart from whence all these unsavourie words hath been uttered forth and is that New-England-Divinity to teach persecution that thou art so impudent to own it in words That which persecutes with the severest censures is of the Devil and is in Cain's way and dost thou lay down this for a Doctrine to Engl●nd to appease the wrath of God towards it I say Persec●tion and severe Censures ●s that which kindleth the wrath of God against these Nations and did overtake the Bishops the King and all their Confederacy and overthrew the Nobles of the Land the ancient and ●e honorable which were the head and all the false Prophets which were the taile and that same Wrath shall be over you who are of that stock and off-spring manifested by these deadly actions and characters of most horrid and wicked cruelty which the Lord God will confound and blast and set his Truth above it all And Iohn Indicot thou saist The quakers trouble us very much though we cause them te be whipt and sent away again and again yet they return again Thou maist see there is another spirit in them then was in you when you fled from old England from under the Bishops you would suffer nothing for the truth and therefore were you given up to the same spirit that was in the persecutors here in England this is entered into you now and become ten fold stronger but now he that is stronger then all hath appeared and is coming to trouble you and disquiet you of your rest which you have taken up in the Earth What hath your Gospel and the Ministers thereof no more strength in them to convince the gain-sayers then gain-sayers have to seduce them that are in the truth The daie of your trouble is come and the beginning of sorrows is kindled upon you a greater wo follows after for the Rod of God is stretched out over you and shall reach unto you and turn your counsels backward and confound you in the midst of your combinations Where did any Christian-Magistrates whip and imprison any for Religion's sake or conscience-sake or cut off their Ears Where is your Law Did any Minister of Christ perswade the Magistrate it was lawful for him to do so Give us some evidence and let us see your rule and by what Authority you do these things and from whence you have your Authoritie I am sure God never authorized it Christ nor his Ministers nor no Christian-Magistrate that ruled for God never countenanced any such thing as to whip again and again to beat with Ropes till men fall down as dead till mens flesh becomes as jelley as some of your own Nation have said and shall not the Saints be bold to tell you that this is of the Devil who was a lyar and a murderer from the beginning in whose footsteps you are who shall receive a reward according to your works And thou saist Divers of you do think that unless the Court do make a Law to banish them and not to return upon pain of death this Collony will n●t be rid of them Nay nor then neither though you make covenant with death and agreement with hell and shake hands with the Prince of darkness your Covenant shall be broken and your Confederacie disannulled and you confounded in the midst of your counsels What have you your Law yet to make to serve your turns It seems you act not by the Law of God which is made alreadie which is equal just and good and is for the transgressor of Justice Goodness and Equity but takes not hold upon the just equal nor good but you must now have another invented to satisfie your envious minds and to accomplish your wicked determinations and you that think to make a Law to banish and to put to death your thoughts are vain and wicked and God will bring them to judgement and condemn you for them for Christ came not to destroy mens lives but to save them but the Devil makes Laws to destroy and not to save Read your example and let shame cover your faces and astonishment fill your hearts that you should become so brutish and vain in your thoughts as to think to limit the Lord of Heaven and Earth Can you command the wind that it blow not Can you stop the bottles of heaven that they pour not ●orth water If you cannot no more can you limit the Lord And if you make any such Laws to banish or put to death it will procure the indignation and wrath of God more speedily then if the King of Scots and all the Popish Princes in the World did enter into the midst of your Land But this is come to pass that your hypocrisie and deceit might be made manifest in the sight of the sun and that all men may see what profession of words is without the life of Christ to rule in men If it should have been told you when you fled from this Nation what you would do in the time to come against God and his servants you would have said with Hazael Are we Dogs But the heart of man is deceitful unconverted and your deceived hearts hath led you aside Thou thinkest they are the worst Hereticks Thy eye being blinded and thy understanding darkened and thy heart full of envy how shouldst thou think otherwise But thy thoughts shall be discovered to thee and thou shalt be convinced of the evil of them Thou saist One whom many think is a Iesuit pressed for a conference with one of our Teachers called Mr. Norton but the quaker was quickly weary of it You live by your thoughts and knows nothing if he had been a Jesuit it 's like he might have had more favour from you And the Minister might be very bold knowing before-hand no evil was like to befall him having the Rulers with their Clubs on his side the Prison-doors and House of Correction readie to receive the Quakers the Gaolers and Task Masters with their Whips and butcherly fellows with their Knives to cut off their ears at the pleasure and wills of a company of envious men before whose face the fear of the Lord is not But it is like you will make the Quaker weary soon if he would look out at your cruelty if you did as sometime some of your Priests and Rulers caused to be done in New-England stop Napkins in their mouths and bound keys over their mouths that they could not speak and boast and say The Quaker had nothing to answer Well all these things are recorded and are written as with a Pen of Iron and they are engraved where they shall not be blotted out and you are registred among the uncircumcised with Mesech and Tubal the great Princes of Gog which makes war against the Lamb and his followers but the Lamb and the Saints shall have the victory and you shall be trodden as ashes under the Toles of their feet for they shall melt away that hate the Lord Reading the 16. of the 12. Month 1658. The End