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A57718	New-England a degenerate plant who having forgot their former sufferings ... are now become famous among the nations in bringing forth the fruits of cruelty ... published for the information of all sober people who wish to know how the state of New-England now stands ... / the truth of which we are witnesses (who by their cruel hands have suffered) Iohn Rous, Iohn Copeland, Samuel Shattock, Nicholas Phelps, Josiah Soutwick. Whereunto is annexed a copy of a letter which came from one who hath been a magistrate among them.	Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing R2043; ESTC R28819	13,811	20

it come to 12. or 13 l. if he had it but to pay them and these men altering this Law now in March yet left it dated June the 6th 1651. and so it stands as the Act of a General court they to be the Authors of it seven years before it was in being and so you your self have your part and share in it if the Recorder lie not but what may be the reason that they should not by another Law made and dated that court as well effect what was intended as by altering a word and so the whole sence of the Law and leave this their Act by the date of it charged on another courts account surely the chief instruments in the businesse being privy to the Act of Parliament for liberty should too openly have acted repugnant to a Law of England but if they can do the thing and leave it on a court as making it six years before the Act of Parliament there can be no danger in this and that they were privy to the Act of Parliament for liberty to be then in being is evident that the Deputies might be free to act it they told us that now the Protector stood not engaged to the articles for liberty for the Parliament had now taken the power into to their own hands and had given the Protector a new Oath onely in general to maintain the Protestant Religion and so produced the oath in a Paper in writing whereas the Act of Parliament and the Oath are both in one book in Print so that they that were privy to the one could not be ignorant of the other but still all is well if we can but keep the people ignorant of their liberties and Priviledges then we have liberty to act in our own wills what we please we are wrapped up in a Labyrinth of confused Laws that the free mens power is quite gone and it was said last June Court by one that they knew nothing the freemen had there to do Sandwitch men may not go to the Bay least they be taken up for Quakers William N●land was there about his occasions some ten dayes since and they put him in prison 24 hours and sent for divers to witness against him but they had not proof enough to make him a Quaker which if he had he should have been whipt nay they may not go about their own occasions in other Towns in our Colony but warrants lie in ambush to apprehend them and bring them before a Magistrate to give an account of their businesse Some of the Quakers from Road Island came to bring them goods to trade with them and that for far reasonabler terms then the professing oppressing Merchants of the Country but that will not be suffered that unlesse the Lord step in to their help and assistance in some way beyond mans conceiving their case is sad and to be pitied and truly it moves bowels of compassion from all sorts except those in place who carry with a high hand towards them through mercy we have as yet amongst us worthy Mr. Dunster whom the Lord has made boldly to bear testimony against the Spirit of persecution Our Bench now is Thomas Prince Governour Mr. Collier Captain Willet Captain Winslow Mr. Alden Lieutenant Southworth William Bradford Thomas Hinkly Mr. Collier last June would not sit on the Bench if I sat there and now will not sit the next year unlesse he may have 30 l. sit by him our Court and Deputies last June made Captain Winslow a Major surely we are all mercenary Souldiers that must have a Major imposed on us Doubtlesse the next Court they may choose us a Governor and Assistants also a free man shall need to do nothing but bear such burdens as shall be laid upon him Mr. Alaen has deceived the expectation of many and indeed lost the affections of such as I judge were his cordiall Christian friends who is very active in such wayes as I pray God may not be charged on him to be oppressions of a high nature Written in December 1658. This Letter was published not by the direction or knowledge of the Author who sent it over to his friend for private information but seeing that upon the perusall it is found to be of publick concernment which coming into the hands of some it was thought meet to be published to the view of all Even the sea Monsters draw out the breasts they give suck to their young ones The Daughter of my people is become cruel like the Ostriches in the wildernesse Lament 4.3 THE END

are required to execute this Order accordingly Edw. Rawson At a General Court held at Boston the 11. of May 1659. IT is Ordered That Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra his Wife Samuel Shattook Nicholas Phelps Joshua Buffum and Josiah Southick are hereby Sentenced according to the Order of the General Court in October last to Banishment to depart out of this Jurisdiction by the eighth day of June next on pain of Death and if any of them after the said eighth day of June next shall be found within this Jurisdiction they shall be apprehended by any Constable or other Officer of this Jurisdiction and be committed to close prison there to lye till the next court of assistants where they shall be tryed and being found guilty of the breach of this Law shall be put to death This is a true Copy taken out of the Courts Records as attests Edw. Rawson Secretary The true cause of the banishment of those six Inhabitants of Salem in New-England was because they went not to their Meeting and met together by themselves at each others houses the cause being so small they were ashamed its like to tell the crime or what it was for in this their sentence seeing also they had imprisoned whipt and taken away great sums of money from them for the same thing before The Law for paying 5. s. a week for such as go not to their Meeting IT is ordered decreed by this Court Authority thereof That wheresoever the Ministry of the Word is established according to the Order of the Gospel throughout this jurisdiction every person shall duly resort and attend thereunto respectively upon the Lords Days and upon such publike Fast-Days and dayes of Thanksgiving as are to be generally kept by the appointment of Authority And if any person within this Jurisdiction shall without just and necessary cause withdraw himself from hearing the publike Ministry of the Word after due means of conviction used he shall forfeit for his absence from any such publike meeting five shillings all such offences to be heard and determined by any one magistrate or more from time to time This Law was made in the year 1646. and of late have been executed upon many Inhabitants to the taking away land and houses cattel and other goods from many that could not in conscience join with them in their Worship because their hands are defiled with blood There is certain information sent That the last General Court held in the third Month called May that they have made a Law and proclaimed it in all their Government That all such children and servants and others that for conscience sake cannot come to their meeting to Worship and have not Estates in their hands to answer this foregoing Law of 5. s per Week must be sold for slaves to Barbados or Virgenia or other remote parts to pay their Fines A Copy of a Law made at New-Plymouth in new-New-England in the first Month 1658. VVHereas there hath been several Persons come into this Government commonly called Quakers whose Doctrines and Practises manifestly tend to the subverting of the fundamentals of Christian Religion Church-Order and the civil Peace of this Government as appears by the Testimonies given in several Depositions and otherwayes It is Enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That no Quakers nor persons commonly so called be entertained by any person or persons within this Government under the penalty of Five pounds for every such default or be whipt and in case any one shall entertain any of those persons ignorantly if he shall testifie on his Oath that he knew them not to be such he shall be free of the aforesaid penalty Provided he upon his first discovering them to be such do discover them to the Constable or his Deputy It is also enacted by the Court and the Authority thereof That if any ●anter or Quaker or any person commonly so called shall come into any Township within this Government and by any person or persons be known or suspected to be such a one the person so knowing or suspecting him shall forthwith acquaint the Constable or his Deputy on pain of Presentment and so liable to censure in Court who forthwith shall diligently endeavour to apprehend them and command them to depart out of the Township and this Government and in case any such person delay or Refuse to depart then the said Constable or Deputy shall apprehend them or him and bring him or them before the Magistrate in their Township if there be any where there is none to the Select men appointed by the Court for that purpose who shall cause him or them to be Whipt by the Constable or his Deputy or pay Five pounds and then conveighed out of the Township and the same course is to be taken with every of them as often as any of them transgress this Order in case of extremity for Harbour or Food the Constable or his Deputy shall Reserve them for their Money Provided They suffer not any person or persons to Resort unto them whilest they are under their custody And forasmuch as the Meetings of such persons whether strangers or others proveth to the destructing of the peace of this present Government it is therefore enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That henceforth no such Meeting be assembled or kept by any person many place within this Government under the penalty of 40. s. a time for every Speaker and 10. s. a time for every Hearer and 40. s. a time for the owner of the place that permits them so to meet together And if they meet together at their silent so called then every person so meeting together shall pay 10. s. a time and the owner of the place 40. s. a time Forasmuch as it was ordered at June-Court last That all such as were house-keepers or at their own dispose that were not Free-men and have not taken the Oath of Fidelity to this Government should take the said Oath by the time then pre●xed or to be fined to the Collonies use the sum of 5. l. And whereas divers persons notwithstanding all patience and long-forbearance refuse to take the said Oath and yet make their residence amongst us It is therefore enacted by the Court That every such person or persons shall every General Court be summoned to make their appearance thereat during the time of their abode in this Government and if any such person or persons shall refuse to take the said Oath shall be fined the sum of 5. l. to the Collonies use Whereas the multitude of Free-men is but small and the Inhabitants of the Townships many more who have equal votes with the Free-men in the choice of Deputies who being the body of the Free-men Representative together with the Magistrates have equal votes for the enacting of Laws who by weakness prejudice or otherwaies it hath or may come to pass that very unfit or unworthy persons may be chosen that