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A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

being accused for breaking into a mans house for want of other occasion charged him and others according to the law with fellony mind what malice here is this they did against him and several others because they came into a house vvhere tvvo friends vvere imprisoned the door being open which when there he came the man of the house cleared him to the Governor vvho then having nothing whereof justly to accuse him told him there was a mistake in the summons yet fined him twenty shillings for not putting off his hat for vvhich they took a brass ketle prized by them at twenty five shillings this they did besides thirteen pounds worth of cattle forced from him because he could not svvear Daniel Wing tvventy shillings for the hat another Ralph Alli● tvventy shillings for the hat one vveather sheep distrained Again Thomas Greenfield put by from the Jury for not swearing fined tvventy shillings for vvhich they distrained his goods Edward Perry for not training distrained and taken avvay to the value of seven shillings besides all other fines John Te●kins for the same one pot distrained vvhich vvas of great use unto him of vvhich he vvas debarred Robert Harper for the same pewter taken to the value of four shillings Reader thou maist take notice that though these people be such as pretend much to honor the Sabbath day as they call it yet by order of Court did the Constable come to a meeting of friends in Sandwitch-Town on the first day as they vvere vvaiting upon the Lord and sommoned fourteen of them to be at a Court at Plimouth the next day being tvventy miles distant vvhere theyvvere fined five pounds a piece for refusing to swear vvhich is contrary to the law of God and wholsome lavv of the English nation and at this Court being in the beginning of the fourth moneth 1658. they appointed the forementioned Barloe Marshal or rather pursevant of Barnestable Sandwitch and Yarmouth vvhich office he hath executed with as much malice as any be All this distress forced robbery and violent stealth is done in the name of his Highness Lord Protector of England c. as they say and more also which here follovvs four of them at the same time put in the stocks for taking Iohn Rous by the hand vvhen he came from before the Court. Again sixteen of them summoned to their Octob●r Court so called by them and there all fined again five pounds a man for the oath ●thou maist understand that this vvas in the 8. moneth 58. so that their maist see their cruelty still continued vvith an intent to ruinace that harmless and Innocent people and if thy name thou suffer to cover this I am sure they will laugh at thee for they call thee Protector of England Ireland and Scotland but New England not yet that Pattent is not once named by them that ever Iyet heard for if it were so in righteousness thou most needs and that in conscience protect that poor people from being utterly ruinated and so as chief Magistrate thou art owned by the sufferers appear therefore in plainness and shew unto all thy like or dislike of these their doings that every man may know thee by thy fruits and whether thou takest the protection of Nevv England into thy hand yea or nay of vvhich the inhabitants vvith many more have great need if equity and justice thou execute therein Again three of them to vvit William Allin Robert Harper Thomas Greenfeild for not departing out of the Court forthvvith upon the Governors command although not refusing so to do vvas committed to the Marshall and carried avvay to prison the Court breaking up that night vvas there left and continued The actings of George Barloe of Sandvvich he being ordered by the Court at Plimouth for the preventing the peaceable meeting together of the servants of the Lord to vvait upon him in the silence of all flesh as by his actions plainly vvill appear he having received a Warrant to search all suspicious places to apprehend strangers called quakers by this order cometh into our meetings sometimes bringing others vvith him and sometimes alone vve sitting still in our places he requireth of several of us to remove and to give vvay to him pretending to search the house for strangers and if vve do not satisfie his vvill by giving vvay to him vvhich none can do vvho are truely vvaiting upon the Lord then he breaketh forth in bitter expressions pulling some and thrusting others threatning some of us to put us in the stocks and saying to some of us if we remove not to tread on us also pulling off and and lifting up our hats pretending that he doth not know us using many words both by flattery and violence to draw forth words from us and when he sees he can get none then he breaketh forth with many false charges against us who are innocent from doing any wrong either to him or any of those by whom he is set to work mischief against us also to prevent this vile person from disquieting of us when attending upon the Lord we have removed from our houses into the woods a neighbor and one of his own nature whom he forced to go along with him said he was ashamed of him to see him upon the first day in the morning hunting the people by their footings as a Dog hunting some other creatures this is and hath been a very common thing with him and others whom they have imployed the first day and other days thus to doe as witness Edward Perry Humphrey Norton Here also is the Sum of part of the Fines levied out of one Town in Plimouth patent called Sandwitch This they have sustained in less then one years time besides imprisonings stockings abusings and halings in and from their own houses some of them being men of low estates that to outward appearance this which is done unto them may be their ruinating and utter undoing in outward estate if neither pity mercy nor compassion be used towards them which these have none as witness their Marshal George Barloe who said he would not leave them worth a groat such is the clemency of a New England Member William Newland having formerly taken their Oath of Infidelity escaped with 1. l. 10. s. He and Ral●h Allin having been cast into the Marshals hands which put them in charges to the sum of 12 l. 0. Edward Perry 27 l. 7 s Robert Harper 13 l. 4 s Ralph Allin 12 l. 10 s Thomas Greenfield 11 l. 0 s Richard Kirby 16 l. 0 s William Allin 14 l. 5 s. VVilliam Gifford 12 l. 0 s. Matthew Allin 12 l. 0 s. Daniel VVing 12 l. 0 s. George Allin 6 l. 0 s. Peter Gaunt ●e also having formerly taken the Infidels Oath escaped with so much as 2 l. 5 s Thomas Ewer 7 l. 10. s. Another Ralph Allin 1 l. 0 s. The Sum 160 l. 11 s. Again in Marshfield A town in that Patent Arthur Howland a man

power I was called out from amongst them and sent unto them who am a Servant of Chris● and a Sufferer for the Seeds sake which suffers amongst them who shall wait in hope believing it shall be delivered and raised up to the glory of the Father John Copeland Also Reader Richard Smith who is before mentioned who came in the ship with us and they called our Proselite did they commit to prison who though he be an Inhabitant on Long-Iland in that land and have wife and children there although they did openly accuse us of uncleanness such is the vanity of their Religion having their tongues unbridled that to speak truth they have no delight plainly shewing that their Religion is a lye and the god of this world the Father of it in going m●n and women together running away from our Parents wives and children yet so great was their fear and their faith so weak that they would not let him go to his through the Countrey for fear of infecting the people with our poysonous Doctrine as they called it but kept him about three weeks in prison untill there was an opportunity to send him away by water In which time John Indicot Governor said he was deluded and therefore he would have him have some discourse with three or four godly Ministers to convince him of his Error so upon the first day of the week he asked the Goalor to go to their Meeting the which he did and having sate while the Priest had done he spake and said It was the saying of the Governor that I should have some discourse with some of the godly Ministers ●hat they might convict me of the error that he said I was i● saying that I was deluded and said to them all if there was any such as were godly that could convict him of any error that he held he was ready there to hear then the Governor said he did intend it should be in private Richard Smith answered and said it was his desire it should be in publike and being inraged at him they forthwith had him away to prison again who after they sent away by water as is before mentioned Yet here ended not their malice but as it is written The wicked shall wax worse and worse so they fulfilled it in proceeding to act further wick●dness upon an antient man whose gray hairs is honorable but instead of honoring the hoary head and rising up and giving place to him that is grave in yeers according to the Scriptures they profess they cast him into prison the same day that they forced the other away and to please their God Mammon whom they so duely served sined him several pounds as will appear by what here followes One Nicholas Upshall an old man an inhabitant of the town of Boston who had long waited for the consolation of Israel the appearance of which he could not finde among the profession of new-New-England though they cal themselvs by the name of of Christ having been a member among them for many yeers had endeavoured out of his zeal to build a little Babel by them called the Church at the new meeting-house in Boston but his first zeal not being according to true knowledge as the second appeared unto him That God was not worshipped in Temples made with hands godly indignation rising up in him against that Idol he would not have left one stone upon another before half forty yeers was expired for which the pillars upon which the pinacle is built whereupon Satan stands crying to Christ Cast thy self downe wee will not have thee to rule over us joyned together against him to cast him out of Covenant Court and Countrey and sentenced him to banishment as hereafter doth appear This ancient man was much refreshed at the coming of these fo●ementioned people finding in them that which he desired after and was much troubled at the cruel actings of the Magistrates and people of Boston towards them upon the same day the former were put forth of prison they put him in who having proclaimed a Law with the beating of a Drum against those people called quakers before the said Nicholas's door he beeing much troubled in spirit with it seeing their unrighteous dealing against the innocent did bare witness against their Law for which he was sent for the next morning unto the General Court where he spake to them to this purpose That the prosecution of that Law was the fore-runner of a Judgment upon the Countrey and therefore in the tenderness and love which he bore to the people and countrey did desire them to take heed what they did lest they were found fighters against God whose love they rejected and committed him to prison and fined him twenty pound and ordered him to banishment within the space of one moneth and that if hee should return he should be kept close prisoner untill he did acknowledge his fault in declaring against their Law which Law hereafter followeth yet after four dayes was released And again shewed their inhumanity to banish an ancient man of about sixty yeers from his wife and family in the time of winter although for many yeers had been very sickly of whom if the Lord had not been more tender then these unmerciful men hee might have perished and before the time was expired which they had appointed him for departing their Colony they sent for him to another Court to reckon with him for not coming to their Meeting for which according to their Law he was to pay five shillings for every first dayes missing so they reckoned three pound more that he was to pay upon this account by which it appears what it is they seek after who will so soon take occasion to get money the love of which Paul saith is the root of all evill which while some have coveted after have erred from the Faith which is truly fulfilled in new-New-England When the time was neer expired Nicholas went to Sandwitch in Plymouth-Patent intending there to winter amongst some that were more readier to entertain the persecuted then to persecute but the Governor thereof whose name was Bradford being an envious man hearing of his coming sent a Warrant that none should entertain him but his purpose not being effected he sent a second special Warrant to bring Nicholas to Plymouth it is worth observing An Indian Prince for so he appears by his speech hearing of their dealing with this ancient weak man called them Wicked men and said unto him Ne. tup which is to say Friend if thou wilt live with me J will make thee a good warm house this he spake in his own language preaching condemnation thereby to the English Christian teaching them an example of compassion towards the persecuted whom they of Boston had barbarously banished in the winter season which are such in those parts that several have perished in travelling betvvixt tovvn and tovvn yea vvhere they are not three miles distant yet vvould not this vile man

we met with at Hartf●rd it being the will of God that his seed should be sought out in all parts we were moved to go to Hartford in the Jurisdiction of ●anitticote for that purpose and after some passages at the Town which will not be needful to relate we being at the Ordinary were sent for by the Governour to come to his house and we went where were assembled the Governour a moderate man and some of the Magistrates so called and their Priest called Samuel Stone after some questions asked us by the Governour as from whence we came and whether we were going of which we gave him an account as the Lord gave us freedom Samuel Stone asked us What God is we said a Spirit then with his Logick he did thus cavil a Spirit is an Angel and an Angel is a creature God is not a creature therefore God is not a Spirit the which we did deny it being both contrary to Scripture and truth but by it he shewed how learned he was that had learned more of Logick then of God for had he known God he dared not thus to have spoken After some more words he said further That God is the Author of all wisdom and all arts the which we denied and put him to prove it and in stead of proving it he went to raise another Argument nothing to the purpose but we kept him to what he said and put him to prove it by Scripture but he would not nor could not then we said There is a wisdome which is earthly sensual and devilish and God is not the Author of that wisdome and God will destroy the wisdome of the wise and bring to nought the understanding of the prudent and we said God would not destroy the wisdome which he is the author of so this learned man vvas much pusled not being able to make good what he had said in the face of many of his hearers that were then present then the Governour seeing him thus taken in his own net did help him saying That was not wisdome but folly but God is the Author of all true wisdome we answered if Samuel had said so at first we should have easily consented to it then Samuel Stone said the Apostle spoke there improperly but we affirmed that the Spirit of God always spoke properly After this he raised another lying Argument which was this None are saved without a promise you have no promise in the Scripture and therefore are not saved to which we replyed the Promise is I will give him for a Covenant a light that he may be my Salvation to the ends of the earth to as many as beleeve in him we beleeve in him and are in the ends of the earth and therefore are saved by him to which he objected nothing so after some words the day being spent one of their Magistrates read us their Law that we vvere not to stay in their Colonie Thus may all see how these four united Colonies as they are called have agreed to banish Christ out of their coasts by a Law O what a brotherhood is this that thus useth the friends of God and abuseth his servants sons and daughters by whipping burning and otherwise mangling their bodies but it is that the Scriptures might be fulfilled which saith They shall hale you before Rulers and Governours for my Names sake and as they have done unto me so will they do unto you saith Christ because they know not the Father nor me yet amongst all the Colonies found we not the like moderation as in this most of the Magistrates being more noble then those of the other Colonies after some dayes stay we departed from that Town towards Road-Island and by this thou mayest see what husks the Priests of new-New-England feeds their Flocks with Thus in short have I given thee an account of some of the Doctrines of one of the highest of the new-New-England Pharisees who is accounted the greatest disputant in all the Land as one of his Hearers told us but it hath so pleased the Father by babes to confound and stop the mouthes of such wise ones that he in all and over all may be glorified for ever John Rous. Reader I being one with the suffering seed was after some travels and sufferings as thou mayest understand in other remote parts moved to go to New-England and was brought to Road-Island according to the will or him who had moved me and after spending some few dayes there I was moved to go into other parts of the land where I met with the most loathsome hypocrisie and abominable deceit that ever I saw or heard of and that committed by those who pretend themselves to be no less then members of the Church of Christ but how disagreeable their practices are to the spirit of him whom they profess if thou art one who hast tasted of it thou wilt easily judge and I can truely say that under this pretence of theirs almost all manner of wickedness is covered pride gluttony envy deceitful dealings as vvitness many of their creditors the Merchants upon the Exchange in London and elsewhere who for it hath often cryed out against it bloodshed lust and what else might be mentioned and such hypocrisie have I seen amongst the highest members of their chiefest Churches that I have sometimes said within my self A man that hath a covetous and deceitful rotten heart lying lips which abound among them a smooth fawning flattering tongue and short hair and a deadly enmity against those that are called Quakers and others that oppose their wayes such a hypocrite is a fit man to be a member of any New England Church a plain demonstration of which thou maist see in their character of their Religion written in blood wherein all is not written that they have done and we have suffered by them but the chiefest heads are gathered together and presented to publike view that the simple may be informed and their cruelty and oppression laid open to the honest hearted and God glorified who hath counted us worthy to suffer for his names sake for whose sake we have been accounted as sheep for the slaughter and killed all the day long by the Butchers so that if thou should ask me who vvere the chief upholders of their Church and Religion I should answer their Goalor Hangman Governor and Deputy-Governor and not their Pastor and Teacher and Elder and Deacon for if they can well avoid it they care not for coming where we are unless it be when we are called before their Court to fasten some false accusation on us if they can the which-they have not spared and touching the matter aud manner of their vvorship it is most like the ridged Presbyters so called but a little differing from the late Bishops onely they use not their blind service and surp-cloaths but in stead of them have inventions of their own and in cruelty are nothing behind them for which God will take vengence on them

such dayes at Boston wherein they have taken occasion to blaspheme God belye his people transgress his Laws and limit his spirit and all this is done by you professors who were either banished men your selves or such as fled for a tender conscience sake or worse and he that provides for all that loves him provided and sound out this Land for you amongst whom there is a scattered seed from which you strive to limit his spirit by your unrighteous Laws from the gathering it home unto himself having forged and invented Laws contrary to God Christ and the Scriptures and thereby hath acted such things as is to be admired clear your selves as wel as you can And seeing they are grounded upon none of these three examine from whence they have their rise and from what ground seeing the Devil onely is the Author of all unrighteousness malice and lyes the three first lyes against us is That we are Cursed a Sect and Hereticks the fourth That we take it upon us that we are immediately sent of God and infallibly assisted by the spirit to speak and write blasphemous Opinions This a cursed and blasphemous lye against God to charge that which is infallible with blasphemous Opinions Seeing that there is no spirit infallible but God in the day wherein you are brought to give an account for every idle word you vvil wish that for this your tongues had cloven to the roof of your mouths Your fifth Despising Government your sixth and seventh the Order of God in Church and Common-Wealth Your eighth speaking evil of Dignities Your ninth and tenth reviling Magistrates and Ministers Your eleventh that we seek to turn people from the faith Your twelfth and thirteenth That our Wayes are pernicious and seeking to make proselytes Your fourteenth That we have wrought mischief in our native Land Your fifteenth That it is usual with us to revile c. Surely you are bent to do evil or otherwise you would never utter such untruths as these I can truly and safely say it That upon the same spirit that forged these fifteen lyes have you published a Law to limit the spirit of God from coming within your coasts by threatnings and fines upon such as shall convey any of these persons wherein the Spirit of God speaks Examine from whence you have this Law to lay on and levie Fines I am sure neither the Spirit of truth nor the Scriptures is your rule for this also such a Clause you have in it that if any bring us unadvisedly if they will but break the doctrine of Christ by taking of an Oath shall be freed from such things as are therein mentioned And finding your Law grounded upon fifteen falshoods I shall mention no more òf your matter then I must needs but seeing this inveterate hatred that this Spirit of yours hath in it which gives forth threatnings in no less words then Fines and Banishment against such as speaks or continues speaking in the behalf of the truth of God for none there is besides it I say ought you not to leave the banishing of them to him who gave you and them the Land Is not their right as good as yours beware of this banishing will you go and fight still against God who hath given this Land as a lot unto the banished that so through the scattered seed he might raise up a people to his praise and seeing I have charged upon your account Fifteen untruths at the fewest in a small Paper which things I shall make good through the assistance of God so to be upon these grounds following that as I am drawn through the power and Spirit of God to come into your Pattent that I may be admitted peaceably with my friend or friends to have a publike meeting both with your Magistrates and them you call your Ministers with the people and time and place appointed where all may freely come and all have liberty to speak unto whom the Word is revealed one by one that all may hear and all may be comforted without interruption or ensnaring And if this you deny you are not worthy to bear these Names much less the Offices and if this you will be so noble as to grant let me have it under thy hand Iohn Indicot with any one or two of thy Assistants directed unto Nicholas Easton on Road-Island for to be delivered to the hands of Humphrey Norton Be well advised and this doe for thou art not sensible what good it may may bring forth and if this you deny I can do no less then publish it for the clearing of the truth of God from falshoods and lyes which are come forth in Print against the innocent who acknowledg both the Father and the Son as in due time the Lord God will make it manifest amongst you to the shame of his enemies Road Island the seventh of the ninth moneth 1657. On the last day of the sixt Moneth 1657. they wickedly and shamelesly began to execute this Law on an innocent and harmless woman as plainly appears by the ensuing lines Mary Clark a modest and an innocent woman who feared God with all her houshold left her husband and family to go on the Lords errand to the town of Boston in new-New-England the burden of his word lying so sore upon her that she regarded not what sufferings she sustained so that according to his will she was discharged from under it who repairing thitherwards to do the will of him that sent her About the 29 of the sixt moneth 1657. was betrayed by Judas the son of perdition a Member of their Church who informed them of her coming who shortly after apprehended her delivering her over to the Tormentors impowring them barbarously to abuse her body with about twenty merciless stripes with a threefold cord which being unfolded amounts to sixty such being the Seals of their cursed Covenant and one of the Articles of their Faith Also to add unto her sufferings and to make the cup more cruel they continued her in prison above 12. weeks all which she did patiently bear not regarding the coldness of the season her innocency preaching condemnation to her adversaries and for her faithfulness herein the Lord God is her reward Again two of the Servants of God being moved by him to go to Salem a town in Boston Colonie to seek the Son of peace who suffered in many for want of Information where the true path lies that leads to his dwelling place these two Pilgrims having obtained mercy from God and being baptized into his Covenant Christ Jesus preached freely unto them the things that they had seen and heard and their hands had handled which as an engrafted word took place in them such as never can be rooted out so that their hearers in short time became their fellow sufferers as hereafter you will understand Satan finding that his head was hurt set forth his Priests and Rulers with their Officers to pursue these Messengers of the