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B09874 A representation to King and Parliament, of some of the unparralleld sufferings of the people of the Lord called Quakers, in New England together with the remarkable judgments of God upon sundry of their persecutors. 1669 (1669) Wing R1109A; ESTC R224335 6,543 1

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A Representation to King and Parliament of some of the Unparralleld Sufferings of the People of the Lord called Quakers in new-New-England Together with the Remarkable Judgments of God upon sundry of their Persecutors IN these few Lines O KING Thou and thy Parliament may see the continued Sufferings of thy faithful and loving Subjects under the cruel and bloody hands of the Priests and Rulers in new-New-England who in the dayes of O. C. the time of thy Suffering as if countenanced and Commissionated by him did for divers years most barbarously spoil and ruine the Goods of thy Innocent Subjects there halling them out of their Habitations to Prison far from their Families and little Ones cruelly torturing their Bodies with Whipps and pitched Ropes and locking up neck and heels in Irons many hours with famishings near unto death being without pitty to the aged Parents or to their helpless Children Chaining to a Log of Timber Night and Day a long and very cold Winter dragging Men along by the hair of their Heads and the tender Women as they were on their knees in Prayer dragg'd out of the House by the hands with their faces towards the Earth over Stumps and old Trees through very deep frost and snow to Prison near a Mile and causing the Innocent to be hanged up naked by the hands with a logg hanged to the feet and the body cruelly beaten by the hands of a strong Negro with Cords one burned in the Hand and in his Mouth bound a great Key others their Ears part cut off together with Banishing Fathers Mothers and Children and offering to send their little Ones thousands of miles from their Native Country and Fathers House to be sold for Servants or Bond-slaves and last of all in the height of the spirit of the wicked one the spirit of madness blindness blood and murther they spared not but cruelly put to death the Servants of the Living God And now O King since the very day the Lord brought thee into this Land again and gave unto thee thy Regal Power have they in thy Name made strange and cruel havock of thy true Subjects in putting to Death and Banishing and in thy Name with many torturing Whippings of Old and Young at Posts and at wheels of great Guns and at Carts Tails dragging the naked Bodies of Parents and Children through divers long Towns through the dirt filth of their Chanels and Cart-ways and in thy Name commanding one Friend and Brother to help Imprison the other yea in thy Name they have lately prest the Son to help to force his tender Father and Mother to Goal sundry miles in the extremity of Winter season to the hazzard of their Lives and such as refused to obey their Unnatural and Abominable Commands they have fined at their Courts and thus from Court to Court do these Monsters of Men in thy Name Fine and break open the Houses of the Quakers and Rob them of their Goods and take away that they should eat in and that they should drink in yea the very Cloathes from their Backs in Winter and the Bed they should lye on while they keep the Body sundry miles off in Prison driving Husbands Wives divers miles for Prison in times of great Frost and Snow keeping them close Prisoners in a very cold Room to the endangering of their Lives and to the ruine of their Families had not the Lord preserved All this and much more too tedious to mention at this time have they done to the servants of the Lord in New-England in thy Name saying that Thou ownest their doings and esteemest their Laws as thy Laws And these hard things have the Servants of the Lord patiently suffered and sustained at their hands for no other cause but for their faithful obedience to the Spirit of the Lord in their hearts which Spirit of Holiness teacheth them That Forced Worships and Worshippers are both Abomination to the Lord. These few Lines are written not from any desire of the least Revenge from thy hand upon them but that thou mayest know it and make known thy dislike of their wickedness that so the blood of the Innocent there if possible might not be laid to your charge in the terrible Day of the Lord in which both High and Low must come to Judgement and receive according to their Deeds done in the Body in which day the Lord will make known in the sight of all his Enemies his mighty Power for the saving of his beloved Ones and for the delivering and helping of them who had no helper in the Earth A Brief Relation of the Eminent Hand and Judgments of the Lord upon some of the Rulers Priests and People of New-England who were of them that Persecuted the People of the Lord called Quakers there OLD John Endicot Governour that Nero-like unjust Judge of the Innocent who in his mad Nebuchadnezzar-like spirit threatned and endeavoured to weary out and to destroy the Servants of the Most High and to root out their very Name from amongst them He with his Hangman that Murderer who together had imbrued their hands in the blood of the Innocent Lambs of the Living God were both by the hands of the Lord hewed down at one time laid on their death-beds so that some did say Who would have thought the Head and Tail should go so near together So the Lord cut down Endicot Root and Branch and his Hangman it s said died in great horror of Mind and torment of Body And this is according to the Word of the Lord fore-spoken by the mouth of his Servants concerning them Another Eminent Persecutor who had a hand in Judging and Murthering of the Innocent Humphery Atherton their Major General who sitting to Judge the Just he and his Brethren having sent out Mary Dyer to be murdered and tydings being brought to the Bench that she was turned off the Gallows he said to the servants of the Lord Prisoners at the Bar That Mistress Dyer did hang for a Flag for them to take warning by and that the Quakers did often tell them That the Judgements of the Lord would come upon them but the Judgements of the Lord are not come upon us yet But the Just Hand of the Lord met with him in his Jollity and Pomp as he was riding home from his Play-fellows in Boston and near the Place where they used to finish their Journey in Whipping and dragging the Quakers at a Carts-tail out of Boston his Horse gave him such a deadly throw that it 's said He never spake word after his fall but his Eyes swelled as started out of his Head and as it were Blood and Brains came out of his Nostrils and Ears and his Tongue in a gastly manner hanging out of his mouth A Flagg indeed was he for Blood-guilty Men to be warned by according to the word of the Lord fore-told by the mouth of his Servants John Danford a Member of their Church and Captain of their