came to the Princess's Court and desired liberty to speak with her she who was full of humanity and gentleness and never disdained any tho never so mean and unequal to her Condition that desired to apply themselves unto her admits and hears them with chearful and favourable Countenance being especially pleased with Isabells Discourse who indeed had a curious voice and a freer way of delivering her self and having heard what they had to say dismist them with a short and pithy answer and having afterward opened and read Fox's Epistle She takes care to deliver unto them her own Letter writ in the Language he had done to wit English that they might give it to Fox which Letter was to this effect Dear Friend I cannot chuse but tenderly Love all those that Love the Lord Jesus Christ and who not only believe in him but also suffer for his Sake wherefore I was mightily pleased with the Letter which you sent me and your Friends that visited me I shall pursue the Advice both of the one and of the other as far as God shall grant me his â—ight and Motion and in the mean time remain Your Loving Friend Elizabeth And about this time William Penn being on his German Expedition together with his other Friends directs his Course to this Princess and that I may not multiply many words Preach'd twice in the Princesses Inner-Chamber there being some few of the Towns-men present concerning the Vanity and Rejection of Earthly Things and the Elevation of the Mind to higher Speculations and did so far prevail by his polite Eloquence and Approbation of the Auditors that the Princess declared that she had been always intent upon the Duty Penn spoke off and did not yet cease to go on the same Work and Duty with which answer those Men departed And because that the attempt of these Quakers in their Opinions had hitherto met with no bad success in this part of Germany the same Men egg'd on with the same hope go into Holsatia and the parts adjacent There were yet in these parts amongst the Mennonites or Anabaptists who were few a small number still remaining and lurking here of those Sectaries wherewith Germany in the preceeding Age had been plagued being those who sprung up from the School or rather Stall and Hog-sty of David George not from the Family of Love as they called it and such scum and off-scourings as these and who still retained their foolish and vain Imaginations and according to their vain and vile Inventions and Examples united together and entred into a Fraternity more feignedly then truly and really Now these itinerant Quakers found some of these Men at Hamburg which is the most famous City of Holsatia as also at Fredricburg a place upon the Eyder and frequented and partly inhabited by the Arminians and Remonstrants of our Country who looking upon these Men to come up very near to their Opinions Tenets and Ways and so begin of their own accord prepared and fitted thereunto they did easily fall in with them though there were also some that were not of this Sect but intensly addicted to the Mennonites who now associated together and applied themselves with all their might and main to maintain the Assertors of the Quaker's Doctrines All these that lurked among the Anabaptist and even others also tho' they were like unto them and followed their ways still in many things were always suffered upon the account of their Ignorance and supposed Innocence to live quietly untill that about two years before the Mayor of the City of Fredricburg then newly created and that he himself might do somewhat new and make himself to be taken notice of began to disturb the Peace of these Quakers that had hitherto been left alone and to create them some Molestation and Trouble Which when the Remonstrants of Amsterdam came to understand and particularly Ph. Limburg their Pastor and worthy Professor and being careful of the Safety of those Men and concerned to maintain the esteem of their own Religion urge least that now all Men both good and bad should say they were become other sort of Persons and cruel whom most Men looked upon always remote from all manner of Persecution that they should Revoke their Proceedings against those Men and intercede for the continuation of their Liberty that had been hitherto unviolable and entirely respite them and cease their Persecution Fox Travels from Holland through the Countries of Friesland and Aldenburg to go to these Men taking more Consolation with his Friends than doing any good to others Those fame Itinerants and Emissaries of whom I have made mention before went forwards and came to Regal Prussia as far as the Baltick Sea where at Dantzick a very few also of the remainder of those old Fanaticks and of the Mennonites Men who could discern little what belonged to Religion or was to be pursued therein and poor who could scarce by their daily and hard labour get daily sustenance applied themselves to them and fell in with their Doctrine and Counsels These Men from this time forwards have been continually harrassed by the Lutherans in whose Hands the Supream Power and Magistracy is and heavily Fined and Imprisoned Wherefore G. Fox did upon their behalf as being his Friends Brethren and Equals in the year 1677 send a Letter to John III. King of Poland and intercedes with him thereby for a Tolleration for them concerning which Epistle which Fox took care should be published in his long Diary after his Death this is worthy to be noted That at first it was written in England in the English Tongue then sent into Holland and there Translated into the German Language and lastly sent from thence and delivered to the King The substance whereof was this That it was a most equitable and righteous thing that all Kings Princes and Magistrates should grant Liberty of Conscience to all their Subjects and by no means disturb nor obstruct their Assemblies and Divine Exercises He set forth that this was the judgment of the Fathers and ancient Doctors of the Church as also the modern ones and even the Learned Men of the present time we live in And that many Kings and Princes had Indulged this Grace and Favour to their People and for that reason were highly worthy of Praise and were really extolled by worthy honest and wise Men He also collected and pick'd out several Sayings and Sentences turned out of Greek Latin French and other Languages as also Examples and Precepts found in Histories to press this matter more upon him But this Epistle was so written that it look'd and represented not the Work and Sentiment only of one single Person but of many and seemed to take in the Complicated Sence and Advice of the whole Society of the Quakers Yet this Letter had the name of George Fox only subscribed to it and that without any other Mark and Designation of Persons or Authority so that Fox though a most-illiterate
Brethren that are in Prisons Bridewels and Iron Chains beaten severely by merciless Officers fined and punished to Death and dying in their Imprisonments seeing that now many of them lie sick lying upon Straw we give up our selves and ours unto you that you may shut up us like Sheep in the Prisons Bridewels Litter and Sinks of those our Brethren and we are ready as so many Sacrifices to go into their places out of the Love which we bear unto them for we cannot choose but be ready to lay down our Lives for our Brethren and take those Torments upon our selves which you have prepared for them neither can we when our Brethren suffer choose but feel our selves the same thing even as Christ has said he suffered and was afflicted and this indeed is our Love towards God and Christ and our Brethren which we owe both to them and to our Enemies who are also the lovers of your Souls and of your Eternal Salvation and if ye will take our Bodies which we offer for our Brethren who are Imprisoned because they have preached the Truth in many places refused to pay Tythes met together in the fear of God have not sworn stood with their Hats on because they have been looked upon as Vagabonds when they have gone to visit their Friends and such like we whose Names are under written wait for your Answer in the great Hall of Westminster to the end we may be satisfied in this our desire and manifest our Love to our Friends and remove the Judgment and Vengeance that hangs over our Enemies The Parliament did indeed reject this Petition but seeing these Men were affected with so much Pity and Concern for the Miseries of their Friends and that they themselves were so nearly touched with a sense of so many Evils and Miseries it had this further Effect that other Men seeing such great Affection of Heart between them and so great Courage and Constancy in bearing any Miseries they began to judge more favourably of them and many daily joyned themselves to their Society and Community Moreover what these Petitioners and Deprecators of these Miseries and Dangers complained of in this their Humble Petition to the Parliament as also in that mentioned a little before concerning their Brethren that there was so many of them shut up in Prisons and that some of them were so severely and hardly used some perished under the weight and pressure of their Afflictions was so true that there was scarce any Common Gaol or such like places wherein Felons and Criminals were kept which could not very manifestly bear Testimony to the Complaints of these Men. Now for the remainder of the Year Sixty until King Charles the Second his Coming in these Men had no better Fortune for during that time the Soldiers in many Countries following the heels of their Commanders break into the Houses of these Men whilst they kept their Meetings and drive them out with Muskets and Swords in some places discharging their Muskets upon them and wounding them or struck them with their Hands and kicked them or pulled them by the hair of the Head and sometimes after they had haled them out of their Houses drove them into the Water Sometimes the Soldiers came alone and being asked by whose Command they came and what Authority they had And answering That their Warrant was in their Pockets they fell upon them and did them violence ransacked all things or took them away and turned them to their own Use though many times it was but little that these Burglars and Sharers carryed away though they did not only not spare the Houshold Goods of the richer sort but also seized upon whatever they had in their Possession of other things seeing they had mostly nothing of their own but what was necessary for daily use for the support of their Bodies The Students in the University of Cambridge had not yet sufficiently insulted over and exercised their Rage against the Quakers they therefore at this time reassumed their former Licentiousness Wantonness and Impudence and did not alone but accompanied with the Populacy and meaner sort of People that are ready for all audacious facinorous and vile doings several times but more especially thrice break into the Quakers Meeting and Assault them after they had broke the Locks and Doors with great Hammers and break all things with their Hands and Feet to pieces frighten some of the Men away use others basely and throw Dirt and such like filth in their Faces beat others with sticks tear their Cloaths prick and wound them with Knives till the Blood gushed out others they haled cruelly by the hair of the Head and having so done let them down and soaked them in Ditches and the Kennels of the Streets neither did they spare any of them had no regard to any Age nor Sex nor Degrees of Men for when an Alderman came to them the second time they were engaged in this Work to hinder them to proceed they thrust him into the Water-course of the City and abused not the Man only but the Dignity also and so the last time when some of the Justices of the Peace disswaded them from such Practices in the King's Name because the King some days before had been Proclaimed publickly and that others also stood by and urged them to desist they for all that go on There were besides at this time also many of these Men by the Magistrates Command haled from the Conventicles and shut up in Prisons whipped and sent into Banishment as wicked Men and Vagabonds from which People they thought their present Danger might arise In the mean time the Soldiers which were thus placed every where in Garrison or wandered up and down the Country that the Quakers could reside no where but as it were within their Camps did so Ravage these Men at their pleasure that no Person nor House nor Goods could be safe nothing so well fortified and defended that was not exposed to their Fury and became a Prey to their Rage And the Quakers made no less Complaint of the Officers than they did of the Soldiers because they did not restrain their Insolence and punish them for their Wickedness but they did more especially complain of General Lambert whom they said was a great Enemy to their Sect. Which Person however some Years after when we went to visit in the Company of an Honourable Person being then kept a Prisoner in a certain Castle in the County of Devon we found he was not so averse to the Sect of the Quakers and such sort of Men. All sorts of Men both learned and unlearned had to this time written and published Books and Pamphlets against the Quakers all these which were an Hundred and Fifteen in all Fox in the Year Fifty Nine gathered together and digested in Order into one Book and did partly refute them and scoffed at the rest as being some of them not written in any serious manner At
on the other hand pay'd the greatest respect and reverence to them imaginable who was thus become the disgrace of his family for ever and the reproach of all his kindred and express'd his violent and severe resentment both in words and deeds and when after all he saw it impossible to reclaim him he discharg'd him his house threatning to disinherit him Unto this his fathers anger were added the reproaches revilings and enmity of his fathers Domesticks and his ancient Companions both at Court and else where with whom he was Educated and had Convers'd much before and also of the Ecclesiasticks who formerly render'd him all manner of Love and Friendship Unto all which disadvantages Penn oppos'd this one remedy the integrity of his Life as opposite to the ill reports that were scattered abroad of him and the constancy of his mind and body to counterballance that weight of afflictions that surrounded him And by these two properties he brought his affairs to that pass that his father not only receiv'd him into favour again and became as fond of and kind to him as ever he had been disgusted at him comforting and refreshing his afflicted and humbled Son but also in his Will left him heir of all his Riches and Enjoyments encouraging and commending his singular piety and fortitude of mind exhorting him to persist in the same Moreover when the father observ'd what heaps of envy and hatred his Son had drawn upon himself what evils were yet impending upon him and what difficulties he might come to grapple with he when lying upon a bed of sickness and looking for certain death sent to the Duke of York High Admiral who as Penn was by place next to him was in dignity next to the King himself and if he surviv'd his brother would undoubtedly succeed him since destitute of a lawful off-spring he sends I say some of his Friends to this Duke to desire of him in his Name that he would recommend his Son to his brother the King and that he himself would preserve and defend him who had already suffer'd so much from what persecutions and oppressions might attend him and unto which both he and all the train of his Associates were so subject to Which both the Duke and his Royal Brother the King granted him because of his great merits towards his Country tho they could not so defend his Son always as to prevent his Imprisonment at sometimes But it is not here to be omitted that Penn the father lying upon his Death-bed and when drawing near to his last exit which he certainly knew to approach took leave of his Son in these his last words My Son remember to serve God the Omnipotent King so constantly and to prefer the same to the service of Earthly Kings and all things besides Which if ye do and if you and your Friends persevere in your simple and innocent way of preaching and living verily ye shall make an end of all the preachers to the end of the World Which words of the dying old Man do not obscurely insinuate what his opinion was of these Men and how great affection he had for their sect Now as to what was the Wit and Spirit of William Penn the son from his youth what promptness and dexterity of discoursing attended the acuteness of his wit what knowledge of Tongues such as are usual among the Learned and of things what Temper and Conversation of life he was of I had rather the Quakers or any body else should give you an account than I. For I know well how difficult and troublesome it is for any Man to interpose his Judgment of a matter in which the Judgments of other Men are so various But certainly tho my pen were silent of him his own Writings will speak him forth to be the most eminent member of all that Society for while in his Writings he studies to Accommodate all to the capacity and understanding of the Vulgar yet the variety and abundance of things therein contain'd his language and style especially the gravity of words and sentences which when he writes of Theological subjects are connected and intermix'd with whole chains of quotations from the Holy Scriptures do so evidently testify of him that unless one be malitiously envious of the vertue and praise of another he must acknowledge that he is an eloquent and well spoken Author The Quakers fed themselves with so great hopes of him that presently they allow'd him to do the part of a teacher among them and their esteem of him was so great that they did not doubt to call him the perfectest of them all Nor is there any among them who do's not acknowledge that there was always an exact consension and agreement betwixt him and all the rest of the Quakers about all the Articles of their Religion This was singular in him that he always esteem'd more slightly of these things which pertain to the knowledge and speculation of sacred and divine matters and chiefly oppos'd himself to the forcing and constraining Mens Consciences to any Religion or persecuting them upon a religious account than which indeed there can be no greater cruelty and oppression us'd pleading for a toleration and liberty to all Religions so that he would not only have the Quakers tolerated the exercise of their Religion but likewise all Men at least that are accounted Christians to be admitted to places of Authority and trust in the Government not excepting the Socinians with their wanton little tricks nay nor the Papists a people so inveterate against that his Religion and all other Religions different from their own so bloody cruel and thirsty of Christian blood that when they have exerted their utmost and cruellest efforts are yet never satiated And Penn was so sensible of the ill demerits of these Men and so well acquainted with their temper that he us'd to say That the Quakers had reason to fear none so much as the Socinians and Papists who would be last of all in the field against them tho they had vanquish'd all other Religions It seems Penn had a design to shew himself an Abettor of all Religions whatsoever or to encourage that opinion of him which then possess'd every Mans mind that he was deceitful and in his heart a Socinian or as others believ'd that he was a Papist and not only so but a Jesuit The Quakers did not agree with Penn about these Libertine Principles His notions of the Christian faith was that in order to the maintaining of that there was no more necessary than in general to believe the Scriptures and love them as the word of God and believe all the fundamental Articles contain'd in the same By these fundamental Articles a term much in use among Divines he understood such propositions as are expresly and in explicite terms deliver'd in the Scriptures or so evidently attested by them that all Men who are honest and sincere-minded cannot but discern and comprehend the meaning of
faithful account how the whole matter was manag'd Thus the Quakers were remitted to Goal and more Barbarously treated by the Keepers them formerly there being no Room left for Prayer or price to obtain the least bodily Convenience The Quakers not being fully content to have these affairs known only to those of their own City did in many writings publish and divulge 'em to the Perusal and Remembrance of the rest of the Nation About this time many Quakers at London for not forbearing their publick Meetings and refusing to pay the sines they ow'd on that score were thrown into Prison and forc'd there to remain In the mean time the sharping crew of Informers took away their goods wheresoever they could light on 'em not according to the summ was laid on but as they pleas'd to value them which was at little enough Among the Prisoners there were two Quaker Preachers W. Bringly and Fr. Stamper from the latter was taken 49 lib. ster and more At Wortham in Suffolk Jo. Bishop a Countreyman owed the Parish Minister 8 lib. for two years Tythes which when he did not pay the Minister got out a Judgment for 76 lib. to be Levy'd out of his Horses Sheep Cows and Oxen. While the Kingdom was in this State toss'd with the storms of Persecution and trouble King Cha. II. dyed and Ja. the D. of York succeeded in his stead The 7th of that Name In the year 1685 being install'd into the Throne the first thing he Levelled the force of his desires at was the Introducing and advancing the Popish Religion that he might open the way for and abate the envy of others against it he granted a Common Priviledge to all to exercise their Religion according to their pleasures all being tickled with the specious Allurement that were formerly hated because of their perswasion ran as it were upon the first Allarum to Congratulate by their special and particular Addresses the tenderness of his Majesties grace and favour and throw themselves into his Protection and Patronage The Quakers also all tho less Courtly and more rustick in a certain writing very Civil and Complaisant emitted by the order of a General Meeting gave him thanks and gratefully laid hold of his Benevolence About that time were detain'd in the Prisons of England 1460 Quakers these all by the coming out of the Kings Edict had Liberty to go out and live as they pleased and afterward when 200 and more were thrown into Prison In the year following they had the same impunity and liberty Moreover that the King might avoid all suspicion of severity and attain the Popular praise of Benignity he gave in charge to his Courtiers and Servants that none of 'em should dare to trouble a Quaker tho he stood or pass'd by the King without being discovered Nay more he us'd sometimes to come to them when he knew they desir'd to see and speak with him finding them asham'd or affraid to approach he prevented and Anticipated the subject of their desire A thing seldom to be met with in the Court It was pleasant and facetious when a certain Quaker drew nigh to the King who tho the Quaker was covered yet discovered himself he desir'd the King not to do it but was answer'd wherever there is the person of a King there must of neceâ—â—ty always one be discovered Thus the King was ingraciated into the Quakers favours having extraordinarily kindled their Love and Affection Yet some thought their reason was therefore bestow'd that they might be so wise as to look further then they cou'd see with their Eyes did not prize the Kings bounty and facility so highly putting a great difference betwixt the effect of a free and unbyass'd Inclination and Product of a self-seeking Contrivance and Design and knowing the measure of the Kings endeavour took all his indulgence as an ill Omen and sign of a storm to follow a Clam W. Penn was greatly in favour with the K. the Quakers sole Paâ—ron at Court on whom the hateful Eyes of his Enemies were intent the K. loved him as a singular and intire Friend and imparted to him many of his Secrets and Counsels The K. often honour'd him with his audience in private discoursing with him of various affairs and that not for one but many hours together delaying to hear the best of his peers who at the same time were attending in the presence Chamber or some other nigh by to meet with the King One of 'em being envious and impatient of delay taking it as an affront to see Penn more regarded then he adventur'd to take the freedom to tell the K. that when he met with Penn he regarded not his Nobility The K. made no other Answer then that Penn talk'd Ingeniously and he heard him willingly Penn being so highly favour'd by the K. acquir'd thereby a Number of Friends These also that formerly were e're acquainted with him when they had any thing to be done or desired of the K. came to Courted and Intreated Penn to promote their business by his favour with the K. He was especially thus importun'd by the Quakers Penn refus'd none of his friends any Office he cou'd do for any of 'em with the K. but was principally ready to serve the Quakers especially wherever their Religion was concern'd It 's usually thought when you do me one favour readily you thereby encourage me to expect a second Thus they run to Penn without Intermission as their alone Pillar and Support who always caress'd and received 'em cheerfully and effected their business by his Interest and Eloquence Hence his house and Gates were daily throng'd by a Numerous train of Clients and Suppliants desiring him to present their addresses to his Majesty There were sometimes there 200 and more When the carrying on these affairs required expences at Court for Writings and drawing out of things into Acts Coppyings Fees and other Moneys which are due or at least are usually payed Penn so discreetly managed matters that out of his own which he had in abundance he liberally discharged all emergent expences Tho he did thus yet could he not decline the virulent Lashes of Malicious Tongnes and these of the lower as well as the higher sort which came to his Ears but did not much affect him that he was not so Active in his friends concerns so much from the freedom of a willing Inclination as the Mercenary expectation of profit and advantage that all that confluence of People that Courted him and Industrious Administration of their affairs was not for nothing if it were put to the Test but rewarded with more then what was expended This reproach Penn only repuls'd with some by silence the best avenger of Calumny But with the King who was desirous to know what truth was in it he so cleared and acquitted himself that he judg'd him not only Blameless but them also tardy who had the vanity to think or folly to assert Penn to be guilty of such Malicious
Coleman Mary Tomkins and Alide Ambrose women of greater Age than Extract came into Dâ—ver These were dragg'd hence through Eleven other places in the middle of a Cold and Snowy Winter receiving at each of 'em ten lashes on their naked body and were so cut with the stripes that scarce a Breast was left ' em Yet they remain'd so constant and resolute that they went back to the same Town to a Meeting with their friends Upon this 2 Brethren call'd Ruperts Sons of a Quaker dragg'd the women out of the Meeting through the Snow and Clay turning their very faces to the Earth and the day following brought 'em thus daub'd along to the shore remaining unmov'd at all their intreaties drew them headlong through the waters into a little Cannoe committing them and it to the Sea But a vehement storm suddenly rising the poor women were taken out of the Boat by some that had more tenderness than they that put them in Tho they now were stiff their Cloaths being frozen and almost dead with intolerable cold they bring 'em far from the Sea to the house whence they came and after a little refreshment drive them away from thence Yet the women were so hardy and inur'd to Afflictions that they often return'd even where they suffer'd such things The Quakers complain that many of 'em were branded as if they had been the Dreggs and Off-scourings of Men whom all good Men must needs be Enemies to and on that score were rob'd of all Liberty and Privilege as Ignominious persons who 're allow'd no Action or Complaint Yet they say there were some for many years who had their habitation and residence there In process of time the Kings Authority who knew not their trouble more and more prevail'd and their Number Resolution and Constancy in overcoming by suffering all punishments the Law cou'd inflict the Judgments against 'em began to cease and their Impunity and Liberty to increase In the mean time the Quakers that cou'd not stay here withdrew themselves to the Island of Rhodes which is so opposite to and separated from the Continent that it became a refuge and sanctuary for them And the more suited to this purpose because the Governour thereof was a Quaker William Coddington whom I mention'd before He was one of the chief Planters that came hither to traffick He had a house so large and fine at Boston before it had receiv'd that Name that afterward it prov'd an Ornament to the City He also shar'd in the Magistracy some time But when the persecution of Quakers arose he disapprov'd of the Magistrates proceedings so much that he exhorted 'em all to refrain from their Cruelty against the Quakers they therefore treated him as they wou'd have done them He departed thence into this Island where he had not only liberty to act and say what he pleas'd but was also made Governour of the whole Island But before I altogether leave New England I must touch at New-Holland bordering upon it lest a longer narrative prove troublesome to the Reader Dutchman for the most part were Inhabitants there In trafficking the Dutch having commerce with the English they came and stay'd mutually with each other thus some of the Quakers found the way also hither more with a design to Propagate their Religion than a desire either of buying or selling 'T is a custom among the States not to be Solicitous of these whom they give command of other places to concerning Mens following believing or asserting in their Religion whatever their Conscience prompts 'em unto providing they don't oppose the supream Authority or act contrary to the publick Tranquillity At this rate the Rulers of that Countrey behav'd themselves maintaining their Dignity ' mongst Quakers and others and preserving the publick peace committed to their Charge Of this moderation these are 2 instances The chief City in New-Holland is call'd New-Amsterdam from the Metropolis of Holland of the same Name Two Mile from hence is a Village call'd Hemsteed This Village was a territory of our Colony but for the most part peopl'd with English Inhabitants of those a few that formerly were Brownists or puritans fell off from their own party to the Quakers having their Meetings and Religious exercises together And these things so long as Cantiously and Privately done our Magistrates did not so much take notice of or punish as they did when they did not use so much Moderation and Caution and we find too much liberty would tend to the seduction of others An instance of this for a Tenour to others was shewn in one Rob. Hodson who was arriv'd at such a pitch of boldness as he induc'd several of his own Sect to meet together for solemn prayers not secretly but abroad in an open Garden The news therefore of this so famous an assembly being brought to those who had it not been for this rash and provoking proceeding of theirs would easily have let them alone they all ran in upon them and taking Hodson upon whom besides a Bible in his hand they found a Dagger in his Bosom and since that seem'd to be a Weapon more sit for Offence than Defence they ty'd his hands and carried him to New-Amsterdam to the Governour Stuyvesand He taking the Man for a Contemner of the Laws and Disturber of the publick Peace caus'd him to be cast into a dark place full of Filth and Dirt and soon after Arraigns him for sedition and by the suffrages of all the Magistrates pronounces sentence upon him in Dutch which because he did not understand one Translated it to him into English that either he should pay a fine of 600 Florens or be cloth'd in Sackcloth and Chain'd and ty'd with a Barbarous slave should work for two years upon the Reparations of the City Walls Which work when he was brought to and refus'd to do a lusty crabbed Negro slave laid on him 50 lashes with a Cat with nine Tailes and when for all that he would not set himself to work he redoubled his blows and that to such a Degree as he was not able to stand on his Legs And because all this while he would not do as he was Commanded at last the Governour order'd him this punishment They stript him naked to the waste and then hanged him up by the hands and ty'd a great Logg of Wood to his feet and beat him severely with whips and so carry'd him from the Court to the Prison from whence he came The same they serv'd him 2 years after With these stripes the poor Man was so disabled that he lay along while without sense and almost without life so that there had been small hopes of his ever recovering if an English woman mov'd with a pious grief and pity had not Administred proper Medicines to him and binding up his Wounds restor'd him to life again At last the Governours Sister so pleaded his cause with her Brother as procur'd his Enlargement from his dismal Solitude This