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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

expecting their prey John Norton Priest being then present and speaking yet opened they not the●r mouths until he had done although the burden of the Word vvas much upon them then opened S●rah Gibb●n● her mouth saying the Bu●den of the Word of the Lord to the Inhabitants of Bo●●on because of your pr●de and oppression the land mourns in speaking o● which words the Serjeant laid hands upon her and pulled her down was this a noble Act did he herein shevv forth the spirit of a man Sure I am that a man of a noble spirit vvould condemn it and a man of valour or vvorth vvould be ashamed of such a man then D●ro●●y Waugh spake bidding them Fear God and give glory to his Name c. Several other vvords were uttered as they past out of their Synagogue in their way to Prison multitudes following them vvhere they two were shut up in a close room not being suffered to have food for their money And requiring it of the Jaylor he answered That if vve vvould not eat the prison food vve should famish and then he brought both food and vvork and laid before them but the Lord put a stop to it that they could not meddle with neither knowing the wickedness of their wills against which they were called to stand Witnesses but the jaylor vvould not suffer them to have any for eight days together but said they should leave their carcasses behind them mark this expression yet the Lord preserved them and he found a liar Upon the first of the third moneth they were called to be examined before John Indicot Governor and Ric●ard Bell●●gham Deputie Governour and several others vvho wickedly seeking to ensnare them examined them apart yet were they preserved in boldness and courage and carried forth in the manner following Sarah Gibbins John Indico● asked me if I had not been in those parts before Answe● It is known already vvhether I was yea or nay he asked me again hovv long I had been in their Colonie I told him it was in my breast how long but it is like I shall not tell thee he said he vvould make me tell him before we had done I asked him why he sought to ensnare me and my friends that had entertained me seeing you have made such a Law to oppress them vvhereby to take away their goods for so doing to hold up your oppression and the Governour asked us whether we owned Christ yea or nay Answ Yea He said D● you own him with a humane body sitting at the right hand of God in heaven Ans We own no other Christ then he that sits in heaven at the right hand of the Father Then Rich. Bellingham Deputie Governour asked us If there is a God Answ Yes there is a God which is righteous true and just in judgment which will render vengeance on all the workers of iniquity and your actions are recorded before him as with a pen of Iron and a point of a Diamond for the cry of the oppressed is entred into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbaths then like a man of unclean lips and not one that is fit to sit in the seat of justice told me I was a Witch and said I spake I knew not what Answ I have learned Christ so as to pass through good and evill report then he asked me if I was the light which we so often spake of Answ I bear witness of Christ the light which lighteth every ma●● that cometh into the world as saith the Scripture he pressed much on me saying was I the light yea or nay but he was shut out with all his subtilty John Indicot asked us Why we came to disturb them in the face of both Town and Country Answ Did we disturb or did you make the disturbance in searching and rifling houses six days before we came Did not fear surprize the Hypocrites if you were of the elect and elected and we deceivers it is impossible that the elect should be deceived you should have let us been tryed the other day in your meeting before the Town and Country that the deceivers might have been made● manifest and truth cleared to the simple Then John Indicot said he did not send for me to dispute with me but said how came you by your Learning by revelation Answ Not by the will of man then I demanded of him if it were justice or equity we should be kept and not suffered to have food for our money this being the third day we have been thus kept and have not eaten one morsel of bread you may all see that God is with us and that we came well into this Town several hundreds can witness and if we perish our blood will fall heavy upon you which are the cause of it Then ●●hu Indicot said it matters not but if you will work you shall want for nothing then I told him that he had taken me from the work that the Lord called me unto then he said the Lords work the devils work and called to the Caolor to take me away the sentence being past upon us both to be severely whipt and not spared the second day of the week following they executed their malice upon us ten stripes a piece cruelly laid on with a threefold cord having knots at ends for causing it to tare the flesh so to torment the creature which being done we were moved to praise God for his presence at which the people was astonished after which vve vvas shut up and the windows stopt whereby to prevent us from the aire and all manner of refreshment so continued us for the want of paying of fees certain days in vvhich time God wrought their deliverance by one Robert Westcot of Warvvick in the Collony of Road-Iland Also Horred Gardiner a mother of many children and an inhabitant in Newport upon Road-Iland being moved by the measure of God to go on his message unto Weymouth took with her the youngest babe that fed upon her brest such a journey that no flesh that had looked upon it with the fleshly eye could have expected considering her condition she could have accomplished but her faith was made strong through weakness and according to the will of God finished her testimony at Weymouth in Boston Collony where the witness in the people answered unto her words but the baser sort hurried her away the day following before John Indicot Governor of Boston who after abusing her with unsavory language and much threatening committed her and the girle that assisted her to bear her child Mary Stanton by name with reviling language unto the Gaolor where they receive ten stripes a piece with the threefold cord of their covenant Such a barbarous article of their faith i● this as I have not heard the like as to whip a woman who bare two babes sucking the breast at the time one visible and the other invsible who after that execution of this their cruelty kneeled down saying The Lord

forgive you for you know not what you do a woman standing by said Surely if she had not the spirit of the Lord she could not do this thing Thus they continued them in prison about fourteen days not suffering any of their friends to come at them this and such as this puts a clear difference and demonstration betwixt their faith and ours each faith shewing forth its fruit the one through travels tryals patience and sufferings manifesting theirs before the faces of all people the other through wrath malice cruel mockings reviling language scourgings and imprisonments manifesting theirs and whether of these faiths stands in God seeing there is but one Lord and one faith unto salvation we leave it unto that of God in all people to judge this cruelty was acted on them about the eleventh of the third moneth 1658. A relation of the sufferings of Thomas Harris in Boston It came to pass that on the fifteen of the fourth month 1658. that I with tvvo other friends set forth from Road-Iland towards Boston jurisdiction and on the seventeenth day of the same I came to Boston and being moved to their meeting house there I came and stood quietly until the Priest had done speaking then I spake to the people these words The Dreadful terrible day of the Lord God of heaven and earth is coming upon the inhabitants of this Town and Country then was I pulled out by two men and soon a man came and put his hand upon my mouth that I should not speak and another took me by the hair of my head but when they let me go I spake to the people again that thty took heed how they joyn with oppressors and cruel men for the Lord God was risen and their coverings were found to narrow for their nakedness did appear unto all them that feared God then they carried me to prison after a while had me before the Governor where was the Deputy-Governor with several Magistrates and many people and coming in to the room where the Governor was he asked me if I knew before whom I was come I told him yea Iohn Indicot why do you not put off your hat Thomas Harris I do not keep it on in contempt of authority but in obedience to the Lord so one pulled off my hat then the Deputy Governor bid the Marshall bring a pair of shears to cut off my hair I told him it was against my desire if he did but he might do what he was permitted the governor asked from whence I came Th● Harris from Providence Iohn Indicot from whence there Tho. Harris from Road Island Iohn Indicot what were them that came with you Tho. Harris It is like I shall not tell thee Gover. I will make thee tell before thou dost go Govern The divel hath taught thee a deal of subtilty and said that we were all divellish blasphemous hereticks meaning them that were called quakers T. H. Take heed what thou speaks as thou will answer it in the dreadful day of the Lord God it is an easie matter to speak that we are blasphemers and such like in words but can you prove it or make it appear the Governor said you are all such T. H. it will not serve thy turn in the day of thy account to say we are all such Govern I matter not what thou speaks why didst thou come here T. H. In obedience to the Lord the Governor said in obedience to the Lord in obedience to the devil vvhy didst thou come here to trouble us T. H. To declare against pride and oppression men that use cruelty The Governor asked if he were such a one Answer yea the Governor said wherein do I use cruelty Answer in oppressing the innocent Dep. Govern He deserves to be hanged Again the Dep. Governor prest me to tell him what they were that came with me and said that there was murder committed that day and he did not know but we were the men therefore I should tell him what they were T. H. accuse me if thou canst vvith it but this vvas false for there vvas no such thing neither did they knovv from me at all vvhat they vvere many more questions vvas asked me but seeing their intent vvas to ensnare I vvas kept silent then sent they me to prison vvithout Warrant or Mittimus vvhere I vvas shut up in a close room not any suffered to come unto me neither could be suffered to buy food for my money the next morning the Gaolor came unto me to knovv if I vvould vvork so as to earn him one shilling and out of it to have four pence in such diet as he vvould give me then after a vvhile he called me dovvn to be vvhipt I asked vvhat lavv I had broken and read it unto me but he refused then pulling of my cloaths brought me to the post vvhere I received ten stripes vvith their thre● corded vvhip then he shut me up again vvhere he kept me eleven days not suffering me to buy any thing to eat meat he brought me but he vvould not receive money for it neither should I eat it except I vvould vvork as he said but at the end of five days I had food conveyed to me in at a vvindovv by a friend in the night season or otherways by probability I had been starved to death and in the five days a prisoner conveyed me in a little water for which they threatned him and yet the same day that I was whipt the Gaolor came to me and told me that I had suffered what the law required and if I would hire the Marshal to convey me out of their jurisdiction I might be gone when I would Answ If the doors be set open J know no other but J shall pass but to hire a guard that J cannot so on the sixt day before the sixt hour in the morning the Gaolor because I could not go to work at his will laid on me twenty two blows with a pitch rope notwithstanding he had told me that I had suffered what the law required before and on the ninteenth of the fifth moneth 1658 brought me again to the post with several brethren more where J received fifteen cruel stripes as hereafter you will further understand Againe William Brend and William Leddra who was the two which accompanied the before-mentioned Thomas Harris into Boston Pattent having drawings unto Salem where they were received and had several Meetings with other Service which they did for God in that Colony but consenting to the Simplicity in a plain man for his satisfaction yeelded to meet with their Minister so called Provis● that they might not be insnared knowing their Law which was granted unto them by way of promise which when the said Minister came brought a Magistrate with him who after conference togeeher to cover the condition upon which the Strangers met them they suffered them to pass away but before they were gone half a mile the Magistrate called Capt. Garish by

thee the report as from any other man besides my self that thou mayst know the truth thereof O Theophilus whatsoever thou art it was unto me as the Angell of his presence and caused me to carry the Ark back again into Aegypt and charged me there to abide until he brought the word for he that travels before strives in his owne strength There was I constrained in Mezech to cry Woe is me as one delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the soul might be saved in the day of the Lord He that can receive it let him There left I the leaven of the Pharisees and kneading of do●gh and making of cakes and baking them upon the Altars made unto sin and fed only upon Angels food which I reaped a●tending at the Altar of Incense to receive the Word in the strength whereof Reader to the death of all flesh and self I have obtained mercy peace with God redemption from all filthiness of flesh and spirit an heir of his kingdom a member of his Body a Minister of his Spirit and an inheritor of his Eternal Rest blessed for ever Betwixt this death and this life this heavinese and this help this desolation and restoration are all the Families Kindreds and People upon earth be of what notion or profession they will and having past through the Dragons den and the most vainest and beast liest place of all Bruits the most publikely prophane and the most covertly corrupt the English in New England is the worst especially their Priest and Rulers for for all their feigned and whining profession there we found the Fiery Tryals as from men having past through all their Pattents so called bearing the testimony of the VVord of God of the Indians never received I any harm but freely entertained with such as they had Moreover by such as were by the English accounted the basest of men whom many of them they had barbarously banished from amongst them whom we found in Road-Iland Long-Iland Provindence and elswhere also in Plimouth-Pattent were we received and in severall other places as the Messengers of God and Sephas And what we with these also who have believed our report have reaped from their cruel hands hereafter f●lloweth with the places and parties thus intreated And also a true Copy of the Law whereby they acted thus against us such a one as I am sure never proc●eded out of Sion Shall David want a King to sit upon his Throne for ever Shall not God raise up Judges in righteousness who shall plead his cause with the men of this generation that they may be judged as men in the flesh and their reward given them according to God in the Spirit Shall innocent blood lye buried in the dust for ever Surely nay thou wilt revenge thine own Elect who cries unto thee day and night against these who builds up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with oppression cruelty and iniquity So after the discharging of my conscience towards God in the committing these things to publike view recommending them to the consciences and considerations of all that are in Authority the chief Magistrate and his Assistants who sits in Council with him and who ought in righteousness so much as in them lies to see these grievances and abuses regulated or otherwise these things at their hands will be required for let them be assured that that spirit which hath attempted unto blood in such a high nature as they have done not being called to an account for it will attempt to take away life if still suffered as you may further understand their cruel intent by a Law set forth in this present yeer 1658. and this as surely they seek after as the enemies of God doth after thine or did after thy father O. C. for as little art thou esteemed by the one as by the other further then base and self-ends leads them to seek unto thee for when we were moved of the Lord to make our appeal once and again that our cause might be heard and tryed by the chief Magistrate or whom he pleased to appoint we were utterly denyed it and his Name sleighted and never so much as made mention of in their proeeedings in that bloody and cruel place of Boston and as the least principle of the law of Love bears rule in thee it will lead thee to do for thy neighbors and friends as for thy self and if this thou do not thou canst not be justified in the sight of God nor from our blood cleer in the day of thine account and least thou or any one should question the truth hereof we the Sufferers are the Subscribers who are all of us by name and nature free-born English people whom if thou or any by thy appointment shall call us to question concerning the truth hereof I am satisfied we shall be as ready to do the second as we have been to suffer for the first And it being the honor of a King to finde out a cause finde out this as thou art Noble and if any man can contradict the truth of one passage in this particular I shall freely bear the blame and shame thereof who hath been and am an eye and ear-witness unto them all Called amongst men Humphrey Norton Reader Thou mayst further understand that varietie of Lawes they invent and establish at the least two times every yeer and if occasion seem to present they can do it two times a week as they did by John Rous and Humphrey Norton and severall others having whipt us once according to their former Law soon after our imprisonment as thou wilt further understand in what followeth In the week following their malice was so great against us that they made a second whereby to whip us two times a week but this they read unto us and put in execution upon our bodies but would not suffer us to have a copy of it and I knowing that there is an everlasting Law established and given forth with Statutes and Ordinances attending on it recorded in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah against all transgressions whatsoever committed and uncommitted I could do no less but smile at their blindness So that Reader finding their Lawes not worthy of losing or wasting thy time in I shall commit no more to thy view then necessity puts me upon to certify unto thee the truth and nakedness o● the things herein mentioned And that thou with us may judge of the Tree by its fruits here followeth one of them At a Council held at Boston the 11. of July 1656. VVHereas there are several Lawes long since made and published in this Jurisdiction bearing testimony against Hereticks and erroneous persons yet notwithstanding Simon Kempthorn of Charls-Town Master of the Ship-Swallow of Boston hath brought into this Jurisdiction from the Iland of Barbados two Women who name themselves Anne the Wife of one Austin and Mary Fisher being of that sort of people commonly

known by the Name of Quakers who upon examination are found not onely to bee transgressors of the former Laws but do hold many very dangerous heretical and blasphemous Opinions and they also acknowledge that they came here purposely to propagate their said errors and heresies bringing with them and spreading here sundry Books wherein are contained many most corrupt heretical and blasphemous Doctrines contrary to the truth of the Gospel professed amongst us the Council therefore tendering the preservation of the Peace and Truth enjoyed and professed among the Churches of Christ in this Countrey do here by order First That all such corrupt books as shall be found upon search to be brought in and spread by the foresaid persons be forthwith burned and destroyed by the common executioner Secondly That the said Anne and Mary be kept in close prison and none admitted communication with them without leave from the Governor Deputy-Governor or any two Magistrates to prevent the spreading of their corrupt Opinions untill such time as they be delivered by Authority aboard some Vessel to be transporte● out of the Countrey Thirdly the said Simon Kempthorne is hereby injoyned spéedily and directly to ●ransport or cause to be transported the said persons from hence unto the Barbado's from whence they came he defraying all the charge of their imprisonment and for the effectual performance hereof hée is to give security to the Secretary in a Bond of a hundred Pounds sterling and on his refusal to give such security he is to be committed to prison till he do it By the Council Edward Rawson Secretary The Sufferers under this Law Reader Thou mayst understand That besides what I am to give thee an account of concerning their proceedings in these two last years to wit 57 and 58. That as a Preface to this their work they thus began in 56 there being two of the servants of God called Mary Fisher and Anna Austin moved from Barbadoes to the Town of Boston which when there arrived they having notice of it the deputy Governour Richard Bellingham sent to stop them from coming ashore until they saw their own time in sending their Marshal for them and to search for what Books they had which being done thou maist understand by their order that their common Executioner was appointed to destroy them O learned and malicious cruelty as if another man had not been sufficient to have burnt a few harmless Books who like their Masters can neither fight strike nor quarrel but the common Executioner must have the honour of it and they committed to close Prisor none to come at them to confer with them but whom they had a mind to suffer for the abusing or ensnaring of them as apparently doth appear by their reviling language in that which they call their Law as cursed Hereticks Adamites Blasphemers c. and accusing them for Witches whereupon they took upon them to appoint women to search them who also took men along with them which if they had denied or refused to have bound and constrained them but such was their innocency that they suffered all whatsoever they attempted to do unto them which inhumanely was in the manner following Stript them stark naked not missing head not feet searching betwixt their toes and amongst their hair t●wing and abusing their bodies more then modesty can mention in so much that Anne who was a married woman and had born 5 children said That she had not suffered so much in the birth of them all as she had done under their barbarous and cruel hands who also amongst other lyes and slanders reported that one of them before their search was a man in womans apparrel but lyes are licensed amongst them both by Priest and Ruler for in Court and Pulpit I have heard it without resraint or limit of theirs and after five weeks imprisonment or thereupon with these and the like abuses which are too tedious to mention they sent them away without the making manifest against them the transgression of any known Law in the least as thou mayest perceive by their Order but what is against us all crying out as with one consent Away with this people and give us a troop of Robbers Hosea 6. 9. to wit Priests About two daies after these two were had out of prison to be shipt away for Barbadoes from whence they came we eight to wit Christopher Holder Thomas Thriston William Brend John Copeland Mary Prince Sarah Gibbens Mary Weatherhead Dorothy Waugh who when according to the will of God we were come to an anchor in Boston in New England being made sensible of the cryes and groans of his seed which cryed unto him for help and deliverance from under the cruel bondage it served and the captivity it was held in by the cruel Lords which bear rule ouer it the Ministers and Magistrates so called but rather bloody Masters and oppressors for so they are in truth which cryes and groans having entred into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbaths whose compassion is great towards his seed and whose love is large to satisfie those who desire after the knowledge of his ways i● sincerity for the deliverance of which seed he is risen in great majesty and power the arm whereof is stretched forth doth evidently appear in raising up and gathering to himself his servants sons and daughters whom he hath made true witnesses of his Name according to the working of which mighty power which hath subdued all things to himself in us and hath made us obedient to the command of his Spirit and who brought us to the place of his appointment which when there we came Robert Lock Commander of the Ship would not suffer us to go ashore untill he had given in our names to the Governour which being done the Marshal with the Constable was sent aboard with a Warrant to search the Boxes Chests and Trunks of the Quakers for Erronious Books and hellish Pamphlets as they called them and take them from us Oh! what will become of you in that day when a dog dare not lift his tongue against the quakers the which they did taking away what they found having an Order to bring us eight with one Richard Smith whom they ●alled our Proselite before the Court then sitting at Boston which thing being done and we going in the strength of our God to bear witnes unto his name and truth before all sorts of people being called thereunto but by the Rulers thereof rejected and we the messengers thereof evilly intreated after so great a travel and so long a passage in stead of being entertained according to the Scriptures they profess which saith Be not forgetful to entertain strangers which thing these who witnessed the power of godliness and lived in it ever did but they having a form but deny and speak evill of the power thereof ●id heap false accusations upon us and send us to prison and that their wickedness might the more appear and

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-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-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

have this ancient man entertainad by any issuing out his second Warrant to appear at Plymouth vvhich is called tvventy miles distant from Sandvvitch But Nicholas not being able to go vvrote to the Governor that if he perished his blood vvould be required at his hand and some of the Magistrates beeing more moderate spirits spake for him that he might stay the Winter so he was permitted But in the Spring they banished him out of their Coasts to Road-Iland the habitation of the hunted-Christ vvhere none of the dumb doggs dare come so much as to lift their tongues for lucre This vve are Witnesses of vvho have been sent out of all their Coasts into that Iland where we ever found a place to rest our heads when weary we have been God reward the Receiver Again in the yeer 1657. beginning in the sixth month There being certain of the servants of God come for New-England and being according to his providence cast upon a certain Iland lying betwixt the English and the Dutch arrived in New-Amsterdam where the day following certain of the Strangers had drawings forth into the Town and Countrey to seek the scattered seed two of which declared in the streets to wit Mary W●a ●●erhead and Dorothy Waugh for which they were apprehended and cast into miery dungeons apart each from other where was much Vermine the which two after they had been there about eight dayes were had out thence having their arms tyed and rods made fast to them and two Negroes going with them untill they came at a Boat which was to go to Road-Iland into which they was put and carried away Again One Robert Hodgshone a true and faithful servant of God who hath sacrificed up himself withall whatsoever was neer and deer unto him for the testimonies sake unto him committed was moved forth amongst the English in these parts to make known unto them the Gospel of God which by several of them in several parts thereabouts was gladly received and believed against which the Heathen raged and the people imagined mischievous things he being at a place called Hempsteed expecting to have a Meeting amongst such as was seeking after God being walking in an Orchard belonging to such as was willing to receive a meeting there came unto him an Officer who laid violent hands upon him and carryed him before one Gildersleaue titled a Magistrate an English-man who taking counsel at the baser sort of people committed him prisoner while he rode to the Dutch-Governor it being in that Jurisdiction who brought the Fiscal so called with a guard of Musquetiers who took him into their custody vvho searched him and took avvay his knives and papers and Scripture-book and pinioned him all the night and the next day so that he had hardly liberty to refresh or rest himself any vvay and they searched strictly for those that had entertained him and laid hold on tvvo Women the one having tvvo small children the one of vvhich fed upon her brest and got a cart and conveyed the vvoman avvay in it and him they tyed to the hinder part of it pinioned and so haled him through the vvoods in the night-season vvhereby he vvas much torne and abused so coming to the tovvn called Nevv-Amscerdam they loosed the prisoner and the Goaler led him by the rope vvherevvithall hee vvas pinioned unto the Dungeon vvhere he vvas cast and committed the women prisoners to another place and there continued them during their pleasure At the time of their Court they caused the prisoner to wit Robert Hodg●hone to be brought before them and took his examination in writing and committed him to the Dun●eon again afterwards they took him forth and read an accusation against him in their owne language the words that were interpreted to him by Captaine Willet were these It is the Generalls pleasure seeing you have behaved your selves thus you are to work two yeers at a Wheel-barrow with a Negor or pay or cause to be paid six hundred Gilders Then Robert indeavoured to make his defence by way of sober reply but was not suffered to speak but taken away and returned again to the Dungeon and there kept no English suffered to come at him for several dayes then at their pleasure took they him out again and pinioned him and set his face towards the Court-Chamber taking off his hat and read another accusation against him in Dutch which he understood not but many of their own Nation who heard it shook their heads at it and when they had done cast him into the Dungeon again after certain dayes took him forth betimes in a morning and chained him to a Wheelbarrow and commanded him to work his answer was He was never brought up nor used to that work so they caused a ●egor to take a pitch-rope nigh four inches about and beat him with it untill he fell downe and they tooke him up again by strength and beat him untill he fell downe again the second time it was judged that hee received an hundred blowes then they forced him up with the Barrow to the Fort before the Governors house and made complaint to him that they could not make him work so hee stood chained to the Barrow and nigh unto the middle of the day the Sun shining very hot and hee beeing much bruised and swelled with blowes beeing kept much from food also was very faint and sate down upon the ground waiting with his minde staid upon the Lord felt his strength and refreshment as the oyl of gladness which made him whole but still by them kept chained at the Barrow untill the seventh hour in the night then loosed and put into the Dungeon untill the morning about the sixth hour then taken forth again and lock't to the Barrow with a guard set upon him that none might come so much as to speake with him beeing kept there untill the seventh hour as before and brought forth the next day in like manner and afterwards loosed and carried before the Governor who asked him if he would work if not he should be whipt every day then he demanded what Law he had broken and called for his accusers that he might know his transgression and told him That if he were called to that work by the Lord he should not refuse it then thiy chained him to the Barrow again and told him that if he spake to any one he should be punished worse yet his mouth was opened to such as came about him then they seeing that he could not be silent they put him up into the Dungeon and kept him close several dayes two nights one day and an half without bread or water then took him out very early in the morning to a private Chamber and stripped him to the waste and hung him up by the hands and tyed a great logg to his feet that he could not turn his body and set a strong Negor with rods who laid many stripes upon him both backward and forward wherewith he

friends from giving them any thing being fearful to wrong a tender Conscience but the time of the year being so cold that his wife and friends was in fear that he should have perished there besides the necessity of his being at home which thing lay v●ry sad upon her so that she with his Friends ●●ok a pair of Oxen and a Horse al●hough he had no more and gave them to the persecuters to free him on t of their hands Much more of their cruelty I might truly relate but for being tedious to the Reader this is truth as attests T. H. More of their names we see in wisdome not meet to publish in Print because of the crueltie of the Dutch but rather keep them hid But if any in Authority in England should call us to question for it who out of bowels of mercy would labour to relieve their imbond aged brethren I the Relator with several others who are Witnesses of this thing to be truth shall count it a sma●l matter to confirm it for their redemption who were Labourers amongst them in the Lord Called Robert Hodgshone Humphrey Norton THE ACCOUNT OF Cruelty the Professor's Pride and the Articles of their Faith WITH Their Proceedings beginning in the sixth month of the yeer 1657. AFter our landing at Road-Iland according to the will of God where we were gladly received when others inhumanely thrust us avvay from them as may be seen in vvhat here follovvs We tvvo Christopher Holder and Iohn Copeland vvas moved of the Lord to go to an Iland called Martins Vineyard vvhereof Thomas Maho vvas then Governor in vvhich place is many Indians and coming there on the sixteenth of the sixth moneth 1657 vve vvent to their Meeting and after the Priest Thomas Maho the Governor's son had done his speech one of us spake a fevv vvords and then vvas both of us by he Constable thrust out of doores and forthvvith the doors vvere shut yet going thither on the later part of that day after some dispute with them we departed but on the morrow the Governour with the Constable came to us who after some words with us required us to be gone off the Illand our answer was in the will of God we stood to go as he made our way for us but he being not satisfied with this Answer hired an Indian to have us away saying that it was the will of God that we should go to day and required mon●y of us to pay the Indian for carrying us but we seeing little of our going that day did say that we could not pay the Indian forasmuch as we did not hire him nor set him on work then he commanded the Constable to search for our money who accordingly did and took from us nine shillings which vvhen they had so done delivered us into the hands of the Indians to have us away over the water in the main Land in one of their Cannons vvhich is a piece of a tree ●ewed hollow vvho forthwith had us away from them where we remained among the Indians three days till there was a calm season to have us over the Sea vvhich vvas about nine miles a great Sea for such a small Vessel all vvhich time vve received no small love from the Indians the like we could not receive from the ENGLISH for what we eat we could not perswade him whom we were withall to take money for it he saying that vve vvas strangers and Jehovah taught him to love strangers So on the 20 of the sixt moneth 1657. vve vvere landed on the other side and coming to Sandwitch a tovvn in Plymouth Colony vve vvere gladly received by many yet great vvas the stir and noise of the tumultuous Citie yea all in an uproar hearing that vve vvho vvere called by such a name as Quakers vvas come into those parts A great fire vvas kindled the hearts of many did burn within them so that in the heat thereof some said one thing and some another but the most Part knew not what was the matter yea so it is in truth our God went before us whose presence was and is vvith us compassing of us vvhose dread took hold of them so that their hearts failed them for fear of those things which vvas coming upon them So after vve had been at San●witch some small time vve passed to New Plymouth and being at the Ordinary there Thomas Southworth one of their Magistrates of that Town with several of their Church-members came to us who after a long dispute required us to be gone and on the morrow early was the under Marshal set to keep us from going away into whose hands we were committed Prisoners by Thomas Southworth before whom with one John Alden a Magistrate in the next Town was we called the same day who after examination from whence we were and why we came thither and such like questions which were answered and they having nothing in justice against us yet required they of us to be gone out of their Colony telling us they had an Order or Law that we should not stay there we required to see it but they would not shew it us telling us that we were at liberty so we returned unto the Ordinary again yet in the morning early was the Constable sent by word of mouth from them to keep us from going to Sandwich unto which place we told them the day before we could not ●e free to pass out of the Colo●y till we had been there finding the Lords drawings so thither again as we were passing the Constable seized on us and had us out of the bounds of Plimouth Town towards Road Island six miles as he was commanded who leaving us we soon turned to the place before mentioned whither we came some of the people being set against us especially the Teachers made an unrighteous complaint to the Governour Thomas Prince by Name whose ear being open to the wicked but stopt to the cry of the just as may hereafter appear by adding iniquity to oppression did cause us to be brought before him who sinding nothing against us yet for being only called Quakers did require us to depart the which thing standing in the will of God we could not do and so did answer him then he to answer the unrighteous complaints made against us and false charges as deceivers c. whose great cry was Help O Governour help us against these Quakers that are now come amongst us and secure them and send them away from us in answering to which cry he was not sparing to use his power by setting his hand to write an unjust Warrant accompanied with lyes calling us extravagant persons and vagabonds giving charge to apprehend us in the Name of his Highness the Lord Protector whose name they labour to defame as upon due consideration will be found and plainly seen by what follows and bring us to Plymouth which accordingly was done and we apprehended and kept Prisoners by the Constables Deputie who

appear in the presence of that people That Jesus was both the Author and Finisher of Faith and Rule and Guide of life which made a flut in the House Aftervvards the Governor proffered me in words their Oath of Fidelity the which I put upon him to prove by Scripture that ever he heard of such an Oath and so it was left And vvhereas they speak of divers persons residing amongst them not having taken the oath c. All those persons to the best of my knowledge who have been often amongst them is this forementioned Ralph Allin vvhose Father so far as I know dyed in that Township vvhere this his eldest Son vvith six Brethren and Sisters all or most of them have continued in the same Town and Collony above twenty years their Father and they being both of good report yet have they endeavoured to banish ruinate and undo him vvho hath at least eight nine or ten children and all this for rising up and cannot lye at the feet of their god Mammon Their fourth part also I shall leave to the consciences of the Rulers therein concerned to take notice how they labour to cast the innocent who are engrafted into Christ out of Court and Countrey finding Jesus such an Instrument of Justice and such an Enemy to Hell and the Powers therof the Devil doth what he can that he may not have the oversight of his proceedings therefore saith he being assembled in the first place Take notice of the Members c. Again their fift part also I commit to the same consideration what an ancient and wholesome pill it is bearing date neither from time nor place so that its rise is neither from beginning nor end and its intent is accordingly vvho will not suffer a forreigner to have a rest in their borders neither place in House Court nor Countrey vvithout the consent of such as in their Act is mentioned the whole World lying in Wickedness the Devil being god and guide therein the Rulers are bent that the ends thereof shall never be redeemed to become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ therefore do they establish such ancient Antidotes as this which they have digged out of the bottomless pit for which they are ashamed to bring their black proof These several persons again herein mentioned is this same Ralph Allin whom for several years they have envied and maliciously used having renewed this last year against him this Antidote thinking thereby to cover their malice and wickedness for which God will plague them if there be any more it is such as are one with him who cannot bow their knee to Baal You may also understand by their last clause that it is one with all the rest that no place nor peace nor comfort union nor society must the people of God have under their Government it being altogether against God Christ true Church and its order life power and spirit This Testimony have I sealed amongst them with my blood and God is my record at this day it is true therefore as the Wicked make void the Law of the Righteous even so doth the righteous make void the Law of the Wicked and reconciliation betwixt them there cannot be saith H. N. Again here follows the practice and exercise of this Law with the Parties and Causes which suffered under it if this Law had had so much as the shew of good things to come they had put an end to it before its beginning for before this they had left sacrifcing Goats and Calves and offered up two poor sheep in sacrifice upon their Altar-Stocks to wit William Brend and John Copeland as by what is written before you may understand The Sufferings of Humphrey Norton and John Rous at their June-Court 1658. I Humphrey Norton being in Road-Island certain dayes after my sufferings at New-Haven the Lord God did accompany me with this cry two dayes together or more Bonds abides thee Bonds abides thee and presented before me Plymouth Patent and their Court which according to his Will and in obedience to his Spirit I went with my beloved Brother John Rous into that Patent and seeing and hearing of the sufferings inflicted upon the people of God inhabiting there with the wrongs sufferings and abuses sustained by me and others of the servants of God I drew up these particulars following and sent them before me to the Governor and other of his Assistants the day before that so they might not be unacquainted with the matter which when I came there according to the Will of God as he had shewed me I was taken up in the street and cast into Bonds according to the malice of the Devil And when I came before them with my yokefellow John Rous they asked us upon what grounds we came into their Collony and would neither acknowledge nor deny the receiving of my grounds neither would they receive them from me and cause them to be read nor suffer me to read them but sent us back to prison without Mittimus as they call it Bill of Charge or Copy of their Law no Justice could we have from them no more then two sheep that is to be judged by a company of Wolves but we have learned to bear it with patience knowing that our fore-runner was so dealt with before us by the same generation and having pass●d their unjust Sentence on us according to their Wills they brought us to the Stocks where after prayer and saluting each other in publick the people gave reverence with astonishment the Executioner coming to put off our Clothes was bid to have patience and he should see that we could give our backs to the smiter which being done he laid upon us thirty eight stripes being told by the standers by After this was done saluting the life which appeared in the least measure in any we returned in the glory of true sufferers kept far from transgression but in truth for not departing out of their Colony when their Constable so called commanded us having the grounds here following to make good 1. I who am called and chosen of God to bear the Testimony of Jesus the Word of God against all unrighteousness and oppression in all sorts of people whatsoever having formerly been in this Colony and before your Court held at Plymouth and being cleared so far as I remember without the least clause of the transgression of any Law of God whatsoever laid to my Charge the which I charged upon you after my Tryal by vvay of false Imprisonment and required thereupon to know who might discharge the house vvhereunto I was confined the answer was made as I remember by John Alden Magistrate after asking me if I had Silver told me it should be left to my freedom whether I vvould do it or leave it unto them since which time and in my absence I am informed that I am recorded in your Court Book for being convicted of several Errors and at that time neither

because he would not see it done the which John Rous taking notice of said Nay turn about and see it done for so was his order so in the strength of God we suffered joyfully having freely given up not onely one member but all if the Lord so required for the sealing of our testimony which the Lord hath given us to finish and said these words They that do it ignorantly we do desire from our hearts the Lord to forgive them but for them that do it maliciously let our blood be upon their heads and such shall know in the day of account that every one of these drops of our blood shall be as heavy upon them as a Milstone So when they had done their bloody Work they slunck away as a dog when he hath sucked the blood of a Lamb and is discovered So here is a Declaration of the dealings of these men who account themselves members of Christ and the Church of God but let that of God in all judge whether these be the fruits of the members of Christ Did Christ ever do so Or did he leave any Precept that his servants should do so Or rather did he not rebuke Peter for being too forward when he smote the High Priest's servant cut off his right ear Did he not tell him They that take the sword shall perish with the sword And doth not the Scripture say He that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed and know this that there is nothing defileth a land or people more then the shedding of innocent blood and nothing brings down the judgments of God sooner on a People or Nation then the cry of innocent blood therefore let not such call themselves the Church of God for God hath no union nor fellowship with such that acteth violence and gather themselves together and condemn the innocent blood as saith the Scriptures shall the Throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which ●rameth mischief by a Law They gather themselves together against the souls of the Righteous and condemns the innnocent blood Let all sober people judge whether these people are not so who hath shed our blood against whom they could prove no evil either in word or action only the breach of their Law which they have made mischievously to ensnare the innocent but it is that they may be made manifest to be of that generation that condemned Christ saying We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye But our desire is that all in whom the Seed of God is may be kept clear from the guilt of innocent blood that so they may be hid in the day of the fierce Wrath of the Almighty God For behold The Lord cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their iniquity the Earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain From Boston prison this 25. of the 7. Mo 1659. We are Witnesses of it who suffers for the Truths sake by the corrupt wills of men for keeping the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus the truth of which shall be witnessed in the day when the righteous judgements of God shall be made manifest when all things shall be tryed by fire even the day shall declare it Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland We are the three that sustained this abuse who the truth of this their action doth declare unto all that though their Law Sentence and Order be to cut off the Ear yet have they made them a lye for they have not taken away the sixt part of our Ears but the member they have defaced and abused which God had formed and made This and all other of our sufferings in Boston Collony hath been done in private by which all may easily judge what sort of people these are whose actions are thus plainly demonstrated Again Katherine Scot an Inhabitant of Providence in the same land a Woman of good report as these her adversaries could not but in some measure confess having lived with an husband the space of twenty years in that Country no people in that nature more circumspect and blameless seeking God in the sincerity of their hearts in every likeness whereinsoever he appeared so fraid were they to miss of him and so ready to fulfil that Scripture Try all things and hold fast that which is good which when that which is good came full ready were they to receive it and those who brought it not accounting any thing they had too good wherewithall to assist the Lord and his Servants for which they lost not their reward for the power of God took place in all their children small and great so far as capacity could receive it which may amount to eight or nine And God trying the faith of this his servant who being both grave in years and Mother of so many children yea and the Wife of a tender Husband full readily and willingly left she all to do the Will of God knowing that they who do it not are not worthy of him Who being called unto Boston and accordingly by the hand of God brought thither upon the 16. of the 7. Month 1658. who coming to the prison when the Hangman some others were going to execute the cruelty upon the aforementioned sufferers to wit Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland whom she witnessed that the Lord of his large love had sent to gather his scattered seed which had been scattered and driven away in the gloomy day of Antichrists night being strongly pressed in her spirit to visit them in the time of their sufferings and to bear forth her testimony against their cruel and barbarous dealings pressed towards the door amongst other people but by the violence of the Wicked was not suffered to enter who thereupon uttered these following Words saying It was evident they were going to act the works of darkness or else they would have brought them forth publikely and have declared their offence that others might hear and fear With several other Words declaring them and their cruelty to be worse and more barbarous then the Doctors and Bishops This doing all the while their ears were cutting Which Testimony of hers a man of a sober spirit received and after some time standing patiently to hear one of the prisoners minister after they had executed their malice where standing the Marshal came and pulled her down and said that she might go before the Governor This he did leading her away although he had been her brothers servant who bringing her before the Court held for the 4. united Collonies so called the Governor asked her why she came there Ans To witness against the cruel spirit that so abuses Gods faithful Servants and Messengers whom he hath sent so often amongst you He said What are they Apostles or Messengers Answ Yea I have found them so to me He said We will witness against your railing spirit Ans I deny all railing and have

and ruinating our estates knowing themselves guilty made no reply at all onely this afterwards the General Court had determined that they six should be sent home not as Quakers Mark Reader what confusion is in Babylon that fix who had suffered imprisonment and whippings all of them for the self-same thing two of them also having laid several Months in prison upon the account of loss of ears yet they had neither shift nor cover more then this to cover their shame and nakedness That they should be sent home not as quakers yet imagined another lifeless Law which if they transgressed therewithall to threaten them reading it unto them and turning them forth to wit Banishment upon pain of death made at Boston the 20. of October 1658. Again Samuel Shottock an Inhahitant of Salem in the Jurisdiction of Boston the 26. of the 10 Month 1658. writes thus to Humph●●y Norton Salem Friends are well and the spoyler is making a prey of us they have seized upon half of my House and the ground belonging to it in a secret way for they did it a month before I heard of it and hearing of it I asked the Marshal if it were so he told me it was done whilst I was in Boston to wit in prison and told me that there had been men with him to buy it and he might forthwith get men to prize it and set it on sale This know that Banishment and threatnings to Banishment hath been the least of their Rulers expressions against him and several others of them that fears God in that place for several Months upon which some both aged and decayed hath been put to flight to wit Edward Hornet and his Wife and others and this Samuel Shattock they judging him to be one of the most considerable there and one by probability which will rather suffer Agrippa to gripe up his Estate if twice double then once to deny his Lord for dust as you may perceive by his own expressions to wit But I rejoice that I have something to suffer loss of for the truths sake And as concerning this matter this is my thoughts that seeing he will neither flye nor fall under they will put a Viper under his roof one which shall arise from amongst their own sticks which if possible shall sting him day and night to see if thereby they can weary out the righteous soul but I question not but in time with patience he may shake it off into the fire and shew himself a man of God there being his and their subsistance outward livelyhood which the Lord hath appointed for them both for living and continuing until their Testimony be finished from whence they cannot flye uutil he calls them but bring themselves under condemnation Therefore saith the Author again I perceive by the Marshal that he hath express order forthwith to strain and take the Fines which I believe by that which I saw in his hands will amount to 100. l. and upwards upon us at Salem So with my dear love to all friends with thee I remain Thus you may understand that their cruelty is stil continued for this came to my hands in Barbados in the 12. Month following 1658. Humph. Norton At a General Court held at Boston the 20. of May 1658. That Quakers and such accursed hereticks arising among our selves may be dealt withall according to their deserts and that their pe●tilent errors and practices may be speedily prevented it is hereby ordered as an addition tot he former Laws against Quakèrs That every such person or persons prose●sing any of their perni●ious wayes by speaking writing or by meeting on the Lords day or at any other time to strengthen themselves or seduce others to their diabolical Doctrines and shall after due means of Conviction incur the penalty ensuing that is every person so meeting shall pay to the Countrey for every time 10. s. and every one speaking in such a Meeting shall pay 5. l. a pée●re and in case any such person hath béen punished by scourging or whippping the first time according to the former Laws shall be still kept at work in the house of Correction till they put in Security with two sufficient men that they shall not any more vent these hateful errors nor use their sinful practises or else shall depart this Iurisdiction at their own charges and if any of them return again the ●each such person shall i●●●r the penalty of the Laws formerly made for strangers by the Court. Edward Rawson Secretary These are are the Lyars wo be unto them that makes these Laws and binds the burden of them upon the back of the poor and they themselves will not touch them with one of their fingers Of what herein is mentioned concerning the sufferings of the Servants of God moved of the Lord to New-England in the year 1657. this is the Summe THree of which innocent persons to wit Richard Dowdney Mary Weather head and Mary Clark after their other sufferings sealed their testimonies with their lives by suffering shipwrack in the seas Richard Dowdney once imprisoned once whipt and once banished in Boston Mary Weatherhead once imprisoned amongst the Dutch from whence banished and once from among the English at New-Haven Mary Clark once imprisoned once whipt and once banished in Boston Sarah Gibbins twice imprisoned once her Clothes sold once whipt and three times banished Dorothy Waugh three times imprisoned three times banished once her Clothes sold and once whipt William Brend four times imprisoned four times banished twice whipt once laid in Irons besides 117. Blows the Keeper of Boston Gaol laid upon him whereby he vvas left as one dead William Leddra and Thomas Harris two Barbados Friends five times whipt three times imprisoned three times banished John Copeland seven times imprisoned seven times banished three times whipt and one of his Ears cut Christopher Holder five times imprisoned five time banished twice whipt and one of his ears cut John Rous son to Lievtenant Coll Rous living in Barbados four times imprisoned four times banished thrice whipt and one of his Ears cut Robert Hodshon imprisoned at the Duth cast into a Dungeon fined 600. Gilders several dayes chained to a Wheel-barrow beaten with a pitcht Rope until he fell down twice as one dead being judged to have received an hundred blows besides twice tyed up by the hands and a log tyed to his feet twice beaten with Rods until his flesh was cut back●brests and arms bleeding his stripes were innumerable and lamentable and so banished by the Duth Humphrey Norton four times imprisoned four times banished twenty days and nights laid in Irons four times whipt once fined 10. l. and once burnt in the hand and in malice took his right hand to hinder him from Writing Here is part of the Account of Cruelty the most part of which vve have suffered and sustained in less then tvvelve Months space besides all our Labours Travels Burdens Tryals and Perils by Land and Water

earned towards her and shortly after her child was restored unto her as a figure unto her of what the Lord would do for her if she did abide in his Counsel and often since she hath told me with tears that she trusted that God would do good for her and that he should be honoured by her in stead of that great dishonour that she had done to him and us which thing she hath often declared against her self in and said that we had suffered and God had been dishonoured by her Whereupon I told her that insomuch as that of God had suffered in her therein we had suffered by her and in her and the wicked through that have taken advantage to speak evil of the way of God but thou being through the love and power of God made sensible of thine own loss and also of the love of God towards thee we are therein fully satisfied and greatly can we rejoyce in the Lord God on thy behalf And this I can truly say concerning her and as a Testimonie of her That since her Recovery she hath and doth make it manifest that it was not for nor thorow any earthly or evill end that the sad travel came upon her for before that she was never a Licentious Liver and since she is more dead to all those things then ever she was before and her care and industry set how to do just and honest things unto all sorts of People and that which is well-pleasing unto God that the dayes of her appointed Time may be spent to his glory We are Witnesses unto the Truth of this Humphrey Norton John Rous. John Copeland Some Quaeries unto all sorts whatsoever who wants that which wee have by which they may see themselves and know from us where to find it 1. WHERE the Hand is which can help one out of Hell 2. Where is the Arm that can deliver one up thither and there bind him until his flesh be destroyed and in the day of the Lord can fetch his soul from thence and set it upon his Throne 3. Where is the first and second death the lowest highest and nethermost Hell seeing the Scripture speaks of the lowest Hell and the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone c. and Tophet of old which yet remains to the Wicked Shew us where these Hells are and in or under what Climate Circle or Planet or in Earth or Air or where 4. What is that that torments the Wicked there And whether it is the Devil that torments himself yea or nay 5. When or how with safety a soul may be delivered up thither To wit Whether before God hath left striving with him or after Or at what time or instant Answer expresly 6. Whether Christ and all these that have followed him from death to life have not past through all these deaths and Hells yea or nay seeing it is said He can save to the utmost And whether they have seen the utmost yea or nay that have not past through all these things And let none say that they may not be dived into for it is truth that the spirit searcheth all things c. and the hidden things of Esau must be sought out if any say Nay let him tell me what it is may be searched into and seen and what may not 7. And whether the eye of God seeth not and searcheth all things yea or nay And whether every man ought not to see with this Eye yea or nay If not Whether he may not be blind in many things yea or nay As for example Adam gave Names to every Creature that stood in Covenant and seeing that there are Names and Creatures and Members with bloody Oaths and Actions vvhich Adam in innocency named not therefore shevv me hovv one shall discern and knovv the innocent Names and Nature of every Member Creature and created thing and also that bloody spirit that invented all these bloody Oaths and beastly and filthy and unclean Words and Actions Ansvver expresly for so speaks the Spirit 8. If any man being a Preacher so called and knovv not these things Whether he be able to judge of what he speaks yea or nay And if so Whether he may not speak amiss and preach and speak that which he ought not and give Names to Creatures and things which are not If he be one that says he knows the things that differ and hath been led into Visions and Revelations and things of the highest lawful and unlawful to be uttered let him answer all these things both former and latter 9. What may be preached and published upon the house top and vvhat may uot and vvhat things are lavvful and what not And seeing there is a time wherein all things are lawful and a time wherein all things are not distinguish each time with its sign that all people may learn to know the signs of the times and the difference between all things that are and are not if any may say that it will bring in doubtful questions and may drive them to dive into things which may strick them distracted or mad I say Nay that is mans Will that drives him thither the light leads him to see the ground and rise of every time and thing and this is the Word of the Lord God and shews him the Spirit which must be divided from the soul from that which must not Mark the Eye of God shews and sees a Spirit and he that sees not with God's Eye sees not that which must be divided from the soul nor the soul which the Word reacheth and searcheth betwixt it and the Spirit 10. The mysteri● of godliness having been hid from ages generations and this being now the day and age and generation wherein God is revealing and revealed in and unto his people and is leading them through all Lands the Land of darkness sin and death the Land of light life and peace and having queried something concerning the former and seen also the scituation of the latter let us stretch forth into the deep and so fathom the whole circuit of Heaven and Hell Earth and Air and all that therein is Come up hither and I will shew thee the place where his Honor dwelleth come and see 11. Seeing the Scripture speaks of the third Heaven it thence appears that there are three my query is Where are they In what place Under what Planet Or above in what Circuit Or below in what Region and the infallible Way to it Which is the easiest query of all 12. And seeing that there is War in Heaven betwixt Michael and the Dragon it seems then that the Dragon that old Serpent the Devil is there I say Where is that Heaven that he is in Answer expresly 13. And seeing that the Serpent was in Paradice and deceived Eve before ever I heard of Hell Tell me how he came there and what Heaven that is and where it is 14. And seeing it is written that Adam was made of the dust c. and that he and she to wit Eve was in this innocent place called Paradice tell me infallibly the wisest of you Wizards How and what way they came there He who can do this in truth can preach salvation without Book 15. And seeing that a Heaven there is of a truth whereinto nothing that defileth can enter tell me expresly where it is the entrance in and how it may be obtained and by whom 16. What the Key of the Kingdom is Seeing Christ is the Door who the Keepers seeing I have heard both David and Peter was 17. And what the Gates of Hell is which shall not prevail against this Door And what the Keys of these Gates is seeing it is written He hath the Keys of Hell and Death And who that He is seeing it 's called an Angel My query is What the nature of an Angel is seeing it is written concerning Christ That he took upon him the nature of Angels c. and concerning the Saints that they shall judge Angels Thou who sees not with the Eye that surrounds these things and comprehends Death and Hell and is in distress concerning thy salvation at a loss not knowing the truth nor who it is that lives in it the cryes are so many and various this know of a truth whatsoever is wanting in thee of any of these things or any other that tends to salvation we have it and with us it is Therefore sit not in darkness nor say not with the multitude Who wil shew us any good thing but come unto us and suffer not thy soul to be lost for want of a Saviour for the place of his presence is with us witnessed By Humphre● Norton The Secrets of the Lo●d are with them that fear him WHat herein is mentioned is now freely recommended to the Common-Wealth of England with all who seekes the good and welfare of the Seed of Israel that as they love the liberty and redemption thereof they will endeavour after doing Justice and Righteousness towards all herein mentioned and in the like case concerned without respect of persons that it may manifestly appeare that you act for God and that in righteousness and not according but contrary to the minds and wills of corrupt men The End