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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

Messias who accordingly fell upon one of them with his cruel hands in his Synagogue stopping of his mouth with gloves and haling him by his hair and so thrust them out then an Officer took them and continued them Prisoners untill the next day then had he them to Boston prison it being the 21 of the seventh moneth 1657. and on the morrow the deputy Governour Richard Bellingham and the Secretary with the Elder and Deacon of that Town came to the Goalors house who sent for us apart and examined us apart thinking to entangle us in our words and find us in contradictions but we abiding in the truth which is but one spake one thing so that they had no advantage against us neither could take hold of any thing we had spoken but said our answers were delusive and that the Devil had taught us a deal of subtilty so we were put in prison again and some hours after we were called forth again and was had before the Governour John Indicot with the Deputy Governor and the rest of the Governors of the united Colonies as they call them and sevral other people who after a frivolous examination made a Warrant that we should be severely whipt with 30 stripes a peece which was cruelly done on the 23 of the seventh moneth 1657. with a threefold cord which if unfolded amounts to ninescore which being so cruel as it is said one woman seeing fell down as dead and kept close that none might discourse with us and three days the Goalor not suffering us to have any food nor yet water yet a prisoner upon compassion conveying some water once unto us was much threatned by the Goalor and all this for no transgression not so much as denying to work neither could we according to their wills so adding to this nine weeks cruel bonds without fire all the cold season turning us forth when so they had done this being the second Article of their faith sealed up to purpose Christopher Holder John C●peland Also one Cassandra Southick with her Husband a grave couple were apprehended by their Officer and brought unto Boston for the entertaining the two forementioned strangers her husband being a Member of their corrupt body which they call their Church they returned back again that he might receive the defilement thereof she being as a scape-goat from the scattered Tribes they continued her seven weeks in Prison fining her fortie shillings for owning a Paper which was given forth by the Spirit of truth in these its Messengers for which the Governor said they deserved death such was his cruelty although the thing held forth nothing but what shewed how their Priests and Rulers differed from the holy men of God of old yet if he had not been limited from the extent of his wickedness he had sentenced them unto death such a one is the third Article of their faith Also Ri●hard Dowdney an innocent man serving the Lord in the sincerity of his heart having a necessity laid upon him to go to Boston which in the simplicity of his heart he did having never been in that Town nor Country before in the way was apprehended it seems the wicked betrayed him by his speech and judged him to be a Disciple which he Peter-like could not deny so forthwith was carried after his Saviour before the Rulers they having not against him the least clause or pretence of transgression sentenced him to be severely whipt with thirty stripes which was done unmercifully with the cord of their Covenant threefold amounting to ninety giving charge also to keep him constantly to work and caused him to be searched for Papers and Books and took from him what they would mark how swift they are to shed innocent blood for all this wickedness was done to him in less then three hours after his coming to Town this was the entertainment of this poor pilgrim to the wounding of the hearts of many to hear and see a stranger and a blameless man so barbarously abused whom they continued above twenty days in bonds to add unto him more at large the cup of their Covenant which patiently he did bear and for which he lost not his reward which after further threatning him and the other four turned them forth thus confirming on them the fourth Article of their faith by reading unto them when they were before them another piece of their mischief vvhich they called an addition to the late Order which they wickedly made in the strength of their pride finding that their former was too weak to accomplish their design they put this string to strengthen their Covenant-cord Thus Reader thou mayest see how they go on adding iniquity to sin not at all considering that the rod of God is lifted up over them who will assuredly take vengeance for all these works therefore let all in whom there is any tenderness and bowels of love towards our Lord Jesus Christ deliver themselves from this untoward generation by turning with the whole heart unto the Lord that so they may be saved from the wrath which is to come upon all these things thus having set the righteous law behind their back and broken Covenant with the Lord in departing from him and wickedly rising up and setting themselves against him who once tendered them and while they were little and lo● in their own eyes and walked in his fear he preserved them and for his name and glories sake which then was in the eye of many of them did he rebuke their adversaries and gave them their hearts desire providing for them a hiding place while his indignation was poured out on his and their enemies who are become a desolation and their names an abhorring to all flesh at which work the righteous was glad and rejoyced in the God of their salvation their enemies themselves confessing to it that it was the Lords handy work yea that the Lord wrought this work for his people evidently appears so that it shall be said from this time it is the Lords work and marvellous to behold in our eyes yea and Nations shall confess to it giving glory unto his name thus hath the Lord tried them and proved them yet how soon turned they from him forgetting his loving kindness and his love wherewith be loved them while they were young and tender who growing in years their hearts were hardned their minds by degrees going into the earth was estranged from him whose presence thus departing they became enviers of them in whom he appeared and Cain-like began to smite with the fist their fellow servants at which the Lords soul was grieved yet patiently did the Lord wait for their return to him bearing thei● iniquities which were great not only in forsaking of his righteous law and holy Commandment vvhich saith Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self and the Lord thy God with all thy heart did go on in hatred against him and made Laws whereby to oppréss the stranger fatherless and widow

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

cut his flesh very much and drew much blood upon him then was hee loosed and put into the Dungeon too bad a place for swine being a stinking hole and full of Vermine not suffering any to come and wash his stripes and within two dayes took him forth again and hung him up as before the Goaler being very drunk forced another Negor to lay many more stripes upon him and seeing no end of their cruelty spake to the Fiscal to give him some time of consideration and to suffer some English to come unto him which vvas gra●ted An English vvoman came unto him and vvashed his stripes vvho seeing him brought so lovv of body spake to her husband that she expected that he could not live untill the next morning the vvords took such impression upon him that he vvent to the Fiscall and proffered him a fat Ox if he vvould suffer him to come and be at his house until he vvas recovered but the Governor vvould not except the vvhole fine vvas paid which many gladly vvould have done but the prisoner could not consent to it for vvithin three days that they had vvhipped him he vvas made strong as ever and free to labour vvhich vvas a great torment to them their ayme being altogether to get money And a great trouble to many both Dutch and English that he could not consent for them to pay the Fine but choosed rather to vvork then to be burthensome to any such vvas his innocency neither could he eat the Governors bread except he did vvork for it although little besides vvas suffered to be brought to him tender people vvere troubled at the courseness of his food it being such as vvherevvithall they fed their Slaves but he choosed rather from a contented minde so to do seeing he vvrought for it then to be burthensome or troublesome to any ●ort of people vvhatsoever for his ovvn labour in the Lord vvould have afforded him food sufficicient but he could not suffer it seeing the Dutch lying in vvait daily against the English that lives under them hovv they might insnare them they being kept in great bondage and servitude by them as hereafter you vvill further understand this being the substance taken out of his ovvn true relation given under his hand Robert Hodgshone Reader There being an intire neerness betwixt the fore-mentioned sufferer me for whose innocency sake I cannot hold my peace we having been partakers of the spirit of life and love together several dayes and yeers and baptized we have been into many tryals which hath caused us for the comfort of each other to communicate what might administer strength unto us And I perceiving that many have scrupled at this my brothers working I shall impart unto thee what grounds he gave me for it when by the Fathers will we were brought together again in the strange Land the which thing I dare say he did in as much innocency in his measure as Paul did in consenting to be let down the wall in a basket or the spies flying from the Harlots house upon the wall for when he called unto them for a time of consideration in which he committed himself for counsel wholly to the Lord God he told me that the Word came unto him Work thou shalt know more of my minde then ever thou hast done and this is according unto what he formerly said unto the Governour that if the Lord called him to work he should not deny it here was the Lords call and his servants answer for which I am sure he lost not his reward nor I m●ne in lending my shoulder for Moses to lean upon when I saw that raging enemie Amalek rising up against him who was delivered out of their hands with h●nour contrary to their expectation not paying them one penny nor none for him but for his faithful suffering in this sad condition for several week the Lord alone wrought his deliverance H. Norton Part of the Relation given in by such English as are grievously oppressed under the Dutch government in New-Holland A Declaration to all the World of the persecuting spirit how it hath manifested it self in these parts of America against the people in scorn by the wicked called Quakers as is wel known to hundreds of their savage and unheard of cruelty to Robert Hodgshone which I doubt not but you will have a true Relation of besides prisoning and banishing others which came out of England besides the Inhabitants that were honest and could not conform to the times unjustly to please men who were hardly dealt withall by the Dutch because they entertained these people called Quakers There being many English amongst us who fled away from under the persecuting spirit bearing Rule in the United Colonies in New-England the Author himself being an eye-witness of it unto whom the Dutch Governour said speaking against Liberty of Conscience in the hearing of John Townsend Richard and others That the liberty of his Brother Henries Conscience was in his breast and withall struck his hand on it this was on the eleventh day of the seventh month as saith the Author Also the said Governour sent forth to prohibite any for entertaining Quakers on the penaltie of fifty pounds sterling for every transgression although it were but one person one night and for the incouragement of base spirits to inform they were to have a third part and to be concealed notwithstanding many of us did entertain them willingly suffered them to speak in our houses for which some were imprisoned and some fined as John Tilton Joan Chatterton and Henry Townsend judged by the Governor to pay 500 gilders cast into prison and threatned to depart that jurisdiction about the 7. of the 6. month 1658 with Tobias Feak and Edward Hart who were Englishmen and Officers in a town called Flushing in the new Netherlands on Long Island because they could not prosecute the Dutch governors Order against the Quakers in that Town there Consciences ingaging them otherways which they certified by signing a letter to the foresaid Governour giving him grounds sufficiently for what they did were kept in prison according to their wills in a wicked and cruel manner Again the foresaid Henry Townsend being called before the Governour and Court they demanded of him if he would pay the Money who answered that his person and estate was under their hands they might take it if they would but he would not pay it them then might he speak no more but forthwith cast into prison because he could not consent to the giving away of his estate unjustly although it were in the middle of the eleventh month 1657 a cold time of the yeer on the ninth day of his imprisonment he was moved to write to the Governour and Fiscal that he could not pay the money upon that account although he l●y in an irksome prison and of a weakly constitution and sickly besides the cry of his wife and small children yet did he prohibit her and his

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

through the infirmities of his body for not satisfying their wills was called in question by Daniel Denison and some others and by them was committed to prison at Ipswitch and there was whipt three times in five days because he refused to work for them which manifests that though a weak body yet a strong faith not in the least beanding unto them and when they could not overcome him by cruelty the shame and guilt of what they had done lying on them they went thus to worke agreeing with a man in the Towne to doe as followeth On a certain day a man who having had former acquaintance and friendship with him came to Nicholas and had him to his house and after a while got him to walk with him into his field and after some space of time spake to Nicholas to this purpose that he thought that he would bee set at liberty ere long Nicholas not knowing vvhich vvay it vvould be accomplished as for to vvork to fulfill their wills he could not So after a vvhile the man fell to vvork about a stone vvall and coming to a stone that he could not lift it vvas so big Nicholas being charitable assisted him to lift the stone and lay it in the place vvhere it should lie for vvhich doing he vvas released because hee did something that they called vvork although it did not tend any thing to the fulfilling of their Law but herein doth the hypocrisie of their Magistrates appear Again it came to pass that we two Christopher Holder and John Copeland being moved by the Lord to go to Boston set forth thitherwards on the third of the sixth moneth 1658. and the same day came to a town in that Jurisdiction called Dedham it being neer evening we turned into the Ordinary where we lodged that night and early on the morning there came two Constables with some others and demanded of us Whither we were going Our answer was We were passing towards Boston then they said they had a Warrant to have us to Boston before the Magistrates then we required to see it but they would not shew it to us so after some hours one Constable and two men with him had us to Boston and brought us to the Governors house who when he saw us being perplexed in spirit said in a rage You shall be sure to have your ears cut off Then he asked us our names so we told him then he said We had been here twice before and said What you remain in the same opinion you was before Answer We remain in the fear of the Lord He said you can speak never a trne Word and further said He looked upon it to be a great judgement of God to them that we were suffered to come so oft amongst them to trouble them and said We were the worst Hereticks that ever he heard or read of and asked us Why wee came seeing we knew they would not receive us Ans The Lord God hath commanded us and we could not but com then he said the Lord command you to com it vvas the Devil urged us to prove our Cal by the Scriptures we answered our names are not vvritten in the Scriptures he said he did believe we spake true for your names is not written in the Scriptures and he further said I● vvas something if vvee could make it appear that vve vvere sent of God We ansvvered That vvhil he stood in unbelief though vve spake never so plain to him yet he vvould not believe then one Nathaniel Williams standing by spake to this to this effect Seeing vve knevv that they vvould not believe us it must needs bee out of malice that vve came Ansvver The Lord God vvho searcheth all hearts knovves that vve came not in malice then the Governor asked us Whether vve did believe Christs Body vvas in Heaven We ansvvered Wee knovv that his Body is in heaven Then he said he vvould set Humphrey Norton on our backs for he vvould not say so vvhich thing is false concerning Humphrey Norton So after some other vvords he sent for the Goalor and bid him take us avvay saying You shall hear from us to morrovv so hee had us avvay and put us in the house of Correction as they call it but vve knovv it to be the house of Oppression and on the morrovv being the sift day they had a Court before vvhich vve vvere brought and when we came before them they caused our hats to be pulled off and thrown on the ground then the Gouernor said You were before me yesterday and I asked you to prove your Call hither but you did not because you said I would not believe you therefore I aske you to prove it before this people and it may be they will believe you then we asked if they would belieue us when we spake the truth The Gouernor said Yes if you proue it by Scripture We answered as before to prove our Call hither by express words of Scripture that we cannot because our names neither this place is not mentioned in Scripture but that wee have examples in the Scriptures from the Prophets and Apostles who in obedience to the Lord travelled from place to place as we do that wee can prove Then John Indicot Gouernor laughed and said Are you Prophets and Apostles Then he asked Whether we did belieue that Christ had a Body in heauen distinct from the bodies of his members Ans That Christs body is diuided from his members that we do not belieue then he said to the people they mean his Mystical Body then we said we know no such word in Scripture as Mysticall and put him to proue by the Scripture that Christ hath two bodies then another man stood up and asked us Whether we did not belieue that Christ had a body in heauen made of sinews flesh and bone distinct from the bodies of his members Then we asked what the bodie of the members of Christ is To which they gaue no answer but asked us some other questions but we seeing they sought to insuare us said to them It is best for us to be silent for you ask questions for nothing but to insnare us for you will not be satisfied with any answer Then the Gouernor said Sure enough we do seek to insnare yon then the Secretary spake to this effect These men haue been here twice before and hath receiued the Law and was sent out of this Jurisdiction and now is come the third time to sowe their damnable Heresies and to infect the hearts of this people with their poysonous Doctrines and wrote an Order and deliuered it to the Gouernor who deliuered it to the Goalor and bid him take us away and keep us according to his Order So he had us to the same house again and the next morning the Goalor came to us and asked us to work then we required to see his Order so he shewed it to us which was to this effect To the Keeper of the