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A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

case being so hard he desired that he might then look out for a habitation in another Jurisdiction So they gave him but two or three dayes time to depart the Collony so he was forced from his Family having his Wife and four small Children The time proved so troublesom that it was the desire of some to look out for a habitation in Road-Island Patten So there went three from Salem John Small John burton Josiah Southwick towards the Island and the first night came to a Town called Dedham and went to the Inne to lodge they had not been long there but the Captain of the Town came his name is Cushar and examined them of matters of Religion and whether they owned their Churches and Ministers Who being not free to answer according to his will told them he would send them where they should They told him upon what account they went but he got them secured that night and the next morning sent them back to B●ston with a Constable and tvvo men vvith a Halbard and black staff as if they had been murderers and carryed them before the Deputy Governor vvho threatned them to send them to prison but they desired to go to the Governor who had a little more consideration then the other and said That they could not hinder men from that So let them go but did afterwards send a Warrant to the Marshal to levy 12. s. upon them to pay the men for bringing them back again to Boston the Governor and Deputy-Go●ernor's hand was to it After this there came two men more to Salem of those called Quakers and it was their desire to have a meeting with us so there was a meeting and about twenty persons and upwards of the Inhabitants and whilst we were peaceably together there came one Edmond Batters a Commissioner with a Cons●able with him it was about 5 or 6 miles from the Town at a Farm-House who came in with great rage and took account of our names the Court being at Sal●m the follovving week we were sent for some of us were kept prisoners two days by our own houses at another house out of these the Court chose six persons to send to prison as axamples to the rest their names are after expressed these they sent to the house of Correction as Quakers they did earnestly desire to know what a Quaker was They answered him that spake saying Thou art one because thou comest in with thy hat on He replyed again That was a horrible thing to make such cruel lawes of whipping and cutting off ears and burning thorow the tongue for not putting off the hat So we were sent to the house of Correction and four of us was whip't the other two was before whipt as is before-mentioned Lawrence Southwick and his son but his wife was whip't the second time and the names of the Inhabitants were ●awrence Southwick Cassandria Southwick Josiah Southwick Samuel Shattock Iosiah Buffum Samuel Gasken Now besides the six Inhabitants they sent the two strangers to prison the one was William Brend that was a dweller in the city of London and the other was an inhabitant of Barbado's his name is William Leddra Now the strangers were put into the Goal and the inhabitants in the house of Correction the Goaler a cruel tyrant he required the strangers to work but they refused to do his work and for the cruelty the Goaler exercised on William Brend the passages are before mentioned some of their own society vvas dissatisfied because the Goaler vvas a Church-member and would have had him been cast out of the Church but vvhen he vvas called before the Church Iohn Norton the Teacher vvould hardly suffer any to blame him but did countenance him in it so he vvas past by and let alone Now the same Week came one Humphrey Norton a stranger and one Iohn Rous they were put in prison also so the ●oalor required them to work but they refused and did desire to eat their own bread so they were cruelly whip't and because they would not work Iohn Indecot Governor and Richard Billingham Deputy-Governor wrote an Order of cruelty to the Goaler That all the Quakers then in prison should bee severely whip't twice a Week beginning with fifteen lashes with a cruel Whip and every time to exceed three which was barbarous cruelty which they put in execution but compassion was in some of the towns-men that they paid their fees and released them now in the end of three Weeks some of the inhabitants were released such as had not been in prison once before now these cruel acts made more of the Inhabitants of Salem with-draw from their Assemblies because their hands were defiled with blood Now about three Weeks after the former Court at Salem the Court did again sit and had divers persons brought before them upon this account for not comming to the Meeting the General Court having now made a Law the first Law was to pay five shillings a Week for not coming to them now to adde to that we must pay ten shillings every time we meet to worship the Lord together and if any one spoke in our Meeting they must pay five pounds a time each person Amongst those that were presented came in one Nicholas Philps vvith his hat on vvho hearing them say that the Quakers deny Magistrates and having a Paper in his Pocket that did express under some of their hands that they ovvned Magistrates did give it to them they asked if he vvould own it He answered Yea then they fined him forty shillings for ovvning that and for not putting off his hat sent him to Ipswich Correction-house where he was whipt at first entrance the Gaoler requiring him to work he told him if he would let him go home to his Work he would vvork for he thought it unreasonable for them to require him to vvork for them and for the Gaoler to take eight pence out of every shilling that he got and he the mean time to hire men at home about his own Harvest and told them Houses of Correction in England vvere for such as vvas not fit to guide themselves idle persons and Vagrants and not to take men from their Families and Employments that did help carry on the common charge of the Countrey But they vvhipt him for not vvorking he vvas vvhipt three times in five dayes a poor vveak crooked man These Courts vvas carryed on by Simon Broadstreet Magistrate Major Denison and William Hathorne Now about six or seven Weeks after that there vvas some of us quietly and peaceably met together to worship the Lord and shut the door about a mile from the Town the Constable and one more came and required us to open the door but we answered them not so he took an Ax and broke up the door upon us and took notice of our Names and soon after vvas Ipswich Court vvhere some of our Names vvere sent in the Magistrates chusing out four of us

that vvas intended and murder in secret vvas manifest openly and many came into the prison to see vvhat vvas done both small and great vvhich vvhen they savv their eyes afflicted their hearts for they savv my back and arms bruised and black and my flesh become as a jelley and svvelled vvith the blows and the blood hanging as in bags under my arms vvith the cruel beating having received an hundred and seventeen blovvs at the least as vvas told by them that heard and saw them And what the Lord hath done is to make this profession and hypocrisie of theirs manifest that all that fears the Lord may come out from among them And whether these be Magistrates that rule for God and whether these Laws be according to the righteous Law of God vvhich is made to destroy God's Workmanship and to deface his creatures and whether these be the fruits of them that are members of Christ let the vvise in heart judge The Cause is the Lords and whatsoever we suffer it shall be for the furtherance of the Gospel of Christ which is the Power of God to salvation to them that do believe And my peace is in him vvho is the Prince of Peace vvho bears me up in his Arms above all the Rage and Wickedness of the Wicked which shall come to an end To him be praise for ever and ever Amen From the Common-Goal in Boston this 13th of the 5th Month 1658. William Brend A true Relation of what some have suffered for conscience-sake in Salem and some other places in the Masathusets Collony in New-England IN September in the year 1657. there came two young men to Salem one Christopher Holder and John C●peland these men came from England to Road-Island who on the first day of the Week came to the Meeting-house who vvhen their Meeting vvas ended they began to speak vvho vvere thrust out of the Meeting in great fury one that vvas a Commissioner in the Tovvn pull'd him back by the hair of the head and thrust his hand with his Glove in his mouth to stop his mouth one Samuel Shattock was present and pulled his hand from his mouth He vvas the next day sent vvith them to Boston with an Accusation sent by Captain Hathorn That he vvas a Friend to Quakers and pleaded for the maintenance of their Opinions for the vvhich he vvas sent to prison the other tvvo men the tvvo men vvere vvhipt 30 lashes a piece with a three-corded Whip with knots on the end laid on with great fury and S. Shottock vvas bound in a bond of twenty pounds to answer it at Court and vvas not to speak with one of them called Quakers but when he mad● his appearance none appeared to prove the Charge he was required to come the next Week so made three iourneys to the Court and then could prove nothing The Deputy-Governor would have him bound over longer but the Governor said They could not answer it in as much as Evidence did not appear So it was entered into the Court-Rolls that he should make his appearance at the next New-Commons Now there was one Laurence Southwick and his Wife was sent to Boston-Prison for entertaining these two strangers the man they let come home again because the Church was to examine him cast him out but the Woman was kept 7 vveeks in prison although they had no law then made against the thing In the end of this time having nothing against the woman did at last ask her if she owned such a Paper as some in prison had written concerning their owning of God and Christ and the Scriptures She owning of it was fined forty shillings and so let her go Now about this time there were some observing that cruelty that was practised by them altogether unbecoming Christians and the drift of their Preachers vvas to encourage and drive on this design vvhich filleth up most of their Sermons and that time vvhich should have been better spent insomuch that vvhen vve went to look for bread we had a stone given us and a Serpent instead of a Fish At length finding it so unprofitable had no rest nor peace in our spirits to sit down under it as the Ordinances of God and spiritual Worship vvhich was altogether empty of God did then withdraw our selves from them and did meet together on the first dayes of the Week the Constable was then sent to take the Names of them that met and on the next day they were brought b●fore Captain Hathorn who was a Commissioner and he read the Law to them for conviction to pay five shillings a Week for not coming to the Meeting but this did not content them but did afterwards send for them again before him and three of them were sent to Boston by the Constable with Laurence Southwick his Wife and his Son Josiah Southwick who were com●itted to the prison no breach of any Law being proved but for not meeting for vvhich they made them pay besides so they put them in the house of Correction and vvhipt them in the dead time of all the Winter and the Gaoler required seven shillings six pence fees for each of them and kept some of their clothes for it 7. s. 6. d. vvas each of their fees   l. s. d. Novv they took from Laurence Southwick for six Weeks absence from their Meeting 33. s. 1 13 0 Aftervvards for six Weeks absence for his Wife 33. s. 1 13 0 And from Josiah Southwick upon the same account 27 s. 1 7 0 And from an old man and his Wife one Edward Harnet he was aged about sixty years and nine and his Wife aged about seventy three years of age who was forced in his old age to sell that which he had which was a poor house and a little land and now to be gone or wrong his conscience his labour being almost done and being not able to stand under the Fine of five shillings by the Week did sell and notvvithstanding the poor honest man was going away from troubling of them the Marshal was sent and took away thirty seven shillings from the poor aged people Now about this time there was one William Shattock in Boston a poor man that did refrain from the publike Meeting was had to the Court who because he had not to pay the five shillings a-Week-Fine was put in prison they judged him a friend to Quakers he was by the Courts Order whipt and kept prisoner from his Family and the Gaoler took all his Work for himself allowing his Family not a penny He at last sent to the Court to know what they would do he had this Word sent to him That if he was able to pay five shillings a Week he might stay but the Deputy-Governor said Seeing he had no house of his own into his house he should not come for he was his Tenant that none should receive him into their houses therefore he must abide in the House of Correction The