it not to me And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment but the righteous into Life Eternal And so I have sealed up your Summe THE END A Few Words to the KING and both Houses of PARLIAMENT and the Rulers and People of these Nations as a WARNING from the LORD AND now Ye Inhabitants of these Nations Ye Princes and Rulers thereof and Thou King CHARLES and Thy Two Houses of Parliament be ye all warned in the Word of the Lord Whose Word and Warning it is how ye tread the steps of these or of the Men that have gone before you Medling with Conscience the Dominion of God Persecuting Men for their Conscience to God and causing them to suffer for their Consciences as hath been in these Nations For if you do and Forget the Lord and be Unmindful of Him that formed you of the Rock that begat you who hath done great Things for you and Wonderful Things and Terrible and change your Glory into the Similitude of an Oxe that eateth Grass and persecute His People Who are Innocent as to you and have suffered with you and Desire your Welfare Against whom ye have no occasion of fault but as to the Law of their God which they may not transgress lest Evil come upon them from the Lord and his Hand be upon them Who are Meek and Patient and Resist not Evil because of Him that said it but bear All things and suffer all things and you have tryed and found it so as have those that went before you whom the Lord hath Plucked up much because of what was done unto them of which they were warned in the Day of their Deliverance which was fulfilled upon Them viz. That which they were warned of as of that which should come if they took not Warning And hath made way for you and hath done for you as it is at this Day beyond what ye could ask or think Without your Sword or Bow or Spear or your Habergeon When your Hopes were almost gone and you were Disappointed in your Stratagems and Overthrown in your Power and even at a stand to Consider Whether ever a Return of your Captivity should be Which He hath turned again as the Streams in the South and you are as it were in a Dream now that the Lord hath turned again your Captivity and as those who are so filled with the Apprehension of the thing they have and which they long desired to enjoy and were long kept out of that they are in Doubt whether it be a Dream or the Thing Thus hath the Lord done for you and He that hath done it can undo it again and overturn you as He hath done them that have gone before you and that without Sword or Spear even by the Spirit of the Lord Who hath moved Me to write to You and to warn you of these things For if you do as from the Mouth of the Lord I have said and meddle with Conscience the Dominion of God and impose upon it in Matters of Religion the Worship of God who will be worshipped in Spirit and Truth and the Father seeketh such to worship Him who is Lord of the Conscience and so intrench upon his Dominion which is an Everlasting Dominion and His Kingdom which shall never have end His Hand will be against you and his Fury will come upon you and He will visit you and your Day He will turn into Night and your Joy into Sorrow and your Rejoycing into Heaviness and you shall know that the Most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will So in Bowels of Love and Tenderness of Heart as One that desires your Prosperity for ever and the Wel-being of you and your Posterity after you I beseech you take heed of striking against the Rock of Ages or medling with His Kingdom which is an Everlasting Kingdom or with His Dominion which is for ever and ever or persecuting His People for if ye do Know assuredly from the Lord It will dash you to Pieces and by how much the more his Kindness hath exceeded towards you will be your Judgment Therefore my dear Friends Take heed what ye do be Advised and Cool Refuse not the Counsel of One that is your Friend On whom the sence of these things lies Who would not have God your Enemy Who would have it well with you For here have splitted All that have gone before you and here You will be split the Lord hath spoken it And so I have Discharged my Conscience of what the Lord hath laid on Me and manifested my Love and Good-will to You If ye take it well it will be the better for you if otherwise I am Clear Bristol 11th day 4th Month 1661. GEO. BISHOP AN APPENDEX To the BOOK Entituled New England Judged BEING Certain WRITINGS never yet Printed of those Persons which were there EXECUTED Together With a SHORT RELATION of the TRYAL SENTENCE and EXECUTION OF VVILLIAM LEDDRA Written by Them in the time of their Imprisonment in the Bloody Town of BOSTON LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1661. An Appendex To the BOOK Entituled New England Judged This concerns all such Rulers Priests and People in New-England who have joyned hand in hand to Persecute the Saints but especially the Rulers and Priests of Masachusets Bay in New-England who are become more Bloody and Cruel Bold and Impudent in their Wickedness than the rest of their Brethren who have attempted to make a Bloody Law and Unrighteous Decree to Banish the Children and People of God upon Death out of their Jurisdiction and by an unrighteous Decree have made a Law to put the Servants of God to Death if they return again into their Patent Therefore mark the Cruelty which is the fruits of New-England's Professors all you that Read this Paper HEarken and give Ear thou Town of Boston lend an Ear O ye Rulers chief Priests and Inhabitants thereof Listen all you that dwell therein Rich and Poor Small and Great High and Low Bond and Free of what sort so ever Give Ear be attentive to the Words of my mouth which proceed from the Spirit of the Lord and from the Power of the Almighty within me I have often considered your Conditions and your Actings have often come into my remembrance which hath caused me often to Lament because of the hardness of your hearts who do thus slight the Almighty and requite the Most High Oh foolish and unwise ye who do not regard the Lord that made you who hath often sent to you his Servants to give you warning of the mighty day of the Lord of Hosts of the terrible day of the Lord God Almighty which draweth near it hastens apace the Lord hath said it for His Elects sake and for His own Names sake will the Lord arise and plead with all His Enemies in this the day of His Eternal Power Oh
ye would not hear it and so in effect forbad that which he bad him I shall set down the Contents thereof and of Stevenson's Call into your Parts for which ye put him to Death as a Perpetual Record to after Ages of that for which they Suffered and your shame Everlasting For it shall rise up in You a Worm that shall never Die and a Fire that shall never go out The mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Robinson's Paper to the Court before he was Sentenced to death concerning the Cause of their coming into those Parts for which they were put to Death which the Governor in a great Fury said should not be Read and that the Court would not hear it Which was in these Words ON the Eighth Day of the Eighth Moneth 1659. in the after part of the day in Travelling betwixt Newport in Rhoad Island and Daniel Gold's House with my dear Brother Christopher Holder The Word of the Lord came expresly to me which did fill me immediately with Life and Power and heavenly Love by which he constrained me and commanded me to pass to the Towne of Boston my Life to lay down in His Will for the Accomplishing of His Service that He had there to Perform at the day appointed To which Heavenly Voice I presently yeelded Obedience not questioning the Lord how he would bring the Thing to pass being I was a Child and Obedience was Demanded of me by the Lord who filled me with living Strength and Poner from his Heavenly Presence which at that time did mightily Overshaddow me and my Life at that time did say Amen to what the Lord required of me and had Commanded me to do and willingly was I given up from that time to this day the Will of the Lord to do and perform what ever became of my Body For the Lord had said unto me My Soul shall rest in everlasting Peace and my Life shall enter into Rest for being Obedient to the God of my Life I being a Child and durst not question the Lord in the least but rather willing to lay down my Life than to bring Dishonor to the Lord And as the Lord made me willing dealing gently and kindly with me as a tender Father by a Faithful Child whom he dearly Loves so the Lord did deal with me in Ministring his Life unto me which gave and gives me strength to Perform what the Lord required of me and still as I did and do stand in need he Ministred and Ministreth more Strength and Vertue and Heavenly Power and Wisdom whereby I was and am made Strong in God not fearing what man shall be suffered to do unto me Being filled with Heavenly Courage which is Meekness and Innocency for the Cause is the Lord's that we go in and the Battel is the Lord's and thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Mighty and the Terrible God Not by Strength nor by Might nor by Power of Man but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I will perform what my mouth hath spoken through my Servants whom I have chosen mine Elect in whom my soul delighteth Friends the God of my Life and the God of the whole Earth did Lay this thing upon me for which I now suffer Bonds near unto death He by his Almighty Power and Everlasting Love constrained me and laid this thing upon me and truly I could not deny the Lord much less Resist the Holy One of Israel Therefore all who are Ignorant of the Motion of the Lordin the Inward Parts be not hasty in Judging in this matter least ye speak evil of the things ye know not For of a Truth the Lord God of Heaven and Earth Commanded me by his Spirit and spake unto me by his Son whom he hath made Heir of all things and in his Life I live and in it I shall Depart this Earthly Tabernacle if unmerciful men be suffered to take it from me And herein I rejoyce that the Lord is with me the Ancient of dayes the Life of the Suffering Seed for which I am freely given up and singly do I stand in the will of God for to me to live is Christ and to die is Gain and truly I have a great desire and will to die herein knowing that the Lord is with me what ever Ignorant men shall be able to say against me for the witness of the Spirit I have received and the Presence of the Lord and his heavenly Life doth accompany me so that I can say in Truth and from an upright heart Blessed be the Lord God of my Life who hath counted me Worthy and called me hereunto to bear my Testimony against ungodly and unrighteous men who seek to take away the Life of the righteous without a Cause as the Rulers of Massachusets Bay do intend if the Lord stop them not from their Intent Oh hear ye Rulers and give ear and listen all ye that have any hand herein to put the Innocent to Death For in the Name and Fear and Dread of the Lord God I here Declare the Cause of my staying here among ye and continuing in the Jurisdiction after there was a Sentence of Banishment upon Death as ye said Pronounced against me without a Just Cause as ye all know that we that were Banished committed nothing worthy of Banishment nor of any Punishment much less Banishment upon Death And now ye Rulers Ye do intend to put me to Death and my Companion unto whom the Word of the Lord God came saying Go to Boston with thy Brother W. Robinson Unto which Command he was obedient who had said unto him he had a great Work for him to do Which thing is now seen and the Lord is now a doing of it and it is in Obedience to the Lord the God of the whole Earth that we continued amongst Ye and that we came to the Town of Boston again in Obedience to the Lord the Creator of Heaven and Earth in whose hand your Breath is And will ye put us to Death for Obeying the Lord the God of the whole Earth Well if ye do this Act and put us to Death Know this and be it known unto you all ye Rulers and People within this Jurisdiction That whosoever hath a hand herein will be Guilty of Innocent Blood And not onely upon your selves will ye bring Innocent Blood but upon the Town and the Inhabitants thereof and every where within your Jurisdiction that had the least hand therein Therefore be instructed ye Rulers of this Land and take Warning betimes and Learn Wisdom before it be hid from your Eyes Written in the Common Goal the 19th of the 8th Month 1659. in Boston By One who feareth the Lord who is by Ignorant People called a Quaker and unto such am I only known by the Name of William Robinson yet a new Name have I received which such know not Marmaduke Stevenson's Paper of his Call to the Work and Service of the Lord.
labor by which they get their Bread when as it is said No man shall take the Nether or the Upper milstone to Pledge for he taketh a mans Life to Pledge Deut. 19. 16. And it 's said to be the standing Law of the Countrey yet how is it gone against and the very express Law of God to Oppress and take from him which is more than to Pledge that which the Law of God saith is his Life took half a Bushel out of it which was worth Eighteen Pence VVilliam Newland was Pillaged of  l. s. d. One Mare one Horse two Kine 36 00 00 For not Swearing and being at the Meetings and for Entertaining of being with and adhearing to those People and for these Things he and his Brother Henry of the Town of Duxbury were Disfranchized They were summoned for this in the Eighth Moneth 1659. and in the Record of their Disfrancizement VVilliam is said to be Entred first and then two others who were so sentenc'd the one for Drunkenness the other for some evil of another kind and Henry last So numbring them among Transgressors Daniel VVing from whom they took  l. s. d. Three Kine 12 00 00 For the Hat fined twenty Shillings and for not Swearing Ralph Allin the Younger from whom they also took  l. s. d. Four Cows 18 00 00 One Weather Sheep for 20. s. for the Hat Peter Gaunt from whom was taken  l. s. d. Five Kine two year Heifers 30 00 00 One Mare two three year Steers 12 00 00 Eight Bushels of Pease as some said 01 04 00 Four Bushels of Indian Corn And Half a bushel of Wheat 00 10 06  43 14 06 For his and his Wifes being at Meetings and for having a Meeting in their House and for Taxes to the Countrey which he could not pay viz. to maintain the Table of that Court which sat to make Laws against them and to rob them of their Goods And Barloe the bloody Marshal was hard at it again and got two Men and threshed out his Pease and took them and Marked his Cattel and let them run till near the later end of the third Moneth which was some time and then took them up During which Interval of time one of the Cows dying the Marshal demanded the Hide and also marked a living Cow in the dead Cows stead which he had marked and not took away but died in the time that he left the said Cow and the rest of the Cattel that he had marked a pretty space of time on the said Peters hands And this they did to him though he had lived at Sandwitch about two and twenty Years and was one of the first setters up of their Publick Church Worship And a sometime Member of their Church and never Excommunicated by them but left them for Truth 's sake and One that had formerly taken the Oath of Fidelity And for not Training though he was a man of great years and by reason thereof might require a Dismiss they fined him 10. s. and Destrained Pewter for it as they pleased with which sort of houshold Goods a man cannot easily be supplied again Yea so unreasonably and with Cruelty was he used that they compelled this old man to appear before them at Plimmouth 20 Miles distant and there the Governor fined him 20. s. for not putting off his Hat and for this they Destrained a young beast worth 35. s. Indeed Captain VVillet aforesaid said to his Wife that He took God to witness that he desired not a farthing of their Goods nor the aking of one of their singers but how he hath had to do with their Goods in taking it from and Impoverishing their Families is more than manifest and is hereafter Declared and his falshood therein and his being bold with the Lord in taking him to witness whose witness is against him and he will know it is so when it rises up in him and rise it will a worm that will never die and a fire that will never go out For this man hath had more than a little share in the Sufferings of the Innocent not onely in this Plantation but in that of the Dutch where Robert Hodson and others suffered the most unheard of Cruelties in the English Nation and for which I must reckon with him anon whose Father and he sled into Holland and so to New England for Liberty of Conscience John Jenkins was plundered of  l. s. d. Two Cows and one Steer 11 10 00 Money attached in James Skiff's hands here 's hard work indeed 08 00 00  19 10 00 Also of his Pot wherein he boyled his Victuals being not able to get another till about a Year and a half afterwards and was forced to borrow during that space of time which in Malice was done unto him for his Wife threw down a New Piece of Cloath double worth the sum but nothing would satisfie but the Pot from him who lived about Sixty Miles from the Market where he should supply himself again and it was thus long ere he came to be supplyed And this was for not Training and though he had lived at Sandwitch about Ten years and had Three Children and though the very first year he came he was made a Free-man and had his Vote in Town-meetings and Common-Priviledges yet he was denied his share in Whale-Oyl which as a Free-man fell to him And the Constable said he must not speak for he was no Free-man And for not Swearing he was fined and distrayned as aforesaid And for coming to Meetings and for having a Meeting or Meetings at his house Thomas Prince the Governor Capt. VVillet Thomas Hinckley and Josiah Winslow were the Men that came and sate at the House of Rich. Bourne and fined him and others to the number of Sixteen the sum of Five pounds apiece for refusing to Swear and because they did not presently depart the Court the Governor cast Three of them into Prison and there kept them several days in the Cold weather from their Families the said Josiah or Major Winslow who for his Devilish Cruelty to the People of the Lord gained this Promotion shewing much Vehemency and fierceness of spirit against them sometimes starting up and smiting the Table with his Stick he would hardly stand to strike an Enemy so in the Field these are brave Fellows as the Proverb is at a Cudgel or Trencher where no Enemy is then with his Hand then stamping with his Feer like a Madman saying he could not bear it and why Because Robert Harper aforesaid desired to know or that it might be made appear that that was the Countries Cow that Edward Perry aforesaid had killed before she was attached by the Marshal And because Thomas Ewer spake of the Marshal's wearing of his Cloathes which he had upon his back and because the Marshal was charged with robbing Edward Perry of his Goods and with seizing on