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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

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 fruits ALSO Their Rulers to be in the Beasts power upon whom the Whore rideth manifest 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 Lavvs set dovvn by vvhich they have made the ungodly to rejoyce and the righteous to lament that all who fear the Lord may come out of their foot-steps Published by a Lover of Mercy and Truth and an Enemy to Envy and Cruelty Francis Howgill LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659 TO THE READER· GReat hath been the havock and spoyle that the old Dragon hath made since he was thrown out of Heaven and many hath been the floods which he hath cast out after the woman and great hath been the waves which he hath made to rise up in the sea yea the Nations that hath been as waters he hath gathered on a heap and made them burst out in a foaming rage to overflow and to drown and to swallow up the woman which was made to flye into the wilderness for many dayes having a retired place there which God hath prepared for her for a time times and half a time and the remnant of her seed hath he made war with every where and hath also given great Authority to the Beast who rose out of the sea to kill with the sword to cut off and to destroy all that worshipped him not and his Image and he hath had power over both small and great and hath killed them and hath compelled them forced them to worship him and all whose names have not been written in the Lambs Book of life have worshipped him for all hath wondered after him and all the Nations have drunk of the Whores Cup of Fornication and have been enflamed therewith and all have partaked with her in her whoredoms the Kings the Rulers the noble men the Captains and all both small and great who have drunk of her Cup hath made war and hated the free-woman and her seed and all the deceivers false prophets and seducers hath traded with her merchandize and have deceived the Nations with her Sorceries and they have the sheeps clothing the outside and are inwardly ravened And in the ensuing Discourse thou wilt see great Professors whom many did judge had been come out of Mystery Babylon many yeares ago to wit the Churches of New-England who cryed up Reformation thou wilt see them making war for their Mother Mystery Babylon for they are her off-spring manifest in every circumstance by their visage and countenance by their doctrine and discipline by their practise and fruit by their spoyle and violence by their cruelty and bloodshed their Mother drunk the blood of the Saints and so are they drinking of the same and the beast roars in that Na●io● which rose out of the sea upon which the Whore rides and he is in great Majesty there as ever he hath b●en since the Apostles dayes and breathes out threatings that none must buy nor sell w●o hath not his mark in his forehead or in his right hand and who hath not some of his Names of blasphemy they must be kill●d or tortured o● banished robbed and spoyled censured with the Whores censures a●d then destroyed by the Beast who calls himself the Higher Power when as his Authority is from the Drago● who was cast into the Earth and exercises his rage and the b●ast by his Authority would roo● out all ●nd destroy all that keeps the Testimony of Jesus and are obed●e●t to his will Reader the ensuing Discourse will prove it I need not say more but leave their fruits and actions to declare them what they are the sufferings of the Lords servants in that Land hath been great and thi● in so s●ort a time that I am sure any sober man cannot but abhor such practises say in his heart D●part from me ye blood-thirsty men The Narrative of the Sufferings is some of them from men of their own Nation the rest is the Sufferers own Narration under their own hands the substance of which I extracted in short for the Read●rs sake but much more hath been exercised upon the servants of the Lord in that Nation and to repeate all their wicked invented Laws and Enterprises would make a Volume i● self some of which Laws thou hast in this Discourse as many as came to my hand and in those which are manifest thou ma●st j●dge from what root the rest did spring which is all judged and to be judged with the life of God root and branch but in the long suffe●ing of God if there thou dwell I bid thee farewel F. H. The Popish Inquisition newly erected in New-England Whereby their Church is manifest to be a Daughter of Mystery Babylon which doth drink the blood of the Saints who bears the express image of her Mother demonstrated by her fruits c. THE Devil who was a Lyar and a Murderer from the beginning who abode not in the truth who spoke of himself and not from the Commandment of God or the motion of Truth who is curst from the presence of the Lord for ever who hath alwayes made war since he went out of the truth against God and all the children of Truth and he is that seed who has made war with the heir of all things and against the Woman in all generations which brought forth the Heir the Man-child and since he hath usurped Authority to wit the Serpent all the Earth hath been filled with violence where he hath born rule God did not appoint him to be Lord nor to be a Law-giver over man nor over any of Gods Workmanship but he was to be ruled over by man who was made in the Image of God but when he came to usurp Authority of himself contrary to the command of God he became curst man also who became subject unto his usurped Authority which he should have ruled over by the higher Power in which he was made and had power and authority over all the contrary but being gone from the power and ioyned to him who moved without the power they both became Enemies to the power and so came to be cursed by the God of Power for ever and then became at enmity to the povver of the endless life and fed upon dust and that which is corruptible vvhich shall have an end And now the Serpent and his Seed in the transgression striveth and resisteth against him vvho is the higher Power with all their strength and all the Weapons formed in the

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

believe in the light which Christ hath lighted every man withall that people might wait to receive power from on high again which all the sons of Adam hath lost in the transgression that as many as receive the power may come out of the transgression and for this end hath God chosen and seperated many contrary to their own Wills and from whatsoever was dear unto them in the outward to deny it all and to answer the pure motion of Gods spirit whither soever he leadeth and in so doing many have found the power and presence of the Lord going with them and before them and he hath prospered his own Work in their hands and hath brought many out of Sodom and Aegypt and out of Mystery Babylon to Christ the Mysterie and to the Mysterie of Faith which is held in a pure Conscience And we were not ignorant of this what opposition we should receive from Antichrist and his Ministers Satan and his Messengers and how that the whole World lay in Wickedness and how that Nations Kindreds Tongues and People had drunk the Whores Cup and how that all hirelings deceivers false prophets and seducers would withstand Neither were we ignorant that the Beasts power which got up in the Throne of Iniquity and exaltation since the Man-child was caught up unto God the Woman fled into the Wilderness wherein he hath compelled all both small and great to worship him Neither were we ignorant of his strength and of his great Authority that he had in the Nations and how that the Whore the false Church rode upon him and also we knew that the Nations were as Waters nor of the great Waves which would lift up themselves nor of the multitude of Merchants which makes merchandize of souls for dishonest gain who are greedy of filthy lucre nor of the multitude of ships in which they carry their merchandize and deceitful Ware neither was the servants of the Lord who hath thus deeply suffered as I shall hereafter make mention of the Spirit that ruled in the Professors and Teachers of New-England Notwithstanding all this which was seen before we consulted not with flesh and blood but was obedient to the heavenly call and stood given up to the Lord in life or in death to finish the Testimony which God hath put into our hands that so many may be brought to know the living God revealed in themselves that so they with us and we with them may rejoice in him who is becoming the King and Law-giver and the exceeding great reward of all his People To whom be glory for ever and ever Amen And now Reader I shall give thee a plain and true account of the grievous proceedings of the Rulers of New-England and the miserable sufferings of the Servants of the Lord whereby thou mayest see the Divinity of New-England by the fruits and effects it brings forth the Laws by which they rule their Nation not to be according to the Law of God nor according to that which is equal in every mans conscience for that Law takes hold upon the transgressor but not the innocent and because of unrighteous Rulers and Laws many up right-hearted people in that Nation mourns The grievous Suffering of Robert Hodshon by the Governor of the Dutch Plantation in New-England I Robert Hodshon being moved of the Lord to go to New-England to declare the Word of Truth made known by his Spirit was obedient thereto who after a prosperous Voyage arrived at Long-Island where our own Countrey people did inhabit under the Dutch Jurisdiction finding drawings and two more with me we left the ship and passed to a place called Gravesend wher● our Testimony was received From thence we passed to a Town called Semico where we were received with gladness so we passed to another Town called Hampstead where we were received also so I being left in the Town at a Friends House the other two being passed away the next day being the first day I passing to another Friends House and some Friends following me into an Orchard where we had thoughts to have met together I being walking alone there came a man from the Magistrate and laid hold of me and haled me to the Magistrate and kept me a prisoner in his own house while he himself went to his Worship many staid and heard the Truth the fore-part of the day declared After he came home and see so many with me and could not stop my mouth he wrote a ●ittimus and gave another man charge to keep me at his house so the latter part of the day I had many came to me and those that had been mine Enemies after they had heard Truth confest to it So that Magistrate that committed me took his Horse and rode away to the Dutch Governor to make his complaint but the other Magistrate and most part of the Town would not joyne vvith him against me but some few of the ruder sort There was I kept a prisoner till the Governor of the Dutch sent a Guard of twelve Musketiers and the Gaoler and the Sheriff came about twenty miles so I was committed to them and they searched me and took away my Knife Books and Papers and pinioned me vvith Cords the next morning they took two Women one having a young child sucking and committed them also and more if they could have found them and thus they entertain strangers in New-England And then a Warrant vvent forth to bring those people that did receive us and so he fined them and commanded them to pay within six Weeks or else depart the Jurisdiction and one man he committed and laid Irons upon him and fined each of them three pounds So I being pinioned till I came near vvhere the Dutch vvere being tyed vvith a Rope to a Cart-tayle thorough the Woods near 30. miles and then I vvas cast into a Dungeon so odious as I never savv for vvet dirt and nasty stink and the next day I was brought to Examination and an English Captain there to interpret and took in Writing in their ovvn Language committing me again to the Dungeon suffering not any English to come to me The next Court calling me out again reading my Accusation in their Language the Captain interpreted some of my Accusation and thus said before the Court That it is the Generals pleasure seeing I did behave my self thus that I must pay 600. Gilders which is 50. pound or else to serve at a Wheel-barrow lock'd with a Chain I did ask him if I might give an Answer and they answered No but shut me up in a Dungeon So on the second day in the morning they took me forth and lockt me to the Wheel-barrovv amongst the slaves to work I told them I was never used to that work and they took a hard Ship-Rope near four Inches about and commanded a Black-More to beat me with it so he beat me so long till I fell down and the Sheriff commanded him to take me up again and

rest of the believers that were at Ierusalem for not doffing their hats Or did they fine them five pounds a piece because they vvould not swear Or did the Church at Ierusalem fine the Temple-Worshippers the Iews If you can give an example either from believers or unbelievers do if you cannot be ashamed of your doings and repent of your Wickedness And are you like to be Rulers for a Common-Wealth who destroys the Estates of them who are Members of the Common Wealth Such Church-members made the Woman flye into the Wilderness and such Rulers destroyed Israel's Common-Wealth who grinded the faces of the poor and chopt them in pieces as flesh for the Caldron And this is truly verified among you Rulers of New-England who has turned judgement backward and not suffered equity to enter but these actings hastens the scattering of your Church falsly so called and will incur the Wrath of the Lord upon your Nation and make you an abhorrency to all that fear the Lord The cruelty of Francis Newman and others of the Magistrates of New Haven towards the Lords Servant Humphrey Norton their cruel whipping of him burning him with the Letter H. and fining him ten pounds and both him and John Rows whipped at Plymouth Patten Humphrey Norton being moved of the Lord to visit the Dutch Plantation upon the Continent of New-England and passing thitherward through an English Plantation was apprehended by Order from the Magistrates of that place where he prevented him and put him a-board of a Vessel that went for a place called New-Haven where he was carried before one Francis Newman a Magistrate in that place having nothing to charge him with besides his giving forth of Papers which he had writ in answer to their Priests yet committed him to a wide open prison which wanted repairing and in the coldest season of the year suffered him not to have either Fire or Candle but chained him to a Log all that night and the next day and night the morning following he was brought before the said Newman and two other of the Magistrates who having nothing to accuse him with but concerning the Papers aforementioned one of the Justices so called stood up and declared That if the said Humph. Norton would return and acknowledge he had done amiss and declare against himself he should be cleared who answered He could not declare that which was false for he had declared the truth already So after they had used both flattery and threats to little purpose this Newman in much rage commanded him to prison again saying he would prosecute him in the same prison the same manner chained him to a Log they kept him sixteen or seventeen days and then brought him before them again and read his Charge which he desired he might have a Copy of to answer to and a Priest being present to whom the said H. Norton had sent some queries who undertook to answer him before the people and the said H. N. replyed to him as he answered each query then they tyed a Key cross his mouth till the Priest had done and was gone and the Court broke up although they promised he should answer vvhen the Priest had done but they returned him to prison till the Afternoon then they sent for him to a private place using flattery to ensnare him but seeing they could not they returned him to prison The next morning they sent for him again and then read a Sentence against him That he should be severely whipt and burnt in the hand vvith the Letter H. for spreading his Heretical Opinions all vvhich vvas severely executed upon him the same day in the sight of the Magistrates and nine or ten Priests and many people they also fined him ten pounds for that the Collony had been put to charges and trouble with him vvhich they had the conscience to take of a Dutch man who had compassion on the suffering man and would needs pay it for his release although much perswaded to the contrary by H. Norton Being released from thence and sent out of their Coasts according to their Sentence he with another friend called John Rous passing into Plymouth Patten was there also apprehended and cast into prison and after called before their Court and sentenced again both of them to be whipped which vvas the same day performed upon them H. Norton received thirty lashes and John Rous fifteen or sixteen and so sent away This is but little in comparison of their cruelties exercised on the bodyes of many of our Friends vvhich the Lord takes notice of as farther hereafter thou mayest hear Humphrey Norton's relation of his and John Rous's sufferings again in Plymouth-Patten by the Magistrates and Governor there I being returned to Road-Island and hearing there was information taken against me in Plymouth-Patten upon oath and also that they had entered me upon record for being convicted of several errors a necessity vvas laid upon me to appear in those parts besides what drawings I had to visit the great Seed of God that there is When the fulness of time was near come for the finishing of that service there vvas a cry in me for tvvo dayes together Bonds abide thee Bonds abide thee and their Court and Collony presented to me With zeal and courage for God I made my vvay with my beloved Brother John Rous who had drawings thither and did accompany me The strength of darkness being on their parts and their late-made Laws being so abominable and wicked the few dayes we had to visit the Seed we were forced so as in the Wisdom of the Father to keep hid in the Wilderness and to have the Church to meet us there it being against me if I could prevent it by lawful means to go bound to Pilate but that in the Povver and Authority of God we might at their Court appear in which time the particulars vvere presented to me vvith the truth of every thing vvhich I sent before me to the Governor and Magistrates to make vvay for me by a Constable with a line to him to this purpose That neither the Governor nor Constable needed to seek any further after me for it was my intent with J. Rous to appear before their Court and Countrey if God permit Which repairing thither upon the first day of their sitting quietly into their Town of Plymouth vvith some friends accompanying us their Under-Marshal so called came to us upon sight in the street and said he did arrest us in the Lord Protector's Name and so took us avvay to prison and there kept us without suffering any to come to us that he could hinder for the most part of two dayes whilst they were sitting upon their Aegyptian Juryes and being then brought before their Court and Magistrates we were demanded the occasion of our coming and whether we had not had warning to depart their Collony My answer was to the Governour That part of my grounds I had sent before me with his