had so held and set them-free Saying That they could not hinder men from Travailing on their Journeys And yet the same Governor and Deputy Governor Signed a Warrant to levy Twelve Shillings on the said men who were so brought back to pay the men for the aiding them So levying Fines to force some away and to keep others Back neither suffering them to Live in Quietness or to Depart in Peace Sarah Gibbens and Dorothy Waugh were the next on whom ye laid your Bloody cruelty For they coming to Boston being moved of the Lord and being found in your Meeting Place speaking a few Words after your Lecture was ended Ye caused them to be had to your House of Correction where your Jaylor a Member of your Church kept them Three days without food in a close Room though they tendred Money for Provisions not having eaten One Morsel of Bread during all that time Then ye sent for them to your Court and asked them many Ensnating Questions to get matter against them in which having not prevailed for the Lord was with them giving them a Mouth and Wisdom which ye could not resist ye sentenc'd them to Prison to be severely Whipt Two Young Women and not spared such was your cruelty which was as Cruelly executed the second day of the week following with a Three-fold-Corded-knotted Whip with which ye gave them Ten Lashes apiece to the tearing of their Flesh and beating it to pieces and then shut them up your usual manner and stopt the Windowes to prevent them from Ayre and all manner of Refreshment for Eight days together so that Provisions they had not nor could have any brought them during that space of time after their fore Whippings and Three daies before they were so whipt and Perished they must had not the Lord wonderfully kept them beyond what man could have been able to undergoe as he did enable them to give him thanks for his presence after they were so sorely whipt to the astonishment of the People And the Goaler being asked why he would not let them have food for their Money and what he meant to keep them without food He answered They should famish if they would not eat the Prison food which was for their Work which they could not do in your Wills who were not Idle persons and who had Money of their Own and how could they work when their Backs were torn And your Governor John Endicot being asked by Sarah Gibbens when they were had before you after the first Three days as aforesaid Whether it were Justice or Equity to keep them so up and not to suffer them to have food for their money that being the Third day they had been so kept and had not eaten One Morsel of Bread And further that ye might all see that God was with them that they were so preserved without food and that they came well into the Town as hundreds could witness and that if they perished their Blood would fall heavy on them who were the occasion thereof He answered He Matter'd or it matters not And when he had set them at Liberty to be sent out of the Country Your Jaylor detained them certain days after all this for their fees and had kept them longer had not the Lord by another way wrought their Deliverance Horred Gardner is the next who being the Mother of many Children and an Inhabitant of Newport in Rhoad Island came with her Babe sucking at her Breast from thence to Weymouth a Town in your Colony where having finished what she had to do and her Testimony from the Lord unto which the Witness of God Answered in the People she was hurried by the Baser sort to Boston before your Governour John Endicet who after he had entertained her with much abusive Language and the Girl that came with her to help bear her Child he committed them both to Piron and Ordered them to be whipt a young Woman and a Mother with an Infant at her Breast with Ten Lashes a piece which was cruelly layd on heir Naked bodies with a Three-fold-knotted Whip of Cords and then were continued for the space of Fourteen days longer in Prison from their Friends who could not Visit them The Woman came a very sore Journey and according to Man hardly accomplishable through such a Wilderness of above Sixty Miles as it is between Rhoad Island and Boston as did Sarah Gibbens and Dorothy Waugh through the same in Storms of Frost and Snow wherein they lodged Night and Day and came to Salem whitherto through all those hardships and wadeings over Rivers and Impossibilities as to Men the Lord brought them who moved them to go thither and from thence to you who chearfully underwent it for his and his Seeds sake and worse from you who had Famish't them for want of Bread but the Lord preserved them and kept them from sinking under your Cruelties and Scourgings Praising the Lord at the Post after their Scourgings was over to the astonishment of the People as he did Horrid Gardner and the Girle as aforesaid and the Tender Babe who through the Sufferings of its Mother and her being kept up after the Martyring of their bodies might have died but you had no Consideration of this or of them though the Mother had of you Who after the savage inhumane and bloody Execution on her of your Cruelty aforesaid kneeled down and Prayed The Lord to forgive you which so reached upon a Woman that stood by and wrought upon her that she gave Glory to God and said That surely she could not have done that thing if it had not been by the Spirit of the Lord. After these comes Thomas Harris from Rhoad Island into your Colony who Declaring against your Pride and Oppression as he could have Liberty to speak in your Meeting Place at Boston after the Priest had Ended and Warning the People of the Dreadful Terrible Day of the Lord God which was coming upon that Town and Countrey Much unlike to Niniveh he was Pulled down and out of your Meeting and a hand was put on his Mouth to keep him from speaking farther and he haled by the hair of his head and had before your Governor and Deputy and many People with several Magistrates and committed to Prison without Warrant or Mittimus that he saw and there shut up in a close Roome and none suffered to come at him nor him to have Provisions for his Money and the next day Whipt without shewing him any Law that he had broken though he desired it of the Goaler with Ten Cruel stripes with such a whip as aforesaid to the sore cutting of his Flesh and bruising of his Body and then shut up again for Eleven daies more Five of which he was kept without Bread for your Jaylor would not suffer him to have any for his Money and threatned One of the other Prisoners very much for bringing him a little Water the
Day of his Execution and all this because he could not work for the Jaylor who had money of his own and let him have Eight Pence in Twelve of what he should Earn and starved he had been in all probability to death had not the Lord kept him those five dayes and ordered it so after their End that Food was conveyed him by Night by some tender People who though they came not into the Profession of Truth openly by reason of your Cruelty yet felt it secretly moving in them and so were made serviceable to keep the Servants of the Lord from Perishing and causing their Liberties who shall not go without their Reward in at a VVindow And though he was in this state of Weakness for want of Bread and by reason of the torturing of his Body with Cruel Whippings as aforesaid and though the Day after he was whipt the Jaylor had told him that he had now suffered the Law and that if he would hire the Marshal to carry him out of the Country he might be gone when he would yet the next Sixth day in the Morning before the Sixth hour the Jaylor required him to work at his will which he not answering for the Reasons aforesaid he gave his weak and fainty Body Two and Twenty Blows with a Pitch'd Rope and the Nineteenth of the Fifth Month following Fifteen cruel stripes more with a Threefold-corded Whip knotted as aforesaid Now upon his Apprehension Your Governor sought to know of him who came with him as was Your usual manner that so ye might find out the rest of the Company on whom ye might execute Your Cruelty and Wickedness and Your Governor said he would make him do it but his Cruelties could not Nevertheless they were soon found out who hid not themselves but were bold in the Lord viz. William Brend and William Leddra who coming to Salem unto which they were moved of the Lord and having Conference with a Priest at Newberry after they had passed thence and after that Capt. Gerish sometimes of Bristol in Old England before whom the Conference was had promised the People that they should not suffer for at the Desire of the People was the Conference he the said Capt. Gerish one of your Commissioners sent for them back as they were on their way and had them before the Court and though the Court confessed that they found nothing that was Evil in them the Witness of God so far answering yet the Court committed them as did Pilate Him who went before them and kept them at Salem that Night and the next Day Prisoners during which time they called in question several of the Inhabitants of Salem for meeting with them for ye had made a Law viz. That of Cutting off Ears as aforesaid That whosoever of the Inhabitants should directly or indirectly cause any of the said People to come into your Jurisdiction he should forfeit an Hundred Pounds to the Country and be committed to Prison there to remain till the Penalty should be satisfied And whosoever should Entertain them knowing them so should forfeit Forty shillings to the Country for every hours Entertaining or Cancealment and be committed to Prison till the Forfeiture should be fully paid and satisfied And further That all and every of those People that should arise among your selves should be dealt withal and suffer the like Punishments as your Laws provided for those that came in which was That for the first Offence or coming in of any such who had suffered what your Law required if a Male One of his Ears should be cut off and he kept at work in the House of Correction till he could be sent away on his own Charge For the second The other Ear and be kept in the House of Correction as aforesaid If a Woman then to be severely whipt and kept as aforesaid as the Male for the first and for the second Offence or coming in as aforesaid to be dealt withall as the first and for the third He or she should have their Tongues bored through with a hot Iron and be kept at the House of Correction close at work till they be sent away on their own charge This is Your Law and this the Offence Such a Law as Bonner never made for the Coming in of an Heretick so called into the English Jurisdiction Nor for a Man 's barely being such an One as was called an Heretick without Conviction of Herisie and ye have convicted none of One Opinion or Practice that may be called Heresie nor Canterbury for you I say during the time of the Detaining of the said W. Brend and W. Leddra they called before them several of the Inhabitants of Salem for meeting with those aforesaid and Six of them viz. Lawrence Southick and Cassandra his Wife and Josiah their Son aforesaid whom Ye whipt as aforesaid and imprison'd and fined and Samuel Shattock whom ye also had before Imprisoned and Joshua Bussum and Samuel Gaskin they sent with W. Brend and W. Leddra to you at Boston where your Jaylor received them about Six of the Clock in the Evening and shut them up apart and in Rooms which he had provided on purpose to make them as he said bow to your Law and stopt up the Windows so as he left not a hole for Convenient Air and all wayes of Conveyances for Air and Diet which he kept from them except such as he laid before them as a little Pottage and a Piece of Bread for which he would have made them work if they had eaten as he threatned but Money he would not take and work for Meat in his will they could not so they did not eat and suffered none to come at them and continued them so from the sixth day of the former week to the fourth day of the week following the second day of which though they had no Food from the time aforesaid yet he called them down to be whipt and to whom was given whilst they were in that state of weakness of Body and to Samuel Shattock Joshua Buffum Samuel Gaskin and Cassandra Southick for being a Woman ye could not have her Ear by your Law though ye whipt her Ten stripes a piece with a knotted threefold-corded Whip with the Cruelty as aforesaid upon the account of your former Law as being such as were called Quakers and as owning such the other Two Inhabitants viz. Lawrence Southick and Josiah his Son ye reserved for the loss of their Ears though therein ye mist too for Your Law was for such as came into your Jurisdiction but they were of it and so could not be said to come into it and having whipped them your Jaylor lock'd * them in a close Room being dark and without Air in the hot Summer season which was the Room he prepar'd to bow alias to destroy them for so his Carriage manifesteth in keeping them up there and from Food and whipping them so and locking them
So he shut them up in a close Room where they were kept without any Food that he knew off for he thought to starve them if they would not do his Work and so Eat for the space of Eight dayes after which his Wise came fearing what might become of them and tendred them Milk or what they would for their Money So that from that time Friends were suffered to put into them at the Window what they needed So through hard suffering they brake your Law and his Cruelty Sometime after this John Rous aforesaid was commanded of the Lord to go to Boston and thither came the 25th of the sixth Month 1658. where he honestly discovered himself to the Man of the House whereto he came after he had set up his Horse what he was that so he might not suffer through an Ignorant Entertaining of him who shortly after fetch'd the Marshal who brought him to your Governor who after an Impertinent Examination committed him to Prison So on the Seventh of the Seventh Month 1658. they Three viz. Christopher Holder John Copeland and John Rous all single young men were had before you and because they had been before You once before and suffered your Law which should have clear'd them from further suffering for by the Law of England a man having suffered the Penalty is clear as if he had not transgressed the Law after a first and second time being at your Court viz. on the Tenth of the Seventh Month aforesaid wherein your Governor and Deputy Governor shewed their Rancour and Unreasonableness of spirit The said Denison saying We are the stronger and so look to your selves which was a base word he often used and Master Rous for so I may call you having heard of your Father that he is a Gentleman yet ye cut off the Gentlemans son's Ear and threatning to Gag them if they would not be silent when they were speaking for themselves in such a Case as the loss of a Member and such a one as an Ear and so to be marked as Rogues which all Law allows viz. to speak for themselves and Denying their Appeal to England which they solemnly made after that the Governor had said unto them It is the Sentence of the Court That you Three have each of you his Right Ear cut off by the Hangman I say after the Sentence Ye hastened the Execution and the Jaylor to that purpose and on the Sixteenth of the said Month sent Your Marshal's Deputy who came with a Company of Blood-thirsty men such as sitted his turn and serv'd his end to the Prison on the Day aforesaid and shutting of the Door whereas the Executions of Justice ought to be Publick but so it was not with Yours nor for the space of Two years and a half before were any of Your Executions so done to those People He caused the Right Ear the Left it seems would not serve of the said Christopher Holder John Copeland and John Rous to be cut off as aforesaid which being done the said Servants of the Lord whose Ears you had caused so to be cut off said They that do it Ignorantly We desire the Lord from our hearts to forgive them but for them that do it Maliciously Let our Blood be on their Heads and such shall know in the Day of Account that every one of these Drops of Our Blood shall be as heavy upon them as a Milstone And your Marshal with those that came with him slunk away as a Dog that is discovered sucking the Blood of a Lamb Who also was so cowardly and the sence of Guilt so upon him that when the Execution began on Christopher Holder who was the first whose Ear was cut he turned from it till John Rous said Nay Turn about and see it done as was his Order The same day that these were the last time had before You Lawrence Southick Cassandra his Wife and Josiah their Son were had before you also whom ye thought to have proceeded with as with the Others viz. the Two Men for with the Women you did by Cruel Whipping according to your Law but your Law was short as to them Which was for every One that came into your Jurisdiction the second time such should have their Right Ear cut off Ye cannot give a Member to any and yet can in your wills destroy for which God will blot your Names out of the Book of Life it is Eternal and you shall witness it So take your Sentence which shall assuredly come upon you as you have done the thing for ye did it wickedly the Lord hath spoken it So you will find it sad cutting off Ears and dealing thus Cruelly as you have by the Innocent whose Cry the Lord hath heard and the Cry of their Blood and Sufferings and He is near to Avenge it But for those that were of the Jurisdiction it provided not so they escaped the loss of that Member but not your other Cruelty for you still kept them in the House of Correction notwithstanding they were clear of your Law and had suffered wrongfully what they had suffered before upon account of your last Law which was That every such Person and Persons that is to say such as ye call Quakers arising among your selves and professing any of their Pernicious wayes as ye reproach but prove not by speaking writing and by meeting on the Lords Day or at any other time a sore Punishment for a Man to dye for meeting with the People of the Lord to wait upon Him yet this in the consequence is your Law for this characterizeth him to be such a One as ye call a Quaker and being a Quaker he must be whipt and then depart the Jurisdiction and if return suffer as in the Case of Strangers viz. be put to Death See whether the Earth ever had the like since the Sun shone upon it It s too long to inculcate Every Particular the Reader may in his own Understanding and the Lord God of Heaven and Earth will do it upon your Consciences ye most unreasonable of Men and the most Brutish of the Nations whom the Lord God will cut off and make you an Example to all that hereafter shall dare to do such things against the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who gives to all Life and Breath and Moving and against those that meet together to wait on Him as He hath said it so He will do it and this shall come to pass the Lord hath spoken it shall incur the Penalty ensuing viz. Every Person so meeting shall pay to the Country Ten shillings and every One speaking in such Meeting Five pounds a piece And in case any such Person hath been punished by Scourging ye speak broad that ye may frighten but the Hand of the Lord will come as large upon you as ye have spoken or Whiyping the first time according to the former Laws which was the Case of these Three shall
into so this is the Scene of this Bloody Tragedy the most Inhumane and cruel that Ever Age knew or preceding Generation Declara Notwithstanding which by a Back Door they found Enterance Answ And Why a Back-Door Was not the way by which they came as much before ye as the Sea from England Is Sixty Miles distance by Land from Rhoad Island the Place from whence they came become further then England One would think that Properly and indeed the Land it is that is before you which ye came to Inhabite and that the Sea it is that is behind you from whence ye came How come ye then to say a Back-door By a Back-door they found Entrance Is it because you mistin your Understandings and so have put the fore for the back and the back for the fore Surely then ye were not wise in your Generation to bind the Sea and leave the Land at Liberty Is it because ye had journeyed far enough from Old Enland the House of Bondage so accounted into New a Land of Liberty and now were returning from the Land of Liberty to the House of Bondage Surely then ye are in a bad state to become Persecutors your selves who fled Persecution Or is it because Rhoad Island is the Place into which ye banish't those that differed from you in Matters of Religion who your selves were not banish't who differed in Religion and so having turned your Backs on their Oppression would not hear their Cry as did Joseph's Brethren when they sold him into Egypt Then Just is the Lord to bring your Condemnation from the Place of those whom ye Opprest Declar. Notwithstanding which say ye by a Back Door they found Entrance Answ And Why not Are ye Lord's Propriators of the Creation May not the Lord of Heaven and Earth send His Messengers among ye without your leave May not an English man come into an English Jurisdiction What Insolency is this and high Obtrusion on the Creator of Heaven and Earth who gave you your beings upon the Nation from whence ye came and in which ye first drew your breath and the Right of Nature from which ye are derived and from whence ye spring Declar. They found Entrance Answ And Why should they not seeing the Lord of all is He that sent them Declar. Notwithstanding Which Answ Notwithstanding What Why the Law prohibiting all Masters of Shipps from bringing in any and themselves from coming in Coming in From whence Why From or by Sea for as for the Land that Door was not Shut the Back-Door as ye call it but the Fore was Notwithstanding which viz. the Law aforesaid say ye by a Back-Door they found Entrance Then how come they to be concerned in a Law which was not fitted for them It was for them that came in at the fore door by Sea and Ship-Masters that brought them who were Prohibited from bringing in any such and themselves from so coming in I say how come they to be concerned in a Law which was not for them and you to inflict upon them the Penalty of a Law which concerned them not might they not come in at the back door it being open when the fore door was shut yea a Greater For so say ye And the Penalty inslicted on themselves proving insufficient to restrain their Impudent and Insolent Obtrusions was encreased by the loss of the Eares of those that offended the second time Answ Insufficient indeed and well might it be and too weak a defence as ye afterward spake of cutting off Ears and therefore proceed from Banishment to Death against Him who made the Earth and the Sea and all that therein is Who giveth unto Man Life and Breath and Moving Whose time being come for the sounding of His Everlasting Gospel to those who sate in Darkness and Region of the shaddow of Death in your Jurisdiction he armed his Messengers against the force of Death and the strength of Darkness with his Eternal Spirit and enabled them to endure what the strength of the One and the Gates of the Other could inflict upon them Whom ye have killed and put to Death whipt and scourged burnt in the hand and cut off their ears and so they bear in their Bodies the marks of the Lord Jesus and the dying of Jesus is made manifest in their mortal flesh that they might not trust in themselves but in him that raised up Jesus from the dead And a Crown of Life they shall receive who loved not their lives unto the death for the sake of Jesus Christ Lastly Insufficient against what Against a few innocent Lambs among Wolves a few simple People Men and Women who came to you not with Swords or with spears but in the Name of the Lord whom the Lord God of Life sent to you through Desarts and Wildernesses and Necessities and Straits and Hunger and Thirst and Cold and Heat and Perils by Sea and Perils by Land and Temptations and Distresses to turn ye unto God Whom ye have Imprisoned and Whipt and burnt and cut off their ears and put to Death That all the righteous Blood shed upon the earth from the blood of Righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias who was slain between the Temple and the Altar may come upon you and verily it shall come on this Generation And the time is at hand yea near to be revealed wherein the Righteous God will render unto you according to your Deeds yea according to your Deeds will he recompence you Fury to his Adversaries Recompence to his Enemies yea to his Adversaries will he repay Recompence And the Lord God will Thunder out of Heaven upon you and the whole Earth shall be filled with his Glory when he shall have thrown ye down from your Seats and Exalted the Humble and Meek Even when he shall have turned to hear the Prayer of the Desolate and help him to Right that hath no Helper and the Poor from him who is too strong for him and the Needy amongst men This shall be written for the Ages to come and the Children that are unborn shall praise the Lord And your Carkasses shall fall upon the Earth and ye shall leave your Name a Curse unto my Chosen saith the Lord. Declar. VVhich proving Insufficient Answ What proving Insufficient Why the Penalty inslicted so saith your Declaration sc And the Penalty inslicted proving Insufficient Answ VVhat was the Penalty and what did ye inflict O Ye shameless Men who make so slight of so heavy Punishments whose Cruel stroaks pierc'd the Air and whose Bloody Draughts the hearts and souls of those who saw it as they did the Bodies of them whose Flesh ye tore and whose Blood ye drew Yet this is insufficient the Penalty inslicted proving Insufficient Never Blood Enough to the spirit of Wickedness when once it lanches out and dips its foot in the Blood of the Innocent So it was and so it hath been with men in your state from
and bring him to Plimmouth and deliver him to the Marshal there to be kept till the first Month 1659. this being the ninth Moneth 1658. thinking thereby to constrain another Cow so greedy were they whither he was brought and bound by John Alden and W. Collier to let them have as good a Cow and to answer it the next Court though he was but as Servant to Edward Perry in what he did and the Cow was not seized before he had knockt her down So another Cow was seized on of Edward Perry's and two before which made it three for Five Pounds worth Eleven And when the Marshal had taken his Box and Writings and Money and Plate therein to hide his Theft he raised a Report as if the Papers discovered some design to cut them off by the Morrow night who were thus sought to be destroyed who destroy none and Men he would needs Press to secure Edward when as it was no such thing and this he did when he was so Drunk that he could hardly forbear Vomiting in the bosome of him whom he pretended to Press And so Vile and wicked was this Marshal that when a friend of Edward Perry whom he took with him on Purpose asked him How he could wash his hands of the Box of Writings and Plate c. which he had taken out of the said Edward's House without a VVarrant and sought to Conceal for he would not confess to the Particulars when Edward demanded the Particulars of him He in a Scoffe said I will wash my Hands and so rubbed them one in another And when Edward's friend Replied again Yea George thou mayst wash thy Hands but thou canst not wash thy Heart He Answered still laughing and jeering and said Yes One Dram of the Bottle will do it and clapt his hand on his Bosom Unto which kind of washing it seems he is used to much viz. to be Drunk and then to be mad and to beat his Wife and Children like a Mad man and to throw the things of the House from one place to another And yet this is the extraordinary Marshal of the Court of Plimmouth Patent made on purpose for Three Townships viz. Sandwitch Barnstable and Yarmouth to Vex Rob Spoil and Undoe those Innocent People whose heart was hard enough for that purpose and his hands Bloody and to hunt after their Meetings which he useth to do up and down in the VVoods Tracking them by the Print of their Feet as Doggs do Beasts of Prey and Disturbing them there and haling and pulling them when he finds them Meet and treading on their Feet and turning up their Hatts pretending he doth not know them and threatning them with the Stocks and smoaking Tobacco among them he and his Companions and sometimes summoning them in their Meetings to appear at Court Fourteen he Summoned at one time as they were Met together waiting on the Lord on a First Day of the Week to appear at Plimmouth Twenty Miles distant the next Day where they were sined five Pounds a piece for refusing to Swear At another time he summoned Ten more to appear at the Eighth Moneth Court 1658. at Plimmouth to take the Oath of Fidelity and this is part of the Disturbance the Innocent Lambs of Christ have had in their Peaceable Meetings waiting on the Lord by this Woolf but in the Lord they have Peace and asking their Names on purpose to Molest them though known to be of that Township and then Presenting them for Meeting whom in their Meetings he thus disturbed and Executing the Fines on them for Meeting in that Cruelty as is already and shall be mentioned and far more than here is room to express Imprisoning them and haling them to Prisons and their Friends and Whipping of them and Searching of their Houses by day and by night and when they are forth prying into their Houses to see what they have there and stealing away that which he should not A Whoremonger that abused an Indian Woman on whom the Terrors of God fell but he got off them and so is hardned to the purpose a Lyar a False-Swearer a Man of a Seared Conscience without Remorse a Member of their Church a sit Person to Hunt and Vex the Servants of the Lord which he used before he was chosen to that Office and so was approved unto them before they took him in and Samuel Nash the Country Marshal and Richard Cadwel his Assistant He took a Horse that was none of Edward Perry's forceably away for Edward Perry's fine which Edward Perry had the use of the Horse to carry a bag of Corn to one to whom he Owed it which he finding at the door forceably took it away as aforesaid and one Edward Fish assisted him but the Countrey would not seeing it so manifestly unjust and this he did though Edward Perry often told him that the Horse was none of his Richard Kirby and his Son Richard from whom was taken  l. s. d. Eight Kine one having a Bell about her neck as the Leading Cow for the rest of the Cattel two Oxen one Calf 47 00 00 Two Steers three bushels of Corn 07 12 00 One Steer and a Calf 03 00 00  54 12 00 Also the Marshal seized all his Corn and said if he would thresh it out for him the Week following he would leave him enough to pay his Rent and some to Eat After which he took away the three Bushels of Wheat as aforesaid and all this for not Swearing being fined Court after Court and for Meetings and refusing to go with the Marshal to assist him in the search for Friends for which Richard the Yonger was fined 20 s. a most unreasonable thing and betokening the height of Devilish wickedness but as for the last Cow and Calf they know not wherefore he took them away for he had said before that he had seized on as much as would satisfie the fine George Allin from whom they took  l. s. d. One Cow three Heifers 11 10 00 Two Oxen and two Calves 14 05 00  25 15 00 For refusing to Swear c. though he had told them he had taken the Oath in England c. William Allin who was Robbed of  l. s. d. Four Kine one Steer a Heifer 20 00 00 Two Oxen five Kine two Calves 38 10 00 One Mare and halfe of a Horse 19 10 00 About eight bushels of Corn and a Hogshead 01 07 00 Three young Cattel Vallued at 06 00 00 Corn taken away esteemed worth 01 10 00  86 17 00 His Fines were Forty Pounds for having Twenty Meetings of the People called Quakers in his House Four Pounds for being at Meetings abroad Five Pounds for Entertaining those People but he Entertained none Twenty five Pounds for not Swearing they Summon them three times a year as oft as they have Courts for that purpose and Fine them Five Pounds Each so to make an end of them They left him
Earth and to leave them neither Name or Remnant whom ye can never destroy mind what I say nor wear out though ye have tryed it as ye could and may be suffered yet a little longer to fill up your Measure But then shall your Destruction come and that in a Moment and the Righteous shall have Dominion over you in the Morning Everlasting Joy shall be upon their heads and Sorrow and Sighing shall flee away And this I testifie from the Mouth of the Lord who hath moved me to speak and to write this in his Name that your Judgment ye may bear in this World as well as in that which is to come and be an Example of his Vengeance to the Ages to come as ye have been in Wickedness and Oppressing the Just and making sad the heart of the Righteous whom the Lord hath not made sad and destroying his Heritage and laying waste his Pleasant Place in which he delights to dwell for ever and ever by your Cruelty and Blood and grinding of the faces of the Poor and eating up the Needy as one would eat Bread The Lord God will come swiftly upon you and will remove you and overturn you and be glorified in what He shall bring upon you and ye shall know that He is the LORD and that He hath done all these things unto you for your manifold Transgressions and your mighty Sins who afflict the Just and hate him that reproveth in the Gate and abhor him that speaketh uprightly whose Treading is upon the Poor and who take from him Burdens of Wheat and turn aside the Poor in the Gate from their Right I say Ye shall know that He is the LORD and that He is in these People whom ye have set at nought and reviled and abused and evil-entreated His Witnesses and those He hath sent amongst ye to turn ye unto Him who is Lord and King and that there is Salvation in no other nor any other Name under Heaven given among Men whereby we must be saved who is the Light of the World the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World who will judge ye for ever whose Judgment is just whose Judgment this is who is King of Righteousness and King of Peace of the Increase of whose Government and Peace there shall be no end upon the Throne of David to order it and stablish it with Judgment and with Justice henceforth even for ever And thus have I dealt with you together and together wrapt ye up like as ye have been folden together as Thorns drunk as Drunkards and while ye be folden together as Thorns while ye are drunk as Drunkards ye shall be overtaken and your Day shall come upon you and you shall fall and rise no more saith the Lord and you shal leave your Name a Curse unto his Chosen who shall dwell in the Land and inherit it and He will be unto them a God and they shall be to Him a People those that ye have thus set at nought and abused and sought to root out and cared not what Cruelty ye caused them to undergo for that purpose without Mercy or Bowels or Compassion And Judgment without Mercy ye shall have that have shewed no Mercy And the Lord God shall stay you and call his Servants by another Name And ye shall be for a Taunt and a Reproach and a Hissing and a Proverb and a perpetual Desolation saith the Lord and my Hand shall be stretched out against you I will not spare you nor pitty you as ye have shewed none nor will I have Mercy but my Judgment shall take hold on you and my Terror shall seize upon you and Fear shall be round about you Your young men shall fall by the Sword your Wives shall be Widows and your Children fatherless they shall be continually Vagabonds and beg and seek their Bread also out of their Desolate places and I will accomplish my Wrath upon you in your Destruction and your Carkasses shall fall and be as Dung on the face of the Earth and the Worm shal be spread under ye and the Worms shall cover you They shall not say of you Ah Lord nor Ah! his Glory but ye shall be cast forth without the Gates and be buried with the Burial of an Asse The Mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have finished the Thoughts of my Heart upon you and have laid you low even in the Dust and Men shall fear because of you and what I will do unto you saith the Lord And mine Indignation shall smoak against you and a fire shall be kindled in my Wrath which shall burn to the nethermost Hell and it shall devour you as Stubble fully dry and your Iniquity shall lie upon your Bones and you shall descend into the Pit and there your Iniquity shall be visited upon you saith the LORD the Mighty God the Holy One of Israel and his King who liveth for ever to whom is the Glory and the Praise and the Dominion for ever The Burden of New-England is ended Yet have I not done with you but must have another Reckoning for what the Servants of the Lord have suffered by occasion of You in other as well as these Plantations Robert Hodgshone a Servant of the Lord being at Hempstead in the Dutch Plantation in America near to New-England and waiting there for Friends coming together in a Meeting as he was walking in the Orchard an Officer came and violently laid hold on him and brought him before one Gildersleave an English-man and a Magistrate there who committed him to Prison and rode to the Dutch Governor and acquainted him therewith and came from him with a Guard of Musquetiers and the Fiscal who laid hold of him and searched him and took away his Knives and Papers and Bible and so pinioned him all the Night and the next Day that he could hardly help or refresh himself any wayes and made diligent Enquiry after those that had entertained him and took into Custody Two Women upon occasion thereof One of whom had two small Children the one sucking at her Breast and got a Cart and conveyed the Women away in it and Robert also whom they fastned to the hinder part of the Cart pinioned and so drew him and them through the Woods in the Night season whereby he was much torn and abused And at the Town called New-Amsterdam loosed him and led him by the Rope with which he was fastned to the Cart to the Dungeon into which he was Cast a filthy miry unholsom place and full of Vermin and the Two Women to another place and there continued them during their pleasures Their Court coming to sit they called him before them and took his Examination in writing and committed him to the Dungeon again and afterwards had him forth and read this Sentence to him in their own Language which the aforesaid Capt. 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quallifie the Dissents Samuel Shattock-Josiah Southick Nicholas Phelps Pass to England Lawrence Cassandra Southick to Shelter Island and there die in three days of each other Joshua Buffum to Rhoad Island The Grounds wherefore you proceeded thus against them mentioned by your Governor D. Denison's Athiestical Principle Micah 2. 1. May 11. 1659. Dan Southick Prov. Southick Ordered to be sold for their Fines Order of the Court General for selling for Bondmen and Bondwomen Amos 2. 4. to the end 2 Chron. 28. 8. to the 16th The Case of Selling to pay Debts weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary Daniel Provided Southick Edw. Wharton Sam. Gaskin Proceedings unto Death W. Robinson M. Stevenson Mary Dyar banish'd and afterwards put to Death 4th Moneth 1659. Nich. Davis banisht on pain of Death Patience Scot a Girl of about 11 years old Daughter to Katherin Scot aforesaid Mary Dyar 14th day 7th Month 1659. Nich. Vpshall 12th day 7th Month 1659. Nichol Davis Mary Dyar W. Robinson M. Stevenson W Robinson stop't from speaking for himself by a Handkerchif thrust into his mouth and attempting yet to speak was had down and given Twenty cruel Lashes with a Threesold Corded Whip 13th of the 7th Moneth 1659. Christopher Holder 8th of the 8th Moneth 1659. Mary Dier Hope Clifton Mary Scot. Robert Harper 13th of the 8th Moneth 1659. W. Robinson M. Stevenson Alice Cowland Daniel Gold of RhoadIsland W. King Hannah Phelps Mary Trask Margaret Smith Prov. Southick 19th of the 8th Moneth 1659. W. Robinson M. Stevenson M. Dier had before the Court. 20th of the 8th Moneth 1659. W Robinson sentented to Death M. Stevenson sentenced to Death also The Sentence of the Lord by him upon those who should be guilty of their Blood in puting them to Death Mary Dier sentenced to Death 27th of the 8th Moneth 1659. The People flock to the Prison A Guard set on it by Night and Irons on William and Marmaduke They are caled forth And take leave of their fellow Prisoners and are led to place of Execution And are met with in the way by Priest Wilson c. Taunted by him And are Executed viz. W. Robinson and M. Stevenson And their dead Bodies cut down and let fall to the breaking of one of their skuls And cast naked into a Pit without a covering And there left in a Pit in the open Field whose Coverin was soon of Water And then Priest Wilson made a Song of them W. Robinsons Paper to the Court. M. Stevenson's Account of his Call to Boston for which he laid down his Life to be upon Record for all to know the Ground thereof therefore wrote by him and left in the words within written Mary Dyar had to the Gallows her Arms and Legs tied face covered and Halter about her Neck then Repriev'd and pull'd down because she came not presently down being willing to dye ready and near to it She tenders to die the next day again but is resused and forcibly carried in stead thereof out of the Prison and with Horses Horse-men towards Rhoade Island From whence she came again in the Will of the Lord and suffered Death as hereafter is to be shewn The Demeanor of the People heavy and sad after the Execution of the Two former Two Examples of the Judgement of the Lord on their Enemies The one a Woman that reviled them at the Execution on whom a Draw-bridge fell upon her return and she dyed miserably The other 3. Grandchildren of Priest Wilsons who dyed shortly after Edw. Wharton 31. 8th Moneth 1659. Apprehended Committed 3d 9th Moneth 1659. whipt with 20 lashes and fined 20 l. 11th 9th Moneth 1659. Therest of the Prisoners called before the Court. 22d 9th Moneth 1659. Whipt with cruel stripes 30 Dan Gold 15 R. Harper 15 W. King 10 Mar. Smith 10 Mary Trask 10 Provided Southick Alice Cowland Han. Phelps Mary Scot Hope Cliston Admonisht Christo Holder Banished Mary Dyar put to De th after the Reprieve The Sufferings of Friends in Plimmouth Patent Nicholas Upshal John Copeland Christopher Holder 16th day 6th Month 1657. Martins Vineyard The kindness of the Indians in Martins Vineyard A Savory speech of an Indian They being commanded to depart out of Plimmouth and returning again were apprehended * W. Newland Fined 20 s. for demanding a Coppy of their Warrant of the Deputy Constable and sent the second time out of that Colony 2d of the 7th Moneth 1657. Threatned if they return Hump. Norton Banished Suffering as to Fines Ralph Alden W. Newland of Sandwitch 8th Moneth 1658. Peter Gaunt Dan. Wing Ra. Allin W. Allin of Sandwitch Fined for not putting off the Hat Laws against Friends made by the Court. 1. Moneth 1658. An Account of more Lawes against Friends how wicked they are read More wicked Laws The manner of their Proceedings to weary out Friends by Fines as to the Oath of Fidelity A Remarkable instance in a poor Weaver of their Cruelty Fines as to Meetings Three or fourscore presented at One Court for not coming to Publick Meetings Tho. Hinckleys Law for not Coming to Meetings A Notable Juggle or Sophistication of a Law made 7 years before to serve the present turn as if it were not then made Will. Newland More Wickedness against those People W. Brend J. Copeland Sarah Gibbens W. Brend J Copeland Whipt cruelly with Rods 9th day 12th Month 1657. Edw. Perry Hump. Norton John Rous whipt Chr. Holder John Copeland 23d day 4th Month 1658 They are whipt with 33 lashes A Woman crying out to see the Execution John Copeland Josiah Coal 5th day 9th Month 1658. Suffering of Friends in Sandwitch as to Fines and Confiscation of Estates A wicked Speech of Tho. Prince the Governor as to these People Rob. Harper Ralph Allen the elder Joseph Allen. Tho. Greenfeild Edw. Perry 10th Moneth 1658. 1. Moneth 1659. 4th Moneth 1659. 7th Moneth 1659. Disturbances of Meetings by the Marshal George Barloe and his Huntings after them Richard Kirby and his son Richard 14th day 7th Month 1659. George Allin W. Allin Matth. Allin 18th of the 1st Month. 1659. A Desperate speech of R. Cadwel one of the Marshal's Assistants W. Gifford 10th Moneth 1658. 1st Moneth 1659. 8th Moneth 1659. Tho. Ewer 17th of the 10th Month 1658. Bread Corn taken from the Mill for their fines and their working tools W. Newland Hen. Howland of Duxbury Dan. Wing Ralph Allin the yonger Peter Gaunt John Jenkins The Common Priviledge of Freemen denyed The Extream Madness of Major Winslow against them Mich. Turner John Newland Tho Johnson Arth. Howland 28th day 3d Month 1658. An Appeal to England Denied Hen. Howland Nich. Davis Will. Leddra Peter Pearson Sufferings in New-haven Colony Humph. Norton Apprehended Committed Cast into Prison Chained to a Post 12th Month 1657. 11th day first Month 1658. A Key tyed athwart Hump. Nortons mouth whilest the Priest was speaking The Priests Security Sentenc'd to be severely whipt and to be burnt in the hand c. and Banisht The Sentence Executed Will. Brend Mary Dyar Mary Weatherhead others What her sinking in the Sea signified Sufferings of Friends in the Dutch Plantation by occasion of the New English Rob. Hodgshone John Tilton Joan Chatterton Hen. Townsend 7th day 6th Month 1658. Tobias Foak Edward Hart. Hen. Townsend 11th March 1657. Mary Weatherhead Dorothy Waugh Edw. Warton Mary Trask John Smith Marg. Smith of Salem Robert and Deborah Harper of Sandwitch W. Christison W. King Marth Standly Mary Write W. Ledra Banished Joseph Nicholson and his Wife Winlock Christison * Dan. Denison aforesaid in Particular A Law making it death directly or indirectly to seek the Alteration of the Government * One Rogers Priest of Rowley Doctor Child Sam. Miverick David Yeal c. Imprisoned for endeavouring to Petition to England for redress of their grievances This was before friends came to New-England and those this Priest for so doing would have had hanged R. Billinghams wicked speech The Jaylor rejoyced that Joseph was come again to be put to death The Beast of the Court. Anne Hutcheson and others Murdered Sufferings in Canect Colony J Copeland John Rous. Will. Leddra W. Brend Sara Gibbens Doro Waugh Joseph and Jane Nicholson New-haven Colony John 4. 23. †William Leddra