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A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

expecting their prey John Norton Priest being then present and speaking yet opened they not the●r mouths until he had done although the burden of the Word vvas much upon them then opened S●rah Gibb●n● her mouth saying the Bu●den of the Word of the Lord to the Inhabitants of Bo●●on because of your pr●de and oppression the land mourns in speaking o● which words the Serjeant laid hands upon her and pulled her down was this a noble Act did he herein shevv forth the spirit of a man Sure I am that a man of a noble spirit vvould condemn it and a man of valour or vvorth vvould be ashamed of such a man then D●ro●●y Waugh spake bidding them Fear God and give glory to his Name c. Several other vvords were uttered as they past out of their Synagogue in their way to Prison multitudes following them vvhere they two were shut up in a close room not being suffered to have food for their money And requiring it of the Jaylor he answered That if vve vvould not eat the prison food vve should famish and then he brought both food and vvork and laid before them but the Lord put a stop to it that they could not meddle with neither knowing the wickedness of their wills against which they were called to stand Witnesses but the jaylor vvould not suffer them to have any for eight days together but said they should leave their carcasses behind them mark this expression yet the Lord preserved them and he found a liar Upon the first of the third moneth they were called to be examined before John Indicot Governor and Ric●ard Bell●●gham Deputie Governour and several others vvho wickedly seeking to ensnare them examined them apart yet were they preserved in boldness and courage and carried forth in the manner following Sarah Gibbins John Indico● asked me if I had not been in those parts before Answe● It is known already vvhether I was yea or nay he asked me again hovv long I had been in their Colonie I told him it was in my breast how long but it is like I shall not tell thee he said he vvould make me tell him before we had done I asked him why he sought to ensnare me and my friends that had entertained me seeing you have made such a Law to oppress them vvhereby to take away their goods for so doing to hold up your oppression and the Governour asked us whether we owned Christ yea or nay Answ Yea He said D● you own him with a humane body sitting at the right hand of God in heaven Ans We own no other Christ then he that sits in heaven at the right hand of the Father Then Rich. Bellingham Deputie Governour asked us If there is a God Answ Yes there is a God which is righteous true and just in judgment which will render vengeance on all the workers of iniquity and your actions are recorded before him as with a pen of Iron and a point of a Diamond for the cry of the oppressed is entred into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbaths then like a man of unclean lips and not one that is fit to sit in the seat of justice told me I was a Witch and said I spake I knew not what Answ I have learned Christ so as to pass through good and evill report then he asked me if I was the light which we so often spake of Answ I bear witness of Christ the light which lighteth every ma●● that cometh into the world as saith the Scripture he pressed much on me saying was I the light yea or nay but he was shut out with all his subtilty John Indicot asked us Why we came to disturb them in the face of both Town and Country Answ Did we disturb or did you make the disturbance in searching and rifling houses six days before we came Did not fear surprize the Hypocrites if you were of the elect and elected and we deceivers it is impossible that the elect should be deceived you should have let us been tryed the other day in your meeting before the Town and Country that the deceivers might have been made● manifest and truth cleared to the simple Then John Indicot said he did not send for me to dispute with me but said how came you by your Learning by revelation Answ Not by the will of man then I demanded of him if it were justice or equity we should be kept and not suffered to have food for our money this being the third day we have been thus kept and have not eaten one morsel of bread you may all see that God is with us and that we came well into this Town several hundreds can witness and if we perish our blood will fall heavy upon you which are the cause of it Then ●●hu Indicot said it matters not but if you will work you shall want for nothing then I told him that he had taken me from the work that the Lord called me unto then he said the Lords work the devils work and called to the Caolor to take me away the sentence being past upon us both to be severely whipt and not spared the second day of the week following they executed their malice upon us ten stripes a piece cruelly laid on with a threefold cord having knots at ends for causing it to tare the flesh so to torment the creature which being done we were moved to praise God for his presence at which the people was astonished after which vve vvas shut up and the windows stopt whereby to prevent us from the aire and all manner of refreshment so continued us for the want of paying of fees certain days in vvhich time God wrought their deliverance by one Robert Westcot of Warvvick in the Collony of Road-Iland Also Horred Gardiner a mother of many children and an inhabitant in Newport upon Road-Iland being moved by the measure of God to go on his message unto Weymouth took with her the youngest babe that fed upon her brest such a journey that no flesh that had looked upon it with the fleshly eye could have expected considering her condition she could have accomplished but her faith was made strong through weakness and according to the will of God finished her testimony at Weymouth in Boston Collony where the witness in the people answered unto her words but the baser sort hurried her away the day following before John Indicot Governor of Boston who after abusing her with unsavory language and much threatening committed her and the girle that assisted her to bear her child Mary Stanton by name with reviling language unto the Gaolor where they receive ten stripes a piece with the threefold cord of their covenant Such a barbarous article of their faith i● this as I have not heard the like as to whip a woman who bare two babes sucking the breast at the time one visible and the other invsible who after that execution of this their cruelty kneeled down saying The Lord

because he would not see it done the which John Rous taking notice of said Nay turn about and see it done for so was his order so in the strength of God we suffered joyfully having freely given up not onely one member but all if the Lord so required for the sealing of our testimony which the Lord hath given us to finish and said these words They that do it ignorantly we do desire from our hearts the Lord to forgive them but for them that do it maliciously let our blood be upon 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 So when they had done their bloody Work they slunck away as a dog when he hath sucked the blood of a Lamb and is discovered So here is a Declaration of the dealings of these men who account themselves members of Christ and the Church of God but let that of God in all judge whether these be the fruits of the members of Christ Did Christ ever do so Or did he leave any Precept that his servants should do so Or rather did he not rebuke Peter for being too forward when he smote the High Priest's servant cut off his right ear Did he not tell him They that take the sword shall perish with the sword And doth not the Scripture say He that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed and know this that there is nothing defileth a land or people more then the shedding of innocent blood and nothing brings down the judgments of God sooner on a People or Nation then the cry of innocent blood therefore let not such call themselves the Church of God for God hath no union nor fellowship with such that acteth violence and gather themselves together and condemn the innocent blood as saith the Scriptures shall the Throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which ●rameth mischief by a Law They gather themselves together against the souls of the Righteous and condemns the innnocent blood Let all sober people judge whether these people are not so who hath shed our blood against whom they could prove no evil either in word or action only the breach of their Law which they have made mischievously to ensnare the innocent but it is that they may be made manifest to be of that generation that condemned Christ saying We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye But our desire is that all in whom the Seed of God is may be kept clear from the guilt of innocent blood that so they may be hid in the day of the fierce Wrath of the Almighty God For behold The Lord cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their iniquity the Earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain From Boston prison this 25. of the 7. Mo 1659. We are Witnesses of it who suffers for the Truths sake by the corrupt wills of men for keeping the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus the truth of which shall be witnessed in the day when the righteous judgements of God shall be made manifest when all things shall be tryed by fire even the day shall declare it Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland We are the three that sustained this abuse who the truth of this their action doth declare unto all that though their Law Sentence and Order be to cut off the Ear yet have they made them a lye for they have not taken away the sixt part of our Ears but the member they have defaced and abused which God had formed and made This and all other of our sufferings in Boston Collony hath been done in private by which all may easily judge what sort of people these are whose actions are thus plainly demonstrated Again Katherine Scot an Inhabitant of Providence in the same land a Woman of good report as these her adversaries could not but in some measure confess having lived with an husband the space of twenty years in that Country no people in that nature more circumspect and blameless seeking God in the sincerity of their hearts in every likeness whereinsoever he appeared so fraid were they to miss of him and so ready to fulfil that Scripture Try all things and hold fast that which is good which when that which is good came full ready were they to receive it and those who brought it not accounting any thing they had too good wherewithall to assist the Lord and his Servants for which they lost not their reward for the power of God took place in all their children small and great so far as capacity could receive it which may amount to eight or nine And God trying the faith of this his servant who being both grave in years and Mother of so many children yea and the Wife of a tender Husband full readily and willingly left she all to do the Will of God knowing that they who do it not are not worthy of him Who being called unto Boston and accordingly by the hand of God brought thither upon the 16. of the 7. Month 1658. who coming to the prison when the Hangman some others were going to execute the cruelty upon the aforementioned sufferers to wit Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland whom she witnessed that the Lord of his large love had sent to gather his scattered seed which had been scattered and driven away in the gloomy day of Antichrists night being strongly pressed in her spirit to visit them in the time of their sufferings and to bear forth her testimony against their cruel and barbarous dealings pressed towards the door amongst other people but by the violence of the Wicked was not suffered to enter who thereupon uttered these following Words saying It was evident they were going to act the works of darkness or else they would have brought them forth publikely and have declared their offence that others might hear and fear With several other Words declaring them and their cruelty to be worse and more barbarous then the Doctors and Bishops This doing all the while their ears were cutting Which Testimony of hers a man of a sober spirit received and after some time standing patiently to hear one of the prisoners minister after they had executed their malice where standing the Marshal came and pulled her down and said that she might go before the Governor This he did leading her away although he had been her brothers servant who bringing her before the Court held for the 4. united Collonies so called the Governor asked her why she came there Ans To witness against the cruel spirit that so abuses Gods faithful Servants and Messengers whom he hath sent so often amongst you He said What are they Apostles or Messengers Answ Yea I have found them so to me He said We will witness against your railing spirit Ans I deny all railing and have

the latter far surmounting the former several times have they endeavoured to starve us to death by famine at the Town of Boston several times under restraint vvhich herein is not mentioned several of us lost in the Wilderness in the Winter-season several nights vvading deep Waters in frost snovv and cold vvhen none could be had to guide us because of the season one of vvhich S●rah Gibbins by Name lost tvvo nights in this nature being alone vvithout man or Woman to comfort her seized on by an Indian vvhich sorely attempted her but the Lord delivered her the English also endeavouring to stirr up the Indians against us all this have vve born and suffered through his strength and for his love vvho hath chosen us vvhereby vve have heaped Coles upon the heads of our Adversaries vvho hath thus entreated us vvho vvas sent unto them for their souls sake vvho hath caused us to say Oh how are the precious sons of Sion comparable to fine Gold esteemed as Earthen Pitchers the Clay of the Potter H. N. A Letter to John Indicot and John Norton Governor and chiefe Priest in Boston which yet is not answered FRiends I heard a great noise about a litttle Note I writ to Iohn Indicot after the Brethrens Ears were cut be it known unto you that it was onely unto such as sits in counsel to shed innocent blood with such as votes them up and upholds them therein who deserves the greatest curse of all Crimes as for all such into whose hands my Paper comes let them compare it with the Laws which they of Boston made against us as cursed Blasphemers and Hereticks and Adamites c. as if they made a Libel of their Law And consider how much ever any of you have seen or heard us troubled a● it and I having sent forth but one few lines wherein is laid upon them that which is but their due and see how the Beast roars as if he were wounded in his secret parts and cryed out unto all the Earth for ease and mind you Reader whether their Curses or ours is of more force and whether it 's they or we that lyes under the power of a plague and whether in all ages it was the innocent or the guilty who cried out Help O men of Israel help Humph. Norton John Indicot Cursed is that man which causeth any to be dismembered of the members that God hath formed made given them before he that made them doth remove them sad wil it go with thee if the loss of that member cost any one his life Remember that Scripture thou brought That he that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Think not O miserable man that thou canst cover or hide thy self by saying thou persecutest not nor thou sheds no mans blood for in the condition thou art none of these things can be done without thee or thy consent and at thy hand will all this blood and cruelty be required thou knowest that they are but Officers imployed by thee that executes it thou art the foreman in forging of them of this take warning from the Lord God that in the day wherein thou begins with that bloody Work of dismembering the cry of blood will enter into thy house and the curse of God will be more grievous to thy heart for so doing then all the Earth can add thee comfort As thou tenders pitty to thy poor soul take warning before-hand least thou have cause to repent when it is too late least of these thy actions and proceedings will be unto thee as a burdensome stone in the day of thy account Thou maist remember that thou asked me how thou should know that I was sent of God c. I say Many examples might be giveu thee if thou couldst believe As first The Scripture is fulfilled in hurling and pulling me out of your Affembly in such a manner as never any was out of the Church of God and haling me before the Magistrates and casting me into prison according to that Scripture mentioned by John Norton The Devil shall cast some of you into prison Doth not thou believe that he prophesied what would become of us And is it not now as it was then that he that lives after the flesh persecutes him that lives after the Spirit so that this is no new thing but if there be in him any manhood for God or love to the souls of his people let him come forth and give proof thereof in performing but this reasonable request and if he be a Herdsman either of Abraham or Lot and in his thoughts hath gone all this time to the right hand let him now turn to the left and take his Compass through Piymouth-Patten Road-Island Providence Long-Island and else where they have believed and received our report whom you account and call deluders and I shall freely engage my body for his unto this Patten that he shall not be imprisoned whipped nor dismembred by any of them and the same time that he hath there with any one or more accompanying him let me have the like Liberty in this Town and Collony with my yokefellow and let the fruit shew the effect who is the deceiver the false Prophet the Earthly Epicure or the Worldly belly-god if this he deny let him be ashamed and never more owned by you his hearers to be a Minister of the Spirit of truth Let me have his or thy Answer on his behalf directed unto me who is a friend to thy soul called Hump. Norton but by the scorners a quaker Let him subscribe the Answer and let not these deluded Flocks as you account them be lost for want of his labour Again thou maist remember thou charged me with Blasphe● my against John Norton Whereunto I say Had he been a Minister of Christ and I had hit him on the one che●k or under the fifth rib he should have turn'd unto me the other also and let me have had both place and time with him and the people that he might the more have laid me open and not to have suffered one of his chief members as if it were his heart to have cast me into prison but this and such as this doth but the further make thee and him manifest Dated from Boston prison this 16. of the 5. Month 1658. Another LETTER to the Town of Boston BOSTON is a withered Branch the sap of the Vine is departed from it your profession is become barren and your glory is become withered ye are departed from the Lord and have followed your own inventions How is thy beauty faded thou who was famous among the Nations for thy zeal towards God! But now thy zeal is turned to hypocrisie and envy hath eaten you out and malice is as a Canker among you and the way of peace you know not but are following that which makes desolate therefore return while you have time and let God be truly minded by you lest he break forth with

have this ancient man entertainad by any issuing out his second Warrant to appear at Plymouth vvhich is called tvventy miles distant from Sandvvitch But Nicholas not being able to go vvrote to the Governor that if he perished his blood vvould be required at his hand and some of the Magistrates beeing more moderate spirits spake for him that he might stay the Winter so he was permitted But in the Spring they banished him out of their Coasts to Road-Iland the habitation of the hunted-Christ vvhere none of the dumb doggs dare come so much as to lift their tongues for lucre This vve are Witnesses of vvho have been sent out of all their Coasts into that Iland where we ever found a place to rest our heads when weary we have been God reward the Receiver Again in the yeer 1657. beginning in the sixth month There being certain of the servants of God come for New-England and being according to his providence cast upon a certain Iland lying betwixt the English and the Dutch arrived in New-Amsterdam where the day following certain of the Strangers had drawings forth into the Town and Countrey to seek the scattered seed two of which declared in the streets to wit Mary W●a ●●erhead and Dorothy Waugh for which they were apprehended and cast into miery dungeons apart each from other where was much Vermine the which two after they had been there about eight dayes were had out thence having their arms tyed and rods made fast to them and two Negroes going with them untill they came at a Boat which was to go to Road-Iland into which they was put and carried away Again One Robert Hodgshone a true and faithful servant of God who hath sacrificed up himself withall whatsoever was neer and deer unto him for the testimonies sake unto him committed was moved forth amongst the English in these parts to make known unto them the Gospel of God which by several of them in several parts thereabouts was gladly received and believed against which the Heathen raged and the people imagined mischievous things he being at a place called Hempsteed expecting to have a Meeting amongst such as was seeking after God being walking in an Orchard belonging to such as was willing to receive a meeting there came unto him an Officer who laid violent hands upon him and carryed him before one Gildersleaue titled a Magistrate an English-man who taking counsel at the baser sort of people committed him prisoner while he rode to the Dutch-Governor it being in that Jurisdiction who brought the Fiscal so called with a guard of Musquetiers who took him into their custody vvho searched him and took avvay his knives and papers and Scripture-book and pinioned him all the night and the next day so that he had hardly liberty to refresh or rest himself any vvay and they searched strictly for those that had entertained him and laid hold on tvvo Women the one having tvvo small children the one of vvhich fed upon her brest and got a cart and conveyed the vvoman avvay in it and him they tyed to the hinder part of it pinioned and so haled him through the vvoods in the night-season vvhereby he vvas much torne and abused so coming to the tovvn called Nevv-Amscerdam they loosed the prisoner and the Goaler led him by the rope vvherevvithall hee vvas pinioned unto the Dungeon vvhere he vvas cast and committed the women prisoners to another place and there continued them during their pleasure At the time of their Court they caused the prisoner to wit Robert Hodg●hone to be brought before them and took his examination in writing and committed him to the Dun●eon again afterwards they took him forth and read an accusation against him in their owne language the words that were interpreted to him by Captaine Willet were these It is the Generalls pleasure seeing you have behaved your selves thus you are to work two yeers at a Wheel-barrow with a Negor or pay or cause to be paid six hundred Gilders Then Robert indeavoured to make his defence by way of sober reply but was not suffered to speak but taken away and returned again to the Dungeon and there kept no English suffered to come at him for several dayes then at their pleasure took they him out again and pinioned him and set his face towards the Court-Chamber taking off his hat and read another accusation against him in Dutch which he understood not but many of their own Nation who heard it shook their heads at it and when they had done cast him into the Dungeon again after certain dayes took him forth betimes in a morning and chained him to a Wheelbarrow and commanded him to work his answer was He was never brought up nor used to that work so they caused a ●egor to take a pitch-rope nigh four inches about and beat him with it untill he fell downe and they tooke him up again by strength and beat him untill he fell downe again the second time it was judged that hee received an hundred blowes then they forced him up with the Barrow to the Fort before the Governors house and made complaint to him that they could not make him work so hee stood chained to the Barrow and nigh unto the middle of the day the Sun shining very hot and hee beeing much bruised and swelled with blowes beeing kept much from food also was very faint and sate down upon the ground waiting with his minde staid upon the Lord felt his strength and refreshment as the oyl of gladness which made him whole but still by them kept chained at the Barrow untill the seventh hour in the night then loosed and put into the Dungeon untill the morning about the sixth hour then taken forth again and lock't to the Barrow with a guard set upon him that none might come so much as to speake with him beeing kept there untill the seventh hour as before and brought forth the next day in like manner and afterwards loosed and carried before the Governor who asked him if he would work if not he should be whipt every day then he demanded what Law he had broken and called for his accusers that he might know his transgression and told him That if he were called to that work by the Lord he should not refuse it then thiy chained him to the Barrow again and told him that if he spake to any one he should be punished worse yet his mouth was opened to such as came about him then they seeing that he could not be silent they put him up into the Dungeon and kept him close several dayes two nights one day and an half without bread or water then took him out very early in the morning to a private Chamber and stripped him to the waste and hung him up by the hands and tyed a great logg to his feet that he could not turn his body and set a strong Negor with rods who laid many stripes upon him both backward and forward wherewith he

friends from giving them any thing being fearful to wrong a tender Conscience but the time of the year being so cold that his wife and friends was in fear that he should have perished there besides the necessity of his being at home which thing lay v●ry sad upon her so that she with his Friends ●●ok a pair of Oxen and a Horse al●hough he had no more and gave them to the persecuters to free him on t of their hands Much more of their cruelty I might truly relate but for being tedious to the Reader this is truth as attests T. H. More of their names we see in wisdome not meet to publish in Print because of the crueltie of the Dutch but rather keep them hid But if any in Authority in England should call us to question for it who out of bowels of mercy would labour to relieve their imbond aged brethren I the Relator with several others who are Witnesses of this thing to be truth shall count it a sma●l matter to confirm it for their redemption who were Labourers amongst them in the Lord Called Robert Hodgshone Humphrey Norton THE ACCOUNT OF Cruelty the Professor's Pride and the Articles of their Faith WITH Their Proceedings beginning in the sixth month of the yeer 1657. AFter our landing at Road-Iland according to the will of God where we were gladly received when others inhumanely thrust us avvay from them as may be seen in vvhat here follovvs We tvvo Christopher Holder and Iohn Copeland vvas moved of the Lord to go to an Iland called Martins Vineyard vvhereof Thomas Maho vvas then Governor in vvhich place is many Indians and coming there on the sixteenth of the sixth moneth 1657 vve vvent to their Meeting and after the Priest Thomas Maho the Governor's son had done his speech one of us spake a fevv vvords and then vvas both of us by he Constable thrust out of doores and forthvvith the doors vvere shut yet going thither on the later part of that day after some dispute with them we departed but on the morrow the Governour with the Constable came to us who after some words with us required us to be gone off the Illand our answer was in the will of God we stood to go as he made our way for us but he being not satisfied with this Answer hired an Indian to have us away saying that it was the will of God that we should go to day and required mon●y of us to pay the Indian for carrying us but we seeing little of our going that day did say that we could not pay the Indian forasmuch as we did not hire him nor set him on work then he commanded the Constable to search for our money who accordingly did and took from us nine shillings which vvhen they had so done delivered us into the hands of the Indians to have us away over the water in the main Land in one of their Cannons vvhich is a piece of a tree ●ewed hollow vvho forthwith had us away from them where we remained among the Indians three days till there was a calm season to have us over the Sea vvhich vvas about nine miles a great Sea for such a small Vessel all vvhich time vve received no small love from the Indians the like we could not receive from the ENGLISH for what we eat we could not perswade him whom we were withall to take money for it he saying that vve vvas strangers and Jehovah taught him to love strangers So on the 20 of the sixt moneth 1657. vve vvere landed on the other side and coming to Sandwitch a tovvn in Plymouth Colony vve vvere gladly received by many yet great vvas the stir and noise of the tumultuous Citie yea all in an uproar hearing that vve vvho vvere called by such a name as Quakers vvas come into those parts A great fire vvas kindled the hearts of many did burn within them so that in the heat thereof some said one thing and some another but the most Part knew not what was the matter yea so it is in truth our God went before us whose presence was and is vvith us compassing of us vvhose dread took hold of them so that their hearts failed them for fear of those things which vvas coming upon them So after vve had been at San●witch some small time vve passed to New Plymouth and being at the Ordinary there Thomas Southworth one of their Magistrates of that Town with several of their Church-members came to us who after a long dispute required us to be gone and on the morrow early was the under Marshal set to keep us from going away into whose hands we were committed Prisoners by Thomas Southworth before whom with one John Alden a Magistrate in the next Town was we called the same day who after examination from whence we were and why we came thither and such like questions which were answered and they having nothing in justice against us yet required they of us to be gone out of their Colony telling us they had an Order or Law that we should not stay there we required to see it but they would not shew it us telling us that we were at liberty so we returned unto the Ordinary again yet in the morning early was the Constable sent by word of mouth from them to keep us from going to Sandwich unto which place we told them the day before we could not ●e free to pass out of the Colo●y till we had been there finding the Lords drawings so thither again as we were passing the Constable seized on us and had us out of the bounds of Plimouth Town towards Road Island six miles as he was commanded who leaving us we soon turned to the place before mentioned whither we came some of the people being set against us especially the Teachers made an unrighteous complaint to the Governour Thomas Prince by Name whose ear being open to the wicked but stopt to the cry of the just as may hereafter appear by adding iniquity to oppression did cause us to be brought before him who sinding nothing against us yet for being only called Quakers did require us to depart the which thing standing in the will of God we could not do and so did answer him then he to answer the unrighteous complaints made against us and false charges as deceivers c. whose great cry was Help O Governour help us against these Quakers that are now come amongst us and secure them and send them away from us in answering to which cry he was not sparing to use his power by setting his hand to write an unjust Warrant accompanied with lyes calling us extravagant persons and vagabonds giving charge to apprehend us in the Name of his Highness the Lord Protector whose name they labour to defame as upon due consideration will be found and plainly seen by what follows and bring us to Plymouth which accordingly was done and we apprehended and kept Prisoners by the Constables Deputie who

forgive you for you know not what you do a woman standing by said Surely if she had not the spirit of the Lord she could not do this thing Thus they continued them in prison about fourteen days not suffering any of their friends to come at them this and such as this puts a clear difference and demonstration betwixt their faith and ours each faith shewing forth its fruit the one through travels tryals patience and sufferings manifesting theirs before the faces of all people the other through wrath malice cruel mockings reviling language scourgings and imprisonments manifesting theirs and whether of these faiths stands in God seeing there is but one Lord and one faith unto salvation we leave it unto that of God in all people to judge this cruelty was acted on them about the eleventh of the third moneth 1658. A relation of the sufferings of Thomas Harris in Boston It came to pass that on the fifteen of the fourth month 1658. that I with tvvo other friends set forth from Road-Iland towards Boston jurisdiction and on the seventeenth day of the same I came to Boston and being moved to their meeting house there I came and stood quietly until the Priest had done speaking then I spake to the people these words The Dreadful terrible day of the Lord God of heaven and earth is coming upon the inhabitants of this Town and Country then was I pulled out by two men and soon a man came and put his hand upon my mouth that I should not speak and another took me by the hair of my head but when they let me go I spake to the people again that thty took heed how they joyn with oppressors and cruel men for the Lord God was risen and their coverings were found to narrow for their nakedness did appear unto all them that feared God then they carried me to prison after a while had me before the Governor where was the Deputy-Governor with several Magistrates and many people and coming in to the room where the Governor was he asked me if I knew before whom I was come I told him yea Iohn Indicot why do you not put off your hat Thomas Harris I do not keep it on in contempt of authority but in obedience to the Lord so one pulled off my hat then the Deputy Governor bid the Marshall bring a pair of shears to cut off my hair I told him it was against my desire if he did but he might do what he was permitted the governor asked from whence I came Th● Harris from Providence Iohn Indicot from whence there Tho. Harris from Road Island Iohn Indicot what were them that came with you Tho. Harris It is like I shall not tell thee Gover. I will make thee tell before thou dost go Govern The divel hath taught thee a deal of subtilty and said that we were all divellish blasphemous hereticks meaning them that were called quakers T. H. Take heed what thou speaks as thou will answer it in the dreadful day of the Lord God it is an easie matter to speak that we are blasphemers and such like in words but can you prove it or make it appear the Governor said you are all such T. H. it will not serve thy turn in the day of thy account to say we are all such Govern I matter not what thou speaks why didst thou come here T. H. In obedience to the Lord the Governor said in obedience to the Lord in obedience to the devil vvhy didst thou come here to trouble us T. H. To declare against pride and oppression men that use cruelty The Governor asked if he were such a one Answer yea the Governor said wherein do I use cruelty Answer in oppressing the innocent Dep. Govern He deserves to be hanged Again the Dep. Governor prest me to tell him what they were that came with me and said that there was murder committed that day and he did not know but we were the men therefore I should tell him what they were T. H. accuse me if thou canst vvith it but this vvas false for there vvas no such thing neither did they knovv from me at all vvhat they vvere many more questions vvas asked me but seeing their intent vvas to ensnare I vvas kept silent then sent they me to prison vvithout Warrant or Mittimus vvhere I vvas shut up in a close room not any suffered to come unto me neither could be suffered to buy food for my money the next morning the Gaolor came unto me to knovv if I vvould vvork so as to earn him one shilling and out of it to have four pence in such diet as he vvould give me then after a vvhile he called me dovvn to be vvhipt I asked vvhat lavv I had broken and read it unto me but he refused then pulling of my cloaths brought me to the post vvhere I received ten stripes vvith their thre● corded vvhip then he shut me up again vvhere he kept me eleven days not suffering me to buy any thing to eat meat he brought me but he vvould not receive money for it neither should I eat it except I vvould vvork as he said but at the end of five days I had food conveyed to me in at a vvindovv by a friend in the night season or otherways by probability I had been starved to death and in the five days a prisoner conveyed me in a little water for which they threatned him and yet the same day that I was whipt the Gaolor came to me and told me that I had suffered what the law required and if I would hire the Marshal to convey me out of their jurisdiction I might be gone when I would Answ If the doors be set open J know no other but J shall pass but to hire a guard that J cannot so on the sixt day before the sixt hour in the morning the Gaolor because I could not go to work at his will laid on me twenty two blows with a pitch rope notwithstanding he had told me that I had suffered what the law required before and on the ninteenth of the fifth moneth 1658 brought me again to the post with several brethren more where J received fifteen cruel stripes as hereafter you will further understand Againe William Brend and William Leddra who was the two which accompanied the before-mentioned Thomas Harris into Boston Pattent having drawings unto Salem where they were received and had several Meetings with other Service which they did for God in that Colony but consenting to the Simplicity in a plain man for his satisfaction yeelded to meet with their Minister so called Provis● that they might not be insnared knowing their Law which was granted unto them by way of promise which when the said Minister came brought a Magistrate with him who after conference togeeher to cover the condition upon which the Strangers met them they suffered them to pass away but before they were gone half a mile the Magistrate called Capt. 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