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Show ( )6 ) with this the faid Hathorn was not {arisfied, but being filled wirh Cruelry and Blood, fcmt fonh his Warrants, and caufed feveral of the Beafis of rhe faid La'Jvrence and Jofiab to be deftrajned, to rhe Valne of four Pounds Thirteen Shill'ings, rhar is ro fay, for Six Weeks abfence of rhe faid La'Jvrence and Cajfandra, Three Pounds Six ShiJ. lings, and rhe reft for Jo(iab their Son, being two young Beafls, and a fat Hog. Neither wirh this was the faid Hathorn fatis-fied, nor wirh rhe Departure offome ouc ofrhat E.Htt~1ut, J urifdiB:ion, becaufe of your Cru~~ry; bur from ~~~fl hls one Edward Barnet (Aged about Sixty Nine Years, An1o~her (jnd his Wife Sevenry Three) and anorper Aged Aged Fa· family, he caufed Thircy Seven Shillings to be mily. taken, for nor coming ro your Meetings, tho' they were Low in the Omward, and had more need ro have been mi~ifired unco, than ro be taken from. W.sbattock And William Sbattock an Inhabitant of BQjlen, tfi:Month, ye * Com mined ro your Houfe of Correttion, 16~8. and Cruelly Whipp'd him at his firfi Entrance, becaufe he was found alone in his own Houfe by your Confiable, on a Fir!l: Day, where ye kept him ro Work (which was making of Shoes) and the Jaylor rook his Labour from his Wife and Children ; which puning him on firairs co think what he fhould do for their -3ufienance, tho' he could have well endured rhe thing as to himfelf, yet in rega·rd your Deputy-Governour rold his Wife (.in parr of whofe Houfe his .Family then was) th?t in regard he was Poor, and could not pay them Five Shillings a Week, for . not coming to your Meetings, you would continue~ him frill .in Prifon : He defired to depan your ]Llrifditlion,which to do ye gave him but a very . f1lon time.. And yo~ou faid pe- . , pury .. ( S7 ) puty·Governour endeavoured tq make a Sepa-4 ration between him and his Wife, perf~ading her rhat the lhould never hear of him more, when he was gone to feek our a PJ<lce for them in another JurifdiClion; and th4t what William had done, was £O be rid of her and her four Children, and rold her, That if ffl~ would dif- . own him, and perf wade his Children · ro it ( a CLlrfed Work) nehher ffle nor her Children /}lould want ; for rwo of them he intended ro keep himfelf, his Son being (as your faid' DeJ.? ury faid) fir to keep his Sheep, whom he rool~ from the .place where William had ~ppoimed hir.n r.o abide, Jell {he Deputy fflould make a Prey of him. And fo he had but three Days lime to dtparr your JufifdiClion, provide for his Family, receive and pay his Debes, which he was . neceffirared ro accept, ~ecaufe ye had concluded .to keep him frill in Piifon, and co rake of hjs Ch~Idt:en w be 'yo~~ Servanrs, and ro make his Wife to ,ao. your ·Wills; or perpetually 13anifh him, as he underfiood by her. Bdides, ye committed him, and ordered him ro be fcverely \\"hipp'd ar his firfr Entrance, accor~ing ro your firfl: Law, entirule~, A Law concerning Q!ft~kcrs, and rhcre to be kepr, and none fuffered ro converfe wirh him whilfi he was in Prifon. And this is the J ufl:ice of the Court of the Majfacbufets, and the Religion of your Depmy wwards God. But to proceed, and let O!hers fee, as well as your felves, what a Generation ye are, and Heap of Evil -doers, whom no Confiderarion will rye, nor keep Mean or Medium: There were about ~pis rime Three of the ·Inhabiranrs of s~!em got~ g w Rkode-Ijland to ~ee the Place, an4 co proVIde a Bemg tor thc:mfelves and families, whofe ! ; , Names ·. ' |