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Show ( 70) N1igbt k.1tO)V , 0.' d~ )'.? 'iimo11 ~roadjlrect (one of £he Magifi rarc ) an{wercd, 1'hort t~rt ont, for cornh1g i .'J 'JVith th)' [J.~t on. I~C repJicd,-Jt '111(/.S a l:lurnble thi"-g to make (uch Cruel Ltnvs, to l1'hip-, tmd Cut off Ears, and Burn through the 1(mgru, for not putth1g off the H..zt-Then [hey charged rhcm wjrh Blflj phenty, and {aid, That they helrJ forth Blafphemies at tl~eir Mceti11gs.-One of rhcm defir ed them to make any Juch thing appear, if.~t1mre fo, and that they migbt be Convinced; and rold them, They might do ?veil to fend Jome to their Meetings, that they might hear, t~nd give Account of what 111as rlone anrl Jpokm, a11d not c01zclude of a Thing they knc·JV not. Said Major General Denifon ( of whofe Cruelty I l:ave much to fay in this elation)-Jf ye meet together, and fay any thing, We may conclude that ye [peak Blajphemy (a bad Speech from a Judge, whofe place is noc co Accufe any, eirher rruly or falily, much lefs ro draw Unrighteous Conclufions from his own Spirit, and then w Profecme them without Law or Equicy, as hath been this Denifon·s manner, and of orhers fo £0 do ; but ro judge according as WHnefs dmh pre~ nr, Secundum A!Jegata & Probata-According to the Things a!Jedg'd tmd prov'd, as is the Law of England.) So to Prifon they were had, and t!le next Morning fent away to Bojlon (viz. tho{e Six, as aforefaid, that were Inhabitants, and the faid two Strangers) as Felons and :Murderers, and there put into rhe Houfe of Correction, a-p~rt from the two Strangers, whom the Jay lor had put into the Common· Jayl, and in a clofe Room, that they might nor :fuly 1. come wgerher; and this in the Heat of Summer, 16s8. from their Husbandry and Tillage, rhe Seafon of the Year for them ro follo w. The Warram bore Date, July 1. 1658. And ( 71 ) And indeed, rhefe Cruel Proceedings fo funk down inro the Hearts of many of Salem, that they withdrew more and more from your pubHck Meetings, rho' rhey knew they fho uld fuff~r; upon which the Court Sentenc'd them to pay Five Shi!Jings a Week, each that ab(ented, by an Old Law made in I6t.J.6· as aforefaid, which rhey cruelly Exrorred, as they did the other Fines of Forty Shtltings each Flours Entertaining of fuch a o\ne (14 ye call a 0:faker ; and Ten Shillings fl time for being at Meetings of their o2vn, wilh the rdl of the Penalties as occafion pr fenred ; yea, even for t~e Women, whofe Husbands came ro your Meecmgs, to the Value offome Scores of Pounds, from firft to laft, ro wir, on the poor Inhabitanrs of Salt:m, whofe C~rde ye let them keep all the hard Winter, rill the Spring, that fo they might co_nfume their own Fodder, and then rook them; wuh ocher ACls of CrueJry roo long ro mention. So that what by long and fore Imprifonmenrs from their Houfes, Callings, Bufinefs and Re larions, in the Heat of Summer, and the Cold of Wimer; and Cruel Whippings, Bearings, Fines, ~mercements, Searchings, Huntings, and fuch hke (as I fhall fhew more panicularly by and by) their Lives (as Men) became worfe chan Death, a'!~ as living Burials, rho' they thought not any dung roo much, nor their Lives roo dear (as anon will be mad~ manifelt) for the Truth, a.nd the Tefiimony of ir. The nexr day after W. Brend was fo ufed and laid for· Dead, Humphry Norton (on who~ rhe EJ.Nortml, Senf~ of Blood lay much, with his Friend John J.l\oufe. Roufe) came to Bofton, where, in your Mttdng- Houfe, on your LeCl:ure-Day ( norwitbLt:wding the ~ry of the Towti, of your Crutlry anq B,loo~ ; a~d fome fpeaking to che faid Humphry, · · · ~ 4 that |