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Show ( 72 ) / that if he loved his Life, he thould depart the Town, for otherwifc he was but a Dead Man ; they having been looking for him fome Momhs, which could nor hinder them, fuch was · the Senfe and Weight upon them) they appeared; ;tnd having heard the Grave uttering ,her Voice, ;tnd Death feeding Death, through your painted Sepulchre, 1ohn Norton; Humphrr Norton fiood up and faid ( afrer the or her had ended) Verily tbi4 iJ the Sacrifice which the Lord God accepts not; for 'vhiljl lJJith the fame Spirit that Je Sin, ye Preacb, and Prt~y, and Sing, that Sacrifice i4 an Abomination to the ~ord-Whereupon ( yea, before he had fpoke out all thefe words, buc all thefe words he fpake) he was haled down, and both of them in the fame Fury brought before ye ; and H. Norto" ye charged with Bla[phemy for thofe words he had fpoke'n. They fpake to you :o ACI according to the Law of God, or the Wholefome Laws of the Engl;jlJ Natipn, and jpare them not : But neither of thefe ye would obferve. Then they '.Appealed to England, ro be try~d there, which they did once and again, thereby to leave you without Excufe; bur neither would ye yield to this, but flighte.d and difregarded fuch their Appeal; your Governour and Deputy-Gover .. Appeal to nour .wich one Lip faying,-No Appeat to· Eng: Eng_l:m~ . land, .No Appeal to England,-wich other words rlem~d m of Derifion · .and forthwirh :.femenc'd them tO '~~tp · be wh.ipp•d:· tho' charged wirh Blt~fphemy; and to John. Rou(e ye gave .fmoorh words, feeking to enfnare him, becaufe of your Knowledge of his Father,. Lieutenant Colonel Rouje .of BarbaJoes, who fonm:rly .Hved amongft ye, .of whom (orne of you then fpake .; but he knowing your Deceir, and ·wickednefs, and Gruel Ufage of the Inno(;enc, and (c~king by .. c:lof~ .Rooms,,., and · . , ,. Oenia! (' 9J ) Denial of Food for feveral Days together, to Confume and Strangle them, he required, in the Audience of the People, convenient Food for their Money ; Or, otherwife, if they peri~1eJ, their Blood would be upon you : This ye could nor well dfny before the People, who had heard much of your Cruelty in this ldnd, and who were likely ro have rifen up againft ye, thould ye have denied it; fo ye granted this, when ye could not help it, to the breaking of your own Law ; but rhe fevenrh Day of the Week following (this being the fifth ) y~ broke their Bodies (in Revenge thereof) with Ten Cruel Stripes a·piece, according to your womed Cruelty ; and then offered · them to Depart, if they would Hire a Convoy, . which rhey nor doing, ye derained them there the Week following, and then whipp'd them ·Fifteen Stripes each, with the fame Cruelry as before, by the Law aforefaid, of Five to be added to the Ten; and to the Five,Three, each time they JhoulJ be whipp'd, ~tnd to be 'JJJhipp'J t2lJice a Week, upon their Old Sores, with·the rdl of their Brethren, of which I have fpoken. Now, about three Weeks afier the faid Court at St~lem, the Court fare again, at which feveral of the l~habirams were pref~med for nm coming ro Meeungs, and the Law read for Five Shillings a Week for them as lhould refuft foro do, which ye Exa~ed when ye pleafed ; but as for rhe Six aforefatd, they were continued fiill in your Prifon 2t Bo.fton, and no Courfe raken for their Heleafe ; neither was it fo much as offered rhem w g<;> Home, paying rhe Fees, as ye ufed to do ro the Strangers; which Occafionc:d a Paper ro be fenr, by them, w the Courr, in thefe words. ' This |