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Show ( 84) done upon fuch Peaceable Men, who had Families, from which £hey were taken, and of good Repurarion, fo affeB:ing rhe_People of rhe Town, T_heh 278thl who were fo taken rherewHh, and murrered fo ot t e t 1 • ) b fi Th Month, much, that tr was forborn ur a cer ree r6 s8- Weeks and Tlnee Days, they were fem for, by you, ro Bujlon, ro your General-Court, and deA Tn,t 1 hy livered ro the Mafier of your Houfe of Corre.11 ·w lvc. B:ion (there ro be dealt feverely with ) and cnag,,un ,l m,uHl~ from thence were brought before you, where ed of th , ( feveral of you, as Deni{on and Broadflreet ( who Cm.l tLGe· had been twice their Judges, and had now nhye 1c ~tl h·'e or w~ongtr .~ Hy accutre d t 11 em, an d rt.a re as Ju d g es a CourtGe- rhu·d Ttme upon them ) your Depmy-Gover~ netal a~·- nour and others) laid to their Charge many cording grievous Things, but proved nothing-They de-t~ ou cLh, t wa. •,-Ire d a rr:a l•f T rya 1, el.t h er b y a Ju ry o f T we 1v e Trial M- Men, or the Court-General, according to Law; mcll hy and for this purpofe pur in a Paper ro you, 1 ~'c Court fl1ewing alfo how they had been wrongfully G* esniemroanl. T w1. ce I mpru·ro ne d an d ,v .~. 7 h·1 pp 'd , as be 1r: ore. T. h'I S Broad/f re t. you would nor Grant ; bm one of your * Maf he H.tt gifirares (feeing that they could nor prove thc:m ~~ade .t fuch as the Law makes ~akers) faid - That the (. haraH r ,fi 1 ofon-.: Lclll- Court ·u;ordd finel out an enficr Way to na out tJ eLl ,1 .{01· Q_uaker, than by "Blafphemy (who could find om kcl, '~11e~ no fuch way, as ye did afterwards, viz...-The no 1 Pnpnc l- not putt in(]" cfj' the Hat, upon which ye Banilh'd p e or m- 0 r: f Cl. • d iceco uiJ. and pur ro Death (tOr maner o Doctnne, ye· behacl,up- had nor, nor Pri nciple, nor PraB:ice.) So rhey on which Suffered nor for a Law already broken, but for th•·y Jre one that was incended to be made ( What lhall h~~~~~:) l L1y, whereby co exprefs thefe your illegal and ·1 he hr!t wrong Proceedings? )- They preCt for a Hearof chi~N.t- ing, and argued the Reafonablenets rhereof, and t ~uc1th,t t1 dem:tnded>-!¥hether their La·w '1VaJ made agt~inft t n \.' ~ II t l Nr ,..,..,_. '> D . I D ; r ( lurh a ame, or a .~. rJmg r- ~true" eruJ on ro he.tnl or: whom < ss ) who?1 the ~e(Ho~ wa~ put) ..a nfwered~-AgaitJfl a Thmg...-lf fo ( fa1d they) 1 hen ler us be uied by the Things contained in the Law--as Blafphemy, Herefie, Devilijh DoClrines, wirh fuch like, as are the words of rhe Law, upon which was rhe Penalty-He replied,--That the Court diJ mt punifh them for Error in 1udgment, but for Fnfl. --They defired to know the Fact.---He faid,--It 'UJas--Evtertaining the f2.!_1akers 1vho were their Enemies; not coming to their Meeting/· and Meeting b~ tbemfelves-They Adjoyned, Thar'as to rhofe Thmgs they bad already faftned rheir Law upon t~e?l ; as, Forry Shillings every Hour for Entertatntng fuch a one, as they called fo · Fiv~ Shillings Abfence from their Meerings · and Ten Shill~ng'l for Meeting by themfelves. So ye had nothmg left b~r the Hat, for which (chen) ye !1ad no Law.--They anfwered.,---That they tntended no Olfence to ye in coming rhirher ~for they mull come co you in thei-r Clorhes, * . tf they came decenrly, of which the Har is p 1n) Pn : ~ ~o r · h · M • Ch zH_) rys 1t was not t e1r anner to have ro do wich D.ivinit Cour_ts: And as _for withdrawing from rheir rhe M ~fl.;r Meecm~s, ?r keepmg on their Hars, or doing o! your any chmg tn Contempt of them or their La Colledg~, [hey faid, the Lord was their Wirnefs (as he~s), ancl \Vay, h 1 d' d · IS to puti\lca l ar t 1ey I It nor. So ye rofe up, and bid the to Death, Jaylor take them away. :1 frer the The next Day was your leCtme ar Rnfl N tn rc of whereat Charles Chanfe'll (M4fier of yout· roll ·drm, ~ Vo1VL"'i ; · U · {j ) J ....., .._ ge uld-:eLl or mver HY preached; the Work of whofe then he ~ermon was tO Dellroy them, and ro fer y.e on m11 ft go o to do, when ye could prove notbin a Tainn for nc, them: AGd rhus he pur it---* S' p J (gf. .~ 1 ) c~ ncl hear ye fhould cat h s· ~~ l . , ' u poje dl 1e the 11enalF .· d c :x 0 ves tn a Twp, ( now rhde t y,w t10 to nen s were Stx, all Inhabiranrs of Salem, to be n_e, whom he alluded) and ye catmo: prove that th h~' ~h to ma - f . fJ ndelred 3 k1/le,i himfelf. |
