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Show ( 88 ) 1)belp.r, and 1ofhua Buffum; of which m~rc bereafcer when I come w your La'lv of B~tnifhment. Afrer this the Confiabks of Salem, by the Tweh·e Infiigation ~f 1Yilliam I-l(aborn. ~ade diligent mo_re had Search afrer thtir Meetings . fomenmes on Horfebdore the ' · h b k C ·t , back fometimes on Poor, Wlt Power to rea our al , ld b 1 • Solem, of open Houfes, where they fhou not e Jtt m t~e Inha ~ (who refified nor) and Twelve more of them bltants were had lO your Coun at Salem, and fined the1eof, . Sh'll' c. br · and fined Forry Pounds, Nmereen 1 mgs, 10r ~ 1entmg 40 1. r9 s. from your Meedngs; 1 which as rhe Spnng grew for ~b- on, your Marfl1al gathered up for your Tre~fu-f fentmg ries by Arraching Cattle and Land;~nd greatFmes rom your 1 l • w· Abi. h Meetings. ye rook of fomeMc:n,for r 1etr tves .o 1ence,~ o . rhey themfelves came ro your Meetings (of whtch Fmes to I have rouched) co the Impoverifhing of many othfreo Voal.l uoer Famt•l t.e s, w· ho ha d bu r 1t' rr 1e m· t he 0 utwar d ; upwards, che Fines then taken amouming to One Hundred. laid by Pounds, and upwards. And William Maflon of thatCourt Hampton, in your Colony, for two Books found Willi.zm in his Haufe, viz. [obn Lilburn's Re(urre{lion (fo Mar}tof1, Inriruled) and WT!liam Dm;{bur~'s Mighty Day the 8th / d d h Month, of the Lord, was fined Ten Poun s, an l e t65 ~· Books taken away ; and for not coming to your Meetings, Five Pounds, and for your Prieft, Three Pounds ; for which certain Barrels of Beef were feized on; and you took to the Va- '· . "hl . lue of above Twenry Pounds·: And becaufe <~~~~~~y.e whil!t the aforefaid were ip Prifon, coming thro Salem, he rook fome ProvHions for La'Jvrence and Caj]andra Southick, of rheir Children, and for Jrfzab, of his Wjfe ; he was fenc for by your Governour, and Committed ro Prifon, and conrinutd rhere, about Fourreen Days, in the Cold Winrer-Seafon, tho}Jgh Aged about Se-venty r~ar~. . Thus have you made a Prey of rhe Innocent, and added AffiiB:ion to their Bonds, and llopp'd your Ears at .the Cry of their Oppreffion: Therefore the Lord will not hear your Cry in the Day of your Calamiryd, which ihall fuddenJy come upon you, nor deliver you ; his Eye will not fpare you, but ye fhall fall ; the Momh of the Lord of Hofis hath fpoken it. d This was fulfilled in the time of the War- with the Jndilln s, when <>n the Da ys of the ir moft Solemn Humiliation, by Fafting and Praying, for Succefs a.gainft the Enemy, they commonly loft more Men, and h;1d more Harm done by the Indian ·, than at other times,as one of theirPriefts Confeff'd; and that there [eem'd a thick Cloud between the Lonl and their Prayers ; and that the Lord went not forth with their Force ; but on the very Days that they Faftecl and Prayed before the Lorcl,dict their Enemi es give them the greateft Overthrows ; and tha t the laft time they FaH:ecl, they had the greateft Slau g ~re r; N erv-Ellg fand'.l prrf.'11t Su{ft> ri n!~ s, p. 6. ~ml Ju~·re afe Mtuher's .Hijtory of the lf ~zrs, p. 3, 7, 19, 23, 27. 'o that 1ts ~lam, the Lord d1tlnot hear their Cry, in the Day of their Calamity. But to rerurn to your Houfe of Correction, and to lay in Order before you, rhe Sufferings - of the Srrangers, as well as of rhe Inhabicanrs and to r.elare what ye did unro lhem, and rh~ E~rs you Cut off, as fairh your Declararion,--' Vtz.,. The Penalty 'lvas increafed by the lojs of the Ear.r ?f thofe that Offended a fecond time :--·T_ ha~ IS co fay,----Thar came inro your JurifdtB: wn (for that was the Offence ) and fo ro Seal up your Sum. ~bout the beginning of the fixrh Month, z6 3 S. The 6th Chriftopher !-!older and John Cr,pdand were moved J\h)!J th, of (he Lord co go again ro Bojfon (where thc.v 1 6 )~· . had fuffertd fo Cruelly befor~J apd on rhe 3(! cJ · Ho!/~ r, Ofth e ."ta "t d M. o m l1 wenr t lm · herwards) and came · . Ccp~ . utt.t as far tn thcu· way, as a Town called Dedham Where they Lodged that Night, inrending rh~ nexr |
