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Show ( 94) moft Unreafonable of Men, and the moll: l3ru1- tilb of the Nations, whom the, Lord God will m4ke a11 Example to all that hereafter Jhall dare to (lo fuch Things againft the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, •JVho gives to all Life, Brea!h and Mo~i11g : As he hath jaid it, _(o be will do tt ; and thM jhall tome to pafs, the Lord bath fpoken it ) fuch fl4 aforefaid Jhall incur the Penalty enfuing, viz. Every Perfon fo Meeting, j11alt pay to the Country Ten Shillings; and every one [peaking i# juch a Meeting, Five Pounds a-piece : And in cafe any fucb Perfon bath been punifhed by Scuurgi~g or Whipping, _the fir(/ time, accordit1g to the former Laws ( whtch was the Cafe of thefe Three) .fhall be kept at Work in the Hou(e of CorreBion, till they put in Security, by two fujficient Men, that they Jhall not any more Vent their btr.te(ut Errors, nor ufe their fi'iful PraElices : Or, Jhall Depart this JurifdiCfion at their own Charge. And if any D(tbem return again [then] each {uch Perfo" {hall incur the Penalty of the Laws formerly made for Strangers. I fay, tho~ they ef-caped the Lofs of their Ears, yet y~ kept them in Prifon, upon the Account of the faid LaJv for Strangers, when that Law for Str11ngers did not concern them ; and fo they were wrongfully Imprifoned and Detained, and nor fet at Liberty, till you had ,made a fourth Law, v iz.· That of Baniflm~ent upo11Z Pain of Death ; and fo rhefe Three ( wilh Three more of the Inhabiranrs, of which more in irs place ) ye Banifh'd the Father, Mother, and Son; wich ei£her of whom, no Proceedings have heen had according ro Law. "{(: fcot. And Katharine Scot, of the Town of Prortli .. dence, in the Jurifdietion of Rhode-Ijland (a Mother of many Children, one that had lived with her Husband, of an U nbJameable Converfation, and ( 95 ) and a Grave, Sober, Ancient \Vom:m, and of good Breeding, as ro the Omwa1~d, as _Men a~count) coming ro fee the Execuuon ot rhe find Three, as aforefaid, whofe Ears you cur off, and [Jyin~I upon Lheir doing ir privare1y,-Th,1t it ·was ~uiclent they were goi11g to aEl the {1/orks r{ Dark,efs, or elfe they ·would ha:..e brougbt tbem f(/ttb Publickly, and have declared their Off'ence, tho~t cther1 may hear anrl fear.--Ye commilrcd her to Plifon, and gave her Ten Cruel Scripes wirh a rhree-fold-corded-knotred-Whip, with that Cru-d( y in the Execmion, as ro or htrs, on the fecond The 1d 0 • Day of the eighth Monrh, 16)8. Tho' ye con- the 'Hh fdfed, when ye had her before you, that tor Momh~ ought ye knew, Jhe had been of an Ur.blameable Con- 16 S~· verfation ; and rho' fome of you knew her Fa-ther, and called him Mr. M1lr bcry, and rhar fOe had been welJ-brecl (as among Men) and had fo ~ived, and rhat fhe was Lhe Mother of many CluJdren; yer ye whjpp'd her for all that, and moreover told her,--7'Lat ye 7i-'ae likely to have a La1v to Hang her, if fh~ cam a thither again--- To which lhe anfwered,---1( Gorl call us Wo be to ttd, if we come not ; And I queflion not: but be 7JJbom we love, will make m not to count our Li'Ves dea~ unto our /elves for the fake of hid Name---To wh1ch your Govetnour, J oh1!. Endicot, rrplied--- And we Jhall be as ready 10 take away your Liver, tU ye Jbalt be to lay them rlown- -- H.ow wicked rbe Exprelfton, ler rh~. Reader judge, as wktc lCJl- I~ws makes mamtefis. viz.. Your Law of B.l-nifhment upon pain of Deatb, which this leadc unco. b :--Which alfo (viz.. rhar of Cuttinu- off Ears ) ;.zng .tkoo weak a Defimce again(! the~· fmpeiw m ra.ntzc Fury, 1tecej]itated 11! to endeavr~o; r or•r Se c1mty · a1 J r: · • ' 1t. 1-lpon J Crl ctiJ C'vr_/iJrrarion, after tb(. f.' - m-~ |