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Show ( 102 ) was put, and carried in the Affirmative, for * rhe Law ro Pafs wirhour Trial of a Jury, and by a County-Court: The Speaker and Eleven being in the Negative, and Thirreen in rhe Affirmarive : So one Voce carried ir ; which * T!-<e Law pafs'd for Life, without Ju ry, in the Court vf D.::pntics by one Vote. Thirteen for it: The Speaker and Eleven agai nB: it. Deacon ~Vozel forely t roubled, that h1s Ahfence fhoulcl occafion fuch a Law to l)a~. rroubied Deacon Woz.-et fo, when he heard ir, that he gar ro the Court, in grear Grief o.f Spirir, de firing. ro ha~e his Vore, and Wept for Grief, £hat h1s Abfence fhould occafion fuch a Law ro pafs, and faid, If be had not been able to go, he would have Crept ttpon his Hands ana his Knen, rather than it ~10uld have been-bur ic would not be granted ; the mifcarriaae being ( as was faid) by reafon of one Ruffel (formerly of Briflol, in Olrl-EnglamJ) and one Collins (of ll!lijlicke) nor fianding to it, and beine: wrong in rhe Vote; which I memion, that ~heir Names may remain, who were for, and againfi ic. llur a great Difference there was, and the Coun broke up, and the Twelve refolved co emer rheir Dilfenrs under the Law (being Repugnant to the Laws of England, w pur to Dearh wiihout Jury ) which the Ma~i.{ hares feeing, and how fuch a number of DJ{- To he tri· {i nrs would weaken their Law, ad mined this ~ct 11Y lJ Addition w rhe Law, 'viz.,.-1 o be tryul by a fperl~~ c~~.c\~d cia! Jury-( and all this Trial, when it came_ ro to qualify ir, was bur, VVhether they were f?.!!akerj? \VhlCh the Dir:· they judged by rheir coming in with their Har fents. on, and rhar they had been in the Counrry be-fore, and fuifer -d the Law, and had been Banifh'd, nor any particular Principle, or Maner of Fact, by a Legal Convittion) the Law paffed, and ye proceeded tpereupon (as I have faid) and ( 101 ) and followed it hard in rhe Execution, as -ye (J'd in the M·aking; and your Priefis fet ye on (from whom ir proceeded) and no Confideration of the Age of Lmvrence and Caj]andra, nor of rheir Family, nor rhe State of the rdl,. ~or of their Wives, Children, Rclauons, Famllte~, nor of their Efrares, which had fulfe.red much in their many, long, and fore ~mpnfonmenrs\) fome of them Ten Weeks at a rtmer and fome of rhem Twenry in the chief rime of rhe Summer, when they ~ fhould have been ar L~beny to look to rheir Hay, and Grafs, and Prov1fions for the Winter, co keep their Carde from Srarving, and rheir families from Peritl1ing : Nor rhe State of 1og;ua Buffum's Father, who was a weakly aged Man, ~nd had n~hher Son nor Ser vant ro help him, but rhe fatd Jopma; nor rhe Seafon of rhe Year rhcn, ir being the Spring, a11d a rime for rhem a lirde ro look om for rhe Prefervarion of what was lefr, rbat rhey might .not be utrerly deftroyed ; nor .their being fo fortly Whipp'd, fome vfrhem Twiceea.ch, ana and fome four times (all wh1ch lhey told rhe Court) being Convicted of N<;>thing, bur not coming to your Meerings, and for Meeting by Khemfelves, for which you were _farisfied upon their Goods, according w Law. As rhey !em you Norice in a Paper lO this P~1rpo.fe, viz.. .That feeing the chief Offence ye had againf! them, was, the 11ot pun.ing off tbe [{at ; Tbey defired to kno2v, if their Ptmifhrnmts had not been {u{ficient for their-Offences ( as fome of them bad been 71pice Imprifonerl Ten Weeks, ~ncl T2vice l¥hipp' d; o1u had ~een T1vice I:nprifo•J ed, ancJ Four Times Whipi d ; Three had bem Twice Impr-ifone4, and Whipp~ rl, and tbe lq,fl Time kept Pr;{o'f!ers T-mentJ Weeks, the chief !/~ne of all the St~mmer, juch tU lived O?J IfurbandrJ» q 1' t~el;· |