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Show . ( 118 ) Days fet them by you. Such In.humanities a· ihefe have hardly been heard of m any Gene· 'ration, where Men have pretended to Law or Truth · but are found upon thee, 0 New-England ! ~nd the Head of thy Colonies, the Bay of MajJachufets ! Now rhe fame Day that the Four aforefaid . ; . were put our, Chriftopber Holder was caft imo 1}1eh q;hh Prifon (coming w feek a Paffage from Bofton to 0 'Mo~ nt teh ~7-· England) whom ye t h ere l< .epr. 0 ne V: h"1l_ e.B a - '!.6)9· nifhingMen our, who come mro your}ut:tfdtclton, c. Holder. upon Pain of Death; and ~norher while, keep-ing fome in Prifon, and Banifhing them afterwards, who come to pafs out. Such monfirous Con·rraditlions are hardly found amongMen,who pretend co Underfianding; fo greatly hath Envy blinded your Minds, and Rage, your Judgmenrs. Him (the faid Cbri(lopber) focoming,yourDeputy.G ·overnour Committed, and Detained in Prifon till the middle of the 9th Momh following, and then Banifh'd hm, u~n Pain of Death, if he fhould be found within your JurifdiB:ion three bays afrer the next Ship,s Departure for England, from your Harbour ; and this becaufe he asked ye nor firft leave fo to come in ( a hard Semence for fuch a Mifprifion) who had no Law ~o keep him out from Paffing to England. ·n 8th · Not long afrer (vi~. the 8th of the 8th of ~:he 8th Month following ) Mary Dyar ( whom ye BaMonth, nith9 d upon Pain , of Death) cam~ to Boflon, and 1659· Hope Clifton borh of Rhode-Ifland, who coming ~·~(!j~r, ro vitir Cbrijfopher Holder, then in Prifon, on • ' ton. the firft Day of the Week (the next Morning afrer rhey came in) they were foon efpie'd, and carried co fhe Houfe of Conettion by rhe Con( labl~; who, (:oming again afrer your W(lrfl,ip w~s en~ed, (;harge<:l th~ Ke~per, Bot{y fer !JodJ, ' ' . . . Lif~ ( 119 ) Life for Life :wirh Mary Drar, till funher Order. So Mary was continued wirhour being fenr for, bm Hope Clifton was rhe next Morning had before your Deputy-Governour, who recommit-red her, and one Mary Scot, Daughter to R . and M.scot. K. Scot, of Providence aforefaid, who came :alfo ro vifit the faid Chrt(lopher in Prifon, whom the fame Confiable Apprehended as fhe was in the Prifon, co Vi tit her Friend ; and Robert Harper 1{:_ Harper. of Sandwich ( tho• he came about his om ward Occafions) your Governour Commicred alfo, lhe one to the Prifon, 'the other ro the Haufe of Correction. And now the time drawing near, of the fir- The qth ting of your Courr, wherein you aCted this of the Sth bloody Tragedy, W. Robin(on and M. Stevenfon ~onth, ~arne to Boflon, viz. on the '13th of the 8th :V.~~binMonth, and with them Alice Co2vland ( who Jon, M. came to bring Linnen wherein . to wrap the Steverfon, dead Bodies of them who were to Suffer) and A. rowDaniel Golrl from Sslem, and liVilliam King, Han- ~:1J ~f nab Phelps ( the Wife of Nicholru aforefaid) and J0od;Mary Trask and Margaret Smith of the fame ljland, Town. Thefe all came rogether, in the Mo- w. -\J"t' ving and Power of the Lord. as one, co look .EMf . !1 J.he/kps, I d . h . ras , your B oo y Laws m r e Face, and to accom- M. smith, pany rhofe who tbould Suffer by them ; whom P.Southi•k ye Apprehended and fent to Prifon, as afore-faid, and Provided Southick, Daughrer ro La,vrence and Cajfandrtt Soutbick, who coming ro fee her Sifter, then in Prifon, and being me[ in the Street, ~nd known by your Deputy - Governour~ anp asked by him, Whether foe 'lJJas a Q.uaker ? And tbe Replying, That jhe Wt14 one that wao jo called; he committed her alfq. So your Prifons began ro 61I, as afore[dd, and on ~he Nineteenth of the fatne Monrh, 1Y. |