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Show ?8 ) Secretary, read to th· m their Sentence, which T_he 22ct 1 was,- Daniel Gotd, co be whipp'd Thiny Srripes; Mofotnhteh9 t\ Rob e rt Harper, F"lCr[ Cen; r1rrtruwza m Km' g, p·uct een; 16-19. ' Margaret Smith, Ten; Mary TraJk, Ten ; Provided ~hipp'd Southick, Ten ; ( which yom· Executioner foon ':'' 1t.h cruel laid on rhem wich great Cruelty in the open Stnpes, ( d '11 E . d 30 D.Go!.l Screec an tl now your xecuuons were one I)f\· B ar- in Private, bur having gone over the Lives of p;~~, 1 s rv. the Innocenr, in the op~n Field, by Executing -'Jing, .1l0 rhem, ye were bold co Declare your Sin, M SoI; M~;::;k dom, and fiuck nor ro draw the Blood of the 10 P. sou- refr in rhe Sighc of the Sun) beginning wich rhick. Dl:miel Gold, whofe Clorhes he firipp'd o.tf, and having ryed him co the Wheel of a great Gun, firipp' d off rhe Skirt from his Back, and bear his Flefh on his Bones, with rhe Number of Srripes, as aforefaid, and fo he dealt by rhe .A. cow- refi.) So, having drunk this mher Draugh[ of l.md, Blood, and delivered over Alice Cowland, HanH . I~e lps, nah Phelps, Mary Scot, and .Hope Clifton, to your ~·c~~.o_r, Governour, ro be Admonilh'd, and fcmenc'd .n. • ijtO~l' Ch fl h J J B • . f Admo- n "P er Hotter ro amlhmenr upon pam o nifh'ct, · Deach, for coming into your JulifdiClion, ro C. f!ol~fer, pc1fs for England, as aforefaid, ye ended chis Bantfh d. your Generai-Coun : The Prifoners being re-turned from whence rhey came, to anfwer your Jaylor's Fees, and there continued, tiJI fome friendly People, Engaging for ir of their own Accords, gained their Liberry. And fo l have walked Step by Step through the Cruel and Mercilefs Order of your gradual Proceedings, from lmprifonmem ro Dearh, w fee if I could find any thing of Law, any thing of Fact, any thing of Juftice, any Regul~r Pro ... c eding, according to either, by which ye might Warrant what ye have done ; but I find l}Olf~ ; and lee th~ fober Reader fee if he can ; or ( 1~9 ) or any other Thing than the Monflrous. Shape of Cruelty and Blood, unde~ .the Profe aion of Religion, and great Inhumamttes, and ba~barous Acts. For this let me fay, That tho more Blood harh' been fhed, and with greater rxecutions and in fome fenfe more Cruel, by rhofe who h~ve not pretended ro Religion, at leafi to Librrty of Confcience, from whom no other rhing cculd be expeCted, being del!vered to .r~eir Wills; yet, from Men prerendtng ro Re h~tOn and to Confcience ; who fuffered for ReHgton, and their Confciences; who left their Native Country, Friends :md Relations, tO dwell in a Wildernefs for ro enjoy their Confc jence and Religion ; from ProfdTors, who have made fo much a- do about Religion, and for their Confcience, and fer rhemfelves up as the Height of all Profeffion of Religion, and the mofi Zealous Afferrors of Liberty of Confcience ; and for thac Caufe have expeCle:l to be had in Rega rd, 'Viz.. becau{e of Confcience and Religion ( as is your Cafe) for Men who are Relative to an or her Country, whofe Governmenc dorh depend upon others ; who receive their Commi!Jion diewhere, and are in Subordination ro the Power of which they receive their CommiHion ; thus to Exceed all Bounds and Limits of Moderation, Law1 Humaniry and Jufiice, upon a People, barely for [hei1: Confcience, and the Exercife of their Religion (as ye have done in rhe Inftances aforefaid ; and much more which could be brought, were ir not too Burdenfom to the Reader ; for I am fore' d to cake bur the Minutes of many things, for the Reader~s Satisfaction ) and for you to do it, who your felves are the Men (nor another Generadon) which fo fled , which fo fuffered , is beyond a Parallel : And yec / |