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Show ( 556 ) So your Governour fignified his Sentence, which, according to the Order, was as fol. lowerh : To rhe Conllables of Bojlon. T heCopy y 0 U are b1 Vertue of an Order of the Court of of the Af!i(!ant:, helrl at Bolton .the third In(lant,. re· \Varrant. qulred to repair 2vith the Executzoner unto the Prifon, . and there, fo rthwith, take the Perfon of J~fiah Sourhick, a Banifh'd~~aker ; and the Executzoner i4 to take him, and to ftrip him from the Girdle upward, and to tye him to a Cart-tail, and 'lJJhip him ten Stripes out of Bolton, and deliver him to the Conftable of Rocksbury, 2vho is al{o to caufe him to be tyed to the Cart' s-tail, (fripp' d, as afo_ref aid, and to whip him through Rocks~ury, . wzth ten Stripes, as afore(aid, and then delzver hzm to the Conf! able of Dedham, 2vho -M a/fo required to whip him at the Cart' s-tail with ten Stripes, aJ a(orefaid, and fo difchargc him out ofOur Juri[tJiBion: Make your [everal returns on the back-fide of the Warrant, to the Secretary. forthwith. Dated at Bofion, tht 9th tf September, 1661. By the Court. Edward Rawfun, Secretary. \Vhich your Senrence being given, he wirh A rn s fi rerched our, · and Hands fpread before HisJ.,.:r.-b you, faid, Htre is my Body, if you want afar· rhereu1- ther Ttjlimony of the Truth I profefs, take it, and on. tear it to piuo ( a noble Spirit, that ourlook'd your Cruelty. which. is rhe Nature of Truth, and rhe Nobili(y of the Spirit thereof in rhofe whom ic Jeads) it i4 jfeely given up, and for JOHY ( ~)7 ) Your Sentence, I matter it not. And truly he was able to; and did fay in rhe Prefence of God, That it ·was no more terrtfring unto him, than if ye had taken a Feather and blown up in the A ir, and had [aid, Take heed it hurteth him not : And [un:ly Tongue cannot expr~{s, faid he, ncr declare the Goodnefl and Love of God to his / ujj'ering People. So you caufed him ro be ryed at t:be Cart 's. 1 Tl rayl in Bofton, where your Hang- man laid him Whip ~~s'd on wich what t Vehemency he could ; bur his for rhofe Spirit was fo born up, rhat by the Power of cr u~l Ex~rhe Almighry, and the Springs of Life, which cutnonsf, 15 rtO opene d ·m ht' m, t ha r. wu. l: a 1?ud Shou.r, he nWo h ipo-could nor bur fing ro hts Pra1fe, m the rhiCkelt core! , as in of lhe People, as he was ar rhe Care-rail, led Eng land, through rhe Srreers, They that know God to be ~u~ dof their Strength, cannot fea1' what M an can clo, fairh ~rLir~ fnch Jo(iab Southick Sufferer. as the And th rough rwo Towns more your Exccu- n~rc of tioner cruelly whipp'd him alfo according co V~ols, antl 0 d h a b · ' With tl.ree your r i!:r, r e Iau emg rhe Town of Ded- knots at ham, which in the nexr ·Morning he performed, t he t nd, ir being very cold, for the ' firft Day he could whi<-.h m~[ nor reach through all his Work, and from nhy t~Imes ( l1 ence, h avt·. ng br oug h r. h1 · m fi t-reen Miles from mt aen r :l aa nyc~r - any Town, mro the W1lderntfs, and rwenry fix on with Mt.les fr':~>rn Boflon, he difchargd him ; who in both his a hnle {Jme afcer remroed, with lWO Friends Hands, r h~ r. accompam·e d l1 1. m, be t. ng upheld by lhe anneedd m~ nbfet Sptrn of rhe Lord, which was wilh him, and of ·.:10ft lifred him up above all rhe Heads of his Ad- Yiolent verfaries And in feven or eight Miles fp. ace l ort ure h b c and excr· _e was e1ore rhe Confiable, tho' he had Hor- ci ret~the fes, who was offended co fee him ; bur he lra- Bo tv. ve!led all Night, and by Sun-rifing, he and his - Fnends came co his Home, having only one Horfe berween lhem, he having rravelled thiny .Mi les |