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Show ( jS8 ) Miles that Night, and about Si~ty ~iles in rwemy four Hours, norwirhtlandm_g hts bac_k was plow'd with Stripes, as. aforefatd, ~nd tus Flefh rorn and bear, in whtch the Lord help-ed him. I\tore Suf- But, before I pafs to Bojlon~ the Seat of Blood, ferings at I muft give rhe Reader a hrrle to. un?erfia_nd B_ofton. how you dealr with 1ohn Chamberlazne, tn pomr 1· Ckttm,- of his rhen Wife whom your Depury-0-overhwer./: me s nour Beliinuham,' knowing that fhc was not of ue en- ' 6 • l · h deavour- the fame Principle alrogerher wHh 11111 , e e.! to be wem about ro draw her to deny and difown alienJted. him ( this was when fhe and her tender Chilfr~ 11h1.1er dren fuffered f~ much by his long lmprifon-a 1l' lllons . • to her ment · and this was the ume the Tempter cook, Husband, ro W~rk) telling her, or endeavouring tO ma.ke b_y R.:. Bel- her believe, That when he came home agam, D lingham, he would Munher her in her Bed, or fome eputy- f d d d h Gover- other-where ; and to per wa e a~ raw el' nour, the furer in the Thing, he told her, She fhould whilft he not want· and rhac fhe mighr live with another ;:isro~~ Husband :' Bur, being not able to prevail, with all his An, on the poor \Voman, who hel~ her With rug- true AffeCtion to her Husband, and told hun of geftions, thefe Things your Court ( fuch was her extre~~~~ 1ft· c. miry, and ~~ing with Child, and having other murther Children, and their Father kept from rhem) her, 0c·. could nor bur Order, That he ihould have liA: nd enti- berry ro work in the Prifon, at his Calling, ~~n~i~t~n which was a Currier; whereupon he had hts her HLE· Neceffaries to Prifon, and with the help of W. band. Leddra and other Friends, who were then his fellow~Prifoners, who in Love a.ffified him, he rid off his Work a- pace, and his Cufiomers brought much Work unro him, which your Savage jaylor after perceiving, he vexed, and frened much, !nd faid, 1 hat hq got more in Prifon, t~an ( j)9 ) tban he 'JJJof:ld have done ~f he had been at Liberty. lr fo fell our, char during this time, a young A v:uun~ Man was brought into Prifon for Theft whom J~~ef m rhofe, ca~led !!.!!ake~J, in_ the Prifc>n, end~avour'd li~~~Yn to to. ~onvmce of hts evtl-ways; and he being be con· wtllmg to hear them, report went abroad, as if vine\!.. he were rurned a Q_uaker ; whereupon the Mo-th~ r of the Lad dwelling about Scituate, hafied t~1~he1> ·and nor liking her Sons carriage to her ( ~r s hke, nor putting off his Hac) fhe firuck hm~'. and by and by went co Pray for him ( fo Sn:umg and Praying, as it were in one Brea[h; thts was one of your profeiling Women ) and to ~he Governour fhe went, and made her Com-plamr, char her Son was like .co be a f!..t!aker, , and ~o to be undone ; your Governour fends Turn d . for hl~, and demands of him, l1lbether the ~la- ~mf~g~t- ·ers d1d {how him any of their Booh? Which he fu~{l~l bee co~feffing, your Governour, ra£her £han rhe conYinc,d.· T_htef fhould curn honea Man, notwirhftanding hts Thefc, fer him ar Libeny. Your Jaylor, Salter, hearing rhis, to Prifon gers he, ~nd charges 1ohn Chnmberlaine wich chis ~rear Cnme, of endeavouring w draw lhe Man from rhe Evil of his. ways, and ihewing him Books for that purpofe; J-ohn faid, Thou fhottlt/ft not Lye. Then. he turned tO Edward Wharton ::: charged hun with ir ; l did, reply 'd Ed~ 11 ~d. ( r~en you Jhall up for it, faid your Jaylor. ·~ur,y a1d W. Ledrlra) if I had BookJ, 1 jhou!tl give them People. Wouldft thou ? ( faid Salter ) Then thou Jhalt up too. And I Jhottld rlo fo too faid another : -r:hen thou Jhalt up too ( faid Salter.) So up he lock d all of rhem, in a very lirtle Room :? keep the~ from rheir Friends, who were wil: mg to reclatm r~e Offender; whenas, rhe OffendJe~ was fet at hbeny that he mighr not be rec atmed. lr |