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Show ( l88 ) band. Th .1t' s an~ther Lye, reply'~ Edward W/JartDn. Were y nu never married ? fatd lhe, who bt;fore affirmed, that he had had a ~ife. Not that J lno)V of, reply•d Edward, for if I ?atl been ~, 1 ~Jo~lJ have known it. Thus the Pneft and hts Wife, being made up of Lies an~ Fallhoods, and filled with Ignorance, made th~tr endeavours to, bur could nor hinder the Meeung, nor accomplifh rhe end which their Lies fought to effc:lt. One of the Magifirares Dep?ry's was at th_e Meedng · and when the Meenng was over, hts Wife, a1;d rhe Priell's Wife, fell to odd: abo_ut Friends and their Meedng, the Deputy s Wtfe pleading for both. Yet a lirrle farther ro the Southward of Bo-flon and Gorgiana, and to . wuch at Ptimoutb.- Patent. Plimoutfs. The Wickednefs of ThomtU 1)rince, Governour PTahrenr.. ( of( memioned in the former Treatife ) and of e WlC- • b p kednefsof the Magifirates was fuch, rhat H ecame a ro.,. Gover- verb among the Indians, when they were ~hargno~ r cd with fiealing any thing [ 4/J om, a Thee(, u Prznc~ ~e- Governour Prince ] having relation to his plunf~~~ ndi-Y dring the People call~d ·~14kers.) An.d a ce~-· tms. rain Indian taking a Kmfe from an Englijh-Man s Houfe, and being told, He fh ould nDt Steal, an .. fwered, He thought fo; but no-;v he Jaw that the Magi{lrate.r, a11d Barlow, ~id fo by the 0fakers (which was the bloo?-rhnfiy .Marfl~al fpoken Marfhal of in the former Relanon) wluch fatd MarfhaJ, Barlow's Barlo,,/s Commiffion, was faid to be fo Cruel, Cruelty. [hat it is reponed, that rhe faid Governour, Prince (as bad as he was) fhould fay, That an honejl Ma1~ would not have (Dr h~rdly would t~ke) hil place. . . His de- Thic; BarlouJ would boafr, That he would thmk. tcription. u;hat Goodi 1JJere mofl ferv iceabie to the Quaker~,. &nd ( 389 ) and then he would take them away, when he 'IJJerJt to diftrain for Finu. This was in the Days of Oliver Cronnvel, wherein he grew Rich wi(h the Spoils of the Innocenr; bur now he being grown exceeding Poor, he harh faid, He b:;pes for a good time again ; fuch he calls the <h ys of Ravening and Blood. Yer he prefumes to fay, He thought that the f<3-akerJ would not let him 'vrznt. And truly, fuch Tefiimony they bear ro the Spirit of Jefus living in them, and of whkh che Scriptures fpeak, If thine Enemy HNnt.er, giv,e him meat, &c. and the Dominion of Trurh therein, that ic is faid, They relieve his Children, norwithftanding all rhe Villany that he harh fhewn ro chofe People. As for this Rarlo1v, his na'turaJ Inclination i-1i to be Lazy, Filthy and Bafe ro all. In his former Years, he was one of the Proft!Ior's Preachers ar Exeter, in New-England, and elfewhere • of which being weary, or having worn tha: Trade our, or it having worn our him, he rurn~d Lawyer, and fo came into Plimouth-Patent, where he became a notorious Spoiler of che Goods of rhe Innocent (as the former Treatife hath u ar large, by being a Marfhal. · And now, that I have given fome Accoun'" of a Ma fir 1 • ·11 b · . . "Treafun:r fi k r a, H wt nor e mc~nvemenr 1f 1. E.ttu., tJ - pea a word or rwo of a Treafurer, one Erl- ulem.. mund ~atter of Salem, ~hof~ cruel handling of t~e Fuends of Trmh m and about S til em, for Fmes, hath had fome couch of Relarion in rhe former Treadfe. . rhis Batter, being a Mernb~r of your Church m Salem, and a Man big in his own Eflt:em and fir (_.as himfelf rhoughr ) to be a Maolff:ra<e -there bc:mg a vac_ancy in lhe .1\tlagifcrac~ of Sa~ ~em, by reafon of .John Endicot's bemg made Go-vernour, |