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Show ( 39° ) . . vernour, and dwelling in Boflon, there w~s a~ endeavour in this Man £O procure a Commdfion to fill it up, which he attempted whar h~ could, and whofe Compericor therem was ~Ou:zm. Hathorne (a Man often mentioned in thts Relauon.) This EI~tthorne purdng in for the bufinefs, ufed his Crafc and Cruelcy (for who fc:emed moft forward in perfecudng the Innocent, moft plea ... fed the Priefrs through whofe fuffrage fuch places ufed m'ofi: to be fupplied) and Batter walk'd in the fame Steps wha~ he coul~ ; bur Hathorne being roo hard for htm,. pur. hun by, and was fer in the Sear ; all char whtch Batter could accomplilh, was the place of T.reafur~r, for all fuch plunder, as for nor parrakmg wuh your Sacrifices of Blood, the Servanrs of the. Lord were condemned unto in Salem, and the pans thereabouts; or the Coumy in which Sa-lem was. Being got into this Im~loyment! he was much lifred up, and behaved h1m~elf WI[h much ~ruelry and Wickcdnefs, hunttng after Meenngs, and rhe Perfons and Efiate~ of the Innocent, as the Wolf doth after che Sheep ; arid where he could do mofr Mifchief, and Vex, and Defrroy; there he was moft fatisfied, as was the Nature and Cufcom of rhefe bloody Huntfmen, which were his Companions, particularly, Sam. Archer, his Brother, Benjamin Felton and Hetjry Skerry (Church-Members) and Tho. Roots. . rlis Wic~ To fay nOLhing of what hath been already kt-dnefs. memioned in the former Treatife, and of many Things more, which might make .a Relar~on of it felf; nor to enlarge upon hts workmg with Henr1 Phelps, Son of Henry Phelps, ro betray his Farber inro Prifon (who was had there ) by difcovedng the faid Henry to have enterrain'd Friends; ( ~91 ) Friends; the faid Henry being Brother-in-Law to Batter, whofe Sifter he married · nor how fwifr he was ro have found our Wilbam Leddra . and fo paming after ~is Blood : I fhaJl ~)ve on~ Inftance fo! all, wherem .Edmtmd Batter may as weJl fee h1mfelf concern d, as ro rbe anfwtring for Blood, as the Reader may thereby perceive how eager he was in his purfuir afi er it. . Upon a rime, he being upon his Scent and 'LI" ~ h · t h ' c IS crue 1- o um.mg. or t e Innocenr, with the Confiable, ty to Joh;1 a~d bemg m wane of a l-Jorfe ro hafren afrerl(jtchin's Ius Prey; and meeting wirh a Woman grear Wife, Eliwith Child on Horfe-back one John Kitch ;n's zabeth, W'fc f l , • wherebv I e, o Sa em, as the was Travelling on the fbe mifca- Road, rhe Horfe he would rake from her for ried with that purpofe ; and fo favage was he, rhar down he~Child, he would have her, which he p~rformed with whtch dy-fuc~ Violence, rhar the Woman thereupon mif.. f~1 '~~~~~ earned, and lofr her Child ; her Name is Eli- of he~ z..abeth •. And fo, having gor a fwifrer Beafr Life, not than h1s own Heels, followed his purfuir bm yet acJef~ rh_e Man wirh the lofs of his Child, an'd his f~runted Wtfe m danger of her Life chereby; which Ed- · mund Batter harh yec to anfwer for, the Blood of .the one, and rhe Suffering of the ocher W~Ich by rhar .rime he harh anfwered for, h~ wJll find thar hJs Treafurefhip of Wickedm:f~ in Salem, was dear boughr; and that his huncing ~fre: Blood, was ar a hard rare accompliihed whh tch may g·t ve ht'm marrer o f Confideracion , l ar he ma~ reflect upon his Wickednefs, and be .ready aga.mfr his judgment comes, ro bear ir h quterly' for I~ (from a Hand rhar can reach him) e mufr cenauily expect. I had nor pur rhe Reader ro this Relation bur rhar he may fee (as by orher unmerciful and unheard.of Cruelties ) what exercife che People |