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Show ( 402 ) . upon fufpicion of having a hand .in the _Death of Edmond, aforefaid ; but, ~mwtthfian~mg all your cunning and fubde Mahce, to defiroy the Mother and her Children at once, yet ye ~ere not able ; norwithllanding, you fined her .m a great Sum (which, in the beh~l~ of the Cou:r, your Secretary, Raw{on, was wllhng to tak~ In P"ood filh; and Sellter, for Dyet ~nd Lodgm&, rn Barrels of Mackrel ( fo devounng the WIdow's Houfe) and her two Son~, to fiand under th Gallows cr:rrdin Hours, wtth Ropes about th~ir Necks, and co be whipp'd_in your Markerplace, which was performed wnh many _bloody Lathes ; ar which the young ~en bet?g nor appaled, oJd. Wil[on !tanding by, iatd,. Ah, · ct~rfeJ Generation; and ar Salem ro be whtpp d. ~lfo., where Michelfon, the Marfhal (a blood~ fptnted Man) came to fee it executed, where H was fo mercilefl}' done, that one of the you~g ~en funk down, or dyed away under the forr.ure of his cruel Suffering, whofe Bo?y they. ratfed up again, and Life came ro htm ; t}'ts w~s near about the time of your Murthenng Wzl:: liam Leddra. 13 ofio;r. Thus were your Officers punClual t.o yqur Cruelty, ro fee 'it exeqlted ; but to thetr _dury '· in giving the People call~d ~akers Coptes ?t. f their Warrants wtrh whlCh they came to dt~;~~ i~ fturb and mol~fr, and their Promifc fo to do; r'ant deni- neither wue your Officers carefu!, nor when ·cl by the you beard thereof, did you requtre them fo Conftablc ro do; but ac your very Court fuffered tht:rn ro fuffcr. . . . :fahnL.zne· In particular, John Lane commg to d~fmrb t? M..Tom- Mary Tomkins and Alice Ambrofe, a~orefa1d, ar km, A. Boflon Marr demanded a Copy of hts Warranr; .Ambref e, 'J• ' ·r. d. . b . · Tl y eflpying tho' pro- he prom11c . tt, ut gav~ 1C nor. 1e . . mired. ' lurl him the next Day in the Street, followed him inro yourCourr-Houfe, and complained ro fame They . of you, that he had not performed his word, ~~111 f~a1n anq demanded, Whether it was not fufl he fhould Court~ do ·it ? Infread of doing, them Jufcke, rhey bad the Wometl not ro rrouble them. So he vio-lenrly haled them our of the Coun-Houfe, and d~wn. the Srairs hurled them; fome of you thmktng that they mighr be wich Child and 1h a t rh a t n}·tg h t h un t l1 em, v1_a d ht•m ( afre' r he fAedre. abtl.·, had done H) not to hurt them .; but neirher re-quir~ him r? gi_ve them a Copy of che Warrant, nor d1d he g1ve 1r, nor reprove, or punifh him N ot re-for ufing them fo. lieved. Now ro co?1e co che Sufferings of Eliz.,abeth E.Hootons l-Iooto?, who ts afore-mendoned, and to thew Suffer· thert:tn your Cruelties ro rhe Aged, as well as ings, anc~ . w the Infant of. Days, thar it may appear ro Ages and Generacwns ro come, char your Rage h:Hh no Mercy, nor your CrueJry, Confidera-non, ~f a~y fo~·t or condicion of People, you Who ltve m Wtckednefs, and on whom lies rhe Blood of rhe Innocenr ; you who have drawn forrh your Character beyo11d the Prefident of former Ge~ersrions ; whofe CharaCler I have drawn our tor future Generalions, lhar rhey may fee what you are, who fhaJI know whar you ~ave done, aqd be rewarded according ro your D~eds. . The aforefc1id Eliz.,'lbeth Hootton, being an anCtenr Wo'?'rm., of about Sixry Years Old, being very unJ1kely, as ro her Condirion and Aae· ro go .duough fuch a Work, and fuch Sr/]erir.g1 whtch fhe might we~! expeCt, confidering r ~ Reporr of yo~r Cruelries and Blood, b~yond What hath been heard of in rhe Englitn !\arion, ~n~ fo!l~~ an1on~fc y~u : Yer, being ~-cquired of |