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Show the Service of the Truth in rhofe Pans, than the was able tq exprefs, bejng mape a St~engrh ro Friends, and leaving the Or hers wnhour Excufe. At cam- Afrer this ;Jt Cambridge, as lbe returned, fhe bridge. crying, Repenta??ce, through fome parr of that Town, where no Friend had been before (a~ fhe heard of) fhe was th~re Jaid hold of b~ a Blood·thirfiy Crew ; and early in t~e Morn~ng .. had before TbomtU Daufort and Damei Goggmgs ( rwo wicked and bJoody Magifirates ofyou1~s, of whom I have elfe- where fpoken, and the1r \Vkkednefs) who comm~rted her! a~d who(e · Jaylor rhrufi her inro a noifom fimkmg Duq. geon, where there was nothing to lie down or fir on and ~ept her there two Days and twq Nigh;s, without helping her to Br~ad or Wa- JJ~Bowcr. ter : and becaufe one Benanuel Bower ( a render r · Fri~nd) brought her ~ little Milk. in this he~ great Difirefs, wher.em _fhe yva~ hke ro h~ve Perifhed, they ~afi hun mto P~tfon! for enrertaining a su·anger ; an~ fined hlm FJVe Pounds. Afrer two Days end, anp rhis crue! Ufa~e, an9 her lying two Days an~ two N1ghrs m thts difmal Cell, they ha~ her to the Court, anq demanded of her, Who harl r~ceived her r She anfwercd h~m rpar fpake ro her, If ! ~ad come to tby Houfe~ J fl1ould 'have feen if t/;Jou. 'voulcljl have received me (for I was much weaned Wtth my Travel, and rhey ough~ to entertain .srrangers) "'h~ de- He 'faiJ, He ,vo~ld not. Then ~e fatd, Se!t me mct ncl to a fiou[c; or let me have one 'to · Rmt, that I may e.npMcha( e tcrtain Strartgtrs · and laid the King's Prom1fe a~' .l.iaotn ~th \ be· fore them· co·n 'c er·n m· g· th·e Lt'b. erry rh e y fh, ou l.d. pl tcc •• · enjoy ~eyond the $eas, ~ur . they rega,t:ded It ls deny d, not· but fdr her Enrernunmenr, ana m Re, con; pence ·qf lheir cruel Ufage w her, · ~he noi7" · · .· ·· · ' fom~ \ . . ·. ( 41~ ) fome Dungeon,and Imprifoning, and Fining, him that gave her a lirtle Milk, when neither Bread nor Water fhe had from you in two Days, as aforefaid ; they ordered her to be fent out of rheir Coafis, towards Rhode-Ijland, and ro be whipp,d at rhree Towns, Ten Stripes at each, by the way ; fo at Cambrid~e fhe was eyed ro rhe Whipping-Poll, and lafh'd with Ten crud Stripes, with a three firinged Whip, wich three knors at an end, and at Water·Town lhc! was laid on whh Ten Stripes more of .Rods of Willows : And to make up all, at Dedham, in a cold frofiy Morning, they laid on her aged Limbs Ten Lafhes more with exceeding Cruelry, at aCan'stail; and being thus Torn and Bea ten, her Skin and Flefh, with the aforefaid Extremiries, rhey put her on Horfe-back, and carried her a weary Journey on Horfe- back, many Miles, inro rhe \\.ildernefs, and towards Nighr left her there, where m:lny Wolves, and Bears, and wildBeafis, · which ufed fomecimes ro fee upon living Perfons, and many deep Waters ro pafs through, there to purchafe a Houfe and Ground, which might hold her Tabernacle, or lodge her therein ; for lhemfelves faid, They thought they jhould fee her no more. But the Lord, who never faileth thofe that put their Trull in him, who preferved l)aniel'in the Lyon·s Den of Old, who preferves them that fuffer for his Name, and obey his Will, was near to, and preferved her, and rhro' the.Warers, m~ny of which fhe pa!fed, wirh rhe penf Qf her Ltfe, and aU other rhe exrream In~ ~onv~niencies of that her Condition, led her through, and uphe~d her weak bruifed Body, ~nd brough~ her the nt:xt Mqrning to a Town ~alled Rehoboth, being neither weary, nor fainr, ~mi. the~ ~o R~ode-Ijland., to Fr-iends, where fhe C c 4- w~~ |