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Show .... ( 4l6 ) way of contraries, for an Inhabitant of a· Colo· ,ny, and a Tradefman and Houfe-keeper, co rraveJ abour his lawful Occafions) and co be ~t the Quakers Meering. Edward anfwered, He came not then from Salem. From whence came J; then? faid Rawfon. J:i'rom the . Weftw_arJ, reply d EJ .. ward. fPhat did ye there ? fa1d Rawfon. What hafl thou to do ( reply'd Edward) to demand of me what l do itJ another ]urifdiC!ion? I have been about my OccafiotH. Your Secretary as~ed your Governour, liVhether he would accept ofth$s anfw~r? No faid your Governour. (See how the Go~ vet~nour and Secrerary bicch rogether, to caufe the Innocent to fuffer .) !hen. Ra1.vjon began to raife falfe Accu{arions aga111ft lum, and co char.ge him wirh going about the Coumry to .Dece1ve People (fee your Account of tbe Declaratz~n of the Gojptl of Peace) and that he and others had been ac Milcome, and had do~e mu.ch H~rt there · · (which Mt!come IS a place Sentences him to be whipp'd, ar which Rmvfon's Son was as a Vagabond. an Oppreflive t Priefi; and t Samuel Tory, who pro.mifed fee how the Father manathe People at Milco'!'-e, a.t hts firft gech rhe Son's nqarrel, a.nd coming, to labour wtth hts Hand~, ~ te eafe their Frovifions for h1s what Panialicy and lnJU-Maintenance; but inftead there- fiice is here ? Indeed l {carce of. took away the ~~a·ker's (one reckon ·it, bccaufe your E~mJ 1uckr:r':,) Cord wood, ~ith- whole comfe is noching out giving notice, and fold 1t at eire b"t one 1 . 11 r1 • 1.e p'tece of B!i{fon, to buy Glafs for his new 11 ... H·oufe, that. the People built for Injufiice and Cruelty.) Ar•d him; and ,his Wife got George afrer ·he had flout ed, and lhtcock's Cow to make up the thrown out his Dirt and number of hers, for her Dairy. A right Tory indeed. Filth at Tru[h, and the FJ jends .rhereof, Rawfon faid,. 7 hat if be gave ~Jo better Account of his. Buflnejj (and what berter Account would he have of a M Ml who had ~~ much reafon and jufiic:; . ~ ( 417 ) to be in BoflotJ as himfelf, being a Houfe·keeper in your JurifdiB:on, and being charged with nothing as an Offence, by your own Law, as done by him ? ) He foould fuffer as a Vagabond. Reply~d EJn,ard, I defy the Life of a Vagabond~ and that La'JV is a wicked Law, and very '1vickeJ and unrighteous Men are they, that caufe tbofe that fear the Lord to fujfer by fuch a 1vicked La1V. So Raw{on drew blis Sencence, which is as followeth : ' To the Conftable of Bofton, or his Deputy, and Copy of of Lyn, and his Deputy. -the War .. rant. YOU are h~reby required, in his Majefty's N erme, Which to commtt the Body of Edward \Vharron to fi·n·e'> you fafe Cuflodj, till the next Morning, and then to ttJke as !nl\ho-, hz.m out of Pri1rr .o n, an d c au1,r ;e. ht.m to be tyed to a nhean,td ctalonths Cart's-tayl, and 1vhipp'd through this Town, and de- a Cheats, livered to the Conftable o{ Lyn, tD be alike whipp' d, to ~~~nand by him to be carried to Salem, the place of bi6 te_r~~ ~ fc abode, from wh~nce rn a ,Vagabond he hath (/rayed, :~re; yoo~ and refufed to gtve a fatuftlctory A,d;ver .for jucb ht4 plea fe the Vagrant Life; 1vhereoj you are not to fail. King's. Authonty Dared the 4th day of May, 1664. h d . I., or no ]o n En !COt. valiJ.i ty. Norwithftanding, afrer he had wrore rhis, herold Ed·JJ}ard, That if be would promife the Governour, to .come no more to the 0fakers Meeting in. B?fion, then it 'Jvas likely the Governour 'Jvould ler hzm ' have his liberty. Not for alt the Wodd ( re- Edw.zrd's ply~d Edward) And, Friends ( faid he) I have reply to 1 11 b11ck to Jmd to the Srniter, n11J I iJtnJe felt ~~~ ~rOU~ your b~rty. |