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Show ( 20 ) ' I for owning a Paper rhar owned Magifitates, an~ fer1t ro Tpfwich-Houre of Correction, whipp'd, :.1nd required to Work; which he would, ~f they would Jet him go Home; bm thought lt unreafonable ro Work for rhem, feeing the Jaylor was to have 8 d. our of every Shilling : So they whippfd him three rimes in five Dayso Friends being mer again, out of Town, the Confrable came, and broke up the Door with an Ax and rook rheir Names, for which fame were r. 39• fen'r for, and fined 5' s. a Week for not coming ro rhe Pnblick Affembly ; and 1 o s. a rime for MeednQ" by rhemfelves ; and for coming imo Coun ~irh their Hats on, was again fent co Prifon, whipp'd, and ufed hardly ar fidl Entrance; and when at the Court afterward they defired a fair Trial, they told them, They were not punifh' d for matters of Judgment, but FaEl ; yet their Law charges Herefie and Blafphemy ; they defired to be tried according ro ir, bur they would nor bear them : i\ nd John Norton, Priefr, being the Mouth of the Courr, pur many enfnaring QEefiions, which they refufing w Anf wer him, nor being a Magifirate, and then would pur ~dUons into the Magifirares Mouths, bur not gaining their ends, they were releafed, only to be gone by rhe Coun in May. tN.E.En· ~r Sdrah Gibbim and Dorothy Waugh, coming -~~%~~~~·through great Hard1hips to Salem and J?ofton, ~nd 16s8. , going ro their place of Wor1hip, Sarah otfenng ro fpeak afrer 1· Norton had done, a Serjeam laid hands on her, and pull'd her down; and Dorothy bidding them to Fear God, &c. chey were bad to Prifon, and !hut up in a clofe Room, not fuffered ro have Food for rheir Money, the Jaylor fJying, If they would not Eat the Prifqn-Food, they fhould f{Jmijh ; and would not let them have any ( 21 ) any for eight Days, faying, i'he; fhould le~ve tbet'r Carkajfes behind them: And bemg exammed by J. Endicot, Governour, and R. BellinghMn, he told Sarah She was a Witch; and fenrenc'd them both robe' feverely whipp,d ; which was done with ren Srripes a-piece, wirh a three. fold · cord, and knors at rhe end, ro tear the Fleffi, and torment the Creature, and then lhur up, and the Windows fiopp'd, ro prevent them of Air and all manner of Refrelhmenr, and fo continued fome time for their Fees. Horred Gardner, of Newport in Rhode· Jfland, a Mother of many Children, being moved ro go to P. 72 • Weymouth, ro bear her Tefiimony, wirh a Babe at her Breafr, was foon hurried before 1· Endi- . cot, who, after abufing her with unfavory Language, commirred her and the Girl (Mary Stanton, that help' d her bear her Child) ro the Gaoler, where they received ten Stripes a-piece, with the three-fold-cord of their Covenant with Death and Hell: Were (hefe Good Men? Or, rha£ rold Tho. Harri4, when he came from Barbadoes, p 74 to Warn them, That he deferved to be H~ng' d; the 4~h and fent him to Prifon, where he was lhur up Month, in a clofe Room, and none fuffered to come un- x6s 8. to him, nor fuffered to buy Food for his Money, and required to Work, our of which he was ro have 4 d. in a Shilling, in fuch Dyer as he would give him, then whippd ten Stripes with their rhree-corded Whip, and fhut up again ; and at rhe end of five Days had Food convey'd in at a Window, by a Friend, elfe might have fiarved ; then told, If he would Hire the Marfhat to convey him out of their JurifdiEiion, he mig};t be ~o1:1e ; which, becaufe he could nor, he was ·whipp' d again 11. Blows, and again 1 5. w. |