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Show that took aw~y her Horfe that the rode on, to car:: JY away rhe K's Commiffioners our of the Town, ~hat the was forced to go Threefcore Miles, thro~ the Woods, on foot, among the wild Beafis, wirh . a Woman-friend big with Child, ro rhe hazard of their Llves, and came back again to Boflon, thro~' the Woods, by her felf, in deep Snow, where was no path but what the Wolves had beat for her · but the Commiffioners fent back her Horfe, fayin' g, It wrn a Quakers, and they knew no Evil hy them, and would not ride back on it ; and had not the K~'s CommHiioners been in the Town, the 1\1agiftr~tes of Bof!on purpofed to have put her to Death ; and riever to have refiored her Horfe :again, but put her in {?rifon, and from thence, in the Night, to a Ship, to fend her away; and fearching early in the Morning for ~akers, found Four in their Beds, and had them before the Rulers, Bellingham and the reO:, and ask'd them, What they came thither for? They faid, To Viftt the King's Commijfioners ; but they faid, They woulJ whip the Commy]ioners upo1~ t~e f23akers Backs; and fo whipp'd them very Gnevoufly at three Towns, and out of their JurifdiBion: Who were the Villains now, Cotton ? !!ttb Or, that after they had put to Death Four, aftet* and fentenced more, tho~' the King had fent a 'h1attl,S. Gaol~ Delivery, they did not regard it, the Jay. · lor telling Friends, It was not for them ; and they put feveral Juries upon them, if they could, to put them to Death , but another Letter came from the King, for Liberty of Cenj'cience for hi! peaceable SttbJeEh ~ but th~y wo_uld har~~y be refirained, tho' Fnends latd thetr Rebellion before them; but they, on a Leaure-day, called three before them, one was condemned to be put to · · · .. · ; peat~ ( 97 ) Death next L~au~e· day t, and two to be whip-+ That ped ar a ~an s-tat!, and many Sentences there they might were agamfi them, by feveral Juries what to haveBlood .do with them ; bur ar length they devifed ro to. mingl~ dtyl· t"dve tl 1elm a 1C1 ou•t ; an•1 d two Innocent Men were sw tth; rt. hetr acrtJzces, e ro r 1e an_s-tai, a!1d whipp'd down the like the ?treers, many. finpe,s a-ptece; and the refi, be- Old. Hea-mg Twenry E1ght, they drove out with Swords, ~hens. Sraves, and Weapons of War, Horfe and Foot, from Confiable to Confiable ; but an Old Man .they drove o~t another way, from his Wife and ChtJdren, _and made a Warrant ro read at every ~lace, wluch called them Rogues and Vagabo1Jds and 'JJJandring f<!!akers, &c. and' a new Law if J~er c~me again, to · VJhip them out of their Jup~ du~liOn many times over ; and then ro Im-pnfon . them, if they ~atl}e aga~n, and brand ~hem m the Shoulder, wtth a Sentence at I aft~ of Dear h. Thus did they drive inro the Wilder .. nefs two Days Journf;!y, ·towards RhoJe-IfJanJ, ~nnocent People, who had done them no wrong and fo left chem, through ~any Ware~s to go~ fame returned to go to theu own l-Iabirations, whom they_ took ul? as they wenr, and carrie4 to ~ofton-Pnfon agam, others they did execure t~e~r cruel Law upon, with many fore Wh~p-pmgs through feveral Towns · an Inhabitant of B_ofton they whipp' d ten time~ ren Lafhes at a P~e, for returning to his Wife ~nd Children· and :fter~ar~s kept him in Prifon a long rime. When h~ Kmg .s Lener came to fiop their Proceedings· fr~ends had Peace for a lirrle feafon, till rhei; 1.0 ~ P~~ft had been with the King; then they be- tot&~~ ~ to enc~~rage the People to perfecure again ; +0 ha~e the~ 'qlade Havock of the Flock of up \E)~t- SG od, ~·n tearmg their Fldh with wh·t ppm· oa , an d fornc uat t- .c~~rgmg, an~ ta~ing away the F!eec;e by Fines gain~ , · · ' · · and , |
