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Show ( J 12 ) our of their JurifdiClion; and fer up a new ~fttn Gallows, faying, rf fhe cam~ agair1, fhe p1ould _be .tu!Jipt Hanged. Eight times was this Inno~ent Wot;tan ani) whipp'd and four rimes they earned her IntO {tnt in- the Wildernefs, among wild Beafrs, ro be deto tbt voured, where were Bears and "!' ol~e~,. befides -~(UJ.tl11. wild Indians ; and this is the1r C1v1hty and Trearmem of Women, as wel.l as Men; fo that whether Young or Old, Inhabnanrs or Strang~rs, Men or Women, was all alike to them, whtch he would feek to cover by that Story as. he mentions ; and who knows. b~t fuch a thmg mighc be fuffered, if nor order d,h!~e as have been by Men, feeing they made no dtfference? as. a Sign of their Wr~tc~ednefs and Inhumamty, m frripping and whtppmg not ?nlr Men ~ut Women alfo, in fuch a fhamelefs and tmmo~efr manner as they did ; fo Cr~el and. Mercllefs were they to them that fell mto thetr Hands, without refpeCl to Youth or Age, Sex or G~noition, as in the former · Tre~~ife. may be feen at large: Which Inhum~ne Whtppmgs the afore-faid Geo. Joy rhus defcnbes : . . J; ;rocc-t7cy' s -.1r.;. welve Innocenti , without ere Guzlt or C• nme, f.:ompl.zi~u. With eruel Whips ')l.'ere fcourged ~t one t1me ; .AnJ fi-e DayJ after, fifteen mo:e, IJJ force, Were beaten like the firft-wzthout Remorfe. . , Seven tender Women, Young and Old, w_er~ftrzpp 4 .All naked to the Wajle, and cruelly f?'hrpp d: Immodeft Action, greate(f Wrong, '»!&th Shame,. Which never ?JJill be clear from Guzlt or Blame· And twenty Men, well-bred, of good Defcent, Fit for .Aj]iftant1 to their Government ; Each of fuch good Report ~nd high Repute, . Their Foes coul4 not accu{e them, but ~ere mut~ · Only a Law tm.fuft, forbid their meetmg_ . Tojcrve the Lord, ~nd Whips muft be thew Greetmg. : · ~ · And ( Jl~ ) And .no:w, Cotton, thou may'ft fee we haye other Nc?v·Englantl Perfecutions ~efides what thou memioneft; and why could·ft not thou have menrioned fome of rhefe, or the like Infiances of their Cruelties and Inhumane Perfecurions, as well as that, of which thou might'{t have had enough at hand, had'ft thou been minded, or willing to write a true Hifiory, an~ not rather willing to conceal the Truth ( rho· thou pretend'ft to ic in rhy Hiftory) by endeavouring ro cover it over wich rhar Sror~ aforefaid, which yet is more rhan is rrqe too, m Faa, as rhou relareft it, as far as I can find by the , former Trearife. · And as to his faying, Their Stories about their 919ft~· Sujfering1 are tM little to be credited, a1 thefr Stories de!S an~ about their Miracles. As lirrlc, argues norhmg ; but '([onthat they may be as much credited as the ocher, gue11. that is, what Miracles they ever pretended to ; but · that, of G. Fox having the Gift of Tongues, is a Story of his own, or ac leafi none of ours, for we never faid he had ; and his Name being £O the Rattle-door, was whh refpetl ro rhe Preface, and fome of the Englifh Pan, and a lirrle Paper pf Exhortation ro rhe Lighr, which was rran-flared inro rhe feveral Languages, as they went along, with his Name ro it, as fome orher of his BoQk~ harh been, which no more argues, thar he prerended ro underfiand rhem, than that P.1ul, or apy other of the ApofiJes, underfiood ~ngli(b or ·welfh, which their Epifdes have been tranOared inro : So that his fcornful fturr, of Proud Fool, he cafrs on hitn, he may rake to him-felf and his Brethren, who have haq no more Wit chan fo to confrrue ir. And whar if a 'Jew yras hired ro help in fome part of that Work, was char any Cri'r1e? rr was· known, That ~fob,: Stubs, ~he Chief:4\,uchor of i.e. was a very learned · · .. · · Man~ |