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Show ( 8 ) the Charge of them that brought them, on whom ye laid this unreafonable Burden, they being Ignorant before they came from Barbadoes or Engl~nd, of (nor was there any) fuch Law ~ Lock. of yours ? And, did ye nor compel Robert Lock ( a Mafter of one of the Shi~s) t? carry them back on his own Charge, bemg Etghr of them, and bind him in Bond fo £O do, and to land them no where bur in England? ( a firange Ufurpation over other Countries, and your own, and tbe Mafl:er and them ) and did ye not Imprifon him, till he became fo .Boun~,. and f? Undenook? And did ye not Btnd WtlJJam Chzchef! er (the Mafl:er of the Velfel whom you got to carry them ) in One Hundred Pound Bond, to carry the two Women,' that came firfr, a~ay, and not to fuffer a.ny to fpeak with them, afrer that they were forcibly, by your Order, pm on Board her, or to land them in any pare of your. JurifdiCtion? And durinP' the long fcafon$ ot their Imprifonmems aforefaid, did ye take Care for their Mainrenance, as ye ought to have done ? Having Imprifoned them fc) clofe- · ly, that none could come ar rhem; ~or ye klllcw nor that they had any Mon~y, or ·Pnend whelp 1t.1Jpfhall. them: Or, was nor NicbolaJ Upfhall ( a Membtr of your· Church, a long-liver in Bofion, an Ancient Ma·n, and full of Years, of whofe fore Sufferings . ad ~our Hands, more particularly in rheir place).: denied Liberry ro fend Provifions ro rhefrl, ·rili .he purchaftd rhar Liberry, ar the rate of Five Shillings a Week, of your Jaylor ( another of your Church-1\lembers ? ) And whilfi they thus lay under your MerciJefs Cruelty, Did ye nor feek aJJ \the Wqys ;1nd mean~ ye <;ould to Enfnar~ them, apd tq ~raw fome~ ·. , .~h~ ng ( 9 ) thing out of them (who had none befides ) wherewithal ro l:proach and Charge them, and the Tru~h r h~.y •;irnelfed ; examining them lingle and a-parr, as co rhe fame rhings, ro fee if ye could carch them it1 any Unrrurh ? Or, as 10 the Maners of their Faith, who had nor declared any thing .' P.~oljckly, nor were fuffered fo ro do; or ro fpeak ' ~it)), anr. One, as hath been faid. But., blelfed be' rbe tord (who was near, and preferved rhem) you miffed your Expetl:ation, and·. neither . did, nor could find any. t11ing again£t :rft erp,, .whe~,ew~rhal co Charge [hem o~ rhe Trinh', dio' . ye Liboured it hard : And nad you not your High-Priell, Norton ( wt~o faid, The Juftice of God ·u;ao the Dev its Armour) and his l;3rerhren to your Ailifiance, even in your General-Court ( ro rhe Shame of your felves, who rook uppn ·you a Jurifdittion you w~re not a_b1~ ro manage .without the help of a Pnelt, as tf H were of hts Profeilion ro meddle wirh Civil JurifdiClion) and when ye could ,get no Advanrage againft them by this way of workin_g (the <lillftntf£1 of God in him and you anfwenng w rheTruch rhey fpake, and fo were difappoimed) Were ye nor forely vexed wirhin Y OLl (having' nmhjng fi·om your (elves or ochers ~s any breach of your Laws, wherewirhal 10 .c~ver y~ur Proc~edings againfr Lhem ? ) And dtd nor J-ohn Endtcot, your Governour fufficiemly manifefr ir, when he Blood-rhirfli;gly f.1id to rhem,-Take heed you break not o"r Eccle(tajlical Laws ( who ·thought rhe Bifhops fo hard, who put none of them to Death) for then ye are fure t~ {tretcb by a Halter ?-( the thing rhar lay then I~ your Bofon:s, which you have fince C'l c:.. compltfhed) And d1d he not furrher manifefi ir ~hen l~.e told thcm;-Tley fl:ollld not ha7.)e a Cop; "'· ,.,•.; ' . -.: of |