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Show { 48 ) was your Fear ) 11ot to lodge her in lmy_ To1vn of your Colony, nor to permit any to have fpeecb 'JVitb ber (an unmanly thing) in her 1ourney. But as for Burden, .Ye held her ro it ; and when fhe was very Sick in Prifon, ye fuffered not her Friends to come and vifit her ; yea, your Jay lor tlmt her up in a clofe Room in rhe Heat of Summer, upon rhe Vific of two Friends at the Window as they came from your Meerings. And as for her Debts, though fome render-beaned Ptople were moved ro look after them whilfi the was in this Refirainr, and had procured to the Value of abom Thiny Pounds of it, and defired that fhe might have her Liberty, when ye fem her away, to pafs ro England by Barbadoes, becaufe the Goods fo gathered for that pan of the D~br, were nm fit for E11gland, which was fo reafonable, that you feemed at firfi as ·if it mighr be, if any Volunrarily would receive her, for that ye could Compe'l none fo ro do, bur he that brought her rhith<;r; and they upon this feeming Liberry of yours, had procured fuch a Paf. fage, yet ye fuffered her not ro go, but moa unreafonabJy compell'd the Maller of the Ship that brought her thither, to carry her back for EnpJand, without any of her Goods with her, nor had fhe fo much as one Penny-wonh of her Husband's (except ro the Value of Six Shillings, which an honefi Man fent her upon an old Account) whilft fhe was in· New-England; but ye returned her Empty to her Fatherlefs Children, rho' they were Born in the Country; and after rhac ye had kept her there rhe fpace of about Twelve Weeks clofe Prifoner, and pm her co the Charge of her abiding there ; and when the Mafier of the Ship asked, Who {hould pay for her Paj]age? Ye advifcd him to rake fo much ( 49 ) much of her Goods as would anfwer ic ; which he refufed to do, rather rrufiing to her Honefly, of which he was perf waded, chat ihe would noc let him be a Lofer, tho' he could not Compel her to pay, feeing ille went nor of her own will (and which the paid him in London upon that Accoum) ye let him go. And when he that had rhe firli Trull: from her Husband wich the Efiare, was ro convey what was gathered ro Barbadoes, after fhe was gone; ye tlopp'd co the Value of Six Pound Ten Shillings of ic for her Patfage (who wem upon her own Charae and ~aid ir in London, aforefaid) and of Seve~ ShiJ. ltng~ for Boar-hire to carry her on Ship-board (rho the Malter proffered John Endicot, your Governour, w carry her in his own ; bur ivchard Bellingham, your Depury-Governour would nor, bur fenr her, wirh che Hang-man, ida Boat that he had prefi) and of Fourceen Shillings for the Jay lor .(co whom fhe owed norhing) ami as for rhe refi, fhe heard of fume char was fent to rhe B~rb~does, by the Honefi Man thar fii1-red to hav.e u m ; bur of him rhat was inrrufied, fbe neuher heard when, nor whar nor hath fhe any thing of it come ro her Hdnds ( 2 ~ rh of the. 1d Monrh, 166o.) co relieve her and her Chtl~ren; and ·a:; for che Remainder of rhe Efiare le.fr I? rhe Counrry, which fhould have been a Ltvehhood fo_r her and hers, and for which fhe came, whac IS become of it fhe knoweth nor ~or can nor go over ro Enquire, wirhour a Pr1• ~ .tOn· And rh . ts .ts your Mercy, your way to pay ~~~rs; your Tendernefs, your Regard · ro rhe 1 ~w a~d the Farherkfs; your jufiice, and rhe Execunon of your Laws, where the Reafon of vour Law hath no place: : And for chis, expect chat ye flnll have your Reward from Him, D Wh() I |