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Show ( ~0 ) who is the Father of the Fatherfefs, and tl~e Husband ·ro rhe Widow ·; who is no RefpcB:er of Perf'ms, but 1ViLl render to cve1y Man according to his Jflorks. f Mar1 Clar-k is the next, whofe tender Body ~~~h6~, ( being a Mother of Children, al!d h~ving a Month, Hu band in England, w.bom fhe lefr, bemg mol\ 1tryCI.trk ved of rhe Lord co come umo you ) ye unmer;( of.,,, u .uk cifully Tot e with Twenty Stripes of a Whip · .1\lLr(hant . , d l 'd · h p . fl 11.. Taylor in wnh three Cor s, · at on WH my, a _rer we Lo11dou. had delivered her Me!fage ro you, whtch flle had from rhe Lord, which ye mrned your Backs upon, and faid,-Ye would not hear---like thofe proud Men, to whom the Prophet Jeremiah fpake in the "'Nord of the Lord. So fhe turned her Back ro you, and ye· finore it as aforefaid; and having de.rained her Prifoner about Twelve \tVeeks after in the Winrer-feafon, ye turned her out of your Jurifditlion. And this is your Houfe ofCorreCtion, and the beginning of the Inflitling of [he Penalry, which, ye ~y, was In-fi'. fficicnt. r·. lf,Jl lc:r, Chriftopher I!oltler and 1 ohn Copeland are t~1e j. copelm 1 nexr, who being moved of the Lord to go to Salem, a 1 own in your Colony, and fpeakinga few words ( vi.z:-. Chriftopher Holder) in your .. Meering, afrer the Prieft had done, was haled bxk by rhe Hair of the Head, and his Mouth rhe 2 dl: of violently fiopp'd wich a Glove and Handker· rhe 7th chief rhruft thereimo whh much Fury, by one l\lonth, of your Church-Members and Commiffioners '6 ~' 7· and they bo[h thruft our, and had ro a Hou1re', and continued there rill the next Day, and rhen , 1 ~ had ro Boj!o11, where ye laid it on with Thiny ~~~ 2/l~ or Stripes a piece at once, with a knoned Whip ?f .loJJth, three Cords, as near as the Hang-man could tn 1 ~3 7· one place, meafuring his Ground1 and fetchinp · h,IS ( sr ) his firoaks with the greatefi Strength and Advamage he could, to cnt their Fldh, and ro put rhem to Suffering; the Cruelty of which was fo great, th at a Woman feei"ng it, feJJ down as Dead: Yet it did nor end there, for that Night, and three Days afrer, your Jaylor kept them without food or Water (lying on the Boards, without Bed or Straw, afcer {o cruel Execmion) and fo clofe, that none might come w fpeak with them, fo they mi6ht have perifhed, bm the Lord preferved them und 'r your Mercilefs Cruelcy; and when all chis would nor do, ye kepr cbem Nine Weeks Prifoners wirhour Fire,in the cold Wimer- feafon, and chen turned them forth : And rhe Friend of Salem (Samuel Shat- s.shattock. tack by Name) who pull'd away the hand of che faid Church Member's and CommifTione r, when he thrufi Lhe Glove and Handkerchief in-to [he Mouth of Chri(fophe1' Holder, lell ic fhould have choaked him, being nor able to behold fo Barbarous an Aa, ye fenr ro Bojfon (tho' an Inha-bitant of Salem, and a Man of good Repute amongft ye) and rhere ye kept him Prifoner (whom fince ye have Whipp'd and Banifh'd upon Pain of Death) as a Friend of f23 .1kers (tho' ye had no ~aw fo co d?) w?o only did this friendly Atr, nll he h.ad · gtven 111 Bond of Twenty Pounds ro anf wer. H ar the next Court, and not ro come at any of rhe People called (0akers at their Meetings. And this was the fecond Proarefs of your I-Iou{e ~f. Correction, and Lhe fun her lt1flieti-on ofyour Inrufficient Punifhmem, which ye laid on w1~hom ~ompaffion or P1 ry, and yet call ir Infojficunt-1'he 1 malty i1fl_ ; lc{l prcvit1g b z(uffici-ent- fay_ ye, who are rhus I runk in Blood, and filled wHh Madnefs, t!Jar yc care nor \\·hat ye do co the lnnocenr, nor what Crue.lry ye inff:cr, D 2. nor |