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Show ( )8 ) 1· nnrto~t, Names are 1ohn Small, Jofiah Southick, and ]ohn ~f.Soraf·.~~:k Burton ; who coming to a place. called. Dedh~m, 'f· Sm<~t. in rhe w.ay rbirher, about Thuty MII.es f~om . Sal£m, the fidl Night, as rhey were gm_ng mro rhe Ordinary ro Lodge, one of the Chtef Men of that PlJce, Capt. Lujher by Nam~,. was f~nt tor, who examined them abour Rehgwn, WJ(h your Minifrers, ~n. purpofe ro enf~;1re them~ which they perceiVIng, and refufing .to anfwet unto his Q1efiions, rho' rhey gave h1m an Account of their Journey ; he wld them rhar he would fend rhem where they fl10L1ld Anfwer; and fo rbe nexr Morning rhe Conflable came wi1h Aid, and with a Halbert and Brazen-headed Sraff, conveyed them like l\lurrherers through the Screer to Bofton, where your Depury-Governour reviled them, telling them, that they ibould go ro Prifou ; and ro Prifon they had gone, had they nor defired to .go·ro th~ Governour, who hearing rhe Cafe, dtd more ltke a Man of U nderftat ding ( if he had fo held ~ and fer them fi ee, laying- Tbat they coufd not htnder A:ten from Travelling on their Journeys. Yet, nocwuhfiandin()' the fame Governour and Deputy-Governo0~ r Signed a Warrant ro levy Twelve Shillings on them ( ro pay the Confiable and his Men) thus levying · Fir~es ro force fame away, and. ke~p orhers back; neither fuffering them to LIVe In ~iernefs, or Depart in Peace. "r.·b' . Sarah Gibbens and Doroth'J Waugh, were the nexr ·'·:_;I Vf:!l!, d c I fi D. W.zut.h- on whom ye laid your bloo y rue cy; or, ! 3thof2d they being moved of die Lord., went to Bo(fon, . Month, and bein()' found in your Meermg-Place, fpeak- I6s 8. ing a fewo words afrer your .n. d d Le~Lure was en c , ye caufed rhem to be had to your Houfe of CorreCtion, where your Jay lor (a Mem~er of your Church ) kept them three Days VVlthOtrt Food, ( 59 ) Food, in a clofe Room, rho' rhey tend red Money for Provifions, nor having eaten one Morfel of Bread during that rime. Then ye fent for them to your Courr, and ac;ked chem many enfnaring 1 ft of 1 3d . fi l . h. h Mont 1, ~efiions, ro get Matter a gam r 1em,. m w tc 16s 8. nor prevailing (for the Lord .was wHh. them, o·iving them a Momh and Wtfdom wluch ye ~ould nor reiifi ) ye fenrenced them w Prifon, to be [ feverefy] Whipp'd, which was as Cruel-ly execured the fecond Day of the Week f?llowing, with a three fold-corded-knotted ~htp, with which ye gave rhem Ten Lafl1es a-ptece, tearing off their Fleib, and beating ir co pieces, and then fimt them up, and fiop'd rhe Windows, ro prevent Air and other Refrefhment for eight Days together, afrer rheir fore Whippings, and three Days before they were fo Whipp·d, anq Perifhed they muft, had nor the Lord wonder-fully kept them, beyond what Man could have been able to undergo : Bur he did enable them to give him Thanks for his Prefence, after they were fo forely Whipp'd, to the Aftonifhmenr of the People. And ~he Jaylor being asked, Why he wonld nor let them have Food for rheir Money, and what he meant ro keep them with-our Food? He anfwered,-The.r Jhould Famifh, if they 1vould not eat the Pri{on Food ( which was for their Work, which they could nor do in your Wills, nor being idle Perfons, and had Money of rheir own. ) And your Governour, 1ohn Endicot, being asked by Sarah Gibbens (when they were had before you afrer the firfi three Days as afortfaid ) Whether it were Juflice or Eqttity, to keep them fo up, and not to fuffer them to have Food for their Money, that being the third. Day they had been fo kept, and batl not eaten one Morfe~ 'of Bread? And furthtr, that ye might all fee that ' ' God |
