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Show ( 6o) GoJ w.u witb them, that the1 were fo preferveJ withQut Food; and that they came well into the Town, 114 hundreds could Witnefs ; and that if they perijbed, their Blood 'JVould fa/J Heavy on them who were the occafion thereof. He anfwered,-.-He matterd, or, it m;~tters not. And when he ha~ fet them ar Liberry, to be fenr out of the Country, your Jaylor derained them certain Days, afier ali this, for their Fees, and had kept them longer,, had not rhe Lord by another way wrought their Deliverance. H. Gar.i· Hon·ed Gardner is the next, who being the Mo-ner. rher of many Children, an4 an Inhabitant of F[ewport in Rhode-Ijland,c~~e with her Babe fuck· ipg at her Breafr, from J,hence ro Weymouth (a To·wn in · you~ Colony) · w,he~·e having finifhed what 1be had to do, and h~r tenhnony from the Lord, unto which the Witnefs of God anf we red in the People, fhe was h~rrie~ by the u th of 3d qafer fqrt ~6 Bofton, pefore your Goy.ernour, Month, John Endicot, who after he had enrenamed her t6s8. with much abufive Language, ancl the* Girl that * Mary came with her, to help bear her Child, he COOl· StJ.tmton. mu• ted t he m bo t h to Pn · rco n, an d o r de r~ ·a. t he m to be whipp9d with Ten Lathes a-piece, whi~h was cruelly laid on their Naked Bodies, with a rhree-fo13-knoned-Whip of Cords, and th~n were conr'inued for the fpace of Four .. teen Days longer in Prifon, from their Friends, who could nor Vifir them. The Woman came a very fore Journey, and (according to Man) hardly accomplithabl~, through a Wildernef~ 9f above Sixty Miles, b~r~een Rbode-ljland and B,oflon ; and being kepr up, afre~ your Cruel Ufage of their Bodies, might have died ; bur you had no Confiderarion of this~ or of them, tho' rhe ¥ocher had of you, 'w.ho afLer th~ ~av.age, In~ · '( · ·· ··· · humane ( 6i ) humane and Bloody Execution on her, of you.r Cruelty aforefaid, kneeled dow~, . and Praytd -The Lord to Forgiveyou-whtch fo reach~ ed upon a Woman chat fiood by, and wrought upon her that the gave Glory to God, and {aid, -That fu~ely Jhe could not have done that thing, if it bad not · been by the Spirit of the Lord.-- 7' H. • After thefe came Thomas ~H.zrris fr?m Rho~:J- of B~~~~Ipand into your Colony, who Declarz11g ag_amfl does. Jour Pride and Opprej]ion, as he could have Ltber-ty co fpeak, in your Meeting- Place ar Boflon, af-ter rhe Priefi had ended, Warning the Peoplt of the Dreadful Terrible Day of the Lord . Gotl, ~hich WM coming upon that Toum and Country ; lnm, mu~h unlike to Nineveth, you pulled down, and hall d him by che Hair of his Head our of your Meet-ing, and a Hand was pur on his Mourh co keep him from fpeaking farther, and rhen had before your Governour, and Deputy, wiLh mher Ma~ gifrraces, and commicred ro Prifon, wirhouc . Warranr or Minimus, rhar he faw, and fhut up in a clofe Room, none fuflered ro COil;le at him, nor to have Provifions for his Money; and the next Day whipp'd wirh fo cruel Stripes, with~· our thewing any Law that he had broken, rho• he defired ic of the Jaylor, and then fhut up again for Eleven Days more, Five of which he was kept wirhour Bread (your Jay lor nor fuf .. fering him to have any for his .Money, and rhrearned one of rhe mher Prifoners very much for bringing him a liule \Vater on the Day of his fore Whipping) and all this, becaufe he could not work for rhe Jarlor, and Jet him have Eight Pence in Twelve Pence of what he fhould Earn: And fiarvc:d he had bet:n in aiJ probabi-liry, had nor che Lord kept him rhofe Five Days, and ordered it fo afrer that rime, chat Food was ( conveyed |