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Show ( 64) of rhe faid fV. Brend and W. Leddra, they called before rhcm feveral of rhe Inhabirants of Salem, h . ·for Meeting with thofe aforefaid ; and fix· of L.Sout tck h . S h' k c rjj J h' ·w·c: Caff.mdr.z r em, vzz.,. L~1vrence out tc · , a an ra IS ne~ his Wife, and Jofiah their Son, and Samuel Shattock, 1 oPJua :fofi:tb Huffum and Samuel Gaskin, they {ent with W. · thet So~, BrenJ and W. Leddra ro Boflan, whom your Jay.: 'Ji~ B~ffft~n: lor *.received about Six of the c;Ioc!{ in rhe s.Gaskin. Eventng, and fhuc them up a-part, m Rooms *zclof ~th which he had provided on purpofe to make Month, them (as he faid) bow ro your Law; and fiopt 16S8• up rhe Windows, and all ways of (:;onveyances for Air and Diet, which he kept from them (except fLlCh cis he laid before rhem, as a liede Porcage and a piece of Bread, for which he would have made them Work, if they had earen, as he threarned ; bur Money he would nor rake; and Work for Meat, at his appoimment, they could nor, fo they did not Ear ) and fuffered none ro come at them; and fo continued from rhe fixrh Day of rhe fonner Week, to the fourrh Day of the Week following, the fecond Day of w. 1 which, rho' they' had no food from the time r1-· LBrded11~ ' aforefJid, yet he called rhem down to be whips• .s•h .eu ro~c<kt ,, pe d , wgether with Samuel Shattock, Jo(hua Bu{- s. G.tskin, fum, Sa.mtul Gaski1~ and Caj]~ndra Southick (for :f. B u~·u.M, being a Woman, ye could nor have her Ear CL..SSoouurt,h,ri.c:kk bY your L_ JW, r1 1 0• ye w h't pp 'd· h er ) ten St n·~ es ~fofiah hio, a ptece, w Hh a knotted-three-fold-corded-Whtp, ' on. upon the Account of your former Law, as be-ing fuch as were called ~akers : And having '*I!'".Brw,l, whipp'd them, your Jay lor lock'd • them in a U .Lddr.z. clofe Ro~m1 , dark, and without Air, in. the hot SLlmmer-feafon ; the Room, he: prepared ro Bow, ~lim, Dellroy rhem ; for fo his Carriage manifefierh in kee ping them up there, from Food, and whipping rhem fo, and locking them up again ( 6; ) ag!\in in tbe fame place, from Food or Friend, till the fourth Day following, Then he rold them they were clear, paying their Fees (who owed him none) and hiring the Marfhal to Convey them ouc of 1he Counrry (which they could nor do in Obedienct to the lord who fent them thither; or as Englifh-Men in their own Country) fo he kept them dofe Prifoners and the next Morning the Jaylor pur H'iliia,/, W.Bren.~, Brend (a Man of Years) inro Irons, Neck and Heels; lockt fo clofe together, as thete \\ras no more room between each, than for the Horfe- ~ock that fallned them 011 ; and fo kept hirii m Irons .for the fpace of Sixteen Hours ( as the Jaylo~ hu~felf confelfed ) for nor working; and all thts wnhouc Mear, whHfi his Back was rorn with t~e Whipping the Day before; which did nor fa[tsfie your blood-rhi.fiy Jaylor, but as a Man. ref~lv'd ro have his Life, and by Cruelties to Ktll htm, he had him down aaain the next Morning .co Work, tho' {o many Days without Meat, hts Back Beaten, his r\eck and Heels Bruifed, by being Bound fo long togerher,becaufe he c~uld no~ bo,w to his will; yer he laid him on wuh a pHch d Rope Twemy Blows over his Ba.ck and Arms, wi1h as much force as he could dnve ; fo rhar _with the Fiercenefs of the Blows th~ R?pe uhtWJfied, and his Arms were Swoln V:Hh n.: Prefemly after this, your Jaylor ha ... vmg euher l_llended his Old, or gm a New Rope, ca!De 1~1 again; and having haled him down Statrs wt.th greater Fury and Violence than before, gave hts broken, bruifed and weak Body Fourfcore and .seventeen Blows more, foaming at .rhe Mouch JJke a Mad-Mant and tormenred :J~h Rage; umo . which great Nilmber, he had ed more Blows, h:ad noc his Strength and E Rope |