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Show ( 68 ) which Order he read ro the Prifoners, the 7th Day of the Week and rold them, It fhould be e:~ecuted on the ul Da/of the Week (olio'11Jin$; and ~h1ch on the 1d Day he execured accordmgly, Wtth much I-J. N'orton, Cruelcy on them, viz.. on Humphry Nor~on, John :f. f<2ttf(, Rou{e, William Leddra and t'hom(J4 H~rru of. BarW. Ledd_ra, b J w"trh Fifteen Cruel Lafhes a-ptece, latd on 1Ji.:um ar. oeJ, . c. r. "d · · with rhe rhree-fold-corded-Wh1p, as a.ore1a1 , fo adding Five ro the firft Number of yen ; which bloody Cruelty fo affected rhe InhabHants of Boflon, ro fee New Stripes on the OIJ Sores, and fame of rhe Old Sores, were upon t?em when they came ro be whipp d the fecond time, who were whipp'd a Fortnight before ; I fay, it fo moved them, that they paid th~ Charge required for them (which was about Stx or Seven Pounds ) as they ufually did, as to all that were in Prifon, that they might ~e f~t Free. But this you added, and did, that IC m1ght be made appear ( and the Hand of the Lord was in it ro fuffer it ro be fo) how ~e were On~ with, and approved of the jaylor s Deed, tho becaufe of the Cry of rhe People, and the ~ea_r of Blood, ye feemed ro the contrary •. Tl~ns JS another Experiment of the Penalty tnfhCted, which, ye fay, proved Infufficient. But as for rhe Inhabiranrs then in Prifon ( up?n who~? .Ye made this Law, as on Strangers, wHhour ?Illmttion, and executed on the Strangers,. tho m~de after they were Prifoners ; and notwnhftandmg they fent you a Paper, wherein they declared, That they coJ1ld not ,vork for you, or hire C:ondu~ (lhe caufe for which ye detained them m Pn· fon) they having fuffered your Law before, for coming into the Counrry, yet ye made them futfer more Cruelly for it, than for the Breach of your Law, for that it was againfi their Confci .. , ences, ( 69) ences, having not broken or rranfgrelfed any Law of God or wholefome Law of the EnglifhNarion ; yet 'to the Inhabiranrs, £ho' they m~~e ready their Backs for the Pofi, and were purnng off their Clorhes, to receive the like as their Brethren, ye then did norhing. And now, as co them, viz. Samu~l Sbattock, S·S!Jdtto•k, Lt:wrence Southit·k, CajJandra his Wife, J ofiab rheir L.Sou&hick Son, Samuel Gaskin and Jojhu" Buffum (whom I f:zJJ~4f.a have been conllrained pr?mifcu?u{]y r~ couch at, :/:fia!J 1 -=, becaufe they have been Intermixed WHh orhers their Son, in their Sufferings) ·They were at a Meering, :f. Buffl~m, with as many more of their Neighbours and s. GasJ.:m. Friends, as made up Twenry or upwards, at NicboltM Phelps's Houfe ( abour Fives Miles off S.zlem) in the Woods, wirh the faid two Friends, Willit~m Brend and Wi/Jiam Leddra, wailing on rhe Lord; unto which one Batter (a bloody Man, and a Commiffioner of your own) came, and a Conftable wirh him, and required chem w atlift the Con !table (a moft U nreafonable Demand, thofe two being their Friends, and they all in the fame Condirion) which they refufing, he wenc his way, after the uling of fome Violence to the Strangers : But the next Week, he gave their Names inro the Courr, who caufed them to be Apprehended for fo final! a Mauer, and kept them in Prifon, in a Neighbour~s Haufe, two Days, till the latter end of their Seffion, and then had che aforcfaid before rhem ; and ac-cufed them, for being from their pubtick Mettings, and at a Meeting b1 themfelves, and with their ErJe-mies ( fo they accounted the Servants of the Lord, who came in Love to them, as being move4 of the Lord) and their great Bufinds Was ro prove them fuch as are called 0_tfl lurJ. l: was ~emandc:d by one of them, flow they E 3 "!ight |