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Show ( 90) next .l\·lorning to move to Bofton ; but we~e pre~ venred for rhe Confiables came early m the Morni 1~g, and rold them that they had ~Warrant ro carry them to Bojlon; whether they broucrhr them before your Govcrnour, who, being tormented in Spirit, faid in a Rage,- Ye j1Jall be Jure to have your ~ars cut ojJ.-And afr~r Jsking rhem mar.y Qtelhons, fent them ro Pnfon .md the next Day had them before the Co~rr, where he fought to enfnare .rhem ; bur rhey told him, They Jllould not anfwer !Jzm. Whereupon be had the Impudence tO fJ.y,-That they (orwht to en(nare them Jure enough.-And fo at the ·l\1;rion of Rmv(on, your Secretary, they were commicted ro l)rifon, and ordered to be kept dole at Work, with Prifoners Diet only, ~til their Ears were cm off; and threarned wnh your former Law, of 1:;hipping them t~Jice a W~ek, 11nrl everJ' time to encrw(e Three from Fifteen Strtpes (the firfi time) to Eighteen, and fo forwar~s; , and l11ewed them the Order, whereby Four of Ten Friends were fo ufed ; and why they would pur their Bodies ro fuch Tonure ? He asked them as if he had Pity of them, who fought ro D~firoy them. But they could nor anfwer him, whofe Demand was as well befides your Law, as ir was againfi the Lord. So he fhur them up in a clofe Room, where they were kept wit hour any Food, that he ~new. of,. for the fpace of Eight Days, afrer wh1ch h1s W1fe came (fearing whar might become of them) and ce~dred them Milk, or what they would for their 1\.foney : So that from that time friends were fuffered co put in at the Window what they needed. So through hard Suffering they over· came your Law, and his Crudty. Sometime ( 91 ) Sometime after this, John Roufo · was com- :Jolml(quf~ manded of the Lord to go to ~oft on ; and thither 2 ~th yr 6t came the l.)th of the 6th Momh, 1658. where ~~~8: 1 , he Honefily difcovered himfelf to the Man of the floufe, what he was, that fo he mighr nor fuffer through an Ignorant Entertaining of him, who fhonly after fetch'd the Marfhal, who brought him to your Governour, who afrer an hnperrinent Examiuadon, commirted him to Prifon. I I So on the 7th of ~he 7tl• Month, 1658. they c. Holder, Three, vi%J. Chriftopher Holder, John Copeland, J.Copel.znd and John Roufe ( all fing)e young Men ) were fhe~~(~~s had before you ; and becaufc they had been cutofE,the before you once before, and fuffered your Law 7th of the (which fhould have clear'd them fi·om furrher 7tbMonth Suffering (for by the Law of Engltmd, a Man, 16 S 8~ having fuffered the Penalty, is clear, as it he had not tranfgrefied rhe Law) chey after a firfi and The 10th fecond time being at your Courr ) vi%J. on the of 1 he 7th 1 ot h o f t h e 7t 11 Mo nt l1 , a1co reira 1' d ( w I1 erem· you'r Monrh 6 8 , G d l s • overnour, an Deputy-Governour, /hewed their R.an~our ~nd Un.reafonablenefs of Spirir) * D~nit:f The fatd Denifon faymo-,-We are the {fronuer De;~ifo;1 s atJ d 1ro, 1w o k to your f"elvrs (hw hich was a bafe-w~o rd' 2d Speech h fi (. J< t 1e mon· e o ren u e?) anrl Majfer Roufe (for fo I may flratins calt you, bavm;; heard of your Father, tbat he i4 a theirJ~'foGe ·mleman) threarning to Gag them, if they lution ro would nor be filent, when they were fpeaking ~o~t ~ur_ for themfelves, in filch a Cafe, as the lofs of a be~a~1reeo Member, and fuch a one as an ~ar ( and fo ro they were be marked as Rogues) and denying r~eir A p- ftrong:~· pea~ ro England (which they folemnly made) t~orh~ _ ~frer that the Governour had faid umo rhem,---Jt P~;1~1~1~n 'P 14 tbe Smtence of the Court, That you Three htJ.Ve, cJ f~ of ea~b of you, hu right Ear cut off by tbe Harwman--- th · JrEctr. _) A, nd a1c. ter t hc Se ncence, ye h af i J"Je d ~Lu eo E~~ ecu- mEIa!Pdle.z , to 1d, ~ion ; & ~len y' t. |
