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Show ( tl~ ) And now I fhall declare the Execucion of JJ. an~ P. your Warr;nt on the faid Daniel Southic~ and SoJUbt ck. Provided, whom Edmund Batter (a cruel WICked Man, one fit for your purpofe) fenr _your Marthai for who ferch'd them accordmgly, and fought ~ut for Pa!fage for Barbatloes, to fend them there for Sale, as Men Sell-Goods, (0 fill his Purfe, who was your ireafurer: ~ut the Man, ro whom he fpake, would nor_carry them on that Accounr (a thin~ fo Hornble l ) and one of them, ro try Battet", [aid,-That th~y would Spoil all the Ve./Jefs Compa~y,-laying that as an Argument, why he would not carry the~ ; Ob no ( faid Batter) you neetl not fear that, fur they are poor barmlefs Creatura, and will not hurt any Body (or words to this purpofe : ) fiVill they not fo? ( faid the Ship-Mailer) And 'vi!! ye offer to m~ke Slaves of fo harmlefs Creatttrc.t ? So Batter fent them home again co live of themfelvcs (as he ufed ro lee rheir Cattle, which he wok for Fines, feed upon them all the Winrer, till the Spring, when they tl10uld make Benefit of thtm, to anfwer their chargeable being in the Winter) till he could get a Convenient Opportuniry to fend them away. And wbilll I am hereupon, let me give you E.Wb.tr~on the Infiance of tWO more, viz. Edward Wharton s. Gaskm. and Samuel Gaskin, who were Arretled for nor coming to your Meetings, and had to Ipfwich~ Court, and fined, the one Five Pounds Ten ShilIiogs, and rhe orher, Eight Pounds ; one of which being a young Man, and having no Vifible Efrare appearing, William Hathorn advifed (tho' he was but an Affifianr in the Courr) and gave Judgment againfi him, That if he bad not to, nor woulJ pay, they muft {end him to Barbadoes, and Sell him to pay it: And this- was when the Cour« ( IIJ ) ·Court knew not on what ro Levy the Fin/!: And rhis is the faid Hathorn, of whom I have before fpoken, who rurn'd from the Tendetnefs that was once in him, co pleafe you, to get an Imploymenr whereby to live ; and having got it, rhus rurn'd aga1nfi his tender Principle, and his Friends, to whom once he was render, w Sell them for Slaves, as he did in ocher Parricu] ars. One of which I fhall Inlbnce in a Warrant under his Hand, fent w rhe Confiable of Salem, in thefe words,-Yot# are required, by Vertue hereof, to fearch in all fu(piciom Houfes for PriVIlte Meetings 5 and if they r~fufe to open the Doors, you are to break open the Door upon them, and return the Names of all ye find to Ipfwich-Court. William Hathorn .. --Bur ·ar rhis time he mift, rho~ he fhall nor mifs his J udgmenc from the Hand of the Lord, who will afiuredly mecr with him, and give him his Portion with the reft of rhofe who Perfecme his Truth, who once had a ten~ er Principle in them, and now rurn againft u (the Cafe of all you at chis Day) yea- it wiU be more iolerable for Sodum and Go;,or-. rah, in the Day of Judgment, than for you. So rake your Judgmenr rogerher, ye who have been together in caufing the Innocent ro Suffer. Thus have I traced you through this long and crooked Parh of Cruelry and Blood as well for rhe clearing of rhe Innocent (vi~. rhofe among you who have nor contented co bur in their Place have oppofed and witbfto~d and refrified againfi your Proceedings unw Blood That £he Righteous may be feparared from th~ :Vicked in the Gre~c Day of the Lord, whicH lS near at ~and, who witt rencler to every Man ac~ •:ordmg to hJS Deeds~ and rhac che Scruggle this' H th .11g |