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Show ( 122 ) you put us to Deatb,Jou' 0 bring Innocent Blood upon your tnvn fleads, and fwift De(frultion will come upon you.-Afrer he had fpoken which, he was had to Prifon. Then Mary Dyar was called, and your Go-vernour faid co her, to this effett,-Mary Mary.DJar Oyar, JOU Jhall go to the place whence !ou caml', fentenc'd antl from thence to the place of Exrcutzon, and be to Death. handged there until you are Dead:- To which the replied, The Wi!J of the Lord be done. -·Then your Governour faid, Take her a·UJay, Ma,Jhal: She Anfwered, Yea, .foy(ully (hall I gn.----So fhe was brought to the Houfe of Correttion again, The 27th and rhere corHinued, with her mher C\\ o Friends, of the 8th in Prifun, till the 27th of rhe fame Monch ; l'v!onth, during which time many People reforred to the ~h'>l"Peo- Prifon-Windows ( thefe Things affeCting them) pie flock which Chuck fuch a f.:ar in you, that ye fet a to thePri- Guard about the Prifon by Night, left they ~nG d fhould be taken away ; and on W. Robinfon and fet 0~aft lVI. Stevenfon ye pur Chains of Iron. And on by Night, the 27th of the 8rh Month, aforefaid, ye ca"Qs'd andv~r?ns the Drums to bear, to gather your Soldiers ro. ond~ ML!llam gether for the Execution ; and after your u·or. an ar- • d d b . d ma.luke. fhtp was en e , your Drums eat agam, an They are your Captain, 1ames Oliver, came wirh his ~aBed Band of Men, and the Marfhal, and fome others, orth. to the Prifon, and the Doors we1 e opened, and your Marfhal and jJylor caH'd for W. Robinfon and M. Stevenfon, and had them out of the Pri~ And take fon, and Mary Dyar out of the Houfe of Corleave {If retlion, who parcing from their Friends in Pritheir f~l- fon, full of rhe Joy of the lord, who had ~ow Pn· counted them wonhy to Suffer for his N2me, oners. and kept them faithful ro the D~ath) and, ha-ving Embraced each other, wiLh Fervency of Love, and Gladnefs of Heart, and Peace wirh God, and Pr~i(~s w the Lord, went out of your Prifons, ( ·~~ ) Prifons, like Innocent Lambs out of the Bur- And are cbers Cub, to the Slaughter ; and your Cap· led to th~ rain, with his Band of Men, led them the back place ?f way ( h feems you were ~fraid of rhe fore- way, Executlvn left ir lhould affetl the People roo much ) co the Place of Execution, and caufed rhe Drums ro bear, when rhey arrempted ro fpeak (hard Work) ard plac' d them near the Drums, for that purpofe, that when they fpake, the People might not hear them, who in great Mulcirudes flock'd about rhem (as ye ufed ~o Imprifon any rhar you rook looking in at rhe Prifon-Win-dow, when they came rhere, to Vific rhem, thinking thereby to keep the Seed of God un-der, and their Tefiimony from having a place in the People ; bur the more ye firove to hin-der, the more ir rook effeCt ( ro wic, the Mcf-fage chat they brought) and had place in rheir Heans ; and the more Cruel ye were, the Deeper it rook place, which in due rime will come forth, and manifefi ic felf) I fay, your Cap· tain caufed his Drums ro Bear, when they foughr to fpeak; and his Drums he would nor ceafe bearing, tho' rhey fpake to him, whilfi rhe·v were fpeaking. (A Barbarous humanity never heard of before in [he Englijh Narion, ro be ufed to fuffering People. ) And as he led rhem to the place of Execution, your old bloody Prieft, Wilfon, your High-Prieft of Boflon (who And are was fo old in Blood, that he would have had ~net with, Samuel Gortm, and thofe with him, long a go ~avth~ t~ be pur to Death, for their Differing in RtJi- Prieftvf-~1- gtOn; and when but one Vore paned it, was[on, &c. fo Mad, that he openly inveighed againfi rhem who did it, faying in the Pulpir, Becaufe thou ha(f let go the Man, whom I have appointed to De- Pruclio1J1 Thy Life fha/J go J.or his L~re, and thy Pcopte |