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Show ( t6o ) Jnformation fignifies norh~ng ; and which. you wantin()' you come to gtve full Informauon ) arul Me~' of perverfer Principles ( fo mull: be all rhofe who J oyn not with yon ) to C~lumniate ~s (Truth is no Slander) and render us (14 bloody Perfecutors (who certainly are fuch) to fati sfte the one (which will never be) and flop the.it;fouthr of the other (which can he never ; for H s the \Vimefs of Truth) We thought fit to Declare, That about Three Years ftnce, divers Perfons profej]ing them{elv~s ~akers, &c. as in the Beginning, which I have already anfwered, and do make an End wirh your Beginning in the End. And fo have finiihed my Anfwer to your Decla:- ration. Having thus gone thropgh your Declaration, and Related the Sufferings of Friends, as they have come under the feveral Heads thereof, and as Occafion hath been given me by· your faid Declaration, I fh all now proceed to what was done in the other Colonies through your Example, and what fince Friends have fuffered in your own, and fo finiih up your SHm. . 'f 1_e ~,uf- _ No fooner had ye began your Perfecuuon, :~1:1 nt;;, ?t and drawn rhe Blood of the Innocent, but the ff'nlcimna~rlbt hm~ or l1 er. C4 0 Io m·e s, v·z ·~ . rh at o f p l'u nout h- P~ tent J\;ten:. (chiefly) and Nelv-haven; as for ConneCltcote, there was little done, the Governour being a tender Man, but foon follo~ed afrer · you; Plimouth Saddle beir)g puc upon the Bay-Horfe (viz.. Bofton, as one. that was Magifirate of tha't Colony, in a Letrer wrote in rhe fenfe of the Sufferin~s of rhefe People in rhat Counrry, hereafrer memioned, hath exprefi i£ ) 'that Patent rides ori the Career, ·tho' not as to Banijhment upon Pain of D-eath and Ears, yet other Cruelries as w Fines, Whippings, Imprifonmems, &.:. An? • J ( 161 ) And New-haven will exceed, in burning in the Hand, and mher Crueldes. And . here, in the firfi Place, Old NicholtU Up~ N.1Jpj1Jall. fhall challengeth rhe Preheminence, for the rime of his Baniihment being as early as rhe Procla. mation of your Law of Blood, and coming from you (being Baniih'd) inro that Jurifdiction for a linle Shdrer in the \Vinrer-Seafon, the Gover-nour thereof (one Bradford) forbad him w be received by the Town of Sanrlwich, whirheno he was come; and when the tender-hearted People of that Town could nor be fo Inhofpi .. rable, as to turn him out, he fem ·his Warrant for him ro come to Plimouth (which was about ·Twenty Miles from thence ) whic~ he nor anfwering. being fo firicken in Years, and the Seafon fuch, that co have gone thither was as much as might have coli: him his Life, as he 'lignified1 co the Governour in a Lener, and rhar if he Perilhed, his Blood would be required at his Hands, he was fuffered ro fray (by rhe Moderation of fome of rhe Magifirares) rill rhe Spring of rhe Year, in which fo early he was pofied away, that he had like co have Perifhed in his Paffage w RhoJe.Jfland, as I have already Declared. Nor did John Copeland and Chriflopher Holder J.Copelflnd meer with berrer Ufage at rheir Hands ; for (:. Holder, rhey having been at Martin's Vineyard (a place T_he 16th between Rbode-Ifland and Plimoutb -Colony ) and oi· the 6th fip ea k"m g rh ere a ac ew wor d $' af ir er that Pn. efi Month 16s7• ' Maho had ended, in rheir Meering-Houfe, they M.trryn's were borh thrufi out by rhe Confiable and Vineyard . delin:~red the nexr Day by the Go\'erno~r and Confiable to an Indian, ro be carded in a (mall Cannoo to the Main Land, over a Sea nine Miles proad ( danserous to pafs qver) having firfi: · • ~ ook |