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Show Bani!b'd. ( J64) h likely to End and he was not fent tfi ey .wn errheere words vi~,.::_ I require of you a pub-or, 1 tl , • d 'l ·bl' kl lick Examination ; and if .fou11 Guz :r, pu tc y P "{h d . . 1. not cleared.-Upon whtch he was UnJ e , I , 'd ·fh had before them, and fenrenc to Bam m~nt, altho' what they laid co his Charge, as bemg an Extravagant Perf on, was n.?t (nor could ~e) proved againfi him, nor any thmg elfe of which he was Accufed. Thus, as to B.mifhment; next, as to Fines. salfering The firfi Qccafion raken againfi rhe Inhabias to Fines tams who entertained Friends, and had Meetings 'of choft People at their Houfes, wa~ that of Swearing, under the Pretence of fervm~ as Jury-men, whereumo they were Summon d ; ~Alden, and Ralph Alden and William Ntwland. ( b,oth InJ- V. New- habitams of Sanrlwicb) are the firfi pltch d upon ltnd, ~fl .cor that purpofe . Ralph Alden was fummon'd Sa.ndwt~,·,,, II ' J · 8thMonth co ferve on the Hjgh and Pert~ unes, at ?ne 16s 8. and the fame rime, thar he tmg.hc noc mt().; a.nd W. Newland on the Percy-Junes, and. this Twenty Miles from the Town where they hved_; notwithfianding, thither they co.me? an~ mamfefi their Willingnefs co ferve, If H mtghr be without Swearing1 for that th~y could ~or do, it being contrary co the Dotl:nne of Chnfi: B~t that was not accepted, it being befides rhetr purpofe, which was upo~ Occafio~ of ~har, t? ~e(lion them about havmg .Meeungs m .rhetr Houfes, which they called Diforderly and Rzo:ou!, rho' it was in Peace, and was only of Neighbours and Friends, to wait upon the Lord. For which they were fined Twenty Shillin_gs a piece; W. Newland Ten Shillings for not fervmg on the Jury, which he refufed not to do, bur Sweahr, . e ( 16) ) he could not ; and Ten Shillings for procuring a Copy of the Warram of the Depmy-Confiable, by which C. Holder and ]-. Copeland were Apprehended, when they firtt came to his Houfe, as aforefaid (which is a thing the Confiable fbould do, and which the Deputy-Confiable faid, he thought he might do fafely (what. Havock is here of Men\ Liberries, by thofe who fo much pretend to Freedom, and came into a Free Country for that purpofe ? ) The Governour faying to him afterwards, at the fir~ Month-Court, at which he was ftr Free, that he Looked upon it as a very groji thing) and required they were, to find Sureties in Eighry Pounds Penalry each, for the Good Behaviour for Six Months ; which they refufing to do, ic being againfi a good ConfcienCe7 and appertaining unro the Worlhip of God, not having misbehaved 'rhemftlves at all, as to God or Man, they were Commined w the Marilial, and Sentenc'd by the Governour, co pay Five Shillings ar their Commitment, and Five ShiiJing at their Releafe, and Five Shillings every Day, during the time of their ImprHonmenr, which was till the Court in lhe firfi Monrh, 1658. being continued n~ar Five Months Prifoners, from their Wives, Children, Occafions and Relations, which were many, and between Twenty and Thirry Miles difiance from their Outward Beings, parr of ir in the de:.'th of Winter; and Difireffes they wok of W. Newland, for Thirty Shill~ng (being a Heifer, bener wonh than fo much) and of the other for his Fine ; but as for the Marthal, he was more Moderate, and 'Exacted not what he might have done by the Order of £he Governour. Thu~ |