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Show ( t66 ) Thus entred rhe Scene of Cruelry and Wic .. kednefs in rhefe parrs, which ceafed nor here, bur proceedtd from one Cruelty to another, till fuch rime as rbey have filled up 2 great Meafure of Iniquiry, and became much like you, i11 Perfecuting of rhc Jufi. For pref~:ntly after the Rcleafe of rhefe, the n G very fame Courr, which fare in the firfi Monrb, .r• .zmrr, r 'b 1 d G . .D. Tf"iilf,, and 1et them at _Lt erry~ 1~ Pete~ au11t, Darml \All~" ' _ "tVinx, Ralph A lim and Willtam Allm before them U · Allm,ot (a) l of Sanclwicb) upon Pre renee of Felony, in SandrJJtcl'. breaking Forcibly inru anothtr Man's Houk (as they had done beflJre by IV. Nt?Vland, when rhe:y fummon'd him w be a J ~.uv-man, as aforefaid) bur inder~d ro have Occafion againfr rbtm (as they rooK Occafion ag<Iir.fr him) and to make th m otherwife, to fufkr tor their Confciences: BLH the M.tn of the Houfe ( viz. Nathaniel F1j11) having cleared rhem of rhe pretended felony (for all th~ marrer was, rhar they came inro his Houfe ro fet the Prifoners, Chriflopbtr Ht,frl-cr and 7r· h~t Copeland) which were in his Houfe, the Door being open (a pitiful Shifr1 and manifdling the depth of Envy and Wic~ kednefs) they proo·eded ro Fine rhem rwemy fined for Shilli;~ g~ a-pitce, for not pmring off rheir Ha[s, not pulfr- and DHhev to the V.:due of Five Pounds was ring o rhe Hat. raken fi-om rhem for to fdtisfic ir. Ar:d ar this Laws Court they Enacted, That no Inh abitant Entertain anv Perfon commonly calletl a nuaker, under the Pe- againft J ~ fri nd s, nalty of Five Pounds, or JiVhippmg. T'hat ~f any mdd~ by fuch Per(on ccme ir.,to ar.y To1vn[hip within that GorlJeCourt, vernment, he that kno1vs, or jufJpe8s him to be juch utfSt' )&M. onth a orJe, J1 w l1'' • acq~/.m t t he Con,fl. bl h" 1,ba e, orb u Dl'pt~ty, uport pain (!j Pre1mtmcnt, and ei·ng lia te to Cmjure in Cr.mrt ; ,rznrl ttpon 'JJJhicb, tbe Cvn(lable, rr hiJ Deputy, Jh ll diligent!)' endeavour to .Apprehend him~ 41;1d { 167 ) and Command him to depart the Townj11ip o1· Go-vemment; if he delay, or refu(e to depart, the. Con/fable jha!l bring him before the l~agiftrate of the 1 O'lJ.mjhip, ~f there be any; and -;vhere there is none, to the Se-lect Men t:ppointed by the Court for that purprfe, u;ho Jhall caufe him to be Tf'hipp' d, or pay F'ive l'vumls, and to be conveyed out of the Tow1J[l1ip ; smd the fame Courfe to be taken 'vith them, as often as they Tranfgrefs thi4 Order ; and that rJo Perfon or Per(ons be jujfe.reJ to refort to them 7Philf! in Cujlody. That no Meetings of jucb Perfons ( whethet Strangers tJr others) be kept by any Per{on, i·n anr place 'JVithin that Government, under the Penalty o( Forty Shilli. ngs a time, for every Speaker, and ien_ Shillings a t1me, for every Hearer, and Forty Shillings a time for the Owner of the Place that permirs them Jo to fpeak together ; arul if any Meet together, and are Silent, every Per{o11, fo meeting together, Jhal/ par Tm Shillings a time, and the Onmer of the p!!Ut Forty Shillings a time : Arul that no pu~lick lvfr:eting be from thenceforth fet up, but j'uch as the CotH't ]halt approve of.-And that £h~y might be fure co have Advantage enough againtl rLofe People, . and to Impoverith rheir Eflares, and Undo rheir Families, and ro · wear rhem our, rhey ordered all to take the Oath of' Fidelity to their Gvvernmem, who were not Freemen, upon the PairJ of' F.v{' Pounds.-And rhat chey might be fure ro ketiJ our all fuch for the Fmure, from beino- InhabJtanrs in their Governmenr, they order~,-Th>at for the (uture nor.Je be fo fujj'ererl, but jr1ch as j1Ja!l ~e ~· '-lowed of by the Governours awl TuJo of the Aj]iJ!antJ.-By reafon of which Unrji7hteous Laws fo con crary w Right and. Libe;:;y, and ma~y or hers made on purpofe ro Enfi1are and Opprefs chc Innocent : Such Crueltils have been l:!xercifed a is hard to relate, and coo long to menrim; il1 |