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Show { 172 ) La1v-That all muft take rhe Oath of FideliTnehr mof an- ry .-'1-r''h is be,i ncu tendred, the'J 'Jvill not tf!ke it; and their l'r~)- t~en )Jle mu(l arld more Force to the LauJ ; and. that ceedin~s, ir,-If any Man refufe, or. negleCt ro take 1t by to wc~rY1 . fuch a time he tball pay Ftve Pounds, or depart outFrteucs ' . · 1: bv Fines, the Colony.-When the ttrne M come, tJey are a to the_ the fame as they ?vere ; Then goes out the Marfl;al, 0.1r~ of Ft- and fetcheth away their Co1vs and other Cattle. dc:lay. fVelt another Court comes, They are reqt~ired to tllke the Oath again,-They ca~not-. Then Five PourJds more : On thi4 Account Thury Ftve Head of Cattle, as I have been credibly informed, hezth been by the Authority of our Court taken from the"! the lt~tter part of this Summer; a'nd thefe People fay,--If they have more right ro them, than rhemfelves, Let them take them.-Some that had a Co1v onlj, fome Two Cows, fome Three Cows, an~ many fmall Children .in their Jiamilies, to whom, m Summer time, a Cow or Two 'lVM the grcatefl Ottt'lJJtml -k Comfort they had for their Subfiftance. A poor ~Vea- Aab rle,m aInt · · ver that bath Seven or E1·g ht fr', v;a lt Ch1'l d ten (I k nu7lJ H:ance in ,1 not 1vhicb ) he himfelf L~rne in his Body, IHul but 1 oor We.t- Tlvo Co1vs, aml both taken from him. The Mmjhal -..,h,. r_ ocf cuked him, Jflh,~t he 'JJJoulcl do ? He muft have bid t c1r rn· i · ~:It) Cows. The Man faicl,-That God that gave urn · .them, he doubted nor, but would fiill provide for him.-- To fill ttp the Meafure yet more full, f ho' to the further emptyi:>Jg of Sandwich-Men ~l their outward Comforts. The lf{l Court of AJfi.pants, the firfl Tu~f- . . rlay of thi4 In{fant, the Court Waf pleafed to determme l~1nesas to . S d . l M 1\teetmgs. Fmts on an WIC 1~ en.1 o. r M eetmgs, Jr ;o mett.. mes on Fir{! Days of the fVeek, Jometimes on other Dap, rH they f;ry : They meet (Jrdinm·ily twice in a Week, befides the Lord's Day, One Hundred and l'ifry Pounds, whereof W. Newland i4 Twenty Four l)ounds, for him/elf and his Wife, at Ten Shillings a < '71 ) a Meeting. W. Allen Forty Six Pounds, {orne affirm it Forry Nine Pounds. Tbe pear /!Vi:tzvo· afore fpoken of, Twenty Pound~. .Brother Cook told me, one of the Brethren at Barnfiable cert~fietl him, That he was in rhc Weaver's Houfe, when cruel Barloe (Sandwich M,zrj11al) came to demand the Sum, and fc1id, he was fully informed of all the poor Man had, and thoughr, if ~ll lay together, it was nor vvorrh Ten Pounds. What will be the End of fuch Courfcs and Prat/icu, the Lord only kno1vs. I heartily a1d earneflly pra)', that thefe, and fuch like Courjes, neither raife up among u:r, or bring . in upon u1, either the S·JJJord, or any devouring Calamity, as a juft Avmger of the Lorcl's Qt_1arrel, for ACls of In.fu(lice and Oppr1Jion; and that we may every one find out the Plague of h14 6Wn Heart ; and putti1:g away the Evil of bis own Doings, ami meet the Lord by Emr~aties of Peace, before it be too late, and there be no Remedy. Our Civil Po?Pers are {u exercifed in Things· appertaining to the Kin(!,dom of Chri(f, in Matters ~~ Reli. gion and Confcience, that ?Ve can have no time to ejj'ea any thing that tmds to the Prrmotion o( tbe Civil Weal, or the Profpo·ity of the Place ; but now 'JJJe muft have a State-Religion, fuch M the Powers of the World wilt allo'Jv, and no other: A State-1.t1i .. ni{fry1 and a State way .f Mair.tenance: And iLJe mufl WorflJip and Serve the Lord '":1-"(i's m the Wor-ld ~hre~ or Jh 11 • . .J , . hmrfcorc at~ ap~omt ~1: We n:uf! all go to toe publtck Place p;·L'(C.nted of Meetmg, m tbe Parijh where he dwells, or be pre at one fented ; I am Informed of Three or Fourkore !aft <.. onr c for Court prefented, for not coming to pubhk LH!:ctinrrs · n<, com.11g an d le : me te n rou h h . b ' to publtck O'JJ.J t cy brought thu, about : Yon Meeting. may remember ·a Law once marie, c.1lt d ThomJS Hinckley's Law,·--That if any neFie8ed the r. IlinckWorlhip of God, in the Place wh~·.;: he lives ~c/s Law d r h. ' ror not an 1~rs up a Worl tp comrary co God, and comin(r to b L 3 the Meetings. |