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Show ( t8o ) going w a Meeting at Sanrlwicb ; ~nd becaufe t1 e SdeCl Men, who were ·1ppomred rlt Piimottth, w fee the Execurio ,, would nor do ir, They are had them ro Barn/fable, where they, being tic:d ~hipp\t co an old Poft, had Thirry Tht:ee cruel Sn·ipes ~~~ ,33 laid upon them with a new rormeming Whip, a ~.:~. with three Cords, and Knots at tbe en "· made by the Marfhal, and brought wjd1 him. At the fight of which cruel and bloody Execution, one of the SpeCtators (for there were many that wirneffed againft ir) cryed out in the Grief A \yoman and Angu.ifh of her Spiric, faying,-I-lo"' lcng cry miT our . b ..,..-,_ A ' l J1 to re:.f th Lord, how lone:, fllall tt e ere .1 rJOU venge toe Boo 'Execution of thine Eled? And afrerward, Bewailing her {elf, and Lamenting her Lofs, faid,-DicJ I forj( Jke z;ather ancl Mctber., a·ncl all my Dear Relations, to come to New-England, (or thi; ? Dicl I tver think that ,New-England 'Jvoulrl come to thi&? lJiho WEJuld bave tbcetght it ?-And this Thomas Hinckley faw done ro whom rhe Marilial re .. paired for that purpofe, he being the Man who brought in rhar Law of Fining tor not coming ro their public!{ Meetings (which bears his 1 ~ame) and none bur he was bloody enough frn· the Marfhal's turn to fee it done ; and he being glmted with the Blood of the Innocenr, the f\1adh al had them back to Sanchvich (where he had kept rhem from the 2 3d to the 29th of rhe faid 1\ionth, in his own Houfe, before he b1 ougl1( them ro Barn/fable, becau{e none there J.Co~cl~n l would fee them Whipp' d) and rhe morrow afrer 1Tn· ~L o'u).t.h, E xecuu· on, our o f r1 1 e Ju rw·rd ·t coL.·1 0n. Afir er t h.t s, of the 9 h John Copeland and Jojiah Coal, being in a Friend's MonLh, Haufe ar Sanclwich, were haled om by Violence, I6)8. and fo Imprifoned. Thus as ro Whippings and Scourgings. Now as to Fines and C9nfifcarion of Eqares, and particularly ( J8J ) ticuldrly of rhe Inhabitants of SmJJJ,_,hb, whofc: ~ . b f l · · t•ffi r·ng Sufferi gs haver befien ve11·~: g 0 reat, t• 1 t .m L l' ~>t 1 ri~.Jcts much that they tu 1fi rot 11s ·~ or 1nve an· 1 S• ·:- Rre .d for rbemfdves ~'nd Pan ihes: Bm ir 1111· 1• i!, · to nifefis the [ ternal Arm of r a· r r . · nd th ai 1 in .all<t his Almi!"hty Power it is r! t iF und n~t~th at d <. lHlhllf_a-o d l . .... I 1 ttl n o bears: rhem up, an ns Te 1 e · omp 11011, t 1 ~ Eibt~.:s. they fink nor. And ' ha ., nfe rhe Counrry hath had· of ir, even all o · all forrs, except the bloody P rfLcutors r' u.1i't:lve ,. at•d fiKh ~s •. are in their •pirit, I I <'V lhc\\TL ln:aoy, in the Lerrer befon:. r , rrfr-·d ,; ihould I _go funher, I :ihould be ro· dti..lllli. The Lord hath fc ·n ir, a d 1 · r, a.1d he will vifit it. Upwards o • dr ·d ~Jmll ds we have had an Ac-cc • r r 1 y have fuffered in this kind, jn 1 )Oor Town, belid· s others. What fincL :tve fuffert:d, v.e know not: Yer thL v live, aid the Lord keeps th~m, and rh t~ ti elb unto C · .d, a·1d he bears them rht dt.., and over all, to rh~ Aftonifhmenr of th ·ir ~.:mie5 ; fom~- hing being with rhen1 mort: [ m Man, ro bear rh m up; yet they go on jn l 1Llelry, :md \·ill kno .v no Shame: Hut the i.J y is 11ear, herein rhey fhall ft:e and be ath. 111l d; who 1Yve Opprdled 110r only a Man and his Houie~ ~ea, a ~an acd his Hcrirage; bur Men .and thetr Hou{es, l'vlen and their Hericag. .: Therefore hath the Lord devifed an Evi 1...., nd! you, ye H ulers of P limoth-Patent., and t. Governcur, Thcmas Prince, who faidll, z in thy Con{cience, they 'lJJere Jucb a People A wicked th avd to be clcJ(/;-o'Ved, thev their Wives their 3pcech of J J' , T. p . C ~~, ~hedir hHfoiujcs ~ndcl ~ands, d'lJJithout Pity or the ~;_e, 11- J , an a acle m or er thereunro, vernour, tl 1 ..t, and thy Companions (as Dan. Dw;fon in a c.; t(• thefc. B fton , who would often fay, that thofe People P<:uplt:. oml |