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Show ( !204 ) ca~ into Water to New~baven; and there call: int.o Prifon, Pri!~n, and Chained ro a Pofi, and kept Nt_ght and Chamcd Day for the flpace of Twenty Days, wnh great to a Poft, Wei'g hts of Iron, m· an open p ru·ro n, wit.. ho.u t The Izth Fire or Candle, or an-y fu~cred to ~ome ro vtfit Month, him, in the biner Cold Wmter (betng the Ilth 16)?· Month, 16 57.) enough ( reafonably ) to have The 11th Starved him : And on the 11th of. the firfi ofthehfirft Month I6s8 was had before thetr Court, Mont , ' • . . J h ( 16s8· and there was thetr Pnefi, o n Dav.mport to whom Ht~mphrey had fent fome QE_enes.) And this Priefi fpake as he pleafed, bet?re the PeoAF( Syty'cl ple and thadn Anfwer ro the ~enes. And H. athwart Norton endeavoured to make a Reply, but was Ji.!Yo rtons not fuffered fo to do but inftead thereof, had a Mo_n1~' h great Iron Key ded' athwart his Mouth, till the wh1ll t e h·c. 1 p ·· fi l'rieH: was Pridl: had done ( fee what S u ts t 1e ne. s ipt'aking,. make ro fecure what they fay.) After thts, !he H. Norton was had to Prifon, and there derain- J'rreft~ ed (or the flpace of Ten Days, and .then fen- Secunty, • tenc'd to be feverely Whipp •'d, an J to be bu rnt t·n ~~n~~r(!~ the Hand with the Letter [H] for Herejie (who verely was ConviCtea of none) and to. be Jent out of Whipp'cl, the Colony, and not to return upon pam of the utmojl amlt? 1?e Penalty they could infiiEt by Law; tmd to pay Ten Burn d m h f h c . d C l • · tl H t PoundJ towardJ the C a~e o t 1 ou~t an o ony, 1e am, c. r. "d h (jc. and AYld this to be done t at Atrernoon, as tat t e nanifh'd. Judge. And the Drum was beat, and thePeo-ple gathered, and he fetch'd, and firipp'd. to the The Sen, Wafie, and fer wirh his Back w rhe Magtfirates, tcnce 1 Ex, and given (in their view) Thircy Six cruel ccutec . Sn·ipes ; and then curne d , an d 11 1· s p ace rte t to rhem, and his Hand made faft in the Stocks (where they had fer his Body before) and burn'd very detp with a red hor Iron; and rhen let loofe, and had to Prifon again, and tendred his Liberry, upon paying his Fine and Fees, and chere ( 20) ) there kepr, rill paid by a Dutch-man ( whof<! Fac~ he never fa w before) viz. T·wwty Noble1 wh!ch he paid out of Bowels of Compaffio~ ( Wt~hout his Confenr) which they wickedly recetved, not any one elfe appearing wid .. o fi h' I I 1 r or tm, on. y t 1e Marfhal would have fomrcmed, S~lves upon htm, ~or rhe killing of rhe Fire in hts Han_d ; rhe whtch he refufed (he being a very WICked Man ) bur the Lord healed him When they had Whipp'd Humphrey with tha~ Cruelty as aforefaid, and Burn'd him in the Hand, and had let him loofe from rhe Srocks he .kneei~d do.wn, and prayed to the Lord, ur~ r~nng hts Vmce rowards Heaven; ro the Afiomfhmenc of them all. . To rhis Colony alfo came William Brend, and ~v. Brend, dtVers mher Servants of the Lord, as Mary Dyar M. Dyar. Mary lil'eatherhead, and others, who coming rhi~ M. Weather, were forced away; MarJ D ar bei~ fe therf,ead, on a Hor,f e by rhem ' th e cn·e d ou'rY, Wo beg u ntot and others you, for f!umphrey Narron's (ake! Wo be unto rou, becauje of the Cruelty done -to him! Bm rhey turned away the Ear, and would not hearken . for they ~ere nor fuffered ro fpeak or w di(: £~arge rhetr Con~ciences, or tO unbu;rhen rhem-e v.es of the Wetght of rhe Word of the Lord £htch lay .upon them ; bur were rhrearned, and enr away tn the Nature of Banifhmem . and Mary We~therhead finitbed her Work in rh~ Sea : What her ~true Ftgure of the Srate of the Men of rhis !inking in pace, who refufed the Loving~kindnefs of rhe t~h _sea Lord! and the Tender Vifirarion of his Love ilg,Qlfiect, ~y dhts Meffengers, whom he raifes early and en s, ~hom they rhus evil Enrrear and Abufe. ~~t fo Jdudge rhemfelves unworrhy of Ecernal I e, an provoke rhe Wrath of the Lord co~e upqn them -co che Uctermofi. So the Lo;~ ~ 1 is |