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Show ( 222 ) been Imprifoned, and Suffered Twenty S~ven cruel Stripes, on his n~k~d Body, ar on~ tune, laid on with D Iibera non ( fo was t~e Or_der of rhe Magifirates, who frood to fee 1C ) 10 th_c cold Winter-feafon, who bid the Jaylor lay u . who d"td as hard as he could ) and then oronb b' ed him o' f his Waficoar ( nl o' J. n l h ar co_l d· rime of the Year he was to pafs through~ WJl.. l • r. ) a11d 1-, 1·s Bible rhe Jaylor rook for Fees, uelr noe ctsa me abo1u1 r Midnight, muc h. · D · k (fl tn nn o ~e~riving him of the Scr~ptures) .and then turned him our in the Mor~mg, _havmg nor .Cloa~hs fufficiem left ro keep htm w.arm, kee~mg hun wirhour Food, from the ume of hts cruel Whipping, to his tur?ing out (he was five Days upon his firfi Commitment not. fuffered ~o have Food for his Money) the Jaylor fi~ppmg .up the Holes, faying, That at juch. Plac.es he mrgkt be Juppliecl with Provifions ; keepmg 1t fo, u.n[ll he asked them, Whether they meant t_o Starve him ? Afrer wl~ich they allow'd him Provtfions of three Pence a Day, for five Weeks, _fuch as the J~ylor would give him; blood-thufiy Barloe havmg alfo robb' d him of his two other Coats, and · Hat and Bag of Linnen, worth upwards of Fou'r Pounds, when he ~p~rehe.nded him ~t Sandwich, afrer ye had Bamfu d htm upon pam of Death, and kept him Fourteen ':Veeks and two Days in ·prifon, in rhe colde_ft t!me of t~1e Winter. And thus was he Wh1pp d, Robb d, ~nd rurned our, after Tho. Prince, t~e Governour, and Ma_piftrares, had cau.fed htm ~o be tied Neck and Heels, for fpeakmg for hnnfelf . in the Courr, who denied him Satisfa~ion for his Goods, robb'd by Barloe, as aforefatd, wh.en he was _had to the Whipping-Poll ; and \1\~Hh much a- do, he obtained fo much IV1oderatl~ { 22~ ) of the Governour, as ro hear him, who faid in Anfwer,-That he mu(l firft pay fot his Pre~ching. (This is the Jufiic.e of tbe Men of Plimouth-Patent, inftead of caufing Satisfaction co be made, .caufe rhe Innocent . ro fuffer, which God will Reward, who is near ro render unro them according to their Deeds; and all this was bur for coming inro their Jurifdiction when he was Banifh'd our of yours. Was eve'r the like barl;> a~ous Cruelty ? ) Jofeph Nichol{on and his Wife ,bem_g rhus t~rned om of your Jurifdiction, and ,dented ro SOJOUrn there, went ro Plimoutb-Patmt ( anocher. Habitation of Cruelty ) and demand. t::d co Sojourn in rhar Jurifditl:ion, bur rhere co~Id ~or they be admirred (the fame Spirit r~1Img . m Plimoutb as in Bofton) and fo the Magtftrares told them,-That if they ·bad turned them. away at Bofion, they 'JJJ()uld have nothing to do wtth them.-( How exatl:ly do they write after yo~1r Copy?) And his Wife rhey rhrearned r?. Wh1p, an~ fend her aw9y; and one of them tdid,-That if Jl;e harl not been er Wttch, jhe could not have knonm that he that 'JV<H with hiJ Son was a .Z:rieft.-;(The Prophet Ahtjah knew when lhe ~1fe of Jeroboam came in Difguife ro him, and fa1d, Come in, theu W~ of Jetoboam, lflhy feigne(f thou thy (elf to be another? And by which the Prophets k~ew, and fore cold Things to come · Jer_oboam m1ghr have faid, had not he been ~ W~rcb, he could nor have tolq char it was hi~ \Vtfe, when .!he carne to him fo difguifed ; but . rhefe Thmgs I fl?are, being fo plain ang n~amfeft ) fo rhey paffe<} a way in rhe Moving of rh.~ lor~ to Rhode-lfltmd, afrer they had been ~ufoners ar Bojfon, . Jofeph Nicholfon Twemy our Weeks, and hJs W1fe Eio-hreen : And W~1en ~ofeph and his Wife paqe4 fro:~n Bojfon~ q i· ~i~h.~ |