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Show ( 224 ) eight were in Prifon, by your. bloody Law, i!l Condition of Banijhment upon p11m of Death ~ Thts * D. De- being the ofren Expreffion of fame of you, nfoon, . -That they or you muft give way (but why ~ orefa1~' cann't ye Live together feeing ye were made mcul~ar.~ of One: Blood, and ro Bre' athe m• 0 ~e A yr ·~ Th e Bifbops might wich as much JuLhce have ufed the fame Argument to you ) and, that at prefent the Power Wl/4 in rour Hands, and the reft mu.ff fend off. And RicbarJ Be/Jingham, your Depury- Governour (who deferves not ro be named amongfr Men ; who, when in England, in that Day of the Bifhops, hid himfelf under a Bed, for fear of ~n Apparitor, but is n_ow thus Cruel ro the Innocent' ) faid to the fatd Jofeph, ar:d his Wife, afrer that ye had pronounce~ on them the Sentence, of Banijhmmt ttpon pam ~f I<J Balling·J)eath,~That your Law was too jlrong fo~ them, ha:m's wic- and that they Jhould be Hanged aflu;edly ( 1f they ked Speech thould be taken again afrer Bamfhment ) atul that they would take a Courfe with his Wife hereafter (for the was great with· Child when fhe The Jay· was Banifh'd.) And your Jaylor rejoyced when ~:d~~l~r he met Jo{eph, afcer his Baniibmem, t:lling :fofeph him,.--That he (Jofeph) WIM c~me . ~Jgam, (o was. come fee whether the GallowJ would boid btm. (as he re• agam to joyced at the fight of fome other Fnends, who ~e~~~.to w~re fent ro Prifon for that purpofe.) And ~t 1The.Boaft w~s poafted in Coun,-----Tbat 1e baJ Men m of the .Arms to maint12in your Laws, And to dfend your ~ourt. felve$ (What Laws are they ? Againft ~?nk~emce or for Reli(Tion ? And, What Rehgwn 1s it, · ~hi~h Men i~ Arms muft maintain ?. And, Againft whom are your Arms, but .thofe who do nm rdift you ? A few Innocent Men .and Women )---Such a Ge.neration of Blood-rhufiy Men arc~. ye, who in your Cruelty ·~~ye. · long · · b«n ( ~2) ) been filling up your Meafure, who, when you had efcaped the Hands of thofe you feared in England, and gorten into large Farmes about you, you fare down at Refr, and foon began ro exercife Dominion, and Lorded it over the Faith of ochers, as your cruel Dealings with Anne Hutcbefon and that Company, fiands as a perpetual Record before the Lord, againlt you; who, be~aufe they differed fornerhing from you, po ... thmg would ferve your turn, but prefenrly ro # Devour them ; who, afrer you had long Impri-foned I:er many Months, and fee Men ro keep l1er, D1d you nor rake away very much from her Husb~nd, to pay them their Wages, and then Bamilled feveral of them in the cold Winr~ r-feafon, into rhe Wildernefs, where was no Habirarion ; and fame of rhem were forced ro ~ig a Cave in rhe Ground, ro preferve their L~ves, the place chen being nor Inhabited ; and dtd you not. cruelly deal with J. Co/lens, who, b~caufe he differed from you in Principle, took hun ~p, as. he paffed through your Colony, not medi~pg wuh any, and Imprifoned him, and Fi-ned hm~ One Hundrs;-d Pounds. And when he ~ent co make his Defence in your Meeting, fay .. tng, Men, Brethren· and Fatber1, bear re my De-fence, &c. y~ would not fuffer him co fpeak furrher for htmfelf, but had him ro Prifon : And afcer. that, fame of your Pacenrs endeavoured co gee tn that Place (to wit, Rbode-lfland) under .fame of your Governments, which occafioned fome of their farther remove under the Dut&hGovernmenr, where they (co wit) Anne Htlt- AmuHut-thefon, and her Son Francil, and this Co/Jens 'hefon and abovefaid, her Son-in:Law, with. o£hers, \~er~~~~~~r'd . Munhered by the Ind1ans; rhe GUlh and We1ght ·. ~f w~ofe. Blood Jyes upon you, as done by you, ·· · ~ · who |