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Show ( ~~~ ) .. When I heard your laft Order read, it ~as a Ji:. flurbance unto me, that ·uJas fo freely Offersng . up my Life to him that g~ve it !"e, ~nd fent me hsther (o to do, which Obedzence bezng hrs own Work, he glorioujly accompanietl with his Prefence, and Peace, and Love in me in which I refted from my labour, ti/2 by yo14r Orde;, and the People, I 1vas fo fa't dijlurbed that I could not retain any more the words thereof: than that I .fhoulJ ~eturn to Prifon, . a~d there remain Forty and E1gl1£ Hours ; to whzch I fubmitted, finding nothing from the Lord to the co71- trary, that I may know what his P lea[ure and Counfel is concerning me, on whom I watt therefore, for be is my Life, and the le_ngtb of my Days ; and~ I [aid before, I came at hu Command, and go at hr~ c~mmand. Mary Dyat. So far Mary Dyar : And fo far concerning her Blood, which you fuck'd, and. the other two Servants of the Lord, as aforefatd. I thaH now proceed co a freth Account of your Cruelty and Blood, exercifed on the. Servants ?f the Lord tincc: the return of the Kmg, and under the pretence of his Name and Authority, as ye had before under the Name of the Commo11· wealth : And I fhall rake Things in Order here . according to the beft Account. I have from a Place at that Diflance, as yours ts from England; and as I left the former Treadfe in the Blood Of M.ary Dyar, aforefaid, whom ye took from the Tree after her Face was covered, and the Halcet about her Neck, and fhe was given up to Dye, and carried to your Jayl, or murderous Den at Boflon, and afterwards put to Dearh, but fo~ barely coming into your J urifdiCtion, and be~ ing fuch a one as is called a Q.uaker, as befo~e Ul . ( JIJ ) in the Firft Part of the Relation of ydur bloody Cruelties is more at large rehearfed. So I fhalJ begin this with the Blood of Wi/2iam Leddra of Barb.zdou, as it lies in Order, and in rhe firfi Place to be treated of, or related. The faid W. Leddra having been again and W. Ledd . again, crueJly Whipp'd in your bloody Den ar · ra. Rojlrm, and fought there ro be both fiarved and fmorhered to Death, with W. Brend, by your cruel Jay lor, Salter, and Sentenced unto Banilh-ment, upon pain of Death ; bdides fore and Iong Imprifonments, in that your j ayl, and in Plimoutb-Patent; and being put our of another JurifdiCtion ; I fay, the faid W. Leddra, afrer ali rhe aforefaid cruel Sufferings, coming imo your bloody JurifdiClion again, of rhe Majfachufets and co your Metropolis of Blood, your bloody~ Bo.fton, to Vifit there the Servanrs of the Lord 1 . · ~ w l1 ? Ja y th :re m· Pr·1 ·1 r on 1c 0r the Teflt•m ony of' emel.p 1 11on,., thetr Confc1ence ro God, you foon laid Hands Pt1t in on him; and, having thrufi him into your Cub, Ch~ i ns. your Jaylor prefemly put his Tallons upon him Htaldd rl an d 1c: a1u1 ne d h1' m to a Log of Wood, and rhere' Faafntn esdo ~ k_ept him. Night and Day lock'd in Chains, du- to a Loa~ rmg a mtferable and very cold Winrer (which ~fuaJly is beyon~ the extremity in England) ly:.. mg do~n and nfing up wirh them, as the bell: Compamons which he could have outwardly which were Miferable enough, cold and hard w.eather, and hard and cold Irons, in an open Pnfon, enough to have munherel;l a Man, if the Lord had not upheld him ( the Mercies .of New-England, with which they exercife the Servanrs of the Lord, and entertain Strangers who themfel~es fled tbilher as Strangers, fro~ rhe Perfecuuon of the Bifhops, who now become= thus Cruel} till the fidl Month which was the ) ' U rim~ |