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Show A Letter to be written. ( ~44 ) }'ot1 had denied Appeals to England ; and reading the ~affages of Daniel _Denifo~, your fome~ times MaJor-General, mennoned m the. former Treatife, 1hi4 •Year you will go to co~plam to t~e Parliament, and the next Year they we/J. fe,d to fe_e how it is· and the third Year the Government u. changed; ~f which he took m~ch ~mice ; arid calling 1:0 his Lords ro hear 1t, fatd, Lo, the(t are my good Subje8s of New-Engl~nd ! Thereup?n he asked, When any Ship 7vtnt thether ? And fatd. I wiO put a (!op to them, and grant Appeals t~ England. And for that purpofe would fend a Leuer to rhem, and gave the. Friend tha~ then was with him (who gave htm a. Relat~~n of your Cruelties, and the Paffage m Wrumg) order w call ro his Lord Chancellor, fuch a time, and he thould have the Leuer ; which was · punctually performed, in thefe words. CHARLES R. A Copy TRuf/y and Well-beloved, We Greet you well. oftheLet- Having been informed that feveral of Our Sub .. ter. je8s among{f you, ca1led ~akers, have been, and are Imprifoned by you, whereof fome have been Exe .. cured and others ( as bath been reprefented unto m) ll;e in danger to undergo the like : We have thought fit to (ignijie Our P leafure, in that behalf, for the future ; and do hereby require, That if there be any .of thofe People, called Qgakers, among{! you, 11ow already Condemned to Jujfer Deat~',.. or other corporal Puni{hment, or that are Imprzjoned, and Obnoxious to the like Condemnation, You are to .forbear to proceed any further therein, but that Y?" forthw:th ( 14·5 ) forthlvitb fend the [aid Per(ons (')l)hether Conr:'ar.n"" ed or Imprijoned, over into rhiJ Our Kingdom of England, together ·with the rejpeCiive CrimeJ or Offences laid to their Charge, to the encl fuch Courfe fnay be taken with them here, ru jh.1lt be agreable to Our LawJ, and their Demerits : And for jo doing, the{e Our LetterJ jhall be your fu!Jicient Warrant ar/(l D~(charge. Given at Our Court at White- hJll, t~e ninth Day of September, r 661. in the thirtuntb Year of Our Reign. S~bfcribed, .To Our Trufly and Well- belov ed, John So fulfil~ EndiCOt, Efqutre; a11d to ali, and every other the ling th.: Govarnour, or GovernourJ of Our Plantatior. of' New- word thd t England, and of aiL the Colonies thereunto betmwinr,. rafs'd n~e th h .r, 1 tl b 6 6 at no~ aMre,. ~~ erea1d.te r ,t:a. , e: And ' m the fa 1d. tQ a)i, and Page, of er:ery, t e tm!~ers an 0111cerJ of Our faid Plant a- the faid tton, anrl Colomes ?vbatfoever, within the Cominent Treatil~, of New-England. prefently after the words a- By his Majefiy\ Command, forefa id, Be not d e~ WilJiam Morris. ceived, M fureMJOll. h.zve ailed . . · ~~~ olwce 'til,{ ~Lttr,zge up?~ rl;_ Imzocem, f~ will rh:: Lord (if Man jhould. 11or, yet fll!.ttl fh.z /1 do bM U tll ; fee how 1t was fulfillttl in what follows ,\~cl how tt was the Word of the Lord which he fulfilled) execute bl ~g~t~ozu_ :fu.dg.ment upo~ JO~, .J:a, [even-fold more, and with gr;evous l~Ldtgnatl~n wlll h~ requtre zt of ,you_: A~d this the Lor./ h,uh /po .h:r.> ~nd be will fulfil hu Word, and the ttme u near: And fee how ned.r 1t w~s, ancl how loon fulfi!fed, as what hath been declareLt mak-s man1feft. · .... The ~ing's Lecrer being received, a f Ship The Let~ Was provided, and Samuel Shattock of Salem, one cer fent in . a Ship on ?u~pofe, earned by Sam~el Shattock of Salem. t When the St1ip ~rr1ved at Bo[fou, Capt. 0/zver, afore-mentioned, went on Bo:1rd and huppofin~ the Seamen were moft 1Z.!fakers, he came into Bojton 'anl\ · iHcl, as lS reported, There u Sha.ttock, and the Dev;J and all. ' Y of |