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Show ( ~6o ) Another It alfo fell out, rhar this Salter had ano[her Thief got Thief in his Cufiody, who finding his Chamber ou~ _of door· open one Nio-bt and rhe Bunch of Keys rnfon · of rhe Prifon hang.i..,n g) ar rhe D?or ( .w l . l l 11c l Sa - ter being drunk, and mad wnh Fnends, and locking rhem up in a narrow Room, be~aufe rhey had fpoke to him wbar was co~vemem) wok his opporru11iry, and made hts efc~ p-~. Salter in rhe Morning, coming ro the Thtef s Cha~ber·door, and finding ir open, ~aJ!c:d ro rhe Thie( George, George, for rhar was hts Name, but no anfwer was ; fo Salter made up the nurter as well as he could, with him that put in r~e Thief, rt!I.ing him, That the _Cll1akers harllet hi1n out. VVhtch John Chamberlame hearing, faid to Salter, in the Comm?n-J ayl, William If we do make known thy Lymg, tba·nk thy [elf , Whereupon Sal:er ~n a Rage_ l~ck'd t~1e omer Door and lookmg 111 at a Wtndow, f;nd, Now Job~ do thy u;or(f. And fo denyed his Cufi~mers to come ro him to bring him work; Th Jay- and when they demanded of him, Why they lor's Ac-f {hould not be (ujfcJred to bring their Leather to him? LOUI1t 0 • . • l J ,/1. WI . h f - a·, -·. 1 cr The Jaylor fa1d It unll overt1~row · uJ~tce. llC uuc.rt. b ' . t: h Frien(lsro his Juflice was, becauk he would have 1ar ered work? viz. rhe efcape of rhis Thief on Friends, wl:o w~re lr \vtll o- Innocem. fo to make up rhe maner wnh lum \'ct-rhrow ' · · 1 · h 1 h h · J n ·. rhat put rhe Thtef m ,· w ·11c -o n eanng, llntce. · ., cleared Friends of. And though rhe Court had done 1ohn [o much Jufiice, ro fuffer him co \Vork, though they unjufil~ detained him in Prifon · vet this the Jaylor dtd deny, to avenge his ow'n '~arrel ; for wirh his Ax he came a.nd hewed down 1ohr/s Beam, by re~fon of whtch he could nor work in the Prifon. Once more, and I fhall have done with this Jay I and Jay lor at this prefent, and pafs famewhere where elfe. Moreover it fefl our, rhat Salter~ _fhe~ had a you·ng Woman, a Tbie:f, in rhe Prifon, l~~ef m I .. , W F . d J , n1on. w 10 conHng among omen nen s m rne n ~ in < r Prifon·, was brought ro tome fenfe of her evil brou~ht Work, atJd under Condemn~tion ; which rhe to fom~ Jaylor hearing of, took her i"nro hi·s Houfe £;hence ?t . .. . , er w JC-where Came arher People, and rold her, She kedneis. were better be as Jhe 'lJJtU before ( a Thief) th:m n PcrlwaclQnaker. The Woman being rhus- infiruCted ed by the aor over that which had cdndemncd · and ha- Jaylor, & n. · . ' others, to vtng an Opportumry, went JO her old \Vork be a Thief agab, and fiole prerty much Llnnen our of Da- rather v/4 the Apothecaries Garclen, and hid rhem under than a her Bed-cloarhs ,· which bdng fo und our and Si2.:_huakel1"· ' c pays rhe Shame of their Counfel reru·rning upon rhem, the Thief fhc: was fenr ro Virginia. This is a Member of again. your Church, atld your Jay lor: and rhis is rhe She_is ~cnt reckoning that is n1ade of Thievery, and rhat tso~~rg~mu. l · h · d h · uhenngs W 11C J U get It. at Dover. In ~he rear r66i. Mary Tomkins and Alice It56 ·~ . Ambrofe, who came fi·om Old-Engla11tl wirh Pij:Rivcr6 George Pre[lo11, and Erhvard 1Vhar:on of Stdem, aforefJid, came to Pifcataqua-River, and palling up, hnded ar the Town, aforefaid ; whi[her ro go·, ir was wich them from the Lord, where they lud a good Opporruniry in rhe Inn, wilh the People that refoned ro them ; who reafon-ed ~irh them concernin_g cheir Faith and Hope, whteh ro the People betng· made manifefi, fome ro the Truth thereof confeffed ; and others be- · . ing no~ ab-~e co gainfay rl:e Trurl1, ran ro~Ray~ P~~~~~~ner thetr Pneft, and cold h1m, That fuch a·Peo- ~ ~ pie wer~ come ro. Town ;· and that they had much Dtfcourfe With them about their Religion, and were noc able ro conrradic!t what they faid an~ rherefo:te ddired him to come fonh and hdp them, Or elfe, faid . they, we are like' to be 'rrtn on gro1111d. Z A£ |