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Show be migbt bave come. Simon BroaJflreet repliecl, s. Br~a.d- That what th'ey baJ Jone, WdS not Per(ecution, _but ~~~efe~u- Profecution. Whereupon, E_dwara Wharton betn~ tion not in the Courr, cryed to have leave to ask the 'Perfecu- Court one Quefiion, which was, Wheth~r. w_bat tion. the cruel1aylor of Bofton had 4one to Wilham ~.v. Brend. Brend ( whofe Fle{h he ~ad beat into a Gelly, with a · pitch'd Rope, ~tCh One Hu~dred and Seventeen .Blows) wbzch brought h:m near. t~ Death, were Per{ecution or Profecution ? To whtc? Simon faid Wharton, Hold your Tongue, or we w11l + They lay you by' the Heels. So t Provided was put in V!edre ?dotf~ the ·swcks that Day; and to be rid of other or er a fc • h · terwards Friends, they fought. to put excu es mto t eu· to be Sold Mouths, as, That they were not we!J, and {o could for Slaves 'I'J~t come ~c. But they faid, We muft not make ~f,eiY~Ynes excufes. 'And Eli~abeth Gardiner told the~, That as in the jhe was we!J, and yet could not come to thezr Wor~ forme~ jhip. So they were fined according to the Plea~ !rean\e fure of 'the Courr ; and becaufe Anthony Need· 1S ment1- h · 1 'd A h' oned. ham refqfed to pay t ~ Fme at ~n • nn, 1~ E. Gard- Wife, rhey femenc'd her to the Whtppmg-Poft, ner, Ann to. whip it out of her ; which the Conftab1e, Needham, Tho. Roots cruelly performed : And, notwich- AntbouJ , ld d . h h' . N"cedh.zm. fianding what he cou o wn ts rormennng J, Whip f11e not crying out, which he endea..: voured [0 make her do, bm could not, . for rhe Lord fufiained her : He affirmed, That the f0akers v;ere a har~- hearted People: · Bu~, w~o was the hard-hearted, lenhe reafonable JUdge. The zforefaid Anthony f:Jeedf?a?n, be~ng dehla~ded ·_b~ rhe Coun, to pay the fu'le laid upon hts Wife, he asked them, Seeing the Lawfor Adultery was A 1 ; ;1 whip- Death; Whether, if bi4 Wife ha·a committed Adulpecl for ~ tery,' ·.he m~ft b7 that La_w have [uffer~d peatb ~ . ot pay- So, nor fa(lsfymg that Fme, they wl1IPP :d her, lllg, th<;; {', 'd ' fine:. as af~ne1a1 . The c ~s~ ) . The cruel Work and Havock ye made of the ·Eftaces and Liberties of the People of the Lord in Salem, and other barbarous Sufferings wirh which you exercifed rhem, put many Thoughrs of Hear.r in many of thofe who feared rhe Lord amongft you, thinking to what lhefe Things would come , and amongfi the reft, one DebortJb Wil{on, who bear~ng a Deb?rah Wilfo~, :great Burthen for your Hard-hearted- for gomg nake~ m r. • Salem, fo r a S1gn, nets and Cruelty, bemg under a deep is laid Hands on, Senfe thereof, was conftrained, being and at salem fen· a young Woman, of a very modell t.en<d to be whipand retired Life, and of fober Conver- peel •. fation, as were her Pa.renrs, · w go through your Town of St~lem, naked, as a Sign*; which ihe having in part .performed, after the had gone through fome part thereof, as aforefaid, ihe was foon laid Hands on, and brought before Old Hathorne, who ordered her ro appear at rhe next Court of Salem, at which your wicked Rulers femen~ ced her to be whipp'd, and her Mo~ lher, Thomafin Buffam, and her Sifter, Margaret Smith, ro be tyed to the Cart alfo, the one on the one fide of her, and the or her on the other, becaufe the Ru.lers pretended that they might counfel her to what ihe bad * Of their harJ· hearteclnefs, ~.ruel· ty and Immodefty, in ftripping and whipping of Women as they had done. Thom.tfi1Z Buffum., M,zrg a.r~ t Smir.b, htr _Mother and. Sifter, order'd to be drawn at Cart's-ta.il with her, fup po!ing they might counkl her. done ; a favage Cruelty feldom heard of as it was moft barb~rous Inju~ice, which was' per-formed accordmg to thetr Order, bur not wuh that Cruelty as was l,lfed, or was expreft ; for. tbe Conftable, Dani4 Rumba/, had Bowels of Compaffion, w~.o :eou~ no.r b~ to her as you wou~d, for .~h1.ch he was quelhoned by yuur :Court ; whtch he puc off, and faid, He uJtM ll a 4 ot~ |