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Show ( 404 ) of the Lord fbe willingly undertook what was J. Brokefup required at 'her hands; and having ]oan Brokeher _Com~ rup with her (a l;f/oman near as aged as her felf) parflOn, J • • d . h uf.Jl of 1661. who willingly was offere up m .r e ns . the Lord, in the Year 1661. fet Satl frm? OldEngland cowards Virginia ; no V dfel dtretlly hence c'o your Pans accepting to carry them, becaufe of your Hundred Pound Defence for every ~aker whic~ _any Ship-mafrer ih~ul~ bring inro your Junfd1chon. And from Vzrgtnia knew nor bur rhey muft pafs on foot thro.~gh rhe unrrodden J¥ildernefs (as tO the. Enghfh ) many Hundred Miles, for that the Shtp-mafcers, becaufe of the faid Defence, refufed alfo to carry them thence ; bm the .Lord a~ording an opporruniry by a Catch, whtch earned them part of the way, they wenr the reft by Land, and At Bojfon. came ro Bofton, where, after a bar~ Paffa~e, and many tedious Sufferings, to Women m then Condition, too long to mention ; they could find no place ro receive them, becaufe of the pen.alty of your Laws on thofe that. {hould receive a Q9aker inro their Houfes, as u was to them lhar iliould bring them in ; fo you thought ro do your work, and to be rid of rhof~ ~eople, by your Cruelties, within your Junfda~t10n, whom the Lord had fem and raifed up among!t you, w turn you unro him. So, ill requiting. the Love of rhe Lord, and the Tendernefs nf his Servants to you-wards, who, ~orwi1hfiand. ing all your Cruelties and Penalnes, nay, the Blood of feveral of his Servants, gave not over, bur fiill preft in upon you and your Laws of Blood and Death co fulfill their Teftimony for the Lord unto you, apd co leave Y?U wirhom Excufe, that his Seed may be ra1fed among · · . you~ ( 40) J you, according ro his Will; and that the Gofpel of Salvation may be founded forth among you, and the Great Day of God Almighty be proclaimed through the Earth, who· is come ro j'udge the Nations wirh Equjry, and the People with Truth, thar rhe Poor among Men might trufi in the Name of the Lord : Yer, at length it was fo ordered of the Lord, that a Womarr~ fi-iend received them, in whofe Houfe they lodged, who were weary, and had been hard beftead in the Wildernefs. The next Morning they wem ro vifit Friends in Prifon; but your Jaylor and his Wife were fo filled with Cruelty, that they woulel not let rhem in, nor near to the place where they were co fee them ; but your Jaylor haled them up to your Governour, Endicot (the ufual Civility with which you entertain Strangers, and tho{e who come ro vifit the Prifoners of the Lord, of which JllUCh is fpoken in this Trearife, who are Inhofpitabfe, Barbarous and CrueJ, and worfe rhan the Indians, who readily do fupply them, ~ wich what they have, when they Travel amongfr them, and are forced to wander up and down in the howling Wildernefs) and brought them before him, · who after many ~eftions, asked them by your Governour, to which rhey gave anfwer, as they were enabled by the Lord, and much fcurrilous Language, as calling them Witches, and Threacnings, fenc them to Prifon, by which means they came to fee rheir dear Brethren and Sifters, who therein were rhrufi for rheir Tefiim.ony ro the Trmh. Your Governour asked Elizabeth, What flJe came for ? She anfwered, To do the HiD of him that fent her. He demanded, What 1vas that? She reply'd, To warn him of fhedding auy 'f/1(11'( |