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Show ( ,420 ) Wildernefs. Rut what hath been [aid, - /ball fuf.lice at this rime ; wherein, through _fuch :variety of cruel Sufferings, I am conllramed, though I do but in a manner touch ~t many Things, w paf" along, Jell in rh~fe tedtaus and howling Wilderneffes of Cruelttes and Suffer-ing~, and rhe Relation or hthemd , the fi Rfadedr 1hould be tired ; bur it ts ar er ro ee an go through them that way, thl!n ro read t~em over, which £hac they may be, and c~nrmu. cd to Po11eriry, as a ~ecord of .rhe Veuu~. o~ lhat which is Everla(hng, ho N n hath. earned the Friend~ of Trurb in rhis Age, as H hath d0ne in the former Ag"s, through aJI they have mer wirh, for their Tdlimony ro the Lord ; and rhar ir may be a Blot unro rhe Houfe of the Wicked, who fhew rhcmfelves in ~his Day, as in the Day~ of Old ; and a_ Memonal ro rh_e . Fai[hfulne('i of rhe Servants of the Lord to ~1s Name, in the Movings of the Lord 1 have wntren : All ?AJhich, faich Eliz.,abeth Hooto1J, and mucb more ] have uo11e thrwgh and fujfer ed, and mucb more' could I, for tbe Seed's fake, whic~J i& Buried ~n{l OppnJFtl, and as a Cart is laden wr:b Sheaves, aml as e~ Prifo ncr in an inwPJrd Prifon-Houfe; yen) the Love thM I bear to- th~ Souls of aft M~n, malus me wtlting to tmdergo 'JJJr.Jrttjoever can be m· ~rCfc:rl. , f 3~ Cbt~-. Yet a wot d C>r two of [(athar'im Chatha"?, o ~~ff;ri~~~ whom I helVe rna~~ mention in rhe Margm of 2r &fton. wh.Jt harh beln fatd before. She came from Lwulo1~, Llnough many Tri<lls and h,n~ Travel<;, w Boflon, and appeared cloar!ted ~lllh Sack. clo<Hb, as a Sign of rhe .lndtgnatlO~ of /he Lord coming upon you, m the We1ghr and ~·· fe of which the came there and appeared. ....... ~J , .For 421 ) For which, infiead of coming to a Senfe of your Condition, and what was coming upon you, in the Bunhen of ~hich fhe _came fo f~ r, and through fuch Hatdfh1p, jou Lnd H~md upon her, and pm htr in Prifon, om of which_ you would give no Deliverance, unril with rhe Seven and Twenry aforefaid, you drove her wirh Sword and Club into the Wildernefs ; and rhar was rhe Reward you gave her for her Love in coming fo arnongfi you. And iuch was your Hage and Cruelcy ro· her, rhar at Dedham, lhe was nor only Whipp'd, bur rhe .Dedbam. Man chat was wirh her, and travelled roge-rher, though you had lirrle ro fay ro him. Afrer chis, lhe coming ro Bojfon again, you Im- Bojf011 • prifoned her a long Seafon rhere, ro pay a fine you laid upon her, thinking ro be rid of her rhar way, in cold Winter, and fad Extremicies, and Sicknefs, near ro Death ; but rhe Lord orherways provided for her, and difappoinred you, for file was ropk ro \Vjfe by John Chamberlaine, and fo became an Inhabi-ranr of B?jto14. Thus much of Eliz.abetb Hooton, and her Sufferings, and Kathar·ine Chatham's, in Ne'lJJ- Englt~ nd; I fhall now rw:n rowards the DutchPlanrarions, and rhen ro Dover again, and give a Jirrle farther J\Ccounr of the CrueJries in thofe Pans, that may drJw borh ends of your J urifdiction roger her, and give rhe Sum of your Cruel and Inhumane }n;aring of the Innocenr. )uffirings |