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Show Sufferings in tht Durch-Plantations. 1~1. 1om~ Ma1y Tom kim, and Alice Arflbrofe, having1 ~;;:t,~;, through many cruel Sufferings, and fore Travels, finilbed what rhey had ro do in NewEngland ac chat rime. rhey embarked for LongIj1and, in their way for Virginia and lt1arrlan4, E . vVh.tr· as aforefaid, whom Edwarcl Wharton and Wtlliam ~~p.w. l)_eap accompanying_ as far as OJfler; Bay, th~y went rowards New~.Am{lertlam, and J.O came to F111j1Ji11g. a Town called Ulifhing, or Flu{hing, where they were refrdned in rhe Faichfulnefs and Fellowfhip of rhe People of the Lord there, who being under the Dutch-Government, had fuffered much Perf~cution, and fpoiling of their Goods, _by Peter Stevenfon, the Dutch-Governour, who P. srJJevenh· was by fome of you much infiigared there- JGoon~ er-utc unro ; an d r h ere1c o re I place J•C un d er the Head nour. of rhe Sufferings of rhe People of the Lord a-mongfl you. . J. Bound's Amongfl the refi, Jolm Bo~nd found a baruuel Suf- barous Treatment from the fatd Peter Stevenfon, fc:ring: whom he rook from his Aged Father, and ~e[{-' to dear Wife and Children, and rhrew into a noia ~tm~~on fom Dungeon, where having kepr him very N_ea; ta~ long, and well nigh famifhed hi1~1 to Deach, tmfl~ d; he was brought fonh, and fc rene d to Banitb~~ ft1~1 1• menr, and carried forthwirh on Ship-board inro greatcru- a Dutch- Veild, ar.d nor fuffered fo much as ro dty is fee his Family, and had to Holland, one of rhe hroughtto United Provinces, where having acquaimed che ~.0 ~~;~~ Stares wirh the hard Meafure he had fufiained E~~land. from the Governour, aforefaid, and on ShipReturns board, in his way rhirher, he was fer ar Liber. to th::! ry, who rhereupon came for England, and from Tow 1 • hence, by che way of Barbadou, to Long-ljltmd again, again, and to the Town where he had been fo Cruelly emreated, and from whence he had been ~e~t\ Banifbed, as aforefaid. In che Screers of which he ~~ve~- t: one Day palling along, mer wirh cbe Govern our, nour, who who appeared much abafbed for whac he had abafhed done to John, and cold him, He 1vas glnd to fee him & repents fafe come home again; and moreover rold him, He hoped he fhot4ld never do fo any more to any of our Friends ; a good Sign of Repentance in him. Which was an Ingenuiry. char I never yer could hear of from any of you, co your Neighbours and Counrry-men, afcer all your Cruelcies. Wich which you never were found cxercifed, which will return upon you, and prove your Judgment, from whom no Remorfe or Pity ever was Parallel with N~w-England,and underfiood to have pro- they ju~g~d th~reby. d d h fc d o Th1s ts fult:illed by C.Mather's C~~ e , ~ o e J U gmenc own Confeffion, Book of Witches, Will be wuhout a Parallel 0• p. 41. ' But now there is a more ' than ordinary AffliEtion with ' which the Devil is Galling of us, arfd Jhch an one as is judge'i ' IJnparallt:labl~. Having been at Flufhing, rhe aforefaid paffed They to Grave's-Sands, now called Grave's-Er11l fine~ come to rh e E ng lt;Jn". coo k H· 1·1 1, w h ere J olm Tilton' . and rG r.zd·l .:'" · JIA h• w·rc d , Ja?l s, i~.~.ary JS 1 e, an Michdel Spicer, and her Son J.7i/rN:. Sam_uet, had much fuffercd for the TI mh ( ef.. M_~YJ hi-. pectalJy Samuel, who had fu.tfered fore Impri- W !fe, M. fonmenc near unro Dearh) and much fipoiling !.Plt. 5·er,he1 f l . G d . ton amw: 1 o C 1e1r oo s, as had divers or hers of che Ser- Sufferers vanes of the Lord in thar Town, by the Dutch- there,and Rule~s; inco which yown being newly enrrcd) othe;·~· , and Into John Tllton s Haufe, Jo{et.b Nicho/fon r ~td:od,and J h R 'J' l d r:t r J' 'Jou,J .L; - ~ n r. cla , an .1 tme MliJard came, as rhey dal,:f.Mil· were m rheu rerurn fiom Vi1ginia, where rhey lard, mtt had been, and at Maryland, lhrough many hard rhemtl:~re Travels and Sufferings io l he Service of rh(; f~om v u ~ d g1mJ. Lor |