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Show ( 42~ ) number of People to draw t~el1! ab?~lt, whe~e the Executioner cruelly wh1pp d h1m ( as m 1 the Warrant) and having loofed him, cold h~m, And en- That be muft prepare to receive the like at the next tleavour'd Town which was about fourteen Miles from . to bhe had then~e through rhe Woods i which being a tot enexf ' v.l c h r Town. long way for a Man to Trav on .oor,. w Ote Back was fo torn already, to ferve the1r Pleafure in his own Execution, he told them, He He refu- Jhou!d not go ur~lefs they provided a Horfe for him, fuers to go, ' d h' b' h Wh 1 lefs car- or that they dragge zm. t. ~t er. ereupon rierl on a your Executioner complamtng to your Courr, Hor_re. rhis Order, according w this Copy, was itTued He 15 .rte .. fonh,. as followeth. COffillll • ted. A Copy To the Conftables ·of Dover, or either of th'em. of the Warratlt. THe{e are to require you, That wherel/4 Edward Wharcon, a Vagabond-~aker; hath bten (emenced according to La~J ; and at prefe~t a Horfe, T~e, · according to that Sentence, cannot be obtamed. Tbefe Kmgs . h 0 Name are, m 14 M a1·e,J'n'Y, J H'!I.Ta me, t o wm011 ~n d requl.r ey ou, abufect to commit the Jaid Edward to the Prifon at Dover, again, ~n there to remain in fafe Cuflody till the next fecond uhn~ tt Day of the Week ; and then you are to execute the ~~~1~1~10• '[aid Sentence according to Warrant f~rmerly del~vereJ cent, a~».d unto yotJ ; hereof you are not to faJl. DoVeJ~, .. the yet _Rebel fourth of. the fifib Month, I 66 3. agamft him. Thomas Wiggins, William Hathorne, Eliazer Lulhcr. This ( 429 ) _This Order being iffued out, h~ wac; had to Edw~t ti · Pnfon, and there uncivilly lock'd up in a Iirde lock1 ; u~ hole, where an or her Man's .Wife was:, who was with a dethere for falfc accufing of her Husband • and fat\'led on t~e fecond Day of the next Week, h'e was~1°~~~"?ehad out, ~nd ~ut upon a H?rfe, without Bridle cond day or Halter m hts Hand, havmg noching ro hold ofthenext by, but the 0 Pummel of the Saddle, one leading Week • . the Horfe, and cwo guarding him on each fitde Thten hda:d fc • cr d ' ou , an as ome nocor.10us <?uen er, from Town to put on a Town, and ,domg rhetr Execurion as rhe War- Horre. rant required : The Conftable told him That And had ' your !udge bad him, if the [aid Edward ,vu~ld not ~~"ttth~ go quze~ly, that .th~y fhould tye him over the Horfe- .Towns, & back, o~ drag htm at the Hor{e-heeli; which ( ifwhipop'd. fo) mtghr have munhered him · becaufe of rhe &w~lpp d ftumps of Trees, and Rocks, a~d rug(Yed way agam. thar was in rhe Wi1dernefs; bur Edw~rd was contemed her~n, char he was accounted worthy w fuffer for Rtghr~oufnefs- fake., wirh rhem who th_rouglt many Tnbularions do enrer inro rhe Kmgdom of God. T!lUS ir fared wirh Eclward Wbart011, for his Tefiu_nony ro rhe Truth, and againft your Perfecuuon. I fhall now give an accounr of fom orhers on whom your Cruelty lighted at Sa: lem, by rhe hand of the {aid wicked Elath whofe Cruelty is farrher drawn forrh in ;~net, follows. a !his fa.id Hathorne.' before he was a M2gifirate, r ~Ole Telhmony agamfi Perfecurion and refir · u · Hamg Confcience, in the Days of 'az: am- thont(!) t · f •ver Crom- Tdhmo-we , m one o your OMeert· h 1 f; . 0 • ng- OUtes ac Salem ny againft: aymg, That. i( Juch an Act (which you wer~ :eftrain· then abour, vtz:.. To reflrai1J firom Preacbi" b mg trom ~' ut Pteach- ~~ftwas a Magdhate; Now tnrned a bloo~v Perfecutor i!Ig,beMfor,-' PI rate. . , emga a D d 3 b~ |