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Show . t 41S > your cruel fVhippings bifore no·JJ!, and the ~ord. bat~ made me able to bear them; and as I abtde m h:s Fear, I need nor fear 1vhat JCU. puzll be. fujfered .to Warns do unto me. But {urely the Lor4 'JVill vifi! you for them of the Blood of the Int~ocent, aJ1.d your day ts commg.g lndgmcnt as it is come upon many, who but as ye(ler~ay Wtra higher in Pwwer than ever JOU were, or are ltke to be, but now are made the lou;efl of many ; and truly my Soul laments for you. Bm none of thefe Things prevailed, though they were words Seafonable and Tender; but as thofe that fcorn all Reproof, and fer Counfel at nought: The Confiable was commanded ~o ~e. Iiyer him to the Jaylor; and the next Mornm~ a Man wich a Horfe and Cart came ro the Pnfon- door., and rhe Hang-man with his- Whip j and he beina ty d fall to the Carr, he was cru- ~h~;~~i:Y elly whipp'd! (a! moll a Mile) through .Bofl&nTown · and his Hac kept off m Honour r~ the Senrence ( as faid your Hangman) fome · of you threatning him That he fhould be fo ferved every time' he came to Bofion. To which Ed' JVard reply'd, .Ancl l think I [hall be here to morrow again. Then two J.ully Men being Afiiltants to rhe Execuuoner and Confiable he was brought to the next Town, t~ be whipp'd and~fer .at libeny (and all this but for betng at Bof!on.) Whar \Vickednef.<>, what Cru- Ed-roard's own Horle, which ~e had. ro carry han m the Coun_try,wa c; led this while by he Carr, and y.et a Vagabo;td , his Harre and orhe1·things he had then with him at Bolton , being worth between 20 ::1nd ;o I. Sterling. · elty, what Injufiice is here? Should the Law of Reraliarion be exercifed upon you, Should you be whipp,d from every place from whence you came who Whip after this manner, and fo thew' your felves defiructive to Trade, and the Being of Men ? How do ye know but that the Lord will requict ye, as ye have done, and double dou_ble it upon you ? And 0 Thi'> was a mod.eft Cau~ion, chen how fad wiJl be your anct fulfilled in the time of the P0nion and whar will be Wars, and Witches, 0.:. when it rhe L~t of your Inheri· was not c•nly doubled, but trc:- (ance ? And for ought you bled, manifold ways upon them, in a worfc ] l.ldgment, ancl then_ know, this or a worfe their Portion, and the Lot ot Judgment may be your their Inheritance was fad in deed Portion from the Hand of from the Hand of t~e Lord. the Lord o· · So Edward be-ing at 'h.b erry, he went ro hJ'S H ou ~e a c S a ze m, tHoe T coowmne $' and made his way to Boflon on rhe morrow, the next and looked fome of you in the Face, as Deputy- DJV. Bellinghar;,, &c. who as Men Guil~y, w~· ned Lhe other way, which made him qudbon wnh fame ' of you, How it COtlld be, that be j1Jould be ~ Vagc;bond Ye(lerday, ancl none to Day ? !o wh1ch l e was anfwered, That if the Lyon be .Jurlge, "tlnd .h: fay, the Fores long EPrs be Horns, it mu(l go {o, tho it co(l the Fox his Life. The t Confid?le of Lyn, ;-s. ~ur, ·. being rold who he was, and whar m1ghl be rhe the l on_ f h. . I . V b l H.lble '-)1 Confequence 0 w tpptng 11hm fias ~ htlJ!.a :i1'/(' 1 'Y·I, ref(:_ who was anJnhabiranr, thoug r r, m ts own fe:-. to fafery, to Ier your Order go withqur Execu- \.\hip him. don. So this ma[(er harh an end, in whkh I have Virgin!;. been rhe longer, and fomewhat the more pard. cular, becaufe th.ofe proceedings were rhe moll wicked and unreafonable; and ro leave a Record of the Fairhfulnefs of a Man who was given up w rhe Lord, ro ferve his ·Will, whofe Power fufiained him through the midlt of his Enemiu Yer I have nor done with you, hur a reckoning I mull make wirh you, for a high piece of Cruelty exercifed by you, on fome of the W o-men menrioned before, in the Relations of the . firft Sufferings ac Dover (viz.) Mary Tomkins ·and M. Tcm;· Alice Ambroje, alias, Gary. Thefe two S·ervatfcs kin, A. of Ambref: .. |