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Show ( 4S2) petitioned for, this Court of Eleelion, [That· no Man or Woman lhould bring any thing to [he Pri.foners, or carry any rhing from them, upon rhe Pine of Twc:nry Pounds] 1vhich WIP granted by fome of you, to the value of Five Pounds for the fir{f time, onJ Ten PouncJs for the focond; and ~betber to encrea(e more, I know not. A cruet Law fH ever I heard of; wbat, to Starve them to Death? Worfe than to Hang them by and by out of the way; which doth plainly appear, that you would ha·ve Jlarved them to Death, for· which God in his time witt call you to an Accou1Jt ; and happy is every one that bath no band in thefe cruel Laws, made and executeJ . #poN many unto Death it {elf, upon three of them ; .llnd Whippings, and Imprifonments above meaJure, which makes many to fa!J off from you, through your Cruelty done to others, and I think witJ joyn-nQ · more with you, known by the name of John Smirh, thy next Neighbour in times pafl, and then [erviceable to thee i1' ma1Jj Thing1, and, it's like, fomewhat beloved by thee ; but now it's otberwij'e, as it appears by thy hllrd dealing to my beloved Wife. This I am ~onflraine4 to write to thee in Love·and Tendernefs. John Smith. A Copy of chis was delivered to the Governour, in fome ilion rime after the Death of · Mary Dy.lr' which was pur w Dc:ach by the Coun gf Election, at Bojlon, J66Q. - ... , "' ( 4)j ) Now, becaufe I have made mention of rhe faid Jobn Smith, and his Lerrer to your Govern? ur, which may fcrve as a winding-fheer for h!m, ro whom ic was delivered (as I faid) in Margaret hts Life-rime ~ I fhall give rhe Copy of one Lee- Smjth his ter more, wrirren by his Wife, and Mary Trask W l~e, an~ (a fore Sufferer by you, memioned in the for- r~t{;;~~ mer Trearife) the t dl of the 1oth Month, r 66o. ].E1tdicot, ro your ~overnour an::l You, which I ibould which not have mferred, bur thar ir conrains a Warn- ft_ands at · f h d . . hlsTomb- mg to you_ o. t e Ju gmem that 1s commg upon ftonc. you. As 1t 1s alfo an Account of rhe harmlefs ~n~ innocent Spirit chat lodged in them, which ts m the words following . TO thee John Endicor, ancl the rtft of the Ru-lers of [his J urifdiaion, 'lvho are given up TfheChopy F. h . a . 0 t e to tg t agam che Lord, and hts Truth in this Letter. Jay, w~erein it_ is fpringing forth, tmd by the Comelmefs of tt, hath the Lord our God conjfrained JH to tak~ up the Crofs, and foJlow him, through great Tnals and Sufferings, M to the Our·wad · and herein we can ujoyce, that 'JJJe are accounted wo:rhy, and calletl thereunto, to bea1' a Tefiimony a~amji a .cruel and hard- hearced People, 'lvho are flegh~z~g the Day of their Vifirarion, and foolifhly ~equztmg tbe Lord for his Goodnefs and fhamefully mtreating his hidden Ones, 'lvho'm he hath fent amongft yo~, to call you from the evil of your ways, ~ tbllt ye mtght co~e .'lvith them to partake of hi; Lov~, and feel ~zs Life: and Power in your own Heans, :hat 2vzth zu ye might have been brouuht to be fubJ eCt to the higher Power, Chrifi Jefi1s, wloom J~u 0ould have been Obedient unto, and hetlrk- 11'd to hJS .Judgments, 2vhilft he fiood at rhe door an~ knocked ( for he will nor always ihive Wlth Man ) and then it fl;ozlld have been well -;viDh rou, |