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Show ( 468 ) 1 am a mortal Man, and dye l muft, and that ere long, and I muft appear at the Tribunal-Seat ofChrift, and muft giv~ an Account for my Deeds done in the Body ; and l believe it will be my greatefl Glory in that D11y, that I have given my Vote for thee to be foundlr whipped at this time. Then faid Wenlock, 0 'JJJicked Man ! if thou haft nothing to Glory in, in that Day, bz~t in drawing the Blood of the Innocent, and laying Stripes upon the Servants of the living God, thy Glory will be turned into Shame, a1ul Wo wilt [,e thy Portio11. · So fulfilling th<e words of Chritl, The time fhall come, that they tbiilt kill you, Jh:~ll tbi1Jk they Jo God /ervice. And in this rhe Scripture is fulfilled, He that u Born after the FLeflJ, per(ecutei him that u Born tt,(ter tbe Spirit. And rhe faying of Chrift, Thefe Things 1vifl they do unto you, becaufe they know not the Father nor me. Some more of the Suffering I of Elizabeth Hooton., BEfides all the other Grievances which have been fpokcn of concerning me, Eliz..zbet.h Hu~·to11, in Ne1JJ-E11gland, which have been inftiel: t:d on me by rhc perfecuting Magifirates and Mini!lers of that place, having been often Whipped, ofcen Imprifoned, ofr driven into the Wildernefs, ro be devoured of wild Beails, or fwal~ owed up of the deep Warers, where I bad many Miles · ro go alone, through the Woods, in rhe \Jight, where no Inhabiranr was, yer did rhe Lord by his Power raife me up, rhar he gave me a back for rhe vVhipper, and firength ro go through all this, fo that· I wenr and was nor _ ~;eary, no:c falnted in ~hefe H~rfhips.. Twi~~ waG ( 469 ) wa~ I Whipp'd and Imprifoned at Boflon, cind tWICe alfo ar Cam~ridge in Ne1v-Englancl, by the hands of blood .. rhufiy Men, and four rimes was I whipp'd in other places : I w s Imprifoncd' alfo at Hampton and Dover, where a wicked Confiable came with a Warranr, and ferch'd away a p~or ?ld Mall's Heifer (who had lirrle ro main! am him ) f~r three Po~n.d five ShiHings Fine, 1mpofed on hm1, by a Fme of Five Shillings a Day, for nor hearing rheir Teacher, which was a .hornble Oppreffion, five time worfe than the ~1~ops Law~ which is but one Shilling a day, or ~ot commg ro hear their Common-Prayer. I bei~g pre~ent, asked him, Who made that Warrant · H~ fa1d, The Treafurer, Peter Coffin. But he read tt, bJ hi4 Maje[fy' s Name. I asked him W.ho lPtn that Maje(ty? He faid, The King. Thel~ fat~ I, In the King's Name reftore the poor Man his Heifer, for he hath made no Juch LaJP. But he w~uld not: So I went to Peter Coffin, the Treafuter, .and I cleared my Confcience to him, ·and told htm, That he baJ done contrary to God's La'Jv and the King's Law, in taking mvay the poor Man'; ~hw, for that the King had font to them, That their ~r1-Members Jhould not make Laws by themfelves exc u mg others. He told me, That he 'JJJould tale; away more yet : But the Lord flopped him in [hat purpofe. . From him I went to Richard Walden, th~ ~agt~rate, to whom I faid, YejlerJay thou ant ~ 'Y Wif~ 'JPere at a Faft, and to Day a ()or Mans Cow 14 taken away, in his Mn 'eft 's Nfme by a Warrant.: I asked him, If he m'jde Jtbat War~ troa nte ? He fa1d , . N o. 1 rl.a l· d , ..J-.r 1o. en make a Warrant fitch her agam. But he anfwercd If I h l CGo wi', hLe '))}ould ~'etch h If: .d 1 , at. a 1' · er. ai , t Jvas cm,trat'y to h or.. s ~'lv, and to the King's. Then faid he .t . t e Devtt' s Law ' I an [' were d, T.h e n , thou may, t'aI k:ear if |