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Show ( 94 ) men at their fir{l coming, before they ha~ any ~bti~ thing to lay to their Charge, only that they lltUa- were of thofe called f!!!akers; an_d take ay.ray nou!S their Goods for their Fees, to thetr very Btble, l@·~a~ and afrer to fend rhem away in the nature of ctic~!S Banifbme~~' wfthout their ~e.ds that they ~odge~ ~g_atnff on a Ship-board ; and ~o Wht ~ Men and Women ~nends. as they did and cut off rhe Ears of feveral, ba- . ~ifh'd Old ]:v. UpflMll, tho' a_n Inhabitant amo"n~ (hem and a Member of rhetr owq Church, for beari~g h~s Teftimony againfi th~ir wicked ungodly f..~w of Banilhmenr, ev~n tr the depth ~f Winter, tho' fo aged, rhat he could not ear hls Food, bur as fcraped into a Spoon,. for ~ant. of Teerh which might ~ave cofi htm hts Ltfe, but th'at the Lord bore him over their Cruelry; and Ann Burdm, ot" Eny,land, for con:_ing to feek after and fecure her Husband's Effects (who had lived long among them) being m_ofi r_hat ihe and her Children had ro fubfifi wtth, tm~ r,rifon'd~ an~ afrer forced away withour it, and ~iftrain or flop her EffeCls, or Money, for her Fees, Charge of Paffage, &c. an? took away a poor Man's Cow, when he had never ~n?rher to give Milk for hi~ Chilpren ; yea, fetzmg_ a Friends Chell and l.Vloney, ~s thetr Martha! dtd, wirhour being accountable ; and his Cloaths, wearing 'ic himfelf bef6)re his .Face ; and the friend for ·complaining, laid Neck a_nd ~eels ro~ get her; and bani~ing a Man, at:d ht~ Wtfe near her Laboiu ; 'anq apprehended agam, becaufe ihe could not go, and her Husband forced fro~ her (co Prifon) when in L4bour, and lhe after; ~nd m~my fnch Infiances of Injuftice, by Impri. {onwenr, Whippings, Fines and Bamfhmems, ~-ven f(-,H.:ioP-: them w hire Men ro· have them ~ w av, if theuy ccmld ~ 2nd if they ~ou1 d nor, .ra- . · !un~ { 95 ~ kipg their Goods or Money for it ; fearching Houfes for Qgakers, even in rhe Nighr, like Thieves; raking up feveral as rhey were about their lawful Occafions, and \\.hip them as Vagabonds, tho' they were Inhabitants among rhem ; and Banifhment on pain of Death, and fentenced ro Death many, and puc to Death Four, viz... Three Men and One Woman, of good Repute, Hanging them on a Tree wirp the ut~ nofi Ignominy, bearing their · Dr~ms as they wenr to Execudon, that rheir Voice might not pe heard, a Barbaricy never hean~ qf, as I re~ ember, even among Papifts, or ro the Greatcft Criminals, and Reviling rhe~ at th~ir Death, as their High-Priell, Wilfon, di4, more like a Hea. then than a Chrifiian, much 1efs a Minifier of the Gofpel, thar's Peace o~ Ellrtk, ~nd good WiD, to all Men.; and Condemning a Fifrh and a Sixth, (:Yc. bur that they had nm Power to puc them to Death ; and fo they would have proceeded, but that the King, on Friends Application to agaiult him, fent to fiop their P.r:oceedings; and then tbt they would _hardly Obey rhe King, ~ur endea- 'J&in V?ured ro {ltr up the People to Rebellion againfi anti gf1l fl~~.' 01~ ~athorn ~ndeav~urin& to infiigare them ~on~agamft ~~s Con1m1ilioners, as tf rheir Commij]ion lnilftWIM. made unfer a H~dge ; yea, and_ purpofeJ to rife ontt~-> aga!nfl tbe K s Commijjioners,as they fa1d rhemfelves, ·· faymg, That Cartwright, that was one of them, wru a Papifl or Jefuit, bur that E. Hooton (he be-ing her C ) · d' d h' Th E.Jl·ootons jh k ou~rbry-man vm tcare 1m, , 2t 1\hnufcr. e new no Juc thing, but that he wa1 a fouer-minded it1an, (M far 04 ever Jh.e hear~, and per- ~ waded ~hem to the comrary, 'teiiing rhem, That tf t~ey dzd Fight a~ainfl the J(ing, they would bring ~ume upon themfelves and their Country, for the bi-o/ OCent Blood they had fpilt cryed againft them ; and d~~~ |