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Show ( J08 ) Tomkim anq Alice Amb1'o(e, whom (with .Ann Coleman ) they cruelly ordered to be whipp~d at a Can's-rayl, through EJeven Towns at one time, ten Srripes a·piece on their naked Backs., which would have amounted to One Hundred and Ten i~ ~he whole (enough ro have kill1ci any one out righr, efpecially Women, as to outward Appearance, had not the Lord upheld 'em) and Ot1 a very cold Day, they were {hipped and whipp' d through three of the Towns (the Priefi looking on and Laughing ) anq through Dirt and Snow, fometimes half leg deep1 till Walter Barefoot, of Salubury, got the Warranr, and difcharged them., to his Praife be it (poken : And after, going to Virginia, they were whipp'd with rhiny two Stripes a-piece) with a nine-corded Whip, that the Blood run down rheir Breafis in abundance, and fo expel~ led rhofe Coafis, at your Infiigarion ; and fron1 thence Arriving at Bo(lou, !lrfary being very Sick, nigh unto Death, often dying away ( Edu1ard ]nbttJuant <tttudt~. Wharton and TVenlock Chriftifon coming to fee them) in comes two Conftables, in a grea~ Rage and Violence, and notwithftanding her weak Condition, fore' d them all up ro rhe Govern our's Haufe 1 and .cho' J.,fary fell down as dead in the way, one . of the Conftables tlood ove:r her, rill 1he revircd, and fo had her up, where Bellingham and Danfort order' d her and ALice ro be whipp'd at rhe Towns beyond Bojlon, but noc at Hpjlcn, ' left lhe 1hould Dye un· (.ier their Hands, or the Ol,lt·cry of the People be coo loud at rhei~· Doors, bur that Col. Tem· ple inrerceded for chem, ro his Humanity be it temembred, as well as your Cruelty; bur Erl1JJ. Wharton, being an J nhabitanr, they orde1'd c~ P.e wh1pp'd with rhiny Stri:pes) on 'his naked . ~ B~h ( 109 ) ·Bo~y, through Bojlon, and fo From Confiabie ,to Confiable, home ro Salem, as they ofren did ar other rimes, tho, an Inhabitant among them when he came on his lawful Occafions to Bo~ pan, roo often ro mention here ; and how o'n the coming or E:l~z. J:Iooton and Jane Stokes, by E.Hooton~ :the way of V1rgt~1a, m 1661. (no Shjp daring M~nufcr. tO carry them dueClly, for fear of rhe Fine of 1 oo. l. no~ ha~dly from them ) and for going ro. vtfit thetr Fnends in Prifon, iJnprifoned chem, wtth th_e reft, ~o t~e number of rwemy nine ; and betng afraid, hke Cain, when he had llain C · :his Brother, raifed all their Soldiers about the af~;tD Country, to defend themfelves againft che In- .. · .~ n?cenr ; and made a Fence about the Prifon, of htgh Boards, and boarded up rhe Windows, :thar_ they tbould nor fee ; and afr~r divers Whtppings, drove them our of their J urifdi-ltion, wirh Men and Horfes, near two Days 1ourney in the Wildernefs, and there left them mwards Nighr, amongft great Rive,:s and wild· Beafis rhac. ufed ro Devour Men, where they Jay that Ntghc in the Woods, without Vitl:u- .als, fave a few Biskets, foaked in the Water · and when they wer_e got to Rhode-lfland, wher~ was a General- Meeung, the Perfecutors becaufe .of the Guile of Innocent Blood thought an Ar~ my was coming againft them ·'and when they .came to Boflon ~gain, the Co'nfiable rook her to .~onvey her to the Ship, faying, It w~ their Del1ght. ; and could rejoyce to follow them to the Executton m much ~ ever they did. And after fhe had . rerurned to England, comrary ro the Expe~auon ?f many (being in the Heat of Perfecuno~ whtch Rang over the Narions, caufe- !ng an tll Savour and E~ample, and tlrengtheri-tng £-he hands c:>.f the wtcked in all rhofe Coufl- ,. . P .P 4 . · ~ri~s~ |