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Show ( 146 ) 3dly, . Bon~face Norris, an ~ld Man, ~ear e_ighry, taken up riding to a Meetmg, and tmpr!{one_d. at Cambrid1_e, by Dudly Pope, wh? ha.d tmpn~ foned his Wife before, where falhng Stck, about a Week afrer he was ler our, dyed. 4thly, Eliz.~bcth Fletcher, at Oxfor.d, a yo.ung Woman of account in the World, as to Btnh, for [peaking ro rhe Schollars of J-ohn'~ Colledge (under rhe Vice~Chancellorfhtp of J-oh1' Owen, abovefaid) was fo abufed (with Eliz .. Leven). by Pumping, dragging about, and throwmg a gam~ a Grave.fione which bruifed her fo, that 1he fptt Blood, and n~ver recovere.d ir rill. fhe dy~d. 5chly, Rjcf;ard s_ale, for dedanng agamfi the Wicl{ednefs of the Priefis and People of Chefler) was by the Mayor, P. ~eigh's Comma~d, put into, and prefi in a hole 111 a Rock, ca~l d Ltttle Eaf~ which fo bruifed and crutbed hts Bo~y, that' Blood gufhed out of his Nofe, of whtch he foon after dyed. . ' 6thly, Rebecca Barns, in Lancafhire, gomg from a Meeting with Eliz.. Holmr, _wh~ fpoke a few words ro Prie fi Ell if on, he fer lus Wtfe upon them? by whom and ' rhe Prieft's Parry with Hedgftakes, 1h; was fo beaten and bruifed about ?e~ Breaft, &c. thar fhe prefenrly fell fick, and wtth-ii1 feven Days afcer dyed.. . ·· 7rhly, Richard Hebfon,_ unpnfoned for fpeak .. ing to a Prie!t, was, wtth others, cruelly bea£ and abufed by the Gaoler at Appleby, and foon ;1fter dyed. I . · ·8thly, ·Ge8. Humble, fqr fiandmg by {orne ?f his' Neighbours, whom Geo .. Lilburn h~d fer. m the Stocksfo_· [peaking to a J.lneft, and te~rovmg the faid Lilburn (dr the fame, was by hun fent ro Prifon ·ar D"rbam~ where·, after 9 or 'o Monrhs curance, he dyed. ' ' · ·· .. ? rhly~ ( 147 ) 9thly, Temperance Hignel of Briflol, for fpeakrng to 1acob Brint, Priefr, was {lruck down by his Hearers, imprifoned, and foon after dyed. Iothly, 1ane Ingram, for going ro vifi[ Friends rhar were imprifoned, and lay on Srraw in Doom{· Jale in Lancefton, was by ]ohn Champion call inro Exon.Prifon, and there kept on Straw alfo, £ill fhe 'dyed. And many others, by cruel and hard See a I_mprifonmems, for not paying Tithes ro Hire- Uroadfick ling Priefis, and refufing ro Swear, in Obedience T_o tbe Par· to Chrifr's Command dyed in Ptifon through lrament 6f . ' ' t he Com- hard ufage, as Rzchaul Asbu.tner, an old Man, ar mon- Lancajler; ThomM Broombr, a poor l\1an, at Lin~ Wealth of coln; Robert Jacob, about eighty Year old, in Nor- ~ng land, wich; EduJard Roberts, ar Northampton; J-ohn CaJon, m { ~j. , at Ipfivich; William Se~feant, at Jlchefler, and near ~~~. ~tUJi: Twenty more, by one Abufe or other, and there .. fore it was unlikely that thofe who were acting fuch things, and abundance more at home , iliould any way go co inrerceed for fuch as were under Sufferings Abroad ; bur now ir was ~orne ro their own turn, in fome meafur~, tho' nm comparable to what others fuffered from rhern; they could thew their dilfarisfaction w it ; and how much it tended w frrengthen their Adverfaries at home againfr rhemfelves, as well it might; well, I hope they will all rake Warning, and be wifer for rime w come, and that is all the harm I wilh them, or ufe I would make of it. P. 29. Having to (lop the great Noife that (he ~er:: fays) ha1 been made in the Worltl ahout the Per- lUOU fecution in New-England, tranfcribed the lvords ut- againfi tered in the Sermon to the firfl Great and General-- 'n.fe. Ajfembly of the Province-after the two Colonies of tUff..oU'o fhe Maffechufets and Plimourh were-united ;. of -which 'hefe are fome; 'When a Man Sins jn - ' his |