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A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

and ruinating our estates knowing themselves guilty made no reply at all onely this afterwards the General Court had determined that they six should be sent home not as Quakers Mark Reader what confusion is in Babylon that fix who had suffered imprisonment and whippings all of them for the self-same thing two of them also having laid several Months in prison upon the account of loss of ears yet they had neither shift nor cover more then this to cover their shame and nakedness That they should be sent home not as quakers yet imagined another lifeless Law which if they transgressed therewithall to threaten them reading it unto them and turning them forth to wit Banishment upon pain of death made at Boston the 20. of October 1658. Again Samuel Shottock an Inhahitant of Salem in the Jurisdiction of Boston the 26. of the 10 Month 1658. writes thus to Humph●●y Norton Salem Friends are well and the spoyler is making a prey of us they have seized upon half of my House and the ground belonging to it in a secret way for they did it a month before I heard of it and hearing of it I asked the Marshal if it were so he told me it was done whilst I was in Boston to wit in prison and told me that there had been men with him to buy it and he might forthwith get men to prize it and set it on sale This know that Banishment and threatnings to Banishment hath been the least of their Rulers expressions against him and several others of them that fears God in that place for several Months upon which some both aged and decayed hath been put to flight to wit Edward Hornet and his Wife and others and this Samuel Shattock they judging him to be one of the most considerable there and one by probability which will rather suffer Agrippa to gripe up his Estate if twice double then once to deny his Lord for dust as you may perceive by his own expressions to wit But I rejoice that I have something to suffer loss of for the truths sake And as concerning this matter this is my thoughts that seeing he will neither flye nor fall under they will put a Viper under his roof one which shall arise from amongst their own sticks which if possible shall sting him day and night to see if thereby they can weary out the righteous soul but I question not but in time with patience he may shake it off into the fire and shew himself a man of God there being his and their subsistance outward livelyhood which the Lord hath appointed for them both for living and continuing until their Testimony be finished from whence they cannot flye uutil he calls them but bring themselves under condemnation Therefore saith the Author again I perceive by the Marshal that he hath express order forthwith to strain and take the Fines which I believe by that which I saw in his hands will amount to 100. l. and upwards upon us at Salem So with my dear love to all friends with thee I remain Thus you may understand that their cruelty is stil continued for this came to my hands in Barbados in the 12. Month following 1658. Humph. Norton At a General Court held at Boston the 20. of May 1658. That Quakers and such accursed hereticks arising among our selves may be dealt withall according to their deserts and that their pe●tilent errors and practices may be speedily prevented it is hereby ordered as an addition tot he former Laws against Quakèrs That every such person or persons prose●sing any of their perni●ious wayes by speaking writing or by meeting on the Lords day or at any other time to strengthen themselves or seduce others to their diabolical Doctrines and shall after due means of Conviction incur the penalty ensuing that is every person so meeting shall pay to the Countrey for every time 10. s. and every one speaking in such a Meeting shall pay 5. l. a pée●re and in case any such person hath béen punished by scourging or whippping the first time according to the former Laws shall be still kept at work in the house of Correction till they put in Security with two sufficient men that they shall not any more vent these hateful errors nor use their sinful practises or else shall depart this Iurisdiction at their own charges and if any of them return again the ●each such person shall i●●●r the penalty of the Laws formerly made for strangers by the Court. Edward Rawson Secretary These are are the Lyars wo be unto them that makes these Laws and binds the burden of them upon the back of the poor and they themselves will not touch them with one of their fingers Of what herein is mentioned concerning the sufferings of the Servants of God moved of the Lord to New-England in the year 1657. this is the Summe THree of which innocent persons to wit Richard Dowdney Mary Weather head and Mary Clark after their other sufferings sealed their testimonies with their lives by suffering shipwrack in the seas Richard Dowdney once imprisoned once whipt and once banished in Boston Mary Weatherhead once imprisoned amongst the Dutch from whence banished and once from among the English at New-Haven Mary Clark once imprisoned once whipt and once banished in Boston Sarah Gibbins twice imprisoned once her Clothes sold once whipt and three times banished Dorothy Waugh three times imprisoned three times banished once her Clothes sold and once whipt William Brend four times imprisoned four times banished twice whipt once laid in Irons besides 117. Blows the Keeper of Boston Gaol laid upon him whereby he vvas left as one dead William Leddra and Thomas Harris two Barbados Friends five times whipt three times imprisoned three times banished John Copeland seven times imprisoned seven times banished three times whipt and one of his Ears cut Christopher Holder five times imprisoned five time banished twice whipt and one of his ears cut John Rous son to Lievtenant Coll Rous living in Barbados four times imprisoned four times banished thrice whipt and one of his Ears cut Robert Hodshon imprisoned at the Duth cast into a Dungeon fined 600. Gilders several dayes chained to a Wheel-barrow beaten with a pitcht Rope until he fell down twice as one dead being judged to have received an hundred blows besides twice tyed up by the hands and a log tyed to his feet twice beaten with Rods until his flesh was cut back●brests and arms bleeding his stripes were innumerable and lamentable and so banished by the Duth Humphrey Norton four times imprisoned four times banished twenty days and nights laid in Irons four times whipt once fined 10. l. and once burnt in the hand and in malice took his right hand to hinder him from Writing Here is part of the Account of Cruelty the most part of which vve have suffered and sustained in less then tvvelve Months space besides all our Labours Travels Burdens Tryals and Perils by Land and Water

House of Correction You are by vertue hereof required to take into your custody the bodies of Christopher Holder and John Copeland and them safely keep close to work with prisone●s dyet onely till their ears be cut off and not suffer them to converse with any while they are in your custody Edward Rawson Secretary Then he asked us again to work and said as you are ratioall men I would wish you not put your bodies to so much suffering saying he had an order to have us whipt twice a week if we would not work and shewed us the order that was made for the other friends whereby four of them ten ws whipt contrary to their Law but we gave them no answer at that time then he said he would give us time to consider of it till noon so some hours after he came to us againe and asked us as before then we answered that we were shut up and were not at liberty to work then he pulled us and shut us up where the work was where he kept us till evening and then had us into the common Goale and in the morning had us down again where the work was and said he would keep us there till our backs was slasht so he set us bread and pottage by the work but we had no freedome to meddle with either So at evening we were had in the common-goal again where we were shut up in a close room in which place we remained eight dayes they not knowing of any thing that we eat then the Goalors wife came to us and said If you will have milk you may have it bought for you and if we would have beer wee might buy it of her so from that time the other friends which were in the house of Correction were suffered to put into us at a window what we wanted Sometime after Christopher Holder and John Copeland was put into prison I John Rous was commanded of the Lord to go to Boston also and as way was made according to the Will of God I prepared to go thitherwards and on the 25. of the 6 moneth 1658. in the evening I came to Boston and after I had got the horse I rode on set up in a stable at an Inne I went into the house and after some stay there I being not desirous to be a snare to any man I declared who I was to the man of the house who fetcht the Marshal and he had me to the Governors house and when I was brought before the Governor he came towards me in a lofty manner and said Put off thy hat I answered I cannot so my hat at his commandment was taken off Then the Governor asked me Why I came to this Town I said To visit my friends in prison and if I may have liberty if they want any thing to minister to their necessities he answered in derision That is a charitable Deed Why did not Humphrey Norton come I replied Thou had best ask him the next time thou seest him He asked me Whether I had any Letters To vvhich I vvas silent so he bid the Marshall search mee vvho did according to his command and the Governor took severall Papers out of my Letter-Case and kept them and after some questions about the Bodie of Christ to vvhich I ansvvered him according to the Scriptures and after telling mee That this is no nevv thing that we held and said If he had time he would shew me out of Books which he had in his house That severall Hereticks before us held the same opinion To which I answered little knowing that the Spirit of God is pure from all Heresie whatsoever men who are blind may say of it Then he bid the Marshal have me to prison the which was done without Warrant or Mittimus that I did see or hear of On the seven of the seventh moneth we three was sent for from the prison before the Court of Assistants held at Boston who when we came commanded our hats to be taken off the which being done after some time of silence the Goalor asked us one by one Whether wee knew the Law against quakers Then we answered We knew their Law Then he asked Why we came thither We answered The Lord God whose Law is just and equal required it of us to come and in obedience to him we came Then one called Major Denison asked us Whether every man is not Master of his own house We answered The Lord God is Master of Heaven and Earth and he can send whither he will and whom he will Then the Governor said Were you not here before sent away now are come again To which Richard Bellingham added In contempt of Authority We answered Amos must prophesie at Bethel although he be forbidden Then Major Denison said If a man should forewarn another man from coming into his house and should stand with a pike or sword at his door and yet for all this the other should attempt to come in and should be slain Would not this mans blood be upon his own head Answer If the Lord sent a man to such a mans house to forewarn him or any in his house to repent of the Judgement that was to come if that man was slain he was innocent in the sight of God and had cleared his conscience twards the man and his blood would be upon his head that slew him Then some words passed between us wherein the Governor was called by his name then Major Denison spake to this effect that it was not fit for us to call him by his name for he hath another name by which he is known The Governor of Massathusets Bay Reply Thou mightst have shewed more wisdome for his name is John Indicot and mens names is given them to be called by Then they spake something of our not putting off our hats and brought several places of Scripture whereby they pleaded for respect to their persons We answered He that respects persons commits sin Then one of them said That is in Judgment Reply Are ye not in Judgment Why then do you plead for it Wee further said If you be Magistrates of God speake in the Majesty of God The Governor answered We do I hope Reply Nay for thou dost often laugh The Governor asked Whether Laughter is not lawful Ans Not such laughter as thou useft The Governor asked What is the honor you would have given to men Ans Love is the honor which is due unto all men And further said How can you believe which seek honor one of another If you were believers you would not seek it Then Major Denison spake to this purpose That it might be ignorant people might wonder that they kept so much ado about the putting off the hat and seeking honour to their persons but therein lies the ground of contempt of Authority we put them to prove that ever any Magistrats that are spoken of in Scripture required any to put off their Hats then

REader there are some faults which are escaped in the printing which do much darken the fense the which thou may do well with thy Pen to mend according to the Errata Pag. 1. lin 30. read and obtained Pag. 16. l. 16. for selves r. self pag. 18. l. 33. for the r. that pag. 19. l. 1. r. Work and thou pag. 22. l. 14. for i● r. into l. 15. for Cannons r. Can●es pag. 39. l. 5. for expect r. expected pag. 47. l. 27. blot out one and pag. 52. l. 5. for you r. thee l. 6. r. between me pag. 54. l. 12 for against it r. against them l. 21. for they r. this pag. 67. l. 6. r. hat on pag. 68. l. 25. r. that I had pag. 72. l. 32. for thee r. that pag. 92. l. 1. for set r sent pag. 100. l. 34. for we saw r. he saw pag. 101. l. 11. r. Poyson of Asps pag 105. l. 26. for Duth r. Dutch l. 33. for Duth r. Dutch pag. 107. l. 26. r. the least pag. 113. 24. for you r. thou pag. 120. l. 3. r. t●ok not upon him NEW-ENGLAND'S ENSIGNE It being THE ACCOUNT OF Cruelty the Professors Pride and the Articles of their Faith Signified in Characters written in blood wickedly begun barbarously continued and inhumanly finished so far as they have gone by the present power of darkness possest in the Priests and Rulers in New-England with the Dutch also inhabiting the same Land In a bloody and cruel birth which the Husband to the Whore of Babylon hath brought forth by ravishing and torturing the seed of the Virgin of Israel Happy are they who are blest out of the hands of Hypocrites by whom my Saviour suffered As it is said in David Behold and see our hands our sides and our ears if we be not the people Christ Iesus suffers in This being an Account of the Sufferings sustained by us in New-England with the Dutch the most part of it in these two last yeers 1657 1658. With a Letter to Iohn Indicot and Iohn Norton Governor and chief Priest of Boston and another to the town of Boston Also the several late Conditions of a friend upon Road-Iland before in and after distraction With some Quaeries unto all sorts of people who want that which we have c. VVritten at Sea by us whom the VVicked in scorn calls Quakers in the second month of the Yeer 1659. This being a Confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his Book titled The Popish Inquisition newly erected in New-England c. London Printed by T. L. for G. Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1659. New-England's Ensigne c. Reader IF thou wouldst be informed of the present and true estate how thing is and hath been concerning Religion in New-England peruse these following lines which what is therein mentioned is the real truth of what it hath afforded in less then these two last yeers and judge thou with that of God in thy conscience if their shame hath not far out-run their fame for a bloodier Character I believe thou hast not read nor heard in these late dayes a people pretending wholly to hold up the most refined Church that hath so largely committed sacriledge as these have done for since my Father fetch 't me out of the lowest hell and led me through the graves of sin and death wherein I saw lying all the Professors under the Sun yet amongst them all I have not met with such a cup of cruelty as there with my fellowes I drunk from the hands of our Countrey-men the cruel English Jewes who professeth Christ in the letter but crucifieth him in the life where ever he appeareth Greater hypocrites are not under the Sun then they are in word and in shew they appear beautiful unto men but in covetousness and deceitful dealing secret lust and dissimulation they flow Penitency nor Mercy Justice nor Righteousness in reality is not in the least amongst them if I speak any other then I have seen and heard and my hands have handled amongst them then should I be like unto them if I speak as from revenge and malice against that people I were to be blamed but in reality to forewarn all to beware of hypocrites of which sort in all Nations they are the head If thou canst have patience to peruse my words with the least degree of savour or taste of the Saints travels sustained through true experience obtained through obedience to the light of the Lord Jesus Christ hearken and I shall speak I was in darkness yea gross darkness covered me and Satan as King over all the earth ruled over me and I knew it not until the terrors of God fell upon me for sin and then out of the belly of hell cryed I so grievous was my complaint and so dolefull was my cry that I was vomited forth as one not worthy to have place in all the earth my bones did waste and my flesh was as the slime for Pharoah's house ready to be converted into every crawling creature as the plague changed so did the boyl and the form of the creature was accordingly This is the word of Truth he that can receive it let him In this distress I heard a cry in the coasts of Goshen of light that was broken forth and that there was a measure of it given to every man to profit withall but so dark was I and so grossly bl●nde what this Light was I knew not nor amongst all Professors Priests nor others I had never heard it spoken of nor preached for salvation to the ends of the earth Then called I to question all that ever I had either read or heard to the last tittle of my Belief wherein I said that he descended into hell and read that he was given for a light into the world although the whole world lay in wickedness and the Devil the god thereof according to the Scriptures and I had sought heaven long yet knew I not in the least measure that which first discovers hell yet from amongst the wickedest of men was I crauled and loathed the basest of abominations and desires great to live justly and to inioy God no mans groanes greater which set me to inquire after this new light which was so called amongst the wicked and what effect it wrought amongst such as did believe in it I heard that it did convince of sin and being believed in obeyed and followed led out of all manner of uncleanness Then said I in my heart if so it should not want following for I was weary of my sin and my transgressions was before me continually yea I loathed my life unto death when I saw Christ so low descended and compassed about with such a caule of corruption it brought me as low as he yea even to dye with him And believing in this Light I shall tell thee Reader of a Truth what further effect it wrought in me without in the least giving

we met with at Hartf●rd it being the will of God that his seed should be sought out in all parts we were moved to go to Hartford in the Jurisdiction of ●anitticote for that purpose and after some passages at the Town which will not be needful to relate we being at the Ordinary were sent for by the Governour to come to his house and we went where were assembled the Governour a moderate man and some of the Magistrates so called and their Priest called Samuel Stone after some questions asked us by the Governour as from whence we came and whether we were going of which we gave him an account as the Lord gave us freedom Samuel Stone asked us What God is we said a Spirit then with his Logick he did thus cavil a Spirit is an Angel and an Angel is a creature God is not a creature therefore God is not a Spirit the which we did deny it being both contrary to Scripture and truth but by it he shewed how learned he was that had learned more of Logick then of God for had he known God he dared not thus to have spoken After some more words he said further That God is the Author of all wisdom and all arts the which we denied and put him to prove it and in stead of proving it he went to raise another Argument nothing to the purpose but we kept him to what he said and put him to prove it by Scripture but he would not nor could not then we said There is a wisdome which is earthly sensual and devilish and God is not the Author of that wisdome and God will destroy the wisdome of the wise and bring to nought the understanding of the prudent and we said God would not destroy the wisdome which he is the author of so this learned man vvas much pusled not being able to make good what he had said in the face of many of his hearers that were then present then the Governour seeing him thus taken in his own net did help him saying That was not wisdome but folly but God is the Author of all true wisdome we answered if Samuel had said so at first we should have easily consented to it then Samuel Stone said the Apostle spoke there improperly but we affirmed that the Spirit of God always spoke properly After this he raised another lying Argument which was this None are saved without a promise you have no promise in the Scripture and therefore are not saved to which we replyed the Promise is I will give him for a Covenant a light that he may be my Salvation to the ends of the earth to as many as beleeve in him we beleeve in him and are in the ends of the earth and therefore are saved by him to which he objected nothing so after some words the day being spent one of their Magistrates read us their Law that we vvere not to stay in their Colonie Thus may all see how these four united Colonies as they are called have agreed to banish Christ out of their coasts by a Law O what a brotherhood is this that thus useth the friends of God and abuseth his servants sons and daughters by whipping burning and otherwise mangling their bodies but it is that the Scriptures might be fulfilled which saith They shall hale you before Rulers and Governours for my Names sake and as they have done unto me so will they do unto you saith Christ because they know not the Father nor me yet amongst all the Colonies found we not the like moderation as in this most of the Magistrates being more noble then those of the other Colonies after some dayes stay we departed from that Town towards Road-Island and by this thou mayest see what husks the Priests of New-England feeds their Flocks with Thus in short have I given thee an account of some of the Doctrines of one of the highest of the New-England Pharisees who is accounted the greatest disputant in all the Land as one of his Hearers told us but it hath so pleased the Father by babes to confound and stop the mouthes of such wise ones that he in all and over all may be glorified for ever John Rous. Reader I being one with the suffering seed was after some travels and sufferings as thou mayest understand in other remote parts moved to go to New-England and was brought to Road-Island according to the will or him who had moved me and after spending some few dayes there I was moved to go into other parts of the land where I met with the most loathsome hypocrisie and abominable deceit that ever I saw or heard of and that committed by those who pretend themselves to be no less then members of the Church of Christ but how disagreeable their practices are to the spirit of him whom they profess if thou art one who hast tasted of it thou wilt easily judge and I can truely say that under this pretence of theirs almost all manner of wickedness is covered pride gluttony envy deceitful dealings as vvitness many of their creditors the Merchants upon the Exchange in London and elsewhere who for it hath often cryed out against it bloodshed lust and what else might be mentioned and such hypocrisie have I seen amongst the highest members of their chiefest Churches that I have sometimes said within my self A man that hath a covetous and deceitful rotten heart lying lips which abound among them a smooth fawning flattering tongue and short hair and a deadly enmity against those that are called Quakers and others that oppose their wayes such a hypocrite is a fit man to be a member of any New England Church a plain demonstration of which thou maist see in their character of their Religion written in blood wherein all is not written that they have done and we have suffered by them but the chiefest heads are gathered together and presented to publike view that the simple may be informed and their cruelty and oppression laid open to the honest hearted and God glorified who hath counted us worthy to suffer for his names sake for whose sake we have been accounted as sheep for the slaughter and killed all the day long by the Butchers so that if thou should ask me who vvere the chief upholders of their Church and Religion I should answer their Goalor Hangman Governor and Deputy-Governor and not their Pastor and Teacher and Elder and Deacon for if they can well avoid it they care not for coming where we are unless it be when we are called before their Court to fasten some false accusation on us if they can the which-they have not spared and touching the matter aud manner of their vvorship it is most like the ridged Presbyters so called but a little differing from the late Bishops onely they use not their blind service and surp-cloaths but in stead of them have inventions of their own and in cruelty are nothing behind them for which God will take vengence on them

forgive you for you know not what you do a woman standing by said Surely if she had not the spirit of the Lord she could not do this thing Thus they continued them in prison about fourteen days not suffering any of their friends to come at them this and such as this puts a clear difference and demonstration betwixt their faith and ours each faith shewing forth its fruit the one through travels tryals patience and sufferings manifesting theirs before the faces of all people the other through wrath malice cruel mockings reviling language scourgings and imprisonments manifesting theirs and whether of these faiths stands in God seeing there is but one Lord and one faith unto salvation we leave it unto that of God in all people to judge this cruelty was acted on them about the eleventh of the third moneth 1658. A relation of the sufferings of Thomas Harris in Boston It came to pass that on the fifteen of the fourth month 1658. that I with tvvo other friends set forth from Road-Iland towards Boston jurisdiction and on the seventeenth day of the same I came to Boston and being moved to their meeting house there I came and stood quietly until the Priest had done speaking then I spake to the people these words The Dreadful terrible day of the Lord God of heaven and earth is coming upon the inhabitants of this Town and Country then was I pulled out by two men and soon a man came and put his hand upon my mouth that I should not speak and another took me by the hair of my head but when they let me go I spake to the people again that thty took heed how they joyn with oppressors and cruel men for the Lord God was risen and their coverings were found to narrow for their nakedness did appear unto all them that feared God then they carried me to prison after a while had me before the Governor where was the Deputy-Governor with several Magistrates and many people and coming in to the room where the Governor was he asked me if I knew before whom I was come I told him yea Iohn Indicot why do you not put off your hat Thomas Harris I do not keep it on in contempt of authority but in obedience to the Lord so one pulled off my hat then the Deputy Governor bid the Marshall bring a pair of shears to cut off my hair I told him it was against my desire if he did but he might do what he was permitted the governor asked from whence I came Th● Harris from Providence Iohn Indicot from whence there Tho. Harris from Road Island Iohn Indicot what were them that came with you Tho. Harris It is like I shall not tell thee Gover. I will make thee tell before thou dost go Govern The divel hath taught thee a deal of subtilty and said that we were all divellish blasphemous hereticks meaning them that were called quakers T. H. Take heed what thou speaks as thou will answer it in the dreadful day of the Lord God it is an easie matter to speak that we are blasphemers and such like in words but can you prove it or make it appear the Governor said you are all such T. H. it will not serve thy turn in the day of thy account to say we are all such Govern I matter not what thou speaks why didst thou come here T. H. In obedience to the Lord the Governor said in obedience to the Lord in obedience to the devil vvhy didst thou come here to trouble us T. H. To declare against pride and oppression men that use cruelty The Governor asked if he were such a one Answer yea the Governor said wherein do I use cruelty Answer in oppressing the innocent Dep. Govern He deserves to be hanged Again the Dep. Governor prest me to tell him what they were that came with me and said that there was murder committed that day and he did not know but we were the men therefore I should tell him what they were T. H. accuse me if thou canst vvith it but this vvas false for there vvas no such thing neither did they knovv from me at all vvhat they vvere many more questions vvas asked me but seeing their intent vvas to ensnare I vvas kept silent then sent they me to prison vvithout Warrant or Mittimus vvhere I vvas shut up in a close room not any suffered to come unto me neither could be suffered to buy food for my money the next morning the Gaolor came unto me to knovv if I vvould vvork so as to earn him one shilling and out of it to have four pence in such diet as he vvould give me then after a vvhile he called me dovvn to be vvhipt I asked vvhat lavv I had broken and read it unto me but he refused then pulling of my cloaths brought me to the post vvhere I received ten stripes vvith their thre● corded vvhip then he shut me up again vvhere he kept me eleven days not suffering me to buy any thing to eat meat he brought me but he vvould not receive money for it neither should I eat it except I vvould vvork as he said but at the end of five days I had food conveyed to me in at a vvindovv by a friend in the night season or otherways by probability I had been starved to death and in the five days a prisoner conveyed me in a little water for which they threatned him and yet the same day that I was whipt the Gaolor came to me and told me that I had suffered what the law required and if I would hire the Marshal to convey me out of their jurisdiction I might be gone when I would Answ If the doors be set open J know no other but J shall pass but to hire a guard that J cannot so on the sixt day before the sixt hour in the morning the Gaolor because I could not go to work at his will laid on me twenty two blows with a pitch rope notwithstanding he had told me that I had suffered what the law required before and on the ninteenth of the fifth moneth 1658 brought me again to the post with several brethren more where J received fifteen cruel stripes as hereafter you will further understand Againe William Brend and William Leddra who was the two which accompanied the before-mentioned Thomas Harris into Boston Pattent having drawings unto Salem where they were received and had several Meetings with other Service which they did for God in that Colony but consenting to the Simplicity in a plain man for his satisfaction yeelded to meet with their Minister so called Provis● that they might not be insnared knowing their Law which was granted unto them by way of promise which when the said Minister came brought a Magistrate with him who after conference togeeher to cover the condition upon which the Strangers met them they suffered them to pass away but before they were gone half a mile the Magistrate called Capt. Garish by

the latter far surmounting the former several times have they endeavoured to starve us to death by famine at the Town of Boston several times under restraint vvhich herein is not mentioned several of us lost in the Wilderness in the Winter-season several nights vvading deep Waters in frost snovv and cold vvhen none could be had to guide us because of the season one of vvhich S●rah Gibbins by Name lost tvvo nights in this nature being alone vvithout man or Woman to comfort her seized on by an Indian vvhich sorely attempted her but the Lord delivered her the English also endeavouring to stirr up the Indians against us all this have vve born and suffered through his strength and for his love vvho hath chosen us vvhereby vve have heaped Coles upon the heads of our Adversaries vvho hath thus entreated us vvho vvas sent unto them for their souls sake vvho hath caused us to say Oh how are the precious sons of Sion comparable to fine Gold esteemed as Earthen Pitchers the Clay of the Potter H. N. A Letter to John Indicot and John Norton Governor and chiefe Priest in Boston which yet is not answered FRiends I heard a great noise about a litttle Note I writ to Iohn Indicot after the Brethrens Ears were cut be it known unto you that it was onely unto such as sits in counsel to shed innocent blood with such as votes them up and upholds them therein who deserves the greatest curse of all Crimes as for all such into whose hands my Paper comes let them compare it with the Laws which they of Boston made against us as cursed Blasphemers and Hereticks and Adamites c. as if they made a Libel of their Law And consider how much ever any of you have seen or heard us troubled a● it and I having sent forth but one few lines wherein is laid upon them that which is but their due and see how the Beast roars as if he were wounded in his secret parts and cryed out unto all the Earth for ease and mind you Reader whether their Curses or ours is of more force and whether it 's they or we that lyes under the power of a plague and whether in all ages it was the innocent or the guilty who cried out Help O men of Israel help Humph. Norton John Indicot Cursed is that man which causeth any to be dismembered of the members that God hath formed made given them before he that made them doth remove them sad wil it go with thee if the loss of that member cost any one his life Remember that Scripture thou brought That he that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Think not O miserable man that thou canst cover or hide thy self by saying thou persecutest not nor thou sheds no mans blood for in the condition thou art none of these things can be done without thee or thy consent and at thy hand will all this blood and cruelty be required thou knowest that they are but Officers imployed by thee that executes it thou art the foreman in forging of them of this take warning from the Lord God that in the day wherein thou begins with that bloody Work of dismembering the cry of blood will enter into thy house and the curse of God will be more grievous to thy heart for so doing then all the Earth can add thee comfort As thou tenders pitty to thy poor soul take warning before-hand least thou have cause to repent when it is too late least of these thy actions and proceedings will be unto thee as a burdensome stone in the day of thy account Thou maist remember that thou asked me how thou should know that I was sent of God c. I say Many examples might be giveu thee if thou couldst believe As first The Scripture is fulfilled in hurling and pulling me out of your Affembly in such a manner as never any was out of the Church of God and haling me before the Magistrates and casting me into prison according to that Scripture mentioned by John Norton The Devil shall cast some of you into prison Doth not thou believe that he prophesied what would become of us And is it not now as it was then that he that lives after the flesh persecutes him that lives after the Spirit so that this is no new thing but if there be in him any manhood for God or love to the souls of his people let him come forth and give proof thereof in performing but this reasonable request and if he be a Herdsman either of Abraham or Lot and in his thoughts hath gone all this time to the right hand let him now turn to the left and take his Compass through Piymouth-Patten Road-Island Providence Long-Island and else where they have believed and received our report whom you account and call deluders and I shall freely engage my body for his unto this Patten that he shall not be imprisoned whipped nor dismembred by any of them and the same time that he hath there with any one or more accompanying him let me have the like Liberty in this Town and Collony with my yokefellow and let the fruit shew the effect who is the deceiver the false Prophet the Earthly Epicure or the Worldly belly-god if this he deny let him be ashamed and never more owned by you his hearers to be a Minister of the Spirit of truth Let me have his or thy Answer on his behalf directed unto me who is a friend to thy soul called Hump. Norton but by the scorners a quaker Let him subscribe the Answer and let not these deluded Flocks as you account them be lost for want of his labour Again thou maist remember thou charged me with Blasphe● my against John Norton Whereunto I say Had he been a Minister of Christ and I had hit him on the one che●k or under the fifth rib he should have turn'd unto me the other also and let me have had both place and time with him and the people that he might the more have laid me open and not to have suffered one of his chief members as if it were his heart to have cast me into prison but this and such as this doth but the further make thee and him manifest Dated from Boston prison this 16. of the 5. Month 1658. Another LETTER to the Town of Boston BOSTON is a withered Branch the sap of the Vine is departed from it your profession is become barren and your glory is become withered ye are departed from the Lord and have followed your own inventions How is thy beauty faded thou who was famous among the Nations for thy zeal towards God! But now thy zeal is turned to hypocrisie and envy hath eaten you out and malice is as a Canker among you and the way of peace you know not but are following that which makes desolate therefore return while you have time and let God be truly minded by you lest he break forth with