she had said He replied Yes Every word and further said That it was Truth and desired her to stay in that Countrey saying That they could not but respect such a One as should take so much pains to come to them so far as from England with a Message from the Lord and profered her a Guard to bring her unto Constantinople whither she intended which she accepting not trusting in the Arme of the Lord which had brought her thither to bring her back who had prospered her Work He told her It was dangerous Travelling especially for such a one as she and wondred that she had passed so safe so far as she had Saying It was in respect to her and kindness that he profered it and that he would not for any thing she should come to the loast hurt in his Dominions A Worthy Expression of so great a Prince They were also desirous of more words than she had freedom to speak and asked her What she thought of their Prophet Mahomet She Replied That she knew him not but the Christ the true Prophet the Son of God Who was the Light of the World and enlightneth every man that cometh into the World Him she knew And further concerning Mahomet she said That they might judge of him to be true or false according as the VVords and Prophesies he spake were either true or false Saying If the Word that the Prophet speaketh come to pass then shall ye know that the Lord hath sent that Prophet but if it come not to pass then shall ye know that the Lord never sent him To which they confessed and said It was Truth And so she departed through that Great Army to Constantinople without a Guard whitherto she came without the least hurt or Scoff to the Commendation and praise of the Discipline of that Army the glory of the great Turk and his great Renown and your Everlaging shame and Contempt Shall I yet draw near to Death and the gates of the Grave and steering my Course from Smyrna to Jerusalem There I shall find the Turks at Ramla taking George Robinson a tender Youth of London out of the hands of the Fryars who by their Party coming from Jerusalem having heard a Report of him there assaulted him in the Street as he was passing thorow it to Jerusalem unto which he was moved of the Lord There I shall also find a Man of Great Account among the Turks coming to the said George Robinson when he was at the place of Execution near to the Mosco or their Place of Worship or Temple to be burnt with Camels Dung as is their manner a most lingring death unto which he was sentenc'd for being in their Temple and not turning Turk it being a Custom among them That who-ever comes into their Temple and turneth not Turk must die and thither he was brought against his will on purpose to put him to Death and the Priests of Mahomet and much people were expecting when he would turn Turk and using many Arguments and fair Promises to that purpose supposing that for that End he came thither but he was brought thither for another which when the said Man in Reputation amongst the Turks understood and a division arose between the Fryars and the Turk concerning him which was of the Lord who stirred among them for his Deliverance and how they were in order to the bringing of him thither and how that it was not in his own voluntary will that thither he came but as he was compelled and carried he being quiet in the Will of the Lord and given up unto Him to dye I shall find that the said Chief Man among the Turks had him to his House and entertained him at his House for several dayes he being a sickly youth as I have said and impossible it was for him according to men ever to reach Jerusalem and said VVhether he would turn Turk or not he should not die And when the Fryars being disappointed of their End went to Gaza to the Bashaw there who was their friend with Many false Informations on purpose to incense him against the said young Man and whom they to incensed him that he sent for him swearing that he would kill him with his own hands I shall find the Town of Ramla making a Reprosentation to the Bashaw of the Truth of the Matter and of the many Injuries the said Fryars had offered to the young Man and some of themselves going with it and him which the Bashaw understanding and the Truth of the Matter I shall find him the said Bashaw sining the Fryars in One Hundred Dollars to be paid to the said Town for the Injuries done there and requiring the Fryars to carry him back from Gaza to Ramla and from thence to Jerusalem and back again upon the Fryars own charge to the Part from whence he came So to Jerusalem he was brought and before the Caddee or Turkish Governor and there I shall find him examined by the said Governor concerning divers things appertaining to Religion and his Coming thither and his Business And the Governor hearing his Answers with much Moderation and Gravity and also what he said did lye upon him from the Lord to that People and dismissing him though he was much instigated by the Fryars to the contrary and after two dayes having had much speech with the Fryars who rejected his Message and being clear in the sight of God of that place I shall find the Fryars constrained to return him on their own charge according to the Bashaw's Order as aforesaid And when he was returning through the said Town of Ramla I shall find the People of the Town following after and asking the Fryars whether he had been at Jerusalem Who though they said he had yet would they not believe them till they heard it out of his own Mouth for it was their intent if he had been brought thither to have staid him and constrained them to have carried him which they understanding from his own Mouth let him pass Thus rising up in Judgment to Condemn You. Shall I yet Cut thorow the Straits from one end to the other and pass it also to the Kingdom of Portugal and there Attempt the Popish Inquisition There I shall find Anne Gargil passing through Lisbone where she arrived from Plimmouth in England to the Palace of the King there looking for him and meeting there with an Irish Jesuite who told her the King was not at home I shall find her discoursing with him and other Jesuites and People about their Religion and Returning to the Ship where I shall find her writing a Paper and giving it to an English Merchant and the Inquisition commanding it out of his hands and sending for her from on board the Ship by the King 's chief General of his Forces by Land and High Admiral at Sea and his Great Chamberlain and Keeper of his Privy Seal with an English Jesuite and the King's Boat and the Master of
the Bastile in Prison was served daily with the same Provisions as was a Noble Man of theirs then in the same Prison at the Kings charge and afterwards set at Liberty At Morliax another of them being in Prison for reproving their Maskings which are tollerated by Law and his Life vehemenely sought after by the Bayliff of that Town for so doing I shall find the King upon Information thereof by the Engilsh Ambassador Lockart by means of a Merchant of that Town whom the Lord stirred up in the thing I say I shall find the King sending a Letter under his hand and seal to set him presently at Liberty taking notice in the said Letter that he was Imprisoned for so Reproving of Maskings tolerated by the Law and when the King was informed that he was not yet set at Liberty I shall find him sending another Letter to the Duke of Meillerai to see it effected and that upon it he was free he being as it were become but as the Shaddow of a Man thorough the hardship of his sufferings At Rochel I shall find the Judge of the Criminals working the Liberty of another after he had been examined by the Bishop and continued a pretty space of time against the Judge of the Civels and Discharging him though he both spake and wrote against the Popish Religion At Legorne in Tuscany John Perrot and his Companion John Love being had to the Inquisition otherwise called the Popes Holy-Office and examined there by three Friars I shall there find That upon John Perrots giving an Account of his Call and Service and of the Books that he had sent to the Governour One of which was to the Great Turk which he had wrote in that place and another to the Jews and of what they had further to say to them that they set them at Liberty and discovered to them a Plot that some English had to Murder them and bad them beware of their Country-men That the Governour of that City not only received willingly several Books and Papers which they sent him by an Ancient Merchant there One Origine who was very friendly but expressed much tender regard of their safety saying That he would not have them come to any hurt in that Land And making no question at their Gesture nor finding any dislike at their not being conformable to their Customs when they were brought before them And that the English Agent there Resident for England was very friendly to them and off-times became himself Interpreter in the Disputes between them and the Jews at whose Synagognes they were and there reasoned with them whom to their Chamber from the Synagogue some of the Jewes followed where they were some of them Convinced and some Confounded At Venice I shall also find several of them Discoursing and reasoning on the Exchanges and having much Entercourse and freedom in that City where none were Imprisoned and this with men of all sorts Jews and Papists and I shall find John Perrot speaking there with the Duke of Venice in his Palace and delivering to him several Papers and so departing with his Friend John Love from thence to Rome being sent from Smyrna by the English Ambassador as were divers others who would not suffer them to pass to Constantinople from thence whitherto they were moved of the Lord for fear of the Great Turk At Rome I shall find some of them viz. Samuel Fisher and John Stubbs to have been there for certain days and to be departed Others of them viz. John Perrot and John Love to be Imprisoned and one of them viz. John Love to be dead there and the other well entreated as a Prisoner of whose welfare we have lately by Letters under his own hand understood All which pass sentence upon you Shall I take upon me a long Journey from Rome to Constantinople from the Pope to the Turk and wade through the difficulties of such an Undertaking Shall I Traverse the Morea or that part of the Tarks Dominion which is called Grcece from Patra on the Sea shore towards Zaunt to Vestreetshaw and from thence to Corinth Eneca and Athens where Paul preached Shall I cross the Hellispont to Egrippa in the Island Negropoint and so to Sco and the other Isles to Smyrna in Asia and so back again to Venice Shall I return to Zaunt and the Morea again and Travel about 600. Miles from the Morea shoare to Adrianople and from thence to the Turkish Army Encamped near it and through the Army to the Grand Seignior himself and tell you of one Passage for all to Conclude ye for Ever Mary Fisher a Servant of the Lord a Maiden Friend being moved of the Lord to go and deliver his Word to the Great Turk who with his Army lay Encamp't near to Adrianople went thitherwards to Smyrna but being hindred in Her Passage that way by the English Ambassador who sent her back to Venice passed by Land from the Sea Coasts of the Morea to Adrianople aforesaid very Peaceably without any abuse or injury offered her in that long Journey of about five or six hundred miles Being come to Adrianople near unto which was the Great Turk and his Army she acquainted some of the Citizens with her Intent and desired some of them to go with her but when none of them durst to go fearing his Displeasure she passed alone and coming near the Camp procured a man to inform at the Great Viziers Tent or chief General of the Army that there was an English woman had something to declare from the Great God to the Great Turk Who soon sent her word that she should speak with him the next Morning So she returned to the City that night and the next morning came to the Camp and so to the Great Turk who being with his great Men about him as he uses to be when he receives Ambassadors sent for her in and she coming before him he asked her Whether it was so as he had heard sc That she had something to say to him from the Lord She answered him Yea Then he bad her speak on having Three Interpreters by him and when she stood silent a little waiting on the Lord when to speak he supposing that she might be fearful to utter her mind before them all asked her Whether she desired that any might go forth before she spake She answered Nay Then he bad her speak the Word of the Lord to them and not to fear for they had good hearts and could hear it and strictly charged her to speak the Word she had to say from the Lord neither more or less for they were willing to hear it be it what it would Which she speaking what the Lord had put into her mouth to say They all gave dilligent heed with much soberness and gravity till she had done and then He asking her Whether she had any more to say She asked of him Whether he understood what
ye would not hear it and so in effect forbad that which he bad him I shall set down the Contents thereof and of Stevenson's Call into your Parts for which ye put him to Death as a Perpetual Record to after Ages of that for which they Suffered and your shame Everlasting For it shall rise up in You a Worm that shall never Die and a Fire that shall never go out The mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Robinson's Paper to the Court before he was Sentenced to death concerning the Cause of their coming into those Parts for which they were put to Death which the Governor in a great Fury said should not be Read and that the Court would not hear it Which was in these Words ON the Eighth Day of the Eighth Moneth 1659. in the after part of the day in Travelling betwixt Newport in Rhoad Island and Daniel Gold's House with my dear Brother Christopher Holder The Word of the Lord came expresly to me which did fill me immediately with Life and Power and heavenly Love by which he constrained me and commanded me to pass to the Towne of Boston my Life to lay down in His Will for the Accomplishing of His Service that He had there to Perform at the day appointed To which Heavenly Voice I presently yeelded Obedience not questioning the Lord how he would bring the Thing to pass being I was a Child and Obedience was Demanded of me by the Lord who filled me with living Strength and Poner from his Heavenly Presence which at that time did mightily Overshaddow me and my Life at that time did say Amen to what the Lord required of me and had Commanded me to do and willingly was I given up from that time to this day the Will of the Lord to do and perform what ever became of my Body For the Lord had said unto me My Soul shall rest in everlasting Peace and my Life shall enter into Rest for being Obedient to the God of my Life I being a Child and durst not question the Lord in the least but rather willing to lay down my Life than to bring Dishonor to the Lord And as the Lord made me willing dealing gently and kindly with me as a tender Father by a Faithful Child whom he dearly Loves so the Lord did deal with me in Ministring his Life unto me which gave and gives me strength to Perform what the Lord required of me and still as I did and do stand in need he Ministred and Ministreth more Strength and Vertue and Heavenly Power and Wisdom whereby I was and am made Strong in God not fearing what man shall be suffered to do unto me Being filled with Heavenly Courage which is Meekness and Innocency for the Cause is the Lord's that we go in and the Battel is the Lord's and thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Mighty and the Terrible God Not by Strength nor by Might nor by Power of Man but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I will perform what my mouth hath spoken through my Servants whom I have chosen mine Elect in whom my soul delighteth Friends the God of my Life and the God of the whole Earth did Lay this thing upon me for which I now suffer Bonds near unto death He by his Almighty Power and Everlasting Love constrained me and laid this thing upon me and truly I could not deny the Lord much less Resist the Holy One of Israel Therefore all who are Ignorant of the Motion of the Lordin the Inward Parts be not hasty in Judging in this matter least ye speak evil of the things ye know not For of a Truth the Lord God of Heaven and Earth Commanded me by his Spirit and spake unto me by his Son whom he hath made Heir of all things and in his Life I live and in it I shall Depart this Earthly Tabernacle if unmerciful men be suffered to take it from me And herein I rejoyce that the Lord is with me the Ancient of dayes the Life of the Suffering Seed for which I am freely given up and singly do I stand in the will of God for to me to live is Christ and to die is Gain and truly I have a great desire and will to die herein knowing that the Lord is with me what ever Ignorant men shall be able to say against me for the witness of the Spirit I have received and the Presence of the Lord and his heavenly Life doth accompany me so that I can say in Truth and from an upright heart Blessed be the Lord God of my Life who hath counted me Worthy and called me hereunto to bear my Testimony against ungodly and unrighteous men who seek to take away the Life of the righteous without a Cause as the Rulers of Massachusets Bay do intend if the Lord stop them not from their Intent Oh hear ye Rulers and give ear and listen all ye that have any hand herein to put the Innocent to Death For in the Name and Fear and Dread of the Lord God I here Declare the Cause of my staying here among ye and continuing in the Jurisdiction after there was a Sentence of Banishment upon Death as ye said Pronounced against me without a Just Cause as ye all know that we that were Banished committed nothing worthy of Banishment nor of any Punishment much less Banishment upon Death And now ye Rulers Ye do intend to put me to Death and my Companion unto whom the Word of the Lord God came saying Go to Boston with thy Brother W. Robinson Unto which Command he was obedient who had said unto him he had a great Work for him to do Which thing is now seen and the Lord is now a doing of it and it is in Obedience to the Lord the God of the whole Earth that we continued amongst Ye and that we came to the Town of Boston again in Obedience to the Lord the Creator of Heaven and Earth in whose hand your Breath is And will ye put us to Death for Obeying the Lord the God of the whole Earth Well if ye do this Act and put us to Death Know this and be it known unto you all ye Rulers and People within this Jurisdiction That whosoever hath a hand herein will be Guilty of Innocent Blood And not onely upon your selves will ye bring Innocent Blood but upon the Town and the Inhabitants thereof and every where within your Jurisdiction that had the least hand therein Therefore be instructed ye Rulers of this Land and take Warning betimes and Learn Wisdom before it be hid from your Eyes Written in the Common Goal the 19th of the 8th Month 1659. in Boston By One who feareth the Lord who is by Ignorant People called a Quaker and unto such am I only known by the Name of William Robinson yet a new Name have I received which such know not Marmaduke Stevenson's Paper of his Call to the Work and Service of the Lord.
the more they drank of Blood the more the Desire of it did inflame them and so Humphrey Norton and John Rous aforesaid found it soon on whose Backs they laid viz. on Humphrey Nortons Three and Twenty Lashes and on John Rouses Fifteen which as it drew store of Blood so it took much with the Spectators who beheld them in the Stocks first praying then saluting each other and bidding the Executioner have patience a little when he came to take off their Cloaths and he should see they could give their Backs to the Smiter And this they received for no other thing but for Coming into that Colony in the Will of God upon the Grounds and Reasons expressed in a Paper unto the Magistrates which they gave to them when they were demanded wherefore they came in and which the Magistrates did neither receive nor would suffer to be read And so Envious were they that for taking John Rous by the hand they put Three of the Inhabitants of Sandwitch in the Stocks when he came from before them Neither were they satisfied But Christopher Holder and John Copeland being apprehended by the Marshal Barloe and Constable on the Twenty third of the Fourth Month 1658. as they were going to a Meeting at Sandwitch were Apprehended and because the Select men who were appointed at Plimmouth to see the Execution would not do it he had them to Barnstable where they being tyed to an Old Post had Thirty three cruel stripes laid upon them with a New tormenting VVhip with Three Cords and Knots at the Ends of them made by the Marshal and brought with him At the sight of which cruel and bloody Execution one of the Spectators for there were many that witnessed against it cryed out in the Grief and Anguish of her spirit the Execution so pressing her being a Woman said How long Lord how long shall it be ere Thou avenge the Blood of thine Elect and afterward bewailing her self and lamenting her loss said Did I forsake Father and Mother and all my dear Relations to come to New-England for this Did I ever think that New-England would come to this VVho would have thought it And this Thomas Hinckley saw done to whom the Marshal repaired for that purpose he being the man who brought in that Law of sining for not coming to their Publick Meetings which bears his Name and none but he was bloody enough for the Marshal's turn to see it done and which being done and he having glutted himself with the Blood of the Innocent the Marshal had them back to Sandwitch where he had kept them from the Twenty third to the Twenty ninth of the said Month in his own house before he brought them to Barnstable because none there would see them whipt and the Morrow after out of the Jurisdiction After this John Copeland and Josiah Coal being in a Friends house at Sandwitch were haled out by Violence and so imprisoned Thus as to VVhippings and Scourgings Now as to Fines and Confiscation of Estates and particularly of the Inhabitants of Sandwitch whose sufferings have been very great so that it is much that they subsist to this day or have any Bread for themselves and Families But it manifests the Eternal Arm of the Lord and that his Almighty Power it is that is underneath and bears them up and his Tender Compassion that they sink not And what sence the Country hath had of it even all of all sorts except the Bloody Persecutors themselves and such as are in their spirit I have shewn already in the Letter before rehearsed should I go further I should be too tedious The Lord hath seen it and He regards it and He will visit it Upwards of Nine Hundred Pounds we have had an Account of that they have suffered in this kind in that One poor Town besides others What since they have suffered we know not Yet they are alive and the Lord keeps them and they are fresh unto God and He bears them through and over All to the Astonishment of their Enemies who see that something is with them more than Man to bear them up yet they suffer Cruelty to go over them and go on therein and will know no shame but the Day is near wherein they shall see and be ashamed for their Envy to His People and their great Oppression who have Oppressed not only a Man and his House yea a Man and his Heritage but Men and their Houses Men and their Heritages yea as it were a Township of Men a Township of Heritages Therefore hath the Lord devised an Evil against You ye Rulers of Plimmouth Patent and Thou Governor Thomas Prince who saidst That in thy Conscience and what Conscience hast thou that speakest so wickedly of an Innocent People who fear the Lord They were such a People that deserved to be destroyed they their Wives and Children their Houses and Lands without Pitty or Mercy who are the People of the Lord and are innocent as to You and whom the Lord will own and hast acted in Order thereunto Thou and Thy Companions as Dan. Denison in Boston who would often say that those People and They could not well live together and that they were the stronger and that others must fend off and this in Open Court plainly intimating their Intent to root them up as the End of all their Cruelty and Blood I say to You all in the Word of the Lord whose Word He will fulfill and the Eyes of those who are living shall see it That against you even against You against the whole Family of You ye wicked and bloody Persecutors of the Innocent People of the Lord who are your Neighbours and Country-men who suffered with you because of Conscience and with you came into that Country for their Consciences whom Ye would destroy root out pluck up and against whom ye act all these Outrages and Violences for that purpose without Compassion or Mercy who your selves were not so dealt with but the Lord hath tried You and enabled poor People to bear what ye could do whilst He hath suffered Ye thus to do for your Tryals sake I say once more to ye all in the Name and Authority of the Eternal God who lives for Ever who is in me and with me whose Word is in my mouth and in my heart whose VVord it is and it shall not fail That against You hath the Lord Devised an Evil from which Ye shall not remove Your Necks neither shall Ye go haughtily but as Ye have done it shall be done unto You and in the Cup which You have filled unto Others it shall be filled to You again and the Lord will out ye off and give ye Your Portion with Hypocrites and Sinners And His People whom Ye have sought to root out and thus cruelly to kill shall dwell in the Land and great shall be the Encrease of His People and He will plant them and they shall
not be plucked up and He will build them and they shall not be pulled down and they shall long enjoy the Works of their Hands the Plant of His planting the Work of His Hands that He may be Glorified And a Blessing shall they be to the Nation and Men shall say of it Blessed be thou O Habitation of Justice O Mountain of Holiness And Nations shall flow unto Thee and Kings to the Glory of thy Rising and they shall call thee the Blessed of the Lord and thine Off-spring with thee And the Devourer shall no more enter into thy Land nor him that doth oppress but I will make thy Officers Peace and thine Exacters Righteousness saith the Lord. And as for Thee O thou Town of Sandwitch and my People in it who have suffered joyfully the spoyling of your Goods and endured as seeing Him who is Invisible and have manifested it by your not Returning again though you had many an Opportunity great and pressing that You seek another Country whose Builder and Maker is God Thus saith the Lord Thou art a pleasant smell to me and a cluster of Grapes that hang together on the stem in which is new Wine Thou shalt not be broken neither shalt thou be rooted up but men shall say of thee Destroy it not for there is a Blessing in it And I will delight in Thee to do Thee Good I will build Thee I will plant Thee I will rejoyce over Thee with Joy yea I will joy over Thee with shouting and mine Arm shall be made bare in the midst of Thee and I will recompence thy Sufferings saith the Lord and Thou shalt be a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the hand of thy God and thy Walls shall be before me night and day and I will watch over Thee for Good and will nourish Thee and great shall be the Encrease of thy Peace I will build Thee and Thou shalt be builded I will plant Thee and thou shalt be planted I will cause my Love to rest upon Thee and Thou shalt be Mine saith the LORD the Mighty God of Jacob. Now as to Them who suffered some of their Names are Robert Harper of whose was seized  l. s. d. 5th Month 1658. Two Oxen all that he had sit to work One Heifer and One Bull 14 00 00 12th Month 1658. Five Cows all the Cattel he had His House and Land 30 00 00  44 00 00 For not Swearing c. The Marshal when he went to take some of the Cattel passed by him and told him not what he was going about So they have all yet they turned him not out of Doors but left him One Cow which was so poor that she was ready to dye and this was all they left him for the Relief of himself and Family Ralph Allen the elder from whom they took  l. s. d. Two Kine and One Steer 12 00 00 One Mare and One Colt 20 00 00 One Horse with a Bridle Saddle 09 10 00 One Oxe and Two Kine 14 10 00 More Two Oxen 12 00 00  68 00 00 Having not Convicted him personally for he was absent yet took from him as aforesaid for not Swearing and Meetings and for 45 s. pretended to be in Arrears the Marshal marked One Ox and One Cow and when they came to drive away the Cattle took One Cow more unmarked giving no account wherefore they took her and the Marshal said to him that he never would Joseph Allen who was plundered of  l. s. d. Two Pair of Wheels 02 16 00 One Cloak being as good as New which cost him 02 16 00  05 12 00 So they take away their Coats and their Cloaks and their other Cloathing as by and by will be made more to appear when they have nothing else for their Obedience to the Lord. Thomas Greenfeild from whom they toook  l. s. d. One Cow 04 00 00 with all the Corn that was in his House and other Goods not known how much which they seized on after he was gone out of the Colony as they also Convicted him to take Shipping for England George Barloe the Cruel Marshal came and Thresh't out the Corn and made waste thereof and carried away the Goods for fifteen Pounds Fine for not Swearing and nine Pounds for Meetings and three Pounds for Resisting the said Marshal as they pretended whose Principle is otherwise and not assisting him who came into his House late in the night when he was in his Bed and three men with him and asked him for strangers or such as they call Quakers and required him to go with him the said Marshal to look after Quakers a most unnatural thing being his Friends and fellow Sufferers which he refusing to do as was right he used much Violence to him and halled him out of his Bed and then accused him for Resisting him or striking of him which those in bed with him affirm to be a false Accusation Nevertheless he to whom Violence was thus used was Accused of Violence who offered none and fined for it and for other things as aforesaid and the Goods found in the House and Corn after he was gone away thus taken though Two men Justified to the Marshal that it was neither his Corn nor Goods Edward Perry whom they Deprived of  l. s. d. Three Kine two Heifers 18 00 00 Six Hides five half Hogsheads of Tarr 09 10 00 A Hogshead of Feathers 01 10 00 Five Cowes and four Steers 39 10 00 A two years and the Vantage Steer and Heifer 06 00 00 His best Working Oxe 06 00 00 Two Firkins of Butter 02 18 00 A Box with Writings and Money in it 06 10 00  89 18 00 Which the Cruel Marshal took from him for Meeting together and refusing to Swear c. notwithstanding that when the Magistrates came to Sandwitch to Convict those that Met together to wait upon the Lord he was not at Home Nevertheless thus they dealt with him though not personally Convicted and left him but one Cow which the Marshal seized upon afterwards and so wickedly he proceeded with him that he would drive his Cattel from him and pass by him with them as if they were not his or that he were not concerned so much as to be taken notice of as to what he had done One Ox he drove away and told him not of it till about a week after see how the poor Innocent Lambs are put to it in their Patience And his Beef he would take away out of his Tubb about a Bushel at one time and make merry with it with his Companions Saying It was the Countries Beef And because he had killed a sat Cow ere the Marshal seized her he made a great adoe about it and as good a Cow was required of him that killed her and John Alden the Treasurer sent a Warrant to the Constable to apprehend the man
their Cattel and taking them away when the Owners were abroad and saying nothing to them when they pass by to take them And further he the said Winslow said Let them have the Strapado who never knew its like what really belonged to Souldier Yet such as these are the Cruel Executioners of the Innocent Michael Turner is the next from whom they took  l. s. d. Nine Ewes 13 10 00 And from John Newland One Beast worth 02 06 00 These are part of the Sufferings of the Innocent and of the Men of Sandwitch and of the People of Plimmouth Patent Jurisdiction which I have set down to the End that all may see what they have suffered and what are the Sufferings of the People of the Lord in that Colony I have not set down all nor is all come to my hands but by what I have done as to the Inhabitants of one Town and to some of them and that in a short space of time the rest may be judged and in what a Condition as to Men those Servants of the Lord and the rest are who and their Wives Children and Families lie under the Cruelty of such Oppressors both as to their Persons and Estates And how to be considered and tendred Though as to their Inward man they are free in the Lord and rejoyce that they have any thing to lose for the Lord and for the sake of His Truth who hath shewed unto them Mercy and raised them out of their Graves and given them Faith in God through the Resurrection of the Dead Whose is the Praise and the Glory and the Dominion for ever for this His visiting of His Inheritance and giving them to be able to suffer for his Name Now as I said these are not all that might be brought into this Account For Thomas Johnson had his House and Land seized on and the Marshal's daughter gathered the Fruits of his Orchard and when he demanded her Order she said her Father would bring it but he brought none and other words she said viz. That the Apples and House and Land was not theirs and when the Peaches were ripe she would come and gather them also A sore Provocation and enough to have put a Man on the Rack but he was preserved quiet in the Will of the Lord which to him was enough and gave him Content though he was a Cripple and his Orchard and Garden and the Fruits therein was that which he made use of for the maintenance of him and his Family It was the 25th of the Sixth Month 1659. that she came to gather the Fruits And Arthur Howland a man of near Seventy years of age who had waited for the Salvation of God living in a Town called Marsfield in that Patent and bearing Testimony against the Ministry of Man now that the Son is come They distrained his Iron Furniture belonging to his Draught which quite disinabled him from making use of the same and this for the Priest And because he delivered not up Robert Hedgshone a Servant of the Lord who so barbarously suffered in the Dutch Plantation as hereafter is to be exprest to the Constable who had no Warrant they sined him Five pounds and for that took away the 28th of the 3d Month 1658. a Steer and a Bull for that which he conceived himself bound in Conscience to do and the Instrument of O. P. then in force allowed to be done Yet this would not satisfie them but such was their Rage at the Old Man that to Prison they would have and to Prison they committed him in the depth of Winter which as to men was as much as his Life as was his coming thither though he Appealed to the Chief Magistrate in England for it was his Life they sought and his Life they would have had through such hardships as these if those hardships to him by reason of his Age would have done it I speak as to men had not his Brother and Friends who could not bear it entered into a Bond for him Thus as you neither regarding the Old man nor the Young neither the Hoary head nor him that leaneth on his staff by reason of Age. I might also speak of Henry Howland of Duxbury aforesaid who for having a Meeting of Friends in his House and not Swearing to make him a Jury-man was sined Thirty shillings which was levied upon him Further I might go and relate of those who bore Testimony to your Faces in your Courts against your Unjust Proceedings and oppressing of the Innocent whom ye imprisoned as Nicholas Davis who being by at the Court in the 4th Month 1659. when so many of the Friends of Truth were had before them and sentenc'd for their refusing to swear in obedience to the Lord and seeing how slight they made of the Marshal's Cruelty and his wicked and unjust usages of them as aforesaid and destroying their Cattel and vexing of them Spreading his Arms abroad spake in the Testimony and Zeal of the Lord That he was a Witness for the Lord against their Oppression and would have declared wherein but they suffered him not to speak and for speaking what he did committed him to Prison About which time also you imprisoned Will. Leddra and Peter Pearson and continued them Prisoners about Ten Months in Plimmouth But in these things as I have said I may not be too particular lest these few Sheets of Paper which are already thus many should be encreased into a Volumn There being so much and of such varieties to speak What I have said being sufficient to evince to any sober men and of reasonable understandings That never since the Earth was made and the Foundations thereof laid was there all things considered such Abominable VVickedness and Cruelty acted under the vizor of Religion And here I may not only be confined but to the next Plantation I must passe to wit That of New-haven and there account with you sor through your Encouragement it was as I have said and by your Instigation that these things have been done for what was done in that Colony Humphry Norton coming into Southhold in his way to the Dutch Plantation whither he was going to visit the Seed of the Lord was that Evening apprehended without being asked which way he travelled or whither and committed to the Marshal and conveyed by Water to New-haven and there cast into Prison and chained to a Post and kept night and day for the space of Twenty Dayes with great Weights of Iron in an Open Prison without Fire or Candle or any suffered to come to visit him in the bitter cold Winter being the 12th Month 1657. Enough reasonably to have starved him And on the 11th of the first Month 1658. was had before their Court and there was their Priest John Davenport to whom Humphry had sent some Queries And this Priest spake as he pleased before the People and that