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 Ship whom with her they brought on shoar and took them into the Kings Coach and conducted them through many Guards after the Manner of Entertaining Ambassadors to the Inquisition House a fair Palace the said Anne Gargil and the English Jesuite sitting at the one end of the Coach and the Chief General and Admiral and Great Chamberlain at the other Being come to the Palace of the Inquisition through Three Gaurds as aforesaid there I shall find Twenty five Bishops as they were said to be sitting Twelve on the one side of the Table and Twelve on the other in a large Room with Three-corner'd Caps and One at the Upper End with Six and more richly arrayed than the rest and three Chairs set at the other End of the Table for the said Anne the Master of the Ship and the English Jesuite who being come into the Room I shall find the said Twenty five arising from their Seats and standing with their Caps in their hands till upon their beckning the said Three were sat down and then sitting down also and examining her of her Age Nation and Business and bidding her speak her mind freely in what she had to say for that whatsoever she said she should not receive any prejudice Which when she answered and had spoken freely what she had to say from the Lord and with boldness and they had took it in writing I shall find them reading to her what they had written from her Mouth and the Paper which she had before given into the hand of an English Merchant as aforesaid which from him they had received in which she had declared against them and their Idolatry and called them Babylon and Antichrist And having demanded whether she owned the things there written and read unto her and she owning them very boldly I shall find them causing Her and the Master of the Ship and the Jesuite to withdraw which they doing and being called in again I shall find them tendring to her a Paper to sign to this effect sc not to come on shoar again to that place or to Discourse with any of that Nation which she refusing or to promise any such thing I shall find them dismissing of her and the Master after they had been there the space of Two Hours and the said Great Officers of State taking them into the Coach again and Conducting them in it to the Rivers side and giving a Charge to a VVaterman to convey them to the Ship again and defraying the Charge To the Praise of the Discretion of the Inquisition and to your Confusion Being thus clear of these other Parts of the VVorld shall I cross the Main again to America and in an Untrodden Path by any English hitherto as hath been heard of seek out Death and make my Way five or six hundred Miles on foot from Virginia to New-England through Uncouth Passages Vast Wildernesses Uninhabited Countries for near Two hundred Miles together and there finish your Account There I shall find Thomas Thirstone aforesaid one of those whom ye so barbarously used and Josiah Cole of Winterburne near Bristol his Companion and Thomas Chapman of Virginia traversing the said Ground from Mary Land to the Susquehanoes the most Warlike of those Indians who also are reported to drink the blood and eat the flesh of their Enemies and receiving from them the most Courteous Entertainment not onely in Lodging and Provisions such as they had but some of them accompanying them even to the Dutch Plantation close by you in some hundred of Miles off which they met not with a Man or Tent And so tender were they over them as that they not only sought out Provisions and killed Deer as they could come at it for them but spared their own Provisions when they had none left for themselves to the said Thomas Thirstone when he was sick on the Way who was scarce one hour well during the Travel of Three or Four hundreds of Miles and sometimes very ill After which being come to another Nation of the Indians and Thomas Thirstone being sick amongst them many dayes and that near unto Death I shall find them very friendly to them all and taking what Care they could of him in all things and one of the Susquehano's whom the rest left behind them when he lay so long sick conducted them to the Dutch Plantation after Ten Weeks time from their first setting out and so came to You to bear their Testimony against a stiff-necked People as the Lord had said to the said Thomas when he lay so weak and desired Death viz. I who have brought thee hither by my Mighty Arm will carry Thee thorow to Witness for Me against a Stiff-necked People in New-England And some of the Susquehano's came to visit him when they heard he was in Prison afterwards in Virginia Thus finishing your Account which will be sore in the Day of the Lord which is even coming upon you who will Cut ye off and give you your Portion with Hypocrites and Sinners and such will be his Hand upon You and so manifest his Judgments because of what ye have done to his People That as to what he shall do therein Men shall glorifie God and say Righteous art Thou O Lord Just and true are thy Wayes O thou King of Saints Who would not fear and tremble before Thee because Thy Judgments are made manifest And so after a long Descent and Travel in the Deep and an abiding there After a diligent Inquisition through all Religions Calvinists Lutherans Papists so called Protestants Jews Mahometants After a Narrow Search among Nations Kindreds Tongues and People Swedes Danes Germans Dutch French Italians Jewes Turks Portuguez Indians Whereunto to liken Ye unto what to compare you from whence to fetch your Judgment and from what Nation to condemn You After a long course from the South-west towards the North-west fromwards the North-west to the East and from the East back to the South-west again Of what I have found this is the Sum That when they were but few in number yea very few and strangers in those Lands when they went from one Kingdom to another People He suffered No Man to do them harm Yea he reproved Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine Anointed and Do my Prophets no harm And of their Entertainment what hath been said is the Sum But as for Ye ye Men of New-England ye Rulers of Boston of Plimouth Patent of New-Haven Ye Shame of Men Ye Refuse of Mankind Higher than the Highest in Profession Lower than the Lowest in Power far beneath the worst of Men whom the Lord hath tryed in this his Day by his Messengers Ye Serpents Ye Generation of Vipers what have Ye done to the Innocent and with what Despight to those whom He hath sent to gather You and to turn You unto God But to proceed What are the Opinions and Practices of these People which ye call Pernicious and of which ye
Prohibiting all Masters of ships to bring in of your Brethren among you who were not prohibited your selves and themselves from coming in on such a Penalty Which leads me to the next Particular viz. The Sufferings by this your Law And accordingly say you a Law was made and Published Answ This Law is put as the Port or Entrance into this Scene of Blood and Cruel Sufferings and the very Publication of it Enters it and shews the Spirit by which it was made and the Ground on which it went and poor Nicholas Upshall a VVeakly Old Man of your Town of Boston bore the Brunt of it For he hearing it proclaimed and being grieved at the heart for your sakes and the Countries that such a thing should be done which he looked upon as a sad fore-runner of some heavy Judgement gave his Dissent Which ye took so ill at his hands that though he was a Member of your Church and of good Repute among you for a man of a sober and unblamable Conversation and though in much tenderness and love he spake to you the next day when ye had him before you desiring you to take heed lest ye should be found fighters against God and some sudden Judgement follow it on the Land which was the Counsel which wise Gamaliel gave the chief Priests and Pharisees and which they received at his hands and it would have been your Wisdom so to have done Yet you fined him twenty pounds which ye Enacted I 'le not bate him one groat said your cruel Governour John Endicot and three pounds more by another Court for not coming to your Meetings and this after he was Imprisoned and into Prison ye cast him and banish him ye did out of your Jurisdiction allowing him but One Moneths space of which the time of his Imprisonment was part for his Remove neither regarding his old years who had scarce a Tooth in his head to eat his meat and bread and cheese and other Sustenance was scraped into a spoon when he received it nor the weakness of his Body nor the state of his aged Wife and Children which were amongst ye nor the season of the year it being in the beginning of Winter which with you is very cold and he might have perished therein as some have done in passing but from Town to Town though but of Three Miles distance but Out he must go and when he was departed into Plimmouth Patent Jurisdiction which was the next adjacent the Governour thereof One Bradford since dead to help on the matter hearing of his coming for after your Pipe danced that Plantation as will appear by and by in the Cruelties that Ensue which they inflicted on the Innocent issued forth a Warrant that none of Sandwitch whereunto he was come should Entertain the poor Man which not Availing for their hearts were more tender then to cast him Out such an Aged Man in time of VVinter he sent for him to Plimmouth by a special Warrant which was Twenty Miles distant but he not being able to go and writing to him that if he perished his Blood would be required at his hands through the Moderation of some of the then Magistrates he was permitted to stay till the Spring but then was he banished thence who there had done nothing but came into their Jurisdiction for a little shelter in the VVinter Season to Rhoad Island and this so earnestly prest in the early time of the year that he was like to have been cast away in his going thither A Piece of Cruelty able to soften a heart of Flint and Draw it into teares at the sence thereof and which drew such Compassion from a Sagamore or Indian Prince That he told the Old man if he would live with him he would make him a warm house calling him Friend and further he said VVhat a God have the English who deals so with one another about the VVorship of their God Or words to that purpose But from you it drew no Relentings but the spirit of Iniquity having got over you it hardned ye the more by how much the more you were Exercised therein yea upon this very Old Man as in its place I shall shew and by and by make manifest Even the Sea-Monsters draw forth their Breast and give suck to their Young but the Daughter of my People is become Cruel like the Ostrich in the VVilderness Thus Entred as I have said this Scene of Blood and what follows answers unto it For the Eight aforesaid viz. Christopher Holder Thomas Thirstone John Copeland VVilliam Brend Mary Prince Dorothy VVaugh Sarah Gibbens and Mary VVeatherhead who were Committed before this Law was made and kept close Prifoners for the space of about Eleven Weeks the very Day that Nicholas was cast into Prison as aforesaid were they by vertue of this Law conveyed on board a Ship the Ship they came in and sent for England and Nicholas came into their Room Which Prison ye have supplied with the bodies of the Saints and Servants of Jesus for the most part ever since scarce One taken Out but some One or other put into his Rome of which in its Place But how came Nicholas Upshall to be concerned in a Law for Strangers who was an Inhabitant In a Law for Quakers so called who was a Member of your Church In a Law for Masters of Ships who shall bring into your Jurisdiction any People that are called such and for any such People who themselves shall come into your Jurisdiction when as he is neither Master of a Ship nor brought in any such nor came in but is an Inhabitant a Freeman of Boston How comes he to Suffer and to have inflicted upon him a Punishment above the Penalty of the Law How came those Eight to be sent away the Day after the Publication of a Law and by Vertue thereof who were imprisoned before the Law was made These things would be Enquired into and how Repugnant they are to the Lawes of England Declaration Notwithstanding which by a Back door they found Entrance and the Penaltie inflicted on themselves proving insufficient to restrain their Impudent and insolent obtrusions was increased by the losse of the Eares of those who offended the second time Which also being too weak a defence against their Impetuous Frantick Fury necessitated us to endeavour our security and upon serious Consideration after the former Experiments by their incessant Assaults a Law was made That such Persons should be banished upon pain of Death according to the Example of England in their Provision against fesuites Which sentence being regularly pronounced at the last Court of Assistants against the Parties above-named and they either returning or continuing presumptuously in this Jurisdiction after the time limited were Apprehended and owning themselves to be the Persons banished were sentenced by the Court to Death according to the Law aforesaid which hath been Executed upon two of them Answer As the former was the Entrance
into so this is the Scene of this Bloody Tragedy the most Inhumane and cruel that Ever Age knew or preceding Generation Declara Notwithstanding which by a Back Door they found Enterance Answ And Why a Back-Door Was not the way by which they came as much before ye as the Sea from England Is Sixty Miles distance by Land from Rhoad Island the Place from whence they came become further then England One would think that Properly and indeed the Land it is that is before you which ye came to Inhabite and that the Sea it is that is behind you from whence ye came How come ye then to say a Back-door By a Back-door they found Entrance Is it because you mistin your Understandings and so have put the fore for the back and the back for the fore Surely then ye were not wise in your Generation to bind the Sea and leave the Land at Liberty Is it because ye had journeyed far enough from Old Enland the House of Bondage so accounted into New a Land of Liberty and now were returning from the Land of Liberty to the House of Bondage Surely then ye are in a bad state to become Persecutors your selves who fled Persecution Or is it because Rhoad Island is the Place into which ye banish't those that differed from you in Matters of Religion who your selves were not banish't who differed in Religion and so having turned your Backs on their Oppression would not hear their Cry as did Joseph's Brethren when they sold him into Egypt Then Just is the Lord to bring your Condemnation from the Place of those whom ye Opprest Declar. Notwithstanding which say ye by a Back Door they found Entrance Answ And Why not Are ye Lord's Propriators of the Creation May not the Lord of Heaven and Earth send His Messengers among ye without your leave May not an English man come into an English Jurisdiction What Insolency is this and high Obtrusion on the Creator of Heaven and Earth who gave you your beings upon the Nation from whence ye came and in which ye first drew your breath and the Right of Nature from which ye are derived and from whence ye spring Declar. They found Entrance Answ And Why should they not seeing the Lord of all is He that sent them Declar. Notwithstanding Which Answ Notwithstanding What Why the Law prohibiting all Masters of Shipps from bringing in any and themselves from coming in Coming in From whence Why From or by Sea for as for the Land that Door was not Shut the Back-Door as ye call it but the Fore was Notwithstanding which viz. the Law aforesaid say ye by a Back-Door they found Entrance Then how come they to be concerned in a Law which was not fitted for them It was for them that came in at the fore door by Sea and Ship-Masters that brought them who were Prohibited from bringing in any such and themselves from so coming in I say how come they to be concerned in a Law which was not for them and you to inflict upon them the Penalty of a Law which concerned them not might they not come in at the back door it being open when the fore door was shut yea a Greater For so say ye And the Penalty inslicted on themselves proving insufficient to restrain their Impudent and Insolent Obtrusions was encreased by the loss of the Eares of those that offended the second time Answ Insufficient indeed and well might it be and too weak a defence as ye afterward spake of cutting off Ears and therefore proceed from Banishment to Death against Him who made the Earth and the Sea and all that therein is Who giveth unto Man Life and Breath and Moving Whose time being come for the sounding of His Everlasting Gospel to those who sate in Darkness and Region of the shaddow of Death in your Jurisdiction he armed his Messengers against the force of Death and the strength of Darkness with his Eternal Spirit and enabled them to endure what the strength of the One and the Gates of the Other could inflict upon them Whom ye have killed and put to Death whipt and scourged burnt in the hand and cut off their ears and so they bear in their Bodies the marks of the Lord Jesus and the dying of Jesus is made manifest in their mortal flesh that they might not trust in themselves but in him that raised up Jesus from the dead And a Crown of Life they shall receive who loved not their lives unto the death for the sake of Jesus Christ Lastly Insufficient against what Against a few innocent Lambs among Wolves a few simple People Men and Women who came to you not with Swords or with spears but in the Name of the Lord whom the Lord God of Life sent to you through Desarts and Wildernesses and Necessities and Straits and Hunger and Thirst and Cold and Heat and Perils by Sea and Perils by Land and Temptations and Distresses to turn ye unto God Whom ye have Imprisoned and Whipt and burnt and cut off their ears and put to Death That all the righteous Blood shed upon the earth from the blood of Righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias who was slain between the Temple and the Altar may come upon you and verily it shall come on this Generation And the time is at hand yea near to be revealed wherein the Righteous God will render unto you according to your Deeds yea according to your Deeds will he recompence you Fury to his Adversaries Recompence to his Enemies yea to his Adversaries will he repay Recompence And the Lord God will Thunder out of Heaven upon you and the whole Earth shall be filled with his Glory when he shall have thrown ye down from your Seats and Exalted the Humble and Meek Even when he shall have turned to hear the Prayer of the Desolate and help him to Right that hath no Helper and the Poor from him who is too strong for him and the Needy amongst men This shall be written for the Ages to come and the Children that are unborn shall praise the Lord And your Carkasses shall fall upon the Earth and ye shall leave your Name a Curse unto my Chosen saith the Lord. Declar. VVhich proving Insufficient Answ What proving Insufficient Why the Penalty inslicted so saith your Declaration sc And the Penalty inslicted proving Insufficient Answ VVhat was the Penalty and what did ye inflict O Ye shameless Men who make so slight of so heavy Punishments whose Cruel stroaks pierc'd the Air and whose Bloody Draughts the hearts and souls of those who saw it as they did the Bodies of them whose Flesh ye tore and whose Blood ye drew Yet this is insufficient the Penalty inslicted proving Insufficient Never Blood Enough to the spirit of Wickedness when once it lanches out and dips its foot in the Blood of the Innocent So it was and so it hath been with men in your state from