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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

friends from giving them any thing being fearful to wrong a tender Conscience but the time of the year being so cold that his wife and friends was in fear that he should have perished there besides the necessity of his being at home which thing lay v●ry sad upon her so that she with his Friends ●●ok a pair of Oxen and a Horse al●hough he had no more and gave them to the persecuters to free him on t of their hands Much more of their cruelty I might truly relate but for being tedious to the Reader this is truth as attests T. H. More of their names we see in wisdome not meet to publish in Print because of the crueltie of the Dutch but rather keep them hid But if any in Authority in England should call us to question for it who out of bowels of mercy would labour to relieve their imbond aged brethren I the Relator with several others who are Witnesses of this thing to be truth shall count it a sma●l matter to confirm it for their redemption who were Labourers amongst them in the Lord Called Robert Hodgshone Humphrey Norton THE ACCOUNT OF Cruelty the Professor's Pride and the Articles of their Faith WITH Their Proceedings beginning in the sixth month of the yeer 1657. AFter our landing at Road-Iland according to the will of God where we were gladly received when others inhumanely thrust us avvay from them as may be seen in vvhat here follovvs We tvvo Christopher Holder and Iohn Copeland vvas moved of the Lord to go to an Iland called Martins Vineyard vvhereof Thomas Maho vvas then Governor in vvhich place is many Indians and coming there on the sixteenth of the sixth moneth 1657 vve vvent to their Meeting and after the Priest Thomas Maho the Governor's son had done his speech one of us spake a fevv vvords and then vvas both of us by he Constable thrust out of doores and forthvvith the doors vvere shut yet going thither on the later part of that day after some dispute with them we departed but on the morrow the Governour with the Constable came to us who after some words with us required us to be gone off the Illand our answer was in the will of God we stood to go as he made our way for us but he being not satisfied with this Answer hired an Indian to have us away saying that it was the will of God that we should go to day and required mon●y of us to pay the Indian for carrying us but we seeing little of our going that day did say that we could not pay the Indian forasmuch as we did not hire him nor set him on work then he commanded the Constable to search for our money who accordingly did and took from us nine shillings which vvhen they had so done delivered us into the hands of the Indians to have us away over the water in the main Land in one of their Cannons vvhich is a piece of a tree ●ewed hollow vvho forthwith had us away from them where we remained among the Indians three days till there was a calm season to have us over the Sea vvhich vvas about nine miles a great Sea for such a small Vessel all vvhich time vve received no small love from the Indians the like we could not receive from the ENGLISH for what we eat we could not perswade him whom we were withall to take money for it he saying that vve vvas strangers and Jehovah taught him to love strangers So on the 20 of the sixt moneth 1657. vve vvere landed on the other side and coming to Sandwitch a tovvn in Plymouth Colony vve vvere gladly received by many yet great vvas the stir and noise of the tumultuous Citie yea all in an uproar hearing that vve vvho vvere called by such a name as Quakers vvas come into those parts A great fire vvas kindled the hearts of many did burn within them so that in the heat thereof some said one thing and some another but the most Part knew not what was the matter yea so it is in truth our God went before us whose presence was and is vvith us compassing of us vvhose dread took hold of them so that their hearts failed them for fear of those things which vvas coming upon them So after vve had been at San●witch some small time vve passed to New Plymouth and being at the Ordinary there Thomas Southworth one of their Magistrates of that Town with several of their Church-members came to us who after a long dispute required us to be gone and on the morrow early was the under Marshal set to keep us from going away into whose hands we were committed Prisoners by Thomas Southworth before whom with one John Alden a Magistrate in the next Town was we called the same day who after examination from whence we were and why we came thither and such like questions which were answered and they having nothing in justice against us yet required they of us to be gone out of their Colony telling us they had an Order or Law that we should not stay there we required to see it but they would not shew it us telling us that we were at liberty so we returned unto the Ordinary again yet in the morning early was the Constable sent by word of mouth from them to keep us from going to Sandwich unto which place we told them the day before we could not ●e free to pass out of the Colo●y till we had been there finding the Lords drawings so thither again as we were passing the Constable seized on us and had us out of the bounds of Plimouth Town towards Road Island six miles as he was commanded who leaving us we soon turned to the place before mentioned whither we came some of the people being set against us especially the Teachers made an unrighteous complaint to the Governour Thomas Prince by Name whose ear being open to the wicked but stopt to the cry of the just as may hereafter appear by adding iniquity to oppression did cause us to be brought before him who sinding nothing against us yet for being only called Quakers did require us to depart the which thing standing in the will of God we could not do and so did answer him then he to answer the unrighteous complaints made against us and false charges as deceivers c. whose great cry was Help O Governour help us against these Quakers that are now come amongst us and secure them and send them away from us in answering to which cry he was not sparing to use his power by setting his hand to write an unjust Warrant accompanied with lyes calling us extravagant persons and vagabonds giving charge to apprehend us in the Name of his Highness the Lord Protector whose name they labour to defame as upon due consideration will be found and plainly seen by what follows and bring us to Plymouth which accordingly was done and we apprehended and kept Prisoners by the Constables Deputie who

they themselves made manifest gave order that none should visit us which if these actions of their be to do as they would be done unto and so fulfil the royal Law let the wise in heart judge Again after a friv●lous examination once and again the greatest part thereof being touching the Trinity unto which we answered according to the Scriptures That the Father Son and Spirit we own but a Trinity the Scripture speaks not of and so the Father who then was with us preserved us by his power as in the hollow of his hand so that they could not touch us before whom the hearts of the people failed for fear yea greatly was these Hypocrites surprized the Magistrates and Priests being bent together against us one of which was John Norton by name their chief Priest going about to prove the Scriptures to be the rule and guide of life brought Rom. 106 7 8. but stayed not there but turned to the 2 Pet. 1. 19. and being asked by us what that light was there spoken of which shined in a dark place he said i● was the eternal VVord And being asked what the dark place was William Brend having his hand on his breast he said he thought it was under his hand who said to him Then thou means the heart he answered Yea We asked whether the Eternal word was not a sufficient guide He said Yea And being asked whether it was his rule and guide he said it was when he was guided aright Then said some of the Magistrates what difference is there between us and you if we ●old the same thing then the Governor cryed out he could not say so and John Norton would have denyed what he had said but some of the Magistrates affirmed he did say so then was there a division among themselves some affirming and some contradicting so they sent us to prison and the day following called us forth again in publike asking us questions to which we had answered the day before in private which they had written down and we called to them to have our answers read but they refused so to do Upon which we refused to answer seeing they lay in wait to insnare We asked them what Law wee had broken for which we had been imprisoned The Governor said he would have us to take heed we broke none of their Ecclesiastical Laws for it we did we were sure to stretch by a halter mark Reader what savour there is in their expressions So they proceeded to sentence us to banishment which they grounded upon fals● accusations ordering us to be sent to prison again there to bee kept without Bail or Mainprise untill such time as we be sent away to the place from whence we came in the ship that brought us for which end they sent for Robert Lock before them the Commander of that ship and did require of him to carry us back again upon his own charge and also to give in his bond to them to land us no where but in England which he refusing they forthwith cast him into prison where he lay four dayes and seeing he was likely to lose his voyage entred into reason and thereupon st●●ped to their unrighteous yoke and gave in bond so to do then was he set at liberty and we continued under their cruelty nigh eleven weeks having these following Orders executed upon us and was on the one and twentieth of the eighth month forced from prison a shipboard in a violent manner An Order to the Keeper of the Prison You are by vertue hereof to keep the Quakers formerly ●●mmitted to your custody as dangerous persons industrious to ●●●prove all their abilites to seduce the people of this Iurisdiction both by words and letters to the abominable tenent of the Quakers and to kéep them close prisoners not suffering them to speak or confer with any person not permitting them to have paper or ink The 18. of the 6 moneth 1656. Edward Rawson Secretary An Order to the Goalor for to search as oft as he sees meet the Boxes Chests and Things of the quakers formerly committed to your custody for pen ink and paper papers and books and take them from them This last being subscribed by Iohn Indicot Governor Richard Bellingham de Governor Dated the 27. of the 7 month 1656. Another to the Marshal-General Edward Michelson or his Deputy You are by vertue of an Order of the Generall Court sitting at Boston the twentieth of October 1656. required and hereby impowred forthwith to impress a sufficient Boat with sufficient and convenient help and take out of prison William Brend John Copeland Thomas Thi●ston and Christopher Holder Mary Prince Sarah Gibbens Mary Weatherhad and Dorothy Waugh and carry them and deliver them aboard Mr. Lock 's ship now at Nantaschit according to Order and hereof not to fail Dated at Boston the 10. of October 1656. By the Court Edward Rawson Secretary To the Marshal-General Edward Michelson or his Depury You are by vertue hereof required to levy on the goods and chattels of William Brend and John Copeland the value of 10. s. and deliver the same to William Salter Kéeper of the Common Prison in Boston in satisfaction of so much due to him for his fees by Order of Court in their commitment together with 2 s. for this Execution whereof you are not to fail Dated at Boston the 20 of October 1656. Edward Rawson Secretary There was four of these copies for every two one by which they took our bedding and sent us away without it and also a Bible the Goalor took although he said we denyed the Scriptures yea so great was his envy against us as that he took away our candles not suffering us to have light in the night-season because as he said we should not see to write to trouble the Magistrates and infect the people whose cruel dealing and inhumane carriage towards us was much more then what is here related it being too tedious to mention this being in short the truth of what then passed betwixt us and was acted upon us which we in patience did suffer committing our cause to him who judgeth righteously who is at hand to give unto every man according to his deeds the Truth of what is here related we whose names are here before mentioned are true witnesses of it which if those that have been herein most deeply engaged against God and us his Servants shall go about to gainsay in the day wherein the righteous judgments of God shall be made manifest upon all unrighteousness of men shall their mouths be stopt when they come to receive a due recompence of reward for all unrighteousness and inherit the wrath due unto them for resisting so great love of God whose love is large and long-suffering great of which I am a Witness glory to the Lord God for ever who of their blood is cleer if they perish I having by the power of God stood a witness agains● their wickedness by which

power I was called out from amongst them and sent unto them who am a Servant of Chris● and a Sufferer for the Seeds sake which suffers amongst them who shall wait in hope believing it shall be delivered and raised up to the glory of the Father John Copeland Also Reader Richard Smith who is before mentioned who came in the ship with us and they called our Proselite did they commit to prison who though he be an Inhabitant on Long-Iland in that land and have wife and children there although they did openly accuse us of uncleanness such is the vanity of their Religion having their tongues unbridled that to speak truth they have no delight plainly shewing that their Religion is a lye and the god of this world the Father of it in going m●n and women together running away from our Parents wives and children yet so great was their fear and their faith so weak that they would not let him go to his through the Countrey for fear of infecting the people with our poysonous Doctrine as they called it but kept him about three weeks in prison untill there was an opportunity to send him away by water In which time John Indicot Governor said he was deluded and therefore he would have him have some discourse with three or four godly Ministers to convince him of his Error so upon the first day of the week he asked the Goalor to go to their Meeting the which he did and having sate while the Priest had done he spake and said It was the saying of the Governor that I should have some discourse with some of the godly Ministers ●hat they might convict me of the error that he said I was i● saying that I was deluded and said to them all if there was any such as were godly that could convict him of any error that he held he was ready there to hear then the Governor said he did intend it should be in private Richard Smith answered and said it was his desire it should be in publike and being inraged at him they forthwith had him away to prison again who after they sent away by water as is before mentioned Yet here ended not their malice but as it is written The wicked shall wax worse and worse so they fulfilled it in proceeding to act further wick●dness upon an antient man whose gray hairs is honorable but instead of honoring the hoary head and rising up and giving place to him that is grave in yeers according to the Scriptures they profess they cast him into prison the same day that they forced the other away and to please their God Mammon whom they so duely served sined him several pounds as will appear by what here followes One Nicholas Upshall an old man an inhabitant of the town of Boston who had long waited for the consolation of Israel the appearance of which he could not finde among the profession of New-England though they cal themselvs by the name of of Christ having been a member among them for many yeers had endeavoured out of his zeal to build a little Babel by them called the Church at the new meeting-house in Boston but his first zeal not being according to true knowledge as the second appeared unto him That God was not worshipped in Temples made with hands godly indignation rising up in him against that Idol he would not have left one stone upon another before half forty yeers was expired for which the pillars upon which the pinacle is built whereupon Satan stands crying to Christ Cast thy self downe wee will not have thee to rule over us joyned together against him to cast him out of Covenant Court and Countrey and sentenced him to banishment as hereafter doth appear This ancient man was much refreshed at the coming of these fo●ementioned people finding in them that which he desired after and was much troubled at the cruel actings of the Magistrates and people of Boston towards them upon the same day the former were put forth of prison they put him in who having proclaimed a Law with the beating of a Drum against those people called quakers before the said Nicholas's door he beeing much troubled in spirit with it seeing their unrighteous dealing against the innocent did bare witness against their Law for which he was sent for the next morning unto the General Court where he spake to them to this purpose That the prosecution of that Law was the fore-runner of a Judgment upon the Countrey and therefore in the tenderness and love which he bore to the people and countrey did desire them to take heed what they did lest they were found fighters against God whose love they rejected and committed him to prison and fined him twenty pound and ordered him to banishment within the space of one moneth and that if hee should return he should be kept close prisoner untill he did acknowledge his fault in declaring against their Law which Law hereafter followeth yet after four dayes was released And again shewed their inhumanity to banish an ancient man of about sixty yeers from his wife and family in the time of winter although for many yeers had been very sickly of whom if the Lord had not been more tender then these unmerciful men hee might have perished and before the time was expired which they had appointed him for departing their Colony they sent for him to another Court to reckon with him for not coming to their Meeting for which according to their Law he was to pay five shillings for every first dayes missing so they reckoned three pound more that he was to pay upon this account by which it appears what it is they seek after who will so soon take occasion to get money the love of which Paul saith is the root of all evill which while some have coveted after have erred from the Faith which is truly fulfilled in New-England When the time was neer expired Nicholas went to Sandwitch in Plymouth-Patent intending there to winter amongst some that were more readier to entertain the persecuted then to persecute but the Governor thereof whose name was Bradford being an envious man hearing of his coming sent a Warrant that none should entertain him but his purpose not being effected he sent a second special Warrant to bring Nicholas to Plymouth it is worth observing An Indian Prince for so he appears by his speech hearing of their dealing with this ancient weak man called them Wicked men and said unto him Ne. tup which is to say Friend if thou wilt live with me J will make thee a good warm house this he spake in his own language preaching condemnation thereby to the English Christian teaching them an example of compassion towards the persecuted whom they of Boston had barbarously banished in the winter season which are such in those parts that several have perished in travelling betvvixt tovvn and tovvn yea vvhere they are not three miles distant yet vvould not this vile man

Messias who accordingly fell upon one of them with his cruel hands in his Synagogue stopping of his mouth with gloves and haling him by his hair and so thrust them out then an Officer took them and continued them Prisoners untill the next day then had he them to Boston prison it being the 21 of the seventh moneth 1657. and on the morrow the deputy Governour Richard Bellingham and the Secretary with the Elder and Deacon of that Town came to the Goalors house who sent for us apart and examined us apart thinking to entangle us in our words and find us in contradictions but we abiding in the truth which is but one spake one thing so that they had no advantage against us neither could take hold of any thing we had spoken but said our answers were delusive and that the Devil had taught us a deal of subtilty so we were put in prison again and some hours after we were called forth again and was had before the Governour John Indicot with the Deputy Governor and the rest of the Governors of the united Colonies as they call them and sevral other people who after a frivolous examination made a Warrant that we should be severely whipt with 30 stripes a peece which was cruelly done on the 23 of the seventh moneth 1657. with a threefold cord which if unfolded amounts to ninescore which being so cruel as it is said one woman seeing fell down as dead and kept close that none might discourse with us and three days the Goalor not suffering us to have any food nor yet water yet a prisoner upon compassion conveying some water once unto us was much threatned by the Goalor and all this for no transgression not so much as denying to work neither could we according to their wills so adding to this nine weeks cruel bonds without fire all the cold season turning us forth when so they had done this being the second Article of their faith sealed up to purpose Christopher Holder John C●peland Also one Cassandra Southick with her Husband a grave couple were apprehended by their Officer and brought unto Boston for the entertaining the two forementioned strangers her husband being a Member of their corrupt body which they call their Church they returned back again that he might receive the defilement thereof she being as a scape-goat from the scattered Tribes they continued her seven weeks in Prison fining her fortie shillings for owning a Paper which was given forth by the Spirit of truth in these its Messengers for which the Governor said they deserved death such was his cruelty although the thing held forth nothing but what shewed how their Priests and Rulers differed from the holy men of God of old yet if he had not been limited from the extent of his wickedness he had sentenced them unto death such a one is the third Article of their faith Also Ri●hard Dowdney an innocent man serving the Lord in the sincerity of his heart having a necessity laid upon him to go to Boston which in the simplicity of his heart he did having never been in that Town nor Country before in the way was apprehended it seems the wicked betrayed him by his speech and judged him to be a Disciple which he Peter-like could not deny so forthwith was carried after his Saviour before the Rulers they having not against him the least clause or pretence of transgression sentenced him to be severely whipt with thirty stripes which was done unmercifully with the cord of their Covenant threefold amounting to ninety giving charge also to keep him constantly to work and caused him to be searched for Papers and Books and took from him what they would mark how swift they are to shed innocent blood for all this wickedness was done to him in less then three hours after his coming to Town this was the entertainment of this poor pilgrim to the wounding of the hearts of many to hear and see a stranger and a blameless man so barbarously abused whom they continued above twenty days in bonds to add unto him more at large the cup of their Covenant which patiently he did bear and for which he lost not his reward which after further threatning him and the other four turned them forth thus confirming on them the fourth Article of their faith by reading unto them when they were before them another piece of their mischief vvhich they called an addition to the late Order which they wickedly made in the strength of their pride finding that their former was too weak to accomplish their design they put this string to strengthen their Covenant-cord Thus Reader thou mayest see how they go on adding iniquity to sin not at all considering that the rod of God is lifted up over them who will assuredly take vengeance for all these works therefore let all in whom there is any tenderness and bowels of love towards our Lord Jesus Christ deliver themselves from this untoward generation by turning with the whole heart unto the Lord that so they may be saved from the wrath which is to come upon all these things thus having set the righteous law behind their back and broken Covenant with the Lord in departing from him and wickedly rising up and setting themselves against him who once tendered them and while they were little and lo● in their own eyes and walked in his fear he preserved them and for his name and glories sake which then was in the eye of many of them did he rebuke their adversaries and gave them their hearts desire providing for them a hiding place while his indignation was poured out on his and their enemies who are become a desolation and their names an abhorring to all flesh at which work the righteous was glad and rejoyced in the God of their salvation their enemies themselves confessing to it that it was the Lords handy work yea that the Lord wrought this work for his people evidently appears so that it shall be said from this time it is the Lords work and marvellous to behold in our eyes yea and Nations shall confess to it giving glory unto his name thus hath the Lord tried them and proved them yet how soon turned they from him forgetting his loving kindness and his love wherewith be loved them while they were young and tender who growing in years their hearts were hardned their minds by degrees going into the earth was estranged from him whose presence thus departing they became enviers of them in whom he appeared and Cain-like began to smite with the fist their fellow servants at which the Lords soul was grieved yet patiently did the Lord wait for their return to him bearing thei● iniquities which were great not only in forsaking of his righteous law and holy Commandment vvhich saith Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self and the Lord thy God with all thy heart did go on in hatred against him and made Laws whereby to oppréss the stranger fatherless and widow