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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

appear in the presence of that people That Jesus was both the Author and Finisher of Faith and Rule and Guide of life which made a flut in the House Aftervvards the Governor proffered me in words their Oath of Fidelity the which I put upon him to prove by Scripture that ever he heard of such an Oath and so it was left And vvhereas they speak of divers persons residing amongst them not having taken the oath c. All those persons to the best of my knowledge who have been often amongst them is this forementioned Ralph Allin vvhose Father so far as I know dyed in that Township vvhere this his eldest Son vvith six Brethren and Sisters all or most of them have continued in the same Town and Collony above twenty years their Father and they being both of good report yet have they endeavoured to banish ruinate and undo him vvho hath at least eight nine or ten children and all this for rising up and cannot lye at the feet of their god Mammon Their fourth part also I shall leave to the consciences of the Rulers therein concerned to take notice how they labour to cast the innocent who are engrafted into Christ out of Court and Countrey finding Jesus such an Instrument of Justice and such an Enemy to Hell and the Powers therof the Devil doth what he can that he may not have the oversight of his proceedings therefore saith he being assembled in the first place Take notice of the Members c. Again their fift part also I commit to the same consideration what an ancient and wholesome pill it is bearing date neither from time nor place so that its rise is neither from beginning nor end and its intent is accordingly vvho will not suffer a forreigner to have a rest in their borders neither place in House Court nor Countrey vvithout the consent of such as in their Act is mentioned the whole World lying in Wickedness the Devil being god and guide therein the Rulers are bent that the ends thereof shall never be redeemed to become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ therefore do they establish such ancient Antidotes as this which they have digged out of the bottomless pit for which they are ashamed to bring their black proof These several persons again herein mentioned is this same Ralph Allin whom for several years they have envied and maliciously used having renewed this last year against him this Antidote thinking thereby to cover their malice and wickedness for which God will plague them if there be any more it is such as are one with him who cannot bow their knee to Baal You may also understand by their last clause that it is one with all the rest that no place nor peace nor comfort union nor society must the people of God have under their Government it being altogether against God Christ true Church and its order life power and spirit This Testimony have I sealed amongst them with my blood and God is my record at this day it is true therefore as the Wicked make void the Law of the Righteous even so doth the righteous make void the Law of the Wicked and reconciliation betwixt them there cannot be saith H. N. Again here follows the practice and exercise of this Law with the Parties and Causes which suffered under it if this Law had had so much as the shew of good things to come they had put an end to it before its beginning for before this they had left sacrifcing Goats and Calves and offered up two poor sheep in sacrifice upon their Altar-Stocks to wit William Brend and John Copeland as by what is written before you may understand The Sufferings of Humphrey Norton and John Rous at their June-Court 1658. I Humphrey Norton being in Road-Island certain dayes after my sufferings at New-Haven the Lord God did accompany me with this cry two dayes together or more Bonds abides thee Bonds abides thee and presented before me Plymouth Patent and their Court which according to his Will and in obedience to his Spirit I went with my beloved Brother John Rous into that Patent and seeing and hearing of the sufferings inflicted upon the people of God inhabiting there with the wrongs sufferings and abuses sustained by me and others of the servants of God I drew up these particulars following and sent them before me to the Governor and other of his Assistants the day before that so they might not be unacquainted with the matter which when I came there according to the Will of God as he had shewed me I was taken up in the street and cast into Bonds according to the malice of the Devil And when I came before them with my yokefellow John Rous they asked us upon what grounds we came into their Collony and would neither acknowledge nor deny the receiving of my grounds neither would they receive them from me and cause them to be read nor suffer me to read them but sent us back to prison without Mittimus as they call it Bill of Charge or Copy of their Law no Justice could we have from them no more then two sheep that is to be judged by a company of Wolves but we have learned to bear it with patience knowing that our fore-runner was so dealt with before us by the same generation and having pass●d their unjust Sentence on us according to their Wills they brought us to the Stocks where after prayer and saluting each other in publick the people gave reverence with astonishment the Executioner coming to put off our Clothes was bid to have patience and he should see that we could give our backs to the smiter which being done he laid upon us thirty eight stripes being told by the standers by After this was done saluting the life which appeared in the least measure in any we returned in the glory of true sufferers kept far from transgression but in truth for not departing out of their Colony when their Constable so called commanded us having the grounds here following to make good 1. I who am called and chosen of God to bear the Testimony of Jesus the Word of God against all unrighteousness and oppression in all sorts of people whatsoever having formerly been in this Colony and before your Court held at Plymouth and being cleared so far as I remember without the least clause of the transgression of any Law of God whatsoever laid to my Charge the which I charged upon you after my Tryal by vvay of false Imprisonment and required thereupon to know who might discharge the house vvhereunto I was confined the answer was made as I remember by John Alden Magistrate after asking me if I had Silver told me it should be left to my freedom whether I vvould do it or leave it unto them since which time and in my absence I am informed that I am recorded in your Court Book for being convicted of several Errors and at that time neither

known by the Name of Quakers who upon examination are found not onely to bee transgressors of the former Laws but do hold many very dangerous heretical and blasphemous Opinions and they also acknowledge that they came here purposely to propagate their said errors and heresies bringing with them and spreading here sundry Books wherein are contained many most corrupt heretical and blasphemous Doctrines contrary to the truth of the Gospel professed amongst us the Council therefore tendering the preservation of the Peace and Truth enjoyed and professed among the Churches of Christ in this Countrey do here by order First That all such corrupt books as shall be found upon search to be brought in and spread by the foresaid persons be forthwith burned and destroyed by the common executioner Secondly That the said Anne and Mary be kept in close prison and none admitted communication with them without leave from the Governor Deputy-Governor or any two Magistrates to prevent the spreading of their corrupt Opinions untill such time as they be delivered by Authority aboard some Vessel to be transporte● out of the Countrey Thirdly the said Simon Kempthorne is hereby injoyned spéedily and directly to ●ransport or cause to be transported the said persons from hence unto the Barbado's from whence they came he defraying all the charge of their imprisonment and for the effectual performance hereof hée is to give security to the Secretary in a Bond of a hundred Pounds sterling and on his refusal to give such security he is to be committed to prison till he do it By the Council Edward Rawson Secretary The Sufferers under this Law Reader Thou mayst understand That besides what I am to give thee an account of concerning their proceedings in these two last years to wit 57 and 58. That as a Preface to this their work they thus began in 56 there being two of the servants of God called Mary Fisher and Anna Austin moved from Barbadoes to the Town of Boston which when there arrived they having notice of it the deputy Governour Richard Bellingham sent to stop them from coming ashore until they saw their own time in sending their Marshal for them and to search for what Books they had which being done thou maist understand by their order that their common Executioner was appointed to destroy them O learned and malicious cruelty as if another man had not been sufficient to have burnt a few harmless Books who like their Masters can neither fight strike nor quarrel but the common Executioner must have the honour of it and they committed to close Prisor none to come at them to confer with them but whom they had a mind to suffer for the abusing or ensnaring of them as apparently doth appear by their reviling language in that which they call their Law as cursed Hereticks Adamites Blasphemers c. and accusing them for Witches whereupon they took upon them to appoint women to search them who also took men along with them which if they had denied or refused to have bound and constrained them but such was their innocency that they suffered all whatsoever they attempted to do unto them which inhumanely was in the manner following Stript them stark naked not missing head not feet searching betwixt their toes and amongst their hair t●wing and abusing their bodies more then modesty can mention in so much that Anne who was a married woman and had born 5 children said That she had not suffered so much in the birth of them all as she had done under their barbarous and cruel hands who also amongst other lyes and slanders reported that one of them before their search was a man in womans apparrel but lyes are licensed amongst them both by Priest and Ruler for in Court and Pulpit I have heard it without resraint or limit of theirs and after five weeks imprisonment or thereupon with these and the like abuses which are too tedious to mention they sent them away without the making manifest against them the transgression of any known Law in the least as thou mayest perceive by their Order but what is against us all crying out as with one consent Away with this people and give us a troop of Robbers Hosea 6. 9. to wit Priests About two daies after these two were had out of prison to be shipt away for Barbadoes from whence they came we eight to wit Christopher Holder Thomas Thriston William Brend John Copeland Mary Prince Sarah Gibbens Mary Weatherhead Dorothy Waugh who when according to the will of God we were come to an anchor in Boston in New England being made sensible of the cryes and groans of his seed which cryed unto him for help and deliverance from under the cruel bondage it served and the captivity it was held in by the cruel Lords which bear rule ouer it the Ministers and Magistrates so called but rather bloody Masters and oppressors for so they are in truth which cryes and groans having entred into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbaths whose compassion is great towards his seed and whose love is large to satisfie those who desire after the knowledge of his ways i● sincerity for the deliverance of which seed he is risen in great majesty and power the arm whereof is stretched forth doth evidently appear in raising up and gathering to himself his servants sons and daughters whom he hath made true witnesses of his Name according to the working of which mighty power which hath subdued all things to himself in us and hath made us obedient to the command of his Spirit and who brought us to the place of his appointment which when there we came Robert Lock Commander of the Ship would not suffer us to go ashore untill he had given in our names to the Governour which being done the Marshal with the Constable was sent aboard with a Warrant to search the Boxes Chests and Trunks of the Quakers for Erronious Books and hellish Pamphlets as they called them and take them from us Oh! what will become of you in that day when a dog dare not lift his tongue against the quakers the which they did taking away what they found having an Order to bring us eight with one Richard Smith whom they ●alled our Proselite before the Court then sitting at Boston which thing being done and we going in the strength of our God to bear witnes unto his name and truth before all sorts of people being called thereunto but by the Rulers thereof rejected and we the messengers thereof evilly intreated after so great a travel and so long a passage in stead of being entertained according to the Scriptures they profess which saith Be not forgetful to entertain strangers which thing these who witnessed the power of godliness and lived in it ever did but they having a form but deny and speak evill of the power thereof ●id heap false accusations upon us and send us to prison and that their wickedness might the more appear and

provided that he upon his first discovering them ●o be such do discover them to the Constable or his Deputy It is also enacted by the Conrt and the Authority thereof That if any Ranter or Quaker or any person commonly so called shall come into any Township within this Government and by any person or persons be known or suspected to be such a one the persons so knowing or suspecting him shall forthwith acquaint the Constable or his Deputy on pain of Presentment and so lyable to censure in Court who forthwith shall diligently endeavour to apprehend them and command them to depart out of the Township and this Government And in case any such person delay or refuse to depart then the said Constable or Deputy shall apprehend them or him and bring him or them before the Magistrate in their Township if there be any where there is none to the select men appointed by the Court for that purpose who shall cause him or them to be whipt by the Constable or his Deputy or pay five pounds and then conveyed out of the township and the same course to be taken with every of them as often as any of them transgress this Order in case of extremity for harbour or Food the Constable or his Deputy shall relieve them for their Money Provided they suffer not any person or persons to resort unto them whilest they are under their Custody And forasmuch as the Meeting of such persons whethe● strangers or others proveth to the destructiug of the Peace of this Government it is therefore enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That henceforth no such Méeting be assembled or kept by any person in any place within this Government under the penalty of 40. s. a time for every Speaker and 10. s. a time for every hearer and 40. s. a time for the owner of the place that permits them so to meet together and if they meet together at the Silent so called then every person so meeting together shall pay 10. s. a time and the owner of the place shall pay 40. s. a time Forasmuch as it was ordered at June-Court last that all such as were house-keepers or at their own dispose that were not fréemen and have not taken the Oath of Fidelity to this Government should take the said Oath by the time then prefixed or to be fixed to the Collonies use the sum of five pounds And whereas divers persons notwithstanding all patience and long forbearance refuse to take the said Oath and yet make their residence amongst us it is therefore enacted by the Court That every such person or persons shall every General Court be summoned to make their appearance thereat during the time of their abode in this Government and if any such p●rson or persons shall refuse to take the said Oath shall be fined the sum of 5. l. to the Collonies use Whereas the multitude of Free-men is but small and the Inhabitants of the Townships many more who have equal Votes with the Freemen in the choice of Deputies who being the Body of the Freemen representative together with the Magistrates have equal Votes for the enacting of Laws who by weakness prejudice or otherways it hath or may come to pass that very unfit or unworthy persons may be chosen that cannot answer the Courts Trust in such place It is therefore ordered That at such Coures as Magistrates and Deputies are to act in making Laws and being assembled the Court in the first place take notice of their Members and if they find any unfit for s●ch a Trust that they and the reason thereof be returned to the Town from whence they were sent that they may make choice of more able persons to send in the stead as the time will permit Whereas it hath been an ancient and wholesome Order bearing da●e c. That no person coming from of her parts be allowed an Inhabitant of the Iurisdiction but by the Approbation of the Governor or two of the Magistrates at the least and that many persons contrary to this Order of Court crept into some Towns●ips which are may be a great disturbance to our more peaceable proceedings Be it enacted That if any such person or persons shall be found that hath not doth not nor will not apply and approve themselves so as to procure the approbation of the Governor and two of the Assistants that such be enquired after and if any such person shall be found that either they depart the Government or else that the Court take some such cou●se therein as shall be thought meet It is enacted by the Court That henceforth no publike Meeting shall be set up but such as the Court shall approve of This Law is crusht and broken and instead of it they have made another new babble Reply Reader to answer the body of their Rabble I shall not but so much as I do answer it shall be according to truth if God permit Whereas they say That the Doctrines and Practices of the Quakers tends to the subversion of Christian Religion Church-Order peace of the Government as appears by the testimonies given in several depositions I answer Reader Judge thou with that of God in thee what fundamentals of Religion Church-order and Government theirs are seeing that against ours the gates of hell cannot prevail our Religion Church and Order being all setled and established upon the same without persecution bloodshed or false Oaths which they term Depositions And seeing that out of disdain they rank us with the Ranters whose lives leads to the same loathsomness as doth their own I shall onely turn the term upon their heads and leave it Again examine thy self if ever thou heard a company which called themselves a Court who by one consent appointed select men to see the innocent whipt which is no other then select Whippers I appeal to that of God in every man if ever they heard the like appointment made against dogs or any other creature which is far below man Their second part of this I commit to the consideration of Richard Cromwel and his Council whether this Law of theirs or his Instrument of Government must have the preheminence and whether it stands not upon him either to ovvn or disovvn such Laws so bound up with such forfeitures as they say is done in his Name which if his Name vvere Christs Co●t he could not nor vvould not suffer it to be so rent In their 3. part vvhere they speak of such as have not taken their Oath of Fidelity as they call it I remember when I vvas before them they put it upon me to ansvver Whether the Scriptures vvere uot the Rule of Life and ground of Faith My ansvver vvas Nay neither can you prove it by the Scriptures to be either the Rule of life or ground of faith The Governor brought that Scripture They are able to make wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus from whence it was made