John Gough
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 106
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ... Turks Went free, he said to the master, "You have done like a fool, you might have had good gain for them." To the mate he said, "You should have brought the Turks to* me;'* the mate answering, "I thought it better for them to be in their own country;" at which the King and his company smiled and went away. These men made it appear that they not only approved the lesson of our Saviour, " Love your enemies, and do good to those that hate you," but they also put it into practice. CHAP. V. PERSECUTIONS IN NEW ENGLAND CONTINUED. THOUGH the government of New England was restrained from putting the Quakers to death and granted them liberty for a while, it lasted not long. The disposition of the magistrates was Jlill the same. In 1662, Mary Tomkins, Alice Ambrose, and Anne Caleman, came under a religious concern to. visit their friends about Piscataqua river. Th DEGREESy had not been long there, before Rayner, a priest of Dover, excited the magistrates to persecute them. He brought them befpre Walden, a deputy magistrate, who telling them of the law they had to punish them, Mary Tomkins answered, "So there was a law that Daniel should not pray to his God.'* He replied, "Yes, and Daniel sufsered, and so shall' you." Also when A. Ambrose said, '* Her name was written in the Lamb's book of Lise," he answered, "Nobody here knows that book, and for this you shall sufser." On this occasion the priest' K 3 supply supplying the place of a clerk, formed for him a warrant or order*. This order was executed t Dover, while the priest stood by and laughed; for which cruel levity Eliakim Wardel and William Fourbiih reproved him; when the magistrate caused them to be put in tlte stocks. They were then conveyed to Hampton, and then again whipped, and also at...