5. Two beaten with #Pitched Ropes#, the blows amounting to #an hundred thirty nine#, by which one of them was brought near unto death, much of his body being beat #like unto a jelly#, and one of their own Doctors, a Member of their Church, who saw him, said, _It would be a Miracle if ever he recovered, he expecting the flesh should rot off the bones_; who afterwards was banished upon pain of death. There are many Witnesses of this there. 6. Also, an Innocent man, an Inhabitant of _Boston_, they #banished# from his Wife and Children, and put to seek a habitation in the Winter; and in case he returned again, he was to be kept Prisoner during his life: and for returning again, he was put in Prison, and hath been now a Prisoner above a year. 7. Twenty five #Banishments#, upon the penalties of being #whipt#, or having #their Ears cut#; or #branded in the Hand#, if they returned. 8. Fines laid upon the Inhabitants for meeting together, and edifying one another, as the Saints ever did; and for #refusing to swear#, it being contrary to Christ's Command, amounting to #about a Thousand pound#, besides what they have done since, that we have not heard of; many Families, in which there are many Children, are almost ruined, by these unmerciful proceedings. 9. Five kept _Fifteen dayes_ (in all) _without food_, and _Fifty eight_ dayes shut up close by the Jaylor, and had none that he knew of; and from some of them he stopt up the windows, hindring them from convenient air. 10. One laid #Neck and Heels# in Irons for _sixteen hours_. 11. One #very deeply burnt# in the right hand _with the letter_ H. after he had been whipt with above _Thirty stripes_. 12. One chained the most part of Twenty dayes to a Logg of wood in an open Prison in the Winter-time. 13. Five Appeals to _England_, denied at _Boston_. 14. Three #had their right Ears cut by the Hangman in the Prison#, the Door being barred, and not a Friend suffered to be present while it was doing, though some much desired it. 15. One of the Inhabitants of _Salem_, who since is banished upon pain of Death, _had one half of his House and Land seized on while he was in Prison_, a month before he knew of it. 16. At a General Court in _Boston_, they made an Order, #That those who had not wherewithal to answer the ffines that were laid upon them# (for their Consciences) #should be sold for Bond=men, and Bond=women to# Barbados, Virginia, #or any of the# English #Plantations#. 17. Eighteen of the people of God were at several times banished #upon pain of Death#, six of them were their own Inhabitants, two of which being very aged people, and well known among their Neighbours to be of honest Conversations, being Banished from their Houses and Families, and put upon Travelling and other hardships, soon ended their dayes; whose Death we can do no lesse than charge upon the Rulers of _Boston_, they being the occasion of it.