18. Also three of the Servants of the Lord #they put to Death#, all of them for obedience to the Truth, in the Testimony of it against the wicked Rulers and Laws at _Boston_. 19. And since they have banished four more, _upon pain of Death_; and twenty four of the Inhabitants of _Salem_ were presented, and more Fines called for, and their Goods seized on, to the value of Forty pounds, for meeting together in the fear of God, and some for _refusing to swear_. These things (O King) from time to time have we patiently suffered, and not for the trangression of any Just or Righteous Law, either pertaining to the Worship of God, or the Civil Government of _England_, but simply and barely for our Consciences to God, of which we can more at large give Thee (or whom thou mayest order) a full Account (if Thou wilt let us have admission to Thee, who are _Banished upon pain of Death_, and have had _our Ears cut_, who are, some of us, in _England_ attending upon Thee) both of the _Causes of our Sufferings_, and _the Manner_ of their disorderly and illegal Proceeding against us; who begun #with Immodesty#, went on in #Inhumanity# and #Cruelty#, and were not satisfied until #they had the Blood of three of the Martyrs of# JESUS: Revenge for all which we do not seek, but lay them before Thee, considering Thou hast been well acquainted with Sufferings, and so mayest the better consider them that suffer, and mayest for the future restrain the Violence of these Rulers of _New-England_, having Power in Thy hands; they being but the Children of the Family, of which Thou art Chief Ruler; Who have in divers of their Proceedings #forfeited their Patent#; as upon a strict Inquiry in many particulars will appear. And this, O King, we are assured of, that in time to come it will not repent Thee, if by a _Close Rebuke_ Thou stoppest the #Bloody Proceedings# of these #Bloody Persecutors#; for in so doing, Thou wilt engage the hearts of many honest People unto Thee, both there and here; and for such Works of Mercy, the Blessing is obtained, and shewing it, is the way to prosper.... _b. A Quaker Trial at Boston, 1661_[86] Joseph Besse's _Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers_ (1753), II, 222-223. Italics as in the original. ANNO 1661. At the said next General-Court, _Wenlock Christison_ was again brought to the Bar. The Governour asked him, _What he had to say for himself, why he should not die?_ _Wenlock._ I have done nothing worthy of Death; if I had, I refuse not to die. Governour. _Thou art come in among us in Rebellion, which is as the Sin of Witchcraft, and ought to be punished._ _Wenlock._ I came not in among you in Rebellion, but in Obedience to the God of Heaven; not in Contempt to any of you, but in Love to your Souls and Bodies; and that you shall know one Day, when you and all Men must give an Account of your Deeds done in the Body. Take heed, for you cannot escape the righteous Judgments of God.