Elizabeth Hooton : $b First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)Manners, Emily
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Elizabeth Hooton : $b First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)
Manners, Emily
Hooton, Elizabeth, approximately 1600-1672; Quakers -- Biography
So early in yᵉ morning before it was light yᵉ Whippʳ a Member
of their Church came up, wᶜʰ had said to me before yᵗ yᵉ
governoʳ of Boston was his God & yᵉ Magistrates were his God,
J answered many Gods many Lords blind sottish Men both Priests
& people, & asked us whether we would be whipt there or below,
J said wilt thou take our bloud in yᵉ dark before yᵉ people be
rissen to see wᵗ thou dost, so he tooke me downe & lockt them
up, & said J was acquainted wᵗʰ their whipping because J had
been there before. So to yᵉ whipping post he lockt my hands,
having 2 men by to beare him Witnesse yᵗ J was whipt before
it was light, then fetcht he downe Sarah Coleman being as J
thought older then my selfe & whipt her & then my daughter &
whipt us each 10 stripes a piece wᵗʰ a 3 corded whip, & said
to my Daughter are you not glad now its yoʳ turne she said J
am content, so they put her hands in a very streight place
wᶜʰ pressed her armes very much, & so this Daniel Goggins yᵉ
Magistrate walked out of dore wᵗʰ my Bible in his hand, for it
had yᵉ Epistle to yᵉ Laodiceans[84] & other things opening of
yᵉ Corruption of translations then he asked me, whethʳ J would
promise him to goe to Scituate, J said J submit to yᵉ will of
yᵉ Lord wᵗʰ other words J spake why he should whip us so wᵗʰout
a Cause, but he ran & made anothʳ warrᵗ & fetcht yᵉ Constable
to whip us at other two townes, & yᵉ Constable provided company
to goe a long wᵗʰ us, but Sarah Coleman was not able to goe so
they got a horse & yᵗ day they went with us from towne to towne.
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