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 when they came to Unketty yᵉ Constable saw it was such a
mercilesse thing yᵗ he tooke yᵉ warrant away wᵗʰ him to carrie
to Boston, & left one of oʳ frᵈˢ to goe wᵗʰ us. So were we
persecuted from place to place till we came to Scituate, so
after yᵗ J returned back to Boston, & there was a youngman
out of yᵉ North of England wᶜʰ was moved to goe into their
Meeting place & breake 2 bottles before them for a signe how
they should be broken whom violently they tooke & whipt at yᵉ
great Gun in Boston 10 or 12 stripes & as many more in yᵉ house
of Correction, & yᵉ next mornḡ they had him away, & J was
moved of yᵉ Lord to goe in sackcloath & ashes upon my head to
beare my testimony agˢᵗ them in Jndicots house & they put me
out of dores & set Bellingam in (in yᵉ place of Jndicote) yᵉ
place of persecution, so J was moved to goe along to Billingams
house who was yᵉ Deputie, & there bare my testimony agˢᵗ them
for shedding Jnocᵗ bloud, So they fetcht me in & J cleared my
Conscience to them & he made a mittimg to have me to yᵉ Goale
& whip me at yᵉ whipping post so they J told they filled up
yᵉ measure of persecution wᶜʰ their Bretheren in England left
undone, so there Warrant was to whip me at other two townes,
at Rocksbury & Deddam at each 10 stripes apiece, & when J came
to Rocksbury yᵉ Constable & yᵉ othʳ ffrᵈ met us there yᵗ they
might whip him there at the Carts taile where they whipt him &
me together, so when they had done wᵗʰ us J bare my testimony &
we met yᵉ Priest of yᵉ towne who said he was going to take of
our whipping & J asked him his reason he said because we tooke
5ˡⁱ a time for oʳ whipping J asked him where we should have it
he answerd in England a Company of lyers they were J said, &
yᵉ Constable yᵗ was wᵗʰ us lost both his Warrants & when he
came to Deddam he gott him to anothʳ Persecutoʳˢ house yᵗ he
might fulfill yᵗ wᶜʰ yᵉ othʳ had lost yᵉ Warrant for, & then
they there tyed us both to yᵉ carts taile yᵉ youngman & J in yᵗ
cold weather & stript us as usual to yᵉ middle & there whipt us
from whence they had us to Medfield, & would fain have whipt us
there also, wᶜʰ yᵉ Priest desired & sought much for oʳ bloud
but could not obtaine it, So yᵉ Constable wᵗʰ his long sword
went wᵗʰ anothʳ man to guard us out of their Jurisdiction, into
yᵉ woods & left us to goe 20 miles in yᵉ night among yᵉ Bears &
wild beasts & watʳˢ & yet we were preserved & yᵉ Constable when
he saw me returne lift up his hands & said he never expected to
see me againe, And allwayes they drive us toward Road Jsl being
a place of liberty to us.
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