[41] In 1641, the assembled citizens made the following declaration: “This Body Politick is a Democracie; that is to say, it is in the Power of the Body of Freemen, orderly assembled, or the major part of them, to make Just Lawes by which they will be regulated.” Under the same date the following act was passed: “It is ordered that none bee accounted a delinquent for doctrine,” and later in the same year this was re-affirmed in these words: the “Law of the last Court made concerning Libertie of Conscience in Point of Doctrine be perpetuated.” Quoted from _Rhode Island Colony Records_, by JONES, _op. cit._, p. 23. [42] _Calendar of State Papers Colonial._ [43] Katharine Scott, wife of Richard Scott, was the daughter of (Rev.) Francis Marbury, of London, and her mother was of the family of John Dryden, the poet. Her daughter, Mary, married Christopher Holder, and another daughter, Hannah, married Walter Clarke, once Governor of Rhode Island. Her daughter, Patience (1648-????), was specially noted for her early suffering for conscience sake. ROGERS, _Mary Dyer_; SCULL, _Dorothea Scott_, 1882; _Holders of Holderness_, 1902. [44] BISHOP, _New England Judged_, 1703, p. 94. [45] _Ibid._ p. 95. [46] Of Anne Austin (d. 1665, in London) little is known. She was advanced in years at the time of her American visit. See BOWDEN, _Hist._ i. 30-37, etc. [47] Upsall endeavoured to supply Quaker prisoners with food, but only succeeded by a weekly payment to the gaoler of five shillings (BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 8). Bishop tells us that he was “a long-liver in Boston, an Ancient Man, and full of Years.” [48] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 54. [49] The Southwicks lived at Salem. Other children were Daniel and Provided. Bishop has many notices of the family. [50] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 55. [51] BISHOP, _op. cit._ p. 60, in the case of Horred Gardner, of Newport. [52] Nicholas Davis was of Plymouth Colony. [53] Printed in _New England Judged_, p. 299. [54] _New England Judged_, p. 333. [55] One of the young and vigorous preachers of early Quakerism (1634-1662). He died in Newgate Jail, London. See Camb. _Jnl._ [56] It was spread abroad in N.E. that the Quakers had forged the King’s letter and counterfeited his seal (=D.= Spence MSS. iii. 116).