[78] This was Eliakim Wardell, mentioned two lines below. His home was at Hampton. He was one of those who suffered for entertaining the Quaker travellers. His wife, Lydia, “being a young and tender and chaste Woman ... as a Sign to them, went in naked among them,” on which action Bishop comments: “This might be permitted as a stumbling-block, rather for their Hardening than Conversion, after they had rejected better Examples and Warnings” (_New England Judged_, p. 376). [79] John Hussey and Rebecca his wife, _née_ Perkins, lived near the Wardells at Hampton. [80] Captain William Hathorne was a Salem magistrate. His descendant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author (1804-1864), writes of him: “He was a bitter persecutor, as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories” (_The Custom House_, quoted in _Jnl. F.H.S._ xii). See BISHOP, _op. cit._; FELT, _Annals of Salem_, 1842. [81] Benanuel Bower, of Cambridge, Mass., was originally a Baptist, but later his family and he became Friends. A correspondent quoted in _Friends’ Intelligencer_, 1887, p. 243 (copied into _The Friend_ (Phila.) for the same year), writes: “Thomas Danforth, who was the county treasurer and magistrate, whenever short of business, was in the habit of persecuting B. Bowers, and then he would enter it at full length upon the records” in the Court House in Cambridge. [82] The correspondent referred to in the previous note copied the wording of the warrant as found in the public records of the Cambridge Court House, and it appears in the periodicals named in note [81]. He writes further: “There is this much to be said in the favor of the old Puritans, that they did not treat the Quakers any worse than they did their own members whom they accused of heresy, and in most cases they gave the victim the choice of paying a fine or taking a whipping. I found one case in which they gave a man a second whipping because he invited his friends to come and see him whipped the first time.” [83] This phrase—“a Cage of uncleane birds”—quoted originally from the Bible—“Babylon is become ... a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,” Rev. xviii. 2, was frequently used by early Friends to describe their opponents. Francis Bugg (apostate Quaker) states that George Fox used it “about the year 1662” in reference to “the Church of England” (_Pilgrim’s Progress from Quakerism to Christianity_, 1698, p. 130). [84] This is doubtless a reference to an early, undated quarto pamphlet, issued by Friends, entitled _Something concerning Agbarus, Prince of the Edesseans.... Also Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans.... As also how several scriptures are corrupted by the Translators_. Other editions, in octavo, were printed later in the century. [85] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 59) [86] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 43) [87] MS. in =D.= (Portfolio iii. 62) The following is taken from the _Calendar of State Papers Colonial_, 1665, i. 292: