Eliakim Wardwell, at Newbury, was fined heavily in 1665 for entertaining Wenlock Christison; and this injustice in addition to the other cruel acts, so affected his wife Lydia that, although a modest and delicate woman, she came naked into the meeting at Newbury, as a testimony against them. She was seized and hurried away to the court at Ipswich, which sentenced her to be whipped at the nearest tavern post. Bishop says: Without _Law_ or _President_ _they_ condemned her to be tyed to the fence Post of the tavern, where they sat, which is usually their Court places, where they may serve their ears with Musick, and their bellies with Wine and gluttony; whereunto _she_ was tyed stript from the _Waste_ upwards, with her naked breasts to the splinters of the _Posts_ and there sorely lashed, with _twenty_ or _thirty_ cruel stripes, which though it miserably tore and bruised _her_ tender body, yet to the joy of _her_ Husband and Friends that were Spectators, _she_ was carried through all these inhumane cruelties, quiet and chearful, and to the shame and confusion of these unreasonable _bruit_ beasts, whose name shall rot, and their memory perish.[39] Eliakim, her husband, some time after, for vindicating her character, was by order of the court at Hampton bound to a tree and whipped fifteen lashes. In 1675 a law was passed which made it the duty of the constables, under heavy penalties, to break up all Quaker meetings and to commit those present to the House of Correction, there to have the discipline of the house and be kept to work on bread and water, or else to pay five pounds.