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Title: New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.
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Print source: New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.
Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659., Rous, John, d. 1695., Copeland, John, 17th cent.
London: Printed by T.L. for G. Calvert ..., 1659.
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Society of Friends -- New England.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52921.0001.001
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New-England's Ensigne, &c.
At a Council held at Boston, the 11. of July, 1656.
The Sufferers under this Law.
Part of the Relation given in by such English as are grievously oppressed under the Dutch government in New-Holland: A Declaration to all the World of the persecuting spirit, how it hath manifested it self in these parts of America, against the people in scorn by the wicked called Quakers, (as is wel known to hundreds, of their savage and unheard of cruelty to Robert Hodgshone, which I doubt not but you will have a true Rela∣tion of, besides prisoning and banishing others which came out of England, besides the Inhabitants that were honest, and could not conform to the times unjustly to please men, who were hardly dealt withall by the Dutch, because they enter∣tained these people called Quakers:
THE ACCOUNT OF Cruelty, the Professor's Pride, and the Articles of their Faith; WITH Their Proceedings beginning in the sixth month of the yeer, 1657.
The Sufferings of Humphrey Norton, and John Rous, at their June-Court, 1658.
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Here also is the Sum of part of the Fines levied out of one Town in Plimouth patent called Sandwitch.
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New Havens proceedings against Humphrey Norton and others.
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The Sufferers under this Law hereafter follows, who hath crushed it, and trampled over it, and testified against it, and replyed to it, as followeth:
Road Island, the seventh of the ninth moneth, 1657.
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A relation of the sufferings of Thomas Harris in Boston.
This Cruelty shortly after the former.
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At a General Court held at Boston the 20. of May, 1658.
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Of what herein is mentioned concerning the sufferings of the Servants of God, moved of the Lord to New-England in the year 1657. this is the Summe.
A Letter to John Indicot, and John Norton, Governor and chiefe Priest in Boston, which yet is not answered.
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Another LETTER to the Town of Boston.
A true discovery and relation of the dealings of God with Goodworth Horndall; Wife to John Horndall, in Newport upon Road-Island in New-England; it being written for the information of the weak, and for the help and comfort of all such as may taste of the like distempers; and also a warning unto all such as may strive after salvation, and the knowledge of the things of God, according to the working of their own wills and imaginations, wherein it is not to be obtained.
Some Quaeries unto all sorts whatsoever, who wants that which wee have, by which they may see themselves, and know from us where to find it.
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