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 entertain, protect, or recue the offender." The order further proceeds: "And, becaue it will be chargeable keeping Indians in prione, and if they hould ecape, they are like to prove more inolent and dangerous after, that upon uch eazure, the delinquent or atisfaction be againe demanded, of the Sagamore or plantation of Indians guilty or accesory as before, and if it be denyed, that then the magitrates of the Juridiccon deliver up the Indians eaed to the party or parties indamaged, either to erve, or to be hipped out and exchanged for Negroes as the caue will jutly beare." Plymouth Records,, 71.

The Commiioners themelves were not blind to the everity of this proceeding, although they alleged that it was "jut."

There are here two features of hitorical importance which the reader will not fail to notice, viz., the export for trade of Indians for Negroes, and the meaure of "jutice" in thoe days between the colonits and the natives.

It may be oberved that in thee notes we have not drawn the lines between the Plymouth Colony and that of the Maachuetts Bay. In this connection they may jutly be regarded as one; indeed, they cannot be eparated, for in thee and imilar proceedings, to quote a ignificant proverb of that day, "the Plymouth addle was always on the Bay hore."

In 1658, June 29, certain perons were punihed by fines by the County Courts at Salem and Ipwich for attending a Quaker meeting and otherwife "syding with the Quakers and abenting themelves from the publick ordinances." Among them were two children,