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 Provided Southwick was ubequently in the ame year, in company with everal other Quaker ladies, "whipt with tenn tripes," and afterwards "committed to prion to be proceeded with as the law directs." ''Mas. Records,'', i, 411.

The indignant Quaker hitorian, in recounting thee things, ays, "After uch a manner ye have done to the Servants of the Lord, and for peaking to one another, … and for meeting together, ranacking their Etates, breaking open their Houes, carrying away their Goods and Cattel, till ye have left none, then their wearing apparel, and then (as in Plimouth government) their Land; and when ye have left them nothing, ell them for this which ye call Debt. Search the Records of former Ages, go through the Hitories of the Generations that are pat; read the Monuments of the Antients, and ee if ever there were uch a thing as this ince the Earth was laid, and the Foundations thereof in the Water, and out of the Water. …. O ye Rulers of Boton, ye Inhabitants of the Maachuetts! What hall I ay unto you? Whereunto hall I liken ye? Indeed, I am at a tand, I have no Nation with you to compare, I have no People with you to parallel, I am at a los with you in this point; I mut ay of you, as Balaam aid of Amalek when his eyes were open, Boton, the firt of the Nations that came out thus to war againt, to top Irael in their way to Canaan from Egypt." Bihop's N. E. Judged, 90.

At the time of King Philip's War, the policy and practice of the Colony of Maachuetts, with regard to lavery, had been already long ettled upon the bais of poitive law. Accordingly the numerous