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Rh his moſt truſty friends to take theſe men into examination, about whom They are the fair was almoſt overturned. the men were brought to examination; and they that fat upon them, asked them whence they came, whether they went, and what they did there in ſuch an unuſual Garb? The men told them, that they were Pilgrims and Strangers in the World, are and and that they were going to their own Countrey, which was the Heavenly Jerusalem; and that they had given none occaſion to the men of the Town, nor yet to the Merchandizes, thus to abuſe them, and to let them in their Journey. Except it was, for that, when one asked them what they would buy, they ſaid they would buy the Truth. But they that were appointed to examine them, appointed to examine them, did not believe them to be any other then Bedlams and Mad, or elſe ſuch as came to put all things into a confuſion in the fair. Therefore they took them and beat them, and beſmeared them. put in the with dirt, and then put them into the Cage, that they might be made a Spectacle to all the men of the fair. There therefore they lay for ſome time,