The Apprenticeship of Washington And Other Sketches of Significant Colonial Per
The Apprenticeship of Washington And Other Sketches of Significant Colonial Per
Hodges George
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It became plain to the authorities of church and state that they were to be beset with Quakers, and they proceeded to en act laws by which to defend the colony against this peril. Whereas, they said, " there is a cursed sect of heretics lately Arisen up in the world, which are commonly called Quakers, who take upon themselves to be immediately sent of God infallibly THE HANGING OF MARY DYER 65 assisted by the Spirit to speak and write blasphemous opinions, despising govern ment and the order of... God in church and commonwealth, speaking evil of dignities, reproaching and reviling magistrates and ministers, seeking to turn the people from the faith and gain proselytes to their per nicious ways, this court doth hereby or der, " thus and so: namely, that the cap tain of any vessel bringing Quakers shall be fined a hundred pounds; that every Quaker coming into this jurisdiction shall be forthwith committed to the house of correction, soundly whipped at entrance, and thereafter kept at hard labor during the term of his imprisonment, and with lesser penalties for possessing Quaker books and defending Quaker opinions.
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