The Revolution in New England justified, and the people there vindicated from the aspersions…

5. They did not only act according to these Illegal Taxes, but they did inflict severe punishment on those true English men who did oppose their Arbitrary proceedings, as shall be made to appear in many instances. When the Inhabitants of Ipswich in New England were required to choose a Commissioner to tax that Town, some principal persons there that could not comply with what was demanded of them, did modestly give their reasons, for ⟨p. 8⟩which they were committed to Goal, as guilty of high misdemeanours, and denied an Habeas Corpus, and were obliged to answer it at a Court of Oyer & Terminer at Boston. And that they might be sure to be found guilty, Jurors were picked of such as were no Freeholders, nay of Strangers; the Prisoners pleading the privileges of English men not to be taxed without their own consent, they were told that the Laws of England would not follow them to the end of the Earth, they meant the privileges of the English Law, for the penalties they resolved should follow them quo jure qudque injurid. And why should they insist on, and talk of the privileges of English men, when it had been declared in the Governors Council, that the Kings Subjects in New England did not differ much from Slaves, and that the only difference was, that they were not bought and sold? But to go on with the matter before us; In as much as the Prisoners mentioned had asserted their English Liberties, they were severely handled, not only imprisoned for several weeks, but fined and bound to their good behaviour; Mr. John Wise was fined fifty pound besides costs of Court, deprived of the means of his subsistence, and gave a thousand pound bond for good behaviour. And Mr. John Appleton was fined fifty pound and to give a thousand pound bond for good behaviour, and moreover declared incapable to bear Office, besides unreasonable Fees. After the same manner did they proceed with several others belonging to Ipswich. Likewise the Towns men of Rowley, Salisbury, Andover, &c. had the same measure. And the Kings Subjects were not only oppressed thus in the Massachusetts Colony, but in Plymouth. For when Shadrach Wild••• the Town Clerk of Taunton in N. E.

5. They did not only act according to these Illegal Taxes, but they did inflict severe punishment on those true English men who did oppose their Arbitrary proceedings, as shall be made to appear in many instances. When the Inhabitants of Ipswich in New England were required to choose a Commissioner to tax that Town, some principal persons there that could not comply with what was demanded of them, did modestly give their reasons, for