. Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house . le : Dr. Bostwick, for a publication end-ing with the prayer — From plague, and pestilence, and famine,From bishops, priests, and deacons,Good Lord, deliver us! was deposed from the ministry, was brandedand whipped, then his nostrils were slit andhis ears cropped in the pillory at Westmin-ster. But his loving wife was there. A letterwritten at the time says : He stood twohours in the pillory, his wife got on a stooland kissed him. His ears being cut off shecalled for them, put them in a clean hand-kerchief and carried them away with gri
. Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house . le : Dr. Bostwick, for a publication end-ing with the prayer — From plague, and pestilence, and famine,From bishops, priests, and deacons,Good Lord, deliver us! was deposed from the ministry, was brandedand whipped, then his nostrils were slit andhis ears cropped in the pillory at Westmin-ster. But his loving wife was there. A letterwritten at the time says : He stood twohours in the pillory, his wife got on a stooland kissed him. His ears being cut off shecalled for them, put them in a clean hand-kerchief and carried them away with grim founders of New England did asmuch for Baptists and Quakers, and otherswho spoke their minds about the magistrates. 132 SIDE GLIMPSES. It is ordered, by the General Court atBoston, June 14, 1631, that PhiUp Rat-liffe shall be whipped, have his eares cut off,fined 40 pounds, and banished out of thelimits of this jurisdiction, for uttering mali-cious and scandalous speeches against theGovernment. There was but one politicalparty in those
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