The three judges: story of the men who beheaded their king . been agreed, also, that thejudges should return to New Haven, and showthemselves openly there, for the purpose of relieving THE JUDGES CAVE. 203 Mr. Davenport from the charge of continuing toconceal them. We know that they were therefrom Saturday, the 22d of June, to the Mondayfollowing, and are inclined to believe that this openappearance was on the Sabbath, in attendanceupon divine worship. This would combine thepublicity desired with security from arrest, itbeing morally certain that no writ would beissued for that purpose on the
The three judges: story of the men who beheaded their king . been agreed, also, that thejudges should return to New Haven, and showthemselves openly there, for the purpose of relieving THE JUDGES CAVE. 203 Mr. Davenport from the charge of continuing toconceal them. We know that they were therefrom Saturday, the 22d of June, to the Mondayfollowing, and are inclined to believe that this openappearance was on the Sabbath, in attendanceupon divine worship. This would combine thepublicity desired with security from arrest, itbeing morally certain that no writ would beissued for that purpose on the Lords day. As-suming this to be fact, let us try to recall thescene which that summer Sabbath in the littletown presented. The meeting-house — the first built in NewHaven — stood on the lower part of the green, alittle west of where is now the flagstaff. It wasa rude building,fifty foot square/with a small tur-ret on the top. Infront were three ofthe six greategunns belongingto the town, theother three beingset to guard the ancient new England 204 THE THREE JUDGES. approaches to it on the water-side. Instead of the church-going bell, a drum was twice beaten inthe turret and along the principal streets beforethe hour of service. As that hour drew nigh, anarmed soldier stationed himself aloft, and a guardwith muskets entered, and took their assignedseats on each side of the front door. Therewere no galleries or pews, but benches arrangedin the middle, and along the sides of the house,where the people sat, the males on one side, thefemales on the other, each in rank according to well-settled rules of dignity. On the male side were,first, the governor and magistrates ; then personsholding military or other office ; then the aged, andthose entitled to be addressed Mr., and so the other side were the wives of the saidpersons and other ladies, in similar order. Imme-diately beneath the high pulpit was a seat for theruling elder, and below this, another for the dea-c
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