"May 15, 1672, the General Court of Massachusetts orders that
Scolds and Railers shall be gagged or set in a ducking-stool and
dipped over head and ears three times."
This treatment we should suppose would be likely to make the victims
_very pleasant_, especially in cold weather.
"May 3, 1669, Thomas Maule is ordered to be whipped for saying
that Mr. Higginson preached lies, and that his instruction was
'the doctrine of devils.'"
Josiah Southwick, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Buffum, and others, Quakers, for
making disturbances in the meeting-house, etc., were whipped at the
cart's tail through the town. Southwick, for returning after having
been banished, was whipped through the towns of Boston, Roxbury, and
Dedham. These are only a few of the cases of the punishments inflicted
upon the Quakers. Mr. Felt says in reference to the persecution of the
Quakers:
"Before any new denomination becomes consolidated, some of its
members are apt to show more zeal than discretion. No sect who are
regular and useful should have an ill name for the improprieties
committed by a few of them.
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