them; Also, as to the Ground or Reason of those your Proceed∣ings, who made them suffer without a Law. All which I have answered in the beginning, because ye have placed it so, and in regard it contains the sum of your Charge against them, Or, the Cause of their Sufferings; For, that which follows is but the gradation of your Proceedings from Imprisonment to Death, and rather demonstrates that Ye. did such and such things, than the Grounds (or that ye had Grounds) on which ye did them, and so Your Declaration is a Charge against your selves. Now, as to your Laws, and the Grounds of them, and the Suf∣ferings as to each. And because Every Determination of Man is Justifiable, or not, according to the Ground on which it stands, I shall begin with your Grounds, which I find to be Two, and then proceed to the rest.The First is Hear-say,—Of whose Pernicious Opinions and Pra∣ctices we had received Intelligence, &c. say ye in your Declaration, as aforesaid.Answ. Now this is so poor and slender a Foundation (or ra∣ther none at all) on which to ground, or by which to warrant what ye have done, and the Laws ye have made; and so Abomina∣ble, that I shall need no further to Evince it than in the saying of Virgil (a Heathen Poet so accounted) viz.Fama Malum quo non aliud Velosius ullum.Mobilitate Viget, Vinesque acquiret Eundo.(i. e.) Fame (Report, Hear-say) is an Evil, than which there is none more Swift, It lives by Motion, and by going getteth strength.The Second, is Generals—Pernicious Opinions and Practices—Professed Tenants,—Turbulent and Contemptuous Behaviour——Attempts—Design—with such like, which I shall repeat as I proceed to the following parts of your Dectaration.Answ. Now Generals are but the Casts of a Cause, they prove nothing (as I have said) and signifie little but a Design to slan∣der, and in them lurks (and is conversant) Deceie.And yet upon these Two (and no other) Foundations (as to Matter of Fact) are your Laws builded, unto which I proceed.Declar.—And accordingly a Law was made and Published, prohibiting all Masters of Ships to bring any Quakers into this Ju∣risdiction, and themselves from coming in on Penalty of the House 0