A further discovery of the spirit of falshood & persecution in Sam. Jennings, and his party that joyned with him in Pensilvania, and some abettors that cloak and defend him here in England in answer to his scandalous book, called, The state of the case.

XIII. That John White offered them, upon their first coming in, if they would promise to come to him, upon notice given them, they might go about their busi∣ness till then. [This is notoriously false, and is easily proved to be so by the express words of the Mittimus signed by Sam. Jennings, and Robert Ewer, both Preachers, that saith, the said Persons being required to give security to answer it at the next Court, but they refusing so to do, &c. Now can it be supposed, that the Justices refusing them liberty to go home without gi∣ving Security, that the Jailor would dare to contradict their strict Order, the very first Night they were committed to Prison. But that they refused to give Security, by entring into Bonds for their Appearance, is that which Friends generally have refused to do, when they have been committed to Prison, both here in England, and elsewhere; and as these two honest Men, viz. Will. Bradford, and John Micomb, acted like faithful Friends, in refu∣sing to enter into Bonds, having done nothing worthy of Imprisonment; So their Persecutors, whereof Sam. Jennings was the chief, acted like the worst of our Persecutors here in England, formerly in requiring such Secu∣rity of them. But it seems after some time their proud Hearts fell, and without requiring any Bonds of them, they had more liberty allowed them afterwards, more regarding the cry of the generality of the People, both in Town and Country, against such notorious Injustice and Oppression, than any real Mercy and Compassion towards the Prisoners they had in Custody. But what cloak hath he, to cover the other parts of their Cruelty acted on these two honest Persons, having from the one, viz. John Micomb, taken his License, which he paid dear for, before the time was expired for which

he paid; the said License being to keep an Ordinary, the outward means of his Livelyhood; and having taken from the other, viz. Will. Bradford, so much of his Printing Letter as was in value worth about Ten Pounds, to his great detriment; and was not restored to him, so long as these unjust and violent Men possessed the Government. But after they went out, by Order of the new Governor, his Printing Letter was restored to him, to their great shame that had so long unjustly and cruelly detained it. And also, by another Order of the said New Governor, Peter Bosse, after a Months unjust and undue Imprisonment, upon the change of the Govern∣ment, was set at Liberty; and divers other abuses were then rectified. And what saith he to that act of both Injustice and Cruelty, that he, viz. Sam. Jennings, and his Party, did take away from Will. Bradford, the Printer, his yearly Salary of Forty Pounds per Annum, they had bound themselves by Indenture to pay him, for some years to come, without the least just occasion given them; or the last breach of the Indenture on his part, the only pretence they made, being his Printing the Sheet, called, The Christian Faith of the People of God called in scorn, Quakers in Rhode Island, &c. A Pa∣per which hath been well received by many Friends here in England, and elsewhere: And his Printing it without their License or Knowledge, they made so highly criminal in him, as to take from him Forty Pounds per An∣num, for some years to come, being such an unparallel'd Instance of Op∣pression, that I think few parts in Europe, in a thing of that Nature, can produce the like, he being left at liberty by the express Terms of the writ∣ten Indenture betwixt him and them, to Print what he pleased, or might be for his Profit, that was not against the Government, as nothing of this could, or was pretended to be, (nor indeed was ever any thing that he af∣terwards Printed, in the least against it) he never refusing to print for them, whatever they required, which none of them can say he did; but shewed himself always most willing to serve them, in his Art of Printing. And it is but Deceit in Sam. Jennings, to charge these two honest Friends with Deceit, for their Signing a Paper from the Prison, when they signed it in the Entry, common to the Prison, and the next House; for the Entry belonging to the Prison, it was no Deceit nor Lye, to sign it from the Pri∣son, it happening at that time, they had a little Liberty to go home, and they being Prisoners still by order of the Justices, it was most proper for them to sign their Paper from the Prison, being, if I well remember, a Pa∣per to the Justices, requesting farther Liberty; and the Prison-house Room hapning to be shut at that time, who can blame them with Deceit, for signing it in any place or part belonging to the Prison, except such as Sam. Jennings; who, to hide his own Deceit, laboureth to represent an innocent Act, as if it were deceit. And so much in answer to his Falshoods and Mis∣representations contained in his Preface.