Nevv-England pesecutors [sic] mauled vvith their own vveapons giving some account of the bloody laws made at Boston against the kings subjects that dissented from their way of worship : together with a brief account of the imprisonment and tryal of Thomas Maule of Salem, for publishing a book entituled Truth held forth and maintained, &c. / by Tho. Philathes.

New-England Persecutors Law against the Kings Subjects.

And it is further Ordered That whatsoever charge shall arise about apprehending, whipping, conveying, or other∣wise about the Quakers, to be laid out by the Constable of such Town where it is expended, and to be repaid by the Treasurer, out of the next County Levy. And further ordered, That the Constables of their several Towns are hereby impowered, ••rom time to time, to impress Cart, Oxen, and other Assistance, for the Execution of this Order. 1661.

Obs. The Reader may hence understand, That for the cloaking of the Devils Work they made all their unrighteous Warrants run in the Kings Name, as if he was the Author of their cruel Work against Dissenters, whenas it manifestly appears, both by the holy Scriptures, and also by the Kings Letter▪ (a Copy of which will follow) That they had no Warrant, Precept or Command either from God or the King, but did wholly act and do according to their own Wills, which still remain the same, to work Mischief against both Quakers; Baptists, and the Church of England also, (as will hereafter evidently appear) but their Horns at present are shortened, and their Cloak begins to appear threed-bare, and now their Hypocris••e and Deceit will no longer hide their Wickedness from the King and People, whose Money out of the Treasury must serve to defray the Charge of the Devil's Work against the Kings good Subjects, who had taken from them, by the persecuting Churches in New-England, to the value of Twenty Thousand Pounds, for Fines imposed upon them, because Dissenters from their way of Worship, whose Priests and Rulers had also of their People yearly Sallarys, according to the same Proportion of the aforesaid Sum of twenty thousand Pounds, through which means, as these Persecutors lived at a high rate on that which others had laboured hard to get, went in thred-bare Coats, and their Families

in want of that which was their own, and devoured by this perse∣cuting Crew aforesaid; whereby their great Oppression reached the whole People of the ordinary degree, even as a sweeping Rain, that clears all before it.

Balaam's State is theirs, who for unrighteous Gain, The People do Oppress, themselves for to maintain.