New-England a degenerate plant who having forgot their former sufferings ... are now become famous among the nations in bringing forth the fruits of cruelty ... published for the information of all sober people who wish to know how the state of New-England now stands ... / the truth of which we are witnesses (who by their cruel hands have suffered) Iohn Rous, Iohn Copeland, Samuel Shattock, Nicholas Phelps, Josiah Soutwick. Whereunto is annexed a copy of a letter which came from one who hath been a magistrate among them.

At a General Court held at Boston, the 11. of May, 1659.

IT is Ordered, That Lawrence Southwick, and Cassandra his Wife, Samuel Shattook, Nicholas Phelps, Joshua Buffum, and Josiah Southick, are hereby Sentenced, according to the Order of the General Court in October last, to Banishment, to depart out of this Jurisdiction by the eighth day of June next, on pain of Death; and if any of them after the said eighth day of June next, shall be found within this Juris∣diction, they shall be apprehended by any Constable or other Officer of this Jurisdiction, and be committed to close prison, there to lye till the next court of assistants, where they shall be tryed, and being found guilty of the breach of this Law, shall be put to death.

This is a true Copy taken out of the Courts Records, as attests

Edw. Rawson Secretary.

The true cause of the banishment of those six Inhabitants of Sa∣lem in New-England, was because they went not to their Meeting, and met together by themselves at each others houses; the cause being so small, they were ashamed its like to tell the crime, or what it was for, in this their sentence, seeing also they had imprisoned, & whipt, and taken away great sums of money from them for the same thing before.