Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-10

 with fine of S5, GOO and .he exaction of bonds to carry him back asa;a. The Quaker himself was to be whipped twen- ty stripes, sent to the house of correction and kept there until transported.
 The introduction of Quaker books was prohibited; defending Quaker opinions was punishable with Anc, and finally punishment; and in 1857 f was enacted that for every hours enter tainment given a Quaker the earsrtain- CT should pay forty shillings
 It was also enacted that every male Quaker should lose an ear on the first conviction, and the other On lhe second sEd both maaes and | f.rn1aest on a third conviction, were 10 have their tongues bored thtauZh with a red-hot iron. In 1858 he death penalty vas enacted. Under it those who should return to the colony tor q sec1nd t.rfe after banishment were to suher death
 From unwilIingness to inhict death it was provided by a new law in 15S that any person convicted or being d Quaker should be delivered to he town, stripped naked from ;Gs middle upward and tied to a carts tail, and whipped through the town, and thence be immediately conveyed to the eo.:.- stable of the next town. toward the border of our jurisdiction, and so from constable to constable, and so be | whipped out of the colony
 In casi fhhe vactim returned thSs i was to be twice repeated. The fourth l time the convict was to be branded w4-h the letter R on the left shoulde-, and l after that, if incorrieible, to incur the i death penalty. Chiefly through the instrumentality of King William these
 penal laws against the Quakers were | abrogated by royal authority, and the | Quaker sect became. a very important ] element in American society during the | eighteenth century, and have steadily 1 increased their influence ever since then. The persecution of the Quakers in 1 Puritan New England drove many of the religious sect to seek homes in New i York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and ! other states In 1874 Quakers bought
 Lord Berkeley's interests in the ter seys; in 1877 they started to establish
 the democratic and liberal lawis of New Jersey; and their first Colonial Assem-
 bly met in 1881, and in the same year
 Penn obtained from Charles II the grant
 of his famous colony.
 In Hutcninson's History of Massa.
 chusetts" we are told that the Quakers
 were ernbarrass ssed by the handing on tc
 them of number of religious fanatics who assisted in bringing the sect into bat
 repute for these fanatics began to dis
 turb the public peace, revileH magis
 trates and interfere with the public wor
 ship of the people which was quite ir
 contract to the teachings of Quaker
 isrr.
 Hutchinson mentions many instances of fanaticism on the part of the so-cAllet Quakers. In certain Massachusetts vii lages they would enter the public hous
 es during worship, call the ministers will } hirelings and the people an abomina ton Thomas Newhouse, it is said, went int the meeting house at Boston with twj
 glass bottles and, bres ang them in tn
 presence of the whole congregation, ex , claimed;
 Thus will the Lord break you il
 pieces" Mary Brewster went into neetini , with her face smeared with soot am
 grease. and Ann Hartley declared hefsel , a prophecies. and had many followers wh
 seeded from the congregation of Besto l and zealously propagated schism. An l iother so-called Quaker entered a ehurc
 in the same city clothed in sackcletf with ashes on her head, her feet bare, an
 her face blaekened so as to personit . smallpox the punishment with which sh r threatened the colony.
 t Whipping was the usual punishmen r Five were hanged. Others were seveFa q | times imprisoned, several times banishe n and frequently whipped. John Cepelah $, and Christopher Holden both had thel q ears cut off. This prejudice against tn s Quakers finally subsided. and it may ! = claimed that the society has influence
 public life more than any other religiou body of it's size.
 l. (Tomorrow: Trial Following Besto . Msssaere.)