[53] Printed in New England Judged, p. 299.
[54] New England Judged, p. 333.
[55] One of the young and vigorous preachers of early Quakerism (1634-1662). He died in Newgate Jail, London. See Camb. Jnl.
[56] It was spread abroad in N.E. that the Quakers had forged the King’s letter and counterfeited his seal (D. Spence MSS. iii. 116).
[57] The furious attack on the Quaker travellers, Christopher Holder and John Copeland, in 1657, made by the civil and Church authorities of Salem, so affected Samuel Shattuck (c. 1620-1689), a man of good reputation, that he interfered on behalf of the sufferers and as a consequence was imprisoned at Boston, and whipped; and finally, in May, 1659, he was banished the Colony. Some trouble which arose in the early part of 1665 is referred to later (see p. 50), and it may be that Shattuck, as a consequence, dissociated himself from Friends. His remains were buried in the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem; on the tombstone the date is given in non-Quaker style—“ye sixth day of June.” His intervention on behalf of Christopher Holder is recorded in full. There is a picture of the stone in The Holders of Holderness, 1902. A son of Shattuck appears in one of the Salem witch trials (Witchcraft and Quakerism, 1908, p. 8). His descendants are still living in Salem (Holders, p. 104).
[58] In a letter from John Philly to George Fox, in 1661 (Swarth. MSS. iv. 158), there is this mention of Ralph Goldsmith: “There is one Ralph Goldsmith, A friend & master of A ship, his house is in Jacobs street Nere Sauorys Dock, Nere Redrife, whoe hath taken A viag for Venus [Venice].” Little is known of this Quaker shipmaster. Besse notes one of the name among sufferers in Barbados (Suff. ii. 279).
[59] Captain James Oliver is frequently mentioned in the history of these troublous times. He led forth Robinson and Stevenson to execution, causing drums to beat when they attempted to speak (there is a striking illustration of this scene in McClures Magazine, Nov. 1906, from a painting by Howard Pyle); and when Edward Wharton intervened in the trial of Leddra, Oliver cried out; “Knock him on the pate” (Bishop, op. cit. p. 318).
[60] Bishop, op. cit. p. 345. There is in D. a MS. account of the voyage of the King’s messenger.
[61] Joan Brocksopp (d. 1681) was the wife of Thomas Brocksopp, of Little Normanton, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
[62] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 27) This may be the “E. Hootons Manscr” of the margin of Whiting’s Truth and Innocency Defended, 1702, see pp. 95, 109, etc.