Show THE STORY OF BOSTON cobI COMMON KON of all 4 these parades the most drama dramatic tid and add terrI terrible blo was that althe of the Six sixteenth ath of september ipei IMI all the companies had been under ims arms both bo ih horse and foot humphrey athi atherton was the major general As lit be was running home to dorchester a stray cow struck his horse and the horse home threw his rider it was at six in the af hernoon ter noon but the unfortunate general was taken up speechless and senseless and at one in the morning died ten foot folot companies and a troop of cavalry attended his body tp the rave grave on his bis gravestone is nak e sword d and aud this thih inscription 1 here lies our captain and major of suffolk was with all 0 A goodly magistrate was he ind and major general two troops of horse with him here came such I 1 worth his love did crave ten companies of foot also mourn mourning ing to his grave let all al that read be e burc bare to 10 veep keep the faith as lie he hath done with christ he lives now crowned his name was hump liry abbe arton he died the of September 1661 you yon will hat hardly U k understand at first why I 1 br i g t together g er the death ot of M mary a r Y dyer ant and that of gene general Athert bu u but there is alas a sad connection as you yon will see mary dyer was a quaker she was exiled from because she was a quaker but she felt bound by the spirit to re return sue was sent off again and returned again and at last the magistrates hanged her they said they did not hang her lor for her opinions but for returning but as aa you will see that line was a difficult one to draw I 1 it is a cruel story indeed and how one wishes it it had never been written but bat written it was and we should do no good it if we shut our eyes arld and said we should not read it they brought her out from the prison which saw nearly where the coast house is now BOW and with a band df soldiers she was led through the town the drums belne being beaten before and behind her and so conti continued dued thit that none might hear her speak all the way to the place of execution which was wag aint a mile with W iab this guard she came too to the gallows and being gone up the ladder some eaid to her that it if she would not return she might come howo dobo and save her life this means if she would leave the colony to which she replied I 1 slay I 1 cannot for in obedience to the will of the lord I 1 came and la in his will I 1 abide faithful to the death capt john webb said she was g guilty alty of her p own w a blood no she salt said I 1 I came blood guiltiness fro from you d desiring ring you to repeal the unrighteous wad and unjust law of t bain of death made against thellA the innocent servant vara of the lord there therefore ore my blood will be required at your bands hands wilson the ol 01 old minister of the church said may mary dyer mary dyer 0 0 re pent 0 be not so go deluded and carried hway away by the deceit of the devil to Ws this marv dyer answered nay man I 1 lam am gothere no there to repent 3 they asked it if she would hare ave the people pray for her and she salo said she desired the prayers it ft all the people of god in answer answer to some question she said yea I 1 have been in paradise several days and spoke of the aie eternal happiness sineas she was no now w to fo apte 0 so 50 she led died a martyr of christ this esthe is the account gi du william sauls history and the ame book ade describes in similar execution of Ledd raon the fourte fourteenth ezic of march other quakers were held bild in ia custody jut but news of Led dras execution wu was carried to charlesi Chari esI and 1 he issued an aa order which com compelled wed the eolo colonial ulal government wal which ot bad enough other quarrels with qa charies to release rele sise them all ail lt it is cap claar r enough tha that there bere was a kopd deal of popular indignation felt fell at these cruelties cruel ties the 4 t ers won would id hardly have been under arms had there been noo no fear of a soine e in interruption t gr of I 1 i the execution op john 0 hills the treasurer who was R as bitter as any I 1 one against the ahe takers quakers says once and again to th hag diary public Q opinion dutott was not what he thought it should be I 1 sewell preserves the opinion which sewall the Q ershad aker rhad rega regarding ga g the death of atherton berton At 1 when mary dyer was hanged be said and 0 in an insulting way that she others tau example by and inq when w an other of ohp tn quakers bakers was condemn edi be said the judgements judge ments of the lord god are not come upon us asyet as yet but how be himself was struck strack by these judee ments and served as an example for others we are to see now ile he upon a certain day having ex excised his soldiers and riding proudly on his horse to the house when he be came about the place where they usually loosed the quakers and called from the cart after had whipped chippe them a cow came anti and crossed that way at which his horse taking fright threw him down so violently that he died his e eyes es being started out oat of his head his bis mius brains out ot his bis nose his tongue out of his bis mou mout hand his bis blood out of his ears thus gods judge ment came upon him suddenly and unawares 11 |