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any such Quaker or Quakers, or other blasphemous heretics, knowing them
so to be, every such person shall forfeit to the country forty shillings
for every hours' entertainment and concealment of any Quaker or Quakers,
&c. as aforesaid, and shall be committed to prison as aforesaid, till
the forfeiture be fully satisfied and paid. And it is further ordered,
that if any Quaker or Quakers shall presume, after they have once
suffered what the law requires, to come into this jurisdiction, every
such male Quaker shall, for the first offence, have one of his ears cut
off, and be kept at work in the house of correction, till he can be sent
away at his own charge; and for the second offence, shall have his other
ear cut off; and every woman Quaker, that has suffered the law here,
that shall presume to come into this jurisdiction, shall be severely
whipped, and kept at the house of correction at work, till she be sent
away at her own charge, and so also for her coming again, she shall be
alike used as aforesaid. And for every Quaker, he or she, that shall a
third time herein again offend, they shall have their tongues bored
through with a hot iron, and be kept at the house of correction close to
work, till they be sent away at their own charge. And it is further
ordered, that all and every Quaker arising from among ourselves, shall
be dealt with, and suffer the like punishment as the law provides
against foreign Quakers.

"EDWARD RAWSON, Sec."

_"An Act made at a General Court, held at Boston, the 20th of October,
1658._

"Whereas, there is a pernicious sect, commonly called Quakers, lately
risen, who by word and writing have published and maintained many
dangerous and horrid tenets, and do take upon them to change and alter
the received laudable customs of our nation, in giving civil respect to
equals, or reverence to superiors; whose actions tend to undermine the
civil government, and also to destroy the order of the churches, by
denying all established forms of worship, and by withdrawing from
orderly church fellowship, allowed and approved by all orthodox
professors of truth, and instead thereof, and in opposition thereunto,
frequently meeting by themselves, insinuating themselves into the minds
of the simple, or such as are at least affected to the order and
government of church and commonwealth, whereby divers of our inhabitants
have been infected, notwithstanding all former laws, made upon the
experience of