The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs. VoL. II. Oliver power if the Lord to .fuPer to be done to the outward man, as a !i~n ,· 6z 1 t Protellot•, J b' h U ' J'w 6 6 a 110r any onour as a creature. l s . F h . ~ rom t e committee, he was brought to the bar of the houfe, where the report being read, he confdfed it; upon which the houfe voted him guilty of blafphemy, and ordered him to be fet in the pillory two hours at Wtjtminjter, and two hours at the Old Exchange; that he l11ould be whipped through the fl:reets from lf/ejtminfter to the Old Exchange; that his tongue fhould be bored through with an hot iron, and his forehead fiigmatized with the letter B; he was afterwards to be fent to BrUtal, and to ride through the city with his face to the horfe's tail, and to be whip– ped the next market day after he came thither. Lail: of all, he was to be committed to Bridewell in L ondor1, to be re!l:rained from company, and to be put to hard labour till he fhould be releafed by parliament; dur– ing which time he was to be debarred from pen, ink, and paper, and to have no fuil:enance but what he got by his daily labour. A fentence much too fevere for fuch a wrong-headed obil:inate creature. His jujf:rDecember I R, James Nay/or ilood in the pillory in the Palace-Yard 1ngs. Wejtmirifter, and was whipped to the Old Exchange; the remainder of his fentence being refpited for a week, in which :.ime the reverend Mr. Cmyl, Manton, Nye, Gri/Jith, and Reyno!ds, went to him, in order to bring him to fame acknowledgment of his crime, but not being able to reclaim him, the remainder of his fentence was executed December 2 7; when fame of his followers licked his wounds, and paid him other honours both ;idiculous and fuperftitious. He was afterwards fent to Briflol, and whipped from the middle of Thomas-ftreet, over the bridge to the mid– dle of Broad-Jireet. From Brijlol he was brought back to Bridmell Lond011, where he remained fullen for three days, and would not work,. but then begged for viCtuals, and was content to labour. At length after two years imprifonment, he recanted his errors fo f.1r as to acknowledge, that the honours he received at his entrance into Bri/– tol were wrong; " and all thofe ranting, wild fpirits which • gathered– ,, about me (fays he) at that time of darknefs, with all their wild ads, " and wicked works againfl: the honour of God, and bis pure fpirit, and " people, 1 renounce. And whereas I gave advantage, through want " of judgment, to that evil fpirit, I take lbame to myfelf." After the proteCtor's death Janm Naylor was releafed out of prifon, and writ feve– ral things in defence of the quakers, who owned him as afriend, not– withftanding his extravagant behaviour; but he did not long furvive his enlargement, for retiring into Hmztingdonjhire, he died there towards the latter end of the year I 66o, about the forty-fourth year of his age. Mr. Whitlock obferves very jufl:ly, that many thought he was too furioufly profecuted by fame rigid men; ·Other
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