It’s about time someone noticed!!
King Charles II in England is shocked that Massachusetts has been killing Quakers left and right. The King has officially forbid Massachusetts from executing any more Quakers and he’s ordering that all imprisoned Quakers be released.
Aw, that was nice of him! This makes us actually MISS having the watchful eye of the monarchy close by!!
Well, maybe only a little bit. LOLz.
Sooooooo lame!
To defy the anti-Quaker law in Massachusetts, Mary Dyer returned to Massachusetts where she was banned along with Anne Hutchinson 22 years earlier. When she was caught for being a Quaker, and therefore breaking the law, she was given an ultimatum: repent and be banished again or don’t repent and be hanged. She chose the latter.
She is among four people hanged in Boston for being a Quaker. Her body is buried in an unmarked grave.
Sad sad.
Boston’s like, “We warned you!!!”
Marmaduke (seriously — that’s his name????) Stephenson and Will Robinson went to Massachusetts to protest the ban on Quakers. Sadly they were thrown in jail and banished.
But then, out of sheer stoopidity, they returned to Massachusetts where they were AGAIN thrown in jail and eventually hanged.
Let’s hope they didn’t die in vain and SOMEONE can learn from their mistakes.
Tsk, tsk.
OoOoOoh, in yo’ face, Peter Stuyvesant!!!
It’s no secret that Director-General of New Netherland hates the Quakers, but his people can no longer tolerate his stoopid face it! A bunch of citizens have signed the Flushing Remonstrance, which asks exemption from Hawk Face’s ban on Quaker worship.
Fun fact: None of the signers are Quakers themselves!
The petition states:
“Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us, we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them, but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town … for we are bounde by the law of God and man to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.”
Hmmm, brave stuff!!
How do U think Hawk Face will take his citizens’ backlash????
UPDATE: Hawk Face has immediately thrown four signers in jail and two other signers have already recanted. UGH, the nerve!!!!
