George Bishop, New England Judged (1703 edition)

A Quaker account of the persecution of Quakers in New England: a hostile, partisan source. It quotes Gov. Thomas Prence as declaring “That in thy conscience they were such a people that deserved to be destroyed, they, their wives, their children, their houses and lands, without pity or mercy” (p. 139), and reports an Indian proverb, “All one a thief as Governor Prince,” about the seizure of Quaker goods (p. 248). It prints James Cudworth’s letter of the 10th month 1658, which says “Mr. Collier, last June, would not sit on the bench, if I sat there; and now will not sit the next year, unless he may have thirty pounds sit by him” (p. 134).