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Captain Christison and his son entered with others who found their way into the court. A short, though somewhat corpulent-looking gentleman, with ferrety eyes and rubicund nose, telling of numerous cups of sack which had gone down between the thick lips below it, occupied the magisterial chair.
Although, after the autumn of 1656, whippings, fines, and banishments became frequent, no case of misconduct is alleged until the 13th of the second month, 1658, when Sarah Gibbons and Dorothy Waugh broke two bottles in Mr. In 1661 Katharine Chatham walked through Boston, in sackcloth. This was during the trial of Christison for his life, when the terror culminated, and hardly needs comment.
There are two white men also here;" and Wenlock told him the way in which Jonas Ford and his companion had been brought into the camp. "Ah, verily! the scoundrels would only have got their deserts if they had been left in the woods," answered the old sailor, who did his best to speak in Quaker fashion, but did not always succeed. "Hark thee, friend Christison.
Old Charles Yuill was in his pew, after dreaming thrice that he would break up with the drought; and Bell Christison had come, though her man lay dead at home, and she thought it could matter no more to her how things went in the world. You, who do not love that little congregation, would have said that they were waiting placidly.
Nevertheless the judges passed the sentence of death; but the people were disturbed by such bloody proceedings, and Christison was finally set free. It must not be forgotten that the Quakers of this period were very different from those who afterward populated the City of Brotherly Love under Penn.
"We shall see you again," said Mary, frankly putting out her hand, "and then I will speak to you more of these matters." Wenlock of course promised that he would very soon come again. Christison and his son took their way along Cheapside, past old Saint Paul's, and proceeded down Ludgate Hill. "You seemed pleased with young Mistress Mead, Wenlock," said his father.
Come with me to my house in Cornhill, at the sign of the `Spinning Wheel, and thou shalt tell me where thou hast been wandering all this time; while, may be, we will have a talk of bygone days." "With all my heart," answered Christison; "but tell me who is that noble youth addressing the people?
"No, indeed," exclaimed Christison. "To the latter principle I have long held; and it seems to me that there is much sense and truth in the other tenets which you have explained. I, as you know, am a blunt man, not given to book learning; but, in truth, old friend, I should like to hear from you again more at large of these matters."
GARNETT, H.H. The Past and Present Condition and the Destiny of the Colored Race. GOODLOE, D.R. The Southern Platform. GRÉGOIRE, BISHOP. De la Littêrature des Nègres. HARRISON, SAMUEL ALEXANDER. Wenlock Christison, and the Early Friends in Talbot County, Maryland. A Paper read before the Maryland Historical Society, March 9, 1874. HENSON, JOSIAH. The Life of Josiah Henson.
"He went to his cabin," answered some one. "Christison, come with me; we must get him into a boat. I fear he is wounded." Wenlock was obeying his commander, when just at that moment he felt a severe pang, and was conscious that a missile of some sort had passed through his side. In spite of his wound, however, he followed the captain.
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