That when he was arrived there they held a Court (as they termedit) over the Deponent, & appointed Peleg Sunderland, thesaid Roger Stevens junt & the said Lymen to be judgesin tne Deponents Cause. Thatthesaid pretended Judges firstgave their Judgment thatthe Deponent should be whipped & should pay the said nine shillings and twenty four shillings for the expenses. That the Deponent having some Friends present who pitied and interceeded for him, the said pretended Judges omitted the Whipping; but Obliged the Deponent to pay the Money, which he was so adjudged to pay. That the Deponent complaining of this Treatment as highly cruel & unjust one Joshua Wiggins who was present told the Deponent he should not speak before them, & fell upon the Deponent, & kicked &

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abused him very much. And the Deponent saith that after receiving this outrageous Treatment he left the said Place, & that he can not return without being in Danger of his Life; or great bodily harm. And further the Deponent saith that the day before the above Transaction happened one Thomas Rowly a Constable of Danby in the said County came to the house of the said Steven's having three Summonses, issued for Civil Debts by Benjamin Hough one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County. That a Mob to the Number of Seven, of which the said Sunderland, Stevens, & Lymen were three, threatned the said Constable greatly, declaring that if he would not deliver vp the said Summonses they would whip him ; upon which the said Constable promised that if they would not whip him, he would not return the 'said Summonses, & then they let him depart. And further the Deponent saith not.