That although they had thus satiated their vengeance upon your petitioner and seen him bleeding and: fainting under his . wounds; and tho' they had dragged him suddenly from his house without giving him Time to provide himself fora journey or to'settle his affairs, they would not suffer him to return to his Family fora day ; but insisted that he should go forward towards this City of New York, or Albany ; and to add to their arrogance 'publickly gave him a Certificate; that he had received full punishment for the crime with which they had charged him ; to which Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, two of their principal Leaders, did not hesitate to Subseribe their Names.

That the mock Court, before which your Petitioner was thus abused consisted of the following persons to wit, Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, James Mead, Gideon Warren, and Jesse Sawyer, who acted in the double office of Accusers and Judges ; That no less than four other persons were appointed to execute their sentence, to wit Winthrop Hoyt of Bennington, Abel Benedict of Arlington John Sawer, & - another with whose Name your petitioner is unacquainted ; and that each of them alternatly whipped your petitioner till the full Number of two hundred stripes were inflicted.

That the only provocation which they pretended for this barbarous treatment was that your petitioner had complained 'to 'Government of their former Misconduct towards the Magistrates and Inhabitants of the said Counties ; that he had discouraged people from joining them in their unwarrantable proceedings ; and that he had accepted and exercised the office of a magistrate