this Deponent was conducted as a prisoner by four men with drawn Swords, and that thereupon the said Ethan Allen who all along acted as the chief or principal judge pronounced the following sentence against this Deponent, which he read from a paper, which he held in his hand to wit, That they had erected a combination of judicious men. for his Trial and had accused him in the Manner before mentioned (repeating the accusation) That the Deponent had pleaded Self Justification which they (the said pretended Judges) had found insufficient to excuse him from punishment, and that therefore their Judgment was that the Deponent should be tyed up to a Tree and receive two hundred lashes

on the naked Back, and then as soon as he should be able should depart the New Hampshire Grants and not return again upon pain of receiving five hundred Lashes. That upon some persons observing that he this Deponent ought. not to be suffered to return while Matters remained in their present condition, the said Allen added no, not 'till his Majesty's pleasure shall be known in the premises. That thereupon this Deponent immediately had his Clothes taken off and he was stripped to the skin, and four persons being by the said pretended Court appointed to carry the said sentence into Execution this Deponent accordingly received the two hundred Lashes on his naked Back with whips of cords; which Lashes were inflicted by each of the said Executioners giving the Deponent alternately a Number of Lashes, tho' at the close he thinks he received from each of them ten. That the said Robert Cochran who declared himself to be Adjutant of the Rioters stood during the whole scene near this Deponent and frequently urged the said Executioners to lay on their Blows well and, to strike harder and particularly repeated such Directions with respect to the last ten inflicted by each of the said Executiogers.