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ants of Boston, among whom were several of
the most peaceable and honorable citizens,
should be disarmed, on account of their opin-
ions on theological questions, on pretence
"that they might make some sudain irrup-
tion on those that differed from them in judg-
ment," -- other citizens of Salem, Roxbury,
Ne_bury, &c., were subjected to the same in-
dignity. _° In I647 a law was passed forbidding
any "Jesuite or spiritual or ecclesiastical person
ordained by the authority of the Pope or See
of Rome," to come within the jurisdiction.
Any person was liable to arrest on suspicion
that he was of such society or order, and to be
brought before the magistrates ; and, if he could
not free himself from suspicion, he was to be
imprisoned, or bound over to the next Court of
Assistants, to be tried and proceeded with by
" banishment, or otherwise as the court should
see cause." " And if any person, so banished,
be taken the second time within this jurisdic-
tion, upon lawful trial and conviction, he shall
be put to death," -- excepting persons ship-
! Mass. Rec., 2II,