A Call from Death to Life, Being an Account of the Suffering of Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson, and Mary Dyer, in New England, in the Year 1659.

47, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Endecott. Sabin 91318: "Reprinted, Providence, 1865, AAS., BA., JCB., NYP., WLC.; and, by the Aungerville Society, Edinburgh, 1886, NYP. For notes on these reprints, see the new JCB. catalogue under 1660." Church: "This is one of the most interesting tracts relating to religious persecution in America. 'Stephenson was a quaker who came to New England in 1659. He, together with William Robinson and Mrs. Mary Dyer, were arrested for preaching in Boston, and banished thence under pain of death. Returning, they were again arrested; tried before John Endicott, and by him sentenced to death. Stevenson and Robinson suffered the penalty; Mrs. Dyer was reprieved while on the ladder with the halter on her neck. The two men were refused the rites of burial, their bodies being stripped and thrown into a hole, even the privilege of enclosing their grave being denied to their friends. It is difficult to rise from a perusal of this tract without a feeling of intense indignation at the intolerant bigotry and cruelty of the early puritans of New England.'"