this family s m Secretly Polluted Mutilation of Pedophiles Banishment and Death of Sodomites and Sectarians Massacre of AmerIndians and Irish Catholics Enslavement of maidens and children Sword of State cleaving King’s head purifying a scandalous ministry publishing Fundamental Laws outlawing Cruelty and Torture gratifying merchant ambition a New Model Army forging a Puritan Empire One Anglo-American Permutation of the Protestant Reformation withall John Humfrey, Esq., & Company by Seth Many Lady Susan Humfrey Parting from Her Children. 16411 1 “Lady Susan Humfrey,” M. Swett Invt & Delin. Pendleton’s Lithography, Boston; in Alfonso Lewis, History of Lynn, (Boston: Eastburn, 1829), insert between pp.62-63. Pendleton’s was Boston’s first lithography shop. Moses A. Swett was draftsman there from January 1826-1829. He moved to NY in 1830. David Tatham, “The Pendleton-Moore Shop. Lithographic Artists in Boston, 1825-1840,” Old-Time New England (Quarterly), 62(2), October-December 1971, 29. “Invt.” means invented; and “Delin,” delineated; hence an original interpretive composition done by Swett. The lithograph was absent from the 2nd Lewis (1844) edition and all subsequent Alonzo Lewis/James R. Newhall History of Lynn editions. this family SECRETLY POLLUTED Table of Contents Natural Lusts..........................................0 Chapter 1. A Very Foul Sin Bellingham’s Inquest..........................1 Chapter 2. What Kind of Sin? Know the Mind of God. .......................6 Chapter 3. Extracting Confessions Limiting Torture.............................1 1 Chapter 4. His Nostrils Slit and Seared Mutilation or Death..........................1 6 Golden Girdle........................................2 9 Chapter 5. Filthy Dreams Pollution Mitigation..........................3 0 Chapter 6. Outside the Bond of Marriage Labor Laws of Lust..........................4 1 Chapter 7. Strong Meat at Full Age The Marriage State. .........................5 7 Chapter 8. Free Fruits Statutes of Liberty...........................6 5 Children of Wrath. ...................................8 3 Chapter 9. The Eye that Mocketh Terror Incarnate............................ 8 5 Chapter 10. Bent to Remove John Humfrey at Bay. ....................... 9 2 Chapter 11. Mother of Shame Lady Susan Humfrey. ...................... 146 Chapter 12. Untold Pangs Issues Unresolved. ......................... 156 The Powering Ovt of The Seven Vials. .................. 172 I. H., To the Christian Reader Chapter 13. Winters Discourse Ceased Old Providence............................. 174 Chapter 14. Shyp of Folys Late Returns............................... 184 Chapter 15. New Model Army Humfrey’s Civil War........................ 191 Chapter 16. Kernal Renewed Col. John Humfrey Jr.. ..................... 222 Expurgations. ...................................... 261 Chapter 17. Daniel in Lyon’s Den Inherited Poison............................ 262 Chapter 18. Masturbation Corruptus East Hampton’s Missing Accounts. ........... 273 Table of Appendices. ................................ 278 Appendix I. Maps A. Saugus (Lynn) Farm, 1634. ............... 280 B. Humfrey’s Plaines Farm at Marblehead Border (1635-1636)............................281 C. Humfrey’s Ponds Farm at Suntaug Lake (1635- 1638).................................282 D. Humfrey’s Salem lot No. 34, 1644...........283 Appendix II. Documents A. Disbanding Declaration of January 1648. ....284 Appendix III. Will, Accounts, Suites A. Humfrey Oral Will and contested Administration ......................................289 B. Humfrey’s Estate Accounts................290 C. Humphreyes v. Humphreys: Middlesex Chancery Court, 1652-1653.......................301 Appendix IV. Humfrey Links A. Johan. Humphredo, Harvard Trustee, 1642 ......................................316 B. Humfrey Sex-Case Participants. ...........317 C. Humfrey Relatives and Associations.........320 Appendix V. Puritan Law A. Body of Liberties of 1641...................337 B. 1642 Sex-Crime Amendments to the Body of Liberties...............................342 C. Capital Codes Compared..................342 Appendix VI. Puritan Perspectives Appendix VII. Antiphones A. Anonymous: “Young Lady of Lynn”. .......355 B. Morton’s Hymen Joyes. ...................355 C. D’Urfy’s Lass of Lynn.....................356 Bibliography........................................ 359 Index.............................................. 390 atural Lusts N Againe, if ye unnaturall lusts of men with men, or woman with woman, or either with beasts, be to be punished with death, then a pari naturall lusts of men towards children under age are so to be punished. 2 Rev. Charles Chauncy, Plymouth Plantation, March 1642 2 Bradford’s History “Of Plimoth Plantation” 471 this family.. Chapter 1. A Very Foul Sin Bellingham’s Inquest This year there was discovered a very foul sin, committed by three persons, who the year following came under censure for the same.3 John Winthrop, October 1641 n 1634 two proud Puritan squires set foot in the young aspiring Massachusetts Bay Plantation. Richard Bellingham hails from Brombye Wood in the Earl of Lincoln’s I domain near the ancient city of Boston.4 Prior to the journey the wealthy Bellingham divests extensive family holding to a cadre of Puritan elites.5 John Humfrey, originally of Dorset and lately of Westminster, is husband to the Lincolnshire Earl’s sister. He is already in significant financial distress. Whereas Bellingham shines luminous in Bay history, Humfrey is confined to a dark historic hole by the revelation of his family secretly polluted. From a warm Bay welcome at age forty-three, Bellingham rises rapidly within the heirarchy. Assuming the position of deputy Governor in 1635, he serves frequently thereafter as Assistant on the Governing Council,6 gaining a formidable reputation for 3 The Journal of John Winthrop, 370 4 Richard Bellingham (1592-1672) of Bromby in Lincolnshire was sired by William Bellingham (I) out of Frances Amcotts. Siblings included younger brother William (II) and sisters Susannah (m. Pormont), Sarah (m. Goodrick), Judith, and possibly Hester (m. Hibbins). Townsend, “Bellingham Sketch” New England Historical and Genealogic Register, 1882, 36:381-386; 1894, 48:74. Bellingham was Recorder (municiple judge) of Boston, Lincolnshire, from 1625-1633. [Erroneously identified as “Boston in New England” in editor Maddison’s Linconshire Pedigrees, vol. ii (London 1903) redaction of Harliean MS 1550 in Publications of the Harleian Society, 1892, vol. 50, 117-118.] His annual wage was 6£13p, the same salary as the Mayor’s chef. Bellingham was elected to the quickly dissolved 1628 Parliament. In 1629 he helped draft the charter for the London-based Massachusetts Bay Company. Thompson, The History and Antiquities of Boston in the County of Lincoln, 428; Cook, Linconshire Links, 49 5 Robert Lord Brooke, Richard Knightly, and John Hampden paid Bellingham £3000 for his Messuages, Cottages, lands, tenements, meadows, &c. &c. &c. in Brombey Wood & Borringham. An additional £1200 was gained from the liquidation of other holdinga. “Abstracts of Close Roll 9 of Charles I., part 35, Nos. 22, 23, 24,” in Townsend, “Bellingham Sketch” New England Historical and Genealogic Register, 1882, 36:386-387 6 The Journal of John Winthrop, 131, n.39. After 1641 Bellingham served continuously as Magistrate, but his disastrous first term as Governor delayed return to post until 1654. In 1653 and 1655-1664 he was elected Deputy Governor. In 1664 he was received the title of Major General. Upon Endecott’s death in 1665 Bellingham sat as governor for nine more terms until his own death in 1672 at the age of eighty-one. 1 ...Secretly Polluted temper, severity78 and a persecuting spirit. In June 1641 Bellingham wins the coveted Governorship in a hotly contested General Court election marked by substantial ballot irregularities.9 Ex-governor Winthrop claims that his own votes by Deputies are rejected on a technicality unsupported by order of the court;10 that Bellingham is chosen unduly.11 His protests garners little support. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England, i, 161; Moore, Memoirs of American Governors, 335- 346 7 Bellingham’s judicial severity was manifest in the Baptist and Quaker persecutions of the next two decades. While avoiding the imposition of the death penalty, he applied maximum whipping (stripes), public derogation, mutilation and banishment to rid the Bay of its blasphemous and heretical religious disruptors. In July 1658, during the blasphemy-heresy trials of Quakers Christopher Holder, John Copeland and John Rouse, Bellingham declaimed: though they knew the law, yet they are come again in contempt to revile magistrates and ministers and to break all order in Churches and to deceive the people, and so whatever come upon them, whether loss of ears or loss of life, their blood be upon their own heads. Wertenbaker, The Puritan Oligarchy, 232-233, n.61 citing New England’s Ensign--It being the Account of Cruelty, the Professor’s Pride and the Articles of their Faith. Written at sea by Quakers (London, 1659), 86-88. Holder was emprisoned, whipped, banished and lost an ear. Records Court Assistants iii, 109; Powers, Crime and Punishment in Early Massachusetts, 337-338. Bellingham also adjudicated the sentence of Wenlock Christison (Christenson), who had been jailed for a time in 1659, sentenced to hang, recanted and banished, but returned. He and two obdurate recidivist Quaker women were dragged through the streets at Boston, Roxbury,