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Boston......July, 1656 Eight more arrive in the Speedwell......Aug. 7, 1656 These were all imprisoned and banished without ceremony, and the masters of the vessels which brought them were placed under bonds to take them away......1656 At the next session of the General Court a penalty of £ 100 was imposed upon the master of any ship bringing Quakers within the jurisdiction; and all brought in were to be sent to jail, given twenty stripes, and kept at work until transported......Oct. 4, 1656 [Plymouth, Connecticut, and the Dutch at Manhattan (but not the government at Providence, R. I.) adopt similar laws.] William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson hanged as returned Quakers......Oct. 27, 1659 Town of Hadley settled......1659 Mary Dyer was to be hanged (as a Quaker) with Robinson and Stevenson, but through the pleadings of her son she was reprieved and again banished; returning again to Massachusetts, she is hanged......June 1, 1660 Charles II. restored......Ma