Chapter II

Rev. Mr. Saltonstall. His charge of blasphemy against John 37-50
Rogers. Statements of John Rogers, 2d, regarding this
charge and the punishments inflicted upon John Rogers on
account of it. John Rogers fined regularly once a month
without regard to his innocence or guilt. His nearly four
year’s imprisonment at Hartford immediately followed by
Mr. Saltonstall’s suit for defamation, by which a
subservient jury awarded Mr. Saltonstall the enormous sum
of £600 for damages. No admission of fault from the
ecclesiastical side. The case for the Rogerenes. John
Roger’s own account of his imprisonment upon charge of
“blasphemy.” Mr. McEwen avers that the Rogerenes
persecuted the Congregationalists and makes no mention of
the persecutions of the Rogerenes at the hands of the
Congregationalists, which called forth the efforts in
their own defense. Appropriate lines from Mother Goose.
Mr. Byles apparently as much displeased with the
Congregationalists as with the Rogerenes