william and marmaduke are indeed executed, october 1659. mary as the story goes and nobody having been there. she is already mounting the scaffold. and she's getting up there and she's ready. she's ready to give her life for this cause. and her husband says, no, please. and he intervenes with the governor. and against her will she is given a reprieve. as long as within the next eight hours you get out of this colony and you stay gone. eight hours. if you're not gone in eight hours we'll carry out the sentence. she goes. permanently banished again. again we run into this confusion of the means of the world permanent. seven months later she's back. may of 1660. and she's arrested. and she's put on trial. on may 31, 1660, and would governor and mary would you please come forward. are you the same mary dire that was here before? >> i am the same mary dire that was here the last general court. >> you will own yourself a quaker, will you not. >> i own myself reproachfully so-called. >> sentence was passed on you the last general court. now likewi

mary's definition and william and marmaduke's definition. because within a few weeks they are back in boston where, not surprisingly, they are arrested again and thrown in jail and put on trial. they are arrested for this, okay, two things, for their rebellion, sedition and presumptuous on trued be themselves upon us. i thought that was a great phrase. their rebellion, edition and presumptuous obtruding themselves upon us for not having the good sense to stay away or the decency or politeness to stay away, they were presumptuous to are your honor to this colony after we asked them to stay away. they were also put on trial for being underminers of the government. one of the things the quakers refused to do was to swear loyalty oaths as i already mentioned. okay? that was kind of important. loyalty to the king, loyalty to the colony, loyalty to the church. all right? undermining the government structure, the religious structure. so october 19th, 1659. we have general court the massachusetts bay colony the robinson, steven and dyer. all three a

it was portrayed as a drunkard and in one of them he was proposed as marmaduke hammerhead and the doom of the drinker. during his lifetime he was developing a reputation as a heavy drinker and he went through most of the time without touching alcohol and had a single glass of wine. maybe he was diabetic we just don't know but he drank less than people nowadays think heini did. he went on to become an evil despicable person and his biography he has episode after episode to train him as a hopeless drunk but his friends and family came to his defense and said this isn't true. his enemy said it is just a baseless slander. they showed up at the house terrified.body would then later he said it was all hallucination it wasn't real, never mind. he didn't find inspiration by using this. that is the popular reputation. he needed to go to the big cities and make a name for himself. after his wife died, he was struggling to make a living and he found a financial backer willing to start and he was raising money by selling subscriptions on a lecture tour and it eventually brought him back to richmon