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Gorton answered in writing.

All of the elders except three voted for death, but a majority of the deputies refused to sanction the sentence.

Seven of the prisoners were sentenced to be confined in irons for as long as it pleased the court, set to work and, if they broke jail or proclaimed heresy, to be executed if convicted.

The three others got off easier.

The convicts were put in chains, paraded before the congregation at the Reverend Cotton's lecture as an example, and sent to prisons in various towns, where they languished all winter, chains included.