an elderly man by the name of william brand and a younger man named john copeland and they were with him for two or three nights. so he entertained them, he fed them, and here is a man who said, i cannot close with these quaker but neither can i be their persecutor. in the two or three days that they are snow bound, these two men convert his wife and some of his children to become quakers. so now the very man who has lost his social standing has also lost control over his family. the people that he protected. but he was a man of such spirit that he made sure that they had safe convey yens. a warrant was delivered to his house for their arrest. he went to another more sympathetic magistrate and had a warrant written that was given to the two that was supposed to get them to safety in sandwich without being molested. they were stopped in the town of plymouth, what i want you to imagine is three fingers, long rods, bound together the width of the human finger. william brandon, elderly man, was whipped ten times with those three rods bound together. the younger man, john copeland, was be