Putnam answered, it was all one to him.  Then the said Putnam went and writ it, and read it to Mr. Burroughs, and said to him that it should go for part of the L33. 6_s._ 8_d._ for which he had given a bill to him in behalf of the inhabitants.  I, Hannah Ingersoll, aged forty-six years or thereabouts, testify the same.”

It seems by the foregoing, that Mr. Burroughs had presented a bill, of the amount just mentioned, to John Putnam, who, as chairman of the committee the preceding year, represented the inhabitants; and it was deliberately and formally agreed, that the sum borrowed of Putnam by Burroughs should “go for part of it.”  The records of the parish show, that, on the 24th of May,—­three weeks after this meeting “for reckoning,”—­a vote was passed to raise, by a rate, “fifteen pounds for Mr. Burroughs for the last quarter of a year he preached with us.”  At a meeting in December of the same year, a rate was ordered, to pay the debts of the parish, amounting to L52. 1_s._ 1_d._ On the 22d of the ensuing February, the parish voted to raise “fifteen pounds for Mr. Burroughs.”  The record of a meeting in April, 1684, contains an order, left on the book, with Mr. Burroughs’s proper signature, authorizing Lieutenant Thomas Putnam to receive of the committee “what is due to me from the inhabitants of Salem Farms.”  Thus it is evident, that, at the very day when the ruthless proceedings above described took place, a considerable balance was due to Mr. Burroughs, after all claims from all quarters had been “reckoned.”  The return of the marshal, made to the Court, was as follows:—­

     “I have attached the body of George Burroughs he tendered to
     me,—­for he said he had no pay,—­and taken bonds to the
     value of fourteen pounds money, and read this to him.

     Per me,

     HENRY SKERRY, Marshal.”

The bond is as follows.  I give the names of the signers.  The persons who interposed to rescue a persecuted man from unjust imprisonment deserve to be held in honored remembrance.

“We whose names are underwritten do bind ourselves jointly and severally to Henry Skerry, Marshal of Salem, our heirs, executors, and administrators, in the sum of fourteen pounds money, that George Burroughs shall appear at the next court at Salem, to answer to Lieutenant John Putnam, according to the summons of this attachment, and to abide the order of the court therein, and not to depart without license; as witness our hands this 2d of May, 1683.

     “GEORGE BURROUGHS. 
     NATHANIEL INGERSOLL. 
     JOHN BUXTON. 
     THOMAS HAYNES. 
     SAMUEL SIBLEY. 
     WILLIAM SIBLEY. 
     WILLIAM IRELAND, JR.”