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payment of parish levies. Ibid, Volume IV, page 306. There is basis for the belief that the persecution of the Quakers was never inexorable, and that their religious meetings were allowed from the period of their first seating in the colony. In 1663 John Porter, a member of the House of Burgesses, from Lower Norfolk county, was arraigned before the House for being loving to the Quakers, and being at their meetings. He was also charged with being so far an Anabaptist as to be against the bapt All persons guilty of larceny above the value of twelve pence were by the common law subject to the death penalty. Tucker, Volume IV, page 236. It would appear that the transportation of felons to America was first authorized by Parliament in 1663, when an act was passed sending hither the Morse Troopers of Cumberland and Northumberland. Blackstone, Philadelphia Edition, 1841, Volume I, side note 18, page 137. The presence of these Puritans in Virginia was speedily felt. An insurrecti