[Footnote: _Brief Apologie_, p. 59.] Accordingly they "wrote to the
church at Boston, offering to make proof of the same," whereupon she was
summoned and the lecture appointed to begin at ten o'clock. [Footnote:
Winthrop, i. 254.]
"When she was come one of the ruling elders called her forth before the
assembly," and read to her the twenty-nine errors of which she was
accused, all of which she admitted she had maintained. "Then she asked by
what rule such an elder would come to her pretending to desire light and
indeede to entrappe her." He answered that he came not to "entrap her but
in compassion to her soule...."
"Then presently she grew into passion ... professing withall that she held
none of these things ... before her imprisonment." [Footnote: _Brief
Apol._ pp. 59-61.]
The court sat till eight at night, when "Mr. Cotton pronounced the
sentence of admonition ... with much zeal and detestation of her errors
and pride of spirit." [Footnote: Winthrop, i. 256.] An adjournment was
then agreed on for a week and she was ordered to return to Roxbury; but
this was more than she could bear, and her distress was such that the
congregation seem to have felt some touch of compassion, for she was
committed to the charge of Cotton till the next lecture day, when the
trial was to be resumed. [Footnote: _Brief Apol.
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