The General Court summoned Mary before them on May 31, 1660.
Governor Endicott: Are you the same Mary Dyer that was here before?
Mary Dyer: I am the same Mary Dyer that was here the last General Court.
Endicott: You will own yourself a Quaker, will you not?
Dyer: I own myself to be reproachfully so called.
Endicott: Sentence was passed upon you the last General Court; and now likewise--You must return to the prison, and there remain till to-morrow at nine o'clock;
then thence you must go to the gallows and there be hanged till you are dead.
Dyer: This is no more than what thou saidst before.
Endicott: But now it is to be executed. Therefore prepare yourself to-morrow at nine o'clock.
Dyer: I came in obedience to the will of God the last General Court, desiring you to repeal your unrighteous laws of banishment on pain of death;
and that same is my work now, and earnest request, although I told you that if you refused to repeal them, the Lord would send others of his servants
to witness against them.
Endicott: Are you a prophetess?
Dyer I speak the words that the Lord speaks to me.
Endicott: Away with her! Away with her!
(Source: Horatio Rogers, Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, The Quaker Martyr That Was Hanged on Boston Common, June 1, 1660.)
