Martyrdom of Mary Dyer
...In 1658, religious intolerance in Boston reached a a new height, when a law was passed banishing Quakers under "pain of death." When Mary Dyer learned that two of her friends were jailed in Boston, she went to visit them in 1659, and was herself thrown in jail. In September of that year Mary Dyer and her two friends were released, but they were promised that they would be executed if they returned. Less than a month later, Mary Dyer, in the company of other Friends, was back in Boston resolved to "look the bloody laws in the face"...
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