Unhandsome questions were put to them.

Some were kept for four days under examination.
It was however highly to their honour, that they were found in no one instance to prevaricate, nor to waver as to the certainty of their facts.
But this treatment, hard as it was for them to bear, was indeed good for the cause; for, coming thus pure out of the fire, they occasioned their own testimony, when read, to bear stronger marks of truth than that of the generality of our opponents; nor was it less superior, when weighed by other considerations.

For the witnesses against the abolition were principally interested.

They who were not, had been hospitably received at the planters' tables.

The evidence too, which they delivered, was almost wholly negative.