[William Clayton Journal] ... After we had got on the road he [Joseph Smith] began to tell me that E[mma] was turned quite friendly and kind. She had been anointed and he also had been a[nointed] K[ing]. He said that it was her advice that I should keep [Clayton's pregnant, plural wife] M[argaret] at home and it was also his council. Says he just keep her at home and brook it and if they raise trouble about it and bring you before me [as a case of adultry] I will give you an awful scourging and probably cut you off from the church and then I will baptise you and set you ahead as good as ever.
[Source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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