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Drake - -Release Date: October 30, 2016 [EBook #53412] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITCHCRAFT DELUSION, VOL 3 *** - - - - -Produced by Dianna Adair, Louise Davies, Eleni Christofaki -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of -public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital -Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="transnote"> -<h3>Transcriber's Note.</h3> - -<p>A <a href="#Transcribers_Note">list</a> of the changes made can be found at the end of the book.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h1>The -Witchcraft Delusion - -In -New England Vol. III</h1> -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/i_titlepage.jpg" width="500" height="793" alt="titlepage" /> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center"><em class="antiqua">Woodward's <br /> - Historical Series.</em></p> -<p class="center">No. VII. -</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center"> -THE<br /> -<em class="antiqua"><big>Witchcraft Delusion</big></em><br /> -<small>IN</small><br /> -NEW ENGLAND:<br /> -<br /> -<small>ITS</small><br /> -<span class="smcap">Rise, Progress, and Termination</span>,<br /> -<small>AS EXHIBITED BY</small><br /> -<span class="smcap">Dr.</span> COTTON MATHER,<br /> -<small>IN</small><br /> -<i>THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD</i>;<br /> -<small>AND BY</small><br /> -<span class="smcap">Mr.</span> ROBERT CALEF,<br /> -<small>IN HIS</small><br /> -<i>MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD</i>.<br /> -<br /> -<small>WITH A</small><br /> -<em class="antiqua">Preface, Introduction, and Notes</em>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">By</span> SAMUEL G. DRAKE.<br /> -<br /> -IN THREE VOLUMES.<br /> - -<br /> -VOL. III.<br /> -<br /> -<i>More Wonders of the Invisible World.</i></p> -<hr class="small" /> -<p class="center"> -PRINTED FOR W. ELLIOT WOODWARD,<br /> -ROXBURY, MASS.<br /> -MDCCCLXVI.<br /> -</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<p class="center"> -<i>No.</i>____</p> -<p class="center p6"> -Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865,<br /> -By SAMUEL G. DRAKE,<br /> -in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States<br /> -for the District of Massachusetts.<br /> -</p> -<p class="center p6"> -<span class="smcap">Edition in this size 280 Copies.</span> -</p> -<p class="center p4"> -<span class="smcap">Munsell, Printer.</span> -</p> - -<div class="chapter"></div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illus_005.jpg" width="500" height="60" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">[90] MORE WONDERS<br /> -<span class="pagenum hidev"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">3</a></span> -<small>OF THE</small><br /> -<big>INVISIBLE WORLD</big>.</p> -<hr class="small" /> -<h2 class="break">PART V.</h2> - -<h3 class="hang"><i>An Impartial Account of the most Memorable -Matters of Fact, touching the supposed -Witchcraft in</i> New-England.</h3> - -<div class="sidenote"><i> Matters of Fact.</i></div> - -<p class="dropcap">MR. <i>Parris</i><a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> had been some years a Minister -in <i>Salem-Village</i>, when this sad Calamity -(as a deluge) overflowed them, spreading -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">4</a></span> -itself far and near. He was a Gentleman of Liberal -Education, and not meeting with any great Encouragement, -or Advantage in Merchandizing, to -which for some time he apply'd himself, betook -himself to the work of the Ministry; this Village -being then vacant, he met with so much -Encouragement, as to settle in that Capacity -among them.</p> - -<p>After he had been there about two years, he -obtained a Grant from a part of the Town, that -the House and Land he Occupied, and which -had been Alotted by the whole People to the -Ministry, should be and remain to him, <i>&c.</i> as -his own Estate in Fee Simple. This occasioned -great <i>Divisions</i> both between the Inhabitants -themselves, and between a considerable part of -them and their said Minister, which Divisions -were but as a beginning or <i>Præludium</i> to what -immediately followed.</p> - -<p>It was the latter end of <i>February</i> 1691,<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> when -divers young Persons belonging to Mr. <i>Parris's</i> -Family, and one or more of the Neighbourhood, -began to [91] Act, after a strange & unusual -manner, <i>viz.</i> as by getting into Holes, and creeping -under Chairs and Stools, and to use sundry -odd Postures and Antick Gestures, uttering foolish, -ridiculous Speeches, which neither they -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">5</a></span>themselves nor any others could make sense of; -the Physicians<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> that were called could assign no -reason for this; but it seems one of them, having -recourse to the old shift, told them he was -afraid they were Bewitched; upon such suggestions, -they that were concerned, applied themselves -to Fasting and Prayer, which was attended -not only in their own private Families, but with -calling in the help of others.</p> - -<p><i>March</i> the 11<i>th</i>. Mr. <i>Parris</i> invited several -Neighbouring Ministers to join with him in -keeping a Solemn day of Prayer at his own -House; the time of the exercise those Persons -were for the most part silent, but after any one -Prayer was ended, they would Act and Speak -strangely and Ridiculously, yet were such as had -been well Educated and of good Behaviour, the -one a Girl of 11 or 12 years old, would sometimes -seem to be in a <i>Convulsion</i> Fit, her Limbs -being twisted several ways, and very stiff, but -presently her Fit would be over.</p> - -<p>A few days before this Solemn day of Prayer, -Mr. <i>Parris's</i> <i>Indian</i> Man and Woman made a -Cake of Rye Meal, with the Childrens Water, -and Baked it in the Ashes, and as is said, gave it -to the Dog; this was done as a means to Discover -Witchcraft; soon after which those ill -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</a></span>affected or afflicted Persons named several that -they said they saw, when in their Fits, afflicting -of them.</p> - -<p>The first complain'd of, was the said <i>Indian</i> -Woman, named <i>Tituba</i>,<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> she confessed that the -<i>Devil</i> urged her to sign a Book, which he presented -to her, and also to work Mischief to the -Children, <i>&c.</i> She was afterwards Committed -to Prison, and lay there till Sold for her Fees. -The account she since gives of it is, that her -Master did beat her and otherways abuse her, to -make her confess and accuse (such as he call'd) -her Sister-Witches, and that whatsoever she said -by way of confessing or accusing others, was the -effect of such usage; her Master refused to pay -her Fees, unless she would stand to what she had -said.</p> - -<p>The Children complained likewise of two -other Women, to be the Authors of their Hurt, -<i>Viz.</i> <i>Sarah Good</i>, who had long been counted a -<i>Melancholy</i> or <i>Distracted</i> Woman, and one <i>Osburn</i>, -an Old <i>Bed-rid</i> Women, which two were Persons -so ill thought of, that the accusation was the -more readily believed; and after Examination -before two <i>Salem</i> Magistrates were committed:<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span><i>March</i> the 19<i>th</i>, Mr. <i>Lawson</i> (who had been formerly -a Preacher at the said Village) came thither, -and hath since set forth in Print an account of -what then passed, about which time, as he saith, -they complained of Goodwife <i>Cory</i>, and Goodwife -<i>Nurse</i>, Members of Churches at the Village, -and at <i>Salem</i>, many others being by that time -Accused.</p> - -<p><i>March</i> the 21<i>st</i>, Goodwife <i>Cory</i><a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> was examined -before the Magistrates of <i>Salem</i>, at the Meeting -House in the Village, a throng of Spectators being -present to see the Novelty. Mr. <i>Noyes</i>,<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> one of -the Ministers of <i>Salem</i> began with Prayer, after -which the Prisoner being call'd, in order to answer -to what [92] should be Alledged against -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">8</a></span>her, she desired that she might go to Prayer, and -was answered by the Magistrates, that they did -not come to hear her pray, but to examine her.</p> - -<p>The number of the Afflicted were at that time -about Ten, <i>Viz.</i> Mrs. <i>Pope</i>, Mrs. <i>Putman</i>, goodwife -<i>Bibber</i>,<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> and Goodwife <i>Goodall</i>, <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, -<i>Mercy Lewes</i> (at <i>Thomas Putmans</i>) and Dr. -<i>Griggs</i> Maid, and three Girls, <i>Viz.</i> <i>Elizabeth Parris</i>, -Daughter to the Minister, <i>Abigail Williams</i> -his Neice, and <i>Ann Putman</i>, which last three, -were not only the beginners, but were also the -chief in these Accusations.<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> These Ten were -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</a></span>most of them present at the Examination, and -did vehemently accuse her of Afflicting them, by -Biting, Pinching, Strangling, &c. And they said, -they did in their Fits see her likeness coming to -them, and bringing a Book for them to Sign; -Mr. <i>Hathorn</i>, a Magistrate of <i>Salem</i>, asked her, why -she Afflicted those Children? she said, she did not -Afflict them, he asked her who did then? she -said, I do not know, how should I know? she -said, they were Poor Distracted Creatures, and no -heed to be given to what they said; Mr. <i>Hathorn</i> -and Mr. <i>Noyes</i> replied that it was the Judgment -of all that were there present, that they were -bewitched, and only she (the Accused) said they -were Distracted: She was Accused by them, that -the <i>Black Man</i> Whispered to her in her Ear now<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> -(while she was upon Examination) and that she -had a Yellow Bird, that did use to Suck between -her Fingers, and that the said Bird did Suck now -in the Assembly; order being given to look in -that place to see if there were any sign, the Girl -that pretended to see it said, that it was too late -now, for she had removed a Pin, and put it on -her Head, it was upon search found, that a Pin -was there sticking upright. When the Accused -had any motion of their Body, Hands or Mouth, -the Accusers would cry out, as when she bit a -Lip, they would cry out of being bitten, if she -grasped one hand with the other, they would cry -out of being Pinched by her, and would produce -marks, so of the other motions of her Body, as -complaining of being Prest, when she lean'd to -the seat next her, if she stirred her Feet, they -would stamp and cry out of Pain there. After -the hearing the said <i>Cory</i> was committed to -<i>Salem</i> Prison, and then their crying out of her -abated.</p> - -<p><i>March</i> the 24<i>th</i>, Goodwife <i>Nurse</i> was brought -before Mr. <i>Hathorn</i> and Mr. <i>Curwin</i> (Magistrates) -in the Meeting House, Mr. <i>Hale</i> Minister of -<i>Beverly</i>, began with Prayer, after which she being -Accus'd of much the same Crimes made the like -answers, asserting her own Innocence with earnestness. -The Accusers were mostly the same, -<i>Tho Putmans</i> Wife, <i>&c.</i> complaining much. The -dreadful Shreiking from her and others, was very<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</a></span> -amazing, which was heard at a great distance; -she was also Committed to Prison.<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a></p> - -<p>A Child of <i>Sarah Goods</i>, was likewise apprehended, -being between 4 and 5 years Old, the -Accusers said this Child bit them, and would -shew such like marks, as those of a small Sett of -Teeth upon their Arms, as many of the Afflicted -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</a></span>as the Child cast its Eye upon, would complain -they were in Torment; which Child they also -Committed.</p> - -<p>Concerning these that had been hitherto Examined -and Committed, it is [93] among other -things observed, by Mr. <i>Lawson</i> (in Print<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a>) that -they were by the Accusers charged, to belong to -a Company that did muster in Arms, and were -reported by them to keep Days of Fast, Thanksgiving -and Sacraments; and that those Afflicted -(or Accusers) did in the Assembly, Cure each -other, even with a touch of their hand, when -strangled and otherways tortured, and would endeavour -to get to the Afflicted to relieve them -thereby (for hitherto they had not used the Experiment -of bringing the Accused to touch the -Afflicted, in order to their Cure) and could foretell -one anothers Fits to be coming, and would -say, look to such a one, she will have a Fit presently -and so it happened, and that at the same -time when the Accused person was present, the -Afflicted said they saw her <i>Spectre</i> or likeness in -other places of the Meeting House Sucking [suckling] -their Familiars.</p> - -<p>The said Mr. <i>Lawson</i> being to Preach at the -Village, after the Psalm was Sung, <i>Abigail Williams</i> -said, <i>Now Stand up and name your Text</i>; after it was -read, she said, <i>It is a long Text</i>. Mrs. Pope in the -beginning of Sermon said to him, <i>Now there is -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span>enough of that</i>. In Sermon, he referring to his -Doctrine, <i>Abigail Williams</i> said to him, <i>I know no -Doctrine you had, if you did name one I have forgot -it</i>. <i>Ann Putman</i> an afflicted Girl, said, <i>There was -a Yellow Bird sate on his Hat as it hung on the Pin -in the Pulpit</i>.<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a></p> - -<p><i>March</i> 31, 1692. Was set apart as a day of Solem -Humiliation at <i>Salem</i>, upon the Account of -this Business, on which day <i>Abigail Williams</i> said, -<i>That she saw a great number of Persons in the Village -at the Administration of a Mock Sacrament, -where they had Bread as read as raw Flesh, and red -Drink</i>.<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a></p> - -<p><i>April</i> 1. <i>Mercy Lewis</i> affirmed, <i>That she saw a -man in White, with whom she went into a Glorious -Place</i>, viz. in her fits, <i>where was no Light of the -Sun, much less of Candles, yet was full of Light and -Brightness, with a great Multitude in White Glittering -Robes, who Sang the Song in</i> Rev. v. 9. <i>and -the</i> cx. <i>and</i> cxlix. Psalms; <i>And was given that she -mighty tarry no longer in this place</i>. This White -Man is said to have appeared several times to -others of them, and to have given them notice -how long it should be before they should have -another Fit.<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a></p> - -<p><i>April</i> the 3<i>d</i>. Being Sacrament Day at the Village, -<i>Sarah Cloys</i>, Sister to Goodwife <i>Nurse</i>, a -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">14</a></span>Member of one of the Churches, was (tho' it -seems with difficulty prevailed with to be) present; -but being entred the place, and Mr. <i>Parris</i> -naming his Text, <i>John</i> vi. 70. <i>Have not I -chosen you Twelve, and one of you is a Devil</i> (for -what cause may rest as a doubt whether upon the -account of her Sisters being committed, or because -of the choice of that Text) she rose up and -went out, the wind shutting the Door forcibly, -gave occasion to some to suppose she went out in -Anger, and might occasion a suspicion of her; -However she was soon after complain'd of, examin'd -and committed.<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a></p> - -<p><i>April</i> the 11<i>th</i>. By this time the number of -the Accused and Accusers being much increased, -was a Public Examination at <i>Salem</i>, Six of the -Magistrates with several Ministers being present, -there appeared several who complain'd against -others with hidious clamors and Screechings. -Goodwife <i>Proctor</i><a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> was brought thither, being -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">15</a></span> -Accused or cryed out against; her Hus[94]band -coming to attend and assist her, as there might -be need, the Accusers cryed out of him also, and -that with so much earnestness, that he was Committed -with his Wife. About this time besides -the Experiment of the Afflicted falling at the -sight, <i>&c.</i> they put the Accused upon saying the -Lord's Prayer, which one among them performed, -except in that petition [<i>Deliver us from Evil</i>] she -exprest it thus (<i>Deliver us from all Evil</i>) this was -lookt upon as if she Prayed against what she was -now justly under, and being put upon it again, -and repeating those words [<i>Hallowed be thy name</i>] -she exprest it [<i>Hollowed be thy Name</i>] this was -counted a depraving the words, as signifying to -make void, and so a Curse rather than a Prayer, -upon the whole it was concluded that she also -could not say it, <i>&c.</i> Proceeding in this work -of examination and Commitment many were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">16</a></span> -sent to Prison. As an Instance, see the following -Mittimus:</p> - -<p class="center p2">To their Majesties Goal-keeper in <i>Salem</i>.</p> - -<p class="dropcap">YOU <i>are in Their Majesties Names hereby required -to take into your care, and safe custody, -the Bodies of</i> William Hobs <i>and</i> Deborah <i>his -Wife,</i> Mary Easty, <i>the Wife of</i> Isaac Easty, <i>and</i> -Sarah Wild, <i>the Wife of</i> John Wild, <i>all of</i> Topsfield; -<i>and</i> Edward Bishop, <i>of</i> Salem-Village; -<i>Husbandman, and</i> Sarah <i>his Wife, and</i> Mary Black, -<i>a</i> negro <i>of Lieutenant</i> Nathaniel Putmans, <i>of</i> Salem-Village; -<i>also</i> Mary English <i>the Wife of</i> Philip -English,<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> <i>Merchant in</i> Salem; <i>who stand charged -with High Suspicion of Sundry Acts of Witchcraft, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">17</a></span>done or committed by them lately upon the Bodies of</i> -Ann Putman, Mary Lewis <i>and</i> Abigail Williams, -<i>of</i> Salem-Village; <i>whereby great Hurt and Damage -hath been done to the Bodies of the said Persons, -according to the complaint of</i> Thomas Putnam <i>and</i> -John Buxton <i>of</i> Salem-Village, <i>Exhibited</i>. Salem, -Apr 21, 1692, <i>appears, whom you are to secure in -order to their further Examination. Fail not.</i></p> - -<table summary="witnesses"> -<tr><td>John Hathorn,</td> <td class="br bt"> </td> -<td rowspan="2"><i>Assistants</i>.</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jona. Curwin,</td> <td class="br bb"> </td></tr> -</table> -<p class="center"> -<i>Dated</i> Salem, April 22, 1692. -</p> - -<table summary="names" class="p2"> -<tr><td><i>To Marshall</i> George Herrick</td> <td class="br bt"> </td></tr> -<tr><td><i>of Salem Essex.</i></td> <td class="br bb"> </td></tr> -</table> - -<p><i>YOU are in their Majesties Names hereby -required to convey the above-named to the Goal at</i> -Salem. <i>Fail not.</i></p> - -<table summary="names"> -<tr><td>John Hathorn,</td> <td class="br bt"> </td> -<td rowspan="2"><i>Assistants</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jona. Curwin,</td> <td class="br bb"> </td></tr> -</table> -<p class="center"> -<i>Dated</i> Salem, Apr 22, 1692. -</p> - -<p class="p2">The occasion of <i>Bishops</i> being cry'd out of, was -he being at an Examination in <i>Salem</i>, when at the -Inn an afflicted <i>Indian</i> was very unruly, whom he -undertook, and so managed him, that he was very -orderly, after which in riding home, in company -of him and other Accusers, the <i>Indian</i> fell into a -fit, and clapping hold with his Teeth on the back -of the Man that rode before him, thereby held<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">18</a></span> -himself upon the Horse, but said, <i>Bishop</i> striking -him with his stick, the <i>Indian</i> soon recovered, -and promised he would do so no more; to which -<i>Bishop</i> replied, that he [95] doubted not, but he -could cure them all, with more to the same effect; -immediately after he was parted from them, he -was cried out of, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p><i>May</i> 14, 1692. Sir <i>William Phips</i> arrived with -Commission from their Majesties to be Governor, -pursuant to the New Charter; which he now -brought with him; the Ancient Charter having -been vacated by King <i>Charles</i>, and King James -(by which they had a power not only to make -their own Laws; but also to chuse their own -Governor and Officers;) and the Countrey for some -years was put under an absolute Commission-Government, -till the Revolution, at which time, -tho more than two thirds of the People were for -reassuming their ancient Government, (to which -they had encouragement by his then Royal Highness's -Proclamation) yet some that might have -been better imployed<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> (in another Station) made -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span>it their business (by printing, as well as speaking) -to their utmost to divert them from such a settlement; -and so far prevailed, that for about seven -Weeks after the Revolution, here was not so -much as a face of any Government; but some -few Men upon their own Nomination would be -called a Committee of Safety; but at length the -Assembly prevailed with those that had been of -the Government, to promise that they would reassume; -and accordingly a Proclamation was -drawn, but before publishing it, it was underwritten, -that they would not have it understood -that they did reassume Charter-Government; so -that between Government and no Government, -this Countrey remained till Sir <i>William</i> arrived: -Agents being in this time impowered in <i>England</i>, -which no doubt did not all of them act according -to the Minds or Interests of those that impowered -them, which is manifest by their not acting -jointly in what was done; so that this place is -perhaps a single Instance (even in the best of -Reigns) of a Charter not restored after so happy -a Revolution.<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">20</a></span> -This settlement by Sir <i>William Phips</i> his being -come Governour put an end to all disputes of -these things,<a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> and being arrived, and having read -his Commission, the first thing he exerted his -Power in, was said to be his giving Orders that -Irons should be put upon those in Prison; for -tho for sometime after these were Committed, -the Accusers ceased to cry out of them; yet now -the cry against them was renewed, which occasioned -such Order; and tho there was partiality -in the executing it (some having taken them off -almost as soon as put on) yet the cry of these -Accusers against such ceased after this Order.<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a></p> - -<p><i>May</i> 24. Mrs. <i>Cary</i> of <i>Charlestown</i>, was Examined -and Committed. Her Husband Mr. <i>Nathaniel -Cary</i> has given account thereof, as also -of her Escape, to this Effect,</p> - -<p><i>I having heard some days, that my Wife was accused -of Witchcraft, being much disturbed at it, by -advice, we went to</i> Salem-Village, <i>to see if the -af</i>[96]<i>flicted knew her; we arrived there, 24. May, -it happened to be a day appointed for Examination; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span>accordingly soon after our arrival,</i> Mr. Hathorn -<i>and</i> Mr. Curwin, &c. <i>went to the Meeting-house, -which was the place appointed for that Work, the -Minister began with Prayer, and having taken care -to get a convenient place, I observed, that the afflicted -were two Girls of about Ten Tears old, and -about two or three other, of about eighteen, one of -the girls talked most, and could discern more than the -rest. The Prisoners were called in one by one, and -as they came in were cried out of, &c. The Prisoner -was placed about 7 or 8 foot from the Justices, -and the Accusers between the Justices and them; -the Prisoner was ordered to stand right before the -Justices, with an Officer appointed to hold each hand, -least they should therewith afflict them, and the Prisoner's -Eyes must be constantly on the Justices; for if -they look'd on the afflicted, they would either fall into -their Fits, or cry out of being hurt by them; after -Examination of the Prisoners, who it was afflicted -these Girls, &c. they were put upon saying the -Lord's Prayer, as a tryal of their guilt; after the -afflicted seem'd to be out of their Fits, they would -look steadfastly on some one person, and frequently not -speak; and then the Justices said they were struck -dumb, and after a little time would speak again; -then the Justices said to the Accusers, which of you -will go and touch the Prisoner at the Bar? then -the most courageous would adventure, but before they -had made three steps would ordinarily fall down as -in a Fit; the Justices ordered that they should be -taken up and carried to the Prisoner, that she might<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span> -touch them; and as soon as they were touched by the -accused, the Justices would say, they are well, before -I could discern any alteration; by which I observed -that the Justices understood the manner of it. Thus -far I was only as a Spectator, my Wife also was -there part of the time, but no notice taken of her by -the afflicted, except once or twice they came to her -and asked her name.</i></p> - -<p><i>But I having an opportunity to Discourse</i> Mr. -Hale <i>(with whom I had formerly acquaintance)</i> I -<i>took his advice, what I had best to do, and desired of -him that I might have an opportunity to speak with -her that accused my Wife; which he promised -should be, I acquainting him that I reposed my trust -in him.</i></p> - -<p><i>Accordingly he came to me after the Examination -was over, and told me I had now an opportunity to -speak with the said Accuser,</i> viz. Abigail Williams, -<i>a Girl of</i> 11 <i>or</i> 12 <i>Years old; but that we could -not be in private at Mr.</i> Parris's <i>House, as he had -promised me; we went therefore into the Alehouse, -where an Indian man attended us, who it seems was -one of the afflicted: to him we gave some Cyder, he -shewed several Scars, that seemed as if they had been -long there, and shewed them as done by Witchcraft, -and acquainted us that his Wife, who also was a -Slave, was imprison'd for Witchcraft.</i><a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> <i>And now -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span>instead of one Accuser, they all came in, who began -to tumble down like Swine, and then three Women -were called in to attend them. We in the Room -were all at a stand, to see who they would cry out -of; but in a short time they cried</i> [97] <i>out,</i> Cary: -<i>and immediately after a Warrant was sent from the -Justices to bring my Wife before them, who were -sitting in a Chamber near by, waiting for this.</i></p> - -<p><i>Being brought before the Justices, her chief accusers -were two Girls: my Wife declared to the -Justices, that she never had any knowledge of them -before that day; she was forced to stand with her -Arms stretched out. I did request that I might hold -one of her hands, but it was denied me; then she -desired me to wipe the Tears from her Eyes, and the -Sweat from her Face, which I did; then she desired -she might lean herself on me, saying, she should faint.</i></p> - -<p>Justice Hathorn <i>replied, she had strength enough -to torment those persons, and she should have strength -enough to stand. I speaking something against their -cruel proceedings, they commanded me to be silent, or -else I should be turned out of the Room. The Indian -before mentioned, was also brought in to be one of her -Accusers: being come in, he now (when before the -Justices) fell down and tumbled about like a Hog, -but said nothing. The Justices asked the Girls, -who afflicted the Indian? they answered she (meaning -my wife) and now lay upon him; the Justices -ordered her to touch him, in order to his cure, but -her head must be turned another way, least instead of -curing, she should make him worse, by her looking on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">24</a></span> -him, her hand being guided to take hold of his; but -the Indian took hold on her hand, and pulled her -down on the Floor, in a barbarous manner; then his -hand was taken off, and her hand put on his, and the -cure was quickly wrought. I being extreamly troubled -at their Inhumane dealings, uttered a hasty -Speech</i> [That God would take vengeance on them, -and desired that God would deliver us out of the -hands of unmerciful men.] <i>Then her Mittimus -was writ; I did with difficulty and charge obtain -the liberty of a Room, but no beds in it; if there -had, could have taken but little rest that Night, she -was committed to Boston Prison; but I obtained a -Habeas Corpus to remove her to Cambridge Prison, -which is in our County of Middlesex. Having been -there one Night, next Morning the Jaylor</i><a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> -<i>put Irons on her legs (having received such a command) -the weight of them was about eight pounds; these -with her other Afflictions, soon brought her into Convulsion -Fits, so that I thought she would have died -that Night, I sent to intreat that the Irons might be -taken off, but all intreaties were in vain, if it would -have saved her Life, so that in this condition she -must continue. The Tryals at Salem coming on, I -went thither, to see how things were managed; and -finding that the Spectre-Evidence was there received, -together with Idle, if not Malicious stories, against -Peoples Lives, I did easily see which way it would -go; for the same Evidence that served for one, would -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">25</a></span> -serve for all the rest; I acquainted her with her -danger; and that if she were carried to Salem to be -tried, I feared she would never return. I did my -utmost that she might have her Tryal in our own -County, I with several others Petitioning the Judge -for it, and were put in hopes of it;</i> [98] <i>but I soon -saw so much, that I understood thereby it was not -intended, which put me upon consulting the means of -her escape; which thro the goodness of God was -effected, and she got to Road Island, but soon found -herself not safe when there, by reason of the pursuit -after her; from thence she went to New-York, along -with some others that had escaped their cruel hands; -where we found his Excellency</i> Benjamin Fletcher, -<i>Esq: Governour, who was very courteous to us. After -this some of my Goods were seized in a Friends -hands, with whom I had left them, and myself imprisoned -by the Sheriff, and kept in Custody half a -day, and then dismist; but to speak of their usage of -the Prisoners, and their Inhumanity shewn to them, at -the time of their Execution, no sober Christian could -bear; they had also tryals of cruel mockings; which -is the more, considering what a People for Religion, -I mean the profession of it, we have been; those that -suffered being many of them Church-Members, and -most of them unspotted in their Conversation, till -their Adversary the Devil took up this Method for -accusing them.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -Per Jonathan Cary.<a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">26</a></span></p> -<blockquote> - -<p class="hang"><i>May 31.</i> Captain <i>John Aldin</i> was Examined at -<i>Salem</i>, and Committed to <i>Boston</i> Prison, the -Prison-Keeper seeing such a Man Committed, -of whom he had a good esteem, was after this -the more Compassionate to those that were in -Prison on the like account; and did refrain from -such hard things to the Prisoners, as before he -had used. Mr. <i>Aldin</i> himself has given account -of his Examination, in these Words.</p></blockquote> - -<h3 class="break"><i>An Account how</i> John Aldin,<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> <i>Senior, was dealt -with at</i> Salem-<i>Village.</i></h3> - -<p class="dropcap">JOHN <span class="smcap">Aldin</span> Senior, <i>of Boston, in the County of -Suffolk, Marriner, on the</i> 28<i>th Day of May,</i> 1692, -<i>was sent for by the Magistrates of</i> Salem, <i>in the County -of Essex, upon the Accusation of a company of poor -distracted, or possessed Creatures or Witches; and -being sent by Mr.</i> Stoughton, <i>arrived there the</i> 31<i>st</i> -of May, <i>and appeared at</i> Salem-Village, <i>before Mr.</i> -Gidney,<i> Mr.</i> Hathorn, <i>and Mr.</i> Curwin.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span> -<i>Those Wenches being present, who plaid their -jugling tricks, falling down, crying out, and staring -in Peoples Faces; the Magistrates demanded of them -several times, who it was of all the People in the -Room that hurt them? one of these Accusers pointed -several times at one</i> Captain Hill,<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> <i>there present, -but spake nothing; the same Accuser, had a Man -standing at her back to hold her up; he stooped down -to her Ear, then she cried out,</i> Aldin, Aldin <i>afflicted -her; one of the Magistrates asked her if she had -ever seen</i> Aldin, <i>she answered no, he asked how she -knew it was</i> Aldin? <i>She said, the Man told her so.</i></p> - -<p><i>Then all were ordered to go down into the Street, -where a Ring was made; and the same Accuser -cried out, there stands</i> Aldin, <i>a bold fellow with his -Hat on before the Judges, he sells Powder and Shot -to the</i> Indians <i>and</i> French, [99] <i>and lies with the</i> -Indian <i>Squaes, and has</i> Indian <i>Papooses. Then -was</i> Aldin <i>committed to the Marshal's Custody, and -his Sword taken from him; for they said he afflicted -them with his Sword. After some hours</i> Aldin <i>was -sent for to the Meeting-house in the Village before -the Magistrates; who required</i> Aldin <i>to stand upon -a Chair, to the open view of all the People.</i></p> - -<p><i>The Accusers cried out that</i> Aldin <i>did pinch them, -then, when he stood upon the Chair, in the sight of all -the People, a good way distant from them, one of the -Magistrates bid the Marshal to hold open</i> Aldins <i>hands, -that he might not pinch those Creatures.</i> Aldin -<i>asked them why they should think, that he should come -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">28</a></span> -to that Village to afflict those persons that he never -knew or saw before? Mr.</i> Gidney <i>bid</i> Aldin <i>confess, -and give glory to God:</i> Aldin <i>said he hoped he -should give glory to God, and hoped he should never -gratifie the Devil; but appealed to all that ever -knew him, if they ever suspected him to be such a -person, and challenged any one, that could bring in -any thing upon their own knowledge, that might give -suspicion of his being such an one. Mr.</i> Gidney -<i>said he had known</i> Aldin <i>many Years, and had been -at Sea with him, and always look'd upon him to be -an honest Man, but now he did see cause to alter his -judgment:</i> Aldin <i>answered, he was sorry for that, -but he hoped God would clear up his Innocency, that -he would recall that judgment again, and added that -he hoped that he should with</i> Job <i>maintain his Integrity -till he died. They bid</i> Aldin <i>look upon the -Accusers, which he did, and then they fell down.</i> -Aldin <i>asked Mr.</i> Gidney, <i>what reason there could -be given, why</i> Aldin's <i>looking upon him did not -strike him down as well? but no reason was given -that I heard. But the Accusers were brought to</i> -Aldin <i>to touch them, and this touch they said made -them well.</i> Aldin <i>began to speak of the Providence -of God, in suffering these Creatures to accuse Innocent -persons; Mr.</i> Noyes <i>asked</i> Aldin <i>why he would -offer to speak of the Providence of God, God by his -Providence (said Mr.</i> Noyes) <i>governs the World, -and keeps it in peace; and so went on with Discourse, -and stopt Aldin's mouth, as to that.</i> Aldin <i>told Mr.</i> -Gidney, <i>that he could assure him that there was a -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">29</a></span> -lying Spirit in them, for I can assure you that there -is not a word of truth in all these say of me. But</i> -Aldin <i>was again committed to the Marshal, and his -Mittimus written, which was as follows.</i></p> - -<h3 class="break"><i>To Mr. John Arnold, Keeper of the Prison in</i> Boston, -<i>in the County of</i> Suffolk.<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a></h3> - -<p class="dropcap">WHEREAS <i>Captain</i> John Aldin <i>of</i> Boston, -<i>Mariner, and</i> Sarah Rice,<i> Wife of</i> Nicholas -Rice <i>of</i> Reding, <i>Husbandman, have been this day -brought before us,</i> John Hathorn <i>and</i> Jonathan -Curwin, <i>Esquires; being accused and suspected of -perpetrating divers acts of Witchcraft, contrary to -the form of the Statute, in that Case made and provided: -These are therefore</i> [100] <i>in Their Majesties, -King</i> William <i>and Queen</i> Marys <i>Names, to Will and -require you, to take into your Custody, the bodies of -the said</i> John Aldin, <i>and</i> Sarah Rice, <i>and them safely -keep, until they shall thence be delivered by due course -of Law; as you will answer the contrary at your -peril; and this shall be your sufficient Warrant. -Given under our hands at</i> Salem-<i>Village, the</i> 31st <i>of</i> -May, <i>in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign -Lord and Lady,</i> William <i>and</i> Mary, <i>now King -and Queen over</i> England, <i>&c,</i> Anno Dom. 1692.</p> - -<table summary="witness"> -<tr><td>John Hathorn,</td> -<td class="br bt"> </td> -<td rowspan="2"><i>Assistants</i>.</td> -</tr> -<tr><td>Jonathan Curwin,</td> -<td class="br bb"> </td></tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">30</a></span> -<i>To</i> Boston Aldin <i>was carried by a Constable, no -Bail would be taken for him; but was delivered to -the Prison-keeper, where he remained Fifteen Weeks; -and then observing the manner of Tryals, and Evidence -then taken, was at length prevailed with to -make his Escape, and being returned, was bound over -to Answer at the Superior Court at</i> Boston, <i>the last</i> -Tuesday <i>in</i> April, Anno, 1693. <i>And was there -cleared by Proclamation, none appearing against him.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -Per. John Aldin. -</p> - -<p class="p2">At Examination, and at other times, 'twas -usual for the Accusers to tell of the black Man, -or of a Spectre, as being then on the Table, &c. -The People about would strike with Swords, or -sticks at those places. One Justice broke his cane -at this Exercise, and sometimes the Accusers would -say, they struck the Spectre, and it is reported -several of the accused were hurt and wounded -thereby, though at home at the same time.</p> - -<p>The Justices proceeding in these works of -Examination, and Commitment, to the end of -<i>May</i>, there was by that time about a Hundred -persons Imprisoned upon that Account.<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a></p> - -<p><i>June</i> 2. A special Commission of <i>Oyer</i> and -<i>Terminer</i>, having been Issued out, to Mr. <i>Stoughton</i>, -the New Lieutenant Governour, Major <i>Saltonstall</i>, -Major <i>Richards</i>, Major <i>Gidny</i>, Mr. <i>Wait Winthrop</i>, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">31</a></span> -Captain <i>Sewall</i>, and Mr. <i>Sergeant</i>;<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> These (a -<i>Quorum</i> of them) sat at <i>Salem</i> this day; where the -most that was done this Week, was the Tryal of -one <i>Bishop</i> alias <i>Oliver</i>, of <i>Salem</i>; who having long -undergone the repute of a Witch, occasioned by -the Accusations of one <i>Samuel Gray</i>: he about -20 Years since, having charged her with such -Crimes, and though upon his Death-bed, he testified -his sorrow and repentance for such Accusations, -as being wholly groundless; yet the report -taken up by his means continued, and she being -accused by those afflicted, and upon search a Tet, -as they call it, being found, she was brought in -guilty by the Jury; she [101] received her Sentence -of Death, and was Executed, <i>June</i> 10. but -made not the least Confession of any thing relating -to Witchcraft.<a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a></p> - -<p><i>June</i> 15. Several Ministers in and near <i>Boston</i>, -having been to that end consulted by his Excellency, -exprest their minds to this effect, <i>viz.</i></p> - -<p>That they were affected with the deplorable -state of the afflicted; That they were thankful -for the diligent care of the Rulers, to detect the -abominable Witchcrafts, which have been committed -in the Country, praying for a perfect discovery -thereof. But advised to a cautious proceeding, -least many Evils ensue, <i>&c.</i> And that -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">32</a></span>tenderness be used towards those accused, relating -to matters presumptive and convictive, and also to -privacy in Examinations, and to consult Mr. <i>Perkins</i> -and Mr. <i>Bernard</i>, what tests to make use of -in the Scrutiny: That Presumptions and Convictions -ought to have better grounds, than the -Accusers affirming that they see such persons -Spectres afflicting them; and that the Devil may -afflict in the shape of good Men; and that falling -at the sight, and rising at the touch of the Accused, -is no infallible proof of guilt; That seeing -the Devils strength consists in such Accusations, -our disbelieving them may be a means to put a -period to the dreadful Calamities; Nevertheless -they humbly recommend to the Government, the -speedy and vigorous prosecution of such as have -rendered themselves obnoxious, according to the -direction given in the Laws of God, and the -wholesome Statutes of the <i>English</i> Nation, for -the Detection of Witchcraft.<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">33</a></span> -This is briefly the substance of what may be -seen more at large in <i>Cases of Conscience</i>, (<i>ult.</i>) -And one of them since taking occasion to repeat -some part of this advice, <i>Wonders</i> of the <i>Invisible -World</i>, p. 83. declares, (notwithstanding the Dissatisfaction -of others) that if his said Book may -conduce to promote thankfulness to God for such -Executions, he shall rejoice, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p>The 30th of <i>June</i>, the Court according to Adjournment -again sat; five more were tried, <i>viz.</i> -<i>Sarah Good</i> and <i>Rebecca Nurse</i>, of <i>Salem-Village</i>; -<i>Susanna Martin</i> of <i>Amsbury</i>; <i>Elizabeth How</i> of -<i>Ipswich</i>; and <i>Sarah Wildes</i> of <i>Topsfield</i>: these -were all condemned that Sessions, and were all -Executed on the 19th of <i>July</i>.<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a></p> - -<p>At the Tryal of <i>Sarah Good</i>, one of the afflicted -fell in a Fit, and after coming out of it, she cried -out of the Prisoner, for stabbing her in the breast -with a Knife, and that she had broken the Knife -in stabbing of her, accordingly a piece of the -blade of a Knife was found about her. Immediately -information being given to the Court, a -young Man was called, who produced a Haft -and part of the Blade, which the Court having -viewed and compared, saw it to be the same. -And upon inquiry the young Man affirmed, that -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">34</a></span>yesterday he happened to brake that Knife, and -that he cast away the upper part, this afflicted -person being then [102] present, the young Man -was dismist, and she was bidden by the Court not -to tell lyes;<a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> and was improved (after as she had -been before) to give Evidence against the Prisoners.</p> - -<p>At Execution, Mr. <i>Noyes</i> urged <i>Sarah Good</i> to -Confess, and told her she was a Witch, and she -knew she was a Witch, to which she replied, you -are a lyer; I am no more a Witch than you are a -Wizard, and if you take away my Life, God will -give you Blood to drink.</p> - -<p>At the Tryal of <i>Rebecca Nurse</i>, this was remarkable -that the Jury brought in their Verdict -not Guilty, immediately all the accusers in the -Court, and, suddenly after all the afflicted out of -Court, made an hideous out-cry, to the amazement, -not only of the Spectators, but the Court -also seemed strangely surprized: one of the Judges -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span>exprest himself not satisfied, another of them as -he was going off the Bench, said they would have -her Indicted anew. The chief Judge said he -would not Impose upon the Jury; but intimated, -as if they had not well considered one Expression -of the Prisoners when she was upon Tryal, <i>viz.</i> -That when one <i>Hobbs</i>, who had confessed herself -to be a Witch, was brought into the Court to -witness against her, the Prisoner turning her head -to her, said, [<i>What, do you bring her? she is one of -us</i>] or to that effect, this together with the Clamours -of the Accusers, induced the Jury to go -out again, after their Verdict, not Guilty. But -not agreeing, they came into the Court, and she -being then at the Bar, her words were repeated to -her, in order to have had her explanation of them, -and she making no Reply to them, they found -the Bill, and brought her in Guilty; these words -being the Inducement to it, as the Foreman has -signified in writing, as follows.</p> - -<p><i>July</i> 4, 1692. I Thomas Fisk,<a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> <i>the Subscriber -hereof, being one of them that were of the Jury last -week at</i> Salem-court,<i> upon the Tryal of</i> Rebecca -Nurse, <i>&c. being desired by some of the Relations to -give a Reason why the Jury brought her in Guilty, -after her Verdict not Guilty; I do hereby give my -Reasons to be as follows, viz.</i></p> - -<p><i>When the Verdict not Guilty was, the honored Court -was pleased to object against it, saying to them, that -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">36</a></span>they think they let slip the words, which the Prisoner -at the Bar spake against herself, which were spoken -in reply to Goodwife</i> Hobbs <i>and her Daughter, who -had been faulty in setting their hands to the Devils -Book, as they have confessed formerly; the words were</i> -[What do these persons give in Evidence against -me now, they used to come among us.] <i>After -the honored Court had manifested their dissatisfaction of -the Verdict, several of the Jury declared themselves -desirous to go out again, and thereupon the Honoured -Court gave leave; but when we came to consider of -the Case, I could not tell how to take her words, as -an Evidence against her, till she had a further opportunity -to put her Sense upon them, if she would -take it; and then going into Court, I mentioned the -words aforesaid, which by one of the</i> [103] <i>Court -were affirmed to have been spoken by her, she being -then at the Bar, but made no reply, nor interpretation -of them; whereupon these words were to me a principal -Evidence against her.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -Thomas Fisk. -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p class="hang p2">When goodwife <i>Nurse</i> was informed what use was -made of these words, she put in this following -Declaration into the Court.</p></blockquote> - -<p class="dropcap">THESE <i>presents do humbly shew to the honoured -Court and Jury, that I being informed, that -the Jury brought me in Guilty, upon my saying that -Goodwife</i> Hobbs <i>and her Daughter were of our Company; -but I intended no otherways, than as they were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">37</a></span> -Prisoners with us, and therefore did then, and yet do -judge them not legal Evidence against their fellow -Prisoners. And I being something hard of hearing, -and full of grief, none informing me how the Court -took up my words, and therefore had no opportunity to -declare what I intended, when I said they were of our -Company.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -Rebecka Nurse. -</p> - -<p class="p2">After her Condemnation she was by one of the -Ministers of <i>Salem</i> excommunicated; yet the -Governour saw cause to grant a Reprieve, which -when known (and some say immediately upon -granting) the Accusers renewed their dismal outcries -against her, insomuch that the Governour -was by some <i>Salem</i> Gentleman prevailed with to -recall the Reprieve, and she was Executed with -the rest.</p> - -<p>The Testimonials of her Christian behaviour, -both in the course of her Life, and at her Death, -and her extraordinary care in educating her -Children, and setting them good Examples, <i>&c.</i> -under the hands of so many, are so numerous, -that for brevity they are here omitted.<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a></p> - -<p>It was at the Tryal of these that one of the -Accusers cried out publickly of Mr. <i>Willard</i> -Minister in <i>Boston</i>, as afflicting of her, she was -sent out of the Court, and it was told about she -was mistaken in the person.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">38</a></span> -<i>August</i> 5. The Court again sitting, six more -were tried on the same Account, viz. Mr. <i>George -Burroughs</i>, sometime minister of <i>Wells</i>, <i>John -Procter</i>, and <i>Elizabeth Procter</i> his Wife, with -<i>John Willard</i> of <i>Salem</i>-Village, <i>George Jacobs</i> -Senior, of <i>Salem</i>, and <i>Martha Carryer</i> of <i>Andover</i>; -these were all brought in Guilty and -Condemned; and were all Executed <i>August</i> -19, except <i>Procter's</i> Wife, who pleaded Pregnancy.<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a></p> - -<p>Mr. <i>Burroughs</i> was carried in a Cart with the -others, through the streets of <i>Salem</i> to Execution; -when he was upon the Ladder, he made a -Speech for the clearing of his Innocency, with -such Solemn and Serious Expressions, as were to -the Admiration of all present; his Prayer (which -he concluded by repeating the Lord's Prayer,) -was so well worded, and uttered with such composedness, -and such (at least seeming) fervency of -[104] Spirit, as was very affecting, and drew Tears -from many (so that it seemed to some, that the -Spectators would hinder the Execution) the accusers -said the black Man stood and dictated to -him; as soon as he was turned off, Mr. <i>Cotton -Mather</i>, being mounted upon a Horse, addressed -himself to the People, partly to declare, that he -was no ordained Minister, and partly to possess -the People of his guilt; saying That the Devil -has often been transformed into an Angel of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">39</a></span> -Light;<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> and this did somewhat appease the People, -and the Executions went on; when he was -cut down, he was dragged by the Halter to a -Hole, or Grave, between the Rocks, about two -foot deep, his Shirt and Breeches being pulled off, -and an old pair of Trousers of one Executed, put -on his lower parts, he was so put in, together -with <i>Willard</i> and <i>Carryer</i>, one of his Hands and -his Chin, and a Foot of one of them being left -uncovered.</p> - -<p><i>John Willard</i>, had been imployed to fetch in -several that were accused; but taking dissatisfaction -from his being sent, to fetch up some that he -had better thoughts of, he declined the Service, -and presently after he himself was accused of the -same Crime, and that with such vehemency, that -they sent after him to apprehend him; he had -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">40</a></span> -made his Escape as far as Nashawag,<a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> about 40 -Miles from <i>Salem</i>; yet 'tis said those Accusers did -then presently tell the exact time, saying, now -<i>Willard</i> is taken.</p> - -<p><i>John Procter</i> and his Wife being in Prison, -the Sheriff came to his House and seized all the -Goods, Provisions, and Cattle that he could come -at, and sold some of the Cattle at half price, and -killed others, and put them up for the <i>West-Indies</i>; -threw out the Beer out of a Barrel, and -carried away the Barrel; emptied a Pot of -Broath, and took away the Pot, and left nothing -in the House for the support of the Children: -No part of the said Goods are known to be returned. -<i>Procter</i> earnestly requested Mr. <i>Noyes</i> -to pray with and for him, but it was wholly denied, -because he would not own himself to be a -Witch.</p> - -<p>During his Imprisonment he sent the following -Letter, in behalf of himself and others.</p> - -<p class="right p2"> -Salem-<i>Prison</i>, July 23, 1692.</p> -<ul> -<li>Mr. Mather, Mr. Allen,</li> -<li>Mr. Moody, Mr. Willard, and</li> -<li>Mr. Bailey.<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> -</li></ul> -<p> -Reverend Gentlemen. -</p> - -<p class="dropcap">THE <i>innocency of our Case with the Enmity of -our Accusers and our Judges, and Jury, -whom nothing but our Innocent Blood will serve their -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">41</a></span>turns, having Condemned us already before our Tryals, -being so much incensed and engaged against us -by the Devil, makes us bold to Beg and Implore your</i> -[105] <i>Favourable Assistance of this our Humble -Petition to his Excellency, that if it be possible our -Innocent Blood may be spared, which undoubtedly -otherwise will be shed, if the Lord doth not mercifully -step in. The Magistrates, Ministers, Jewries, -and all the People in general, being so much inraged -and incensed against us by the Delusion of the Devil, -which we can term no other, by reason we know in -our own Consciences, we are all Innocent Persons. -Here are five Persons who have lately confessed -themselves to be Witches, and do accuse some of us, of -being along with them at a Sacrament, since we were -committed into close Prison, which we know to be -Lies. Two of the</i> 5 <i>are</i> (Carrier's <i>Sons</i>) <i>Young -men, who would not confess any thing till they tyed -them Neck and Heels, till the Blood was ready to -come out of their Noses, and 'tis credibly believed -and reported this was the occasion of making them -confess that they never did, by reason they said one -had been a Witch a Month, and another five Weeks, -and that their Mother had made them so, who has -been confined here this nine Weeks. My son</i> William -Procter, <i>when he was examin'd, because he would -not confess that he was Guilty, when he was Innocent, -they tyed him Neck and Heels till the Blood -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">42</a></span> -gushed out at his Nose, and would have kept him so</i> -24 <i>Hours, if one more Merciful than the rest, had -not taken pity on him, and caused him to be unbound. -These actions are very like the Popish Cruelties.</i><a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> -<i>They have already undone us in our Estates, and that -will not serve their turns, without our Innocent -Bloods. If it cannot be granted that we can have -our Trials at</i> Boston, <i>we humbly beg that you would -<span class="errauthor" title="read: endeavour">evdeavour</span> to have these Magistrates changed, and -others in their rooms, begging also and beseeching -you would be pleased to be here, if not all, some of -you at our Trials, hoping thereby you may be the -means of saving the shedding our Innocent Bloods, -desiring your Prayers to the Lord in our behalf, we -rest your Poor Afflicted Servants</i>,</p> - -<p class="right"> -John Procter, <i>&c.</i> -</p> - -<p class="p2">He pleaded very hard at Execution, for a little -respite of time, saying that he was not fit to die; -but it was not granted.</p> - -<p>Old <i>Jacobs</i> being Condemned, the Sheriff and -Officers came and seized all he had, his Wife had -her Wedding Ring taken from her, but with -great difficulty obtained it again. She was forced -to buy Provisions of the Sheriff, such as he had -taken, towards her own support, which not being -sufficient, the Neighbours of Charity relieved -her.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">43</a></span></p> -<p><i>Margaret Jacobs</i> being one that had confessed -her own Guilt, and testified against her Grand-Father -<i>Jacobs</i>, Mr. <i>Burroughs</i>, and <i>John Willard</i>. -She the day before Executions, came to -Mr. <i>Burroughs</i>, acknowledging that she had belyed -them, and begged Mr. <i>Burroughs</i> Forgiveness, -who not only forgave her, but also Prayed -with and for her. She wrote the following Letter -to her Father.</p> - -<p class="center p2"> -From the Dungeon in <i>Salem</i> Prison,</p> -<p class="right"><i>August</i> 20, 1692.</p> -<p> -Honoured Father, -</p> - -<p class="dropcap">AFTER <i>my Humble Duty Remembered to you, -hoping in the Lord of your good Health, as -Blessed be God I enjoy, tho in abundance of Affliction, -being close confined here in a loathsome Dungeon, the -Lord look down in mercy upon me, not knowing how -soon I shall be put to Death, by means of the Afflicted -Persons; my Grand-Father having Suffered already, -and all his Estate Seized for the King. The reason -of my Confinement is this, I having, through the -Magistrates Threatnings, and my own Vile and -Wretched</i> [106] <i>heart, confessed several things contrary -to my Conscience and Knowledge, tho to the -Wounding of my own Soul, the Lord pardon me -for it; but Oh! the terrors of a wounded Conscience -who can bear. But blessed be the Lord, he would -not let me go on in my Sins, but in mercy I hope so my -Soul would not suffer me to keep it in any longer, but -I was forced to confess the truth of all before the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">44</a></span> -Magistrates, who would not believe me, but 'tis their -pleasure to put me in here, and God knows how soon -I shall be put to death. Dear Fathers, let me beg -your Prayers to the Lord on my behalf, and send us -a Joyful and Happy Meeting in Heaven. My Mother -poor Woman is very Crazy, and remembers her -kind Love to you, and to Uncle,</i> viz. <i>D. A.</i><a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> -<i>So -leaving you to the protection of the Lord, I rest -your Dutiful Daughter</i>,</p> - -<p class="right"> -Margaret Jacobs. -</p> - -<p class="p2">At the time appointed for her Tryal, she had an -Imposthume in her head, which was her Escape.</p> - -<p><i>September</i> 9. Six more were tried, and received -Sentance of Death, viz. <i>Martha Cory</i> of <i>Salem</i>-Village, -<i>Mary Easty</i> of Topsfield, <i>Alice Parker</i> and -<i>Ann Pudeater</i> of <i>Salem</i>, <i>Dorcas Hoar</i> of <i>Beverly</i>, -and <i>Mary Bradberry</i> of <i>Salisbury</i>. September 16, -<i>Giles Cory</i> was prest to Death.<a name="FNanchor_42_42" id="FNanchor_42_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a></p> - -<p><i>September</i> 17. Nine more received Sentance of -Death, viz. <i>Margaret Scot</i> of <i>Rowley</i>, Goodwife -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">45</a></span><i>Redd</i> of <i>Marblehead, Samuel Wardwell,</i> and <i>Mary -Parker</i> of <i>Andover,</i> also <i>Abigail Falkner</i> of <i>Andover,</i> -who pleaded Pregnancy, <i>Rebecca Eames</i> of -<i>Boxford, Mary Lacy,</i> and <i>Ann Foster</i> of <i>Andover,</i> -and <i>Abigail Hobbs</i> of <i>Topsfield.</i> Of these Eight -were Executed, <i>September</i> 22, viz. <i>Martha Cory, -Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeater, Margaret -Scot, Willmet Redd, Samuel Wardwell,</i> and <i>Mary -Parker</i>.<a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a></p> - -<p><i>Giles Cory</i> pleaded not Guilty to his Indictment, -but would not put himself upon Tryal by the -Jury (they having cleared none upon Tryal) and -knowing there would be the same Witnesses -against him, rather chose to undergo what Death -they would put him to. In pressing his Tongue -being prest out of his Mouth, the Sheriff with -his Cane forced it in again, when he was dying. -He was the first in <i>New-England</i> that was ever -prest to Death.</p> - -<p>The Cart going to the Hill with these Eight -to Execution, was for some time at a sett; the -afflicted and others said, that the Devil hindered -it,<a name="FNanchor_44_44" id="FNanchor_44_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p><i>Martha Cory</i>, Wife to <i>Giles Cory</i>, protesting her -Innocency, concluded her Life with an Eminent -Prayer upon the Ladder.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">46</a></span> - -<i>Wardwell</i> having formerly confessed himself -Guilty, and after denied it, was soon brought -upon his Tryal; his former Confession and Spectre -Testimony was all that appeared against him. -At Execution while he was speaking to the People, -protesting his Innocency, the Executioner -being at the same time smoaking Tobacco, the -smoak coming in his Face, interrupted his Discourse, -those Accusers said, the Devil hindered -him with smoak.</p> - -<p>[107] <i>Mary Easty</i>, Sister also to <i>Rebecca Nurse</i>, -when she took her last farewell of her Husband, -Children and Friends, was, as is reported by them -present, as Serious, Religious, Distinct, and Affectionate -as could well be exprest, drawing Tears -from the Eyes of almost all present. It seems besides -the Testimony of the Accusers and Confessors, -another proof, as it was counted, appeared against -her, it having been usual to search the Accused -for Tets; upon some parts of her Body, not here -to be named, was found an Excrescence, which -they called a Tet. Before her Death she put -up the following Petition:</p> - -<p><i>To the Honorable Judge and Bench now sitting -in Judicature in</i> Salem <i>and the Reverend Ministers, -humbly sheweth, That whereas your humble poor -Petitioner being Condemned to die, doth humbly beg -of you, to take it into your Judicious and Pious -Consideration, that your poor and humble Petitioner -knowing my own Innocency (blessed be the Lord for -it) and seeing plainly the Wiles and Subtilty of my -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">47</a></span> -Accusers, by myself, cannot but judge charitably -of others, that are going the same way with -myself, if the Lord step not mightily in. I was -confined a whole Month on the same account that -I am now condemned for, an then cleared by -the Afflicted persons, as some of your Honour -know, and in two days time I was cried out upon by -them, and have been confined and now am condemned -to die. The Lord above knows my Innocency then, -and likewise doth now, as at the great day will be -known to Men and Angels. I Petition to your Honours -not for my own Life, for I know I must die, -and my appointed time is set; but the Lord he knows -it is, if it be possible, that no more Innocent Blood be -shed, which undoubtedly cannot be avoided in the way -and course you go in. I question not, but your Honours -do the utmost of your powers, in the discovery -and detection of Witchcraft and Witches, and would -not be guilty of Innocent Blood for the World; but -by my own Innocency I know you are in the wrong -way, the Lord in his infinite Mercy direct you in -this great work, if it be his blessed will, that Innocent -Blood be not shed; I would humbly beg of you, -that your Honours would be pleased to Examine -some of those confessing Witches, I being confident -there are several of them have belyed themselves -and others, as will appear, if not in this World, I -am sure in the World to come, whither I am going; -and I question not, but yourselves will see an alteration -in these things: They say, myself and others -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">48</a></span> -have made a league with the Devil, we cannot confess, -I know and the Lord he knows (as will shortly -appear) they belye me, and so I question not but they -do others; the Lord alone, who is the searcher of all -hearts, knows that as I shall answer it at the Tribunal -Seat, that I know not the least thing of Witchcraft, -therefore I cannot, I durst not belye my own -Soul. I beg your Honours not to deny this my humble -Petition, from a poor dying Innocent person, and -I question not but the Lord will give a blessing to -your Endeavours.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -Mary Esty. -</p> - -<p class="p2">[108] After Execution Mr. <i>Noyes</i> turning him -to the Bodies, said, what a sad thing it is to see -Eight Firebrands of Hell hanging there.<a name="FNanchor_45_45" id="FNanchor_45_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a></p> - -<p>In <i>October</i> 1692, One of <i>Wenham</i> complained -of Mrs. <i>Hale</i>, whose Husband, the Minister of -<i>Beverly</i>, had been very forward in these Prosecutions, -but being fully satisfied of his Wifes sincere -Christianity, caused him to alter his Judgment; -for it was come to a stated Controversie, among -the <i>New-England</i> Divines, whether the Devil -could Afflict in a good Mans shape; it seems -nothing else could convince him: yet when it -came so near to himself, he was soon convinc'd -that the Devil might so Afflict. Which same -reason did afterwards prevail with many others; -and much influenced to the succeeding change at -Tryals.<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">49</a></span> - -<i>October</i> 7. (<i>Edward Bishop</i> and his Wife having -made their Escape out of Prison) this day Mr. -<i>Corwin</i> the Sheriff, came and Seiz'd his Goods, -and Cattle, and had it not been for his second -Son (who borrowed Ten Pound and gave it him) -they had been wholly lost, the Receipt follows; -but it seems they must be content with such a -Receipt as he would give them.</p> - -<p><i>Received this</i> 7<i>th day of</i> October 1692, <i>of</i> Samuel -Bishop <i>of the Town of</i> Salem, <i>of the County of</i> -Essex, <i>in</i> New-England, <i>Cordwainer, in full satisfaction, -a valuable Sum of Money, for the Goods -and Chattels of</i> Edward Bishop, <i>Senior, of the Town -and County aforesaid, Husbandman; which Goods -and Chattels being seized, for that the said</i> Edward -Bishop, <i>and</i> Sarah <i>his Wife, having been committed -for Witchcraft and Felony, have made their Escape; -and their Goods and Chattels were forfeited unto -their Magesties, and now being in Possession of the -said</i> Samuel Bishop; <i>and in behalf of their Majesties, -I do hereby discharge the said Goods and Chattles -the day and year above written, as witness my -hand,</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -George Corwin, <i>Sheriff.</i> -</p> - -<p class="p2">But before this the said <i>Bishops</i> Eldest Son, -having Married into that Family of the <i>Putmans</i>, -who were chief Prosecutors in this business; he -holding a Cow to be branded lest it should be -seiz'd, and having a Push or Boyl upon his Thigh, -with his straining it broke; this is that that was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">50</a></span> -pretended to be burnt with the said Brand; and is -one of the bones thrown to the Dogmatical to -pick, in <i>Wonders of the Invisible World</i>, P. 143. -the other, of a Corner of a Sheet, pretended to -be taken from a Spectre, it is known that it was -provided the day before, by that Afflicted person, -and the third bone of a Spindle is almost as easily -provided, as the piece of the Knife; so that <i>Apollo</i> -needs not herein be consulted, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p>Mr. <i>Philip English</i>,<a name="FNanchor_47_47" id="FNanchor_47_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> and his Wife having made -their Escape out of Prison, Mr. <i>Corwin</i> the Sheriff -seiz'd his Estate, to the value of about Fifteen -Hundred Pound, which was wholly lost to him, -except about Three Hundred Pound value, (which -was afterward restored.)</p> - -<p>[109] After Goodwife <i>Hoar</i> was Condemned, -her Estate was seiz'd, and was also bought again -for Eight Pound.</p> - -<p><i>George Jacobs</i>, Son to old <i>Jacobs</i> being accused, -he fled, then the Officers came to his -House, his Wife was a Woman Crazy in her -Senses and had been so several Years. She it -seems had been also accused, there were in the -House with her only four small Children, and -one of them suck'd her Eldest Daughter, being -in Prison; the Officer perswaded her out of the -House, to go along with him, telling her she -should speedily return, the Children ran a great -way after her crying.</p> - -<p>When she came where the Afflicted were, being -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">51</a></span>asked, they said they did not know her, at length -one said, don't you know <i>Jacobs</i> the old Witch, -and then they cry'd out of her, and fell down in -their Fits; she was sent to Prison, and lay there -Ten Months, the Neighbours of pity took care -of the Children to preserve them from perishing.</p> - -<p>About this time a New Scene was begun, one -<i>Joseph Ballard</i><a name="FNanchor_48_48" id="FNanchor_48_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a> of <i>Andover</i>, whose Wife was ill -(and after died of a Fever) sent to <i>Salem</i> for some -of those Accusers, to tell him who afflicted his -Wife; others did the like: Horse and Man were -sent from several places to fetch those Accusers -who had the Spectral sight, that they might -thereby tell who afflicted those that were any -ways ill.</p> - -<p>When these came into any place where such -were, usually they fell into a Fit; after which -being asked who it was that afflicted the person, -they would, for the most part, name one whom -they said sat on the head, and another that sat on -the lower parts of the afflicted. Soon after <i>Ballard's</i> -sending (as above) more than Fifty of the -People of <i>Andover</i> were complained of, for afflicting -their Neighbours. Here it was that many -accused themselves, of Riding upon Poles through -the Air; many Parents believing their Children -to be Witches, and many Husbands their Wives, -<i>&c.</i> When these Accusers came to the House of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">52</a></span>any upon such account, it was ordinary for other -young People to be taken in Fits, and to have -the same Spectral sight.<a name="FNanchor_49_49" id="FNanchor_49_49"></a><a href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a></p> - -<p>Mr. <i>Dudley Bradstreet</i>,<a name="FNanchor_50_50" id="FNanchor_50_50"></a><a href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> a Justice of Peace in -<i>Andover</i>, having granted out Warrants against, -and Committed Thirty or Forty to Prisons, for -the supposed Witchcrafts, at length saw cause to -forbear granting out any more Warrants. Soon -after which he and his Wife were cried out of, -himself was (by them) said to have killed Nine -persons by Witchcraft, and found it his safest -course to make his Escape.</p> - -<p>A Dog being afflicted at <i>Salem</i>-Village, those -that had the Spectral sight being sent for, they -accused Mr. <i>John Bradstreet</i> (Brother to the Justice) -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">53</a></span> -that he afflicted the said Dog, and now rid -upon him: He made his Escape into <i>Pescattequa</i>-Government, -and the Dog was put to death, and -was all of the Afflicted that suffered death.</p> - -<p>[110] At <i>Andover</i>, the Afflicted complained of -a Dog, as afflicting of them, and would fall into -their Fits at the Dogs looking upon them; the -Dog was put to death.</p> - -<p>A worthy Gentleman of <i>Boston</i>,<a name="FNanchor_51_51" id="FNanchor_51_51"></a><a href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a> being about -this time accused by those at <i>Andover</i>, he sent by -some particular Friends a Writ to Arrest those -Accusers in a Thousand Pound Action for Defamation, -with instructions to them, to inform -themselves of the certainty of the proof, in doing -which their business was perceived, and from -thence forward the Accusations at <i>Andover</i> generally -ceased.</p> - -<p>In <i>October</i> some of these Accusers were sent -for to <i>Gloucester</i>, and occasioned four Women to -be sent to Prison, but <i>Salem</i> Prison being so full -it could receive no more; two were sent to <i>Ipswich</i> -Prison.<a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> In <i>November</i> they were sent for -again by Lieutenant <i>Stephens</i>, who was told that -a Sister of his was bewitched; in their way passing -over <i>Ipswich</i>-bridge, they met with an old -Woman, and instantly fell into their Fits: But by -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">54</a></span>this time the validity of such Accusations being -much questioned, they found not that Encouragement -they had done elsewhere, and soon withdrew.</p> - -<p>These Accusers swore that they saw three persons -sitting upon Lieutenant <i>Stephens's</i> Sister till -she died; yet Bond was accepted for those Three.</p> - -<p>And now Nineteen persons having been hang'd, -and one prest to death, and Eight more condemned, -in all Twenty and eight, of which above -a third part were Members of some of the -Churches in <i>N. England</i>, and more than half of -them of a good Conversation in general, and not -one clear'd. About Fifty having confest themselves -to be Witches, of which not one Executed; -above an Hundred and Fifty in Prison, and above -Two Hundred more accused. The Special Commission -of <i>Oyer</i> and <i>Terminer</i> comes to a period, -which has no other foundation than the Governours -Commission, and had proceeded in the manner -of swearing Witnesses, <i>viz.</i> By holding up -the hand, (and by receiving Evidences in writing) -according to the Ancient Usuge of this Countrey; -as also having their Indictments in <i>English</i>. In -the Tryals, when any were Indicted for Afflicting, -Pining, and wasting the Bodies of particular -persons by Witchcraft; it was usual to hear Evidence -of matter foreign, and of perhaps Twenty -or Thirty years standing, about over-setting Carts, -the death of Cattle, unkindness to Relations, or -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">55</a></span> -unexpected Accidents befalling after some quarrel.<a name="FNanchor_53_53" id="FNanchor_53_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> -Whether this was admitted by the Law of -<i>England</i>, or by what other Law, wants to be -determined; the Executions seemed mixt, in -pressing to death for not pleading, which most -agrees with the Laws of <i>England</i>, and Sentencing -Women to be hanged for Witchcraft, according -to the former practice of this Country, and not -by burning, as is said to have been the Law of -<i>England</i>. And though the confessing Witches -were many; yet not one of them that confessed -their own guilt, and abode by their Confession -were put to Death.</p> - -<p>[111] Here followeth what account some of -those miserable Creatures give of their Confession -under their own hands.</p> - -<p><i>We whose Names are under written, Inhabitants -of</i> Andover, <i>when as that horrible and tremendous -Judgment beginning at</i> Salem-<i>Village, in the Year</i> -1692, <i>(by some) call'd Witchcraft, first breaking -forth at Mr.</i> Parris's <i>House, several Young persons -being seemingly afflicted, did accuse several persons -for afflicting them, and many there believing it so to -be; we being informed that if a person were sick, -that the afflicted persons could tell, what or who was -the cause of that sickness.</i> Joseph Ballard <i>of</i> Andover -<i>(his Wife being sick at the same time) he -either from himself, or by the advice of others, -fetch'd two of the persons call'd the afflicted persons, -from</i> Salem-<i>Village to</i> Andover: <i>Which was the beginning -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">56</a></span> -of that dreadful Calamity that befel us in</i> -Andover. <i>And the Authority in</i> Andover, <i>believing -the said Accusations to be true, sent for the -said persons to come together to the Meeting-house in</i> -Andover <i>(the afflicted persons being there.) After -Mr.</i> Bernard<a name="FNanchor_54_54" id="FNanchor_54_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> <i>had been at Prayer, we were blindfolded, -and our hands were laid upon the afflicted -persons, they being in their Fits, and falling into -their Fits at our coming into their presence (as they -said) and some led us and laid our hands upon them, -and then they said they were well, and that we were -guilty of afflicting of them; whereupon we were all -seized as Prisoners, by a Warrant from the Justice -of the Peace, and forthwith carried to</i> Salem. <i>And -by reason of that suddain surprizal, we knowing -ourselves altogether Innocent of that Crime, we were -all exceedingly astonished and amazed, and consternated -and affrighted even out of our Reason; and our -nearest and dearest Relations, seeing us in that dreadful -condition, and knowing our great danger, apprehending -that there was no other way to save our -lives, as the case was then circumstantiated but by -our confessing ourselves to be such and such persons, -as the afflicted represented us to be, they out of tender -love and pitty perswaded us to confess what we did -confess. And indeed that Confession, that it is said -we made, was no other than what was suggested to -us by some Gentlemen; they telling us, that we were -Witches, and they knew it, and we knew it, and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">57</a></span>they knew that we knew it, which made us think -that it was so; and our understanding, our reason, -and our faculties almost gone; we were not capable -of judging our condition; as also the hard measures -they used with us, rendred us uncapable of making -our Defence; but said any thing and every thing -which they desired, and most of what we said, was -but in effect a consenting to what they said. Sometime -after when we were better composed, they telling -of us what we had confessed, we did profess that we -were Innocent, and Ignorant of such things. And -we hearing that</i> Samuel Wardwell <i>had renounced -his Confession, and quickly after Condemned and -Executed, some of us were told that we were going -after</i> Wardwell.</p> - -<p> -Mary Osgood, Mary Tiler, Deliv. Dane, Abigail -Barker, Sarah Wilson, Hannah Tiler.<a name="FNanchor_55_55" id="FNanchor_55_55"></a><a href="#Footnote_55_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a> -</p> - -<p class="p2">[112] It may here be further added concerning -those that did Confess, that besides that powerful -Argument, of Life (and freedom from hardships, -and Irons not only promised, but also performed -to all that owned their guilt.) There are numerous -Instances, too many to be here inserted, of -the tedious Examinations before private persons, -many hours together; they all that time urging -them to Confess (and taking turns to perswade -them) till the accused were wearied out by being -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">58</a></span>forced to stand so long, or for want of Sleep, <i>&c.</i> -and so brought to give an Assent to what they -said; they then asking them, Were you at such a -Witch-meeting, or have you signed the Devils -Book, <i>&c.</i> upon their replying, yes, the whole -was drawn into form as their Confession.</p> - -<p>But that which did mightily further such Confessions, -was their nearest and dearest Relations -urging them to it. These seeing no other way of -escape for them, thought it the best advice that -could be given; hence it was that the Husbands -of some, by counsel often urging, and utmost earnestness, -and Children upon their Knees intreating, -have at length prevailed with them, to say -they were guilty.</p> - -<p class="dropcap p2">AS to the manner of Tryals, and the Evidence -taken for Convictions at <i>Salem</i>, it is already -set forth in Print, by the Reverend Mr. <i>Cotton -Mather</i> in his <i>Wonders of the Invisible World</i>, at -the Command of his Excellency Sir <i>William -Phips</i>;<a name="FNanchor_56_56" id="FNanchor_56_56"></a><a href="#Footnote_56_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a> with not only the Recommendation, but -thanks of the Lieutenant Governour; and with -the Approbation of the Reverend Mr. <i>J. M.</i> in -his Postscript to his <i>Cases of Conscience</i>; which -last Book was set forth by the consent of the -Ministers in and near <i>Boston</i>.<a name="FNanchor_57_57" id="FNanchor_57_57"></a><a href="#Footnote_57_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">59</a></span> - -Two of the Judges have also given their Sentiments -in these words, <i>p.</i> 147.</p> - -<p><i>The Reverend and worthy Author, having at the -direction of his Excellency the Governour, so far -obliged the Publick, as to give some account of the -sufferings, brought upon the Countrey by Witchcrafts, -and of the Tryals which have passed upon several -executed for the same.</i></p> - -<p><i>Upon perusal thereof, We find the matters of Fact -and Evidence truly reported, and a prospect given of -the Methods of Conviction, used in the proceedings of -the Court at</i> Salem.</p> - -<ul class="right"> -<li>William Stoughton,</li> -<li>Samuel Sewall.</li> -</ul> - -<p>Boston, October 11, 1692.</p> - -<p class="p2">And considering that this may fall into the -hands of such as never saw those Wonders, it may -be needful to transcribe the whole account he has -given thereof, without any variation (but with -one of the Indictments annext to the Tryal of -each) which is thus prefaced, P. 81, 82, 83.</p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> The following Entry is in the -Hand-writing of Mr. Parris on his -<i>Church Records</i>: "It is well known -that when these Calamities first began, -which was in my own Family, -the Affliction was several Weeks -before such hellish Operations as -Witchcraft was suspected; Nay, it -never broke forth to any considerable -Light, until diabolical Means was -used, by the making of a Cake by -my Indian Man [John], who had -his Directions from this our Sister -Mary Sibly. Since which Apparitions -have been plenty, and exceeding -much Mischief hath followed. -But by this Means (it -seems) the Devil hath been raised -amongst us, and his Rage is vehement -and terrible; and when he -shall be silenced, the Lord only -knows."—<i>Hanson's Hist. Danvers</i>, -289. As will be seen, Mr. Parris -was made Scribe at the Examination.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> It is remarkable that this Case -should not be noticed in the <i>Wonders -of the Invisible World</i>. It is -told in Lawon's <i>Narrative</i>, <i>Page -3</i>. See also <i>Records of Salem -Witchcraft</i>, 49, where by Parris's -Deposition, his Age is stated at -"Thirty and nine."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> None of the Accounts give the -Names of the "Physicians." "One -or two of the First that were Afflicted, -Complaining of unusual Illness -their Relations used Physic for -their <i>Cure</i>, but it was altogether -in vain."—<i>Lawson, Second Edition</i>, -97-8.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> -She is said to have been a Slave, -formerly in New Spain. When -arrested and searched, the Marks -on her Body produced by the Sting -of the Spaniard's Whip, were said -to be made by the Devil.—<i>Hanson</i>, -<i>Hist. Danvers</i>, 273. Her first Examination -was on the 1st of March, -1691-2. It occupies four full Pages -of Foolscap, and is in the Editor's -possession, and has never been published. -There is no copy at Salem, -probably, as it does not appear in -Mr. Woodward's Publication.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> The two Magistrates were John -Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin. William Allen, John Hughes, William -Good and Samuel Braybrook -were Witnesses against Sarah Good. -Allen swore, that on the 1st of -March, in the Night, he saw a -strange and unusual Beast lying on -the Ground, which, when he came -up to it, it vanished away; and in -the Place thereof, started up two or -three Women, who fled, though -not as other Women, and soon vanished -out of Sight. It was about -an Hour within Night, and he took -the Women to be Sarah Good, Sarah -Osborn, and Tittabe. John -Hughes was with him and swore -likewise. See <i>Records S. W.</i>, i, -38, where much more of the same -Tenor may be seen.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Martha Cory was witnessed -against by Edward Putnam and -Henry Keney, at the Commencement; -and the Mittimus sets forth -that she is the Wife of Giles -Cory, of Salem Farms. At the same -Time were committed Rebecka -Nurse, Wife of Francis Nurse, of Salem -Village, Husbandman; Dorothy -Good, Daughter of William Good; -Sarah Cloyce, the Wife of Peter -Cloyce, of Salem Village; John -Proctor, of Salem Farms, and Elizabeth -his Wife. They were -charged with afflicting Ann Putnam, -Daughter of Thomas Putnam, -Abigail Williams, Elizabeth -Hubbard, and others.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Nicholas Noyes was Son of -Nicholas Noyes, of Newbury, a -Graduate of H. C., 1667, and died -in 1717. He was one of the severest -Instigators of the Proceedings -against the accused Persons. He was -settled in Salem in 1683.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Indifferently written in the Records -<i>Bibber</i> and <i>Vibber</i>. The -true Name appears to be <i>Bibber</i>. -Sarah Bibber, in her Testimony -against Sarah Good, gives her Age -as 36. She gave Evidence against -nine Persons at different Times. -Not much has been found about -her beyond her own Testimony. -She appears to have had a Husband, -who had the Prefix Goodman. At -one Time she and her Husband -lived at the House of Joseph Fowler. -Fowler gave her a bad Character; -as given to Tattling and Mischiefmaking; -would call her Husband -bad Names, was "of a very turbulent, -unruly Spirit." Also Thomas -Jacobs and his Wife Mary, -said that "Good Bibbor did for a -Time surgine [sojourn] in their -House;" that she "uery often spekeing -against one and nother uery obsanely, -and wichshing [wishing] uery -bad wichchis, and uery often. She -wichs that when hor chill [child] -fell into the Reuer that she had -neuer pull hor child out." That -she made ill Wishes against everybody -and herself too. "The nayborhud -were she liueued amonkes -aftor she bered hor fust housbon -hes tolld us that this John Bibber -Wife coud fall into fitts as she -plesed."—<i>Records S. W.</i>, ii, 204-5. -</p> -<p> -Neither Felt nor Savage appear -to have met with either the Name -of <i>Bibber</i> or <i>Vibber</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> "It was several Times observed, -that when they were discoursed -with about GOD or CHRIST, or -the Things of <i>Salvation</i>, they were -presently afflicted at a dreadful Rate, -and hence were oftentimes <i>Outragious</i>, -if they were permitted to be -in the Congregation, in the Time -of the Publick Worship."—<i>Lawson, -Second Edit.</i>, 98. -</p> -<p> -"On Lord's Day, the 20th of -<i>March</i> were sundry of the afflicted -Persons at Meeting, as Mrs. <i>Pope</i> -[Wife of Mr. Joseph P.], Goodwife <i>Bibber</i>, <i>Abigail Williams</i>, -<i>Mary Walcut</i>, <i>Mary Lewes</i>, and -Docter <i>Grigg's</i> Maid. There was -also at Meeting Goodwife C. [Cory] -(who was afterward Examined -on Suspicion of being a <i>Witch</i>:) -They had several sore Fits, in the -Time of Publick Worship, which -did something interrupt me in my -first Prayer; being so unusual. After -Psalm was Sung, <i>Abigail Williams</i> -said to me, <i>Now stand up</i>, and -<i>Name your Text</i>! And after it -was read, she said, <i>It is a long Text</i>. -In the beginning of Sermon, Mrs. -<i>Pope</i>, a Woman afflicted, said to -me, <i>Now there is enough of that</i>. -And in the Afternoon, <i>Abigail -Williams</i>, upon my referring to my -<i>Doctrine</i>, said to me, <i>I know no -Doctrine you had, if you did name -one, I have forgot it</i>. In Sermon -Time when Goodwife C. was present -<i>Ab. W.</i> called out, <i>Look where -Goodwife C. sits on the Beam -suck[l]ing her Yellow Bird betwixt -her Fingers</i>! <i>Anne Putman</i>, -another Girle afflicted, <i>said there -was a Yellow Bird sat on my Hat as -it hung on the Pin in the Pulpit</i>! -But those that were by restrained -her from speaking loud about it."—<i>Lawson, -First Edition</i>, Pages 3 -and 4. -</p> -<p> -This, as will have been noticed, -is the Account of an Eye Witness.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> The Warrant for the Apprehension -of Rebecca Nurse is dated -23 March, 169½. The Day following, -the Marshal, George Herrick, -made his Return, that he had -brought her to the house of <i>Nath. -Ingersal</i>, where she was in Custody. -The Witnesses were Ann Puttnam, -Jr., Abigail Williams, Mary Walcott, -and Elizabeth Hubbard. Mary -Walcott's Age was about 17; Elizabeth -Hubbard's also about 17. Nothing -could be too abominable for -these Miscreants to make up and -swear to. Mary Walcott said, -among other things, that besides -being "most greviously afflicted by" -being bitten, pinched, and almost -choked by the Prisoner, because she -would not write in her Book, Goody -N. said she would kill her if she -did not; and on the 3rd of May, -in the Evening the Apparition of -the Prisoner told her "she had an -Hand in the Deaths of Benjamin -Holton, John Harrod, Rebekah -Sheppard and seuerall others." -</p> -<p> -Abigail Williams's Testimony is -much the same. She heard the Accused -confess (by her Apparition) -the committing of several Murders, -together with her Sister Cloyse; as -upon old Goodm: Hanvood, Benj. -Porter and Rebek: Shepard.... -Sarah Vibber, Mr. Sam: Parris, N. -Ingersoll and T. Putnam also testified -against the poor aged Woman. -Putnam's Age was about 40; Parris's, -as before mentioned, about -39. John Putnam, Sen. (another -Wit.) aged about 63. Edwd. Putnam, -another, aged about 30. Another, -Sarah Holton, relict of Benj. -Holton. Another, Ann Putnam, -Wife of Thomas, swore to the -choking by the Accused, and to her -declaring she would kill her, and -said she had killed Benj. Holton, -John Fuller and Rebekah Shepard; -also that she and her Sister Cloyse -and Ed: Bishop had killed young -John Putnam's Child.... "Immediately -there did appear to me -six Children in Winding-sheets, -which called me Aunt.... Told -me they were my Sister Baker's -Children of Boston; and that Gooddy -Nurs, and Mistris Cary of -Charlestown, and an old deaf Woman -at Boston had murthered them.... -Also there appeared to me -my own Sister Bayley and three of -her Children in Winding-sheets, -and told me Goody Nurs had murthered -them." This was all taken -as good and sufficient Testimony!</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> This Reference is to the first -Edition of Lawson's Work, <i>A Brief -and True Narrative, &c.</i> His -Account is given in Note <a href="#Footnote_9_9">9</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Lawson, <i>First Edition</i>, Page 4.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> Lawson, Page 8. The Words -"<i>at a House in the Village</i>," are in -the Original, which shows that the -Witch-meeting was in that part of -Salem since Danvers.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> -This Affair of the 1st of April, -is an Abridgement of Lawson, Page -8, but nothing important to the present -Purpose is omitted.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> The following is the Relation -by Lawson, given in his own Words, -that the Reader may judge of his -accuracy: "The 3d of <i>April</i>, the -Lord's Day, being Sacrament Day, -at the Village, <i>Good. C.</i>, upon Mr. -<i>Parris's</i> naming his Text, <i>John</i>, 6, -70. <i>One of them is a Devil</i>, the -said Good. <i>C.</i> went immediately -out of the Meetinghouse, and flung -the door after her violently, to the -amazement of the Congregation: -She was afterwards seen by some -in their Fits, who said, <i>O Goodw. -C. I did not think to see you here</i>! -(and being at their <i>red bread and -drink</i>) said to her, <i>Is this a Time to -receive the Sacrament. You ran -away on the Lord's Day, and scorned -to receive it in the Meetinghouse, and -Is this a Time to receive it? I wonder -at you</i>! This is the Summ of -what I either saw myself, or did receive -Information from Persons of -undoubted Reputation and Credit."—<i>Page</i> -8.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> -"On the 11th of April, 1692, -a Council was convened at Salem; at which there were present <span class="smcap">Dep. -Gov. Thomas Danforth</span>, <span class="smcap">James -Russell</span>, <span class="smcap">John Hathorne</span>, <span class="smcap">Isaac -Addington</span>, <span class="smcap">Maj. Samuel Appleton</span>, -<span class="smcap">Capt. Samuel Sewall</span> and -<span class="smcap">Jonathan Corwin</span>. To them Complaint -was exhibited by Capt. Jonathan -Wallcott and Lieut. Nathaniell -Ingersall, both of Salem Village, -on the behalf of several Neighbors, -as well as on their own; against -Sarah Cloyce, wife of Peter Cloyce -of Salem Village, and Elizabeth -Proctor, wife of John Proctor of -Salem Farms [on the Road towards -Boston] for high suspition of sundry -Acts of Witchcraft, committed on the -Bodies of Abigail Williams and John -Indian, both of Mr. Samuel Parris -his Famyly, Mary Walcot, Ann -Putnam and Mercy Lewis, &c." -When the Accused were brought before -the Council, Mr. Parris "was -desired and appointed to wright y<sup>e</sup> -Examination," which he accepted, -and the Record is still extant in his -Hand-writing. Accordingly Elizabeth -Proctor, and her Husband, -John Proctor, and Sarah Cloyce -were all committed to Prison, "per -advise of y<sup>e</sup> Councill."—<i>Witchcraft -Records</i>, i. 101-2.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> -The Testimony and Indictment -against Philip English may be -seen in the <i>Hist. and Antiq's Boston</i>, -497, printed from the Originals in -the Author's Possession. With the -same are the two Indictments (in -the Hand-writing of Edward Rawson), -charging him with bewitching -Elizabeth Booth, of Salem, Single-woman, -and Mary Wallcott. These -Indictments are both dated May -31st, 1692. The Monsters who -carried on the Charges, were much -like a Pack of hungry Wolves. -One would set up the Howl of -Witch, and immediately others -would follow. So in the Case of -Philip English, a large number of -Persons joined those Girls in their -"Crying out on" him. This encouraged -them to keep up their Deceptions. -Mrs. English was accused -before her Husband. One -Mary Warren, Servant to Mr. -Procter, outwent all others, except -perhaps Elizabeth Booth, in the -Invention of Stories. Rebutting -Testimony was brought against her, -but it had no Effect with the Court. -Edward Bishop, aged 44; Sarah, -41, and Mary Estey, 56; all said -that they heard Mary Warren say, -when in Jail together in Salem, that -the Magistrates might as well examine -Keysar's Daughter that had -been distracted many Years, and -believe what she said, as well as -what any of the Afflicted said. Mary -English, aged 39, said, being at Salem -about a Month before, she -heard Mary Warren speak the same -Words.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label">[18]</span></a> Dr. Mather affirms that "the -<i>Old Government</i> was <i>Reassumed</i>, -and the <i>Old Charter</i> too was <i>Reassumed</i>, -as far as it was possible to -be done; Every thing in the World -was done, but only declaring that -the <i>Judgment</i> passed in the King's -Court of Chancery (however it -might be thought a Grievance) did -the <i>Charter</i> no <i>Damage</i>; which if -some were wiser then to say, who -can help it? Well, did I oppose -this <i>Reassumption</i>! They that were -acquainted with me, I am sure, did -not think so; and they that sent -their <i>Tory Pamphlets</i> about the -Countrey against me, as an <i>Impudent -Youth</i> [then aged 26] for my -assisting the <i>Reassumed Government</i>, -I am sure did not think so. Let -the things Published for the supporting -of the Reassumed Government; -and particularly the very first -<i>Passage</i> in the <i>First Sermon</i>, at the <i>Anniversary Election</i>, which the Deputies -of the <i>General-Court</i> called -me to <i>Preach</i> and <i>Print</i>, (which -by the way, would they have done, -if the <i>Young Man</i> had been such -an one as this Man would render -him?) be my Everlasting Apology; -and let <i>Calves</i> never Bleat, nor -<i>Bulls</i> (of <i>Bashan</i>) Roar against me, -on that Point any more."—<i>Remarks -<span class="err" title="original: upou">upon</span> a Scandalous Book</i>, &c., -Pages 46-7. The "Passage" he -refers to in his Election Sermon is -too long to be extracted here.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label">[19]</span></a> -Our Author is not the only -one who thought Dr. I. Mather -had some selfish Ends to answer in -his Management of Affairs in England. -See Quincy, <i>Hist. H. Col.</i>, -i, 60. But <span class="err" title="original: Qnincy">Quincy</span> is entirely too -one-sided, ardent and dogmatical to -be implicitly relied upon.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label">[20]</span></a> That is the Disputes respecting -the Form of Government.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> It appears that some Irons had -been prepared before the Arrival of -Gov. Phips, though he may have -ordered a further Supply, as Prisoners -greatly increased about that -Time. Mr. Felt, the Annalist of -Salem, furnished Mr. J. W. Hanson -with a Copy of an Account of -the Prison-keeper (John Arnold), -of Boston, for various Items used -in the Prison. Said Account begins -about the 7th of March, 1691-2. -On "May 9th, To Chains for -Sarah Good and Sarah Osborn, -14 <i>s.</i> May 23d, To Shackles for -10 Prisoners. May 29th, to 1 pr. -Irons for Mary Cox," &c. See -<i>Hist. Danvers</i>, 290. For other -Items of this Sort, see <i>Records of -S. W.</i>, ii, 212, <i>et seq.</i></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label">[22]</span></a> This was <i>Tituba</i>, of whom -Mention has been before made. -See <i>Note</i> 4. Her first Examination -is a surprising Document, not only -for its Length, but for its Matter; -and the Editor cannot but candidly -confess that the Questions were more -ridiculous than the Answers of the -simple Indian Woman, if possible. -Her Husband was known as <i>John -Indian</i>. The original Minutes are -in the Editor's Possession.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label">[23]</span></a> This application of Irons was -of course after the Arrival of the -Governor. The Name of the Jailor -has already been given.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label">[24]</span></a> It would seem from the <i>Records</i>, -(as published by Mr. Woodward) -that Cary's name was <i>Nathaniel</i>. -In Savage, we find that <i>Jonathan</i> Cary of Charlestown had -Wife Hannah Winsor; that <i>Nathaniel</i> -was Brother to Jonathan, -and that they were Sons to James -Cary, who came to Charlestown in -or before 1639. Complaint was -made against Mrs. Cary by Mr. -Thomas Putnam and Benjamin -Hatchinson, both of Salem Village. -The Complaint was that she had -bewitched the miscreant Girls before-mentioned, -Mary Walcott, Abigall -Willyams and Mercy Lewis. -Mrs. Cary's Husband is styled -"Capt. Nathaniell Cary of Charls -Towne, Marener."—<i>Records</i>, ii., -196.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label">[25]</span></a> He was the Son of the Pilgrim -John of the Mayflower. See -an Account of him and his Persecution -in <i>Hist. and Antiqs. Boston</i>, -499. Also <i>Records S. W.</i>, ii., -196. His Accusers were the same -Wretches—Mary Lewis, Abigail -Williams, Elizabeth Booth, Mary -Walcott, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann -Putnam and Mary Warren. The -Warrant for his Commitment was -dated May 31st, 1692, as will be -seen immediately onward.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> -The same, probably, mentioned before. See Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm">ii</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label">[27]</span></a> The original Mittimus does not -appear among the Records preserved -at Salem. If preserved, it has not -been discovered.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> Their Names may, probably, -nearly all be collected from the -Records. Interest should prompt -some one to make the Attempt.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> Their Names have already -appeared. Capt. Sewall was the -well known Judge Sewall.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> -See the long and tedious Testimonies -against her in Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Pages -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_163">163-174</a>, and of the same ridiculous -Character as others; yet not so ridiculous -there as in the original -<i>Records</i>, which see. Ezekiel Cheever -took down the Examination.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Of this Abstract Dr. Mather -says: "His first and main Design -is to render me odious unto the -Countrey, as being one chief <i>Abettor</i> -of that Opinion, That the -Devils cannot afflict in the Shape -of an Innocent Person; and as being -an <i>Inciter</i> of the Judges, to the -Conviction of <i>Witchcrafts</i> upon -that Opinion. It is very certain -that his Conscience must needs tell -him, this is a most <i>Lying Accusation</i>. -For in my Book of <i>Memorable -Providences</i>, which I writ before -the Troubles at <i>Salem</i>, and even -<i>before I was so fully acquainted with -the Wiles of Satan</i>, (for my saying -of which, on a certain Occasion, -he flouts at me) I have a whole -Paragraph to caution against <i>accounting -a bewitched Persons pretending -to see an Apparition of such -or such an one, an Argument of their -being Naughty People</i>. And some -of the Chief Ministers in this Land -favoured that Book with their Attestation, -however my Friend Calef -now Derides it." This was the -Work recommended by Mr. Baxter.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> -The Trial of Susanna Martin -is given in the <i>Wonders</i> (Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>.) -Pages <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_175">175-187</a>; that of Elizabeth -How, Pages <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_188">188-194</a>; that of Rebecca -Nurse in <i>Records of S. W.</i> i. -76-99; Vol. ii. 215; of Sarah -Wilds of Topsfield, <i>Ibid</i>, ii, 180-182, -215; Sarah Good; <i>Ibid</i>, 11-24; -ii, 214-15. The Partiality in the -Wonders is elsewhere noticed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label">[33]</span></a> The Trial of Sarah Good was -one of a singularly revolting Character. -Her own Daughter, named -Dorothy, was one of the Witnesses -against her. Said her Mother "had -three Birds, one black, one yellow, -and that these Birds hurt the Children -and afflicted Persons."—<i>Records -S. W.</i> i, 23. Her own Husband -gave her a very bad Character, -but said he knew nothing of her -being a Witch. The Story of the -broken Knife, I do not remember -seeing in the <i>Records</i>. It was probably -suppressed. Samuel Abbey -and Mary his Wife, aged about 45 -and 38, respectively, testified that -William Good and his Wife Sarah, -being destitute of a House to dwell -in, they took them in out of Charity; -but about two years and a half -before, were obliged to turn them -out "for quietness sake, the said -Sarah was of so turbulant a Sperritt, -spitefull and mallitiously bent." -Whereupon the said Abbey in about -two years lost 17 head of Cattle, -besides Sheep and "Hoggs."—<i>Records</i>, -<i>ib.</i> 24-5. See also Mr. Upham's -<i>Lectures on Witchcraft</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label">[34]</span></a> The Names of the Jurors are -not recorded. John Ruck was the -Foreman, Brother-in-law, I suppose -of Mr. Burroughs.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label">[35]</span></a> It is much to be regretted that -the Author found it necessary to -exclude such Documents. The Paper -referred is of special regret.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> What has been preserved of -the Trials of these Persons, will be -found in Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, and in the <i>Records</i> -before cited.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> "I was present when these -things were testified against him, -and observed that he could not -make any Plea for himself (<i>in these -Things</i>) that had any Weight: He -had the Liberty of Challenging his -<i>Jurors</i>, before empannelling, according -to the <i>Statue</i> in that Case, -and used his Liberty in Challenging -many; yet the Jury that were <i>Sworn</i> -brought him in Guilty."—Lawson, -<i>Second Edition</i>, 115. -</p> -<p> -Mr. Burroughs' Trial is fully -given in <span class="err" title="original: Vo.l">Vol.</span> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_152">152-63</a>. It is not -among the Records, for the Reason, -probably, that it had been given to -Mr. Mather to use, and was never -returned. His Examination was -before Stoughton, Hathorne, Sewall -and Corwin. The following are -the Names of the Men appointed -to search him for Teats: Edward -Welch, William Gill, Zeb. Hill, -Thomas Flint, Thomas West, Samuel -Morgan and John Bare, as -Printed in the <i>Records</i>, ii, 112. -They reported no "Tetts" upon -Mr. Burroughs. -</p> -<p> -Ann Putnam's Testimony was ingenious, -and as damning as any <i>Infernal -Spirit</i> could have desired. -See <i>Records</i>, <i>ib.</i> 113-116. Mather -does not give it, but says such things -were evidenced; as that he had -murdered sundry People. See Remarks -of Mr. Upham, <i>Lectures</i>, 55.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label">[38]</span></a> A misprint, probably, for -<i>Nashaway</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label">[39]</span></a> Dr. Increase Mather, Mr. -James Allen of the Old South, Mr. Joshua Moody, Mr. Samuel Willard -of the Old South, and Mr. -John Bailey of the First Church, -Boston.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label">[40]</span></a> My friend Savage calls this an -"Infernal Business." I hope he will -never get further out of the Way. -It would seem that the Officials of -that Day must have taken lessons of -Roman Inquisitors.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label">[41]</span></a> Daniel Andrew of Salem, as -I conjecture.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_42_42" id="Footnote_42_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_42_42"><span class="label">[42]</span></a> Nineteen Years after these Executions, -the General Court of the -Province passed an Act declaring -null and void all the Attainders and -Judgments against those who had -suffered for Witchcraft. This Act -was passed "upon the Humble Petition -of the said Persons and of the -Children of others of them whose -Parents were Executed." The General -Assembly also appointed a Committee -"to consider of y<sup>e</sup> Damages -sustained by sundry Persons prosecuted -for Witchcraft in y<sup>e</sup> Year -1692." The Committee computed -the Damage to those above named -as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Cory -£21; Mary Easty £20; Alice Parker -got nothing, but Mary Parker -got £8; Nothing appears for Ann -Pudeater; Dorcas Hoar £21; Mary -Bradberry £20; some that suffered -had no Representative to receive -the Award.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_43_43" id="Footnote_43_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_43_43"><span class="label">[43]</span></a> Allowances were made to the -most of those or their Children, as -may be seen in the Records before -cited.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_44_44" id="Footnote_44_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_44_44"><span class="label">[44]</span></a> "The Hill" has ever since -been pointed out as <i>Witch Hill</i>, -or more generally <i>Gallows Hill</i>; -whence is had a fine view of the City -of Salem. Some Account of this -noted Hill might reasonably be expected -in a History of Salem. The -<i>Institute</i> should look to the Matter.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_45_45" id="Footnote_45_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_45_45"><span class="label">[45]</span></a> Surely Cotton Mather never -uttered anything more inhuman. -Mr. Noyes has already been noticed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_46_46" id="Footnote_46_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_46_46"><span class="label">[46]</span></a> Mr. John Hale had testified -against some of the Accused; but I -do not find that when his own -Wife was accused any Record was -made of it.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_47_47" id="Footnote_47_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_47_47"><span class="label">[47]</span></a> The Case of Mr. English has been before referred to. See Note <a href="#Footnote_17_17">17</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_48_48" id="Footnote_48_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_48_48"><span class="label">[48]</span></a> Ballard's Testimony against -Samuel Wardwell may be seen in -the <i>Records of S. W.</i>, ii, 152. -Ballard gave his Age as about 41 -Years, and mentions his Brother -John. See onward.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_49_49" id="Footnote_49_49"></a><a href="#FNanchor_49_49"><span class="label">[49]</span></a> This was not the First of the -Troubles by supposed Witchcraft at -Andover, as appears by the following -Record, the Original of which -is in the Editor's Collection: "The -Deposition of Job Tylar, aged about -40 Yeares, Mary his Wife and -Moses Tyl<sup>r</sup> his Son aged betwixt -17 and 18 Years, and Mary Tyler -aboue 15 Yeares olde.—These Deponents -witnesse that they saw a -thing like a Bird to come in at the -Dore of there House with John -Godfery in the Night about the bignes -of a Black Bird or rather bigger, -to wit, as big as a Pigion, and did fly -about; John Godfery labouring to -catch it, and the Bird vanished, as -they conceived, through the Chinck -of a joynted Bord; and being asked -by the Man of the House wherefore -it came, he answered, It came -to suck your Wife. This was (as -they remember) about 5 or 6 Yeares -since.—Taken vpon Oath of the 4 -above menconed Pties, this 27. 4. -59. Before mee -</p> -<p class="right"> -"<span class="smcap">Simon Bradstreete</span>. -</p> -<p> -Ouned in Court M<sup>r</sup>h, 65, by -Job Tylar and Moses Tylar. -</p> -<p class="right"> -E. R. S<sup>ec</sup> -</p> -<p> -Owned in Court 13 March, -65, by Mary Tyler on hir former -Oath. -</p> -<p class="right"> -E. R. S<sup>ec</sup>" -</p> -<p> -The Above is in the Autograph -of Gov. Bradstreet and Edward -Rawson.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_50_50" id="Footnote_50_50"></a><a href="#FNanchor_50_50"><span class="label">[50]</span></a> Son of Governor Simon Bradstreet. -In 1698, when the Indians -attacked Andover, Bradstreet and -his Family were captured; but they -were set at Liberty the same Day.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51"><span class="label">[51]</span></a> I am unable to ascertain the -Name of the "worthy Gentleman." -He was doubtless one of those, like -Mr. Calef, not afraid "to take the -Bull by the Horns."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label">[52]</span></a> Sarah, the Wife of Peter Cloyce -and Mary Green were probably the -two Persons. The Latter seems to -have made her Escape by the Assistance -of John Shepard of Rowley. -See Felt, <i>History of Ipswich -and Hamilton</i>, 207.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_53_53" id="Footnote_53_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_53_53"><span class="label">[53]</span></a> See the Evidence against Susanna -Martin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, Pages <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_177">177</a>, <i>et seq.</i> -See, also, Woodward's <i>Rec. of Salem -Witchcraft</i>, i, 193-206, ii, 215.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_54_54" id="Footnote_54_54"></a><a href="#FNanchor_54_54"><span class="label">[54]</span></a> Mr. John Barnard, who is -duly commemorated by Dr. Allen -in the <i>Amer. Biog. Dictionary</i>. He -was Author of several Works.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_55_55" id="Footnote_55_55"></a><a href="#FNanchor_55_55"><span class="label">[55]</span></a> Slight Notices of the Families -to which these Persons belonged -may be seen in Abbot's <i>History of -Andover</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_56_56" id="Footnote_56_56"></a><a href="#FNanchor_56_56"><span class="label">[56]</span></a> It is a Wonder that Mr. Calef -did not tell his Readers how -shockingly Mr. Mather reported -those Trials; and it is accounted -for only by presuming that the -Originals were not accessible to him, -having been put into the Hands of -Mr. Mather.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_57_57" id="Footnote_57_57"></a><a href="#FNanchor_57_57"><span class="label">[57]</span></a> Their Names were not printed -according to the original MS. in the <i>Cases of Conscience</i>. They <i>are</i> correctly -printed from that MS., however, -by the Editor, with some Remarks, -in his Edition of Mather's -<i>Relation</i>, xxii. The Order of Subscription -is entirely changed.</p></div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="sidenote">Mather's <i>Preface to the Tryals</i>.</div> - -<p>[113] BUT I shall no longer detain my Reader -from his expected entertainment, in a brief account -of the Tryals, which have passed upon -some of the Malefactors, lately Executed at <i>Salem</i>, -for the Witchcrafts whereof they stood<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">60</a></span> -convicted. For my own part I was not present -at any of them; nor ever had I any personal -prejudice at the persons thus brought upon -the Stage; much less, at the surviving Relations -of those persons, with and for whom, I would be -as hearty a mourner, as any Man living in the -World: <i>The Lord comfort them!</i> But having received -a command so to do, I can do no other -than shortly relate the chief Matters of Fact, -which occurr'd in the Tryals of some that were -Executed; in an Abridgment collected out of the -Court-Papers, on this occasion put into my hands. -You are to take the truth, just as it was; and the -truth will hurt no good Man. There might -have been more of these, if my Book would not -thereby have been swelled too big; and if some -other Worthy hands did not perhaps intend something -further in these Collections; for which -cause I have only singled out four or five, which -may serve to Illustrate the way of dealing, wherein -Witchcrafts use to be concerned; and I report -matters not as an Advocate, but as an Historian.</p> - -<p>They were some of the Gracious words inserted -in the Advice, which many of the Neighbouring -Ministers did this Summer humbly lay -before our Honourable Judges, We cannot but -with all thankfulness, acknowledge the success, -which the merciful God has given unto the -Sedulous and Assiduous Endeavours of our Honorable -Rulers, to detect the Abominable Witchcrafts, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">61</a></span> -which have been committed in the Country; -Humbly praying that the discovery of those -Mysterious, and Mischievous wickednesses, may -be perfected. If in the midst of the many Dissatisfactions -among us, the publication of these Tryals, -may promote such a Pious thankfulness unto -God, for Justice being so far executed among us, -I shall rejoice that God is glorified; and pray that -no wrong steps of ours may ever sully any of his -glorious works.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">George Burrough's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<h3> -<i>The Indictment of</i> George Burroughs.<a name="FNanchor_58_58" id="FNanchor_58_58"></a><a href="#Footnote_58_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a> -</h3> - -<div class="sidenote">Essex ss.</div> -<p class="center"> -<i>Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Williemi & Mariæ nunc -Angliæ, &c. quarto.</i>— -</p> - -<p class="dropcap">THE Jurors for our Sovereign Lord and Lady -the King and Queen present, That <i>George -Burroughs</i>, late of <i>Falmouth</i>, in the Province of -the <i>Massachusetts-Bay</i>, in <i>New-England</i>, Clerk.</p> - -<p>The 9th Day of <i>May</i>, in the fourth Year of the -Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady <i>William</i> -and <i>Mary</i>, by the Grace of God, of <i>England</i>, -<i>Scotland</i>, <i>France</i> and <i>Ireland</i>, King and Queen -Defenders of the [114] Faith, <i>&c.</i> And divers -other days and times, as well before as after, -certain detestable Arts, called Witchcrafts, and -Sorceries, Wickedly and Feloniously hath used, -practised, and exercised, at and within the Township -of <i>Salem</i>, in the County of <i>Essex</i> aforesaid, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">62</a></span> -in upon, and against one <i>Mary Wolcott</i> of <i>Salem</i>-Village, -in the County of <i>Essex</i>, Single-woman, -by which said wicked Arts the said <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, -the Ninth Day of <i>May</i>, in the fourth Year -abovesaid, and divers other days and times, as -well before as after, was and is Tortured, Afflicted, -Pined, Consumed, Wasted and Tormented, -against the Peace of our Sovereign Lord and -Lady, the King and Queen, and against the -Form of the Statute in that Case made and provided.</p> - -<p class="center"> -Witnesses, <i>Mary Wolcott, Sarah Vibber</i>,<a name="FNanchor_59_59" id="FNanchor_59_59"></a><a href="#Footnote_59_59" class="fnanchor">[59]</a> -<i>Mercy -Lewis, Ann Putnam, Eliz. Hubbard</i>. -</p> -<p class="center"> -Endorsed by the Grand Jury, <i>Billa Vera</i>. -</p> - -<p class="p2">There was also a second Indictment for afflicting -<i>Elizabeth Hubbard</i>, the Witnesses to the said -Indictment were <i>Elizabeth Hubbard</i>, <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, -and <i>Ann Putnam</i>.</p> - -<p>The third Indictment was for afflicting <i>Mercy -Lewis</i>: the Witnesses, the said <i>Mercy Lewis</i>, -<i>Mary Wolcott</i>, <i>Elizabeth Hubbard</i>, and <i>Ann Putnam</i>.</p> - -<p>The fourth for acts of Witchcraft on <i>Ann Putnam</i>, -the Witnesses, the said <i>Ann Putnam</i>, <i>Mary -Wolcott</i>, <i>Elizabeth Hubbard</i>, and <i>Mary Warren</i>.<a name="FNanchor_60_60" id="FNanchor_60_60"></a><a href="#Footnote_60_60" class="fnanchor">[60]</a></p> - -<h3><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">63</a></span> - -<i>The Tryal of</i> G. B. <i>as Printed in</i> Wonders of the -Invisible World, <i>from</i> P. 94 <i>to</i> 104.</h3> - -<p class="dropcap">GLAD should I have been, if I had never -known the name of this Man; or never -had this occasion to mention so much as the first -Letters of his name. But the Government requiring -some Account of his trial, to be inserted -in this Book, it becomes me with all obedience -to submit unto the Order.</p> - -<p>1. This <i>G. B.</i> was Indicted for Witchcrafts; -and in the Prosecution of the Charge against -him, he was Accused by five or six of the Bewitched, -as the Author of their Miseries; he was -accused by Eight of the confessing Witches, as -being an head Actor at some of their Hellish -Randezvouzes, and who had the promise of being -a King in Satan's Kingdom, now going to be -erected; he was accused by Nine persons, for -extraordinary lifting, and such feats of strength -as could not be done without a Diabolical Assistance. -And for other such things he was accused, -until about Thirty Testimonies<a name="FNanchor_61_61" id="FNanchor_61_61"></a><a href="#Footnote_61_61" class="fnanchor">[61]</a> were brought -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">64</a></span>in against him; nor were these judg'd the half -of what might have been consider'd for his Conviction: -however they were enough to fix the -Character of a Witch upon him, according to the -Rules of Reasoning, by the judicious <i>Gaule</i>, in -that case directed.</p> - -<p>[115] The Court being sensible, that the Testimonies -of the Parties Bewitched, use to have a -Room among the Suspicions, or Presumptions, -brought in against one Indicted for Witchcraft, -there were now heard the Testimonies of several -Persons who were most notoriously bewitched, -and every day tortured by Invisible hands, and -these now all charged the Spectres of <i>G. B.</i> to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">65</a></span> -have a share in their Torments. At the Examination -of this <i>G. B.</i> the bewitched People were -grievously harrassed with preternatural Mischiefs, -which could not possibly be dissembled; and they -still ascribed it unto the Endeavours of <i>G. B.</i> to -kill them. And now upon his Trial, one of the -bewitched persons testified, That in her <i>Agonies</i> -a little Black-haired Man came to her, saying -his name was <i>B.</i> and bidding her set her hand -unto a Book, which he shewed unto her; and -bragging that he was a Conjuror above the ordinary -Rank of Witches; that he often persecuted -her, with the offer of that Book, saying, she -should be well, and need fear nobody, if she -would but sign it: but he inflicted cruel pains -and hurts upon her, because of her denying so to -do.<a name="FNanchor_62_62" id="FNanchor_62_62"></a><a href="#Footnote_62_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a> The Testimonies of the other Sufferers, -concurred with these; and it was remarkable, -that whereas Biting, was one of the ways, which -the Witches used, for the vexing of the Sufferers, -when they cry'd out of <i>G. B.</i> biting them, the -print of his Teeth would be seen on the Flesh -of the Complainers; and just such a set of Teeth -as <i>G. B</i>'s. would then appear upon them, which -could be distinguished from those of some other -Mens.</p> - -<p>Others of them testified, that in their Torments -<i>G. B.</i> tempted them to go unto a -Sacrament, unto which they perceived him -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">66</a></span>with a sound of Trumpet summoning of other -Witches; who quickly after the sound would -come from all quarters unto the Randezvous. -One of them falling into a kind of Trance, afterwards -affirmed, that <i>G. B.</i> had carried her into -a very high Mountain, where he shewed her -mighty and glorious Kingdoms, and said he -would give them all to her, if she would write -in his Book; but she told him, They were none -of his to give; and refused the Motions; enduring -of much misery for that refusal.<a name="FNanchor_63_63" id="FNanchor_63_63"></a><a href="#Footnote_63_63" class="fnanchor">[63]</a></p> - -<p>It cost the Court a wonderful deal of trouble -to hear the Testimonies of the Sufferers; for -when they were going to give in their Depositions, -they would for a long while be taken with -Fits, that made them uncapable of saying any -thing. The chief Judge asked the Prisoner, who -he thought hindered these Witnesses from giving -their Testimonies? and he answered, He supposed -it was the Devil. That Honourable person then -replied, How comes the Devil so loth to have -any Testimony borne against you? Which cast -him into very great confusion.<a name="FNanchor_64_64" id="FNanchor_64_64"></a><a href="#Footnote_64_64" class="fnanchor">[64]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">67</a></span></p> - -<p>3. It hath been a frequent thing for the bewitched -People, to be entertained with Apparitions -of Ghosts of murdered People, at the same -time that the Spectres of the Witches trouble -them. These Ghosts do always [116] affright -the beholders, more than all the other Spectral -Representations; and when they exhibit themselves, -they cry out of being murdered by the -Witchcrafts or other Violences of the persons -who are then in Spectre present. It is further -considerable, that once or twice these Apparitions -have been seen by others, at the very same time -they have shown themselves to the bewitched; -and seldom have there been these Apparitions, -but when something unusual and suspected hath -attended the death of the Party thus appearing. -Some that have been accused by these Apparitions, -accosting of the bewitched People, who -had never heard a word of any such persons ever -being in the World, have upon a fair Examination, -freely and fully confessed the Murders of -those very persons, although these also did not -know how the Apparitions had complained of -them. Accordingly several of the bewitched -had given in their Testimony, that they had been -troubled with the Apparitions of two Women, -who said they were <i>G. B</i>'s two Wives; and that -he had been the death of them; and that the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">68</a></span> -Magistrates must be told of it, before whom, if -<i>B.</i> upon his Tryal denied it, they did not know -but that they should appear again in the Court. -Now <i>G. B.</i> had been infamous, for the barbarous -usage of his two successive Wives, all the Countrey -over. Moreover, it was testified, the Spectre -of <i>G. B.</i> threatning of the Sufferers told them -he had killed (besides others) Mrs. <i>Lawson</i> and -her Daughter <i>Ann</i>. And it was noted, that these -were the Vertuous Wife and Daughter of one, at -whom this <i>G. B.</i> might have a prejudice, for -being serviceable at <i>Salem</i>-Village, from whence -himself had in ill terms removed some Years -before, and that when they dy'd, which was long -since, there were some odd circumstances about -them, which made some of the Attendants there -suspect something of Witchcraft, though none -imagined from what quarter it should come.</p> - -<p>Well <i>G. B.</i> being now upon his Tryal, one of -the bewitched persons was cast into horror at the -Ghosts of <i>B</i>'s. two deceased Wives, then appearing -before him, and crying for vengeance against -him. Hereupon several of the bewitched persons -were successively called in, who all, not -knowing what the former had seen and said, concurred -in their horror of the Apparition, which -they affirmed, that he had before him. But he, -though much appalled, utterly denied that he -discerned any thing of it, nor was it any part of -his Conviction.</p> - -<p>4. Judicious writers have assigned it a great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">69</a></span> -place, in the Conviction of Witches, when persons -are Impeached by other notorious Witches -to be as ill as themselves, especially if the persons -have been much noted for neglecting the Worship -of God. Now as there might have been Testimonies -enough of <i>G. B</i>'s. Antipathy to Prayer, -and the other Ordinances of God, though by his -Profession singularly obliged thereunto; so there -now came in against the Prisoner, the Testimonies -of several persons, who [117] confessed their -own having been horrible Witches, and ever since -their Confessions, had been themselves terribly tortured -by the Devils and other Witches, even like -the other Sufferers; and therein undergone the -pains of many deaths for their Confessions.</p> - -<p>These now testified, that <i>G. B.</i> had been at -Witch-meetings with them; and that he was the -person who had seduced and compelled them -into the Snares of Witchcraft: that he promised -them fine Cloaths for doing it; that he brought -Poppets to them, and thorns to stick into those -Poppets, for the afflicting of other People: And -that he exhorted them, with the rest of the Crue -to bewitch all <i>Salem</i>-Village; but be sure to do -it gradually; if they would prevail in what they -did.</p> - -<p>When the <i>Lancashire</i> Witches were Condemned, -I do'nt remember that there was any -considerable further Evidence, than that of the -bewitched, and than that of some that had confessed. -We see so much already against <i>G. B.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">70</a></span> -But this being indeed not enough, there were -other things to render what had already been -produced credible.</p> - -<p>5. A famous Divine, recites this among the -Convictions of a Witch; the Testimony of the -party bewitched, whether pining or dying; together -with the Joint Oaths of sufficient persons, -that have seen certain podigious pranks or feats, -wrought by the party accused. Now God had -been pleased so to leave this <i>G. B.</i> that he had -ensnared himself, by several instances which he -had formerly given of a preternatural strength; -and which were now produced against him. He -was a very puny Man, yet he had often done -things beyond the strength of a Giant.<a name="FNanchor_65_65" id="FNanchor_65_65"></a><a href="#Footnote_65_65" class="fnanchor">[65]</a> A Gun -of about 7 Foot barrel, and so heavy that strong -Men could not steadily hold it out, with both -hands; there were several Testimonies given in -by persons of Credit and Honor, that he made -nothing of taking up such a Gun behind the -Lock with but one hand, and holding it out like -a Pistol, at Arms-end. <i>G. B.</i> in his vindication -was so foolish, as to say, that an <i>Indian</i> was there, -and held it out, at the same time: whereas, none -of the Spectators ever saw any such <i>Indian</i>; but -they supposed the black Man (as the Witches -call the Devil; and they generally say he resembles -an <i>Indian</i>) might give him that Assistance. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">71</a></span>There was Evidence likewise brought in, that he -made nothing of taking up whole Barrels fill'd -with Mellasses, or Cyder, in very disadvantageous -Postures, and carrying of them thro' the difficultest -places, out of a Canoa to the Shore.</p> - -<p>Yea, there were two Testimonies, that <i>G. B.</i> -with only putting the Fore-finger of his right -hand into the Muzzel of an heavy Gun, a fowling -piece of about six or seven foot Barrel did lift up -the Gun, and hold it out at Arms-end; a Gun -which the Deponents, though strong men, could -not with both hands lift up, and hold out at the -Butt-end, as is usual. Indeed one of these Witnesses, -was over-perswaded by some persons to -[118] be out of way upon <i>G. B</i>'s. Tryal; but he -came afterwards with sorrow for his withdraw, -and gave in his Testimony. Nor were either of -these Witnesses made use of as Evidence in the -Tryal.</p> - -<p>6. There came in several Testimonies, relating -to the Domestick affairs of <i>G. B.</i> which had a -very hard Aspect upon him; and not only proved -him a very ill Man, but also confirmed the belief -of the Character, which had been already fastned -on him.</p> - -<p>'Twas Testified, that keeping his two successive -Wives in a strange kind of slavery, he would -when he came home from abroad pretend to tell -the talk which any had with them. That he -has brought them to the point of Death, by his -harsh dealings with his Wives, and then made the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">72</a></span> -People about him to promise that in case Death -should happen they would say nothing of it. -That he used all means to make his Wives Write, -Sign, Seal, and Swear a Covenant never to reveal -any of his Secrets. That his Wives had privately -complained unto the Neighbours about frightly -Apparitions of Evil Spirits, with which their -House was sometimes infested; and that many -such things have been whispered among the -Neighbourhood. There were also some other -Testimonies, relating to the death of People, -whereby the Consciences of an impartial Jury -were convinced, that <i>G. B.</i> had bewitched the -persons mention'd in the Complaints. But I am -forced to omit several such Passages in this as well -as in all the succeeding Tryals, because the Scribes -who took notice of them, have not supplied me.</p> - -<p>7. One Mr. <i>Ruck</i>, Brother in Law to this <i>G. -B.</i> testified that <i>G. B.</i> and he himself, and his -Sister, who was <i>G. B</i>'s. Wife, going out for two -or three Miles, to gather Strawberries, <i>Ruck</i> with -his Sister, the Wife of G. B. rode home very -softly, with G. B. on foot, in their company, G. -B. stept aside a little into the Bushes, whereupon -they halted and hollow'd for him. He not answering, -they went away homewards, with a -quickened pace; without any expectation of seeing -him in a considerable while: and yet when -they were got near home, to their astonishment -they found him on foot, with them, having a -Basket of Strawberries. G. B. immediately then<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">73</a></span> -fell to chiding his Wife, on the account of what -she had been speaking to her Brother of him on -the Road: which when they wondered at, he -said, He knew their thoughts. <i>Ruck</i> being -startled at that, made some reply, intimating that -the Devil himself did not know so far; but G. -B. answered, my god, makes known your thoughts -unto me. The Prisoner now at the Bar had -nothing to answer unto what was thus witnessed -against him, that was worth considering. Only -he said, <i>Ruck</i> and his Wife left a man with him, -when they left him. Which <i>Ruck</i> now affirm'd -to be false; and when the Court asked G. B. -What the mans name was? His countenance was -much altered; nor [119] could he say who it -was. But the Court began to think that he then -stept aside, only that by the Assistance of the -black Man, he might put on his invisibility, and -in that fascinating Mist, gratify his own jealous -humour, to hear what they said of him. Which -trick of rendering themselves invisible, our Witches -do in their Confessions pretend that they sometimes -are masters of; and it is the more credible, -because there is demonstration that they often -render many other things utterly invisible.</p> - -<p>8. Faultering, Faulty, Unconstant, and contrary -Answers upon Judicial and deliberate Examination, -are counted some unlucky symptoms -of Guilt in all Crimes, especially in Witchcrafts. -Now there never was a Prisoner more Eminent -for them, than <i>G. B.</i> both at his Examination<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">74</a></span> -and on his Tryal. His Tergiversations, Contradictions, -and Falsehoods, were very sensible: he -had little to say, but that he had heard some things -that he could not prove, Reflecting upon the Reputation -of some of the Witnesses. Only he -gave in a Paper to the Jury; wherein, altho' he -had many times before granted, not only that -there are Witches, but also that the present Sufferings -of the Countrey are the Effects of Horrible -Witchcrafts, yet he now goes to evince it, -that there neither are nor ever were, Witches, -that having made a compact with the Devil, can -send a Devil to torment other People at a distance. -This Paper was transcribed out of <i>Ady</i>; which -the Court presently knew, as soon as they heard -it. But he said, he had taken none of it out of -any Book; for which his evasion afterwards was, -that a Gentleman gave him the Discourse in a -Manuscript, from whence he transcribed it.</p> - -<p>9. The Jury brought him in Guilty; but when -he came to dye, he utterly deny'd the Fact, -whereof he had been thus Convicted.<a name="FNanchor_66_66" id="FNanchor_66_66"></a><a href="#Footnote_66_66" class="fnanchor">[66]</a></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_58_58" id="Footnote_58_58"></a><a href="#FNanchor_58_58"><span class="label">[58]</span></a> As this Indictment does not appear -to be among the Records, its -absence is accounted for as has been -remarked of other similar Documents -before noticed; being taken -from the Files and never returned.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_59_59" id="Footnote_59_59"></a><a href="#FNanchor_59_59"><span class="label">[59]</span></a> This Name as has been mentioned -already, is doubtless <i>Bibber</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_60_60" id="Footnote_60_60"></a><a href="#FNanchor_60_60"><span class="label">[60]</span></a> Of these abandoned Witnesses, -we have already had sufficient.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_61_61" id="Footnote_61_61"></a><a href="#FNanchor_61_61"><span class="label">[61]</span></a> About twenty appear in the -Records, which see, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm">II</a>, Pages -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>, <i>et seq.</i> Respecting Mr. Burrough's -great Strength, Samuel Webber, -aged about 36, swore, that -"aboute ceauen or eight Yeares -agoe I liued at Casco Bay, and -George Burroughs was then Minester -there, and haueing heard much -of the great Strength of him sd. -Burroughs; he coming to our House -wee ware in discourse aboute the -same and he then told mee yt he -had put his fingers into the Bung of -a Barrell of Malases and lifted it -vp and carryed it round him." Salem, -Augt. 2d, 1692. -</p> -<p> -Ann Putnam swore, that on the -20th of April, 1692, she saw the -<i>Apperishtion</i> of Mr. Burroughs who -tortured her in a terrible Manner; -told her he had had three Wives, and had bewitched two of them to -death; had killed Mistress Lawson -because she was so unwilling to go -from the Village; had killed Mr. -Lawson's Children because he went -to the Eastward with Sir Edmond -[Andros] and preached so to the -Soldiers; had bewitched a great -many Soldiers to death when Sir -<i>Edmon</i> was there, &c. At another -time she swore that the two Wives -of Mr. Burroughs appeared to her -in their Winding-sheets, and told -her how they were murdered. Also -Mrs. Lawson and her Daughter -Ann appeared in the same Manner; -also another Woman who told her -she was Goodman Fuller's first -Wife, and that Mr. Burroughs killed -her, because of a Difference between -her Husband and him. -</p> -<p> -Simon Willard, aged about 42 -Years, was at the House of Mr. -Robert Lawrence, of Casco Bay, in -Sept., 1689; saw Mr. Burroughs -show where he took hold of the -Gun of about seven foot Barrel, -which was behind the Lock; and -Mr. B. said he held it out with one -Hand by so taking it, but the Deponent -did not see him do it. Willard -commanded the Fort at Casco. -</p> -<p> -Thomas Greenslett, aged about 40 -Years, said he was at Capt. Joshua -Scottow's at Black Point, about the -breaking out of the late Indian -War, where he saw Mr. B. lift a -Gun of six foot Barrel or there-about, -by putting the Forefinger of -his right Hand into the Muzzle; -holding it out at Arm's Length. -Lieut. Richard Hunnewell and John -<i>Greinslett</i> being present. The above -are a few Specimens of the Evidence -on which Mr. Burroughs was -condemned and executed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_62_62" id="Footnote_62_62"></a><a href="#FNanchor_62_62"><span class="label">[62]</span></a> Several of those Girls before mentioned, swore to about the same thing.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_63_63" id="Footnote_63_63"></a><a href="#FNanchor_63_63"><span class="label">[63]</span></a> The Girl who made oath to -this was Mercy Lewis. It took -place on the 9th of May, 1692, as -she said: "Mr. Burroughs carried -me up to an exceeding high Mountain -and shewed me all the Kingdoms -of the Earth, and told me he -would give them all to me if I would -writ in his Book, and if I would -not, he would thro me down and -break my Neck: but I tould him -they were none of his to give, and -would not writ if he throde me -down on a hundred pichforks."—<i>Records -S. W.</i> ii, 118.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_64_64" id="Footnote_64_64"></a><a href="#FNanchor_64_64"><span class="label">[64]</span></a> This is only Dr. Mather's -Abridgment of the Record, it will -be remembered. "Sus. Sheldon -testifyed that Burroughs two Wives -appeared in their Winding-sheets, and said that Man killed them. -He was bid to look upon Sus. -Sheldon. He looked back and -knockt down all (or most) of the -afflicted who stood behind him."—<i>Ibid.</i> -ii, 109.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_65_65" id="Footnote_65_65"></a><a href="#FNanchor_65_65"><span class="label">[65]</span></a> By the Testimony extracted in -Note 61, it will be seen that the -Doctor's Statement is rather beyond -the Record. He may have, and -doubtless had more than is now -extant.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_66_66" id="Footnote_66_66"></a><a href="#FNanchor_66_66"><span class="label">[66]</span></a> -See Note <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Footnote_153_152">153</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_163">163</a>, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I.</a></p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="sidenote">Bridget Bishop's <i>Indictment</i>.</div> - -<h3><i>The Indictment of</i> Bridget Bishop.</h3> - -<p class="center"><i>Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Willielmi & Mariæ, nunc -Angliæ, &c. quarto.</i></p> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Essex</i> ss.</div> - -<p class="dropcap">THE jurors for our Sovereign Lord and -Lady, the King and Queen present, -That <i>Bridget Bishop</i>, alias <i>Oliver</i>, the Wife of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">75</a></span><i>Edward Bishop</i> in <i>Salem</i>, in the County of <i>Essex</i>, -Sawyer, the Nineteenth day of <i>April</i>, in the -Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord -and Lady, <i>William</i> and <i>Mary</i>, by the Grace of -God, of <i>England</i>, <i>Scotland</i>, <i>France</i> and <i>Ireland</i>, -King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, <i>&c.</i> -and divers other days and times, as well before as -after, certain detestable Arts, called Witchcrafts, -and Sorceries, wickedly and Felloniously hath -used, practiced, and exercised at, and within the -Township of <i>Salem</i>, in the County of <i>Essex</i>, aforesaid, -in, upon, and against one [120] <i>Mercy Lewis</i>, -of <i>Salem</i>-Village, in the County aforesaid, single -Woman; by which said wicked Arts, the said -<i>Mercy Lewis</i>, the said Nineteenth day of <i>April</i>, -in the Fourth Year above said, and divers other -days and times, as well before as after, was and is -Hurt, Tortured, Afflicted, Pined, Consumed, -Wasted and Tormented, against the Peace of our -Sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, -and against the form of the Statute, in that case -made and provided.</p> - -<p><i>Endorsed</i> Billa Vera.</p> - -<p>Witnesses—<i>Mary Lewis, Nathaniel Ingarsoll</i>, -Mr. <i>Samuel Parris, Thomas Putnam</i>, Junior, <i>Mary -Walcott</i>, Junior, <i>Ann Putnam</i>, Junior, <i>Elizabeth -Hubbard, Abigail Williams</i>.</p> - -<p class="p2">There was also a Second Indictment, on the -said <i>Bishop</i>, for afflicting and practising Witchcraft -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">76</a></span> -on <i>Abigail Williams</i>. Witnesses to the said Indictment, -were the said <i>Abigail Williams</i>, Mr. -<i>Parris, Nathaniel Ingarsoll, Thomas Putnam, Ann -Putnam, Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Hubbard</i>.<a name="FNanchor_67_67" id="FNanchor_67_67"></a><a href="#Footnote_67_67" class="fnanchor">[67]</a></p> - -<p>The Third Indictment was for afflicting <i>Mary -Walcott</i>, Witnesses to which said Indictment, were -<i>Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis</i>, Mr. <i>Samuel Parris, -Nathaniel Ingarsoll, Thomas Putnam, Ann Putnam, -Elizabeth Hubbard, Abigail Williams</i>.<a name="FNanchor_68_68" id="FNanchor_68_68"></a><a href="#Footnote_68_68" class="fnanchor">[68]</a></p> - -<p>The Fourth Indictment was for afflicting <i>Elizabeth -Hubbard</i>, Witnesses to which said Indictment, -were the said <i>Elizabeth Hubbard, Mercy -Lewis</i>, Mr. <i>Parris, Nathaniel Ingarsoll, Thomas -Putnam, Ann Putnam, Mary Walcott, Abigail -Williams</i>.</p> - -<p>The Fifth Indictment was for afflicting <i>Ann -Putnam</i>, Witnesses to which said Indictment, were -the said <i>Ann Putnam</i>, Mr. <i>Samuel Parris, Nathaniel -Ingarsoll, Thomas Putnam, Mercy Lewis, -Mary Walcott, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard</i>.<a name="FNanchor_69_69" id="FNanchor_69_69"></a><a href="#Footnote_69_69" class="fnanchor">[69]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">77</a></span></p> - -<div class="sidenote">Bridget Bishop's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<h3 class="hang"><i>The Tryal</i> of Bridget Bishop, <i>as printed</i>, -<i>in Wonders of Invisible World</i>, June 2, -1692. P. 104 to 114.</h3> - -<p><span class="dropcap"><span class="dropfix">1.</span> S</span><i>HE was Indicted for bewitching several persons -in the Neighbourhood. The Indictment -being drawn up, according to the form in such cases -usual, and pleading not guilty, there were brought in -several persons, who had long undergone many kinds -of miseries, which were preternaturally inflicted, -and generally ascribed unto an horrible Witchcraft. -There was little occasion to prove the Witchcraft, it -being evident and notorious to all beholders. Now -to fix the Witchcraft on the Prisoner at the Bar, -the first thing used was, the testimony of the bewitched; -whereof several testified, that the shape of the</i> [121] -<i>Prisoner did oftentimes very grievously pinch them, -choak them, bite them, and afflict them; urging them -to write their names in a Book, which the said Spectre -call'd Ours. One of them did further testifie, -that it was the shape of this Prisoner, with another, -which one day took her from her Wheel, and carrying -her to the River side, threatned there to drown her, -if she did not sign the Book mention'd, which yet she -refused. Others of them did also testifie, that the -said shape, did in her threats, brag to them, that she -had been the death of sundry persons, then by her -named. Another testified, the Apparition of Ghosts -unto the Spectre of</i> Bishop, <i>crying out,</i> You murdered us.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">78</a></span> -<i>About the truth whereof, there was in -the matter of Fact, but too much suspicion.</i><a name="FNanchor_70_70" id="FNanchor_70_70"></a><a href="#Footnote_70_70" class="fnanchor">[70]</a></p> - -<p>2. <i>It was testified, that at the Examination of the -Prisoner, before the Magistrates, the bewitched were -extreamly tortured. If she did but cast her Eyes on -them, they were presently struck down; and this in -such a manner as there could be no collusion in the -business. But upon the touch of her hand upon them, -when they lay in their swoons, they would immediately -revive; and not upon the touch of any ones -else. Moreover upon some special Actions of her -Body, as the shaking of her head, or the turning of -her Eyes, they presently and painfully fell into the -like postures. And many of the like accidents now -fell out, while she was at the Bar. One at the same -time testifying, that she said,</i> She could not be -troubled to see the Afflicted thus tormented.<a name="FNanchor_71_71" id="FNanchor_71_71"></a><a href="#Footnote_71_71" class="fnanchor">[71]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">79</a></span> - -3. <i>There was Testimony likewise brought in, that -a Man striking once at the place, where a bewitched -person said, the shape of this</i> Bishop <i>stood, the bewitched -cryed out that he had tore her Coat, in the -place then particularly specified; and the Womans -Coat was found to be torn in the very place.</i><a name="FNanchor_72_72" id="FNanchor_72_72"></a><a href="#Footnote_72_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">80</a></span> - -4. <i>One</i> Deliverance Hobbs, <i>who had confessed -her being a Witch, was now tormented by the Spectres -for her Confession. And she now testified that -this</i> Bishop <i>tempted her to sign the Book again, and -to deny what she had confess'd. She affirmed, that -it was the shape of this Prisoner, which whipped -her with Iron Rods, to compel her thereunto. And -she affirmed, that this</i> Bishop <i>was at a General -meeting of the Witches in a field, at</i> Salem-<i>Village; -and there partook of a Diabolical Sacrament, in -Bread and Wine then administered.</i><a name="FNanchor_73_73" id="FNanchor_73_73"></a><a href="#Footnote_73_73" class="fnanchor">[73]</a></p> - -<p>5. <i>To render it further unquestionable, that the -Prisoner at the Bar was the Person truly charged -in this Witchcraft; there was produced many Evidences -of other Witchcrafts, by her perpetrated. -For instance,</i> John Cook <i>testified, that about five -or six Years ago, one morning about Sun-Rise, he -was in his Chamber, assaulted by the shape of this -Prisoner: which look'd on him, grinn'd at him, and -very much hurt him, with a blow on the side of the -head; and that on the same day about Noon, the -same shape walked in the Room where he was, and -an Apple strangely flew out of his hand, into the lap -of his Mother, six or eight foot from him.</i><a name="FNanchor_74_74" id="FNanchor_74_74"></a><a href="#Footnote_74_74" class="fnanchor">[74]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">81</a></span> - -[122] 6. Samuel Gray, <i>testify'd, that about fourteen -Years ago, he wak'd on a Night, and saw the -Room where he lay full of light; and that he then -saw plainly a Woman between the Cradle and the -Bedside, which looked upon him. He rose, and it -vanished; tho he found the Doors all fast: Looking -out at the Entry door, he saw the same Woman -in the same garb again, and said,</i> In God's name, -what do you come for? <i>He went to Bed, and had -the same Woman again assaulting him. The Child -in the Cradle gave a great Screech, and the Woman -disappeared. It was long before the Child could be -quieted; and tho it were a very likely thriving Child, -yet from this time it pined away, and after divers -Months died in a sad condition. He knew not</i> Bishop, -<i>nor her name; but when he saw her after this, he -knew by her countenance, and apparel, and all circumstances, -that it was the Apparition of this</i> Bishop, -<i>which had thus troubled him.</i><a name="FNanchor_75_75" id="FNanchor_75_75"></a><a href="#Footnote_75_75" class="fnanchor">[75]</a></p> - -<p>7. John Bly <i>and his Wife, testified, that he bought -a Sow of</i> Edward Bishop, <i>the Husband of the Prisoner, -and was to pay the price agreed unto another -person. This Prisoner being angry that she was thus -hindred from fingring the Money, quarrel'd with</i> Bly, -<i>soon after which the Sow was taken with strange -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">82</a></span>Fitts, jumping, leaping, and knocking her head against -the Fence, she seemed blind and deaf, and would neither -eat nor be sucked. Whereupon a Neighbour said, she -believed the creature was over-looked; and sundry -other circumstances concurred, which made the Deponents -believe that</i> Bishop <i>had bewitched it.</i><a name="FNanchor_76_76" id="FNanchor_76_76"></a><a href="#Footnote_76_76" class="fnanchor">[76]</a></p> - -<p>8. Richard Coman <i>testified that Eight Years -ago, as he lay awake in his Bed, with a light burning -in the Room, he was annoyed with the Apparition of -this</i> Bishop, <i>and of two more that were strangers to -him; who came and oppressed him so that he could -neither stir himself, nor wake any one else: and that -he was the Night after molested again in the like manner; -the said</i> Bishop <i>taking him by the Throat, and -pulling him almost out of the Bed. His Kinsman -offered for this cause to lodge with him; and that -night, as they were awake discoursing together, this</i> -Coman <i>was once more visited by the Guests which -had formerly been so troublesome, his Kinsman being -at the same time struck speechless, and unable to move -hand or foot. He had laid his Sword by him; which -those unhappy Spectres, did strive much to wrest from -him, only he held too fast for them. He then grew -able to call the People of his house; but altho they -heard him, yet they had not power to speak or stir, -until at last, one of the People crying out, What's the -matter! the Spectres all vanished.</i><a name="FNanchor_77_77" id="FNanchor_77_77"></a><a href="#Footnote_77_77" class="fnanchor">[77]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">83</a></span> - -9. <i>Samuel Shattuck</i> testified, that in the Year, -1680. This <i>Bridget Bishop</i>, often came to his -house upon such frivolous and foolish Errands, -that they suspected she came indeed with a purpose -of Mischief. Presently whereupon his Eldest -Child, which was of as promising health and sense, -as any Child of its Age, began to droop exceedingly; -and the [123] oftener that <i>Bishop</i> came to -the house, the worse grew the Child. As the -Child would be standing at the Door, he would be -thrown and bruised against the Stones, by an Invisible -hand, and in like sort knock his face -against the sides of the house, and bruise it after -a miserable manner. Afterwards this <i>Bishop</i> -would bring him things to Dye, whereof he -could not Imagine any use; and when she paid -him a piece of Money, the Purse and Money -were unaccountably conveyed out of a lock'd Box, -and never seen more. The Child was immediately -hereupon taken with terrible Fits, whereof -his friends thought he would have died: Indeed -he did almost nothing but cry and sleep, for -several Months together; and at length his understanding -was utterly taken away. Among other -Symptoms of an Inchantment upon him one was, -that there was a Board in the garden, whereon -he would walk; and all the Invitations in the -world could never fetch him off. About seventeen -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">84</a></span> -or eighteen Years after, there came a stranger -to <i>Shattocks</i> house, who seeing the Child, -said, <i>This poor Child is bewitched; and you have a -Neighbour living not far off who is a Witch</i>. He -added, <i>Your Neighbour has had a falling out with -your Wife; and she said in her heart, your Wife is -a proud Woman, and she would bring down her pride -in this Child</i>: He then remembered, that <i>Bishop</i> -had parted from his Wife in muttering, and -menacing terms, a little before the Child was -taken ill. The abovesaid stranger would needs -carry the bewitched Boy with him to <i>Bishops</i> -House, on pretence of buying a Pot of Cyder. -The Woman entertained him in a furious manner; -and flew also upon the Boy, scratching his face -till the Blood came, and saying, <i>Thou Rogue, -what? dost thou bring this fellow here to plague me?</i> -Now it seems the Man had said before he went, -that he would fetch Blood of her. Ever after -the Boy was followed with grievous Fits, which -the Doctors themselves generally ascribed unto -Witchcraft; and wherein he would be thrown -still into the Fire or Water, if he were not constantly -looked after; and it was verily believed -that <i>Bishop</i> was the cause of it.<a name="FNanchor_78_78" id="FNanchor_78_78"></a><a href="#Footnote_78_78" class="fnanchor">[78]</a></p> - -<p>10. <i>John Louder</i> testified, that upon some little -controversie with <i>Bishop</i> about her Fowls, going -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">85</a></span>well to bed, he did awake in the Night by Moonlight, -and did clearly see the likeness of this Woman -grievously oppressing him. In which miserable -condition she held him unable to help -himself, till near day. He told <i>Bishop</i> of this; -but she utterly denied it, and threatned him very -much. Quickly after this, being at home on a -Lord's Day, with the doors shut about him, he -saw a black Pig approach him; at which he going -to kick, it vanished away. Immediately -after sitting down he saw a black thing jump in -at the Window, and come and stand before him. -The body was like that of a Monkey, the feet -like a Cocks, but the face much like a Mans. -He being so extremely afrighted, that he could -not speak; this Monster spoke to him and said, -<i>I am a Messenger</i> [124] <i>sent unto you, for I understand -that you are in some trouble of Mind, and if -you will be ruled by me, you shall want for nothing -in this World.</i> Whereupon he endeavoured to -clap his hands upon it; but he could feel no substance, -and it jumped out of the Window again; -but immediately came in by the Porch, though -the doors were shut, and said, <i>You had better take -my counsel!</i> He then struck at it with a stick, -but struck only the Groundsel, and broke the -stick. The Arm with which he struck was presently -disenabled, and it vanished away. He -presently went out at the back door, and spied -this <i>Bishop</i>, in her Orchard, going toward her -House; but he had not power to set one foot<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">86</a></span> -forward unto her. Whereupon returning into -the House, he was immediately accosted by the -Monster he had seen before; which Goblin was -now going to fly at him: whereat he cried out, -<i>The whole Armour of God be between me and you!</i> -so it sprang back, and flew over the Apple-tree; -shaking many Apples off the Tree in its flying -over. At its leap, it flung dirt with its Feet, -against the Stomach of the Man; whereon he -was then struck dumb, and so continued for three -Days together. Upon the producing of this -Testimony, <i>Bishop</i> denied that she knew this Deponent. -Yet their two Orchards joined, and they -had often had their little quarrels for some Years -together.<a name="FNanchor_79_79" id="FNanchor_79_79"></a><a href="#Footnote_79_79" class="fnanchor">[79]</a></p> - -<p>11. <i>William Stacy</i> testified, that receiving Money -of this <i>Bishop</i>, for work done by him, he was gone -but a matter of three Rods from her, and looking -for his Money, found it unaccountably gone from -him. Some time after, <i>Bishop</i> asked him whether -his Father would grind her Grist for her? -He demanded why? she replied, because folks -count me a Witch. He answered, no question, -but he will grind it for you; being then gone -about six Rods from her, with a small load in his -Cart, suddainly the off Wheel slumpt, and sunk -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">87</a></span> -down into an hole, upon plain ground, so that the -Deponent, was forced to get help for the recovering -of the Wheel. But stepping back to look -for the hole which might give him this disaster, -there was none at all to be found. Some time -after he was waked in the Night; but it seemed -as light as day, and he perfectly saw the shape of -this <i>Bishop</i>, in the Room troubling of him, but -upon her going out, all was dark again. He -charg'd <i>Bishop</i> afterwards with it, and she denied -it not; but was very angry. Quickly after, this -Deponent having been threatned by <i>Bishop</i>, as he -was in a dark Night going to the Barn, he was -very suddenly taken or lifted from the ground -and thrown against a Stone-wall; after that he -was again hoisted up, and thrown down a bank, -at the end of his House. After this, again passing -by this <i>Bishop</i>, his Horse with a small load, -striving to draw, all his Gears flew to pieces, and -the Cart fell down; and this Deponent going -then to lift a bag of Corn, of about two Bushels, -could not budge it with all his might.<a name="FNanchor_80_80" id="FNanchor_80_80"></a><a href="#Footnote_80_80" class="fnanchor">[80]</a></p> - -<p>[125] Many other pranks of this <i>Bishops</i>, this -Deponent was ready to testifie. He also testified, -that he verily believed, the said <i>Bishop</i> was the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">88</a></span> -Instrument of his Daughter <i>Priscilla's</i> death; of -which suspicion, pregnant reasons were assigned.</p> - -<p>12. To crown all <i>John Bly</i> and <i>William Bly</i> -testified, that being employ'd by <i>Bridget Bishop</i>, -to help take down the Cellar-wall of the old -House, wherein she formerly lived, they did in -holes of the said old Wall, find several Poppets -made up of Rags, and Hogs Bristles, with headless -Pins in them, the points being outward. -Whereof she could now give no Account unto the -Court, that was reasonable or tolerable.<a name="FNanchor_81_81" id="FNanchor_81_81"></a><a href="#Footnote_81_81" class="fnanchor">[81]</a></p> - -<p>13. One thing that made against the Prisoner -was, her being evidently convicted of Gross lying -in the Court, several times, while she was making -her Plea. But besides this, a Jury of Women, -found a preternatural Tet upon her Body; but -upon a second search, within three or four hours, -there was no such thing to be seen. There was -also an Account of other People whom this Woman -had Afflicted. And there might have been -many more, if they had been enquired for. But -there was no need of them.<a name="FNanchor_82_82" id="FNanchor_82_82"></a><a href="#Footnote_82_82" class="fnanchor">[82]</a></p> - -<p>14. There was one very strange thing more, -with which the Court was newly entertained. As -this Woman was under a guard, passing by the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">89</a></span> -great and spacious Meeting House of <i>Salem</i>, she -gave a look towards the House; and immediately -a <i>Dæmon</i> invisibly entring the Meeting House, -Tore down a part of it; so that tho there were -no person to be seen there, yet the People at the -Noise running in, found a board which was -strongly fastened with several Nails, transported -unto another quarter of the House.<a name="FNanchor_83_83" id="FNanchor_83_83"></a><a href="#Footnote_83_83" class="fnanchor">[83]</a></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_67_67" id="Footnote_67_67"></a><a href="#FNanchor_67_67"><span class="label">[67]</span></a> There are four Indictments -recorded. The Witnesses to the -first correspond with the Records. -Those to the second differ by the -Omission of "John Bligh, and Rebeckah, -his Wife; Samuell Shattuck, -and Sarah, his Wife; William Bligh, -William Stacey; John Loader."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_68_68" id="Footnote_68_68"></a><a href="#FNanchor_68_68"><span class="label">[68]</span></a> These correspond with the -Original, with some very slight Difference -in the Orthography; and -so of those to the fourth Indictment.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_69_69" id="Footnote_69_69"></a><a href="#FNanchor_69_69"><span class="label">[69]</span></a> It will be seen that much the -same Set of Witnesses figure in most -of the Cases; and it is surprising that -such <i>stereotype</i> Testimony should -have been so long imposed upon -the Judges.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_70_70" id="Footnote_70_70"></a><a href="#FNanchor_70_70"><span class="label">[70]</span></a> The Answers of Bridget at -her Examination were Common-sense-like, -and carried with them -such honest Simplicity, that it is -Matter of Astonishment the Judges -could not distinguish between the -most puerile Absurdities and Truth. -It appears that she had had a Husband, -named Oliver; hence she is -often called Bridget Bishop, alias -Oliver. During her Examination, -the Afflicted apparently suffered excessive -Torture. One "Sam. Gold" -afterwards asked her if she was not -troubled to see them so tormented. -He reported that her Answer was -"No. She was not troubled for -them." This was viewed as strong -Evidence against her.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_71_71" id="Footnote_71_71"></a><a href="#FNanchor_71_71"><span class="label">[71]</span></a> Among all the hard swearing, -that of "Sus. Sheldon" was perhaps -equal to any. She was about -18 Years old. At one Time, June -2d, 1692, she saw the "Apperishtion" -of Bridget Bishop, and immediately -came two little Children, -Twins, which told her (Bridget) to -her Face that she had murdered -them by setting them into Fits, -whereof they dyed. One John -Cooke, aged 18, swore about an -Apple which jumped out of his -Hand. John <i>Blye</i> and his Wife, -about a Sow of theirs being bewitched, -and they "Judged Bishop -bewitched said Sow." Elizabeth -Balch of Beverly, aged about 38, -Wife of Benj. B. Ju<sup>r</sup>, "being at Salem y<sup>e</sup> very Day that Capt George -Corwin was buried, and in y<sup>e</sup> -Euening of said Day coming from sd. -Salem vnto sd. Beuerly, on Horseback, -with her Sister, then known -by the Name of Abigail Woodburie, -now Abigail Waldron lieuing -in Wenham, Wife vnto Nathaniell -Waldron, riding behinde her; and -were come so far as Crane Riuer -Common soe called, Edward Bishop -and his Wife ouertook vs (on -horseback) who are both now in -Prison vnder Suspition of Witchcraft." -Bridget complained of her -Husband for riding into the Water, -and of riding too fast. Whereupon -an Altercation arose, and hard -Words were bandied between them. -"And then sd. Bishop directed his -Speech vnto vs as we rode along, -and sd. that she had been a bad -Wife vnto him euer since they were -marryed, and reckoned vp many of -her Miscarriages towards him; but -now of late she was worse than -euer before (and that the she Devill -did come bodyly vnto her, and that -she was familiar with the Deuil, and -that she sate vp all ye Night long -with y<sup>e</sup> Deuill) or Words to that -Purpose. Said Bishop's Wife made -very little Reply."—<i>Records S. W.</i>, -i, 167-8.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_72_72" id="Footnote_72_72"></a><a href="#FNanchor_72_72"><span class="label">[72]</span></a> "Sus. Sheldon," in additional -Testimony said, that "on the fourth -Day, at Night, came Goody Olliuer, -Mrs. English, Goodman Corie, -and a black Man with a hi crowned -hatt, with Books in their Hands. -Goody Olliuer bid me touch her -Book. I would not;" told me she -had been a Witch twenty Years. -"Then there came a streacked -Snake, creeping ouer her Shoulder, -and creep into her Bosom. Mrs. -English had a Yello Bird in her -Bosom, and Goodman Corie had -two Turcles hang to his Coat, and -he opened his Bosom and put his -Turcles to his Brest and gave them -suck. Then Goodm. Core and -Goody Oliuer kneeled downe before -the Black Man and went to -prayer. The Black Man told me -Goody Olliver had been a Witch -20 years and an half. Then they -all set to biting mee, and so went -away. Goodwife Core told me -she lived in [B]osston Prison. Then -she pulled out her brest and the -Black Man gave her a thing like a -blake Pig. It had no Hairs on it. -Shee put it to her brest and gave it -suck. Goody Olliver told mee shee -had killed four Women. Two of -them were the Fosters Wifes and -John Traskes Wife, and did not name the other. Then they did all -bite mee."—<i>Records S. W.</i> ii, 169-170. -Then follows the "Death -Warrant" of Bridget Bishop, dated -at Boston, June the 8th, 1692, -signed by Lieutenant Governour -Stoughton.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_73_73" id="Footnote_73_73"></a><a href="#FNanchor_73_73"><span class="label">[73]</span></a> Her Testimony, as recorded, -may be read in the Records as above -cited, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_148">148-9</a>. It is a Tissue of -Contradictory Nonsense; and if at -all relied upon would excite no -Wonder, in view of what had gone -before.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_74_74" id="Footnote_74_74"></a><a href="#FNanchor_74_74"><span class="label">[74]</span></a> John Cooke was a young Man -of some 18 years of Age. It should -be remembered that these accounts -of Evidence are Dr. Mather's Version. He has omitted the most -important Item in Cook's Testimony. -He swore, that after Goodwife -Bishop had struck him on the -side of the Head, he saw her go -out under the end Window at a -little Crevice about as large as one -could thrust his hand into. See -<i>Records S. W.</i> i, 165.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_75_75" id="Footnote_75_75"></a><a href="#FNanchor_75_75"><span class="label">[75]</span></a> Gray gave his age as about 42 -Years. His Testimony is pretty -fully and fairly given above. See -<i>Records</i>, <i>Ibid</i>, 152-3. He is noticed -in Savage's <i>Dictionary</i>, ii, 299.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_76_76" id="Footnote_76_76"></a><a href="#FNanchor_76_76"><span class="label">[76]</span></a> This Testimony was given June -2d, 1692. The Blighs gave other -Testimony, also, on the same Day. -John <i>Blye</i>, Senior, aged about 57, -and William Blye, aged about 15 -Years. These testified concerning -the finding of <i>Poppitts</i>, as given in -Volume <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_173">173-4</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_77_77" id="Footnote_77_77"></a><a href="#FNanchor_77_77"><span class="label">[77]</span></a> Coman gave his Age as about -32 years. His Nightmare Story is here a good deal abridged. The -curious Reader must go to the Records, -<i>as published by</i> Woodward, -Vol. i, 163-4.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_78_78" id="Footnote_78_78"></a><a href="#FNanchor_78_78"><span class="label">[78]</span></a> Shattuck's Testimony occupies -three and an half of Mr. Woodward's -quarto Pages. His Age was -41. A part of his Story reminds -one of the Man who appeared -among his friends with an awfully -bruised Face. On being asked how -it happened, replied that the Stones -in the Road flew up and struck him -as he was walking along. Poor -Shattuck was unquestionably injured -in the same way.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_79_79" id="Footnote_79_79"></a><a href="#FNanchor_79_79"><span class="label">[79]</span></a> John Louder gave his Age -"about thirty two." He said he -lived with Mr. John Gedney in -Salem about seven or eight Years -since. He was doubtless afflicted -by the same Agents as Samuel Shattuck -was, and saw quite as much if -not hurt as much. A black Pig -seemed determined to keep him -Company; but there were some -other Things equally nondescript. -See <i>Records</i>, i, 160-1.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_80_80" id="Footnote_80_80"></a><a href="#FNanchor_80_80"><span class="label">[80]</span></a> <i>Stacy</i> was of Salem, aged thirty -six, or thereabouts. He goes back -fourteen Years, which was the time -of the Money Transaction. So -that Dr. Mather's version of the -Affair, as though it had just happened, -is not a fair one. Stacy was -often in the same Predicament of -Shattuck and Louder, only Stone -Fences, Stumps and other odd -things knocked him about in a -manner, which if it surprised the -Magistrates, it probably surprised -nobody who might be better acquainted -with him. See <i>Wonders</i>, -Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_172">172</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_81_81" id="Footnote_81_81"></a><a href="#FNanchor_81_81"><span class="label">[81]</span></a> This Evidence has been referred -to in a previous Note.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_82_82" id="Footnote_82_82"></a><a href="#FNanchor_82_82"><span class="label">[82]</span></a> It was no difficult matter, during -a long and tedious Examination, -so to bewilder and confound -Persons of firmer nerves than an -aged Matron, and thus make them -contradict themselves, not knowing -what to say and hardly what was -said to them. Respecting the Jury -of Women, who searched her, the -Reader may consult the Records, if -his Patience is equal to his Curiosity.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_83_83" id="Footnote_83_83"></a><a href="#FNanchor_83_83"><span class="label">[83]</span></a> It would be much more satisfactory -if the matter of the Dæmon -had been well attested. If a -Noise, and the Transportation of -<i>that Board</i> is all the Evidence that -could be adduced that the Devil -was at work there, it can hardly be -said to amount to much. Besides, -if the Devil had had any ill will towards -the Meeting House, he could -easily have set fire to it. His Enmity -to M. Houses is generally admitted.</p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="sidenote">Susanna Martin's <i>Indictment</i>.</div> - -<h3><i>The Indictment of</i> Susanna Martin.</h3> - -<div class="sidenote">Essex ss.</div> -<p class="center"> -<i>Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Willielmi & Mariæ, nunc -Angliæ, &c. quarto.</i>— -</p> - -<p class="dropcap">THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady -the King and Queen, present, That <i>Susanna -Martin</i> of <i>Amesbury</i> in the County of <i>Essex</i>, Widow, -The second Day of <i>May</i>, in the fourth Year -of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady -<i>William</i> and <i>Mary</i>, by the Grace of God, of -<i>England</i>, <i>Scotland</i>, <i>France</i> and <i>Ireland</i>, King and -Queen, Defenders of the faith, <i>&c.</i> And divers -other days and times, as well before as after, -certain detestable Arts, called Witchcrafts, and -Sorceries, Wickedly and Felloniously hath used, -practised, and exercised, at and within the Township -of <i>Salem</i>, in the County of <i>Essex</i> aforesaid, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">90</a></span> -in, upon, and against one <i>Mary Wolcott</i> of <i>Salem</i>-Village, -in the County of <i>Essex</i>, Single-Woman, -by which said wicked Arts the said <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, -the Second Day [126] of <i>May</i>, in the fourth -Year aforesaid, and at divers other days and times, -as well before as after, was and is Tortured, Afflicted, -Pined, Consumed, Wasted and Tormented; -as also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft, by -said <i>Susanna Martin</i>, committed and done before -and since that time, against the Peace of our Soveraign -Lord and Lady, <i>William</i> and <i>Mary</i>, King -and Queen of <i>England</i>; Their Crown and Dignity, -and against the Form of the Statute, in that -Case made and provided.</p> - -<p> -Return'd by the Grand-Jury, <i>Billa Vera</i>. -</p> - -<p>Witnesses—<i>Sarah Vibber, Mary Wolcott</i>, Mr. -<i>Samuel Parris, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mercy Lewis</i>.</p> - -<p class="p2">The Second Indictment<a name="FNanchor_84_84" id="FNanchor_84_84"></a><a href="#Footnote_84_84" class="fnanchor">[84]</a> was for afflicting -<i>Mercy Lewis</i>. Witnesses—<i>Samuel Parris, Ann -Putnam, Sarah Vibber, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary -Wolcott, Mercy Lewis</i>.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">91</a></span></p> - -<div class="sidenote">Susanna Martin's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<h3>The Trial of <i>Susanna Martin, June</i> 29, -1692. As is Printed, in <i>Wonders of the -Invisible World</i>, from p. 114 to p. 116.</h3> - -<p><span class="dropcap"><span class="dropfix">1.</span> S</span><i>USANNA Martin</i>, pleading not Guilty, -to the Indictment of Witchcrafts brought -in against her; there were produced the Evidences -of many persons very sensibly and grievously -bewitched; who all complained of the Prisoner -at the Bar, as the person whom they believed the -cause of their Miseries. And now as well as in -the other Trials, there was an extraordinary endeavour -by Witchcrafts, with cruel and frequent -Fits, to hinder the poor Sufferers, from giving in -their Complaints; which the Court was forced -with much patience to obtain, by much waiting -and watching for it.</p> - -<p>There was now also an Account given, of what -had passed at her first Examination before the -Magistrates. The cast of her Eye then striking -the Afflicted People to the Ground, whether they -saw that cast or no: There were these among -other Passages between the Magistrates and the -Examinate.</p> - -<p><i>Magistrate.</i> Pray, what ails these People?</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> I don't know.</p> - -<p><i>Magist.</i> But, What do you think ails them?</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> I don't desire to spend my Judgment -upon it.</p> - -<p><i>Magist.</i> Don't you think they are bewitched?</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">92</a></span></p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> No, I do not think they are.</p> - -<p><i>Magist.</i> Tell us your thoughts about them -then.</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> No, my thoughts are my own when -they are in, but when they are out, they are anothers. -Their Master—</p> - -<p><i>Magist.</i> Their Master; Who do you think is -their Master?</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> If they be dealing in the black Art, -you may know as well as I.</p> - -<p>[127] <i>Magist.</i> Well, what have you done towards -this?</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> Nothing at all.</p> - -<p><i>Magist.</i> Why, 'tis you or your appearance.</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> I can't help it.</p> - -<p><i>Magist.</i> Is it not your Master? How comes -your appearance to hurt these?</p> - -<p><i>Martin.</i> How do I know? He that appeared -in the shape of <i>Samuel</i>, a Glorified Saint may appear -in any ones shape.</p> - -<p>It was then also noted in her, as in others like -her, that if the Afflicted went to approach her, -they were flung down to the ground. And, when -she was asked the reason of it, she said, I cannot -tell, it may be, the Devil bears me more Malice -than another.—</p> - -<p>The Court accounted themselves Alarm'd by -these things, to inquire further into the Conversation -of the Prisoner; and see what there might -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">93</a></span> -occur, to render these Accusations further credible.<a name="FNanchor_a_a" id="FNanchor_a_a"></a><a href="#Footnote_a_a" class="fnanchor">a</a> - -Whereupon <i>John Allen</i>, of <i>Salisbury</i> testified, -that he refusing, because of the weakness of -his Oxen, to Cart some Staves at the request of -this <i>Martin</i>, she was displeased at it, and said, <i>It -had been as good that he had; for his Oxen should -never do him much more service</i>. Whereupon this -Deponent said, <i>Dost thou threaten me, thou old -Witch? I'll throw thee into the Brook</i>: which to -avoid, she flew over the Bridge and escaped. -But as he was going home, one of his Oxen tired, -so that he was forced to unyoke him, that he -might get him home. He then put his Oxen -with many more, upon <i>Salisbury-Beach</i>, where -Cattle did use to get Flesh. In a few Days, all -the Oxen upon the <i>Beach</i> were found by their -Tracks, to have run unto the mouth of <i>Merrimack-River</i> -and not returned; but the next day -they were found come ashore upon <i>Plum-Island</i>. -They that sought them, used all imaginable gentleness, -but they would still run away with a -violence, that seemed wholly Diabolical, till they -came near the mouth of <i>Merrimack-River</i>; when -they ran right into the Sea, swimming as far as -they could be seen. One of them then swam -back again, with a swiftness amazing to the beholders, -who stood ready to receive them, and -help up his tired Carcass: but the Beast ran furiously -up into the Island, and from thence thorough -the Marishes, up into <i>Newbury</i> Town, and so up -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">94</a></span>into the Woods; and there after a while found near -<i>Amesbury</i>. So that of Fourteen good Oxen, -there was only this saved: the rest were all cast -up, some in one place, and some in another, -Drowned.<a name="FNanchor_85_85" id="FNanchor_85_85"></a><a href="#Footnote_85_85" class="fnanchor">[85]</a></p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_a_a" id="Footnote_a_a"></a><a href="#FNanchor_a_a"><span class="label">a</span></a> - The Above is but a very small Part of the Examination, as appears by -the Records. See <i>Wonders of the Invisible World</i>, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, P. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_175">175</a>.</p> -</div> - -<p>4. <i>John Atkinson</i> testified, that he exchanged a -Cow, with a Son of <i>Susanna Martins</i>, whereat -she muttered, and was unwilling he should have -it. Going to receive this Cow, tho he Hamstring'd -her, and halter'd her, she of a tame Creature -grew so mad, that they could scarce get her -along. She broke all the Ropes that were fastened -unto her, and tho she was tied [128] fast -unto a Tree, yet she made her escape, and gave -them such further trouble, as they could ascribe -to no cause but Witchcraft.<a name="FNanchor_86_86" id="FNanchor_86_86"></a><a href="#Footnote_86_86" class="fnanchor">[86]</a></p> - -<p>5. <i>Bernard Peache</i> testified that being in Bed, -on a Lords Day Night, he heard a scrabbling at -the Window, whereat he then saw <i>Susanna Martin</i> -come in, and jump down upon the floor. She -took hold of this Deponents Feet, and drawing -his body up into an heap, she lay upon him near -two hours; in all which time he could neither -speak nor stir. At length when he could begin -to move he laid hold on her hand, and pulling it -up to his mouth, he bit three of her Fingers as -he judged to the Bone. Whereupon she went -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">95</a></span>from the Chamber down the Stairs, out at the -door. This Deponent thereupon called unto the -people of the House to advise them of what -passed; and he himself did follow her. The People -saw her not; but there being a Bucket at the -Left hand of the door, there was a drop of Blood -on it; and several more drops of Blood upon the -Snow, newly fallen abroad. There was likewise -the print of her two Feet, just without the -Threshold; but no more sign of any footing further -off.<a name="FNanchor_87_87" id="FNanchor_87_87"></a><a href="#Footnote_87_87" class="fnanchor">[87]</a></p> - -<p>At another time this Deponent was desired by -the Prisoner, to come unto a husking of Corn, at -her House; and she said, <i>If he did not come, it -were better that he did</i>! He went not; but the -night following, <i>Susanna Martin</i>, as he judged, -and another came towards him. One of them -said, <i>here he is</i>! but he, having a Quarterstaff, -made a blow at them. The Roof of the Barn -broke his blow; but following them to the Window, -he made another blow at them, and struck -them down; yet they got up, and got out, and -he saw no more of them.</p> - -<p>About this time, there was a Rumour about -the Town, that <i>Martin</i> had a broken head; but -the Deponent could say nothing to that.</p> - -<p>The said <i>Peache</i> also testified, the bewitching -of Cattle to Death, upon<i> Martin's</i> discontents.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">96</a></span></p> -<p>6. <i>Robert Downer</i> testified, that this Prisoner -being some years ago prosecuted at Court for a -Witch, he then said unto her, <i>He believed she was -a Witch</i>. Whereat she being disatisfied, said, -<i>That some she Devil would shortly fetch him away</i>; -which words were heard by others, as well as -himself; the night following, as he lay in his -Bed, there came in at the Window, the likeness -of a Cat, which flew upon him, and took fast -hold of his Throat, lay on him a considerable -while, and almost killed him; at length he remembered -what <i>Susanna Martin</i> had threatened -the Day before, and with much striving, he -cried out, <i>Avoid thou the Devil, In the name of -God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, avoid</i>: -Whereupon it left him, leaped on the Floor, and -flew out at the Window.</p> - -<p>And there also came in several Testimonies that -before ever <i>Downer</i> spoke a word of this Accident, -<i>Susanna Martin</i> and her Family had related -how this <i>Downer</i> had been handled.<a name="FNanchor_88_88" id="FNanchor_88_88"></a><a href="#Footnote_88_88" class="fnanchor">[88]</a></p> - -<p>[129] 7. <i>John Kembal</i> testified, that <i>Susanna -Martin</i>, upon a causeless disgust had threatned -him about a certain Cow of his, that she should -never do him any more good, and it came to -pass accordingly; for soon after the Cow was -found stark dead on the dry ground, without any -Distemper to be discerned upon her. Upon -which he was followed with a strange death upon -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">97</a></span>more of his Cattle. Whereof he lost in one -Spring, to the value of 30<i>l.</i> But the said <i>John -Kembal</i>, had a further Testimony to give in -against the Prisoner, which was truly admirable. -Being desirous to furnish himself with a Dog, he -applied himself to buy one of this <i>Martin</i>, who -had a Bitch with Whelps in her House, but she -not letting him have his choice; he said, <i>He -would supply himself then at one</i> Blezdels. Having -mark'd a Puppy which he liked at <i>Blezdels</i>, he -met George Martin, the Husband of the Prisoner -going by, who asked whether he would not have -one of his Wives Puppy's; and he answered, No. -The same Day one <i>Edmund Eliot</i>,<a name="FNanchor_89_89" id="FNanchor_89_89"></a><a href="#Footnote_89_89" class="fnanchor">[89]</a> being at <i>Martins</i> -House heard <i>George Martin</i> relate where this -<i>Kembal</i> had been, and what he had said; whereupon -<i>Susanna Martin</i> reply'd, <i>If I live I'll give -him Puppies enough</i>. Within a few days after this, -<i>Kembal</i> coming out of the Woods, there arose a -little black Cloud in the <i>N. W.</i> and <i>Kembal</i> immediately -felt a force upon him, which made him -not able to avoid running upon the stumps of -Trees that were before him, albeit he had a -broad plain cart way before him; but tho he had -his Axe also on his Shoulder to endanger him in -his falls, he could not forbear going out of his -way to tumble over them. When he came below -the Meeting-House, there appeared unto him -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">98</a></span>a little thing like a Puppy of a darkish Colour, and -it shot backwards and forwards between his Legs. -He had the Courage to use all possible endeavours -of cutting it with his Axe, but he could not hit it; -the Puppy gave a jump from him and went, as to -him it seem'd into the Ground. Going a little -further there appeared unto him a black Puppy, -somewhat bigger than the First, but as black as a -Coal. It's motions were quicker than those of -his Axe. It flew at his Belly, and away at his -Throat, so over his Shoulders one way, and then -over his Shoulders another way, his heart now -began to fail him, and he thought the Dog would -have tore his Throat out. But he recovered -himself, and called upon God in his distress, and -naming the name of Jesus Christ it vanished -away at once. The Deponent spoke not one -word of these Accidents, for fear of affrighting -his Wife. But the next morning, <i>Edmund Eliot</i> -going into <i>Martins</i> house, this Woman asked him, -where <i>Kembal</i> was? He replied, at home a Bed, -for ought he knew. She returned; they say he -was frighted last night. <i>Eliot</i> asked with what? -She answered with Puppies. <i>Eliot</i> asked, where -she heard of it, for he had heard nothing of it! -She rejoined, about the Town. Altho' <i>Kembal</i> -had mentioned the matter to no creature living.<a name="FNanchor_90_90" id="FNanchor_90_90"></a><a href="#Footnote_90_90" class="fnanchor">[90]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">99</a></span> -[130] 8. <i>William Brown</i> testified, that Heaven -having bless'd him with a most Pious and Prudent -Wife, this Wife of his, one day met with <i>Susanna -Martin</i>: but when she approached just unto -her, <i>Martin</i> vanished out of sight, and left her -extreamly affrighted. After which time the said -<i>Martin</i> often appeared unto her, giving her no -little trouble; and when she did come, she was -visited with Birds that sorely peck'd and prick'd -her; and sometimes a bunch like a Pullets Egg -would rise on her Throat, ready to choak her, till -she cry'd out, <i>Witch, you shan't choak me!</i> While -this good Woman was in this Extremity, the -Church appointed a Day of Prayer on her behalf; -whereupon the trouble ceas'd; she saw not -<i>Martin</i> as formerly; and the Church instead of -their Fast, gave thanks for her deliverance. But -a considerable while after, she being summoned -to give in some Evidence at the Court, against -this <i>Martin</i>, quickly this <i>Martin</i> came behind -her, while she was Milking her Cow, and said -unto her, <i>For thy defaming me at Court, I'll make -thee the miserablest Creature in the World.</i> Soon -after which she fell into a strange kind of Distemper, -and became horribly Frantick, and uncapable -of any Reasonable Action, the Physicians -declaring, that her Distemper was preternatural, -and that some Devil had certainly bewitched her; -and in that condition she now remained.<a name="FNanchor_91_91" id="FNanchor_91_91"></a><a href="#Footnote_91_91" class="fnanchor">[91]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">100</a></span> -9. <i>Sarah Atkinson</i> testified, that <i>Susanna Martin</i> -came from <i>Amesbury</i>, to their House at <i>Newbury</i>, -in an extraordinary Season, when it was not -fit for any one to Travel. She came (as she said -unto <i>Atkinson</i>) all that long way on foot. She -bragg'd and show'd how dry she was; nor could -it be perceived that so much as the Soles of her -Shoes were wet. <i>Atkinson</i> was amazed at it, and -professed, that she should herself have been wet -up to the Knees, if she had then come so far; -but <i>Martin</i> reply'd, <i>She scorned to be drabbled!</i> -It was noted that this Testimony upon her Tryal, -cast her into a very singular confusion.<a name="FNanchor_92_92" id="FNanchor_92_92"></a><a href="#Footnote_92_92" class="fnanchor">[92]</a></p> - -<p>10. <i>John Pressy</i> testified, that being one Evening -very unaccountably bewildred near a Field -of <i>Martin</i>, and several times as one under an Enchantment, -returning to the place he had left, at -length he saw a Marvellous light, about the bigness -of an half Bushel, near two Rood out of the -way. He went and struck at it with a Stick, and -laid it on with all his might. He gave it near -Forty blows; and felt it a palpable substance. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">101</a></span>But going from it, his heels were struck up, and -he was laid with his back on the ground; sliding -as he thought into a Pit: from whence he recovered, -by taking hold on the Bush; altho afterwards -he could find no such Pit in the place. -Having after his recovery, gone five or six Rood, -he saw <i>Susanna Martin</i> standing on his Left hand, -as the Light had done before; but they changed -no words with one another. He could scarce -find his House in his return; but at length he -got home, extreamly af[131]frighted. The next -Day it was upon enquiry understood, that <i>Martin</i> -was in a miserable condition by pains and hurts -that were upon her.</p> - -<p>It was further testified by this Deponent, that -after he had given in some Evidence against <i>Susanna -Martin</i> many Years ago, she gave him foul -words about it, and said, <i>He should never prosper, -more particularly, that he should never have more -than two Cows: that tho he were never so likely to -have more, yet he should never have them.</i> And -that from that very day to this; namely for -Twenty Years together, he could never exceed -that number; but some strange thing or other -still prevented his having of any more.<a name="FNanchor_93_93" id="FNanchor_93_93"></a><a href="#Footnote_93_93" class="fnanchor">[93]</a></p> - -<p>11. <i>Jarvis Ring</i> testified that about Seven Years -ago he was oftentimes grievously oppressed in the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">102</a></span>Night; but saw not who troubled him, until at -last he lying perfectly awake, plainly saw <i>Susanna -Martin</i> approach him. She came to him and -forcibly bit him by the Finger; so that the print -of the bite is now so long after to be seen upon -him.</p> - -<p>12. But besides all these Evidences, there was -a most wonderful Account of one <i>Joseph Ring</i> -produced on this occasion. This Man has been -strangely carried about by <i>Dæmons</i>. From one -Witch-meeting to another, for near two Years -together; and for one quarter of this time they -made him and kept him Dumb, though he is -now again able to speak. There was one <i>T. H.</i><a name="FNanchor_94_94" id="FNanchor_94_94"></a><a href="#Footnote_94_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a> -who having, as 'tis judged, a design of Engaging -this <i>Joseph Ring</i> in a snare of Devilism, contrived -a while, to bring this <i>Ring</i> two Shillings in Debt -unto him. Afterwards this poor Man would be -visited with unknown shapes, and this <i>T. H.</i> -sometimes among them; which would force him -away with them, unto unknown places, where he -saw Meetings, Feastings, Dancings; and after his -return wherein they hurried him along thro the -Air, he gave demonstrations to the Neighbours, -that he had indeed been so transported. When -he was brought unto these hellish meetings, one -of the first things they still did unto him, was to -give him a knock on the back, whereupon he -was ever as if bound with Chains, uncapable of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">103</a></span>stirring out of the place, till they should release -him. He related, that there often came to him -a Man, who presented him a Book, whereto he -would have him set his hand; promising to him -that he should then have even what he would; -and presenting him with all the delectable things, -persons, and places, that he could imagine. But -he refusing to subscribe, the business would end -with dreadful shapes, noises and screeches, which -almost scared him out of his wits. Once with a -Book, there was a Pen offer'd him, and an Inkhorn, -with liquor in it, that seem'd like Blood: -but he never touched it.<a name="FNanchor_95_95" id="FNanchor_95_95"></a><a href="#Footnote_95_95" class="fnanchor">[95]</a></p> - -<p>This Man did now affirm, that he saw the -Prisoner at several of those hellish Randezvouzes.</p> - -<p>[132] <i>Note</i>—This Woman was one of the -most Impudent, Scurrilous, wicked Creature in -the World; and she did now throughout her -whole Tryal, discover herself to be such an one. -Yet when she was asked what she had to say for -herself, her chief plea was, that she had led a -most vertuous and holy life.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">104</a></span></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_84_84" id="Footnote_84_84"></a><a href="#FNanchor_84_84"><span class="label">[84]</span></a> This second Indictment is given -in full in the Records, for which -see <i>Records of Salem Witchcraft</i>, -Vol. i, 195-6.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_85_85" id="Footnote_85_85"></a><a href="#FNanchor_85_85"><span class="label">[85]</span></a> Lieut. John Allen was of Salisbury; -and his Age 45. The Accused -troubled him at some previous -Period, but the Time he does not -state.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_86_86" id="Footnote_86_86"></a><a href="#FNanchor_86_86"><span class="label">[86]</span></a> The Witness, John Atkinson, -was aged about 56 Years. His -Evidence related to Matters of some -five Years past. See <i>Wonders of -Invisible World</i>, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_178">178</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_87_87" id="Footnote_87_87"></a><a href="#FNanchor_87_87"><span class="label">[87]</span></a> Peache's Evidence was of -Troubles of about ten Years before. -He said his Age was about 42; and -at the Time of the Witchcraft -complained of, he lived with William -Osgood, of Salisbury.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_88_88" id="Footnote_88_88"></a><a href="#FNanchor_88_88"><span class="label">[88]</span></a> Downer's Age was 52, and he -belonged to Salisbury. What he -swore to was of Events which happened -"several Years ago."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_89_89" id="Footnote_89_89"></a><a href="#FNanchor_89_89"><span class="label">[89]</span></a> Three Persons of the Name -of <i>Elliot</i> are implicated in the Witch -Court Proceedings—Andrew, Daniel, -and this Edmund, who was of -Amesbury. The Boston <i>Eliots</i> were -of this Lineage.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_90_90" id="Footnote_90_90"></a><a href="#FNanchor_90_90"><span class="label">[90]</span></a> John Kimball was of Amesbury, -and was "aged 45 or vpward." -His swearing was to Occurrencies -of twenty-three Years -standing; that about that Time he -removed from Newbury to Amesbury, -having <span class="err" title="original: boughtPiece">bought a Piece</span> of -Land of Geo. Martin. The Testimony -of Kimball occupies three -and an half Pages of the <i>Records</i>, -i, 218-21. He probably married -Mary Hobbs, in Newbury.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_91_91" id="Footnote_91_91"></a><a href="#FNanchor_91_91"><span class="label">[91]</span></a> This Testimony was by William -Browne, of Amesbury, whose -Age was 70 Years, or "ther about." -What he swore to happened, he said "about on or to and thirty -Years ago." The Trouble seems -to have been between Mrs. Martin, -and Browne's Wife, who was afflicted -with hysteric Fits: insomuch -that she was insane. He had applied -to Doctors Fuller and Crosby, -but they said her Complaint was -supernatural, and that some evil -Person had bewitched her. When -in this State she would not own -him for her Husband, and "asked -him whether he did not mett with -one Mr. Bent of Abey in England -by whom he was divorced."—<i>Records -S. W.</i>, i, 206-8.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_92_92" id="Footnote_92_92"></a><a href="#FNanchor_92_92"><span class="label">[92]</span></a> Sarah Atkinson was probably -the Wife of John Atkinson, mentioned -at Note <a href="#Footnote_86_86">86</a>. The "singular -Confusion" appears to have -been gratuitously thrown in by Dr. -Mather. It is not in the Record. -Her Age is given as 48 Years, or -thereabouts.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_93_93" id="Footnote_93_93"></a><a href="#FNanchor_93_93"><span class="label">[93]</span></a> John Pressy, aged 53, and -"Marah his Wif aged 46 or ther -abouts." It comes out in this Evidence, -but is not mentioned by -Mather, that at some 20 Years previous, -this John Pressy and Wife -had testified against Mrs. Martin, -and that she had accused them of -taking a false Oath. Such was the -Origin of much of the Testimony.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_94_94" id="Footnote_94_94"></a><a href="#FNanchor_94_94"><span class="label">[94]</span></a> Thomas Hardy of Great Island, -at Pascatequay. Why Mather conceals -his Name, except by the Initials, -is not known.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_95_95" id="Footnote_95_95"></a><a href="#FNanchor_95_95"><span class="label">[95]</span></a> Jarvis Ring's Case could have -been nothing but one of Nightmare. -Joseph Ring, brother of Jarvis, was -27 years of Age. They belonged -to Salisbury. His Evidence compares -very well with that of the -Girls and other Miscreants, foregone. -The Testimonies of the -Amesbury Accusers were taken before -"Robert Pike, <i>Assist.</i>"</p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="sidenote"><i>Indictment</i> of Elizabeth How.</div> - -<h3>The Indictment of <i>Elizabeth How</i>.</h3> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Essex</i> ss.</div> - -<p class="center"><i>Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Williemi & Mariæ, nunc -Angliæ, &c. quarto.</i>—</p> - -<p class="dropcap">THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady, -the King and Queen present, That <i>Elizabeth -How</i>, Wife of <i>James How</i> of <i>Ipswich</i>, the -Thirty first Day of <i>May</i>, in the Fourth Year of -the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady, <i>William</i> -and <i>Mary</i>, by the Grace of God, of <i>England</i>, -<i>Scotland</i>, <i>France</i>, and <i>Ireland</i>, King and Queen, -Defenders of the Faith, <i>&c.</i> and divers other -days and times, as well before as after, certain -detestable Arts, called Witchcrafts and Sorceries, -wickedly and Felloniously hath used, practiced, and -exercised at, and within the Township of <i>Salem</i>, in -the County of <i>Essex</i> aforesaid, in, upon, and against -one <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, of <i>Salem</i>-Village, in the County -aforesaid, single Woman; by which said wicked -Arts, the said <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, the said Thirty first -Day of <i>May</i>, in the Fourth Year as abovesaid, -and divers other days and times, as well before as -after, was and is Tortured, Afflicted, Pined, Consumed, -Wasted and Tormented; and also for sundry -other Acts of Witchcrafts, by said <i>Elizabeth -How</i>; committed and done before and since that -time, against the Peace of our Sovereign Lord -and Lady, the King and Queen, and against the -form of the Statue, in that case made and provided.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">105</a></span> - -Witnesses—<i>Mary Wolcott</i>, <i>Ann Putnam</i>, <i>Abigail -Williams</i>, <i>Samuel Pearly</i>, and his Wife <i>Ruth</i>, -<i>Joseph Andrews</i>, and Wife <i>Sarah</i>, <i>John Sherrin</i>, -<i>Joseph Safford</i>, <i>Francis Lane</i>, <i>Lydia Foster</i>, <i>Isaac -Cummins</i>, Junior.</p> - -<p>There was also a second Indictment for afflicting -of <i>Mercy Lewis</i>.</p> - -<p>Witnesses—<i>Mercy Lewis</i>, <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, <i>Abigail -Williams</i>, <i>Ann Putnam</i>, <i>Samuel Pearly</i> and -Wife, <i>Joseph Andrews</i> and Wife, <i>John Sherrin</i>, -<i>Joseph Safford</i>, <i>Francis Lane</i>, <i>Lydia Foster</i>.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Elizabeth How's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<h3>[133] The Tryal of <i>Elizabeth How</i>,<a name="FNanchor_96_96" id="FNanchor_96_96"></a><a href="#Footnote_96_96" class="fnanchor">[96]</a> -<i>June</i> -30, 1692. As is Printed In <i>Wonders of -the Invisible World</i>, from P. 126 to P. -132, inclusively.</h3> - -<p><span class="dropcap"><span class="dropfix">1.</span> E</span><i>LIZABETH How</i>, pleading, not Guilty -to the Indictment of Witchcrafts, then -charged upon her; the Court, according to the -usual proceeding of the Courts in <i>England</i>; in -such Cases, began with hearing the Deposition of -several Afflicted People, who were grievously -tormented by sensible and evident Witchcrafts, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">106</a></span>and all complained of the Prisoner, as the cause -of their trouble. It was also found that the -Suffers were not able to bear her look, as likewise, -that in their greatest swoons, they distinguished -her touch from other Peoples, being -thereby raised out of them.</p> - -<p>And there was other Testimony of People to -whom the shape of this <i>How</i>, gave trouble Nine -or Ten Years ago.<a name="FNanchor_97_97" id="FNanchor_97_97"></a><a href="#Footnote_97_97" class="fnanchor">[97]</a></p> - -<p>2. It has been a most usual thing for the bewitched -persons at the same time that the Spectres -representing the Witches, Troubled them to -be visited with Apparitions of Ghosts, pretending -to have been murdered by the Witches then represented. -And sometimes the confessions of the -Witches afterwards acknowledged those very -Murders, which these Apparitions charged upon -them; altho they had never heard what Information -had been given by the Sufferers.</p> - -<p>There was such Apparitions of Ghosts testified -by some of the present Sufferers, and the Ghosts -affirmed that this <i>How</i> had murdered them: -which things were fear'd, but not proved.<a name="FNanchor_98_98" id="FNanchor_98_98"></a><a href="#Footnote_98_98" class="fnanchor">[98]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">107</a></span></p> - -<p>3. This <i>How</i> had made some attempts of Joining -to the Church at <i>Ipswich</i>, several Years ago; -but she was denied an Admission into that holy -Society, partly thro a suspicion of Witchcraft, -then urged against her. And there now came -in Testimony of preternatural Mischiefs, presently -befalling some that had been Instrumental to debar -her from the Communion whereupon she was -intruding.<a name="FNanchor_99_99" id="FNanchor_99_99"></a><a href="#Footnote_99_99" class="fnanchor">[99]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">108</a></span> -4. There was a particular Deposition of <i>Joseph -Safford</i>, that his Wife had conceived an extream -Aversion, to this <i>How</i>, on the reports of her -Witchcrafts; but <i>How</i> one day taking her by the -hand, and saying, <i>I believe you are not Ignorant of -the great scandal, that I lye under, by an Evil report -raised upon me</i>. She immediately, unreasonably, -and unperswadeably, even like one Inchanted, -began to take this Womans part. <i>How</i> -being soon after propounded, as desiring an Admission -to the Table of the Lord, some of the -Pious Brethren were unsatisfied about her. The -Elders appointed a meeting to hear matters objected -against her; and no arguments in the -World could hinder this Goodwife <i>Safford</i> from -going to the Lecture. She did indeed promise -with much ado that she would not go to the -Church-meeting; yet she could not refrain going -thither also. [134] <i>How</i>'s affairs there were so canvassed, -that she came off rather Guilty, than cleared; -nevertheless Goodwife <i>Safford</i> could not forbear -taking her by the Hand, and saying, <i>Tho you are -condemned before Men, you are justified before God</i>. -She was quickly taken in a very strange manner; -Frantick, Raving, Raging, and crying out, <i>Goody</i> -How <i>must come into the Church; she is a precious -Saint, and tho' she be condemned before Men, she is -justified before God</i>. So she continued for the -space of two or three hours; and then fell into -a Trance. But coming to herself, she cried out, -<i>Ha! I was mistaken!</i> afterwards again repeated,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">109</a></span> -<i>Ha! I was mistaken!</i> being asked by a stander -by, Wherein? she replied, <i>I thought Goody</i> How -<i>had been a precious Saint of God, but now I see she -is a Witch: she has bewitched me and my Child, and -we shall never be well, till there be Testimony for -her, that she may be taken into the Church.</i><a name="FNanchor_100_100" id="FNanchor_100_100"></a><a href="#Footnote_100_100" class="fnanchor">[100]</a></p> - -<p>And <i>How</i> said afterwards, <i>That she was very -sorry to see</i> Safford <i>at the Church-meeting mentioned. -Safford</i> after this, <i>declared herself to be Afflicted by -the shape of</i> How, <i>and from that shape she endured -many miseries.</i></p> - -<p>5. <i>John How</i>, Brother to the Husband of the -Prisoner testified that he refusing to accompany -the Prisoner unto her Examination as was by her -desired, immediately some of his Cattle, were -bewitched to Death, leaping Three or four Foot -high, turning about, squeaking, falling and dying -at once; and going to cut off an Ear, for an use, -that might as well perhaps have been omitted, -the Hand wherein he held his Knife was taken -very Numb; and so it remained, and full of pain -for several Days; being not well at this very -time. And he suspected this Prisoner, for the -Author of it.<a name="FNanchor_101_101" id="FNanchor_101_101"></a><a href="#Footnote_101_101" class="fnanchor">[101]</a></p> - -<p>6. <i>Nehemiah Abbot</i> testified, that unusual and -mischievous accidents would befall his Cattle, -whenever he had any difference with this Prisoner. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">110</a></span>Once particularly she wished his Ox choaked, and -within a little while, that Ox was choaked with -a Turnip in his Throat. At another time, refusing -to lend his Horse, at the request of her -Daughter, the Horse was in a preternatural manner -abused. And several other odd things of that -kind were testified.<a name="FNanchor_102_102" id="FNanchor_102_102"></a><a href="#Footnote_102_102" class="fnanchor">[102]</a></p> - -<p>7. There came in Testimony that one Goodwife -<i>Sherwin</i>, upon some difference with <i>How</i> -was bewitched, and, that she died, charging this -<i>How</i> of having an hand in her Death. And that -other People had their Barrels of Drink unaccountably -mischiev'd, spoiled, and spilt upon their -displeasing her.<a name="FNanchor_103_103" id="FNanchor_103_103"></a><a href="#Footnote_103_103" class="fnanchor">[103]</a></p> - -<p>The things in themselves were trivial; but -there being such a course of them, it made them -the more to be considered. Among others, <i>Martha -Wood</i> gave her testimony, that a little after, -her Father had been employed in gathering an -account of this <i>How's</i> Conversation, they once -and again lost great quantities of Drink, out of -their Vessels, in such a [135] manner, as they -could ascribe to nothing but Witchcraft. As also -that <i>How</i> giving her some Apples, when she had -eaten of them, she was taken with a very strange -kind of a maze, insomuch that she knew not -what she said or did.<a name="FNanchor_104_104" id="FNanchor_104_104"></a><a href="#Footnote_104_104" class="fnanchor">[104]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">111</a></span> - -8. There was likewise a Cluster of Depositions, -that one <i>Isaac Cummings</i>, refusing to lend his -Mare, unto the Husband of this <i>How</i>; the Mare -was within a Day or two taken in a strange condition. -The beast seemed much abused; being -bruised, as if she had been running over the -Rocks, and marked where the Bridle went, as if -burnt with a red hot Bridle. Moreover one using -a Pipe of Tobacco for the cure of the Beast, a -blew flame issued out of her, took hold of her -hair, and not only spread and burnt on her, but -it also flew upwards towards the Roof of the -Barn, and had like to have set the Barn on fire. -And the Mare dy'd very suddenly.<a name="FNanchor_105_105" id="FNanchor_105_105"></a><a href="#Footnote_105_105" class="fnanchor">[105]</a></p> - -<p>9. <i>Timothy Perly</i> and his Wife, testified, not -only that unaccountable Mischiefs befel their -Cattle, upon their having of differences with this -Prisoner; but also that they had a Daughter destroyed -by Witchcrafts; which Daughter still -charged <i>How</i>, as the cause of her Affliction; and -it was noted that she would be struck down, -whenever <i>How</i> were spoken of. She was often -endeavoured to be thrown into the Fire, and into -the Water, in her strange Fitts; tho her Father -had corrected, for charging <i>How</i> with bewitching -her, yet (as was testified by others also) she said -she was sure of it, and must dye standing to it. -Accordingly she charged <i>How</i> to the very death; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">112</a></span>and said, <i>Tho</i> How <i>could Afflict and Torment her -Body, yet she could not hurt her Soul, and that the -truth of this matter would appear when she should -be dead and gone</i>.<a name="FNanchor_106_106" id="FNanchor_106_106"></a><a href="#Footnote_106_106" class="fnanchor">[106]</a></p> - -<p>10. <i>Francis Lane</i> testified, that being hired by -the Husband of this <i>How</i> to get him a parcel of -Posts and Rails, this <i>Lane</i> hired <i>John Pearly</i> to -assist him. This Prisoner then told <i>Lane</i> that she -believed the Posts and Rails would not do, because -<i>John Pearly</i> helped him; but that if he had got -them alone without <i>John Pearly</i>'s help, they -might have done well enough. When <i>James -How</i> came to receive his Posts and Rails of <i>Lane</i>, -<i>How</i> taking them up by the Ends, they, tho good -and sound yet unaccountably broke off, so that <i>Lane</i> -was forced to get Thirty or Forty more. And -this Prisoner being informed of it, she said, <i>She -told him so before: because</i> Pearly <i>helped about -them</i>.<a name="FNanchor_107_107" id="FNanchor_107_107"></a><a href="#Footnote_107_107" class="fnanchor">[107]</a></p> - -<p>11. Afterwards there came in the Confessions -of several other (penitent) Witches, which affirmed -this <i>How</i> to be one of those who with them had -been baptized by the Devil in the River, at <i>Newberry-Falls</i>: -before which he made them there -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">113</a></span>kneel down by the Brink of the River, and -Worship him.<a name="FNanchor_108_108" id="FNanchor_108_108"></a><a href="#Footnote_108_108" class="fnanchor">[108]</a></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_96_96" id="Footnote_96_96"></a><a href="#FNanchor_96_96"><span class="label">[96]</span></a> -The Indictment does not appear -in the <span class="err" title="original: Reeords">Records</span>, probably for -the Reason that it had been given -to or taken by Dr. Mather, and -never returned. Mrs. How was of -Topsfield, Wife of James How of -that Town. Ephraim Wildes was -the Constable who apprehended her. -Her Examination was on the 30th -of May, 1692, occupies two Pages, -and was taken down by Mr. "Sam. -Parris."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_97_97" id="Footnote_97_97"></a><a href="#FNanchor_97_97"><span class="label">[97]</span></a> The Author has not taken up -the respective Parties who gave Evidence. -Among others, no Notice -is taken of that of two Ministers, -namely, Mr. Samuel Phillips and -Mr. Edward Payson, both of Rowley. -Mr. Phillips gave his Age as -about 67. Mr. <i>Paison</i> did not -state his. Their Testimonies were -passed over undoubtedly because -they did not in the least criminate -Mrs. How; nor did they pretend -that they had seen any Thing like -Witchcraft.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_98_98" id="Footnote_98_98"></a><a href="#FNanchor_98_98"><span class="label">[98]</span></a> They were not only not proved, -but there are no Testimonies recorded -containing these Ghost Stories. -The following Witnesses are -not noticed by Dr. Mather, viz.: -Samuel Perley, aged about 52, and his Wife about 46. Deborah Hadley, -aged about 70 Years; had lived -near Elizabeth How ("ye Wife of -James How, Jr. of Ipswich 24 -year.") She gave her a good Character. -Mrs. Hadley testified on -the 24th of June. The next Day -Daniel Warner, Sen. gave in his -Testimony. It was of the same -tenor of Mrs. Hadley's. John -Warner, Sen<sup>r</sup>. also signed the same -Evidence. They had been well -acquainted with Mrs. How "aboue -20 yeers." So Simon Chapman -and his Wife testified. Simon gave -his Age as about 48—"hath ben -aquainted with the Wiuef of James -How, iun<sup>r</sup>. as a Naybar for this 9 -or 10 Yers;" never knew any harm -of her, and "found hur joust in -hur delling, faythfooll," &c.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_99_99" id="Footnote_99_99"></a><a href="#FNanchor_99_99"><span class="label">[99]</span></a> Against such gratuitous, and to -say the least, hearsay Testimony, -the Doctor should, in fairness, have -noticed such Evidence as that referred -to in the last Note. A few -others must not be overlooked. -Joseph Knowlton stated that he had -been acquainted with Mrs. How, -as a Neighbor, and sometimes -boarded in the House at his first -coming to live in these Parts, which -was about ten Years ago. He and -his Wife Mary both gave her a -good Character. His Age was -"forty tu," and his Wife's "thurty-tu." -</p> -<p> -James How, Sen., aged about 94, -testified that he had lived by Elizabeth, -the Wife of James How, -Jun<sup>r</sup>, for about thirty Years; and, -"setting a side humain Infurmity," -she always behaved well, becoming -her Place as a Daughter and Wife -in all Relations. -</p> -<p> -Respecting the Church Difficulty, -referred to in the Text, one Jacob -Foster, aged about 29, swore, that -"some Years agoe," as Goodwife -How was about to join the Church, -his Father was a Means of preventing -it. Whereupon his Mare was -lost for several Days. When found -she looked as if she had been miserably -beaten and abused. Sworn -June 30th, 1692. Thomas Andrews -of Boxford, aged about 50, -told a more ridiculous Story about -a Mare, belonging to Josiah Comings, -Sen<sup>r</sup> of Topsfield.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_100_100" id="Footnote_100_100"></a><a href="#FNanchor_100_100"><span class="label">[100]</span></a> Joseph Safford gave his Age -about 60.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_101_101" id="Footnote_101_101"></a><a href="#FNanchor_101_101"><span class="label">[101]</span></a> John How gave his Age as -about 50. The Doctor has made -some wretched Mistakes in his Abstract -of this Testimony. It was -his Sow that "leaped up about three -or foure foot hie," and fell down -dead. The <i>squeaking</i> belonged to -the Swine, and not to the Cattle.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_102_102" id="Footnote_102_102"></a><a href="#FNanchor_102_102"><span class="label">[102]</span></a> I do not find any Note of -Nehemiah Abbot's Evidence in the -Records.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_103_103" id="Footnote_103_103"></a><a href="#FNanchor_103_103"><span class="label">[103]</span></a> This has reference, perhaps, to -the Ghost Stories darkly hinted at by -the Dr. Mather in a previous Page.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_104_104" id="Footnote_104_104"></a><a href="#FNanchor_104_104"><span class="label">[104]</span></a> I have not noticed Martha -Wood's Evidence among the Records. -The "great Quantities of -Drink" reported lost, was probably -found by some of the Witnesses -already noticed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_105_105" id="Footnote_105_105"></a><a href="#FNanchor_105_105"><span class="label">[105]</span></a> Cummin's Testimony occupies -above two solid Pages. His -Age was about sixty Years. His -Christian Name was mistaken by -Mather, being Isaac instead of Josiah, -as appears by the Records.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_106_106" id="Footnote_106_106"></a><a href="#FNanchor_106_106"><span class="label">[106]</span></a> Timothy <i>Perley</i> and his Wife -Deborah testified, June 1st, 1692, -that he was about 39 Years of Age, -and his Wife about 33. The Abstract -above is exceedingly defective. -See the <i>Records</i>, ii, 73-4.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_107_107" id="Footnote_107_107"></a><a href="#FNanchor_107_107"><span class="label">[107]</span></a> Francis Lane gave his Age as -about 27, and said that the Time -the Witches afflicted the Rails was -about "seauen" Years ago, and -makes a long Story out of it; but -it is of a Piece with most of the -Evidence. Lane's Parentage has -not been traced.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_108_108" id="Footnote_108_108"></a><a href="#FNanchor_108_108"><span class="label">[108]</span></a> They affirmed that many of -those wretched Souls had been Baptized -at Newberry Falls; and at -several other Rivers and Ponds; -and as to the Manner of Administration, -the Great Officer of <i>Hell</i> -took them up by the Body, and -putting their Heads into the Water, -said over them, <i>Thou art mine, -and I have full Power over the</i>: -And thereupon they engaged and -covenanted to renounce GOD, -CHRIST, their <i>sacred Baptism</i>, -and the whole Way of <i>Gospel Salvation</i>; -and to use their utmost -Endeavours to oppose the Kingdom -of CHRIST, and to set up and -<i>advocate</i> the Kingdom of <i>Satan</i>.—Lawson, -<i>Second Edition</i>, 118. See, -also, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_102">102-3</a>.</p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="sidenote">Martha Carryer's <i>Indictment</i>.</div> - -<h3>[136] <i>The Indictment of</i> Martha Carryer.<a name="FNanchor_109_109" id="FNanchor_109_109"></a><a href="#Footnote_109_109" class="fnanchor">[109]</a> -</h3> -<div class="sidenote">Essex ss.</div> - -<p class="center"><i>Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Wilielmi & Mariæ, nunc -Angliæ, &c. quarto.</i>—</p> - -<p class="dropcap">THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady -the King and Queen, present, That <i>Martha -Carryer</i>, Wife of <i>Thomas Carryer</i> of <i>Andover</i>, in -the County of <i>Essex</i>, Husbandman, The Thirty -first Day of <i>May</i>, in the fourth Year of the Reign -of our Soveraign Lord and Lady <i>William</i> and -<i>Mary</i>, by the Grace of God, of <i>England</i>, <i>Scotland</i>, -<i>France</i> and <i>Ireland</i>, King and Queen, Defenders -of the Faith, <i>&c.</i> And divers other days and -times, as well before as after, certain detestable -Arts, called Witchcrafts, and Sorceries, Wickedly -and Felloniously hath used, practised, and exercised, -at and within the Township of <i>Salem</i>, in -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">114</a></span>the County of <i>Essex</i> aforesaid, in, upon, and -against one <i>Mary Wolcott</i> of <i>Salem</i>-Village, Single -Woman, in the County of <i>Essex</i> aforesaid; by -which said wicked Arts the said <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, -the Thirty first Day of <i>May</i>, in the fourth Year -aforesaid, and at divers other days and times, as -well before as after, was and is Tortured, Afflicted, -Pined, Consumed, Wasted and Tormented; -against the Peace of our Soveraign Lord and Lady, -<i>William</i> and <i>Mary</i>, King and Queen of <i>England</i>; -their Crown and Dignity, and against the Form -of the Statute, in that Case made and provided.</p> - -<p>Witnesses—<i>Mary Wolcott, Elizabeth Hubbard, -Ann Putnam</i>.</p> - -<p>There was also a Second Indictment for afflicting -<i>Elizabeth Hubbard</i>, by Witchcraft. Witnesses—<i>Elizabeth -Hubbard</i>, <i>Mary Wolcott</i>, <i>Ann -Putnam</i>, <i>Mary Warrin</i>.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Martha Carryer's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<h3>The Trial of <i>Martha Carryer</i>, August 2, -1692. As may be seen in <i>Wonders of -the Invisible World</i>, from P. 132, to -138.</h3> - -<p><span class="dropcap"><span class="dropfix">1.</span> M</span><i>Artha Carryer</i> was indicted for the bewitching -of certain persons according to -the form usual in such Cases: Pleading not Guilty -to her Indictment; there were first brought in a -considerable number of the Bewitched persons;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">115</a></span> -who not only made the Court sensible of an horrid -Witchcraft committed upon them, but also -deposed, That it was <i>Martha Carryer</i>, or her -shape, that grievously tormented them by biting, -pricking, pinching and choaking them. It was -further deposed that while this <i>Carryer</i> was on -her Examination before the Magistrates, the poor -People were so tortured, that every one expected -their Death upon the very spot; but that upon -the binding of <i>Carryer</i> they were eased. [137] -Moreover the looks of <i>Carryer</i> then laid the -Afflicted People for dead, and her Touch, if her -Eyes at the same time were off them, raised them -again. Which things were also now seen upon -her Tryal. And it was testified, that upon the -mention of some having their Necks twisted almost -round by the shape of this <i>Carryer</i>, she -replied, <i>Its no matter, tho their Necks had been -twisted quite off</i>.<a name="FNanchor_110_110" id="FNanchor_110_110"></a><a href="#Footnote_110_110" class="fnanchor">[110]</a></p> - -<p>2. Before the Tryal of this Prisoner, several -of her own Children had frankly and fully confessed -not only that they were Witches themselves, -but that this their Mother had made them -so. This confession they made with great shows -of Repentance, and with much Demonstration of -Truth. They related Place, Time, Occasion; they -gave an Account of Journeys, Meetings, and Mischiefs -by them performed; and were very credible -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">116</a></span> -in what they said. Nevertheless, this Evidence -was not produced against the Prisoner at the Bar, -in as much as there was other Evidence enough -to proceed upon.<a name="FNanchor_111_111" id="FNanchor_111_111"></a><a href="#Footnote_111_111" class="fnanchor">[111]</a></p> - -<p>3. <i>Benj. Abbot</i> gave in his Testimony, That last -<i>March</i> was a Twelve month, this <i>Carryer</i> was -very angry with him, upon laying out some Land -near her Husbands. Her expressions in this -Anger were, <i>That she would stick as close to</i> Abbot, -<i>as the Bark stuck to the Tree; and that he should -repent of it afore seven Years came to an end, so as -Doctor</i> Prescot <i>should never cure him</i>. These -words were heard by others, besides <i>Abbot</i> himself, -who also heard her say, <i>She would hold his -Nose as close to the Grind-stone as ever it was held -since his name was</i> Abbot. Presently after this he -was taken with a swelling in his Foot, and then -with a Pain in his Side, and exceedingly tormented. -It bred unto a Sore, which was lanced -by Dr. <i>Prescot</i>, and several Gallons of Corruption -ran out of it. For six Weeks it continued -very bad; and then another Sore bred in his -Groin, which was also lanced by Dr. <i>Prescot</i>. -Another Sore bred in his Groin which was likewise -Cut, and put him to very great misery. He -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">117</a></span>was brought unto Death's door, and so remained -until <i>Carryer</i> was taken and carried away by the -Constable. From which very day he began to -mend, and so grew better every day, and is well -ever since.<a name="FNanchor_112_112" id="FNanchor_112_112"></a><a href="#Footnote_112_112" class="fnanchor">[112]</a></p> - -<p><i>Sarah Abbot</i> also his Wife testified, that her -Husband was not only all this while Afflicted in -his Body; but also that strange, extraordinary and -unaccountable calamities befel his Cattle; their -Death being such as they could guess at no Natural -Reason for.<a name="FNanchor_113_113" id="FNanchor_113_113"></a><a href="#Footnote_113_113" class="fnanchor">[113]</a></p> - -<p>4. <i>Allin Toothaker</i> testified, that <i>Richard</i> the -Son of <i>Martha Carryer</i>, having some difference -with him, pull'd him down by the Hair of the -Head, when he rose again, he was going to strike -at <i>Richard Carryer</i>, but fell down flat on his back -to the ground, and had not power to stir Hand -or foot, until he told <i>Carryer</i> he yielded; and -then he saw the shape of <i>Martha Carryer</i>, go off -his Breast.</p> - -<p>[138] This <i>Toothaker</i> had received a wound in -the Wars, and he now testified, that <i>Martha Carryer</i> -told him, <i>He shall never be cured</i>. Just -afore the apprehending of <i>Carryer</i>, he could thrust -a Knitting-Needle into his wound four Inches -deep, but presently after her being seized, he was -thoroughly healed.</p> - -<p>He further testified, that when <i>Carryer</i> and he -sometimes were at variance, she would clap her -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">118</a></span>Hands at him and say, <i>He should get nothing by it</i>. -Whereupon he several times lost his Cattle, by -strange Deaths, whereof no natural causes could -be given.<a name="FNanchor_114_114" id="FNanchor_114_114"></a><a href="#Footnote_114_114" class="fnanchor">[114]</a></p> - -<p>5. <i>John Roger</i> also testified, that upon the -threatning words of this malicious <i>Carryer</i>, his -Cattle would be strangely bewitched; as was -more particularly then described.<a name="FNanchor_115_115" id="FNanchor_115_115"></a><a href="#Footnote_115_115" class="fnanchor">[115]</a></p> - -<p>6. <i>Samuel Preston</i> testified, that about two Years -ago, having some difference with <i>Martha Carryer</i>, -he lost a Cow in a strange, preternatural, unusual -manner; and about a Month after this, the said -<i>Carryer</i>, having again some difference with him, -she told him, <i>He had lately lost a Cow, and it should -not be long before he lost another!</i> which accordingly -came to pass; for he had a thriving and -well kept Cow, which without any known cause -quickly fell down and died.<a name="FNanchor_116_116" id="FNanchor_116_116"></a><a href="#Footnote_116_116" class="fnanchor">[116]</a></p> - -<p>7. <i>Phebe Chandler</i> testified, that about a Fortnight -before the Apprehension of <i>Martha Carryer</i>, -on a Lords Day, while the Psalm was singing -in the Church, this <i>Carryer</i> then took her by the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">119</a></span>Shoulder, and shaking her, asked her, <i>Where she -lived?</i> she made her no Answer, altho as <i>Carryer</i>, -who lived next door to her Father's House, could -not in Reason but know who she was. Quickly -after this, as she was at several times crossing the -Fields she heard a Voice that she took to be -<i>Martha Carryers</i>, and it seem'd as if it were over -her head. The Voice told her, <i>She should within -two or three Days be Poison'd</i>: Accordingly within -such a little time, one half of her Right Hand -became greatly swollen and very painful; as also -part of her Face; whereof she can give no Account -how it came. It continued very bad for -some days; and several times since she has had a -great pain in her Breast; and been so seized on -her Legs that she has hardly been able to go. -She added that lately, going well to the House -of God, <i>Richard</i> the Son of <i>Martha Carryer</i>, -look'd very earnestly upon her, and immediately -her Hand which had formerly been Poisoned, as -is abovesaid, began to pain her greatly, and she -had a strange burning at her Stomach; but was -then struck deaf, so that she could not hear any -of the Prayer, or Singing, till the two or three -last words of the Psalm.<a name="FNanchor_117_117" id="FNanchor_117_117"></a><a href="#Footnote_117_117" class="fnanchor">[117]</a></p> - -<p>8. One <i>Foster</i>, who confessed her own share in -the Witchcraft, for which the Prisoner stood Indicted, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">120</a></span> -affirmed, that she had seen the Prisoner at -some of their Witch-meetings, and that it was -this <i>Carryer</i>, who perswaded her to be a Witch. -She confessed that the Devil carried them on -[139] a Pole to a Witch-meeting, but the Pole -broke, and she hanging about <i>Carryer's</i> Neck, -they both fell down, and she then received an -hurt by the fall, whereof she was not at this very -time recovered.<a name="FNanchor_118_118" id="FNanchor_118_118"></a><a href="#Footnote_118_118" class="fnanchor">[118]</a></p> - -<p>9. One <i>Lacy</i>, who likewise confessed her share -in this Witchcraft, now testified that she and the -Prisoner, were once bodily present, at a Witch-meeting -in <i>Salem</i>-Village, and that she knew the -Prisoner to be a Witch, and to have been at a -Diabolical Sacrament, and that the Prisoner was -the undoing of her and her Children, by enticing -them into the Snare of the Devil.<a name="FNanchor_119_119" id="FNanchor_119_119"></a><a href="#Footnote_119_119" class="fnanchor">[119]</a></p> - -<p>10. Another <i>Lacy</i>, who also confessed her share -in this Witchcraft, now testified that the Prisoner -was at the Witch meeting in <i>Salem</i>-Village, where -they had Bread and Wine administred unto them.</p> - -<p>11. In the time of this Prisoners Tryal, one -<i>Susanna Shelden</i><a name="FNanchor_120_120" id="FNanchor_120_120"></a><a href="#Footnote_120_120" class="fnanchor">[120]</a> in open Court, had her Hands -unaccountably tied together, with a Wheel-band, -so fast, that without cutting, it could not be loosed. -It was done by a Spectre; and the Sufferer affirm'd, -it was the Prisoners.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">121</a></span> - -<i>Memorandum.</i> This <i>Rampant Hag, Martha -Carryer</i>, was the person of whom the Confessions -of the Witches and of her own Children, among -the rest, agreed, that the Devil had promised her, -she should be Queen of Hell.<a name="FNanchor_121_121" id="FNanchor_121_121"></a><a href="#Footnote_121_121" class="fnanchor">[121]</a></p> - -<p>Thus far the Account given in <i>Wonders of the -Invisible World</i>; in which setting aside such words -as these, in the Tryal of <i>G. B.</i> viz. [<i>They</i> (i. e.) -<i>the Witnesses were enough to fix the character of a -Witch upon him.</i>]</p> - -<p>In the Tryal of <i>Bishop</i>, these words, [<i>but there -was no need of them</i>] i. e. of further Testimony.</p> - -<p>In the Tryal of <i>How</i>, where it is said, [and -there came in Testimony of preternatural Mischiefs, -presently befalling some that had been -instrumental to debar her from the Communion, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">122</a></span>whereupon she was <i>intruding</i>.] <i>Martin</i> is call'd -[one of the most impudent, scurrilous, wicked -Creatures in the World.] In his Account of -<i>Martha Carryer</i>, he is pleased to call her [a <i>Rampant -Hag</i>,] &c.</p> - -<p>These Expressions as they manifest, that he -wrote more like an Advocate than an Historian; -so also that those that were his Imployers were -not mistaken in their choice of him for that -work, however he may have mist it in other -things.</p> - -<p>As in his owning (in the Tryal of <i>G. B.</i>) That -the <i>Testimony of the bewitched, and confessors was -not enough against the Accused</i>, for it is known that -not only in <i>New-England</i>, such Evidence has been -taken for sufficient, but also in <i>England</i>, as himself -there owns, and will also hold true of <i>Scotland</i>, -&c. they having proceeded upon such Evidence, -to the taking away of the Lives of many, -to assert that this is not enough, is to tell the -World that such Executions were but so many -Bloody Murders; which surely was not his intent -to say.<a name="FNanchor_122_122" id="FNanchor_122_122"></a><a href="#Footnote_122_122" class="fnanchor">[122]</a></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_109_109" id="Footnote_109_109"></a><a href="#FNanchor_109_109"><span class="label">[109]</span></a> Complaint was made against -Martha Carrier on the 28th of May, -by Joseph Houlton and John Wallcott, -both of Salem. John Ballard, -Constable, arrested her. John <i>Bayley</i>, -Assistant Constable of Andover, -summoned the Witnesses. See <i>Records -S. W.</i> ii, 54, 55, &c.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_110_110" id="Footnote_110_110"></a><a href="#FNanchor_110_110"><span class="label">[110]</span></a> Martha Carrier underwent -the usual Examination, which occupies -two Pages, and the Original is -in the Hand of Mr. Samuel Parris. -The above is but a very unsatisfactory -Abridgement of it.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_111_111" id="Footnote_111_111"></a><a href="#FNanchor_111_111"><span class="label">[111]</span></a> It appears from Lawson's Account -that such Accusations were -much heeded. He says—"Several -have confessed against their own -Mothers, that they were Instruments -to bring them into the <i>Devil's -Covenant</i>, to the undoing of their -Body and Soul. And some Girls -of Eight or Nine Years of Age did -declare that after they were so betrayed -by their Mothers, to the -Power of <i>Satan</i>, they saw the <i>Devil</i> -go in their <i>own shapes</i> to afflict others."—Page -118-19.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_112_112" id="Footnote_112_112"></a><a href="#FNanchor_112_112"><span class="label">[112]</span></a> Benjamin Abbot was of Andover, -and his Age was about 31.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_113_113" id="Footnote_113_113"></a><a href="#FNanchor_113_113"><span class="label">[113]</span></a> Sarah Abbot gave her Age as -about 32 Years.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_114_114" id="Footnote_114_114"></a><a href="#FNanchor_114_114"><span class="label">[114]</span></a> Allen Toothaker was a young -Man, aged about 22 Years. He -may have received his Wound -when the Indians attacked Andover, -as mentioned in an earlier -Note.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_115_115" id="Footnote_115_115"></a><a href="#FNanchor_115_115"><span class="label">[115]</span></a> John <i>Rogers</i> was of Billerica. -He gave his Age as about 50. His -Testimony takes up a quarto Page -in the Records. Three Years later, -viz., August 5th, 1695, he, with -several others, was killed at Billerica -by the Indians.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_116_116" id="Footnote_116_116"></a><a href="#FNanchor_116_116"><span class="label">[116]</span></a> Samuel Preston gave his Age -as about 41 Years. He swore he -"lost a Cow in a strange Manner." -That <i>strange Manner</i>, it is evident -from his Story, referred to the -Way in which she was cast, and -not being able to free herself, died. -The <i>preternatural</i> and <i>unusual</i> being -thrown in by the Doctor.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_117_117" id="Footnote_117_117"></a><a href="#FNanchor_117_117"><span class="label">[117]</span></a> It is only necessary to state -that Phebe Chandler was but about -12 Years old, as a Reason that no -Notice should be taken of her Evidence; -and notwithstanding near -two solid Pages of her Testimony are -in the Records. However, Bridget -Chandler, her Mother, aged 40 -Years, corroborated the Daughter's -Story.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_118_118" id="Footnote_118_118"></a><a href="#FNanchor_118_118"><span class="label">[118]</span></a> This has reference to Ann -Foster, of Salem Village. See <i>Records -S. W.</i>, ii, 136-7.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_119_119" id="Footnote_119_119"></a><a href="#FNanchor_119_119"><span class="label">[119]</span></a> Mary Lacy was Wife of -Lawrence Lacy, of Andover, and -Daughter of Ann Foster. See <i>Ibid.</i>, -ii, 139-40. This "other Lacy" -was also named "Mary." <i>Ibid.</i>, -142.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_120_120" id="Footnote_120_120"></a><a href="#FNanchor_120_120"><span class="label">[120]</span></a> Susanna Sheldon was a ready -Witness in a large Number of Cases, -as has already been noticed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_121_121" id="Footnote_121_121"></a><a href="#FNanchor_121_121"><span class="label">[121]</span></a> No Testimony appears to -have been omitted that could be -tortured by any Construction against -"this rampant Hag," by the Author, -while all that went to clear -her was rejected. Fortunately the -Case is changed, and the whole is -spread before disinterested Inquirers, -or enough upon which to form a -correct Judgment. Mr. Francis -Dane, the second Minister of Andover, -dared to give his Thoughts -upon the Witchcraft Cases. These -he communicated to the Court, and -the Scribe recorded them among -the Evidence. He said he had -lived above forty Years in Andover, -and in his "healthfull Yeares had -been frequent among y<sup>e</sup> Inhabitants -in their Habitations," and never -heard of anything of the Nature of -Witchcraft until the Arrests the last -Summer (1692). If there were -any Suspicions that Martha Carrier -was a Witch, before she was apprehended, -he said he had never heard -of it; and "as for any other Persons, -I had no Suspicion of them, -and had Charity been put on, the -Diuel would not have had such an -Advantage against us, and I beleeve -many innocent Persons have been -accused." This Testimony of an -aged and worthy Gentleman (then -77), well acquainted with all the -Circumstances, and with the Accused, -should accompany that against -"the rampant Hag."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_122_122" id="Footnote_122_122"></a><a href="#FNanchor_122_122"><span class="label">[122]</span></a> This Passage caused Dr. Mather -to utter some very wrathful -Expressions against the Author. He -says, or rather, his Defenders for -him: "What was done in the -dark Time of our Troubles from -the <i>Invisible World</i>, all honest Men -believe, they did in Conscience of -the <i>Oath</i> of God upon them, and -they followed unto the best of their -Understanding, as we are informed, -the Precedents of <i>England</i> and <i>Scotland</i>, -and <i>other Nations</i> on such a -dark and doleful Occasion. When -they found the Matter carried beyond -the Reach of Mortals, they -stopt."—<i>Some Few Remarks</i>, 6; -<i>Magnalia</i>, B. ii, 64.</p></div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Law Enacted, &c.</i></div> - -<p>[140] His telling that the Court began to think -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">123</a></span>that <i>Burroughs</i> stept aside to put on Invisibility, -is a rendring them so mean Philosophers, and such -weak Christians, as to be fit to be imposed upon -by any silly pretender.</p> - -<p>His calling the Evidence against <i>How</i> trivial, -and others against <i>Burroughs</i>, he accounts no part -of his Conviction; and that of lifting a Gun -with one Finger, its being not made use of as -Evidence, renders the whole but the more perplext. -(Not to mention the many mistakes -therein contain'd.)</p> - -<p>Yet all this (and more that might have been -hinted at) does not hinder, but that his Account -of the manner of Trials of those for Witchcraft -is as faithfully related as any Tryals of that kind, -that was ever yet made publick; and it may also -be reasonably thought that there was as careful a -Scrutiny, and as unqestion'd Evidences improved, -as had been formerly used in the Tryals of others, -for such crimes in other places.<a name="FNanchor_123_123" id="FNanchor_123_123"></a><a href="#Footnote_123_123" class="fnanchor">[123]</a> Tho indeed -a second part might be very useful to set -forth which was the Evidence Convictive in -these Tryals, for it is not supposed, that Romantick -or Ridiculous stories should have any influence, -such as biting a Spectres Finger so that -the Blood flowed out, or such as <i>Shattock's</i> Story -of 12 Years standing, which yet was presently 18 -Years or more, and yet a Man of that excellent -Memory, as to be able to recall a small difference -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">124</a></span>his Wife had with another Woman when Eighten -Years were past.</p> - -<p>As it is not to be supposed that such as these could -Influence any Judge or Jury, so not unkindness -to relations, or God's having given to one Man -more strength than to some others, the over-setting -of Carts, or the death of Cattle, nor yet Excrescencies -(call'd Tets) nor little bits of Rags -tied together (call'd Poppets.) Much less any -persons illness, or having their Cloaths rent when -a Spectre has been well hanged, much less the -burning the Mares Fart, mentioned in the Tryal -of <i>How</i>.</p> - -<p>None of these being in the least capable of -proving the Indictment; The supposed Criminals -were Indicted for Afflicting, <i>&c.</i> such and -such particular persons by Witchcraft, to which -none of these Evidences have one word to say, -and the Afflicted and Confessors being declared -not enough, the matter needs yet further explaining.</p> - -<p>But to proceed, the General Court having sat -and enacted Laws, particularly one against Witchcraft, -assigning the Penalty of Death to any that -shall feed, reward or employ, <i>&c.</i> Evil Spirits, -though it has not yet been explained what is intended -thereby, or what it is to feed, reward or -imploy Devils, <i>&c.</i> yet some of the Legislators -have given this instead of an Explanation, that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">125</a></span> -they had therein but Copied the Law of another -Country.<a name="FNanchor_124_124" id="FNanchor_124_124"></a><a href="#Footnote_124_124" class="fnanchor">[124]</a></p> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>against Witchcraft</i></div> - -<p><i>January</i> 3. By vertue of an Act of the General -Court, the first Superior Court was held at <i>Salem</i>, -for the County of <i>Essex</i>, the Judges appointed -were Mr. <i>William Stoughton</i> (the Lieutenant -Governor) <i>Thomas</i> [141] <i>Danforth</i>, <i>John Richards</i>, -<i>Wait Winthorp</i>, and <i>Samuel Sewall</i>, Esquires. -Where Ignoramus was found upon the several -Bills of Indictment against Thirty, and <i>Billa-Vera</i> -against Twenty six more; of all these -Three only were found Guilty by the Jewry -upon Trial, two of which were (as appears by -their Behaviour) the most senseless and Ignorant -Creatures that could be found; besides which it -does not appear what came in against those more -than against the rest that were acquitted.<a name="FNanchor_125_125" id="FNanchor_125_125"></a><a href="#Footnote_125_125" class="fnanchor">[125]</a></p> - -<p>The Third was the Wife of <i>Wardwell</i>, who -was one of the Twenty Executed, and it seems -they had both confessed themselves Guilty; but -he retracting his said Confession, was tried and -Executed; it is supposed that this Woman fearing -her Husbands fate, was not so stiff in her -denials of her former Confession, such as it was. -These Three received Sentence of Death.<a name="FNanchor_126_126" id="FNanchor_126_126"></a><a href="#Footnote_126_126" class="fnanchor">[126]</a></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_123_123" id="Footnote_123_123"></a><a href="#FNanchor_123_123"><span class="label">[123]</span></a> -See Volume <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Pages <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_86">86</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_124_124" id="Footnote_124_124"></a><a href="#FNanchor_124_124"><span class="label">[124]</span></a> What the Laws of England -were on the Subject of Witchcraft -has been exhibited in the Introduction -to the first Volume. Their -Abrogation by Parliament, through -the exertions of Lord Talbot, took -place in 1736. See Douglass' <i>Summary</i>, -i, 451.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_125_125" id="Footnote_125_125"></a><a href="#FNanchor_125_125"><span class="label">[125]</span></a> I do not find the Court Proceedings -at this Period.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_126_126" id="Footnote_126_126"></a><a href="#FNanchor_126_126"><span class="label">[126]</span></a> The Indictments and Examination -of Samuel Wardwell may -be seen in the Records, in the usual -Form. He was of Andover, and -is styled Carpenter. His first Indictment -was for afflicting one Martha Sprague of Boxford, in -August last (1692). The second -charges, that "about 20 Yeares -agoe, in the Towne of Andivor, -he the said Samuel Wardell, with -the Evill Speritt the Devill [did -felloniously make] a Couenant -wherein he promised to honor, -worship and belieue the Devill -Contrary to the Stattute." His -Examination was before John Higginson, -Esq. on Sept. 1st, 1692. -He was then about 46 Years old. -His strange Answers clearly indicate -a state of Insanity. Martha -Sprague, aged 16, swore to being -bewitched by him. Ephraim Foster -of Andover, aged about 34, -swore that he foretold Events by -looking in people's Hands; "would -cast his Eyes down upon y<sup>e</sup> ground -allways before he told enything." -Thomas Chandler, aged about 65, -often heard said Wardwell tell -young Persons their Fortunes. Joseph -Ballard, aged about 41, swore -that his Brother John Ballard told -him that Samuel Wardwell told -him, that he (Wardwell) had bewitched -his (Joseph Ballard's) Wife. -Abigail Martin of Andover, aged -16, said that some time last Winter -S. Wardwell and John <i>Farnam</i> were -at her Fathers. W. told F.'s Fortune. -He also told Jeams Bridge's -Fortune. See <i>Records S. W.</i> ii, -146-153.</p></div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="sidenote">Sara Dasston's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">126</a></span> - -At these Tryals some of the Jewry made Inquiry -of the Court, what Account they ought to -make of the Spectre Evidence? and received for -Answer [as much as of Chips in Wort]<a name="FNanchor_127_127" id="FNanchor_127_127"></a><a href="#Footnote_127_127" class="fnanchor">[127]</a></p> - -<p><i>January</i> 31, 169â…”. The Superior Court began -at <i>Charlestown</i>, for the County of <i>Middlesex</i>, Mr. -<i>Stoughton</i>, M. <i>Danforth</i>, M. <i>Winthorp</i>, and Mr. -<i>Sewall</i> Judges, where several had Ignoramus returned -upon their Bills of Indictment, and <i>Billa -Vera</i> upon others.<a name="FNanchor_128_128" id="FNanchor_128_128"></a><a href="#Footnote_128_128" class="fnanchor">[128]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">127</a></span> - -In the time the Court sat, word was brought -in, that a Reprieve was sent to <i>Salem</i>, and had -prevented the Execution of Seven of those that -were there Condemned, which so moved the -chief Judge, that he said to this effect, <i>We were -in a way to have cleared the Land of these, &c. who -it is obstructs the course of Justice I know not; the -Lord be merciful to the Countrey</i>, and so went off -the Bench, and came no more that Court:<a name="FNanchor_129_129" id="FNanchor_129_129"></a><a href="#Footnote_129_129" class="fnanchor">[129]</a> The -most remarkable of the Tryals, was of <i>Sarah -Daston</i>, she was a Woman of about 70 or 80 -Years of Age, To usher in her Tryal, a report -went before, that if there were a Witch in the -World she was one, as having been so accounted -of, for 20 or 30 Years; which drew many People -from <i>Boston, &c.</i> to hear her Tryal. There were -a multitude of Witnesses produced against her; -but what Testimony they gave in seemed wholly -forreign, as of accidents, illness, &<i>c.</i> befalling -them, or theirs after some Quarrel; what these -testified was much of it of Actions said to be -done 20 Years before that time. The Spectre-Evidence -was not made use of in these Tryals, so -that the Jewry soon brought her in not Guilty, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">128</a></span>her Daughter and Grand-daughter, and the rest -that were then tried, were also acquitted. After -she was cleared Judge <i>Danforth</i> Admonished her -in these words, <i>Woman, Woman, repent, there are -shrewd things come in against you</i>; she was remanded -to Prison for her Fees, and there in a -short time expired.<a name="FNanchor_130_130" id="FNanchor_130_130"></a><a href="#Footnote_130_130" class="fnanchor">[130]</a> One of <i>Boston</i> that had -been at the Tryal of <i>Daston</i>, being the same Evening -in company with one of the Judges [142] in -a publick place, acquainted him that some that -had been both at the Tryals at <i>Salem</i> and at this -at <i>Charlestown</i>, had asserted that there was more -Evidence against the said <i>Daston</i> than against any -at Salem, to which the said Judge conceeded, -saying, <i>That it was so</i>. It was replied by that -person, <i>that he dare give it under his hand, that -there was not enough come in against her to bear a -just reproof</i>.</p> - -<p><i>April</i> 25, 1693. The first Superior Court was -held at <i>Boston</i>, for the County of <i>Suffolk</i>, the -Judges were the Lieutenant Governour, Mr. <i>Danforth</i>, -Mr. <i>Richards</i>, and Mr. <i>Sewall</i>, Esquires.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">Mary Watkins's <i>Tryal</i>.</div> - -<p>Where (besides the acquitting Mr. <i>John Aldin</i> -by Proclamation) the most remarkable was, what -related to <i>Mary Watkins</i>, who had been a Servant, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">129</a></span>and lived about Seven Miles from <i>Boston</i>, having -formerly Accused her Mistress of Witchcraft, and -was supposed to be distracted, she was threatned -if she persisted in such Accusations to be punished, -this with the necessary care to recover her Health, -had that good effect, that she not only had her -Health restored, but also wholly acquitted her -Mistress of any such Crimes, and continued in -Health till the return of the Year, and then again -falling into Melancholy humours she was found -strangling herself; her Life being hereby prolonged, -she immediately accused herself of being -a Witch; was carried before a Magistrate and -committed. At this Court a Bill of Indictment -was brought to the Grand Jury against her, and -her confession upon her Examination given in as -Evidence, but these not wholly satisfied herewith, -sent for her, who gave such account of herself, -that they (after they had returned into the Court -to ask some Questions) Twelve of them agreed -to find Ignoramus, but the Court was pleased to -send them out again, who again at coming in returned -it as before.</p> - -<p>She was continued for some time in Prison, -<i>&c.</i> and at length was sold to <i>Virginia</i>. About -this time the Prisoners in all the Prisons were -released.</p> - -<p>To omit here the mentioning of several Wenches -in <i>Boston, &c.</i> who pretended to be Afflicted, and -accused several, the Ministers often visiting them, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">130</a></span> -and praying with them, concerning whose Affliction -Narratives are in being. In Manuscript not -only these, but the generality of those Accusers -may have since convinced the Ministers by their -vicious courses that they might err in extending -too much Charity to them.</p> - -<p>The conclusion of the whole in the <i>Massachusetts</i> -Colony was Sir <i>William Phips</i>, Governour, -being call'd home, before he went he pardon'd -such as had been condemned, for which they gave -about 30 Shillings each to the Kings Attorney.<a name="FNanchor_131_131" id="FNanchor_131_131"></a><a href="#Footnote_131_131" class="fnanchor">[131]</a></p> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Case of</i> Mrs. Benom.</div> - -<p>In <i>August</i> 1697. The Superior Court sat at -<i>Hartford</i>, in the Colony of <i>Connecticut</i>, where -one Mistress <i>Benom</i> was tried for Witchcraft, she -[143] had been accused by some Children that -pretented to the Spectral sight; they searched her -several times for Tets; they tried the Experiment -of casting her into the Water, and after this she -was Excommunicated by the Minister of <i>Wallinsford</i>. -Upon her Tryal nothing material appeared -against her, save Spectre Evidence, she was acquitted, -as also her Daughter, a Girl of Twelve -or Thirteen Years old, who had been likewise -Accused; but upon renewed Complaints against -them, they both flew into <i>New-York</i> Government.<a name="FNanchor_132_132" id="FNanchor_132_132"></a><a href="#Footnote_132_132" class="fnanchor">[132]</a></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_127_127" id="Footnote_127_127"></a><a href="#FNanchor_127_127"><span class="label">[127]</span></a> <i>Q. D. of no Account whatever.</i> -I do not find that the Expounders -of Proverbs have fallen upon -this.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_128_128" id="Footnote_128_128"></a><a href="#FNanchor_128_128"><span class="label">[128]</span></a> One of the Original <i>Billa veras</i> -is now before me, and runs thus: -"The Deposition of Mercy Lewis -Aged [19.] This Deponent testifieth -and saith that last Night Philip English -and his Wife came to mee, also -Goodwife Dasten, Eliza Johnson, -and Old Pharoh of Linn: sd. Mrs. -English vrged mee to set my Hand -to a Booke, and told mee she would -afflict me dreadfully and kill me if -I did not: Said also if I would but -touch the Booke I should bee well, -or else I should never. Mrs. English -said she might bring the Book now she thought everie one of them -would bee cleared, and now at this -present Time before the Grandiury -sd Philip English, his Wife, and old -Pharoh, come into the Roome, or -their Shape and stroke mee on the -Brest, and almost choaked mee, and -said they would strangle me if they -could. <i>Owned before the Grandiury -upon the Oath she had taken, -Janr</i> 12<i>th,</i> 169â…”. <i>Attests</i> Robert -Payne, <i>Foreman.</i>" All in the Autograph -of Mr. Saml. Parris, except -the Signature of Payne. See <span class="smcap">Appendix, -Number <a href="#NUMBER_III">III</a></span>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_129_129" id="Footnote_129_129"></a><a href="#FNanchor_129_129"><span class="label">[129]</span></a> The "Chief Judge," it will -be remembered, was Lieut. Gov. -Stoughton.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_130_130" id="Footnote_130_130"></a><a href="#FNanchor_130_130"><span class="label">[130]</span></a> The Complainants were "Mr. -Thomas Putnam, and Mr. John Putnam, -Jr., of Salem Village." She -is styled single Woman, "of Redding," -and her Name is spelt Dusting, -Dastin, and Dasting, in the -Records. It would be interesting -to know if she was a Relative of -the noted Heroine, Hannah Dustin, -of Haverhill, who slew her Indian -Captors, and escaped out of Captivity -in 1697. Mr. Chase, the -able Historian of Haverhill, does -not seem to have consulted the Records -at Salem, as we find nothing -of this Case in his History.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_131_131" id="Footnote_131_131"></a><a href="#FNanchor_131_131"><span class="label">[131]</span></a> If this was supposed to be -dealing justly by the Accused, the -Government Officers of that Day -must have had a very <i>angular</i> Idea -of Justice, as understood by upright -Men of the present Day. -Such a Course reminds one of -"Lidford Law," and of those sentenced -"to be hanged and to pay -40 shillings."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_132_132" id="Footnote_132_132"></a><a href="#FNanchor_132_132"><span class="label">[132]</span></a> "One that many Years since -was Executed at Hartford, in Connecticut -Colony, on the Account of -Witchcraft, confessed, that she had -employed Evil Spirits to be revenged -on several; but that when she would have had them do the -Like to Mr. Stone (the Eminent -Teacher of the Church there) they -told her, they had not leave to do -it: Nor is this to be Evaded by -saying some Persons (as of late in -New England) have falsely accused -themselves, for this Person was upon -Rational Grounds, thought to be a -true Penitent, before her Death. -We cannot argue, that because some -have failed in their cursed Attempts, -that therefore never any Succeeded. -But the known Success of many was -that which emboldened others to -Endeavour the Like.".—I. Mather, -in <i>Angelographia, To the Reader</i>. -See, also, <i>Remarkable Providences</i> -(by the same), Chap. V.</p></div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="sidenote"><i>A Fast Proclaimed.</i></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">131</a></span> - -Before this the Government Issued forth the -following Proclamation.</p> - -<h3 class="break"><i>By the Honourable the Lieutenant Governour, -Council and Assembly of his Majesties</i><a name="FNanchor_133_133" id="FNanchor_133_133"></a><a href="#Footnote_133_133" class="fnanchor">[133]</a> -<i>Province of the</i> Massachusetts Bay, -<i>in General Court Assembled.</i></h3> - -<p class="dropcap">Whereas the Anger of God is not yet turned -away, but his Hand is still stretched out -against his People in manifold Judgments, particularly -in drawing out to such a length the -troubles of <i>Europe</i>,<a name="FNanchor_134_134" id="FNanchor_134_134"></a><a href="#Footnote_134_134" class="fnanchor">[134]</a> by a perplexing War; and -more especially, respecting ourselves in this Province, -in that God is pleased still to go on in -diminishing our Substance, cutting short our Harvest, -blasting our most promissing undertakings -more ways than one, unsettling of us, and by his -more Immediate hand, snatching away many out -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">132</a></span>of our Embraces, by sudden and violent Deaths, -even at this time when the Sword is devouring -so many both at home and abroad, and that after -many days of publick and Solemn addressing of -him. And altho considering the many Sins prevailing -in the midst of us, we cannot but wonder -at the Patience and Mercy moderating these Rebukes; -yet we cannot but also fear that there is -something still wanting to accompany our Supplications. -And doubtless there are some particular -Sins, which God is Angry with our <i>Israel</i> -for, that have not been duly seen and resented by -us, about which God expects to be sought if ever -he turn again our Captivity.</p> - -<p>Wherefore it is Commanded and Appointed, -that <i>Thursday</i> the Fourteenth of <i>January</i> next, -be observed as a Day of Prayer, with Fasting -throughout this Province, strictly forbidding all -Servile labour thereon; that so all Gods People -may offer up fervent Supplications unto him, for -the Preservation, and Prosperity of his Majesty's -Royal Person and Government, and Success to -attend his Affairs both at home and abroad; that -all iniquity may be put away which hath stirred -God's Holy jealousie against this Land; that he -would shew us what we know not, and help us -wherein we have done amiss to do so no more; -and especially that whatever mistakes on either -hand have been fallen into, either by the body of -this People, or any orders of men, referring to -the late Tragedy, raised among us by Satan and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">133</a></span> -his Instruments, thro the awful Judgment of God, -he [144] would humble us therefor and pardon -all the Errors of his Servants and People, that -desire to love his Name and be attoned to his -Land; that he would remove the Rod of the -wicked from off the Lot of the Righteous, that -he would bring the <i>American</i> Heathen, and cause -them to hear and obey his Voice.</p> - -<p><i>Given at</i> Boston, Decemb 17, 1696, <i>in the</i> 8<i>th -Year of his Majesties Reign</i>.</p> - -<p class="right"> -Isaac Addington, <i>Secretary</i>. -</p> - -<p class="p2">Upon the Day of the Fast in the full Assembly -at the South Meeting-House in <i>Boston</i> one of the -Honourable Judges,<a name="FNanchor_135_135" id="FNanchor_135_135"></a><a href="#Footnote_135_135" class="fnanchor">[135]</a> who had sat in Judicature -in <i>Salem</i>, delivered in a Paper, and while it was -in reading stood up, But the Copy being not to -be obtained at present, It can only be reported by -Memory to this effect, <i>viz.</i> <i>It was to desire the -Prayers of God's People for him and his, and that -God having visited his Family,</i> &c. <i>he was apprehensive -that he might have fallen into some Errors -in the Matters at</i> Salem, <i>and pray that the Guilt -of such Miscarriages may not be imputed either to -the Country in general, or to him or his family in -particular</i>.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">134</a></span></p> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Jury-men's Acknowledgement.</i></div> - -<h3 class="break">Some that had been of several Jewries, -have given forth a Paper, Sign'd with -their own hands in these words.</h3> - -<p class="dropcap">W<i>E whose names are under written, being in the -Year</i> 1692, <i>called to serve as Jurors in -Court at</i> Salem <i>on Tryal of many; who where by -some suspected Guilty of doing Acts of Witchcraft -upon the Bodies of sundry Persons:</i></p> - -<p><i>We confess that we ourselves were not capable to -understand, nor able to withstand the mysterious delusions -of the Powers of Darkness, and Prince of -the Air; but were for want of Knowledge in ourselves, -and better Information from others, prevailed -with to take up with such Evidence against the Accused, -as on further consideration, and better Information, -we justly fear was insufficient for the touching -the Lives of any, Deut.</i> xvii. 6. <i>whereby we fear -we have been instrumental with others, tho Ignorently -and unwittingly, to bring upon ourselves, and -this People of the Lord, the Guilt of Innocent -Blood; which Sin the Lord saith in Scripture, he -would not pardon,</i> 2 Kings xxiv. 4. <i>that is we suppose -in regard of his temporal Judgments. We do -therefore hereby signifie to all in general (and to the -surviving Sufferers in especial) our deep sense of, -and sorrow for our Errors, in acting on such Evidence -to the condemning of any person.</i></p> - -<p><i>And do hereby declare that we justly fear that we -were sadly deluded and mistaken, for which we are -much disquieted and distressed in our minds; and do -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">135</a></span> -therefore humbly beg forgiveness, first of God for -Christ's sake for this our Error; And pray that -God would not impute the guilt of it to ourselves, -nor</i> [145] <i>others; and we also pray that we may be -considered candidly, and aright by the living Sufferers -as being then under the power of a strong and general -Delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced -in matters of that Nature.</i></p> - -<p><i>We do heartily ask forgiveness of you all, whom -we have justly offended, and do declare according to -our present minds, we would none of us do such -things again on such grounds for the whole World; -praying you to accept of this in way of Satisfaction -for our Offence; and that you would bless the Inheritance -of the Lord, that he may be entreated for the -Land.</i></p> - -<table summary="names"> -<tr><td><i>Foreman,</i></td> -<td><i>Thomas Fisk</i>,</td> </tr> - -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>William Fisk</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>John Bacheler</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Thomas Fisk, Junior</i></td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>John Dane</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Joseph Evelith</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Thomas Perly, Senior</i></td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>John Pebody</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Thomas Perkins</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Samuel Sayer</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Andrew Elliott</i>,</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td> -<td><i>Henry Herrick, Senior</i>,<a name="FNanchor_136_136" id="FNanchor_136_136"></a><a href="#Footnote_136_136" class="fnanchor">[136]</a> -</td></tr> -</table> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_133_133" id="Footnote_133_133"></a><a href="#FNanchor_133_133"><span class="label">[133]</span></a> William III, Mary being dead. -She died on the 28th Dec, 1694. -Was Dau. of James II, by A. Hyde.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_134_134" id="Footnote_134_134"></a><a href="#FNanchor_134_134"><span class="label">[134]</span></a> The "perplexing war" of -this Period is sketched with a Master's -Hand by Macaulay in his -<i>History of England</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_135_135" id="Footnote_135_135"></a><a href="#FNanchor_135_135"><span class="label">[135]</span></a> The Honorable Samuel Sewall. -He worshipped at the <i>Old</i> -South Church. His Name will be -found inscribed upon the Plan of -the House in Mr. Wisner's <i>History</i>, -Page 102, denoting the Pew which -he occupied. Its internal Arrangement -is much the same now.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_136_136" id="Footnote_136_136"></a><a href="#FNanchor_136_136"><span class="label">[136]</span></a> Both Mather and Calef have -avoided giving Lists of the Trial -Jurors, doubtless to avoid increasing -the number of their Pages. The -Records (that remain) are very imperfect -in this, as well as in many -other Respects, already noticed. On -this Period much remains to be done.</p></div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="sidenote"><i>Postscript.</i></div> - -<h2 class="break">POSTSCRIPT. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">136</a></span> -</h2> - -<blockquote> - -<p class="hang"><big><i>Since making the foregoing Collections of -Letters, to the Reverend Mr.</i> Cotton -Mather, <i>and others, &c. (which as yet -remain unanswered) a Book is come to -hand Intituled</i>,</big></p></blockquote> - -<p class="dropcap">THE <i>Life of Sir</i> William Phips, <i>printed in</i> -London, 1697. Which Book, tho it bears -not the Authors name, yet the Stile, manner and -matter is such, that were there no other demonstration -or token to know him by, it were no -Witchcraft to determine that the said Mr. <i>C. M.</i> -is the Author of it. But that he that has <i>encountred -Enchantments</i>, and gone through the -<i>Wonders of the Invisible World</i>, and <i>discovered the -Devil</i>, that he should step aside into a Remote -Country to put on Invisibility! Tho the reason -of this be not so manifest, yet it may be thought -to be to gratifie some peculiar fancies; and why -may not this be one, that he might with the -better grace extol the Actions of Mr. <i>Mather</i>, as -Agent in England, or as President of <i>Harvard</i> -College, not forgetting his own.<a name="FNanchor_137_137" id="FNanchor_137_137"></a><a href="#Footnote_137_137" class="fnanchor">[137]</a> -</p> -<p> -As to Sir <i>William</i>, it will be generally <i>acknowledged</i> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">137</a></span> -that notwithstanding the meanness of his -Parentage and Education, he attain'd to be Master -of a Ship, and that he had the good hap to -find a <i>Spanish</i> Wreck, not only sufficient to repair -his Fortunes, but to raise him to a considerable -Figure; which King <i>James</i> did so far accommodate -as to make <i>him a Knight</i>.</p> - -<p>[146] And that after this, in the Reign of his -Present Majesty, <i>he took up with those of the Agents, -that were for accepting the New Charter, whereby -himself became Governour</i>.<a name="FNanchor_138_138" id="FNanchor_138_138"></a><a href="#Footnote_138_138" class="fnanchor">[138]</a></p> - -<p>It is not doubted, but that he aimed at the -good of the People, and great Pitty it is that his -Government was so sullied (for want of better -Information and Advice, from those whose duty -it was to have given it) by that Hobgoblin Monster, -Witchcraft, whereby this Countrey was Night-Mar'd, -and harrast, at such a rate, as is not easily -imagined.<a name="FNanchor_139_139" id="FNanchor_139_139"></a><a href="#Footnote_139_139" class="fnanchor">[139]</a></p> - -<p>After which some complaints going to <i>England</i> -about Male-Administration, in the least -matters comparatively; yet were such, that he -was call'd home to give account thereof, where -he soon after expired, so finishing his Life and -Government together.<a name="FNanchor_140_140" id="FNanchor_140_140"></a><a href="#Footnote_140_140" class="fnanchor">[140]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">138</a></span> - -Death having thus drawn the Curtain, forbidding -any further Scene, it might have been prudence, -to let his dust remain without disturbance.</p> - -<p>But the said Book endeavouring to raise a -Statue to him (<i>i. e.</i>) to ascribe to him such -Achievements as either were never <span class="err" title="original: peformed">performed</span> by -him, or else unduly aggravated, this has opened -the Mouth, both of Friends and Enemies to -recount the mistakes in the said Book; as also -those miscarriages, wherewith Sir <i>William</i> was -chargeable; such as, had it not been for this -Book, had been buried with him.<a name="FNanchor_141_141" id="FNanchor_141_141"></a><a href="#Footnote_141_141" class="fnanchor">[141]</a></p> - -<p>In P. 3, search is made over the World, to -whom to compare him in his Advancement; and -most unhappily <i>Pizarro</i> is pitched upon as a match -for him, who was a Bastard, dropt in a Church-Porch, -put to Suck of a Sow, and being grown, -ran away, and Shipt himself for <i>America</i>; there -so prospered, as to Command an Army; and -therewith did mighty things, particularly took -<i>Attaballipa</i>, one of the Kings of <i>Peru</i> Prisoner, -and having received for his Ransom, in Gold and -Silver to the value of Ten Millions, perfidiously -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">139</a></span> -put him to Death; and was the Death of no -Man knows how many Thousands of Innocents, -and is certainly one of the worst that could have -been pitched upon for such comparison.<a name="FNanchor_142_142" id="FNanchor_142_142"></a><a href="#Footnote_142_142" class="fnanchor">[142]</a></p> - -<p>Tho this together with the Rhetorical flourishes, -and affected strains therein, are instances of -the Author's variety of Learning; for which he -is recommended by these Three <i>Venerable</i> Person<a name="FNanchor_143_143" id="FNanchor_143_143"></a><a href="#Footnote_143_143" class="fnanchor">[143]</a> -in the entrance to the said Book. Yet the -<i>Integrity</i>, <i>Prudence</i>, and <i>Veracity</i> thereof, is not -so manifestly to be seen. Passing over a multitude -of Misrepresentations that are therein relating -to the Acts of Sir <i>William</i>, as not designing -to rake in the Grave of the Dead, Who is it -can see the Veracity of those words? P. 40. [He -lay within <i>Pistol-Shot</i> of the Enemies Cannon, -and beat them from thence, and much batter'd -the town, having his Ship shot thro in an hundred -places, with <i>Four and twenty Pounders</i>,] -When in the Judgment of those present, they -were not nearer to the Enemy, than about <i>half -or three quarters of a Mile</i>; that there might be -in all about <i>Seven Shot</i> that [147] struck the -Hull of the Vessel, none of them known to be -bigger than 18 Pounders, the Enemy having but -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">140</a></span> -one Gun that could carry so big as an 18 pound -Ball.<a name="FNanchor_144_144" id="FNanchor_144_144"></a><a href="#Footnote_144_144" class="fnanchor">[144]</a></p> - -<p>It were a fondness after such assertions, to take -any notice of this bedeck'd Statue, when there -was so much the less need of erecting one (as is -asserted P. 108) having already been done so well, -that even this Author himself despairs of doing it -better;<a name="FNanchor_145_145" id="FNanchor_145_145"></a><a href="#Footnote_145_145" class="fnanchor">[145]</a> -and that by one, a Man of such diffused -and Embalm'd a Reputation, <i>as that his Commendations</i> -are asserted to be enough to <i>Immortalize</i> the -Reputation of Sir <i>William</i>, or whomsoever else -<i>he should</i> please to bestow them upon, <i>viz.</i> That -Reverend person <i>who was</i> the President of the -only University then in the <i>English America</i>, P. -109. Which by the way is a much fairer Statue, -in honour of the President of the University, than -that erected for Sir <i>William</i>.</p> - -<p>For notwithstanding all this noise of Erecting -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">141</a></span> -Statues, and the great danger in plucking them -down, <i>&c.</i> yet in P. 89, 'tis said that even Sir -<i>William</i> shewed Choler enough, leaving it open -for others, thereby to understand, that he was -wholly given over to Passion and Choler.<a name="FNanchor_146_146" id="FNanchor_146_146"></a><a href="#Footnote_146_146" class="fnanchor">[146]</a> And -in P. 92, 'tis said he did not affect any mighty -shew of Devotion; these expressions with others -may prevail with the unbiased Reader to think -that these builders of Statues, had some further -design in it, than to blazen the Achievements of -Sir <i>William Phips, viz.</i> To set forth Mr. <i>J. -Mathers</i> Negociation in <i>England</i>, his procuring -the New-Charter for Sir <i>William</i> to be Governour, -and himself Establish'd President of the -College, are the things principally driven at in -the Book.<a name="FNanchor_147_147" id="FNanchor_147_147"></a><a href="#Footnote_147_147" class="fnanchor">[147]</a></p> - -<p>Another principal thing is to set forth the supposed -Witchcrafts in <i>New-England</i>, and how well -Mr. <i>Mather</i> the Younger therein acquitted himself.<a name="FNanchor_148_148" id="FNanchor_148_148"></a><a href="#Footnote_148_148" class="fnanchor">[148]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">142</a></span> - -As to the New Charter for the right understanding -that Affair, it will be needful to say, that -the People that afterwards settled in <i>New England</i>, -being about to leave their Native soil, and to seek -(as the Providence of God should direct them) -a settlement in remote Regions, wherein they -might best secure their Civil and Religious Interests, -before they enter'd upon this, considering -it might be needful on many accounts for their -future well being, they obtain'd a Charter to be -in the nature of a prime agreement, setting forth -the Soveraigns Prerogative, and the People's Priviledges; -in the enjoyment whereof they long -continued, after having purchas'd the Title to -their Lands, of the Natives of the Country, and -settled themselves therein, without any charge to -the Crown.</p> - -<p>That Clause in their Charter for this Country, -<i>viz.</i> (Provided that no other Christian Prince be -prepossest of it) being a tacit acknowledgment, -that before settlement no one Christian Prince -had any right thereto more than another. During -this time of <i>New-England's</i> Prosperity, the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">143</a></span> -Government here were very sparing of Granting -Freedoms, except to such as [148] were so and -so qualfied. Whereby the number of -<i>Non</i>-Freemen<a name="FNanchor_149_149" id="FNanchor_149_149"></a><a href="#Footnote_149_149" class="fnanchor">[149]</a> -being much increas'd, they were very uneasie, -by their being shut out from having any share -in the Government, or having any Votes for their -Representatives, <i>&c.</i> it rendred many of them -ready to join with such as were undermining the -Government, not duly considering that it had -been far more safe to have endeavoured to prevail -with the Legislators for an enlargement.</p> - -<p>So that it will not be wonder'd at that in the -latter end of the Reign of King <i>Charles</i> the II. -and of King <i>James</i>, (when most of the Charters -in <i>England</i> were vacated) that this was <i>quo warranto'd</i> -and finally Judgment entered up against -it, and the Country was put into such a form of -Government as was most agreeable to those times, -<i>viz.</i> A Legislative pow'r was lodg'd in the -Governour (or President) and some few appointed -to be of his Counsel, without any regard therein, -either to the Laws of <i>England</i>, or those formerly -of this Colony: Thus rendering the Circumstances -of this Country beyond comparison worse -than those of any Corporation in <i>England</i>. The -People of those Corporations being acknowledged -still to have a right to <i>Magna Charta</i>, when their -particular Charters were made void. But here -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">144</a></span> -when <i>Magna Charta</i> has been pleaded, the People -have been answered, that they must not expect -that <i>Magna Charta</i> would follow them to the -end of the World: not only their Estates, but -their Lives being thereby rendered wholly precarious. -And Judge <i>Palmer</i><a name="FNanchor_150_150" id="FNanchor_150_150"></a><a href="#Footnote_150_150" class="fnanchor">[150]</a> -has set forth in -Print, that the King has power to grant such a -Commission over this People.</p> - -<p>It is not hard to imagine that under such a -Commission, not only the People were liable to -be opprest by Taxes, but also by Confiscations, -and Siezing of Lands, unless Patents were purchased -at Excessive prizes, with many other Exorbitant -Innovations.</p> - -<p>The first that accepted this Commission was -Mr. <i>Dudley</i>, a Gentleman born in this Country, -who did but prepare the way for Sir <i>Edm. Andros</i>. -In whose time things being grown to such -Extremities, not only here, but in <i>England</i>, as -render'd the succeeding Revolution absolutely necessary; -the Revolution here being no other than -an acting according to the Precedent given by -<i>England</i>.</p> - -<p>During the time of Sir <i>Edmonds'</i> Government, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">145</a></span> -Mr. <i>Increase Mather</i>, Teacher of the North -Church in <i>Boston</i>, having undergone some trouble -by Fobb-Actions<a name="FNanchor_151_151" id="FNanchor_151_151"></a><a href="#Footnote_151_151" class="fnanchor">[151]</a> laid upon him, <i>&c.</i> (tho with -some difficulty) he made his Escape, and got passage -for <i>England</i>, being therein assisted by some -particular Friends; where being arrived, he applied -himself to King <i>James</i> for redress of those -Evils the Country then groaned under; and -meeting with a seeming kind reception, and some -promises, it was as much as might at that time be -reasonably expected.<a name="FNanchor_152_152" id="FNanchor_152_152"></a><a href="#Footnote_152_152" class="fnanchor">[152]</a></p> - -<p>[149] Upon the Day of the Revolution here, -tho the greatest part of the People were for reassuming -their Ancient Government, pursuant to -his Royal Highness' Proclamation; yet matters -were so clog'd, that the People were dissmist -without it, who did not in the least mistrust but -that those who were put out of the Government -by Mr. <i>Dudley</i>, would reassume: Mr. <i>Broadstreet</i>, -who had been then Governour, being heard to -say that Evening, when returned home, <i>That had -not he thought they would have reassum'd, he would -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">146</a></span> -not have stirr'd out of his House that Day</i>.<a name="FNanchor_153_153" id="FNanchor_153_153"></a><a href="#Footnote_153_153" class="fnanchor">[153]</a> But -after this, some that were driving at other matters, -had opportunities by Threats and other ways not -only to prevail with that good Old Gentleman, -but with the rest of the Government wholly to -decline it; which some few observing, they took -the opportunity to call themselves a Committee -of Safety, and so undertook to Govern such as -would be govern'd by them.<a name="FNanchor_154_154" id="FNanchor_154_154"></a><a href="#Footnote_154_154" class="fnanchor">[154]</a></p> - -<p>It has been an Observation of long continuance -<i>that matters of State seldom prosper, when managed -by the Clergy</i>. Among the opposers of the reassuming -few were so strenuous as some of the -Ministers, and among the Ministers none more -vehement than Mr. <i>Cotton Mather</i>, Pastor of the -<i>North</i> Church in <i>Boston</i>, who has charged them -as they would answer it another day to reassume. -Among his Arguments against it, one was that it -would be to put a slight upon his Father, who, -he said, was in <i>England</i>, labouring for a compleat -Restoration of Charter Privileges, not doubting, -but they would be speedily obtain'd. Any Man -that knows <i>New England</i> cannot but be sensible, -that such Discourses from such Men, have always -been very prevalent. And hence it was that even -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">147</a></span> -those that would think themselves wronged, if -they were not numbred among the best Friends -to <i>New-England</i>, and to its Charter, would not -so much as stoop to take it up, when there was -really nothing to hinder them from the Enjoyment -thereof.<a name="FNanchor_155_155" id="FNanchor_155_155"></a><a href="#Footnote_155_155" class="fnanchor">[155]</a></p> - -<p>After the Committee of Safety had continued -about seven Weeks, or rather after Anarchy had -been so long Triumphant, an Assembly having -been call'd came to this resolve and laid it before -those Gentlemen that had been of the Government, -that if they would not act upon the Foundation -of the Charter, that persuant to it, the -Assembly would appoint some others in that Station. -The Answer to which was, that they would -accept, <i>&c.</i> And when a Declaration signifying -such a reassuming, was prepared with the good -liking of the Deputies, in order to be published, -some that were opposers, so terrified those Gentlemen, -that before publishing it was underwritten -[that they would not have it understood that they -did reassume Charter-Government] to the no -small amazement of the People, and disappointment -of the Deputies, who if these had not -promised so to act, had taken other care, and put -in those that would.<a name="FNanchor_156_156" id="FNanchor_156_156"></a><a href="#Footnote_156_156" class="fnanchor">[156]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">148</a></span> - -[150] -The next principal thing done was, they -chose two of their Members, <i>viz.</i> one of the -upper House, the other of the lower, both of -them Gentlemen of known Integrity, as well as -ability to go to <i>England</i>, in order to obtain their -Resettlement;<a name="FNanchor_157_157" id="FNanchor_157_157"></a><a href="#Footnote_157_157" class="fnanchor">[157]</a> and in regard Mr. <i>I. Mather</i> was -already there, they joined him, as also a certain -Gentleman in <i>London</i><a name="FNanchor_158_158" id="FNanchor_158_158"></a><a href="#Footnote_158_158" class="fnanchor">[158]</a> with these other two: -Those from hence being arrived in <i>London</i>, they -all united for the common Interest of the Countrey, -though without the desired effect. They -were in doubt, whether it were best to Improve -their Utmost for a reversal of the Judgment in a -Course of Law, or to obtain it in a Parliamentary -way, or to Petition his Majesty for a New Grant -of former Priviledges; And considering that the -two first might prove Dilatory and Expensive, as -well as for other reasons, they resolved upon the -latter, and Petition'd his Majesty for the Countries -Resettlement, with former Privileges, and what -further additionals his Majesty in his Princely -Wisdom should think fit. Accordingly it pleased -his Majesty to declare in Counsel his Determination, -<i>viz.</i> That there should be a Charter granted -to <i>New-England</i>. But the Minutes then taken -thereof, and a Draught of the <i>New-Charter</i> being -seen, it was the Opinion of the two Gentlemen -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">149</a></span> -sent from hence, that it were best to tarry his -Majesties return from <i>Flanders</i>; in hopes then to -obtain ease in such things as might be any ways -deemed to be grievous. And this was the result -of the Advice of such as were best able to give -it, that they could meet with, and accordingly -they wholly desisted taking it out of the Offices.<a name="FNanchor_159_159" id="FNanchor_159_159"></a><a href="#Footnote_159_159" class="fnanchor">[159]</a></p> - -<p>But Mr. <i>Mather</i> and that other Gentleman -had, as it is said, other advice given them, which -they strenuously pursued, and his Majesty having -left it as is asserted in this of the Life of Sir -<i>William</i>, P. 57, to them to nominate a Governour, -they pitcht upon Sir <i>William Phips</i>, who -was then in <i>England</i>, [As the most likely and able -to serve the King's Interests among the People -there; under the changes in some things unacceptable -now brought upon them, P. 62.] and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">150</a></span> -without tarrying for the concurrence of those -other Agents, the Charter was taken out, <i>&c.</i><a name="FNanchor_160_160" id="FNanchor_160_160"></a><a href="#Footnote_160_160" class="fnanchor">[160]</a></p> - -<p>But Mr. <i>Mather</i> perhaps fearing he should -have but small thanks here, for his having so far -an hand in bringing upon them those unacceptable -Changes, wrote, and caused to be Printed, an -Account of his Negotiation, but surely by some -Error in the Conception, it proved only an <i>Embrio</i>, -and was stifled as soon as born. One indeed, -designed to be as it were a <i>Posthumous</i> was left -with Mr. <i>Bailey</i>, formerly of <i>Boston</i>, and a Member -of the <i>North-Church</i>, with a charge not to -suffer it to be seen till he were gone to <i>New-England</i>; -yet it seems some other person got a -sight of it, which was the occasion of Mr. <i>Mather</i>'s -sending him that Minatory Epistle, by some -call'd a Bull. But besides this, for fear of the -worst, Mr. <i>Mather</i> got several <i>Non-con</i> Ministers -to give him a Testimonial, or Letters of Commendations -for his great Service herein.<a name="FNanchor_161_161" id="FNanchor_161_161"></a><a href="#Footnote_161_161" class="fnanchor">[161]</a></p> - -<p>[151] -In the mean time Mr. <i>Cotton Mather</i>, -being in some doubt of the same thing, handed -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">151</a></span> -about a Paper of Fables; wherein his Father -under the Name of <i>Mercurius</i>, and himself under -the Name of <i>Orpheus</i>, are extoll'd, and the great -Actions of <i>Mercurius</i> magnified; the present -Charter exalted, by trampling on the former, as -being very defective, and all those call'd unreasonable -that did not readily agree with the New -one: And indeed the whole Country are compared -to no better than Beasts, except <i>Mercurius</i> -and <i>Orpheus</i>, the Governour himself must not -Escape being termed an Elephant, tho as good as -he was great, and the Inferiours told by <i>Orpheus</i> -that for the quiet Enjoyment of their Lands, <i>&c.</i> -they were beholding to <i>Mercurius</i>. Tho this -Paper was judged not convenient to be Printed, -yet some Copies were taken, the Author having -shown variety of <i>Heathen</i> Learning in it.<a name="FNanchor_162_162" id="FNanchor_162_162"></a><a href="#Footnote_162_162" class="fnanchor">[162]</a></p> - -<p>This is in short that eminent Service for which -the said Mr. <i>I. M.</i> is in the present Book so -highly extol'd. In so many Pages, that to repeat -them were to transcribe a considerable part of the -said Book.</p> - -<p>And no doubt he deserves as much thanks as -Dr. <i>Sharp</i><a name="FNanchor_163_163" id="FNanchor_163_163"></a><a href="#Footnote_163_163" class="fnanchor">[163]</a> -did, when he was sent by the Presbytery -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">152</a></span> -of <i>Scotland</i>, to procure the settlement of -their Kirk by King <i>Charles</i> II. at his Restauration.</p> - -<p>Not but that the present Charter of <i>New-England</i> -is indeed truly valuable, as containing in it -peculiar Priviledges, which abundantly Engages -this People to pay the tribute of thankfulness to -his Majesty,<a name="FNanchor_164_164" id="FNanchor_164_164"></a><a href="#Footnote_164_164" class="fnanchor">[164]</a> and all due subjection to whom it -shall please him to substitute as Governour over -us; and to pray that the King of Kings would -pour out of his richest blessings upon him, giving -him a long and prosperous Reign over the Nations, -under the benign Influences whereof, Oppression -and Tyranny may flee away.</p> - -<p>And if his Majesty hath put this People into -the present form of Government, to the end they -might be in the better condition of Defence in a -time of War; or that they might the better understand -the Priviledge of choosing their own -Governour by the want of it, and should be graciously -pleased (the War being over) to restore to -these, as has been already granted to the rest of -his Majesties Subjects, the full employment of -their Ancient Priviledges, it would be such an -obligation upon them to thankfulness and Duty -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">153</a></span> -as could never be forgotten, nor sufficiently exprest, -and would rather abate than increase charge -to the Crown.</p> - -<p>As to the supposed Witchcrafts in <i>New-England</i>, -having already said so much thereof, there -is the less remains to be added.</p> - -<p>In the times of Sir <i>Ed. Andros</i> his Government, -Goody <i>Glover</i>, a despised, crazy, ill-conditioned -old Woman, an <i>Irish Roman</i> Catholick, was tried -for Afflicting <i>Goodwins</i> Children; by the Account -of which Tryal, taken in Short-hand, for the use -of the Jury, it may appear that the ge[152]nerality -of her Answers, were Nonsense, and her behaviour -like that of one distracted. Yet the Drs. finding -her as she had been for many Years, brought -her in <i>Compos Mentis</i>; and setting aside her crazy -Answers to some insnaring questions, the proof -against her was wholly deficient: The Jury -brought her Guilty.<a name="FNanchor_165_165" id="FNanchor_165_165"></a><a href="#Footnote_165_165" class="fnanchor">[165]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">154</a></span> -Mr. <i>Cotton Mather</i> was the most active and -forward of any Minister in the Country in those -matters, taking home one of the Children, and -managing such intreagues with that Child, and -after printing such an Account of the whole, in -his Memorable Providences, as conduced much -to the kindling those Flames, that in Sir <i>Williams</i> -time threatned the devouring this Country.<a name="FNanchor_166_166" id="FNanchor_166_166"></a><a href="#Footnote_166_166" class="fnanchor">[166]</a></p> - -<p>King <i>Saul</i> in his destroying the Witches out of -<i>Israel</i>, is thought by many to have exceeded, and -in his Zeal to have slain the <i>Gibeonites</i> wrongfully -under that notion: Yet went after this to a Witch -to know his Fortune. For his wrongful destroying -the <i>Gibeonites</i> (besides the Judgments of -God upon the Land) his Sons were hanged; and -for his going to the Witch, himself was cut off. -Our sir <i>William Phips</i> did not do this, but as appears -by this Book had first his Fortune told him, -(by such as the Author counts no better) and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">155</a></span>though he put it off (to his Pastor, who he new -approved not thereof) as if it were brought to -him in writing, without his seeking, <i>&c.</i> Yet -by his bringing it so far, and safe keeping it so -many Years, it appears he made some Account of -it; for which he gave the Writer, after he had -found the Wreck, as a reward, more than Two -hundred pounds. His telling his Wife (P. 6.) -that he should be a Commander, should have a -Brick-House in <i>Greenlane</i>,<a name="FNanchor_167_167" id="FNanchor_167_167"></a><a href="#Footnote_167_167" class="fnanchor">[167]</a> <i>&c.</i> might be in -confidence of some such Prediction, and that he -could foretel to him (P. 90.) that he should -be Governour of <i>New-England</i>, was probably -such an one, (the Scriptures not having revealed -it.) Such Predictions would have been -counted at <i>Salem</i>, pregnant proofs of Witchcraft, -and much better than what were against several -that suffered there. But Sir <i>William</i>, when the -Witchcrafts at <i>Salem</i> began (in his Esteem) to -look formidable, that he might Act safely in this -Affair, he asked the Advice of the Ministers in -and near <i>Boston</i>; the whole of their Advice and -Answer is Printed in <i>Cases of Conscience</i>, the last -Pages. But lest the World should be Ignorant -who it was that drew the said Advice, in this -Book of the Life of Sir <i>William Phips</i>, P. 77. are -these words, <i>the Ministers made unto his Excellency -and the Counsel a return, drawn up at their desire, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">156</a></span>by Mr. Mather the Younger, as I have been informed</i>. -Mr. <i>C. M.</i> therein intending to beguile -the World, and make them think that another, -and not himself had taken that notice of his -(supposed) good Service done therein, which -otherwise would have been ascribed to those -Ministers in General, though indeed the Advice -then given, looks most like a thing of his Composing, -as carrying both Fire [153] to increase, -and Water to quench the Conflagration.<a name="FNanchor_168_168" id="FNanchor_168_168"></a><a href="#Footnote_168_168" class="fnanchor">[168]</a> Particularly -after the Devils Testimony, by the supposed -Afflicted had so prevailed, as to take away -the Life of one, and the Liberty of an Hundred, -and the whole Country set into a most dreadful -consternation, then this Advice is given, ushered -in with thanks for what was already done, and -in conclusion, putting the Government upon a -speedy and vigorous prosecution according to the -Laws of God, and the wholesome Statutes of the -<i>English</i> Nation, so adding Oil, rather than Water -to the Flame; for who so little acquainted with -proceedings of <i>England</i>, as not to know that they -have taken some methods, with those here used -to discover who were Witches. The rest of the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">157</a></span>Advice, consisting of cautions and directions, are -inserted in this of the Life of Sir <i>William</i>. So -that if Sir <i>William</i>, looking upon the thanks for -what was past, and Exhortation to proceed, went -on to take away the Lives of Nineteen more, -this is according to the Advice said to be given -him by the Ministers, and if the Devil after -those Executions be affronted, by disbelieving his -testimony, and by clearing and Pardoning all the -rest of the Accused; yet this also is according to -that Advice, but to cast the Scale; the same that -drew this Advice, saith, in <i>Wonders of the Invisible -World, Enchantments Encountered</i>; [that to -have a hand in any thing that may stifle or obstruct -a regular detection of that Witchcraft, is -what we may well with a Holy fear avoid: -Their Majesties good Subjects must not every -day be torn to pieces by horrid Witchcraft, and -those bloody Felons be wholly left unprosecuted; -The Witchcraft is a business that will not be -shamm'd.]<a name="FNanchor_169_169" id="FNanchor_169_169"></a><a href="#Footnote_169_169" class="fnanchor">[169]</a> The Pastor of that Church, of -which Sir <i>William</i> was a Member, being of -this Principle, and thus declaring it, after the -former advice; no wonder tho it cast the Scale -against those Cautions. It is rather a Wonder -that no more Blood was shed, for if that Advice -of his Pastors could still have prevail'd with the -Governour, Witchcraft had not been so shammed -off as it was. Yet now in this Book of the Life -of Sir <i>William</i>, the pardoning the Prisoners when -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">158</a></span>Condemn'd, and clearing the Goals, is call'd (P. -82) a Vanquishing the Devil, adding this Conquest -to the rest of the Noble Atchievements of -Sir <i>William</i>, tho Performed not only without, -but directly against his Pastors Advice. But this -is not all, tho this Book pretends to raise a Statue -in Honour of Sir <i>William</i>, yet it appears it was the -least part of the design of the Author to Honour -him, but it was rather to Honour himself, and the -Ministers; It being so unjust to Sir <i>William</i>, as -to give a full Account of the cautions given him, -but designedly hiding from the Reader the Incouragements -and Exhortations to proceed, that -were laid before him (under the name of the -Ministers Advice) in effect, telling the World -that those Executions at <i>Salem</i>, were without, -and against the Advice of the Ministers, exprest -in those Cautions, purposely hiding their giving -thanks for what was already done, and exhorting -to proceed; thereby rendering Sir <i>William</i> of so -sanguin a Complexion, that the Ministers had -such cause to fear his going on with the Tragedy, -tho against their Advice; that they desired the -President to write his <i>Cases of Conscience, &c.</i> -To plead misinformation will not salve here, -however it may seem to palliate other things, but -is a manifest, designed traversty, or misrepresentation -of the Ministers Advice to Sir <i>William</i>, a -hiding the truth, and a wronging the dead, whom -the Author so much pretends to honour; for -which the Acknowledgments ought to be as -Universal as the offence. But tho the Ministers<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">159</a></span> -Advice, or rather Mr. C. <i>Mather's</i> was perfectly -Ambidexter, giving as great or greater Encouragement -to proceed in those dark methods, than -cautions against [154] them; yet many Eminent -persons being accused, there was a necessity of a -stop to be put to it. If it be true what was said -at the Counsel-board in answer to the commendations -of Sir <i>William</i>, for his stopping the proceedings -about Witchcraft, <i>viz.</i> That it was high -time for him to stop it, his own Lady being accused; -if that Assertion were a truth, then <i>New-England</i> -may seem to be more beholden to the -accusers for accusing of her, and thereby necessitating -a stop, than to Sir <i>William</i>, or to the Advice -that was given him by his Pastor.<a name="FNanchor_170_170" id="FNanchor_170_170"></a><a href="#Footnote_170_170" class="fnanchor">[170]</a></p> - -<p>Mr. <i>C. M.</i> having been very forward to write -Books of Witchcraft, has not been so forward -either to explain or defend the Doctrinal part -thereof, and his belief (which he had a Years -time to compose) he durst not venture so as to be -copied.<a name="FNanchor_171_171" id="FNanchor_171_171"></a><a href="#Footnote_171_171" class="fnanchor">[171]</a> Yet in this of the Life of Sir <i>William</i> -he sufficiently testifies his retaining that Heterodox -belief, seeking by frightfull stories of the -sufferings of some, and the refined sight of others, -<i>&c.</i> P. 69 to obtrude upon the World, and confirm -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">160</a></span> -it in such a belief, as hitherto he either -cannot or will not defend, as if the Blood already -shed thereby were not sufficient.<a name="FNanchor_172_172" id="FNanchor_172_172"></a><a href="#Footnote_172_172" class="fnanchor">[172]</a></p> - -<p>Mr. <i>I. Mather</i>, in his <i>Cases of Conscience</i>, P. 25, -tells of a Bewitched Eye, and that such can see -more than others. They were certainly bewitched -Eyes that could see as well shut as open, and that -could see what never was, that could see the Prisoners -upon the Afflicted, harming of them, when -those whose Eyes were not bewitched could have -sworn that they did not stir from the Bar. The -Accusers are said to have suffered much by biting, -P. 73. And the prints of just such a set of Teeth, -as those they Accused, had, but such as had not -such bewitch'd Eyes have seen the Accusers bite -themselves, and then complain of the Accused. -It has also been seen when the Accused, instead -of having just such a set of Teeth, has not had -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">161</a></span> -one in his head.<a name="FNanchor_173_173" id="FNanchor_173_173"></a><a href="#Footnote_173_173" class="fnanchor">[173]</a> They were such bewitched -Eyes that could see the Poisonous Powder -(brought by Spectres P. 70.) And that could see -in the Ashes the print of the Brand, there invisibly -heate to torment the pretended Sufferers with, -<i>&c.</i><a name="FNanchor_174_174" id="FNanchor_174_174"></a><a href="#Footnote_174_174" class="fnanchor">[174]</a></p> - -<p>These with the rest of such Legends have this -direct tendency, <i>viz.</i> To tell the World that the -Devil is more ready to serve his Votaries, by his -doing for them things above or against the course -of Nature, shewing himself to them, and making -explicit contract with them, <i>&c.</i> than the Divine -Being is to his faithful Servants, and that as he is -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">162</a></span> -willing, so also able to perform their desires.<a name="FNanchor_175_175" id="FNanchor_175_175"></a><a href="#Footnote_175_175" class="fnanchor">[175]</a> The -way whereby these People are believed to arrive -at a power to Afflict their Neighbours, is by a -compact with the Devil, and that they have a -power to <i>Commissionate</i> him to those Evils, P. 72. -However Irrational, or inscriptural such Assertions -are, yet they seem a necessary part of the -<i>Faith</i> of such as maintain the belief of such a -sort of <i>Witches</i>.</p> - -<p>As the Scriptures know nothing of a covenanting -or commissioning Witch, so Reason cannot -conceive how Mortals should by their Wickedness -arrive at a power to Commissionate Angels, Fallen -Angels, against their Innocent Neighbours. But -the Scriptures are full in it, and the Instances numerous, -that the Almighty, Divine Being has this -prerogative to make use of what Instrument he -pleaseth, in Afflicting any, and consequently to -commissionate Devils: And tho this word commissioning, -in the Authors former Books, might -be thought to be by inadvertency, yet now after -he hath been caution'd of it, still to persist in it -seems highly Criminal. And therefore in the -name of God, I here charge such belief as guilty -of Sacrilege in the highest Nature, and so much -worse than stealing Church Plate, <i>&c.</i> As it is -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">163</a></span>a higher Offence to steal any of the glorious Attributes -of the Al[155]mighty, to bestow them -upon Mortals, than it is to steal the Utensils appropriated -to his Service. And whether to ascribe -such power of commissioning Devils to the -worst of Men, be not direct Blasphemy, I leave -to others better able to determine. When the -<i>Pharisees</i> were so wicked as to ascribe to <i>Beelzebub</i>, -the mighty works of Christ (whereby he did -manifestly shew forth his Power and Godhead) -than it was that our Saviour declar'd the Sin -against the Holy Ghost to be unpardonable.</p> - -<p>When the Righteous God is contending with -Apostate Sinners, for their departures from him, -by his Judgments, as Plagues, Earthquakes, -Storms and Tempests, Sicknesses and Diseases, -Wars, loss of Cattle, <i>&c.</i> Then not only to ascribe -this to the Devil, but to charge one another -with sending or commissionating those Devils to -these things, is so abominable and so wicked, that -it requires a better Judgment than mine to give -it its just denomination.<a name="FNanchor_176_176" id="FNanchor_176_176"></a><a href="#Footnote_176_176" class="fnanchor">[176]</a></p> - -<p>But that Christians so called should not only -charge their fellow Christians therewith, but proceed -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">164</a></span> -to Trials and Executions; crediting that -Enemy to all Goodness, and Accuser of the -Brethren, rather than believe their Neighbours -in their own Defence; this is so Diabolical a -Wickedness as cannot proceed, but from a Doctrine -of Devils; how far damnable it is let others -discuss. Though such things were acting in this -Country in Sir <i>Williams</i> time, yet P. 65. There -is a Discourse of a Guardian Angel, as then -over-seeing it, which notion, however it may suit -the Faith of <i>Ethnicks</i>, or the fancies of <i>Trithemius</i>; -it is certain that the Omnipresent Being, -stands not in need as Earthly Potentates do, of -governing the World by Vicegerents. And if -Sir <i>William</i> had such an Invisible pattern to imitate, -no wonder though some of his Actions were -unaccountable, especially those relating to Witchcraft: -For if there was in those Actions an Angel -superintending, there is little reason to think it -was <i>Gabriel</i> or the Spirit of <i>Mercury</i>, nor <i>Hanael</i> -the Angel or Spirit of <i>Venus</i>, nor yet <i>Samuel</i> -the Angel or Spirit of <i>Mars</i>; Names feigned -by the said <i>Trithemius</i>, <i>&c.</i> It may rather be -thought to be <i>Apollyon</i>, or <i>Abaddon</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Obj.</i> But here it will be said, What are there -no Witches? Do's not the Law of God command -that they should be extirpated? Is the -Command vain and Unintelligible? <i>Sol.</i> For any -to say that a Witch is one that makes a compact -with, and Commissions Devils, <i>&c.</i> is indeed to -render the Law of God vain and Unintelligible,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">165</a></span> -as having provided no way whereby they might -be detected, and proved to be such; And how the -<i>Jews</i> waded thro this difficulty for so many Ages, -without the Supplement of Mr. <i>Perkins</i> and -<i>Bernard</i> thereto, would be very mysterious. But -to him that can read the Scriptures without prejudice -from Education, <i>&c.</i> it will manifestly -appear that the Scripture is full and Intelligible, -both as to the Crime and means to detect the -culpable. He that shall hereafter see any person, -who to confirm People in a false belief, about the -power of Witches and Devils, pretending to a -sign to confirm it; such as knocking off of invisible -Chains with the hand, driving away Devils by -brushing, striking with a Sword or Stick, to wound -a person at a great distance, <i>&c.</i> may (according -to that head of Mr. <i>Gauls</i>, quoted by Mr. <i>C. M.</i> -and so often herein before recited, and so well -proved by Scripture) conclude that he has <i>seen -Witchcraft performed</i>.</p> - -<p>[156] If <i>Baalam</i> became a Sorcerer by Sacrifizing -and Praying to the true God against his -visible people; Then he that shall pray that the -afflicted (by their <i>Spectral</i> Sight) may accuse some -other Person (whereby their reputations and lives -may be indangered) such will justly deserve the -Name of a <i>Sorcerer</i>. If any Person pretends to -know more than can be known by humane means, -and professeth at the same time that they have it -from the <i>Black-Man, i. e. the Devil</i>, and shall -from hence give Testimony against the Lives of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">166</a></span> -others, they are manifestly such as have a familiar -Spirit; and if any, knowing them to have their -Information from the <i>Black-man</i>, shall be inquisitive -of them for their Testimony against others, -they therein are dealing with such as have a <i>Familiar-Spirit</i>.</p> - -<p>And if these shall pretend to <i>see the dead</i> by -their <i>Spectral Sight</i>, and others shall be inquisitive -of them, and receive their Answers what it -is the <i>dead say</i>, and who it is they accuse, both -the one and the other are by Scripture <i>Guilty of -Necromancy</i>.</p> - -<p>These are all of them crimes as easily proved as -any whatsoever, and that by such proof as the Law -of God requires, so that it is <i>no Unintelligible Law</i>.</p> - -<p>But if the Iniquity of the times be such that -these Criminals not only Escape Indemnified, but -are Incouraged in their wickedness, and made use -of to take away the Lives of others, this is worse -than a making the Law of God <i>Vain</i>, it being a -rendring of it <i>dangerous</i>, against the Lives of Innocents, -and without all hopes of better, so long -as these Bloody Principles remain.</p> - -<p>As long as Christians do Esteem the <i>Law of -God to be Imperfect</i>, as not describing that crime -that it requires to be Punish'd by Death.</p> - -<p>As long as men suffer themselves to be Poison'd -in their Education, and be grounded in a <i>False-Belief -by the Books of the Heathen</i>.</p> - -<p>As long as the <i>Devil</i> shall be believed to have -<i>a Natural Power, to Act above and against a course -of Nature</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">167</a></span> - -As long as the <i>Witches</i> shall be believed to have -a Power to <i>Commission him</i>.</p> - -<p>As long as the <i>Devil's Testimony</i>, by the pretended -afflicted, shall be received as <i>more valid to -Condemn</i>, than their Plea of <i>Not Guilty</i> to acquit.</p> - -<p>As long as the <i>Accused</i> shall have their <i>Lives -and Liberties</i> confirmed and restored to them, -<i>upon their Confessing themselves Guilty</i>.</p> - -<p>As long as the <i>Accused</i> shall be forc't to <i>undergo -Hardships and Torments</i> for their not Confessing.</p> - -<p>As long as <i>Tets</i> for the <i>Devil to Suck</i> are -searched for upon the Bodies of the accused, as a -token of guilt.</p> - -<p>As long as the <i>Lord's Prayer</i> shall be profaned, -by being made a Test, who are culpable.</p> - -<p>As long as <i>Witchcraft, Sorcery, Familiar Spirits, -and Necromancy</i>, shall be improved to discover -who are <i>Witches</i>, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p><i>So long it may be expected that innocents will -suffer as Witches</i>.</p> - -<p><i>So long God will be Daily dishonoured, And so -long his Judgments, must be expected to be continued.</i><a name="FNanchor_177_177" id="FNanchor_177_177"></a><a href="#Footnote_177_177" class="fnanchor">[177]</a></p> - -<p class="center"><em class="gesperrt"><i>FINIS.</i></em></p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_137_137" id="Footnote_137_137"></a><a href="#FNanchor_137_137"><span class="label">[137]</span></a> This Insinuation is quite well -sustained, as will appear by an Extract -from Mr. Mather's Diary, -printed in Quincy's <i>Hist. H. C.</i> -i, 60. The Life of Phips is substantially -included in the Magnalia. -As originally published, it is of considerable -rarity.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_138_138" id="Footnote_138_138"></a><a href="#FNanchor_138_138"><span class="label">[138]</span></a> -See Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_25">25-6</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_139_139" id="Footnote_139_139"></a><a href="#FNanchor_139_139"><span class="label">[139]</span></a> This Judgment has been sustained -by Posterity. Phips's Hands -were tied. He could not have done -differently, had he had the Knowledge -and Disposition, without giving -offence to President Mather, -who had secured his Advancement.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_140_140" id="Footnote_140_140"></a><a href="#FNanchor_140_140"><span class="label">[140]</span></a> To this rather mild and inoffensive -remark of the Author, -Mr. Mather replies: "The last -Effort of his [Calef's] Malice is a -Postscript against the Life of Sir -William Phips, against whose Memory, -why any whose <i>Throats are -an open Sepulchre</i>, should be so monstrously envious, that like Jackalls, -they can't let him rest quietly -in his Sepulchre, good Men can't -imagine any Reason but the third -Chapter of Genesis."—<i>Some Few -Remarks</i>, &c. 47.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_141_141" id="Footnote_141_141"></a><a href="#FNanchor_141_141"><span class="label">[141]</span></a> "I have endured more than -a little from some sort of Men, for -my writing the Life of Sir William -Phips, and speaking well of him, -without either doing or speaking ill -against any one good Man under the -whole Heavens, in the whole Composure. -It seems that I must now -write an Apology, for that Book: -for which I have no Confession to -make, but, <i>That I don't wish one -Line of it unwritten</i>."—<i>Ibid</i>, 47-8.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_142_142" id="Footnote_142_142"></a><a href="#FNanchor_142_142"><span class="label">[142]</span></a> It must be allowed that the -Doctor was a little unfortunate in -his Choice of a Hero by which to -measure his own.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_143_143" id="Footnote_143_143"></a><a href="#FNanchor_143_143"><span class="label">[143]</span></a> The "three venerable Persons" -were "Nath. Mather, John -Howe and Matthew Mead." The -first was the Uncle to Dr. Cotton -Mather, then a Minister in Dublin, -where he died a few Months later. -Howe and Mead are too well -known to require a notice here.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_144_144" id="Footnote_144_144"></a><a href="#FNanchor_144_144"><span class="label">[144]</span></a> To this Dr. Mather answers: -"When mine Adversaries had, -with a concocted Malice, done all -they could, they thought at least they -had found one Passage wherein they -might impeach my Veracity. I had -said, that before Quebeck, Sir William -lay <i>within Pistol Shot of the -Enemies Cannon</i>, and that his Ship -was shot through, in <i>an hundred -Places</i>, and that it was shot through -with <i>Four and Twenty Pounders</i>. -(Tis a gross Hardship for any to -make my Meaning as if all the shot -had been so.) And now they fall -to Tragical <span class="errauthor" title="read: Exclamations">Exclamattons</span>; they -think <i>Four and Twenty Pounders</i> -to be too small Dimensions for the -Clamors they must batter me withal.... -I wrote no more than the -very Words which I find in a Journal -of the Expedition to Qcebec.... -<i>Calef</i> himself has lately owned, -that he verily believes I did so."—<i>Some -Few Remarks</i>, &c. 51-2.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_145_145" id="Footnote_145_145"></a><a href="#FNanchor_145_145"><span class="label">[145]</span></a> After the Doctor had spoken -of being "battered with Clamors," -he triumphantly Exclaims—"But -hold <i>Robin</i>, [Mr. Calef's Christian -Name being Robert] I am not so -soon <i>shot through</i>; and the <i>Statue</i>, -as I told thee, has <i>knock'd out thy -Brains</i>!"—<i>Ibid</i>, Page 52. His -Life of Phips he calls a <i>Statue</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_146_146" id="Footnote_146_146"></a><a href="#FNanchor_146_146"><span class="label">[146]</span></a> The harsh and ungovernable -Temper of the Governor was a -Matter of Notoriety in his Time. -See <i>Life of Phips in the Magnalia</i>, -B. ii, Page 72, &c.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_147_147" id="Footnote_147_147"></a><a href="#FNanchor_147_147"><span class="label">[147]</span></a> "It is not worth our while -to take Notice of every thing this -<i>Calf</i> sayes, 'tis often so impertinent; -however, we will lay open one -thing more. He says that Mr. -Mather procured a Charter for Sir -William to be Governor, and <i>himself -established President of the Colledge</i>. -Can there be greater Nonsense -mixed with Malice! How -could that be, when Mr. Mather -had been President of the Colledge -<i>ten</i> Years before Sir William came -to be Governor?" This is a very -shallow Attempt to impeach, by -Hypercriticism, the Truth of Mr. -Calef's Statement. Everybody knew -the fact that Dr. I. Mather was President -of the College. Mr. Calef's -Meaning is plain enough, namely, -that Mr. Mather's Solicitude was -about <i>keeping</i> his Office of President.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_148_148" id="Footnote_148_148"></a><a href="#FNanchor_148_148"><span class="label">[148]</span></a> "It is to be confessed and -bewailed, that many Inhabitants of New England, and young People -especially, had been led away with -little <i>Sorceries</i>, wherein they <i>did secretly -those things that were not right -against the Lord their God</i>; they -would often cure Hurts with <i>Spells</i>, -and practice detestable Conjurations -with <i>Sieves</i>, and <i>Keyes</i>, and <i>Pease</i>, -and <i>Nails</i>, and <i>Horse-shoes</i>, and other -Implements to learn the Things for -which they had a forbidden and impious -Curiosity. Wretched Books -had stolen into the Land, wherein -Fools were instructed how to become -able Fortune-tellers."—<i>Life -of Sir W. Phips.</i> See <i>Magnalia</i>, -B. ii, 60. Some twenty Years later -the Author's Ideas had undergone a -slight Change. See <i>Remarkables</i>, -161, <i>et seq.</i></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_149_149" id="Footnote_149_149"></a><a href="#FNanchor_149_149"><span class="label">[149]</span></a> Complete Lists of all the Freemen -in Massachusetts, and the Qualifications -necessary to become such, -will be found in the <i>New Eng. -Hist. and Gen. Register</i>, Vols. III, -IV and VII.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_150_150" id="Footnote_150_150"></a><a href="#FNanchor_150_150"><span class="label">[150]</span></a> Palmer's Book is thus entitled: -"An Impartial Account of -the State of New England: or, the -Late Government there, Vindicated. -In Answer to the Declaration -which the Faction set forth, -when they Overturned that Government. -With a Relation of the -Horrible Usage they treated the -Governour with, and his Council; -and all that had His Majesty's -Commission. <i>In a</i> Letter <i>to the</i> -Clergy <i>there.</i> By <i>John Palmer</i>. -London: Printed for <i>Edward Poole</i>, -at the <i>Ship</i> over against the <i>Royal -Exchange</i>, in <i>Cornhill</i>, 1690." 4to, -40 Pages. This Work is about to be -republished by the <span class="smcap">Prince Society</span>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_151_151" id="Footnote_151_151"></a><a href="#FNanchor_151_151"><span class="label">[151]</span></a> Actions brought without Foundation.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_152_152" id="Footnote_152_152"></a><a href="#FNanchor_152_152"><span class="label">[152]</span></a> "The Superior Gentlemen in -the Oppressed Country, thought, -that a Well-qualified Person going -over with the Addresses of the -Churches to the King, might, by -the Help of such Protestant Dissenters -as the King began upon -Political Views to cast a fair Aspect -upon, obtain some Relief to the -growing Distresses of the Country; -and Mr. Mather was the Person -that was pitch'd upon.... To -his Wonderment, they that at another -Time would have almost assoon -parted with their Eyes as have -parted with him now were willing -to it."—<i>Remarkables of Dr. I. Mather</i>, -103.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_153_153" id="Footnote_153_153"></a><a href="#FNanchor_153_153"><span class="label">[153]</span></a> Mr. Bradstreet was then about -86 Years of Age. A pretty full -Account of the Transactions of this -Period may be read in Hutchinson, -<i>Hist. Mass.</i>, i, <i>sub. An.</i> 1689: -"The Representatives of 54 Towns -met at Boston, on the 22d of May. -They soon discovered a Desire to -reassume the Charter. The major -Part of the Council were against -it." <i>Ibid.</i>, i, 386, first Edition.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_154_154" id="Footnote_154_154"></a><a href="#FNanchor_154_154"><span class="label">[154]</span></a> I do not find this animadverted -upon in the <i>Some Few Remarks</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_155_155" id="Footnote_155_155"></a><a href="#FNanchor_155_155"><span class="label">[155]</span></a> See Neal's <i>Hist. N. England</i>, -where will be found the "Declaration" -in full, in which it is said: -"Having fully and deliberately examined -the Minds and Instructions -of the several Towns, do find it to -be the general Consent and Concurrence -of our several Towns to -reassume the Government according -to Charter-Rights," &c. Vol. II, 55.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_156_156" id="Footnote_156_156"></a><a href="#FNanchor_156_156"><span class="label">[156]</span></a> The <i>underwritten</i> Recantation -does not appertain to the -printed Declaration. Neal says: -"'Tis certain the Massachuset-Provinces had hard Measure in the -Loss of their Charter, and harder -yet, in not having it restored at the -Revolution," &c. Vol. II, 59.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_157_157" id="Footnote_157_157"></a><a href="#FNanchor_157_157"><span class="label">[157]</span></a> Elisha Cooke and Thomas -Oakes, both of them Assistants. See -Hutchinson, <i>Hist. Mass.</i>, i, 393.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_158_158" id="Footnote_158_158"></a><a href="#FNanchor_158_158"><span class="label">[158]</span></a> Sir Henry Ashurst.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_159_159" id="Footnote_159_159"></a><a href="#FNanchor_159_159"><span class="label">[159]</span></a> Dr. I. Mather's Narrative of -this Affair runs thus: "When the -King was pleased to give a positive -Command that the Charter of New -England should be dispatched, it -was not for the Agents to say, It -shall not be so. True it is, that all -the Agents, when they saw what -Minutes would be inserted in the -Charter, were desirous of a Delay, -until the Kings happy Return to -England. And I may without Vanity -say, no Man laboured to have it -so, more than myself. I prayed -Arch-Bishop Tillotson to intercede -with the Queen for this Favour to -us, who at my Request did so. -Moreover, I drew up several Reasons -against that which in the Minutes -of the New Charter is most -grievous to us; which were by Sir -Henry Ashurst, and my self, delivered -to His Majesties Attourney -General, on July 24. 1691, and -which I did also send to my Lord -Sidney, one of His Majesties principal -Secretaries of State, then with -the King in Flanders."—<i>Some Few -Remarks</i>, 22-3. Lord Henry <i>Sydney</i> -was afterwards Earl of Romney.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_160_160" id="Footnote_160_160"></a><a href="#FNanchor_160_160"><span class="label">[160]</span></a> Thinking there would be no -further Proceedings about the Charter -before the Return of the King, -Mr. Mather says he went into the -Country for the Recovery of his -impaired Health, where, before he -had been three Weeks, he was surprised -by being sent for to London, -"with Information that the King -had signified His Royal Pleasure to -the Earl of Nottingham, that there -should be a Procedure with a Charter -for the Massachusetts Colony, -according to the Minutes that the -Lords of the Committee for Plantations -had agreed to, notwithstanding -the Objections of the Agents."—<i>Some -Few Remarks</i>, 23.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_161_161" id="Footnote_161_161"></a><a href="#FNanchor_161_161"><span class="label">[161]</span></a> This Document is printed in -the Work just cited, Pages 14 to -18; and also by the Son in his <i>Remarkables</i> -of his Father, Pages 157-60. -The rebutting of the "Bull" -has been noticed in an earlier Page.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_162_162" id="Footnote_162_162"></a><a href="#FNanchor_162_162"><span class="label">[162]</span></a> Whether this Paper, containing -the <i>variety of Heathen Learning</i>, -was ever printed, the Editor is unable -to say.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_163_163" id="Footnote_163_163"></a><a href="#FNanchor_163_163"><span class="label">[163]</span></a> The Defenders of Dr. Mather -say, that, by what they have -heard about that Story of Dr. -Sharp, attempting "to get himself -made Bishop, did what he could -to undermine the Presbyterian Government:" -and continue,—"Certainly, -Satan <i>himself</i> could not but -blush to say, that ever Mr. Mather -went to destroy the Government of -New England, either as to their -Civil or Ecclesiastical Constitution."—<i>Some -Few Remarks</i>, 29, 30. Mr. -Calef is very far from bringing any such Charge. Some later Authors -are far more severe on Dr. Mather -than he. See Baylies, <i>N. Plymouth</i>, -iv, 134.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_164_164" id="Footnote_164_164"></a><a href="#FNanchor_164_164"><span class="label">[164]</span></a> After extracting this Acknowledgement -of our Author, his Reviewers -say: "With what Face then -can he insinuate that no Thanks are -due to the Instruments of obtaining -such a valuable Charter, and so -many peculiar Priviledges? Surely -he was beside himself, when he -wrote such Things as these."—<i>Ibid.</i>, -Page 30.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_165_165" id="Footnote_165_165"></a><a href="#FNanchor_165_165"><span class="label">[165]</span></a> The Authors of the <i>Some -Few Remarks</i>, print a Letter from -Mr. John Goodwin, as a triumphant -Vindication of what Dr. Cotton -Mather published respecting the -bewitchment of Goodwin's Children. -The Letter is too long and -too unimportant to occupy Space -here. It may be seen on Pages 62 -and 63 of that Work. It is, of -course, an attempt to sustain Dr. -Mather's Account, the substance of -which Account is in the <i>Magnalia</i>. -They then go on: "Now behold -how active and forward Mr. Mather -was, in transacting the Affairs -relating to this Woman; and be -astonished, that ever any <i>One</i> should -go to insinuate things to the World, -as are known by most that ever -heard of those afflicted Children, -to be so far different from <i>Truth</i>, -as to do what in you lies to lessen -the Esteem of those Servants of -Christ, (which you make your -chiefest <i>Butts</i>) among the Lord's -People.... We pray God <i>Pardon</i> -your Sin, and give you the -Grace to Repent."—<i>Ibid</i>, 65. See -also <i>Magnalia</i>, B. ii, 61; where it -appears that Mr. Joseph Dudley -was Chief Judge when the poor -old crazy Woman was tried and -Executed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_166_166" id="Footnote_166_166"></a><a href="#FNanchor_166_166"><span class="label">[166]</span></a> Dr. Mather answers: "After -the Storm was raised at Salem, -I did myself offer to provide Meat, -Drink, and Lodging, for no less -than <i>Six</i> of the Afflicted, that so an -Experiment might be made, whether -<i>Prayer</i> with <i>Fasting</i>, upon the Removal -of those Miserables, one from -another, might not put a Period unto -the Trouble then arising, without giving -the Civil Authority the Trouble -of Prosecuting the Methods of the -Law on that Occasion. You'll say, -How came it then to pass that many -People took up another Notion of -me? Truly, <i>Satan knows</i>. Perhaps -'twas because I thought it my -Duty alwayes to speak of the Honourable -Judges with as much Honour -as I could; (a Crime which I -am generally taxed for, and <i>for which -I have been finely requited</i>!) This -made People, who judge of Things -<i>at a Distance</i>, to dream that I <i>approved</i> -of all that was done."—<i>Ibid</i>, -39-40. Certainly, if Words -mean any thing, what he published -fully justifies that Conclusion, notwithstanding -his rare <i>Ambidexterity</i>. -See Vol. I, <i>Ubique loci</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_167_167" id="Footnote_167_167"></a><a href="#FNanchor_167_167"><span class="label">[167]</span></a> Salem Street was in those -Times, called <i>Green-Lane</i>; at the -Corner made by that <i>Lane</i> and -Charter <span class="err" title="original: Streeet">Street</span>, the Governor actually -resided. See <i>History and -Antiquities of Reason</i>, 816.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_168_168" id="Footnote_168_168"></a><a href="#FNanchor_168_168"><span class="label">[168]</span></a> Dr. Mather says in Reply: -"Moreover, when the Ministers -presented unto the Governour and -Council, their Advice against making -the <i>Spectral Exhibitions</i> to be -so much as a <i>Presumption of Witchcraft</i>, -it was <i>my</i> poor Hand which -drew up that Advice, and my Heart -was always in it."—<i>Some Few Remarks</i>, -38-9. But the Doctor does -not explain how, in speaking of this -<i>Address</i> in the Life of Phips, he -came to make use of the Words—<i>as -I have been informed</i>—while in -the <i>Some Few Remarks</i> he owns -that it was drawn by his <i>poor Hand</i>. -See <i>Life of Phips in Magnalia</i>, -Book II, 63.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_169_169" id="Footnote_169_169"></a><a href="#FNanchor_169_169"><span class="label">[169]</span></a> -See Volume <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_34">34</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_170_170" id="Footnote_170_170"></a><a href="#FNanchor_170_170"><span class="label">[170]</span></a> Dr. Douglass goes further in -this Matter. He says that "some -of the Confessing Witches, by overacting -their Parts in accusing some -of Gov. Phips's, and the Rev. Mr. -Mather's Relations; as also some of -the Accused good Christians, and -of good Estates, those arrested the -Accusers in high Actions for Defamation; -this put a stop to Accusations."—<i>Summary</i>, -i, 450.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_171_171" id="Footnote_171_171"></a><a href="#FNanchor_171_171"><span class="label">[171]</span></a> Referring to certain Answers -in writing put into Mr. Calef's -Hands, with an Injunction against -his printing them. See <i>ante</i>, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm">II</a>, -Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_86">86</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_172_172" id="Footnote_172_172"></a><a href="#FNanchor_172_172"><span class="label">[172]</span></a> This Statement is fully borne -out, as will be seen on referring to -the Life of Phips, as directed above, -or to the same in the <i>Magnalia</i>, B. -ii, 60, <i>et seq.</i>; one Extract here -must suffice: "But of all the <i>Preternatural</i> -things which befel these -People, there were none more unaccountable -than those, wherein the -prestigious <i>Dæmons</i> would ever now -and then cover the most <i>Corporeal</i> -Things in the World with a <i>Fascinating -Mist</i> of Invisibility. As -now; a Person was cruelly assaulted -by a <i>Spectre</i>, that, she said, run at -her with a <i>Spindle</i>, though no Body -else in the Room could see either -the <i>Spectre</i> or the <i>Spindle</i>: At last, in -her Agonies, giving a Snatch at the -<i>Spectre</i>, she pulled the <i>Spindle</i> away; -and it was no sooner got into her -Hand, but the other Folks then -present beheld that it was indeed a -Real, Proper, Iron <i>Spindle</i>; which, -when they locked up very safe, it -was nevertheless by the <i>Dæmons</i> -taken away to do farther Mischief." -In the <i>Wonders of the Invisible -World</i> (Vol. I, 205), this Story of -the Spindle will be seen among the -<i>Curiosities</i> and is given, as the Author -there tells the Reader, as "a -Bone to pick" for the <i>Dogmatical</i>. -<i>See also</i> Lawson, 102.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_173_173" id="Footnote_173_173"></a><a href="#FNanchor_173_173"><span class="label">[173]</span></a> It is highly interesting to hear -the Doctor's Account of this: "It -was also found, that the Flesh of the -Afflicted was often <i>Bitten</i> at such a -Rate, that not only the <i>Print of -Teeth</i> would be left on their <i>Flesh</i>, -but the very <i>Slaver</i> of <i>Spittle</i> too: -As there would appear just such a -<i>set of Teeth</i> as was in the <i>Accused</i>, -even such as might be clearly distinguished -from other People's. And -usually the <i>Afflicted</i> went through a -terrible Deal of seeming Difficulties -from the tormenting <i>Spectres</i>, and -must be long waited on before they -could get a Breathing Space from -their Tormentors to give in their -Testimonies."—<i>Life of Phips, in -Magnalia</i>, B. ii, 61-2.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_174_174" id="Footnote_174_174"></a><a href="#FNanchor_174_174"><span class="label">[174]</span></a> The Doctor must once again -be heard, otherwise the Reader can -have but a faint Idea of what our -Author is exposing: "The Miserable -exclaimed extreamly of <i>Branding -Irons</i> heating at the Fire on the -Hearth to mark them; now, though -the Standers by could see no <i>Irons</i>, -yet they could see distinctly the -Print of them in the Ashes, and -<i>smell</i> them too as they were carried -by the <i>not-seen Furies</i>, unto the -poor Creatures for whom they were -intended; and those poor Creatures -were thereupon <i>Stigmatized</i> with -them, that they will bear the Marks -of them to their Dying Day. Nor -are these the <i>Tenth Part</i> of the -<i>Prodigies</i> that fell out among the -Inhabitants of New England."—<i>Ibid.</i>, -Page 61. If any one, after -reading these strongly expressed Opinions -of the learned Doctor, will -entertain Doubts, as to his extreme -Credulity and Faith in Witchcraft, -it is not likely to be in human -Power to remove them.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_175_175" id="Footnote_175_175"></a><a href="#FNanchor_175_175"><span class="label">[175]</span></a> The Cry of "Blasphemer, -Sadducee, Infidel, Liar, Slanderer," -&c., &c., could not then, nor at -any other Time, alter the Facts so -truly and so succinctly stated here. -Against the above is found: "He -insinuates, that our Reverend Ministers -make the Devil an <i>Independent -Being</i>, and (as he says) <i>consequently -a God</i>. An abominable Charge!"—<i>Some -Few Remarks</i>, 8, 9. See, -also, Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">I</a>, Page <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_72">72-3</a>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_176_176" id="Footnote_176_176"></a><a href="#FNanchor_176_176"><span class="label">[176]</span></a> And yet, as inconsistent with -Reason as this absurd Stuff is, it -was the generally prevailing Belief, -and is thus <i>defended</i> in the <i>Some Few -Remarks</i>, P. 8: "The whole Body -of the Ministers in the Country -are charged, as Guilty of Sacriledge -in the highest Degree, if not direct -Blasphemy, and Diabolical Wickedness." -It will at once be seen -that this is as unjust a Charge as -Malignity in its Blindness could invent. -Well did our Quaker Poet -write, some 17 Years ago: -</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"When the Thought of Man is free,</div> -<div class="i2">Error fears its lightest Tones;</div> -<div class="i0">So the Priest cried 'Sadducee!'</div> -<div class="i2">And the People took up Stones."</div> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_177_177" id="Footnote_177_177"></a><a href="#FNanchor_177_177"><span class="label">[177]</span></a> -These Notes may fittingly be -closed by another Extract from our -amiable Quaker Poet, who seems -attentively to have examined the -Characters of both the <i>Wonders</i> -and the <i>More Wonders</i>: -</p> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"In the solemn Days of Old,</div> -<div class="i2">Two Men met in Boston Town—</div> -<div class="i0">One a Merchant Frank and bold,</div> -<div class="i2">One a Preacher of renown.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Cried the last, in bitter Tone—</div> -<div class="i2">'Prisoner of the Wells of Truth,</div> -<div class="i0">Satan's Hireling thou hast sown</div> -<div class="i2">With his Tares the Heart of Youth!'</div> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Spake the honest Merchant then—</div> -<div class="i2">God be Judge 'twixt Thee and I;</div> -<div class="i0">All thou knowst of Truth hath been</div> -<div class="i2">Unto Men like thee a lie."</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illus_171a.jpg" width="500" height="84" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="break">APPENDIX.</h2> - -<h3>NUMBER I. -<span class="pagenum hidev"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">169</a></span> -</h3> - -<h4><i><big>Examination of Giles Cory.</big></i></h4> - -<p> -<img src="images/illus_171b.jpg" width="100" height="133" alt="W" class="floatl" /> -<span class="hide">W</span>HY this Examination was not given by Dr. -Mather, in his Account of the Witchcraft, -cannot be certainly stated; while it may be -conjectured that it was omitted for one of the two -following Reasons: 1st, it may have been thought -not sufficiently damning to the Accused; or, 2dly, it -may have been rejected, as a great Part of the Proceedings -was, for want of Room. It seems not now -to be among the Copies of those Proceedings recently -made, or Mr. Woodward would not have omitted it -in his Work. It is given here, as transcribed by Mr. -David Pulsifer, for the Edition of the <i>More Wonders</i>, -&c., published in Salem by Cushing & Appleton, in -1823. The previous Edition, of course, does not -contain it.<a name="FNanchor_178_178" id="FNanchor_178_178"></a><a href="#Footnote_178_178" class="fnanchor">[178]</a></p> - -<p class="hang p2">The Examination of Giles Cory, at a Court at Salem -Village, held by John Hathorn and Jonathan Curwin, -Esqrs., April 19, 1692.</p> - -<p>Giles Cory, you are brought before Authority upon -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">170</a></span>high Suspicion of sundry Acts of Witchcraft. Now -tell us the Truth in this Matter.</p> - -<p>I hope, through the Goodness of God, I shall; for -that Matter I never had no Hand in, in my Life.</p> - -<p>Which of you have seen this Man hurt you?</p> - -<p>Mary Wolcott, Mercy Lewis, Ann Putman, Jr., -and Abigail Williams affirmed he had hurt them.</p> - -<p>Hath he hurt you too? speaking to Elizabeth -Hubbard. She going to answer was prevented by a Fit.</p> - -<p>Benjamin Gold, Hath he hurt you?</p> - -<p>I have seen him several Times, and been hurt after -it, but cannot affirm that it was he.</p> - -<p>Hath he brought the Book to any of you?</p> - -<p>Mary Wolcott and Abigail Williams and others -affirmed he had brought the Book to them.</p> - -<p>Giles Cory, they accuse you, or your Appearance, -of hurting them, and bringing the Book to them. -What do you say? Why do you hurt them? Tell -us the Truth.</p> - -<p>I never did hurt them.</p> - -<p>It is your Appearance hurts them, they charge you; -tell us. What have you done?</p> - -<p>I have done nothing to damage them.</p> - -<p>Have you never entered into Contract with the -Devil?</p> - -<p>I never did.</p> - -<p>What Temptations have you had?</p> - -<p>I never had Temptations in my Life.</p> - -<p>What! have you done it without Temptations?</p> - -<p>What was the Reason (said Good wife Bibber) that -you were frighted in the Cow-house? And then the -Questionist was suddenly seized with a violent Fit.</p> - -<p>Samuel Braybrook, Goodman Bibber, and his -Daughter, testified that he had told them this Morning -that he was frighted in the Cow-house.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">171</a></span> - -Cory denied it.</p> - -<p>This was not your Appearance but your Person, -and you told them so this Morning. Why do you -deny it?</p> - -<p>What did you see me in the Cow-house?</p> - -<p>I never saw nothing but my Cattle.</p> - -<p>Divers witnessed that he told them he was frighted.</p> - -<p>Well, what do you say to these Witnesses?</p> - -<p>What was it frighted you?</p> - -<p>I do not know that ever I spoke the Word in my -Life.</p> - -<p>Tell the Truth. What was it frighted you?</p> - -<p>I do not know any Thing that frighted me.</p> - -<p>All the Afflicted were seized now with Fits, and -troubled with Pinches. Then the Court ordered his -Hands to be tied.</p> - -<p>What! Is it not enough to act Witchcraft at other -Times, but must you do it now in Face of Authority?</p> - -<p>I am a poor Creature and cannot help it.</p> - -<p>Upon the Motion of his Head again, they had -their Heads and Necks afflicted.</p> - -<p>Why do you tell such wicked Lies against Witnesses, -that heard you speak after this Manner, this very -Morning?</p> - -<p>I never saw anything but a black Hog.</p> - -<p>You said that you were stopped once in Prayer; -what stopt you?</p> - -<p>I cannot tell. My Wife came towards me and -found Fault with me for saying living to God and -dying to Sin.</p> - -<p>What was it frighted you in the Barn?</p> - -<p>I know nothing frighted me there.</p> - -<p>Why there are three Witnesses that heard you say -so to-day.</p> - -<p>I do not remember it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">172</a></span> - -Thomas Gold testified that he heard him say, that -he knew enough against his Wife, that would do her -Business.</p> - -<p>What was that you knew against your Wife?</p> - -<p>Why, that of living to God, and dying to Sin.</p> - -<p>The Marshal and Bibber's Daughter confirmed the -same; that he said he could say that that would do -his Wife's Business.</p> - -<p>I have said what I can say to that.</p> - -<p>What was that about your Ox?</p> - -<p>I thought he was hipt.</p> - -<p>What Ointment was that your Wife had when she -was seized? You said it was Ointment she made by -Major Gidney's Direction.</p> - -<p>He denied it, and said she had it of Goody Bibber, -or from her Direction.</p> - -<p>Goody Bibber said it is not like that Ointment.</p> - -<p>You said you knew upon your own Knowledge, -that she had it of Major Gidney.</p> - -<p>He denied it.</p> - -<p>Did you not say, when you went to the Ferry with -your Wife, you would not go over to Boston now, for -you should come yourself next Week?</p> - -<p>I would not go over because I had not Money.</p> - -<p>The Marshal testified he said as before.</p> - -<p>One of his Hands was let go, and several were afflicted. -He held his Head on one Side, and then the -Heads of several of the Afflicted were held on one -Side. He drew in his Cheeks, and the Cheeks of -some of the Afflicted were suckt in.</p> - -<p>John Bibber and his Wife gave in Testimony concerning -some Temptations he had to make away with -himself.</p> - -<p>How doth this agree with what you said, that you -had no Temptations?</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">173</a></span> -I meant Temptations to Witchcraft.</p> - -<p>If you can give way to self-murther, that will make -way to Temptation to Witchcraft.</p> - -<p><i>Note.</i>—There was Witness by several, that he said -he would make away with himself, and charge his -Death upon his Son.</p> - -<p>Goody Bibber testified that the said Cory called -said Bibber's Husband, Damned Devilish Rogue.</p> - -<p>Other vile Expressions testified [to] in open Court -by several others.</p> - -<p>Salem Village, April 19, 1692. Mr. Samuel Paris -being desired to take in Writing the Examination of -Giles Cory, delivered it in; and upon hearing the -same, and seeing what we did see at the Time of his -Examination, together with the Charge of the afflicted -Persons against him, we committed him to their Majesties -Gaol.<a name="FNanchor_179_179" id="FNanchor_179_179"></a><a href="#Footnote_179_179" class="fnanchor">[179]</a></p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">John Hathorn.</span> -</p> - -<h3>NUMBER II.</h3> - -<p class="dropcap">THE following Ballad, in the Chevy Chase Style, -was cut from a Newspaper sixteen years ago. -No one at this Day will probably require to be informed -who was the Author of it, as but <i>one</i> Person -probably <i>could</i> have written it. I have not looked -over the Poems of Mr. Whittier to see if it be there. -Any one having an inclination may do so. The Introduction -accompanied it, on its first appearance:</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">174</a></span> - -The following Ballad is handed in for Preservation -as illustrative of that dark Period in our local History. -Giles Corey and his Wife lived in what is now Danvers, -and the Spot is now pointed out on the Estate of -Hon. Daniel P. King where their House formerly stood. -The Localities are fast fading out from Remembrance, -and I venture the Suggestion that it may be in the -Province of the Historical Department of our Essex -Institute to mark them by some permanent Monumental -Erection.—<i>Salem Observer.</i></p> - -<p class="center p2">GILES COREY AND GOODWYFE COREY.</p> - -<p class="center"><small>A BALLAD OF</small> 1692.</p> -<div class="center"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Come all New-England Men</div> -<div class="i2">And hearken unto me,</div> -<div class="i0">And I will tell what did befalle</div> -<div class="i2">Upon ye Gallows Tree.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">In Salem Village was the Place</div> -<div class="i2">As I did heare them saye,</div> -<div class="i0">And Goodwyfe Corey was her Name</div> -<div class="i2">Upon that paynfull Daye:</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">This Goody Corey was a Witch</div> -<div class="i2">The People did believe,</div> -<div class="i0">Afflicting of the Godly Ones</div> -<div class="i2">Did make them sadlie Greave.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">There were two pyous Matron Dames</div> -<div class="i2">And goodly Maidens Three,</div> -<div class="i0">That cryed upon this heynous Witch</div> -<div class="i2">As you shall quicklie see.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Goodwyfe Bibber, she was one,</div> -<div class="i2">And Goodwyfe Goodall two,</div> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">175</a></span> -<div class="i0">These were ye sore afflicted ones</div> -<div class="i2">By Fyts and Pynchings too:</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">And those Three Damsels fair</div> -<div class="i2">She worried them full sore,</div> -<div class="i0">As all could see upon their Arms</div> -<div class="i2">The divers Marks they bore.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">And when before the Magistrates</div> -<div class="i2">For Tryall she did stand,</div> -<div class="i0">This Wicked Witch did lye to them</div> -<div class="i2">While holding up her Hand;</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"I pray you all Good Gentlemen</div> -<div class="i2">Come listen unto me,</div> -<div class="i0">I never harmed those two Goodwyfes</div> -<div class="i2">Nor yet these Children Three:"</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"I call upon my Saviour Lord"</div> -<div class="i2">(Blasphemously she sayed)</div> -<div class="i0">"As Witness of my Innocence</div> -<div class="i2">In this my hour of Need."</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">The Godly Ministers were shockt</div> -<div class="i2">This Witch-prayer for to hear,</div> -<div class="i0">And some did see ye Black Man<a name="FNanchor_180_180" id="FNanchor_180_180"></a><a href="#Footnote_180_180" class="fnanchor">[180]</a> there</div> -<div class="i2">A whispering in her Eare.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">The Magistrates did saye to her</div> -<div class="i2">Most surely thou doth lye,</div> -<div class="i0">Confess thou here thy hellish Deeds</div> -<div class="i2">Or ill Death thou must dye.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">She rent her Cloaths, she tore her Haire,</div> -<div class="i2">And lowdly she did crye,</div> -<div class="i0">"May Christe forgive mine Enimies</div> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">176</a></span> -<div class="i2">When I am called to dye."</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">This Goodwyfe had a Goodman too,</div> -<div class="i2">Giles Corey was his Name,</div> -<div class="i0">In Salem Gaol they shut him in</div> -<div class="i2">With his blasphemous Dame.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Giles Corey was a Wizzard strong,</div> -<div class="i2">A stubborn Wretch was he,</div> -<div class="i0">And fitt was he to hang on high</div> -<div class="i2">Upon ye Locust Tree:</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">So when before ye Magistrates</div> -<div class="i2">For tryall he did come,</div> -<div class="i0">He would no true Confession make</div> -<div class="i2">But was compleatlie dumbe.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"Giles Corey," said ye Magistrates</div> -<div class="i2">"What hast thou heare to pleade</div> -<div class="i0">To these who now accuse thy soule</div> -<div class="i2">Of Crymes and horrid Deed?"</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Giles Corey—he sayde not a Word,</div> -<div class="i2">No single Word spake he:</div> -<div class="i0">"Giles Corey," sayth ye Magistrate,</div> -<div class="i2">"We'll press it out of thee."</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">They got them then a <i>heavy Beam</i>,</div> -<div class="i2">They layde it on his Breast,</div> -<div class="i0">They loaded it with heavy Stones,</div> -<div class="i2">And hard upon him prest.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"More weight," now sayd this wretched Man,</div> -<div class="i2">"More weight," again he cryed,</div> -<div class="i0">And he did no Confession make</div> -<div class="i2">But wickedlie he Dyed.</div> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">177</a></span></div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Dame Corey lived but six Dayes more,</div> -<div class="i2">But six Day's more lived she,</div> -<div class="i0">For She was hung at Gallows Hill</div> -<div class="i2">Upon ye Locust Tree.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">Rejoyce all true New-England Men,</div> -<div class="i2">Let Grace still more abounde,</div> -<div class="i0">Go search ye Land with myght and maine</div> -<div class="i2">Till all these Imps be founde:</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">And that will be a glorious Daye,</div> -<div class="i2">A goodlie Sight to see,</div> -<div class="i0">When you shall hang these Brands of Fyre</div> -<div class="i2">Upon ye Gallows Tree.</div> -</div></div> -</div> -<h3><a id="NUMBER_III"></a>NUMBER III.</h3> - -<h4><big><i>Testimony of William Beale, of Marblehead, -against Mr. Philip English of -Salem, Given August</i> 2<i>d</i>, 1692. Taken -from the Original.</big></h4> - -<p class="dropcap">AS Philip English was a Man of a large Estate for -those Days, and carried on an extensive Business, -it may be thought singular that Mr. Calef should -make no Mention of his Case in his Work. It may -be that he had not sufficient Data for the Purpose; -or, more probably, it may have been, that for certain -Reasons he chose to leave the Matter in the Hands -of the two Ministers of the Old South, who, or one -of whom, had not the Independence to work openly -with Mr. Calef, but who, clandestinely, took the Part -of the Accused, and helped him to escape. However -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">178</a></span> -this may have been, so far as Mr. Willard was concerned, -enough will have been seen in Mr. Calef's -Work to cause an Agitation of the Question. And -yet, it will appear, from what is to follow, that Mr. -Moody (then with Mr. Willard in the Old South) -was the principal Instrument in the Protection and -final Escape of Mr. English and his Wife from the -Jaws of a "blind Ferocity."</p> - -<p>The Testimony of William Beale, which follows -was probably contrived by certain Parties to recover -Property owned or claimed by Mr. English. At the -Time of his Arrest, he owned a Ship of 170 Tons, -named the Porcupine, which was commanded by -Robert Bartel, whose Son, William Bartel, was living -in 1739, at the Age of 45.</p> - -<p>Mr. English, it is said, was an Episcopalian. Whether -his Sentiments had anything to do with his being -proceeded against, does not appear. He stated that -by the Prosecution he was damaged £1,500. A Petition -of his to the Committee appointed by the General -Court to compensate Sufferers may be seen in Mr. -Woodward's <i>Collections</i>, ii, 233. It is curious to see -now the Awards made to the Survivors of those -whose Mothers and Fathers had been judicially murdered! -A few Pounds seems to have settled the Account.</p> - -<p>What follows, previous to William Beale's Testimony, -although once printed, will be quite new, probably, -to the Majority of Readers; and it is due to -the Memory of a persecuted Family to perpetuate it -in Connection with the wicked Attempt at their Ruin.</p> - -<p>About the Year 1810, the Rev. Timothy Alden -was engaged in preparing a Catalogue of Books for -the Massachusetts Historical Society. While in this -Employment he procured from the Rev. William -Bentley, D.D., of Salem, the ensuing Account of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">179</a></span> -Mr. English. What led to this Result was Mr. Alden's -Endeavors to obtain Information concerning a -Portsmouth Gentleman. Mr. Alden was then much -interested in Portsmouth Affairs. Dr. Bently proceeds: -"In the Times of the Witchcraft in Salem -Village, no Person distinguished for Property, and -known in the commercial World, was accused but -Philip English.<a name="FNanchor_181_181" id="FNanchor_181_181"></a><a href="#Footnote_181_181" class="fnanchor">[181]</a> He came young into America, from -the Island of Jersey, lived in the Family of Mr. Hollingworth, -a rich Inhabitant of Salem, and afterwards -married his only Daughter and Child, Susanna. The -Wife had received a better Education than is common -even at this Day [1809], as Proofs I hold sufficiently -discover.</p> - -<p>From some Prejudices, as early as April 21st, -1692, she was accused of Witchcraft, examined, and -committed to Prison in Salem. Her Firmness is -memorable. Six Weeks she was confined; but, being -visited by a fond Husband, her Husband was also -accused, and confined in the same Prison. By the -Intercession of Friends, and by a Plea that the Prison -was crowded, they were removed to Arnold's Jail in -Boston, till the Time of Trial.</p> - -<p>In Boston, upon giving Bail, they had the Liberty -of the Town, only lodging in Prison. Upon their -Arrival, Messrs. Willard and Moodey visited them, -and discovered every Disposition to console them in -their Distress. On the Day before they were to return -to Salem for Trial, Mr. Moodey waited upon -them in the Prison, and invited them to publick -Worship. On the Occasion he chose for the Text, -<span class="smcap">If they persecute you in one City, flee to another.</span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">180</a></span> -In the Discourse, with a manly Freedom, he -justified every Attempt to escape from the Forms of -Justice, when Justice was violated in them. After -Service Mr. Moodey visited the Prisoners in the Gaol, -and asked Mr. English whether he took Notice of his -Discourse? Mr. English said he did not know whether -he had applied it as he ought, and wished some -Conversation upon the Subject. Mr. Moodey then -frankly told him that his Life was in Danger, and he -ought by all means to provide for an Escape. Many, -said he, have suffered. Mr. English then replied, -God will not suffer them to hurt me. Upon this, -Mrs. English said to her Husband, Do you not -think that they, who have suffered already, are innocent? -He said, Yes. Why then may not we suffer -also? Take Mr. Moody's Advice. Mr. Moody -then told Mr. English, that, if he would not carry -his Wife away, he would. He then informed him, -that he had persuaded several worthy Persons in -Boston, to make Provision for their Conveyance out -of the Colony; and, that a Conveyance had been -obtained, encouraged by the Governour, Gaoler, &c., -which would come at Midnight, and that proper Recommendations -had been obtained to Gov. Fletcher -of New-York; so that he might give himself no concern -about any one Circumstance of the Journey; -that all Things were amply provided. The Governour -also gave Letters to Gov. Fletcher, and, at the -Time appointed, Mr. English, his Wife, and Daughter -were taken and conveyed to New York. He found -that, before his Arrival, Mr. Moodey had dispatched -Letters, and the Governour, with many private Gentlemen -came out to meet him; and the Governour -entertained him at his own House, and paid him -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">181</a></span> -every Attention, while he remained in the City. On -the next Year he returned.<a name="FNanchor_182_182" id="FNanchor_182_182"></a><a href="#Footnote_182_182" class="fnanchor">[182]</a></p> - -<p>In all this Business, Mr. Moody openly justified -Mr. English, and, in defiance of all the Prejudices -which prevailed, expressed his Abhorrence of the -Measures which had obliged a useful Citizen to flee -from the Executioners. Mr. Moodey was commended -by all discerning Men; but he felt the angry Resentment -of the deluded Multitude of his own Times; -among whom, some of high Rank were included. He -soon after left Boston and returned to Portsmouth.</p> - -<p>Mrs. English died in 1694, at 42 Years of Age, -in Consequence of the ungenerous Treatment she had -received. Her Husband died at 84 Years of Age, in -1734.</p> - -<p>This is the Substance of Communications made -to me at different Times from Madam Susanna Hathorne, -his great-grand-Daughter, who died in Salem, -28 August, 1802, at the Age of 80 Years, who received -the Account from the Descendants of Mr. -English, who dwelt upon his Obligations to Mr. -Moodey with great Pleasure."</p> - -<p class="p2">William Beale<a name="FNanchor_183_183" id="FNanchor_183_183"></a><a href="#Footnote_183_183" class="fnanchor">[183]</a> of Marbllee Head, aged upward of -Sixty Yeares, testifieth and saith, that last March past -was twelve Moenth, towards the latter end of the -Moenth; then myself beeinge in the House of George -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">182</a></span>Bonfeilds, of Marbllee Head, whither I repaired, that -I might haue helpe to nurse, or Looke after mee, because -of a very greate and wracking Paine had seized -upp on my Body, and the Distemper of the Small Pox -then beeing in my House, and my Son Jamis at the -same Time then in my House, lying sick; then towards -the latter End of that Moenth, Aforesayed, in -that House, as I lay in my Bed, in the Morneinge, -presently after it was faiere light abroade in the Roome -where I lay in my Bed, which was layed lowe and -neere unto the Fire, towards the norward part of the -Roome; I beeing broade Awake, I then saw upon the -south Iaume [Jamb] of that Chimny, A darke Shade -which couered the Iaume of that Chimney aforesayed, -from the under Floore to the upper Flloore, and alsoe -A dar[k]ness more then it was beefore, in the southerne -Part of the House, and alsoe in the Middllee of the -Darkness, in the Shade uppon the Iaume of the Chimny -aforesayed, I beeheld somethinge of the Forme or -Shape of A Man. I tooke most notice of his Legs, because -they weere of A very greate Statute, or Bigness. -I wondred at the Sighte, and therefore I turned my -Head as I lay in my Bed, and cast my Eyes towards the -south Side of the House, to see if the Sun weere risen, or -whether there weere any Person or anythinge in the -House, which by the help of the Sun might cause such -A Shade or Shape, but I saw non, nor any Lighte of -the Sun in that Room then. I then turned my Head -uppon the Pillow, where it was before, I saw in the -darkness aforesayed the plaine Shape or els the Person -of Phillip English of Salem, the which, Reports say, -married with William Hollingworths<a name="FNanchor_184_184" id="FNanchor_184_184"></a><a href="#Footnote_184_184" class="fnanchor">[184]</a> Daughter of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">183</a></span>Salem, ackcordinge to my best Iudgement, Knoledg -and Understandinge of him, as I had formerly Knoledg -and Ackyuaintance with him, my Coniecktures of him -and these Passages aforesayed were as followeth: what is -this Mans buisness heere now? I remember not that -euer I bought or sold with him, either more or less, -or which way came hee hither, so soone this Morneinge, -by Land or by Water; or hath he been at Marbllee -Head all Nighte? And then laboreing to correckt my -[Thoughts] not to thinke that hee was A Wich, and -flyinge to our Omnipotent Jehouah for his Blessing -and Protecktion, by secret Eiaculations, instantly the -Roome, aforesayed, became cleare, and the Shape, -Shade, or Person vanished; and this was about the -Time News was brought to mee in the Morning, that -my Son James was very like to recover of the Small Pox, -which I left at Home sick; and the same Day, in the -After noone, came News that hee was suddenly strooke -with A Paine on his Side, and did not expect to liue -three Houres; and according to my Iudgment, before -three Houres weere ended, Newes came that he was -departed this Life, at which Docktor Iackson, which -was his Docktor, and William Dagget, which was his -Nurse, both of Marbllee Head, told mee that they Admired -and Wondred; and it was not many Moenths -before, that my Son George Beale, departed this Life in -the same House, and complained of A stoping in his -Throate, after he was recouered of the Small Pox. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">184</a></span> -Hee deceased Ianuary the 23 before my Son <span class="errauthor" title="read: James">Eames</span> -decease aforesayde.</p> - -<p> -Marbllee Head</p> - -<p class="right">Attested to this Truth by -mee <span class="smcap">William Beale</span>.</p> -<p>Agust the 2<i>cond</i> -1692 -</p> - -<p class="p2">Far[ther] this Deponent testifieth that in the Springe -of the Yeare before the New England Forces went for -Cannady, Phillip English aforesayed, came into a -Neighbors House where this Deponent then was present, -and then in a fawning and flattering Manner, -sayed to me: You are him which can give mee A good -Evidence in shewing mee the Bounds of my Land. -This Deponent replyed, and sayed, I know not of any -you have; Phillip English replyed yes you doe, and -If you will I[le pay] you well. I have a Peice of -eighte in my Pocket for you, and named A Peice of -Land ly[ing] a certaine Distance from my House, -which I think Mr. Richard Reede<a name="FNanchor_185_185" id="FNanchor_185_185"></a><a href="#Footnote_185_185" class="fnanchor">[185]</a> of Marblle [Head] -was then and is now in Possession of it; this Deponent -replyed, doe not tell mee of your Peice of eight, for -If I bee called, I must give Evidence against you, and -told him what I must say; at which hee seemed to -bee moued, and told me that I lyed, with more Discourse -aboute [it,] and so then wee departed. Then the -next [Feb?] ensuing, which was about the Time that -the Forces began to com from Cannady, I then haueing -heard that Phillip English aforesayd, had arrested Mr. -Reade aforesayde, about the Land aforesayde, I then, -as I thought it my Duty in Concience, ackquainted -Mr. Reeds Son with what I could say concerninge the -Titllee of the Lande aforesayed, and withall told him of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">185</a></span>Witness, as namely Thomas Farrar Senr,<a name="FNanchor_186_186" id="FNanchor_186_186"></a><a href="#Footnote_186_186" class="fnanchor">[186]</a> of Linn; -then afterward uppon their Request I rode to Lin and -at Lin Mill there I found Thomas Farare, aforesayed, -and as wee rode alonge Lin Commons there -beetwixt the Reuerende Mr. Sheapards House and -Mr. Leytons, then beinge in discourse aboute the -Titllee of the Lande aforesayed, my Nose gushed out -bleedeinge in a most extrordinary manner; so that I -bllodyed a Hankershiff of an considerablle biggness, -and allsoe ran downe uppon my Cloaths and uppon -my Horse Mane. I lighted of my Hors thinking the -iodginge [jogging] of my Horse mighte cause it; but -it kept on, Allthough not alltog[eth]er so bad, till I -came to Mr. Reades at Marbllee head, and it hath -not blead as I can remember neuer since I was a Boy, -exept about that time, nor since that time, exept by -Ackcident that it was hurt.</p> - -<p>Thiese Things that are set downe last were before -the former Euidence.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">William -Beale</span> -</p> - -<p>Owned the aboue written before the -Grand Iury vpon the Oath hee had taken in Covrt</p> - -<p class="right"> -Jen<sup>ry</sup> 12<sup>th</sup>, 1692.</p> -<p class="center"> -Robert Payne<br /> -Foreman. -</p> - -<h3>NUMBER IV.</h3> - -<p class="dropcap">ON a first and cursory Perusal of the Examination -of the Indian Woman belonging to Mr. Parris's -Family, it was concluded not to Print it, and -only refer to it; that is, only refer to the Extract from it -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">186</a></span>contained in the <span class="smcap">History and Antiquities of Boston</span>. -But when the Editorial labor upon these Volumes -was nearly completed, a reperusal of that Examination -was made, and the result determined the -Editor to give it a place in this Appendix. His -opinion of it, and of those who procured it of the -simple Indian, has been expressed in a previous Page.</p> - -<p>The Examination is valuable on several accounts, -the Chief of which is the Light it throws on the Commencement -of the Delusion. It does not appear that -either Dr. Mather or Mr. Calef ever saw it, or their -Accounts of the Beginning of the Transactions would -have been more explicitly stated. The Original (now -for the first time Printed,<a name="FNanchor_187_187" id="FNanchor_187_187"></a><a href="#Footnote_187_187" class="fnanchor">[187]</a>) came into the Editor's -Hands some five and twenty Year's since. It is more -extensive than any of the Examinations yet brought -to light. This is accounted for by its being the First -of that cruel and senseless Series of illegal Proceedings -which ended in so much Agony, Distress, Wretchedness -and Blood.</p> - -<p>This Examination, more, perhaps, than any of the -rest, exhibits the atrocious Method employed by the -Examinant of causing the poor, ignorant Accused to -own and acknowledge Things put into their Mouths -by a manner of questioning as much to be condemned -as Perjury itself; inasmuch as it was sure to produce -that Crime. In this Case the Examined was taken -from Jail and placed upon the Stand, and was soon so -confused that she could scarcely know what to say; -while it is evident that all of her Answers were at first -true, because direct, straightforward, and reasonable. -The Strangeness of the Questions and the long Persistence -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">187</a></span> -of the Questioners could lead to no other -result but the confounding of what little Understanding -the Accused was at best possessed of. Hence this -Record of incoherent Nonsense here submitted; and -of the same tenor was nearly all the Evidence used, -which took away the Lives of numbers of innocent -People.</p> - -<p>The Examination was before Messrs. Hathorne and -Corwin. The Former took down the result, which is -all in his peculiar Chirography. The first Proceeding -printed in Mr. Woodward's Collection, having relation -to the Witchcraft affair, is a Warrant for the -Apprehension of Sarah Good, and is dated Feb. 29th, -169½.<a name="FNanchor_188_188" id="FNanchor_188_188"></a><a href="#Footnote_188_188" class="fnanchor">[188]</a> -On the next Day, March 1st, the Constable, -George Locker, made Return, that he had brought -the said "Saragh Good," &c. Whether she were present -at Tituba's Examination, does not appear; while -the Documents show that the Apprehension of Sarah -Good, and the Examination of Tituba were on the -same Day.</p> - -<p class="p2">Tittube the Indian Woman Examined, March. 1. 169½.</p> - -<p>Q. Why doe you hurt these poor Children? What -harme haue thay done unto you? A. They doe noe -harme to mee. I noe hurt them att all. Q. Why have -you done itt? A. I haue done nothing. I cant tell -when the Devill works. Q. What, doth the Devill tell -you that he hurts them? A. Noe. He tells me nothing. -Q. Doe you never see something appeare in some -Shape? A. Noe, never see any thing. Q. What Familiarity -have you with the Devill, or what is itt that -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">188</a></span>you converse withall? Tell the Truth, whoe itt is that -hurts them? A. The Devill, for ought I know. Q. -What Appearance, or how doth he appeare when he -hurts them with what Shape, or what is he like, that -hurts them A. Like a Man, I think. Yesterday, I -being in the Leantoe Chamber, I saw a Thing like a -Man, that tould me searve him, and I tould him Noe, I -would nott doe such Thing. She charges Goody Osburne -and Sarah Good, as those that hurt them Children, -and would have had hir done itt: she sayth she -hath seen foure, two of which she knew nott; she saw -them last Night, as she was washing the Roome. They -tould me hurt the Children, and would haue had me -gone to Boston. Ther was 5 of them with the Man. -They tould me if I would nott goe and hurt them -they would doe soe to mee. Att first I did agree -with them, but afterward I tould them I doe soe -noe more. Q. Would they have had you hurt the -Children the last Night? A. Yes, butt I was sorry, -and I sayd I would doe soe noe more, but tould I -would Feare God. Q. Butt why did nott you doe -soe before? A. Why they tell me I had done soe -before, and therefore, I must goe on. These were the -4 woemen, and the Man, but she knew none but Osburne -and Good, only; the other were of Boston. Q. -Att first beginning with them, what then appeared to -you; what was itt like, that gott you to doe itt? A. -One like a Man, Just as I was goeing to sleep, came to -me. This was when the Children was first hurt. He -sayd he would kill the Children, and she would never -be well; and he sayd, If I would nott serue him he -would doe soe to mee. Q. Is that the same Man that -appeared before to you? that appeared the last Night -and tould you this? A. Yes. Q. what other Likenesses -besides a Man hath appeared to you? A. Sometimes<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">189</a></span> -like a Hogge, sometimes like a great black Dogge, -foure tymes. Q. But what did they say unto you? -A. They tould me serve him, and that was a good -way; that was the black Dogge. I tould him I was -afrayd. He tould me he would be worse then to -me. Q. What did you say to him then, after that? -A. I answer, I will serve you noe Longer. He tould -me he would doe me hurt then. Q. What other -Creatures have you seen? A. A Bird. Q. What -Bird? A. A little yellow Bird. Q. Where doth -itt keep? A. With the Man whoe hath pretty -Things more besides. Q. What other pretty Things? -A. He hath nott showed them unto me, but he said -he would showe them me to morrow, and tould me -if I would serve him, I should have the Bird. Q. -What other Creatures did you see? A. I saw 2 Catts, -one Red, another Black, as bigge as a little Dogge. -Q. What did these Catts doe? A. I dont know. I have -seen them two tymes. Q. What did they Say? A. They -Say, Serve them. Q. When did you see them? A. I -saw them last Night. Q. Did they do any hurt to you -or threaten you? A. They did Scratch me. Q. -When? A. After prayer; and Scratched me because -I would not serve hir. And when they went away I -could nott see, but thay stood before the Fire. Q. -What Service doe thay expect from you? A. They -say more hurt to the Children. Q. How did you pinch -them when you hurt them? A. The other pull mee and -hall me to pinch the Childe, and I am very sorry -For itt? Q. Whatt made you hould your Arme when -you were searched? What had you there? A. I had -nothing. Q. Do nott those Catts suck you? A. -Noe, never yett. I would nott lett them. But they had -almost thrust me into the Fire. Q. How doe you -hurt those that you pinch? Doe you gett those Catts,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">190</a></span> -or other Things to doe itt for you? Tell us, how is -itt done? A. The Man sends the Catts to me, and bids -me pinch them; and I think I went once to Mr. -Griggs's, and have pinched hir this Day in the Morneing. -The Man brought Mr. Griggs's Mayd to me, -and made me pinch hir. Q. Did you ever goe with -these Woemen? A. They are very strong, and pull -me, and make me goe with them. Q. Where did you -goe? A. Up to Mr. Putnams, and make me hurt -the Child. Q. Whoe did make you goe? A. A Man -that is very strong, and these two woemen, Good, and -Osburne, but I am sorry. Q. How did you goe? -Whatt doe you Ride upon? A. I Ride upon a Stick, -or Poale, and Good, and Osburne behind me; we Ride -takeing hold of one another; don't know how we goe, -for I saw noe Trees, nor Path, but was presently there, -when wee were up. Q. How long since you began to -pinch Mr. Parris's Children? A. I did nott pinch them -att the First, but thay made me afterward. Q. Have -you seen Good, and Osburne Ride upon a Poule? A. -Yes, and have held Fast by mee: I was nott att -Mr. Griggs's but once, butt it may be send something -like mee; neither would I have gone, butt that they tell -me, they will hurt me. Last Night they Tell me I -must kill some body with the Knife. Q. Who were -they that Told you Soe? A. Sarah Good, and Osburne, -and they would have had me killed Thomas Putnam's -Child last Night. The Child alsoe affirmed, that -att the same Tyme, thay would have had hir Cutt of -hir own Head; for if she would nott, they Tould hir -Tittubee would Cutt itt off; and then she Complayned -att the same Time of a Knife Cutting of hir. When -hir Master hath asked hir about these Things, She -Sayth thay will nott lett hir Tell, but Tell hir if she -Tells, hir Head shall be Cutt off. Q. Who Tells<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">191</a></span> -you soe? A. The Man, Good, and Osburnes Wife. -Goody Good Came to hir last Night, when her Master -was att Prayer, and would nott lett hir hear, and she -Could nott hear a good whyle. Good hath one of -those Birds, the yellow Bird, and would have given -mee itt, but I would not have itt: and in Prayer -Tyme she stoped my Eares and would nott lett me -hear. Q. What should you have done with itt. A. Give -itt to the Children, which yellow Bird hath bin severall -Tymes seen by the Children. I saw Sarah Good -have itt on hir Hand, when she Came to hir, when -Mr. Parris was att prayer: I saw the Bird suck Good -betweene the fore Finger and Long Finger, upon the -Right Hand. Q. Did you never practise Witchcraft -in your owne Country? A. Noe. Never before now. -Q. Did you see them doe itt now? A. Yes. To Day; -but twas in the Morning. Q. Butt did you see them doe -itt now, while you are Examininge? A. Noe, I did -nott See them, but I Saw them hurt att other Tymes. I -saw Good have a Catt beside the yellow Bird, which was -with hir. Q. What hath Osburne gott to goe with hir? -A. Some thing I don't know what itt is. I can't name -itt. I don't know how itt looks. She hath two of -them. One of them hath Wings, and two Leggs, and a -Head like a Woeman. The Children Saw the Same butt -Yesterday, which afterward Turned into a Woeman. -Q. What is the Other Thing that Goody Osburne hath? -A. A Thing all over hairy; all the Face hayry, and a -long Nose, and I don't know how to tell how the Face -looks; with Two Leggs, itt goeth uprighte, and is -about Two or three Foot high, and goeth upright -like a Man; and last Night itt Stood before the Fire, -in Mr. Parris's Hall. Q. Whoe was that appeared like -a Wolfe to Hubbard, as she was goeing from Proctures? -A. Itt was Sarah Good, and I saw hir send the Wolfe<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">192</a></span> -to hir. Q. What Cloathes doth the Man appeare unto -you in? A. Black Cloaths, sometimes, sometimes -Searge Coat of other Couler; a Tall Man with white -hayr, I think. Q. What Aparrell doe the Woemen -ware? A. I don't know what Couller. Q. What kind -of Cloathes hath She? A. A black silk Hood, with a -white Silk Hood under itt, with Sopknotts, which Woeman -I know not, but have seen hir in Boston, when I -lived there. Q. What Cloathes the little Woman? -A. a Searge Coat with a white Cap, as I think. The -Children having Fitts at this very Time, She was -asked, whoe hurt them? She Answers Goody Good; and -the Children affirmed the same; butt Hubbard being -taken in an Extreame Fitt; after, she was asked, whoe -hurt hir? and she sayd she Could nott tell, butt Sayd -they blinded hir, and would not lett hir see, and after -that, was once or twice taken dumb hir self.</p> - -<p class="p2 center">Second Examination. March. 2. 169½.</p> - -<p>Q. What Covenant did you make with that Man -that came to you? What did he tell you. A. He tell -me he God, and I must beleive him, and serve him -six Yeares, and he would give me many fine Things. -Q. How longe a goue was this? A. About six -Weeks, and a little more; Fryday Night before Abigall -was Ill. Q. What did he say you must doe more? -Did he say you must write any Thing? Did he offer -you any Paper? A. Yes, the next Time he come to -me, and showed me some fine Things; some Thing -like Creatures; a little Bird, some Thing like green -and white. Q. Did you promise him this when he -spake to you? Then what did you answer him. A. -I then Sayd this, I tould him I Could nott beleive -him God; I tould him I ask my Maister, and would -have gone up, but he stopt mee, and would nott lett<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">193</a></span> -me. Q. Whatt did you promiss him? A. The first -Tyme I beleive him God, and then he was Glad. -Q. What did he say to you then? What did he -say you must doe? A. Then he tell me they must -meet together. Q. When did he say you must meet -together? A. He tell me Weddnesday next, att my -masters House, and then they all meet together, and -thatt Night I saw them all stand in the Corner, all four -of them, and the Man stand behind mee, and take hold -of mee, to make mee stand still in the Hall. Q. Whare -was your Master then? A. In the other Roome. Q. -What Time of Night? A. A little before prayer Time. -Q. What did this Man say to you when he took hold of -you? A. He say goe into the other Room and see the -Children, and doe hurt to them, and Pinch them; and -then I went in, and would nott hurt them a good while; -I would nott hurt Betty, I loved Betty, but they hall -me and make me pinch Betty, and the next Abigall, -and then quickly went away altogether a[fter] I had -pinch them. Q. Did you goe into that Room in your -own Person, and all the rest? A. Yes, and my Master -did nott see us, for they would nott lett my Master see. Q. -Did you goe with the Company? A. Noe, I stayd and -the Man stayd with mee. Q. What did he then to you? -A. He tell me my Master goe to Prayer, and he read -in Book, and he ask me what I remember, but don't -you remember any thing? Q. Did he ask you noe -more but the frst Time to serve him, or the second -time? A. Yes, he ask me againe, and if I serve him -six yeares and he Come the Next Time, and show mee -a Book. Q. And when would he come then? A. The -next Fyday, and showed me a Book in the Day Time, -betimes in the Morning. Q. And what Booke did he -bring, a great or little Booke? A. He did nott show itt<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">194</a></span> -me, nor would nott, but had itt in his Pockett. Q. -Did he nott make you write your Name? A. Noe, -nott yett, for my Mistris Called me into the other -Roome. Q. Whatt did he say you must do in that -Book? A. He sayd, Write, and sett my name to itt. -Q. Did you Write? A. Yes, once I made a Marke -in the Book, and made itt with red like Bloud. Q. Did -he gett itt out of your Body? A. He said he must gett -itt out. The Next Time he Come againe he give me a -Pin, tyed in a Stick, to doe itt with, butt he noe lett -me Bloud with itt as yett, butt Intended another -Time, when he came again. Q. Did you see any -other Marks in his Book? A. Yes, a great many, -some Marks Red, some Yellow, he opened his Book, -and a great many Marks in itt. Q. Did he tell you -the Names of them? A. Yes, of two, noe more; -Good, and Osburne, and he say they make them -Marks in that Book, and he shewed them mee. Q. -How many Marks doe you think there was? A. -Nine. Q. Did thay write there Names? A. They made -Marks, Goody Good sayd she made hir Mark, but -Goody Osburne would nott tell; she was Cross to mee. -Q. When did Good tell you she sett hir Hand to the -Book? The same Day I came hither to Prison? Q. -Did you see the Man thatt Morning? A. Yes, a -litle in the Morning, and he tell me the Magistrates -Come up to examine me. Q. What did he say you -must say? A. He tell me, tell nothing, if I did he -would cutt my Head off. Q. Tell us true how many -Woemen doe use to come when you Rid abroad? -A. Foure of them, these two, Osburne, and Good, -and those two Strangers. Q. You say that there was -Nine. Did he tell you whoe they were? A. Noe, -he noe lett me see, but he tell me I should see them -the next Tyme. Q. What Sights did you see? A.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">195</a></span> -I see a Man, a Dogge, a Hogge, and two Catts, a -Black and Red; and the strange Monster was Osburnes, -that I mentioed before; this was the Hayry Imp: the -Man would give itt to mee, but I would nott have itt. -Q. Did he show you in the Book which was Osburns -and which was Goods Mark? A. Yes, I see there -Marks. Q. Butt did he tell the Names of the other? -A. Noe sir. Q. And what did he say to you when you -made your Mark? A. He sayed Serve mee, and always -serve mee. The Man with the two Woemen Came -from Boston. Q. How many times did you goe to -Boston? A. I was goeing and then Came back againe. -I was never att Boston. Q. Whoe Came back with -you againe? A. The Man came back with mee, and -the Woemen goe away; I was nott willing to goe. Q. -How farr did you goe, to what Towne? A. I never -went to any Towne. I see noe Trees, noe Towne. -Q. Did he tell you where the Nine Lived? A. Yes, -some in Boston, and some here in this Towne, but he -would nott tell mee whoe thay were.</p> - -<h3>NUMBER V.</h3> - -<h4><i><big>The Examination of Mary Clark</big></i><a name="FNanchor_189_189" id="FNanchor_189_189"></a><a href="#Footnote_189_189" class="fnanchor">[189]</a> -<i><big>of Haverhill. -Taken before Jno. Hauthorn, -Esq. and otheir their Majesties Justices of -the Peace, August</big></i> <big>4</big><i><big>th,</big></i> <big>1692.</big></h4> - -<p class="dropcap">THE Accused, Mary Clark, being called, it was -enquired of Mary Walcot, if ever Clark had -afflicted her? She answered Yes, that is the very -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">196</a></span>woman. And, upon Mary Clarks looking upon Walcott, -and others of the afflicted, they were struck into -Fitts.</p> - -<p>The Justices having used severall Arguments (for -the Good of her Soul) to confess, if she knew herself -guilty. She absolutely denyed. And then the Constable<a name="FNanchor_190_190" id="FNanchor_190_190"></a><a href="#Footnote_190_190" class="fnanchor">[190]</a> -of Haverhill was called; and being asked of -what Fame and Reputation Mary Clark was off? He -answered they had heard she was or had been guilty of -such Things, but, as to any Thing in Particular, he -could not say. The Justices asked Mary Walcot if -she were not mistaken in this Woman? Walcot answered, -This is the very Woman I saw afflict Timothy -Swan,<a name="FNanchor_191_191" id="FNanchor_191_191"></a><a href="#Footnote_191_191" class="fnanchor">[191]</a> and she has afflicted me several Times. -And after a Fitt she was then immediately in, she said -she saw the above Mary Clark afflict Betty Hubbard, -and Ann Putnam.</p> - -<p>The said Mary Clark looking upon Walcott, Hubbard, -Putnam, Warrin, they were in Fitts.</p> - -<p>Mary Walcott haveing a Pinn runn into her Arme -suddenly, said that Mary Clark did it.</p> - -<p>At the same Tyme Mary Warrin had a Pinn run -into her Throat, under her Chin, which Mr. Noice -took out.</p> - -<p>Susanna Sheldon, upon said Examination, had four -Pinns taken out of her Hand; saying that said Clark -put in two of them, and Mr. Usher<a name="FNanchor_192_192" id="FNanchor_192_192"></a><a href="#Footnote_192_192" class="fnanchor">[192]</a> the other two.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">197</a></span></p> -<p>Mary Post<a name="FNanchor_193_193" id="FNanchor_193_193"></a><a href="#Footnote_193_193" class="fnanchor">[193]</a> said she saw the said Clark afflict Timothy -Swan.</p> - -<p>Richard Carryer, a former Confessor said he beleeved -he saw the said Mary Clark with some others and himself -baptised at Newburry Falls.</p> - -<p>Betty Hubbard<a name="FNanchor_194_194" id="FNanchor_194_194"></a><a href="#Footnote_194_194" class="fnanchor">[194]</a> was struck down, by her looking -upon her.</p> - -<p>It was asked, if she could say the Lords Prayer, -perfectly.</p> - -<p>She erred much.</p> - -<p>Ann Putnam said that said Clark had afflicted her -by pinching, choakeing, and striking her in the Face, -and told her, that her Name was Mistriss Mary Clark, -but that People used to call her Goody Clark.</p> - -<p>Ann Putnam said further, that she saw the said -Clark stabb Timothy Swan with a square ragged -Speare, as long as her Hand. And, being asked why -she called it a <i>ragged</i> Speare, she said because it was -ragged like a File.</p> - -<p>Mary Post said she saw this Mary Clarks Spirit at -the Village Witch-meeting, and that she did eat and -drink there as the rest did. And further, she has seen -the said Mary Clark afflict Timothy Swan.</p> - -<p>I, underwritten, being appoynted by Authority, to -take the within Examination, in Wryting, Doe testify -upon Oath, taken in Court, that this is a true Coppy -of the Substance of it, to the best of my Knowledge.</p> - -<p>[<i>All of the Above is in the Hand of Edward Rawson. -There is no Signature attached.</i>]</p> - -<h3><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">198</a></span> -NUMBER VI.</h3> - -<h4><big><i>An Account of the Life and Character of -the Rev. Samuel Parris, of Salem Village, -and of his Connection with the -Witchcraft Delusion of</i> 1692.</big></h4> - -<p class="center">BY SAMUEL P. FOWLER, ESQUIRE.<a name="FNanchor_195_195" id="FNanchor_195_195"></a><a href="#Footnote_195_195" class="fnanchor">[195]</a></p> - -<p class="dropcap">MR. Parris, whose History is so intimately connected -with the Salem Witchcraft Delusion of -1692, was a Son of Thomas Parris of London, and -was born in 1653. He was a Member of Harvard -College, but did not graduate at that Institution. He -was at first a Merchant in Boston, but not succeeding -in Business he left it, and offered himself as a Candidate -for the Ministry.</p> - -<p>The People at Salem Village being without a Pastor, -on the 15th of November, 1688, sent a Committee, -consisting of three Persons, viz: Captain John Putnam, -Mr. Joshua Rea, Sen., and Francis Nurse, "to -treat with Mr. Parris about taking ministerial Office." -Nothing was done however at this Meeting towards -effecting a Settlement, and on the 25th of November, -after the Services in the Afternoon, the Audience was -stayed, and by a general Vote, requested Mr. Parris -to take Office. On the 10th of December, 1688, the -Brethren of the Church, sent Lieut. Nath'l Putnam, -Sergeant Fuller, Mr. Joshua Rea, Sen., and Sergeant -Ingersoll, who came, they said, "as Messengers to -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">199</a></span>know whether Mr. Parris would accept of Office." -He replied, "y<sup>e</sup> Work was weighty, they should -know in due Time." After this, several came on like -Errands, but as yet, no Proposals of Maintenance -were tendered.</p> - -<p>On the 29th of April, 1689, Deacons Nath'l Ingersoll -and Edward Putnam, Daniel Rea, Thomas Fuller, -Jr., and John Tarbell, came to Mr. Parris, from the -meeting House, where there had been a general Meeting -of the Inhabitants, and said, "being the aged -Men had had the Matter of Mr. Parris's Settlement -so long in Hand, and effected nothing, they were desirous -to try what the Younger could do." Upon Mr. -Parris's asking them what their Will was, they answered -"they were sent, by y<sup>e</sup> People to desire him to -take Office, and had concluded to offer him sixty -Pounds for his Salary." Twenty Pounds of which, -was to be in Money, and the Remainder as follows: -Wheat at 4 Shillings per Bushel, Indian Corn at 2 -Shillings per Bushel, Barley, Rye and Malt at 3 Shillings -per Bushel, Pork at 2 Pence per. Pound, Beef -at 1½ Pence per. Pound.</p> - -<p>The Committee being desirous of a speedy Answer, -Mr. Parris informed them, that he would accept of -their Proposals, provided they would comply with the -following Provisions for his Maintenance: 1st, "When -Money shall be more plenteous, the Money Part to -be paid me, shall accordingly be increased. 2d, Tho' -Corn or like Provisions should arise to a higher Price -than you have set, yet for my own Family Use, I -shall have what is needful, at ye Price now stated; -and so if it fall lower. 3d, The whole sixty Pounds -to be only from our Inhabitants, that are dwelling in -our Bounds, or proportionable to what Lands they -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">200</a></span>have, within y<sup>e</sup> same. 4th, No Provision to be -brought in, without just asking whether needed, and -myself to make choice of what, unless ye Person is -unable to pay in any Sort but one. 5th, Fire Wood -to be given in yearly freely. 6th, Two Men to be -chosen yearly to see that due Payments be made. -7th, Contributions each Sabbath in Papers, and only -such as are in Papers, and dwelling within in our -Bounds, to be accounted as Part of the sixty Pounds. -8th, As God shall please to bless y<sup>e</sup> Place, so as to be -able to rise higher, than y<sup>e</sup> said sixty Pounds, that -then a proportionable Increase be made. If God shall -please for our Sins to diminish the Substance of said -Place, I will endeavour accordingly to bear such Losses, -by proportionable Abatements of such as shall reasonably -desire it."</p> - -<p>These Proposals of Mr. Parris to the Committee -were read to them and accepted, and they expressed -their Belief, that the Inhabitants would approve of -them. But it would seem that at a Meeting of the -People of the Village, May 17th, 1689, Mr. Parris -was sent for, when Objections were made against the -5th and 7th Provisions of his Settlement. "Touching -the 5th it was objected, they had no Commons, -and therefore could not conveniently give in Fire -Wood, because some must bring in half Cord, others -more, others less, &c. Therefore they would allow -six Pounds per annum, one third Money, which would -buy 30 Cords, as they had dealt by former Ministers." -Parris replied, he was willing to ease them, but then -he desired, that one of them would take the six Pounds -annually, and furnish him with 30 Cords of Wood, to -which Proposal he found none of them willing to -consent. He then told them, if he did accept the six -Pounds, it might in Time be insufficient to purchase -30 Cords of Wood. In reply to the Fears of Parris -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">201</a></span> -in regard to the Rise of the Price of Wood, he says, -I had a general Answer from many that at four Shillings -per Cord, I should be supplied during my Life -among them. He continues, after much urging, I -replied I would try them for one Year. Mr. Parris -says: "touching his 7th Provision, nothing at the -Time was said or objected against Contributions by -Papers, for it had been their former usual Way, but -only against those, that dwelled within their Bounds, -they urging that some did not live within their Bounds, -yet they were constant Hearers, and therefore it was -meet to have their Help."</p> - -<p>"In fine, after much Agitation here, it was agreed on -my Part and theirs, that such out Persons had Liberty -to please themselves, in paying to the Minister or the -meeting House. And so I left them, fully acquiescing -with my aforesaid Conditions, not doubting but that -they had truly entered it on the Records, as I took -for granted, nor heard any Thing otherwise, till after -my Ordination a good while, in another public Meeting -of the Village; when another Vote, recorded and -read, vastly different from the Agreement, as above -said—which I then openly did, and still must deny, -to be any Contract of mine."</p> - -<p>We have now presented Mr. Parris's Account, of -the Transactions between himself and the People of -Salem Village, in regard to his Settlement. This was -drawn up by him, and used upon his Trial before the -Court of Common Pleas at Ipswich in 1696-7. We -have been thus particular in Relation to the Settlement -of Mr. Parris at Salem Village, it being one of -the Causes, which led to the most bitter parochial -Quarrel, that ever existed in New-England, and in the -Opinion of some Persons, was the chief or primary -Cause of that world-wide famous Delusion, the Salem -Witchcraft.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">202</a></span> - -Salem Village, since embraced in the Parish of Rev. -Dr. Milton P. Braman, in Danvers, Massachusetts, -was, on the 19th of November, 1689 (when the Rev. -Samuel Parris entered upon his Duties there as a -Pastor and Teacher,) a small Hamlet or Village, inhabited -principally by Farmers, but embracing within -its Limits, much adjoining Territory, extending its -Lines to Wills Hill, now Middleton, there being -many Families who attended Worship at Salem Village. -The number of rateable Polls in the Parish -was 100. It appears, from the Records, that Mr. -Parris presented to his Church, upon his Settlement, -a new Covenant and Form of Admission for its -Members, together with the Question, who were the -proper Subjects of Baptism? These caused some Debate -in the Church, but none opposed the final Action -upon them. Some singular and unusual Cases of -Discipline came before them, but they appeared to -have been disposed of peaceably. It was not until -the 8th of October, 1691, that we discover any unfriendly -feeling, existing between Mr. Parris and his -People. It was on that Day, he says in his Church -Records,—"Being my Lecture Day after public Service -was ended, I was so bare of Fire Wood, that I -was forced publicly to desire the Inhabitants to take -Care that I might be provided for, telling them, had -it not been for Mr. Corwin (who had brought Wood, -being here at my House), I should hardly have had -any to burn." Upon the Pastor's informing the -Church of his Destitution of Fire Wood, the Brethren -raised a Committee, who were instructed to see -the Town Committee, and desire them to make a -Rate for the Minister. The Committee on Rates -met November 10th, 1691, and reported that they -did not see good Cause to take Notice of the Church -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">203</a></span> -Committee, without they had a Letter to show, under -the Church and Pastor's Hand. Upon this, Mr. -Parris complained of the Treatment of the Committee -towards him, but more especially the Church, -whom he said manifested an indifference in this Affair. -The Committee, whose Business it was to raise a Tax -to procure the Pastor's Wood, still continuing to -refuse to do it, on the 27th of December, 1691, a -Petition was sent to the Quarter Sessions, wherein the -Petitioners complain, that "no Reparations of the -Village Meeting House has been for a great while -regarded, so that broken Windows, stopt up some of -them by Boards or otherwise, and others wide open, -and is sometimes so dark, that it is almost <i>unuseful</i>." -The Court, upon this Petition, appointed a Meeting -of the Inhabitants of the Village, to choose a new -Committee to meet on the 25th of January, 1692, -for the Purpose of assessing Rates to repair the meeting -House, and procure the Pastor's Wood. The -Inhabitants of the Village met on that Day, and -made choice of Joseph Pope, Joseph Holten, Jr., -John Tarbell, Thomas Preston, and James Smith, as -their Committee.</p> - -<p>This is the last we hear about this Affair of procuring -Wood, &c., probably all further Consideration -of it was absorbed in the great Witchcraft Delusion, -which was now close at Hand, and about to break -forth.</p> - -<p>We are now brought to the Period of the Commencement -of Salem Witchcraft, as it first developed -itself in the Family of Samuel Parris, Minister at -Salem Village in 1692.</p> - -<p>Mr. Parris's Household consisted, at this Time, of -himself and Wife, his age being 39 Years, that of his -Wife 44 Years, a Daughter Elizabeth, aged nine<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">204</a></span> -Years, a Niece of eleven Years by the Name of Abigail -Williams, and two Servants named John Indian, -and Tituba his Wife, both Natives of South America, -then called New Spain. These were held as Slaves, -and Parris probably came into possession of them in -some of his Commercial Transactions. By some Persons, -these Indians have been supposed to belong to -the Aborigines of our Country and to have obtained -their knowledge of Witchcraft from the Indian Powows; -but this appears to have been a mistake. Mr. -Parris's nearest Neighbors were Capt. Jona. Walcut, -who had a Daughter called Mary, 17 years of Age, -and his Parish Clerk. Thomas Putnam, who had a -Daughter named Ann, aged 12 Years, and a servant -Girl, living with him, named Mercey Lewis aged 17 -Years, Mary Warren, aged 20 Years, lived with John -Proctor, Elizabeth Booth, aged 18 Years, lived near -to John Proctor, Sarah Churchill, aged 20 Years, lived -in the Family of Geo. Jacobs, Sen., Susannah Sheldon, -aged 18 Years, lived in the Village. These Girls, together -with Abigail Williams, a Niece of Mr. Parris, -aged 11 Years, were in the Habit of meeting in a Circle -in the Village, to practice Palmistry, Fortune Telling, -&c. It appears by Evidence, given at the Courts, -that some of their Parents and Guardians did not -approve of these Meetings. Mary Warren, one of -the most Violent of the accusing Girls, lived as we -have before said, with John Proctor, and at last became -his principal Accuser, upon his examination for Witchcraft. -Proctor, out of all Patience with the Meetings -of the Girls, composing this Circle, one Day said he -"was a going to the Village to bring Mary Warren, -the Jade, Home; for, if let alone, these Girls would -make us all <i>Devils and Witches together quickley</i>. They -should rather be had to the Whipping Post; but he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">205</a></span> -would fetch his Jade Home, and thrash the Devil out -of her." Proctor said, when Mary Warren was first -taken with Fits, he kept her close to the Wheel, and -threatened to thrash her, and then she had no more -Fits; but the next Day, he being gone from Home, -she had her Fits again. If the accusing Girls had -been dealt with as John Proctor would have had them, -we probably should have had a short Story to tell, -about Salem Witchcraft. It is at the Meeting of this -Circle of eight Girls, for the purpose of practising -Palmistry and Fortune Telling, that we discover the -Germ, or the first Origin of the Delusion. We have -endeavored to follow them after the Excitement had -subsided, for the Purpose of ascertaining their Character -in after Life. One only of this Circle, Ann -Putnam, confessed her Folly, and sought Forgiveness. -Some of them grew up Licentious in their Habits, -and all of them appear to have sought Obscurity. -Their whole Course, as seen in their Depositions, discloses -much Malignancy, and their Ignorance was so -great, that of the Eight accusing Girls, Six of them -signed their Names with a Cross.</p> - -<p>It was in the latter End of February, 1692, that the -Daughter of Mr. Parris, named Elizabeth, aged 9 -Years, together with his Niece, Abigail Williams, -aged 12 Years, were taken Sick and received such attention -from Mrs. Parris as their Case seemed to -require. But growing worse under her Treatment, -and not being able to ascertain what their Disease was, -application was made to their Family Physician, Dr. -Gregg, living in the Village. He visited them, and -observed that they were afflicted with a sad Distemper, -the Name of which he could not tell. Other Physicians -were called in, in Consultation, when one of them -gave it as his Opinion, that the Children were under<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">206</a></span> -an evil Hand. It is probable that it was Dr. Gregg that -supposed the Girls bewitched, for he had expressed the -same Opinion of many of his Patients when he could -not understand their Disease, many times before. It -is highly probable that the Opinion of these Physicians -went far to form the Belief of not only Parris, but -also of his ministerial Friends, in the Existence of -Witchcraft in the Village. Mr. Parris appears to -have been much astonished, when the Physicians informed -him, that his Daughter and Niece were, no -doubt, under an evil Hand. There is Evidence that -Mr. Parris endeavored to keep the Opinion of the -Physicians a Secret, at least, till he could determine -what Course to pursue. At this Time, Mary Sibley, -a Member of his Church, gave directions to John -Indian how to find out, who bewitched Betsy Parris -and Nabby Williams. This was done without the -Knowledge of Parris. The Means used to make this -Discovery, was to make a Cake of Rye Meal, with -the Urine of the Children, and Bake it in the Ashes, -and give it to a Dog to eat. Similar disgusting -Practices appear to have been used to discover and -kill Witches, during the whole Period of the Delusion.</p> - -<p>On the 27th of March, 1692, Mr. Parris called together -his Church, when he presented Testimony against -the Error of sister Mary Sibley, in giving direction to -John Indian in an unwarrantable Way, to find out -Witches. Upon Mary Sibley's manifesting Sorrow -and Grief for her Conduct, the Brethren of the Church -received Satisfaction. By the diabolical Means thus -used by Mary Sibley, Mr. Parris supposed the Devil -had been raised, and seeing the apparent distressed -Condition of his Family, and not knowing what -Course to pursue, requested some worthy Gentlemen of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">207</a></span> -Salem, and some neighboring Ministers to consult together -at his House; who when they came, and had -inquired diligently into the Sufferings of the Afflicted, -concluded they were Preternatural, and feared the -Hand of Satan was in them. The Advice given to -Parris by them was, that he should sit still and wait -upon the Providence of God, to see what Time might -discover; and to be much in Prayer for the Discovery -of what was yet secret. They also examined Tituba, -who confessed the making a Cake, and said her Mistress -in her own Country was a Witch, and had taught -her some Means to be used for the Discovery of a -Witch, and for the Prevention of being bewitched, -&c. But said she herself, was not a Witch. Soon -after this, there were two or three private Fasts at -Parris's House, one of which was kept by the neighboring -Ministers, and another in Public at the Village. -And one general Fast, by Order of the General Court, -observed throughout the Colony, to seek the Lord, -that he would rebuke Satan, and be a Light unto his -People in this Day of Darkness.</p> - -<p>It is evident from the Account given by Rev. John -Hale, who was an Eye Witness to many of the -Transactions at Salem Village, and one of the Ministers -called for Consultation, that Mr. Parris proceeded -with Caution at the Commencement of the Troubles, -and was anxious to seek Council and Advice. He -likewise wished to inform himself on the Subject of -Witchcraft, and for that Purpose received as a Loan -from Dea. Robert Sanderson, of Boston, a Copy of -Perkins' Works, which treated upon that Subject.</p> - -<p>We are among those who believe Mr. Parris was -honest in his Belief in Witchcraft, and that he was not -moved in this Affair by personal Malice, or the Desire -to promote the Cause of Religion in his Parish, as has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">208</a></span> -been supposed by the Author of the History of Danvers. -We have not as yet, found a Particle of Evidence, -that he entertained ill Will against those who -were accused and executed.</p> - -<p>Mr. Parris, in common with his ministerial Brethren, -appears to have come, after the Confession of -Tituba, to the full Conclusion, that Witchcraft had -broken out in his Parish, and that the Devil had commenced -his Operations in his own Family; and as a -faithful Pastor, he should not hesitate, for a Moment, -to grapple with the Enemy.</p> - -<p>It was in this Point of View, that we discover the -Courage of the People of Salem Village, who were -engaged in opposing what they considered the Machinations -of the Devil—they supposing that he was the -Cause, operating through the Agency of Witches, of -all the Torture and Misery they beheld, and that, by -their Opposition, they were liable also to suffer from -his Malignancy. They believed, also, that the Devil -was about to establish an Agency, or Kingdom in -New England; and had actually commenced Operations -in Salem Village. This, Cotton Mather, Parris, -and others, were determined should not be done, at -least if they could help it. There was some very -singular Evidence given at the Courts on this Point. -Ann Foster, of Andover, a confessing Witch, testified -at her Examination, July 21, 1692, "that she was at a -Witch Meeting at the Village, where there was a large -Number of Witches present, and that the principal -Discourse at this Gathering, was in regard to the setting -up of the Devil's Kingdom at the Village, and -making it their Rendezvous!" And another confessing -Witch testified, at a subsequent Meeting, that -they had, by an unanimous Vote, concluded to set up -the Devil's Kingdom at Salem Village—it being<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">209</a></span> -thought, all Things considered, the most suitable Place -to begin the Enterprise, and, by so doing, they were -in Hopes it would spread over New England. This -was solemnly and religiously believed by many, and it -required Courage and Pluck to stand up and resist the -Designs of a powerful, malicious Being, capable, as -they supposed, of tormenting them in various Ways, -destroying their Cattle, &c.</p> - -<p>Parris appears to have been very desirous of preventing -his Daughter, Elizabeth, from participating in -the Excitement at the Village. She was sent by her -Father, at the Commencement of the Delusion, to -reside at Salem with Capt. Stephen Sewall. While -there, the Captain and his Wife were much discouraged -in effecting a Cure, as she continued to have sore Fits. -Elizabeth said that the great <i>black Man</i>, came to her, and -told her, if she would be ruled by him, she should -have whatsoever she desired, and go to a <i>Golden City</i>. -She related this to Mrs. Sewall, who immediately told -the Child it was the Devil, and he was a Liar, and bid -her tell him so if he came to her again; which she did -accordingly the next Time the black Man came to -her. The Devil, it would seem, unaccustomed, in -those Days, to experience such Resistance, and utterly -astonished at the cool Impudence of Betsy Parris, -never troubled her afterwards; and,—although this -Girl was one of the first Originators of the Witchcraft -Delusion, in connection with her Cousin Abigail Williams,—she -appears to have had, afterwards, but little -to do with Witchcraft. This arose in Consequence of -following the sage Advice of Mrs. Sewall, in getting -rid of the Devil; or, what was more probable, in her -Father taking her from the weekly Circle of accusing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">210</a></span> -and bewitching Girls, and placing her in a very respectable -Family in Salem.</p> - -<p>It has been said that Parris had a Rival in Rev. -George Burroughs, who had Friends in Salem Village, -desirous of his Settlement; and that that was a sufficient -Reason why Parris should appear at the Courts -against him. We have never seen any Proof of this -Rivalship between these Clergymen. It is difficult now -to ascertain the Cause of the Arrest of Burroughs who -was preaching at Wells, at the Time, in his Pulpit. -The Girl who accused him of bewitching her, was -Mercy Lewis, who was then living with Thomas -Putnam. She formerly lived with Burroughs, when -he preached at the Village; and, upon one or more -Occasions, he whipped her severely. This we suspect -was the true Cause of her crying out against him.</p> - -<p>It had been said that Rebecca Nurse was an Object -of special Hatred to Parris; but this we have failed to -discover. We cannot imagine the Cause of the alleged -Complaint of Witchcraft against Rebecca Nurse. -She appears to have been an amiable and exemplary -Woman, and well educated for the Times in which -she lived. We suspect, from an Examination of the -Charges brought against her at the Courts, that she had -several Times severely rebuked the accusing Girls for -their Folly and Wickedness, when meeting in their Circles. -In this Way, she probably incurred the Displeasure -of Ann Putnam and her Mother—her principal -Accusers. Mr. Parris has often been accused -of being over Officious, and a swift Witness against -the Accused at the Courts. Parris could not be said to -have been a chief Witness in the Prosecutions, although -he may be said to have been a frequent corroborating -Witness with his Neighbors. The chief Witnesses -were the accusing Girls, as they were called. At the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">211</a></span> -preliminary Examinations before the Magistrates, Parris -and others were required to be present when the -Depositions were taken down, as related by the Girls, -and afterwards made use of at the Trials before the -Courts.</p> - -<p>These being given in and related by Children, and -young Persons, the Court required an Endorsement -from some older Persons, who witnessed their supposed -Afflictions, and could attest to their Depositions. It -is in this Way Mr. Parris's Name, as well as his -Neighbors, frequently appear in the Court Documents. -Parris appears to have been frequently at the Examinations -of those accused of Witchcraft, and put Questions -to those on Trial. He also acted as a Recorder -to the Magistrates more frequently than others. The -Reason for his being often employed by the Courts -was simply because he was requested to do so, and was -discovered to be well qualified for that Purpose. We -have seen the Records of several Persons thus employed, -and should say Parris's was the Best. It -was his Practice to take down the Examinations in -short Hand,—he being a good Stenographer,—and -then write them out in full, in a plain, legible Hand.</p> - -<p>We have not been able to discover the Cause of the -alleged Complaint of Witchcraft, against those three -excellent Women, viz: Rebecca Nurse, Mary Easty, -and Sarah Cloyce. They were Sisters, of a good Education, -and fair Reputation. It is not to be denied, -that the Part Parris took in the Trials of these Women, -was the chief Cause of the Opposition towards -him, and led at last to his Dismission from the People -at the Village. His principal Opposers were the -Relatives of these three unfortunate Sisters. Samuel -Nurse, a Son of Rebecca Nurse, John Tarbell, who -had married her Daughter, and Peter Cloyce, who had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">212</a></span> -married Sarah Cloyce. These three Persons, together -with one Thomas Williams, after the Execution of -Rebecca Nurse and Mary Easty, and the Imprisonment -of Sarah Cloyce, became much dissatisfied with -Parris, and sought Advice of the Elders in some of -the neighboring Churches, as to the best Mode of -bringing him before a Council to answer for his Conduct -in the Witchcraft Delusion. They were Members -of the Village Church, and had for some Time -neglected Public Worship on the Sabbath, and absented -themselves from the Communion. While these discontented -Brethren were considering what Course to -pursue against their Pastor, Parris, either in order to -divert their Proceedings from himself, or to administer -Discipline, on the 14th of August, 1692, caused the -Church to be stayed, and entered a Complaint against -Samuel Nurse and Wife, John Tarbell and Wife, and -Peter Cloyce, for absenting themselves from the Communion. -This Complaint was entered by the Church, -and Brother Nathaniel Putnam, and the two Deacons -were chosen to be joined with the Pastor to discourse -with the Absentees. Much Time was spent by this -Committee, in endeavoring to obtain Satisfaction from -the offending Brethren;—while on the other Hand, -they were striving by all the Means in their Power, to -bring Parris before a Council. At last, on the 16th of -February, 1693, at a Meeting of the Committee of the -Church, the Dissenting Brethren gave their Reasons -for withdrawing from the Communion.</p> - -<p>"Whereas we, Thomas Williams, and John Tarbell, -and Samuel Nurse, having a long Time gone -under the Burden of great Grievances, by Reason of -some unwarrantable Actings of Mr. Parris, as we -esteem them, and were proceeding in an orderly Way, -to obtain Satisfaction from him, and had taken some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">213</a></span> -Steps thereunto, according to the Advice of some -neighboring Elders. But obstructive to our Proceedings -therein, Mr. Parris and some Brethren of the -Church, were appointed by the Church, to demand a -Reason of us, of our withdrawing from Communion. -The Regularity of which Proceeding, we do not understand, -because in this Case, we esteem ourselves to -be Plaintiffs and Parties offended, and in an orderly -Way, seeking Satisfaction, tho' hitherto denied. Our -Answer to the Church is, that we esteem ourselves -hereby prevented in our Duty, which we account a -Grievance, seeing we were first in Prosecution of the -Rule of our Lord Jesus Christ, laid down in Mathew -18 C., 15, 16 vs. Wherefore, if the Church give us -the Liberty and Freedom of attending our Duty, as -according to Rule bound, possibly then further Trouble -may be prevented, or otherwise, the Case will necessarily -and regularly come before them. But if they -deny us the Request, we shall, as in Duty bound, give -the Reasons of our Proceedings to the Church, or any -others, when orderly demanded."</p> - -<p>Parris says, in the Records of the Church, "that -these displeased Brethren were told in Reply to their -Communication, that they did ill to reflect on the -Church, who, as also the Pastor, were ignorant of their -Methods, and that they should have spoken with the -Pastor himself, before they went to consult neighboring -Elders. But to this Last they pleaded Ignorance. So -we gave Way to their Request of proceeding orderly."</p> - -<p>On the 27th of March, 1693, the dissenting Brethren -handed to the Pastor the following Document:—</p> - -<p>"To our Pastor and Minister, Mr. Samuel Parris, -of Salem Village, and to some others of the Plantation. -We, whose Names are underwritten, being -deeply sensible, that those uncomfortable Differences<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">214</a></span> -that are amongst us, are very dishonorable to God, and -a Scandal to Religion, and very uncomfortable to ourselves, -and an ill Example to those, who may come -after us. And by our maintaining and upholding -Differences, that are amongst us, we do but gratify -the Devil, the great Adversary to our Souls. For the -Removal of which we have thought meet to proffer -our present Thoughts to your serious Consideration, -hoping, that there may be such Methods propounded, -as may be for the settling and confirming Peace and -Unity amongst us, both at the Present and for the -Future. And our Desires are, that such a Foundation -may be laid for Peace and Truth, that the Gates -of Hell may not prevail against it. And in Order -thereunto, Solomon adviseth Counsel; and our Desires -are, that a Council of Elders may be chosen, to -hear all our Grievances between Mr. Parris and us, -and determine where the blameable Cause is. And -we hope, that their Wisdom and Prudence may direct -us to such a Method, as may be for our Comfort for -both Present and Future."</p> - -<p>Much Time was spent by the Committee of the -Church, in endeavoring to obtain Satisfaction from -the dissenting Brethren, while the Latter were striving -by all the Means in their Power, to bring Parris before -a Council. At last, on the 16th of February, -1693, at a Meeting of the Committee, the dissenting -Brethren gave their Reasons for withdrawing from the -Ministry at the Village. They are the following.<a name="FNanchor_196_196" id="FNanchor_196_196"></a><a href="#Footnote_196_196" class="fnanchor">[196]</a></p> - -<p>After the Pastor had read the Charges against him, -he brought forward his "Meditations for Peace." -This Paper, having been considered at the Time as -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">215</a></span>an Acknowledgment of his Mistakes in the Witchcraft -Delusion, we have given it entire. It is as follows.<a name="FNanchor_197_197" id="FNanchor_197_197"></a><a href="#Footnote_197_197" class="fnanchor">[197]</a></p> - -<p>Notwithstanding the discontented Brethren continued -to press the Acceptance of their Petition, for a -mutual Council. Parris refused to notice it, and says, -"I put it up in my Pocket, and told them I would -consider it." It appears, by the Records, that the -Acknowledgment of Mr. Parris was first read before -the Church, November, 18, 1694, in the Presence of -the dissenting Brethren, when Tarbell remarked, that -if the Pastor had formerly made but <i>half the Acknowledgment -he now had</i>, it had never come to this. It -would seem that the Acknowledgment of the Pastor -was not satisfactory to the Brethren, and they continued -to persist in the calling of a Council. In the -Meantime, Parris brought sundry Objections, as he -called them, against Tarbell and his Friends, which -were read before the Church, November 13th. These -Objections, were as follows:—"Their precipitant, -schismatical and total withdrawing from the Church; -Their bringing forward a factious Libel to the Pastor, -consisting of Calumnies, or Reflections on said Minister, -and others of the Plantation; their impetuous -Pursuit of the Minister at his House, for Answer to -said Libel to his great Disquietude; there restless -Pursuit of the Minister, on the 14th of April, 1693, -for an Answer to said Libel; their persisting with -great Heat, that their Charge might be read, yea -loudly and fiercely before the whole Brotherhood, -clamouring against the Church, and their publishing -under their own Hands, in divers Places of the -Country, sundry Obloquies against the Church; their -ensnaring several to join them in a Petition to his -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">216</a></span>Excellency and General Court, scandalizing the Church -and Minister, as unpeaceable with their Neighbors; -their withdrawing their Purses, as well as their Persons -from upholding the Lord's Table, and the Ministry; -their gross Mistake in their Letter to the Church at -Malden, wherein they profess so much Dissatisfaction -with the Doctrine, Practice and Administration of -their Pastor, for above a Year, before the Date of said -Letter, as that they were forced to withdraw from all -public Worship; whereas it is most notorious, that -they were not wanting as to a Profession of much Respect -to their Pastor, all along before, yea, and a considerable -while after the breaking out of the late horrid -Witchcraft." These are some of the Charges brought -against the three Brethren by Parris, and he informs -us, "as soon as the public Reading of these Articles -was ended, Brother Thomas Wilkins, in a scoffing -and contemptuous Way, said openly, 'this is a large -Epistle.'" It would seem by the Records, that the -dissenting Brethren continued to make strenuous Efforts -to bring Parris before a Council, which was at -last recommended by the Pastors of the Churches in -the Neighborhood, when Parris in his last Attempt to -evade it, proposed to give the discontented Brethren, -a Dismission to some other orthodox Church, to which -Tarbell replied, "Aye, if we could find a Way to -remove our Living too." After a Delay of more -than two Years, the Church consented to call a Council, -who met at the Village, April 3d, 1695. Dr. Increase -Mather was chosen Moderator, and offered the -following Report, which was accepted by the Council, -and presented to the Church:—1st, They unanimously -declared that "we judge that altho' in the late and -dark Time of the Confusions, wherein Satan had obtained -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">217</a></span> -a more than ordinary Liberty to sift this Plantation, -there were sundry unwarrantable and uncomfortable -Steps taken, by Mr. Samuel Parris, the Pastor of -the Church in Salem Village, then under the hurrying -Distractions of amazing Afflictions; yet the said Mr. Parris, -by the good Hand of God, brought unto a better -Sense of Things, hath so fully expressed it, that a Christian -Charity may, and should, receive Satisfaction therewith. -2, They advised the dissenting Brethren to accept -the Satisfaction, which he had tendered in his Christian -Acknowledgment of the Errors therein committed, -and in case Mr. Parris finds after all, that he can not -with any Comfort and Service, continue in his present -Station, his Removal from thence, will not expose him -to any hard Character with us. Having observed that -there is, in Salem Village, a Spirit full of Contention -and Animosity, too sadly verifying the Blemish, which -hath heretofore lain upon them; and that some Complaints -against Mr. Parris have been either causeless -or groundless, or unduly aggravated, we do, in the -Name and Fear of the Lord, solemnly warn them to -consider whether, if they continue to devoure one -another, it will not be Bitterness in the latter End."</p> - -<p>The Recommendation of the Council appears to -have been satisfactory to the Friends of Mr. Parris -and the Pastor was resolved to continue in the Ministry. -At the same Time, the Report of the Council -was unsatisfactory to those Persons opposed to Mr. -Parris, as it did not recommend his Dismission; accordingly, -on the 3d Day of May, 1695, a Paper, -signed by 16 young Men, 52 Householders and 18 -Church Members, was handed to the Rev. Elders, -composing the late Council at the Village, requesting -them to give Parris's Case a rehearing, and more -plainly advise the Pastor to cease his Labors, and seek -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">218</a></span> -to dispose himself elsewhere, &c. On the 6th of May, -1695, in Answer to the Opponents of Mr. Parris, the -Council sent a Letter to the Pastor, informing him of -the Extent of the Opposition to his Ministry, and -advising him to come away from his present Station, -and unite in calling another Minister, and forgiving -and forgetting all former Grievances.</p> - -<p>Mr. Parris appears to have been nettled with the last -Recommendation of the Council for him to leave his -Parish, and says, in the Church Records, under his -own Hand, that the Paper (in Answer to the Instrument -and <i>classical</i> Letter from Cambridge) was brought -by Deacon Putnam to the Elders, assembled at Boston, -at Mr. Willard's, May 29th, 1695, being the Day of -Election after Dinner, when was assembled the Body -of Elders, belonging to this Province. This Paper -was addressed to the Rev. Mr. Increase Mather and -others of the Rev. Elders, which lately met at Cambridge, -under Date of May 20th, 1695, and signed by -53 Householders and 52 Church members, all belonging -to Salem Village. In this Letter, they say, that -the Removing of Mr. Parris from his present Station -will not unite us in calling another Minister. That -they justly fear, should he be removed, they would -be left, as a Sheep, without a Shepherd. Therefore -they desire, that Mr. Parris may continue in his present -Station.</p> - -<p>The Council appear to have been at last fully satisfied -that Mr. Parris should leave Salem Village, and -they therefore procured a Parish for him in Suffield, -and sent two Messengers from that Church, to -persuade the Church at Salem Village to dismiss their -Pastor. Parris informs us, in his Church Records, -that at a Meeting of the Church, held at his House, -June 3d, 1695, he acquainted the Brethren, that here<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">219</a></span> -were two Messengers from Suffield, who were looking -out for a Minister, and by the Desire of some Elders -in Boston, made application to him, and was willing -to go with them, if the Brethren pleased, and in his -Absence for a few Months, they might try if they could -(with others who now dissented,) unite in some other -Minister. But, after several Hours debate, both with -the Brethren, and some other Christian Neighbors, -they all declared an Averseness to his Motion. Thereupon -thanking them for their professed Love to him, -he told them, he was not free to go, without their Consent, -and seeing they would not let him go, he prayed for -them <i>to keep him, and make much of him</i>. The same Day, -June 3d, 1695, the Church sent the following decisive -Letter to Rev. Increase and Cotton Mather, -saying, "we cannot fault ye Intendment of our Brethren -Sergent David Winchell, and Corporal Victory Sikes, -Messengers from Suffield, sent by yourselves to obtain -the Ministry of our Pastor if we were so minded, as -to part with him. But upon maturing together, this -Day both of Church and others, to consult that Affair, -do hereby signify at the Desire of the above Suffield -Messengers, with unanimous Agreement, not one excepted—(save -the Four known Dissenters) we are -resolved—<i>God helping against such a Separation during -our ability to prevent it</i>. And our Pastor tho' otherwise -inclined, yet as unwilling to leave so many of his -Flock, as testify so strong Affections towards him. So -earnestly requesting the constant Helps of your Prayers, -and as much otherwise as you can, we rest, worthy and -much esteemed Sirs, your needy Brethren.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Samuel Parris</span>, Pastor,</p> -<p class="in2">in the Name of the Church and other Christian -Neighbors.</p> -<ul> -<li>To the Rev. Mr. Increase Mather and</li> -<li>Mr. Cotton Mather, Jun., Boston."</li> -</ul> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">220</a></span> -It does not appear that there were any more Efforts -made by the Boston Elders, to bring about a Reconciliation; -and it seems that there was always a Majority -of the Parish in Favor of Mr. Parris, remaining -with them; and there appears to have been a very -general Mistake, with many Authors, in Regard to his -Dismission from his People, they, supposing that he -was hastily driven away from the Village. Whereas -he continued and maintained himself through a ministerial -Quarrel of five Years, until he saw fit to discontinue -it, when he informed his Church of his -Intentions.</p> - -<p>There were three distinct Matters of Dispute between -Parris and his People at Salem Village. The First -arose previous to the Breaking out of the Witchcraft -Delusion, in Consequence of the Neglect of his Parish -to furnish him with the stipulated Supply of 30 Cords -of Wood per Annum. The second Dispute with the -four Dissenting Brethren of the Church, arose in Consequence -of the Course pursued by Parris in Regard to -Witchcraft. The Third, was in Consequence of his -claiming the Parsonage and Lands, under a vote of the -Inhabitants of the Village, and their Refusing to pay -him his Arrears due him, on his old Lists of Rates. -These three Disputes, caused a long and continued -Quarrel, which at last attracted the People far and -near—was a grave Matter for learned Councils, was -brought before the County Courts, and was a Subject -for Petition before the great and General Court at -Boston. After it was understood that Parris was to -leave the People at the Village, and that he claimed -the Parsonage, a fierce Quarrel arose between him and -the Inhabitants, which was carried before the Court at -Ipswich.</p> - -<p>The Matter, without being settled, was taken from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">221</a></span> -the Courts, and given to Wait Winthrop, Elisha Cook, -and Samuel Sewall, Esqrs., and they decided "that -Mr. Parris should have some of his Arrears paid him, -also a sum of Money for his Repairs of the ministerial -House, and be dismissed from Salem Village."</p> - -<p>It was during his greatest Difficulties with his People, -that he lost his Wife by Death. This occurred -on the 14th of July, 1696. She was buried in the -Wadsworth burial Ground, in Danvers, where can be -seen a gray Slate Stone,—a fine Specimen of the lapidary -Art,—with its Lines as sharp as on the Day -when they were first cut, erected over her Grave, on -which is the following Inscription, with the Initials of -Samuel Parris at the Bottom:—</p> -<div class="center"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="i0">"Sleep precious Dust, no stranger now to Rest,</div> -<div class="i0">Thou hast thy longed wish, within Abraham's Brest—</div> -<div class="i0">Farwell Best Wife, Choice Mother, Neighbor, Friend,</div> -<div class="i0">We'll wail the less, for hopes of the in the end."</div> -<div class="right"><small>S. P.</small> </div> -</div></div> -</div> -<p>After his Dismission from Salem Village he removed -to Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived in -1705; and 1711, preached six Months in Dunstable. -He died at Sudbury, February 27th, 1720; Mrs. -Dorothy Parris, his second Wife, died there on the 6th -of September, 1719. The following are the Children -of Mr. Parris:—Elizabeth, who was married to Benj. -Barnes, at Concord, January 13th, 1710; Dorothy, -married Hopestill Brown, of Sudbury, 1718, and -died March 4th, 1725; Samuel, who was a Deacon of -a Church in Sudbury, died November 22d, 1792, -aged 91 Years; Noyes, graduated at Harvard College, -1721, was deranged, and supported by the Town; -Mary, married Peter Bent, of Sudbury, April 18th, -1727.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">222</a></span> -[Eleven Years after the Death of Mr. Parris, the -following Advertisement appeared. Whether his Descendants -acted upon the Suggestion contained in it, the -Editor is not informed.]</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>"Any Person, who knew Mr. Samuel Parris, formerly of Barbadoes, -afterwards of Boston, in New-England, Merchant, and after that, Minister -at Salem Village, &c., deceas'd, to be a Son of Thomas Parris, of -the Island afore said, Esqr,—who deceased 1673, or sole Heir by Will -to his Estate in said Island,—are desired to give or send Notice thereof -to the Printer of this Paper; and it shall be for their Advantage."</p> - -<p class="right"> -[<i>Boston News-Letter, No. 1433, July</i> 15<i>th</i>, 1731. -</p></blockquote> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illus_224.jpg" width="500" height="110" alt="decoration" /> -</div> -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_178_178" id="Footnote_178_178"></a><a href="#FNanchor_178_178"><span class="label">[178]</span></a> As will be seen, Mr. Pulsifer -modernized the Orthography, while -we have corrected the Punctuation, -in a few Instances, and capitalized -it agreeable to our previous uniform -Old Style.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_179_179" id="Footnote_179_179"></a><a href="#FNanchor_179_179"><span class="label">[179]</span></a> It does not appear that these -Minutes of Examination were read -to the Accused; or that any Opportunity -was afforded him to correct -any Misstatements which the -biassed Scribe might have made, -carelessly or purposely; while, viewing -the Case as it stands, it seems -incredible that the Accused could -have been thought deserving of even -a lenient Reprimand. Too humiliating -for Contemplation!</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_180_180" id="Footnote_180_180"></a><a href="#FNanchor_180_180"><span class="label">[180]</span></a> Satan.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_181_181" id="Footnote_181_181"></a><a href="#FNanchor_181_181"><span class="label">[181]</span></a> This Opinion of the Doctor -may be questioned, so long as we -do not know by what Standard he -measured Wealth at that Time.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_182_182" id="Footnote_182_182"></a><a href="#FNanchor_182_182"><span class="label">[182]</span></a> Mr. English was arrested by -Jacob Manning, the Deputy Marshal, -31 May, 1692. Mrs. English -was committed on April 22d, -preceding. The Time of their -Transfer to Boston, I do not find; -but Mr. English was in Prison about -nine Weeks. Hence it is inferred -that their Escape was about the first -of August following. See Felt, <i>Annals -of Salem</i>, ii, 479.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_183_183" id="Footnote_183_183"></a><a href="#FNanchor_183_183"><span class="label">[183]</span></a> Of this Person, I have not attempted -to add anything to what is -contained in Lewis's <i>Lynn</i> and Savage's -<i>Dictionary</i>. Perhaps he was -wise enough to keep out of the -Way of Philip English after his Return.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_184_184" id="Footnote_184_184"></a><a href="#FNanchor_184_184"><span class="label">[184]</span></a> Mr. Savage says that Mr. Hollingworth's -Name was <i>Richard</i>. -Beale, though apparently much wanting -in Sense, may be supposed to -have known the given Name of a -prominent Man like Hollingworth, with whom he was probably well -acquainted. It seems however, that -Beale confounded the Name of the -Son with that of the Father. The -Hollingworth Family came to Salem -in 1635. The Name is often -since spelt <i>Hollingsworth</i>. See -<i>Founders of N. Eng.</i> P. 40.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_185_185" id="Footnote_185_185"></a><a href="#FNanchor_185_185"><span class="label">[185]</span></a> For some Account of him, consult -the <i>History of the Reed Family</i>, -by J. W. Reed, Esq. published -1861, Page 42.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_186_186" id="Footnote_186_186"></a><a href="#FNanchor_186_186"><span class="label">[186]</span></a> In the <i>N. Eng. Hist. and Gen. -Reg.</i> Vol. VI, Page 316, some -Account of this Individual will be -found.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_187_187" id="Footnote_187_187"></a><a href="#FNanchor_187_187"><span class="label">[187]</span></a> A brief and garbled Extract is -among the Records, not dated, but -placed after the "29th of March, -169½"!</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_188_188" id="Footnote_188_188"></a><a href="#FNanchor_188_188"><span class="label">[188]</span></a> The Papers inserted in the -Records previous to this are, of -course, out of place, as they are of -a later Date. A Rearrangement, -or Recompilation of the Witchcraft -Papers must at sometime be made.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_189_189" id="Footnote_189_189"></a><a href="#FNanchor_189_189"><span class="label">[189]</span></a> There was a large Family of -<i>Clarks</i> early at Haverhill. To what -Family this injured Woman belonged, -my Materials do not disclose.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_190_190" id="Footnote_190_190"></a><a href="#FNanchor_190_190"><span class="label">[190]</span></a> In 1687, Joseph Peasely was -chosen Constable, but there is no -certainty that he exercised the Office -in 1692. John Ayer, Jr., -shared the Duties. See Chase, <i>Hist. -Haverhill</i>, 145.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_191_191" id="Footnote_191_191"></a><a href="#FNanchor_191_191"><span class="label">[191]</span></a> Like the Clarks, the <i>Swan</i> -Family was extensive at Haverhill; -but Mr. Chase did not find a Timothy.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_192_192" id="Footnote_192_192"></a><a href="#FNanchor_192_192"><span class="label">[192]</span></a> Perhaps Mr. Hezekiah, of -Boston. It may be he to whom -Mr. Calef refers in his <i>Postscript</i>. -See Page 154, <i>original paging</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_193_193" id="Footnote_193_193"></a><a href="#FNanchor_193_193"><span class="label">[193]</span></a> I do not find the Name of -Post in Mr. Chase's <i>Haverhill</i>. -There was a Family at Woburn; -and, according to Mr. Savage, John -Post, of that Town, had by Wife -Mary Tyler, a Daughter Mary, -born 1664, who may have been -this Witness.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_194_194" id="Footnote_194_194"></a><a href="#FNanchor_194_194"><span class="label">[194]</span></a> The same who has been so -often mentioned as Elizabeth Hubbard. -In the next Article of this -Appendix she is particularly noticed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_195_195" id="Footnote_195_195"></a><a href="#FNanchor_195_195"><span class="label">[195]</span></a> Mr. Fowler has very kindly -placed this highly valuable Article at -the Editor's Disposal. It was originally -read before the <i>Essex Inst't.</i></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_196_196" id="Footnote_196_196"></a><a href="#FNanchor_196_196"><span class="label">[196]</span></a> Being the Same contained in -Mr. Calef's Part Third, are omitted -here. See Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm">II</a>, P. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_140">140-3</a>; -or Pages 55-7, original Edition.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_197_197" id="Footnote_197_197"></a><a href="#FNanchor_197_197"><span class="label">[197]</span></a> -See Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm">II</a>, P. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143-8</a>, where this Paper is given entire.</p></div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>NOTE BY THE EDITOR.</h2> - -<p class="dropcap">WHEN this Edition of the <i>More Wonders</i> had passed through the -Press, the Publisher brought in the following <span class="smcap">Errata</span>, which, it -seems, had been inserted in some Copies of the original Edition; and, -although several of the Errors are quite immaterial, and others have been -corrected in the Process of Revision, yet it was thought best to insert it -here entire.</p> - -<p>Mr. Woodward informs the Editor, that he copied it from a Copy of -Mr. Calef's Work in the Library of the Massachusetts Hist. Society, -which once belonged to Dr. <span class="smcap">Cotton Mather</span>, and afterwards to Dr. -Jeremy Belknap. Hence it is very probable that this Copy was presented -to Dr. Mather by the Author. However this may have been, -the following Extract, written in Dr. Mather's own Hand in the same -Volume, seems odd indeed:</p> - -<p>"Job, xxxi, 35, 36. My Desire is, <i>that</i> mine Adversary had written -a Book. Surely I would take it upon my Shoulder, and bind it as a -Crown to me."</p> - -<p class="right"> -"<span class="smcap">Co. Mather.</span>" -</p> - -<h3>ERRATA.</h3> - -<p>[The Reference is to the Pages of the original Edition; being those of the inner -Margin of this Edition.]</p> - -<p class="dropcap">THE Pages from 48 to 57 may be corrected with the Pen as also in -the Preface 7 Lines from the End instead of use read me. P. 3. L. -17. f. furiously r. seriously P. 13. L. 2. f. fruitful r. faithful. P. 16 L. -3 from the Bottom f. me r. Mr. P. 18. L. 6. f. drawing r. chaining. -P. 28. L. 13. the Word More to be left out. P. 49. L. 12. r. the Ancients -did worship. P. 52. L. 9. r. the more nearly. P. 55. L. 14. f. -unaccountable r. uncomfortable. P. 61. L. 26. after the Word propose -r.</p> - -<p>I. That if yourselves please to take the Trouble with Patience once -more to hear the Case and give full Liberty of proving, &c. to the Word -Place.</p> - -<p>P. 63. L. 3. f. proved r. procured P. 65. L. 25. f. dear. r. clear.</p> - -<p>P. 85. L. 20. r. best learn. P. 93. L. 12. f. sucking r. suckling.</p> - -<p>P. 94. L. 22. r. Mercy Lewis. P. 98. L. 16. Nathaniel Cary.</p> - -<p>P. 106. L. 31. r. up the Hill. P. 143. L. 8. f. flew r. fled.</p> - -<p>P. 152 L. 26. f. that he r. he that.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Errata</span>, <i>in the present Edition</i>.—Vol. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm">i</a>, P. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_102">102</a>, Note <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Footnote_114_113">114</a>, f. credulous, -r. incredulous. P. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_110">110</a>, L. 11, for on r. out. P. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_189">189</a>, N. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Footnote_174_173">174</a>, -r. Dr. Felt. Vol. iii, P. <a href="#Page_184">184</a>, L. 1, r. James.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illus_227.jpg" width="500" height="76" alt="decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="break">INDEX.</h2> - -<p class="dropcap">NOTE.—As the small Roman Numerals in this Index denote both the Volumes -and the Pages of the Introductions, those who consult it may observe, that when -the Introductory Pages are referred to, the Reference to the Volume is in large or -Roman Capitals:—For Example, I, xx, refer to the first Volume, and to Page 20 of the -Introduction to the same Volume; II, xxii, refer to Volume second, and Page 22 of -that Volume.</p> - -<ul class="index"> -<li class="dropcap">ABBOT, Benjamin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_195">195</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>.</li> - -<li>Abbot, Nehemiah, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_191">191</a>.</li> - -<li>Abbot, Sarah, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_196">196</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>.</li> - -<li>Acosta, Joseph, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_201">201</a>.</li> - -<li>Addington, Isaac, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>.</li> - -<li>Ady, ——, a Writer against Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>.</li> - -<li>Alcot, Job, appointed Counsellor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Alden, John, Jr., II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxiv">xxiv</a>; - tried and imprisoned, iii, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>; - his Narrative, <a href="#Page_26">26-8</a>; - Bail refused, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>; - escapes, <i>ib.</i>; - cleared by Proclamation, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li>Alden, Timothy, iii, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> - -<li>Allen, James, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>.</li> - -<li>Allen, John, sees one of the Accused fly in the Air, i, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_177">177</a>; - his Oxen bewitched, iii, <a href="#Page_93">93</a>.</li> - -<li>Allen, William, cited, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Ambrose, Isaac, on the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>.</li> - -<li>America, a squallid, horid Desart, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_13">13</a>; - of what Use is it, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_46">46</a>; - some hopeful Symptoms of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_97">97</a>; - ever to be in the Devil's Hands? <i>ib.</i>; - Spirits common to be seen Day and Night in, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_116">116</a>.</li> - -<li>Andover, People of, bewitched, iii, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - - <li>Andrew, Daniel, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>; - Joseph, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>; Sarah, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Andrews, Thomas, iii, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> - -<li>Andros, Edmund, Sir, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxxi">lxxxi</a>.</li> - -<li>Andrus, Silas, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xcii">xcii</a>.</li> - -<li>Angels, evil ones, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>; - Notions concerning, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_187">187-8</a>.</li> - -<li>Apparition, of those Murdered, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_34">34</a>; - - of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_79">79</a>; - - of Mr. Beacon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_136">136-7</a>; - - Accusers at Trials, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_155">155</a>; - - their Charges confessed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_188">188-9</a>; - - Witnesses, iii, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> - -<li>Appleton, Samuel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</li> - -<li>Arnold, John, Jailor of Boston, iii, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> - -<li>Arnold, Margaret, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_145">145</a>.</li> - -<li>Ashurst, Henry, Sir, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vi">vi</a>; - - Agent for Massachusetts, iii, <a href="#Page_148">148-9</a>.</li> - -<li>Astrology, injudiciously regarded, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_122">122</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_238">238</a>.</li> - -<li>Atkinson, John, Witness against Martin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_178">178</a>; - - Sarah, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_184">184</a>; - - John's Cow bewitched, iii, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>; - - Sarah, is amazed, <i>at nothing</i>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> - -<li>Attaballipa, his Fate, iii, <a href="#Page_138">138-9</a>.</li> - -<li>Austin, sweet spirited, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_27">27</a>.</li> - -<li>Aves, Samuel, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_68">68</a>.</li> - -<li>Ayer, John, Jr., iii, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">BACHELOR, John, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">226</a></span> -</li> - -<li>Bailey, John, iii, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>; - - Constable, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> - -<li>Bailey, N., his Definition of Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xiii">xiii</a>.</li> - -<li>Baker, ——, Sister to Ann Putnam, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li>Balch, Benj. Jr., Wife Elizabeth, swears against Mrs. Bishop, iii, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>.</li> - -<li>Ballantine, John, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxii">xxii</a>.</li> - -<li>Ballard, Joseph, iii, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>; - - Brother John, <i>ib.</i>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>; - - Operations to discover Witches, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>; - - Witnesses, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Baptism by the Devil, Ceremony of, iii, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> - -<li>Bare, John, Searcher for Witchteats, iii, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> - -<li>Barker, Abigail, signed a Recantation, iii, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> - -<li>Barnard, John, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>; - - prays at Witch Examinations, iii, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</li> - -<li>Barnes, Benjamin, iii, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Bartel, Robert, Capt., iii, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> - -<li>Barton, James, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxiii">xxiii</a>.</li> - -<li>Bates, William, Extract from, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_113">113-14</a>.</li> - -<li>Baxter, Richard, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxx"><span class="err" title="original: xx">xxx</span></a>; - - on Memorable Providences, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_141">141</a>; - - thanks C. Mather, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_43">43</a>; - - quoted, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_45">45</a>; - - his ungainsayable Book, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_86">86</a>; - - cure of Church Divisions, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_111">111</a>; - - commends I. Mather, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_113">113</a>; - - his Ideas of a Devil and Witch, &c., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_113">113-119</a>; - - his Work the Effect of aged Imbecility, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_119">119</a>.</li> - -<li>Bayley, Mrs., Sister to Ann Putnam, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li>Beacon, Joseph, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_136">136</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_137">137</a>.</li> - -<li>Beale, William, swears against Mr. English, iii, <a href="#Page_177">177-86</a>; - - Son dies, <a href="#Page_182">182</a>, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>.</li> - -<li>Belknap, Jeremy, referred to, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_85">85</a>.</li> - -<li>Belzebub, Works ascribed to, iii, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>.</li> - -<li>Bent, Peter, of Sudbury, iii, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Benom, Mistress, accused, iii, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>.</li> - -<li>Bent, Mr., ——, iii, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> - -<li>Bentley, William, D. D., on P. English, iii, <a href="#Page_179">179-81</a>.</li> - -<li>Bereans, reference to, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_3">3</a>.</li> - -<li>Bernard, Richard, on detecting Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_45">45-6</a>; - - Remarks on, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - - Calef on, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>; - - how did the Jews manage without him, iii, <a href="#Page_165">165</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Bibber"></a>Bibber, John, Witness against Giles Cory, iii, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> - -<li>Bibber, Sarah, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>; - - swears against Mrs. Nurse, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - - against Mr. Burroughs, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>; - - against Cory, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>.</li> - -<li>Billerica, People of, bewitched, iii, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Bishop"></a>Bishop, Bridget, Trial of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_163">163</a>; - - what her Shape did, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_164">164</a>; - - her Coat torn while Invisible, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_165">165</a>; - - her Poppets discovered, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_173">173</a>; - - Teats found upon her, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_174">174</a>; - - accused ten Years before, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_208">208</a>; - - long reputed a Witch, iii, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>; - - Executed, <i>ib.</i>; - - Copy of her Indictment, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>; - - others, <a href="#Page_75">75-6</a>; - - Trial of, <a href="#Page_77">77-80</a>; - - why called Oliver, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>; - - has a preternatural Teat, which vanished, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> - -<li>Bishop, Edward, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - - and Wife Sarah, committed, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>; - - why cried out on, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>; - - escape from Prison, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>; - - his Sow bewitched, <a href="#Page_81">81-2</a>.</li> - -<li>Bishop, Samuel, iii, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>; - - had married a Putnam, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Black-art taught by the Devil, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xii">xii</a>.</li> - -<li>Black, Mary, arrested, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.</li> - -<li>Blackmore, Richard, Sir, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>.</li> - -<li> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">227</a></span> -Black Pig, one appears to John Louder, iii, <a href="#Page_85">85-6</a>.</li> - -<li>Blazdel, [Henry?] <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_181">181</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>.</li> - -<li>Bligh, (Bly,) John, swears against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_167">167</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_81">81-2</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> - -<li>Bligh, William, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_173">173</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> - -<li>Blount, Thomas, Definition of Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xii">xii-xiii</a>.</li> - -<li>Bocking, Jane, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Bodin, John, Writer on Demonology, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_6">6</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_117">117</a>.</li> - -<li>Bohun, Edmund, Licencer, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_cii">cii</a>.</li> - -<li>Booth, Elizabeth, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Boxford, Witchcraft in, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Boynton, Joseph, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Bradbury, Mary, condemned, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> - -<li>Bradford, William, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Bradley, Samuel, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxvii">xxvii</a>.</li> - -<li>Bradstreet, John, accused, iii, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>; - - makes his escape, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> - -<li>Bradstreet, Simon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_85">85</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145-6</a>; - - Dudley commits accused, iii, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.</li> - -<li>Brattle, Thomas, Letter to, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_85">85-92</a>; - - William, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>.</li> - -<li>Braybrook, Samuel, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>; - - accuses Giles Cory, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>.</li> - -<li>Bridges, James, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Bridgham, Joseph, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Bridgman, Orlando, Sir, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_141">141</a>.</li> - -<li>Brimstone, horrid Scent of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_121">121</a>; - - without a Metaphor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_122">122</a>; - - a Flood of, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_4">4</a>; - - used in tormenting, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_33">33</a>; - - scalded with, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_47">47</a>; - - smelt in Margaret Rule's Case, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_53">53</a>.</li> - -<li>Brinley, George, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_viii">viii</a>.</li> - -<li>Brown, Hopestill, iii, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Brown, William, Witness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_182">182</a>; - - his Wife sees Susannah Martin vanish, iii, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>; - - some Devil bewitches her, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Bunyan, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>.</li> - -<li>Burder, George, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxix">lxxix</a>.</li> - -<li>Burnet, Bishop, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_140">140</a>.</li> - -<li>Burroughs, George, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>; - - Charges against, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_153">153</a>; - - childish Accusations against, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_154">154</a>; - - alleged Confusion, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_155">155</a>; - - accused of Murders, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_156">156</a>; - - Ghosts of his Wives, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_157">157</a>; - - his Promises to induce People to become Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_158">158</a>; - - had the Strength of a Giant, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>; - - Treatment of his Wives, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_160">160</a>; - - puts on Invisibility, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_161">161-2</a>; - - denies the Existence of Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_162">162</a>; - - Executed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_163">163</a>; - - his great Strength from the Devil, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_9">9</a>; - - further Account of his Execution, iii, <a href="#Page_38">38-9</a>; - - Confession of one of his Accusers, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>; - - Indictment, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>; - - Trial, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>; - - Brother-in-Law to Mr. Ruck, <a href="#Page_72">72-3</a>; - - denies that there are Witches, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>; - - about his putting on Invisibility, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>; - - Cause of his being prosecuted, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> - -<li>Burrows, [Burroughs] Jeremiah, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_84">84</a>.</li> - -<li>Burton, Robert, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxviii">xxxviii</a>.</li> - -<li>Buxton, John, afflicted, iii, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">CALEF, Robert, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxix">xxix</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxv">lxxv</a>; - - his <i>More Wonders</i>, &c., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>; - - a singular Judgment upon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxxvii">lxxxvii</a>; - - little known of him, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xii">xii</a>; - - a Sir John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xiii">xiii</a>; - - his <i>More Wonders</i> burnt, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>; - - Will of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxiii">xxiii</a>; - - before Authority to defend himself, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_8">8</a>; - - Visit to Margaret Rule, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_49">49</a>; - - threatened with Arrest for Slander, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_54">54</a>; - - proposes an Interview with Mr. C. Mather, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_55">55</a>; - - Letter to Mr. C. M., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56-59</a>; - - prosecuted, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_55">55</a>; - - explains his Belief of Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>; - - on the Power of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_58">58</a>; - - complains of Mr. M.'s bad Faith, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_60">60</a>; - - not appeared against at Court, <i>ib.</i>; - - another Letter to C. M., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_70">70-74</a>; - - the Case of Rule further examined, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_72">72</a>, &c.; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">228</a></span> - another Letter to C. M., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_79">79-85</a>; - - his Endeavors to clear the Accused, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_78">78</a>; - - expects Enemies, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_84">84</a>; - - will do his Duty, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_85">85</a>; - - Letter to Mr. B., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_85">85-92</a>; - - Letter to the Ministers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_92">92-102</a>; - - charges C. M. with being a Cause of the Witch Troubles, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_92">92</a>; - - his Answer, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_93">93</a>; - - his <i>More Wonders</i> denounced, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_96">96</a>; - - Letter to S. Willard, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_102">102-105</a>; - - another to C. M., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_113">113</a>; - - describes the Perils to an Opposer of Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_122">122</a>; - - Letter to the Ministers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_124">124-34</a>; - - rebukes the Ministers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_132">132-3</a>; - - Letter to Wadsworth, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_134">134-40</a>; - - Exposure of C. M.'s bad Logic, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_136">136</a>; - - Answer to Stuart, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_186">186-198</a>; - - on Angels, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_187">187</a>; - - accused of Blasphemy, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_202">202</a>; - - another in Answer to Stuart, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_207">207-212</a>; - - Strictures on I. Mather's Agency, iii, <a href="#Page_18">18</a> or <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.</li> - -<li>Camerarius, living Library, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_6">6</a>.</li> - -<li>Carlton, William, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>.</li> - -<li>Carrier, Martha, Indictment and Trial of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_194">194</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_113">113-121</a>; - - horribly tortures poor People, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>; - - her Children swear against her, <i>ib.</i>; - - causes Sores, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>; - - pulls one by his Hair, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>; - - kills Cattle, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>; - - shakes Phebe Chandler, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>; - - makes Noises in the Air, <i>ib.</i>; - - seen at Witch-meetings, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>; - - goes through the Air on a Pole, <i>ib.</i>; - - at a diabolical Sacrament, <i>ib.</i>; - - a rampant Hag, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>; - - to be Queen of Hell, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Carrier, Richard, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_197">197</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_199">199</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>; - - afflicts one, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>.</li> - -<li>Carrier, Thomas, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_194">194</a>.</li> - -<li>Cary, Mrs., accused, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - - sent to Prison, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>; - - Barbarity towards, <a href="#Page_20">20-25</a>; - - escapes to New York, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Cary, Jonathan, [Nathaniel,] iii, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> - -<li>Cat-rope, described, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Chamberlain, Edward, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Chandler, Bridget, swears against Mrs. Carrier, iii, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.</li> - -<li>Chandler, Phebe, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_198">198</a>; - - shaken by a Witch, iii, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>; - - her Legs seized on, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.</li> - -<li>Chandler, Susan, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Chandler, Thomas, Evidence, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Chapman, Simon, and Wife, iii, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> - -<li>Charity, recommended, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_28">28</a>.</li> - -<li>Charles, Second, iii, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> - -<li>Charlestown, Witchcraft Trials at, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Charms, by whom practiced, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_28">28</a>.</li> - -<li>Chase, G. W., <i>History of Haverhill</i>, iii, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>, <a href="#Page_196">196-7</a>.</li> - -<li>Checkley, Samuel, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Cheever, Ezekiel, Scribe, iii, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.</li> - -<li>Chester, Bishop of, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_ix">ix</a>.</li> - -<li>Chips in Wort, defined, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Choate, Thomas, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxvi">xxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Christian, Philosopher, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxii">lxxii-iii</a>.</li> - -<li>Churches, why often struck by Thunder, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_68">68-9</a>; - - prevent Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_130">130-1</a>.</li> - -<li>Churchill, Sarah, iii, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Circles.—See <a href="#Witch-Circles"><span class="smcap">Witch-Circles</span></a>.</li> - -<li>Clark, Mary, Examination of, iii, <a href="#Page_195">195-7</a>.</li> - -<li>Clark, Samuel, his Story of the Devil's Appearance, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_121">121</a>.</li> - -<li>Clavigero, [Francis Xavier,] <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_202">202</a>.</li> - -<li>Cloyce, Peter, protests against Mr. Parris, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143</a>.</li> - -<li>Cloyce, Sarah, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>; - - Sister Nurse, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>; - - goes out of Meeting, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">229</a></span> - an excellent Woman, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>.</li> - -<li>Colman, Benjamin, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xci">xci</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xcvi">xcvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Coman, Richard, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_167">167</a>; - - swears against Mrs. Bishop, iii, <a href="#Page_82">82</a>.</li> - -<li>Comings.—See <a href="#Cummings"><span class="smcap">Cummings</span></a>.</li> - -<li>Connecticut, Witchcraft in, iii, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> - -<li>Cook, Elisha, Judge, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_157">157</a>; - - Agent to England, iii, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Cook, John, a Witness, i, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_166">166</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_80">80-1</a>.</li> - -<li>Cooper, Thomas, on Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxv">xxxv</a>.</li> - -<li>Corwin, Jonathan, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>; - - examines Giles Cory, <a href="#Page_169">169</a>.</li> - -<li>Corwin, George, Sheriff, iii, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>; - - buried, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>, <a href="#Page_202">202</a>.</li> - -<li>Cory, Giles, pressed to Death, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_209">209</a>, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44-5</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>; - - his Examination, <a href="#Page_169">169-173</a>; - - Site of his Residence, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> - -<li>Cory, Martha, accused, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_9">9</a>; - - sent to Prison, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>; - - sentenced to Death, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>; - - executed, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>; - - Ballad on her and her Husband's Fate, <a href="#Page_174">174-77</a>.</li> - -<li>Cotton, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxv">xxv</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxvi">lxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Cox, Mary, Irons for, iii, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.</li> - -<li>Crosby, [Anthony?] a Doctor, declares Hysterics a Case of Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> - -<li>Cullender, Rose, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Cumbey, Robert, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Cummings"></a>Cummings, Josiah, iii, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> - -<li>Cummings, Isaac, Witness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_192">192</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>; - - his Mare dies, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> - -<li>Curiosities, matchless, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_201">201-210</a>.</li> - -<li>Cushing, John D., II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">DAGGET, William, iii, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>.</li> - -<li>Dane, Deliverance, signs a Recantation, iii, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> - -<li>Dane, Francis, iii, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>; John, his Apology, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Danforth, Samuel, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xcvi">xcvi</a>; - - Thomas, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>; iii, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>; - - Judge, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>; - - Services, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>; - - admonishes Mrs. Daston, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li>Daniel, Samuel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Dastin"></a>Dastin, Goodwife, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>; - - cleared, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>; - - but dies in Prison, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li>Davis, Silvanus, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Dean, John Ward, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_13">13</a>.</li> - -<li>Dee, John, Astrologer, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_124">124</a>.</li> - -<li>Defoe, D., on the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_102">102</a>.</li> - -<li>Delrio, on Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xiii">xiii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xx">xx</a>.</li> - -<li>Demonology, by King James, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xx">xx</a>; - - its Character, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xli">xli-iii</a>.</li> - -<li>Demons, prestigious ones, iii, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> - -<li>Denmark, great Discovery of Witches in, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_148">148</a>.</li> - -<li>Desaguliers, J. T., I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Devil"></a>Devil, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xi">xi</a>; - - teaches the Black Art, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xii">xii</a>; - - how he creates Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xv">xv</a>; - - Nature of his Covenant with, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xviii">xviii-xix</a>; - - exists by God's Permission, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xx">xx</a>; - - the Principal in Witchcraft, but cannot be tried, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxvi">xxvi</a>; - - assents to good Offices, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxvii">xxxvii</a>; - - appears personally to Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_liv">liv</a>; - - what he requires of them, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lv">lv</a>; - - coming down in great Wrath, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_50">50</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_54">54</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_76">76</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_95">95</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_101">101</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_117">117</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_122">122</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_135">135</a>; - - owned N. England, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_15">15</a>; - - an Army of Devils, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_17">17</a>; - - many sign his Book, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_18">18</a>; - - has made a dreadful Knot of Witches, <i>ib.</i>; - - his Juggles feared, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_19">19</a>; - - bid come out of a Damsel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_20">20</a>; - - Speech of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_20">20-1</a>; - - may represent an innocent Person, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_21">21</a>; - - darting Operations, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_24">24</a>; - - raises Storms and Tempests, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_25">25</a>; - - envies the Prospects of the Country, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>; - - made us a troubled Sea, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_27">27</a>; - - gives us Shakes, <i>ib.</i>; commissioned by Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_29">29</a>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">230</a></span> - tells many Truths, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_31">31</a>; - - Devil-ridden, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_33">33</a>; - - always leaves the Mark of his Covenant, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_40">40</a>; - - League with, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_41">41</a>; - - his Existence not doubted, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_55">55-6</a>; - - Government among, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_57">57</a>; - - swarm about us like the Frogs of Egypt, <i>ib.</i>; - - Prince of the Power of the Air, <i>ib.</i>; - - Belzebub, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_58">58</a>; - - knows every Language, <i>ib.</i>; - - Degrees of Devils, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_59">59</a>; - - horrible Dragon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_60">60</a>; - - a Tyger, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_61">61</a>; - - gets Liberty to make a Descent upon Men, <i>ib.</i>; - - Rendezvous of his Troops, <i>ib.</i>; - - his long Journey, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_62">62</a>; - - a Do-evil ,<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_64">64</a>; - - a Moloch, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_65">65</a>; - - prevents Discoveries and Inventions, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_66">66</a>; - - sends Plagues, and Pestilence, and Wars, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_67">67</a>; - - a Vulcan, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_68">68</a>; - - makes a horrible Tempest, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_69">69</a>; - - uses a hot Iron, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_71">71</a>; - - his Wrath increases, is Prince of this World, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_72">72</a>; - - God swears at, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_73">73</a>; - - his Time almost out, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_74">74</a>; - - God's Command to, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_76">76</a>; - - makes Earthquakes, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_77">77</a>; - - his present Quarters, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_79">79</a>; - - his World, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_80">80</a>; - - incredible Droves of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_81">81</a>; - - nibbles at the Heels of Saints, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_83">83</a>; - - the World his Country, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_85">85</a>; - - his Time nearly out, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_88">88-91</a>; - - his eldest Son, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_89">89</a>; - - alarmed at the Settlement of N. England, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_94">94</a>; - - an Eyesore to, <i>ib.</i>; - - an antagonistic Force, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_96">96</a>; - - appears as a black Man, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_102">102</a>; - - his Law Book, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_104">104</a>; - - takes on the Likeness of harmless People, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_106">106</a>; - - permitted by God, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_107">107</a>; - - burning and sooty, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>; - - in God's Chain, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_110">110</a>; - - baptises, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_111">111</a>; - - administers the Sacrament, <i>ib.</i>; - - how influenced to come down, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_114">114</a>; - - the Way to out-wit him, <i>ib.</i>; - - we give Rest to, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_115">115</a>; - - Sparks of Hell Fire flashing from every Side of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_115">115</a>; - - on a Chimney in Germany, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_116">116</a>; - - throwing Stones there, and other Mischief, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_117">117</a>; - - set on by the Wrath of God, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_118">118</a>; - - rattling of his Chains heard, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_121">121</a>; - - an Asp, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_122">122</a>; - - infernal Dragon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_124">124</a>; - - flies about as a Bird, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_130">130</a>; - - Children dedicated to, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_131">131</a>; - - a Whip for his Back, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_132">132</a>; - - forced to fly by a Woman behind the Door, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_133">133</a>; - - a Prince, a God, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_134">134</a>; - - afflicts with Distempers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_148">148-9</a>; - - a black Man, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>; - - described, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_171">171</a>; - - one in a Meeting-house, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_174">174</a>; - - performs Baptisms at Newbury Falls, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_194">194</a>; - - carries some to a Witch-meeting on a Pole, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_199">199</a>; - - appoints a Queen of Hell, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_200">200</a>; - - apishly affects divine Things, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_201">201</a>; - - his Proceedings among the Swedes, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_216">216</a>; - - discovered by the Author, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_217">217</a>; - - his Power, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_218">218</a>; - - Dog of Hell, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_219">219</a>; - - Serpent upon a Rock, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_220">220</a>; - - tempts with Friendship, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_224">224</a>; - - a speckled Snake when he tempted Eve, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_225">225</a>; - - shoots cruel Bombs, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_227">227</a>; - - would burn all the Bibles, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_229">229</a>; - - a Throng of in the Author's Meeting-house, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_230">230</a>; - - he rocks Persons to sleep there, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_231">231</a>; - - hurried Jesus to the Top of the Temple, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_232">232</a>; - - prevents Witches from uttering all the Lord's Prayer, <i>ib.</i>; - - a Nimrod, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_233">233</a>; - - can attack with Thunder and Lightning; - - raise Storms, <i>ib.</i>; - - a Goliah; - - dogs Ministers, bad at quoting Scripture, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_234">234</a>; - - quotes it for our Terror, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_235">235</a>; - - plays the Preacher, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_236">236</a>; - - consulting Astrologers is going to the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_238">238</a>; - - a Mountebank, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_241">241</a>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">231</a></span> - to worship him is Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_243">243</a>; - - with lengthened Chains, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_4">4</a>; - - commissioned by Witches questioned, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>; - - further discussed, <i>ib.</i>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_8">8</a>; - - his Power to create Strength? <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_9">9</a>; - - origin of the Belief in such a Character, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_11">11</a>; - - a damnable Doctrine, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - - appears to an Indian, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_25">25</a>; - - prodigious Descent of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>; - - his Size, Complexion and Voice, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_29">29-30</a>; - - his Power, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_41">41</a>; - - very uncertain, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_42">42</a>; - - "horrendous Operations," <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_46">46</a>; - - got a Scourge for his Back, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_47">47</a>; - - not commissioned by a Witch, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_58">58</a>; - - denied, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_76">76</a>; - - can work Miracles, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_74">74</a>; - - his Bounds set, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_76">76</a>; - - causes Plagues, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_79">79</a>; - - does not know every Language, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_80">80</a>; - - his Testimony not to be regarded, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_82">82</a>; - - the oldest Sinner, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_90">90</a>; - - more about his Powers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_94">94-5</a>; - - vast Numbers of, <i>ib.</i>; - - a Free-willer, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_118">118</a>; - - commissioned by Contract, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_128">128</a>; - - only commissioned by God, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_130">130-1</a>; - - no Father of Bastards, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_196">196</a>; - - an independent Power, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_201">201</a>; - - resembles an Indian, iii, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>; - - described, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>; - - flies over an Apple-tree, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>; - - Depredation in a Meeting-house, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>; - - performs Baptism, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>; - - his Manner of Baptising, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>; - - vanquished by Sir W. Phips, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>; - - commissioned by Witches, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>; - - meets with Astonishment, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> - -<li>Douglass, William, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxix">lxix</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxx">lxx</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_iii">iii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>.</li> - -<li>Downer, Robert, Witness against Mrs. Martin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_180">180</a>; - - tormented by her in the Shape of a Cat, iii, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>.</li> - -<li>Dragon, makes Wars, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_67">67</a>; - - insinuates Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_124">124</a>; - - a great Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_216">216</a>; - - hard after Ministers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_234">234</a>; - - keeping Guard, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_79">79</a>.</li> - -<li>Drake, Nathan, Extracts from, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxiii">xxxiii</a>.</li> - -<li>Dudley, Joseph, iii, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>; - - presides at the Trial of Glover, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>.</li> - -<li>Dummer, Jeremiah, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Dunton, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vi">vi</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_viii">viii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_217">217</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vi">vi</a>, -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>.</li> - -<li>Durent, Ann, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_142">142</a>; William, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Dustin, Hannah.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Dastin">Dastin</a></span>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">EAMES, Rebecca, condemned and executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li>Earl, Robert, on Margaret Rule, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_69">69</a>.</li> - -<li>Earth, recedes from the Sun, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>; - - filled with firey-flying Serpents, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_81">81</a>.</li> - -<li>Earthquakes, the Work of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_77">77</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_78">78</a>; - - happening all over Europe, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_91">91</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_92">92</a>.</li> - -<li>Easty, Isaac, committed for Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.</li> - -<li>Easty, Mary, sentenced, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>; - - her Execution, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>; - - dies protesting her Innocence, <a href="#Page_46">46-48</a>; - - an excellent Woman, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>.</li> - -<li>Elimas, Sorceries of, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_171">171</a>.</li> - -<li>Eliot, Edmund, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_181">181</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_182">182</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_97">97-8</a>.</li> - -<li>Eliot, John I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxvi">lxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Elizabeth, Queen, Witchcraft in her Time, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxix">xxxix</a>.</li> - -<li>Elliott, Andrew, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Ember-weeks, what they are, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_116">116</a>.</li> - -<li>Enchantments encountered, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_9">9-48</a>.</li> - -<li>Endicott, Zerobbabel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_210">210</a>.</li> - -<li>English, Mary, committed, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>; - - escapes, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>; - - Testimony against, <a href="#Page_126">126-7</a>.</li> - -<li>English, Philip, indicted, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>; - - escapes from Prison, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>; - - Account of, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>; - - an Episcopalian, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>; - dies, <a href="#Page_181">181</a>.</li> - -<li> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">232</a></span> -Ethnics, Gentiles, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_119">119</a>, -iii, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> - -<li>Evelith, Joseph, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">FALKNER, condemned to Death, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li>Familiar Spirit, who hath it, iii, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> - -<li>Farnam, John, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Farnum, [Varnum?] Ralph, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_195">195</a>.</li> - -<li>Farrare, Thomas, iii, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> - -<li>Fast, appointed in Reference to Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_132">132</a>.</li> - -<li>Felt, Joseph B., cited, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>, -iii, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_181">181</a>.</li> - -<li>Filmer, Robert, Sir, on Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xvii">xvii-xx</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxv">xxv</a>.</li> - -<li>Firmin, Giles, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_13">13</a>.</li> - -<li>Fisk, Thomas, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Fisk, William, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Fletcher, Benjamin, Gov., iii, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>; - - his Kindness to Fugitives from Witchcraft Prosecutions, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> - -<li>Flint, Thomas, a Searcher for Witchteats, iii, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> - -<li>Flood, a great one in the Connecticut, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_29">29</a>.</li> - -<li>Fogg, John S. H., ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>.</li> - -<li>Fools, made able Fortune-tellers, iii, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Foster, Ann, executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>; - - her Confession, <a href="#Page_119">119-20</a>; - - Remark upon, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> - -<li>Foster, Ephraim, Evidence in Wardwell's Case, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Foster, Hannah, confesses being carried on a Pole to a Witch-meeting, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_199">199</a>.</li> - -<li>Foster, Jacob, iii, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> - -<li>Foster, John, first Printer in Boston, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Fowler, Joseph, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> - -<li>Fowler, Samuel P., ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_6">6</a>; - - his Life of Parris, iii, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> - -<li>Foy, [John?] Captain, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_137">137</a>.</li> - -<li>Franckius, [Peter?] I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Franklin, Benjamin, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi-vii</a>.</li> - -<li>Freemen, and Non-freemen, iii, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> - -<li>Fuller, Goodman, is killed by Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>Fuller, [Jacob?] a Doctor, decides a Case of Hysterics to be Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> - -<li>Fuller, John, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li>Fuller, Thomas, D. D., I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi-vii</a>, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_196">196</a>.</li> - -<li>Fuller, Thomas, iii, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">GALLOWS-HILL, where reputed Witches were executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li>Gallows-Tree, iii, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> - -<li>Gaul, John, on Detection of Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_42">42-4</a>; - his Rules observed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_153">153</a>; - Remarks upon, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - Calef on, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_70">70</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_197">197</a>; - Mather on, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Gedney"></a>Gedney, Bartholomew, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>; - Judge, iii, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>; - Conduct at Capt. Alden's Trial, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> - -<li>Gee, Joshua, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xcvi">xcvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Germany, the Devil on a Chimney there, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_117">117</a>; - Witchcraft in, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_197">197</a>.</li> - -<li>Ghosts of murdered People appear, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_155">155</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_156">156-7</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_209">209</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> - -<li>Gibbs, Barnabas, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxv">xxv</a>.</li> - -<li>Gidney, Bartholomew.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Gedney">Gedney</a></span>.</li> - -<li>Gill, Obadiah, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>; - William, a Searcher for Witchteats, iii, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> - -<li>Glanville, Joseph, describes Unbelievers in Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxi">lxi</a>.</li> - -<li>Glover, <i>Goody</i>, executed, iii, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Goblin"></a>Goblin, one described, iii, <a href="#Page_85">85-6</a>.—See <a href="#Hobgoblin"><span class="smcap">Hobgoblin</span></a>.</li> - -<li> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">233</a></span> -God, swears in loud Thunders at the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_73">73</a>; - more abandons the World than formerly, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>; - bids the Devil make all miserable, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_76">76</a>; - permits the Devil to come upon us, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_107">107</a>; - has the Devil in a Chain, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_110">110</a>; - his Wrath sets on the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_118">118</a>; - would have subdued the Devil if called upon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_120">120</a>; - swears in Wrath, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_125">125</a>; - clucks to us, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_130">130</a>; - a Dog of Hell barking at him, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_219">219</a>; - the Devil superior to, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_9">9</a>; - whether he commissions the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_70">70</a>; - the Mother of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_82">82</a>; - leaves the Devil at free-will, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_118">118</a>; - commissions the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_130">130-1</a>.</li> - -<li>Godfrey, John, iii, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.</li> - -<li>Gold, Sam., at Mrs. Bishop's Trial, iii, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>; - at Giles Cory's, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>.</li> - -<li>Good, Sarah, accused of being a Witch, iii, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>; - her Child also, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - Chains for, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>; - executed, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>; - Horrors attending, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> - -<li>Good, William, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Goodall, Goodwife, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> - -<li>Goodwin, John, Children bewitched, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxxviii">lxxxviii</a>; - testifies to a Miracle, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>; - Baxter on the Story, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_45">45</a>; - farther Note on, iii, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>.</li> - -<li>Gould, William, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxiii">xxiii</a>.</li> - -<li>Gowans, William, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xciii">xciii</a>.</li> - -<li>Gray, Samuel, swears against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_166">166</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.</li> - -<li>Green Lane, iii, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> - -<li>Green, Mary, imprisoned and escapes, iii, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> - -<li>Green, Thomas, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxv">xxv</a>.</li> - -<li>Greenslett, John, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>Greenslett, Thomas, swears against Mr. Burroughs, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>Griggs, Dr., iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_190">190</a>, <a href="#Page_205">205-6</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">HADLEY, Deborah, iii, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> - -<li>Hale, John, prays at Witch Trials, iii, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>; - attends Examinations, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>; - his Wife accused, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>; - on Mr. Parris's Conduct, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> - -<li>Hall, Bishop, on the Devil's Prevalency, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_112">112</a>; - on Astrology and Magic, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_124">124</a>.</li> - -<li>Hanvoord, Goodman, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li>Happy Family, Origin of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_29">29</a>.</li> - -<li>Hardy, Thomas, his Snare of Devilism, iii, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> - -<li>Harris, Benjamin, I, vii, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_55">55</a>.</li> - -<li>Harrod, John, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li>Hathorne, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>; - Inhumanity of, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>; - Examinant of Giles Cory, <a href="#Page_169">169</a>; - of Tituba, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>; - of Mary Clark, <a href="#Page_195">195</a>.</li> - -<li>Hathorne, Susanna, iii, <a href="#Page_195">195</a>.</li> - -<li>Haverhill, Witchcraft in, iii, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>, <a href="#Page_195">195</a>, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> - -<li>Hell, Toyls of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_19">19</a>; - Belial of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_22">22</a>; - Mad Dogs of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_27">27</a>; - Philistines of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_27">27</a>; - Mastives of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_64">64</a>; - lowest Depths of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_77">77</a>; - hellish Rattlesnakes, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_80">80</a>; - wild Beasts of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_86">86</a>; - Ty-dogs of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>; - Adders of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_118">118</a>; - a little Portraiture of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_131">131</a>; - a Queen appointed for, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_200">200</a>; - the Pilate of, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_27">27</a>; - Lions and Bears of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_43">43</a>; - lively Demonstrations of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_47">47</a>; - Covenant with, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_136">136</a>; - great Officers of, iii, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> - -<li>Hemmingius, Nicholas, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Herrick, George, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>; - Marshal, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>; - testifies against Giles Cory, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> - -<li>Herrick, Henry, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Heyman, Samuel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Hiacoomes, a Christian Indian, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_23">23</a>.</li> - -<li>Higginson, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_201">201</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_207">207</a>; - Examiner, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">234</a></span> -Hill, John, Capt., ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>; - at Salem, iii, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.</li> - -<li>Hill, Zeb., a Searcher for Witchteats, iii, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> - -<li>Hinckley, Thomas, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Hoar, Dorcas, condemned, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>; - Estate seized, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> - -<li>Hobs, William, committed, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.</li> - -<li>Hobbes, Thomas, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_201">201</a>.</li> - -<li>Hobbs, Abigail, condemned and executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li>Hobbs, Deliverance, Witness against Bishop, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_165">165</a>; - committed as a Witch, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>; - tormented, <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Hobgoblin"></a>Hobgoblin, Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Goblin">Goblin</a></span>.</li> - -<li>Holland, Joseph, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxii">xxii</a>.</li> - -<li>Hollingworth, Richard, iii, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_182">182</a>; - William, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li><a id="Holton"></a>Holton, Benjamin, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - Sarah, Witness against Mrs. Nurse, <i>ib.</i>—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Houlton">Houlton</a></span>.</li> - -<li>Hopkins, Matthew, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_30">30</a>.</li> - -<li>Horneck, Anthony, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Horse-shoes, used by Conjurors, iii, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Houlton"></a>Houlton, Joseph, iii, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Holton">Holton</a></span>.</li> - -<li>How, Elizabeth, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_188">188</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>; - Indictment of, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>; - Trial of, <a href="#Page_105">105-113</a>; - Wife of James, <i>ib.</i>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>; - baptised by the Devil, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> - -<li>How, John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_190">190</a>; - Witness against his Sister, iii, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>.</li> - -<li>Howe, John, Mr., iii, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>.</li> - -<li>Howell, James, on Witchcraft, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_127">127</a>.</li> - -<li>Hubbard, Elizabeth, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>; - swears against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_75">75-6</a>; - against Carrier, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>; - against Giles Cory, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>; - has Fits, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</li> - -<li>Hudibras, on A. Ross, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Hudson, William, sees Margaret Rule go up without Hands, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_70">70</a>.</li> - -<li>Hughes, John, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Huguenots, Note on the, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_70">70</a>.</li> - -<li>Hunnewell, Richard, Lt., iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>Hunt, Ephraim, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Hutchinson, Benj., Complainant, iii, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Hutchinson, Elisha, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">IMPS, Employment of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_112">112</a>; - one sinks a Ship, <i>ib.</i>; - one appears like a Rat, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_35">35</a>.</li> - -<li>Indians, vast Herds of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_65">65</a>; - Efforts of Powawes against the Settlers, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_94">94-5</a>; - one of great Strength, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>; - under Conduct of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_207">207</a>; - Christian, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_23">23</a>; - one tempted by the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_25">25</a>; - Witches among, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_75">75</a>; - Reason for, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_117">117-18</a>; - Notions of Religion, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_125">125</a>; - Covenant to adore the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_136">136</a>; - practice Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>; - resemble the Devil, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>; -in Witchcraft, <a href="#Page_185">185-95</a>; - two at Salem, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Ingersol, John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_163">163</a>; - Nathaniel, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143</a>, -iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - Witness, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>.</li> - -<li>Inventions, hindered by the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_66">66</a>.</li> - -<li>Invisibility of Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_204">204</a>; - Mist of, iii, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">JACOBS, George, Executed, iii, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>; - further noticed, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Jacobs, Margaret, confesses, iii, <a href="#Page_43">43-4</a>; - escapes Death, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Jacobs, Mary, one of the Afflicted, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> - -<li>Jacobs, Thomas, Evidence against Bibber, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> - -<li>Jackson, Doctor, iii, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>.</li> - -<li> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">235</a></span> -Jamaica, Earthquake at, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_78">78</a>.</li> - -<li>James First, his Demonology, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xx">xx</a>; - his Royal Nonsense, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxii">xxii</a>; - his Rules for detecting Witches, <i>ib.</i>; - followed by Cooper, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxvii">xxxvii</a>; - Effect of James's Book, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xli">xli</a>; - describes what Witches can do, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lii">lii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_liii">liii</a>.</li> - -<li>James Second, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_92">92</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>; 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Bishop, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>; - his Wife Tituba, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> - -<li>Johnson, Eliza, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Johnson, Samuel, defines Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xiv">xiv</a>.</li> - -<li>Jolliffe, John, Counsellor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Judges, remarkably blind, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_107">107</a>; - pitiable, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_127">127</a>; - defer to Hale's Decisions, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_141">141</a>; - their Reason departed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_174">174</a>.</li> - -<li>Jurin, James, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Jurors, some acknowledge their Errors, iii, <a href="#Page_134">134-5</a>.</li> - -<li>Justin, Martyr, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">KEELING, Judge, a wise Decision of, disregarded, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_148">148</a>.</li> - -<li>Kembal, John, Witness against Martin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_180">180</a>; - she bewitches his Cattle, iii, <a href="#Page_96">96-7</a>; - sees a black Cloud, and runs upon Stumps, <i>ib.</i>; - Puppies appear to him, <a href="#Page_98">98</a>.</li> - -<li>Keney, Henry, testifies against Mrs. Cory, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Kersey, John, his Definition of Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xii">xii</a>.</li> - -<li>Keys, used by Conjurors, iii, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Keysar, ——, Daughter distracted, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.</li> - -<li>Kimball.—See <span class="errauthor" title="not in text"><span class="smcap">Kemble</span></span>.</li> - -<li>King, D. P., owned the Site of Giles Cory's House, iii, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>.</li> - -<li>Knowlton, Joseph, and Wife, iii, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">LACY, Lawrence, Wife bewitched, iii, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> - -<li>Lacy, Mary, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_199">199</a>; another, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_200">200</a>; - Condemned and Executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>; - her Confession, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> - -<li>Lancashire Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_158">158</a>.</li> - -<li>Lane, Francis, Witness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_193">193</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>; - his Rails bewitched, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> - -<li>Laplanders, Witchcraft among, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>.</li> - -<li>Lawrence, Robert, of Casco, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>Laws, against Witchcraft, remark on, iii, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>; - repealed, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Lawson, Dedot, his History, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_iv">iv</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_186">186</a>; - endorses the Story of the Iron Spindle, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_205">205</a>; - defends the Proceedings against Witchcraft, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_154">154-5</a>; - at Salem, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>; - on Mr. Burroughs, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>; - his Wife and Children killed, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>; - Chaplain to Andros's Expedition, <i>ib.</i>; - more about the Murder of his Family, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>; - on the Devil's Baptism, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> - -<li>Le Clerc, [Jean,] cited, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_212">212</a>.</li> - -<li>Legion, definition of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>; of Devils, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_218">218</a>, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_95">95</a>.</li> - -<li>Leverett, John, Gov., ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>.</li> - -<li>Lewis, Mary, [Mercy,] iii, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.</li> - -<li>Lewis, Mercy, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>; - sees a Man in White, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>; - Witness against Mr. Burroughs, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>; - against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>; - against Philip English, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>; - against Giles Cory, -<a href="#Page_170">170</a>; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">236</a></span> - Account of, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>; - why she accused Mr. Burroughs, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> - -<li>Leyton, [Thomas,] Mr., of Lynn, iii, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> - -<li>Loader, [Louder?] John, Evidence against Mrs. Bishop, iii, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>.</li> - -<li>Locker, George, Constable, iii, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> - -<li>Lothrop, Barnabas, Counsellor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Louder, John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_170">170</a>; - sees the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_171">171</a>; - sees a Black Pig, iii, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.</li> - -<li>Louis, Fourteenth, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_93">93</a>.</li> - -<li>Lynd, Joseph, Counsellor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">MANCHESTER, a Spectre worsted there, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_206">206</a>.</li> - -<li>Maniche, an Arabian God, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li>Manning, Jacob, Dep. Marshal, arrests Mr. English, iii, <a href="#Page_181">181</a>.</li> - -<li>Marshall, John, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxviii">xxviii</a>.</li> - -<li>Martin, George, iii, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>.</li> - -<li>Martin, Susanna, Trial of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_175">175</a>; - Execution, iii, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>; - Indictment against, <a href="#Page_89">89-103</a>; - cast into a very singular Confusion, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>; - appears to John Pressy, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>.</li> - -<li>Martyr, Justin, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>.</li> - -<li>Mary, Queen of William Third, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_92">92</a>; - Death of, iii, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> - -<li>Mascon, the Devil of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_70">70</a>.</li> - -<li>Mason, Stephen, Counsellor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Mather, Cotton, why charged with an undue Share of the Persections, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_iii">iii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxiv">lxxiv</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxxv">lxxxv</a>; - his Faith in Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_v">v</a>; - his unfortunate Book, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxiv">xxxiv</a>; - Memoirs of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxv">lxv-xcviii</a>; - his Defence, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_1">1-4</a>; - further Defence of the Prosecutions, iii, <a href="#Page_59">59-61</a>; - Countermines the Plot of the Devil, i, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_3">3</a>; - bedeviled, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_80">80</a>; - condemns Astrology, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_123">123-4</a>; - Pity for the Judges, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_127">127-8</a>; - not present at the Witch Trials, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_139">139</a>; - Rejoices at the Justice of the Work against Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_140">140</a>; - Horror at the Name of Mr. Burroughs, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_152">152</a>; - believes in the Ability of Witches to put on Invisibility, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_162">162</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_204">204</a>; - gives Unbelievers three Bones to pick, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_205">205</a>; - some Misgivings about shedding Blood, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_207">207</a>; - Argument against Calef, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xiii">xiii-xviii</a>; - Story of Margaret Rule, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_21">21-36</a>; - read many Books of Physic, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_34">34</a>; - relieves M. Rule by three Fasts, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_39">39</a>; - pains to rescue the Miserable from Lions and Bears of Hell, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_42">42</a>; - thanked by Venerable Baxter, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_43">43</a>; - tries to prevent excessive Credit of spectral Evidence, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_44">44</a>; - his own Estimate <span class="err" title="original: of of his">of his</span> Labors, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_46">46-7</a>; - Complaints, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_48">48</a>; - Letters to, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_48">48-62</a>; - threatens Calef, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_54">54</a>; - has him arrested, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_55">55</a>; - fails to meet him, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_60">60</a>; - Whittier on, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_61">61</a>; - Letter to Calef, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_62">62-8</a>; - brings heavy Charges against him, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_64">64</a>; - People believe smutty Things of him, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_65">65</a>; - Defends his Father, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_66">66</a>; - offers Mr. Calef the Use of his Books, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_67">67</a>; - Charges of Hellish Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_80">80</a>; - does not understand the Wiles of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_83">83</a>; - Thunder breaks into his House, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_86">86</a>; - defines a Witch, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_90">90</a>; - a Cause of the Convictions, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_92">92</a>; - his Answer, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_93">93</a>; - Denial of Statements made by Calef, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_96">96</a>; - does not distinguish between Miracles and Works of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_97">97</a>; - Arraigned by R. C. in Argument, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_135">135-6</a>; - Messenger, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>; - heavy Charges against Calef, iii, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>; - Acquainted with the Wiles of the Devil, <i>ib.</i>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">237</a></span> - Conduct at Mr. Burroughs's Execution, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>; - Defence of the Prosecutions, <a href="#Page_59">59-61</a>; - Omissions, iii, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>; - an Advocate, <a href="#Page_122">122</a>; - his Account of Trials as faithful as others, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>; - his Life of Phips anonymous, and why, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>; - Defends it, <a href="#Page_137">137-8</a>, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>; - strenuous for a Reassumption of the Charter, <a href="#Page_146">146</a>; - compares Mr. Calef to Satan, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>; - the most Active of any in prosecuting Witches, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>; - his contradictory Statements pointed out, <a href="#Page_157">157-8</a>; - his Ambidexterity, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>; - his Relatives accused, <i>ib.</i>; - sincere and credulous, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> - -<li>Mather, Increase, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_vi">vi</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxx">xxx</a>; ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - prays with Margaret Rule, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_51">51</a>; - Proceedings against Mr. Calef, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_55">55</a>; - cited, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_60">60</a>; - defended by his Son, C., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_66">66</a>; - on the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_90">90</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_95">95</a>; - <i>Remarkable Providences</i>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_106">106-7</a>; - Messenger, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>; - Defence about the Charter, iii, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>; - Proctor's Appeal to, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>; - Cases of Conscience, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>; - Angelographia, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>; - his Acts retold by his Son, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>; - his Ideas undergo a Change, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>; - troubled by Fobb-actions, appears to King James, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>; - his Reason for accepting a new Charter, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>; - the bewitched <i>Eye</i>, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>; - Moderater of Mr. Parris's Council, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> - -<li>Mather, Nathaniel, iii, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>.</li> - -<li>Mather, Samuel, Life of his Father, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxvii">lxvii</a>; - Funeral Sermon on, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xcvii">xcvii</a>.</li> - -<li>Mead, Matthew, Mr., iii, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>.</li> - -<li>Meeting House, the Devil in one, iii, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.</li> - -<li>Memorable Providences, approved by Baxter, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>; - a Work by I. Mather, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_106">106-7</a>.</li> - -<li>Merlin, Ambrose, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_196">196</a>.</li> - -<li>Mexico, Indians of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_201">201-2</a>.</li> - -<li>Middlecot, Richard, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Millenium, near at Hand, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_90">90-1</a>.</li> - -<li>Milton, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xi">xi</a>.</li> - -<li>Ministers, why dogged more by the Devil than others, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_234">234</a>; - Stars of Heaven, in danger of the Dragon's Tail, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Miracles, one witnessed, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_74">74</a>; - wrought by Men, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li>Mist of Invisibility, iii, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> - -<li>Moody, Joshua, iii, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>; - aids Philip English to escape from Jail, <a href="#Page_179">179-180</a>.</li> - -<li><i>More Wonders</i>, a vile Book, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_96">96</a>.</li> - -<li>Morgan, Samuel, Searcher for Witch teats, iii, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> - -<li>Mormons, reference to, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_81">81</a>.</li> - -<li>Morton, Charles, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">NAZIANZEN, the Author like a, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_28">28</a>.</li> - -<li>Newbury-Falls, Baptisms there by the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_194">194</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> - -<li>New England, Loyalty and Religion in, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_10">10</a>; - no Land so free from Vices, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - once the Devil's Territory, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_120">120</a>; - broken in upon by an Army of Devils, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_17">17</a>; - a Scandal feared from Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_19">19</a>; - Province of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_20">20</a>; - stocked with Rattle-snakes, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_25">25</a>; - little Hope of, from the Wrath of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_93">93-4</a>; - a howling Wilderness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_94">94</a>; - its Losses by Indians and by Sea, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_95">95</a>; - Decline of Godliness in, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_96">96</a>; - poor N. England, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>; - People in the Belly of Hell, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_110">110</a>; - pleases the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_122">122</a>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">238</a></span> - no People so basely despise the Gospel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_125">125</a>; - hast destroyed thyself, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_6">6</a>; - a Charter obtained, iii, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>; - why Quo Warrantoed, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>; - worse circumstanced than any Corporation in England, <i>ib.</i>; - Revolution in, <a href="#Page_144">144-153</a>; - Prodigies in, not a tenth Part related, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> - -<li>Necromancy, who are guilty of it, iii, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> - -<li>Noyes, Nicholas, I, vii, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>; - at Alden's Trial, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>; - Conduct at Executions, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>; - his Firebrands of Hell, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>; - at the Examination of Mary Clark, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> - -<li>Nurse, Francis, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> - -<li>Nurse, Rebecca, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>; - Sister Cloyce, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>; - executed, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>; - her Explanation, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>; - Sister Easty, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>; - why accused, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> - -<li>Nurse, Samuel, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_211">211</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">OAKES, Thomas, Agent to England, iii, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> - -<li>Ogilvie, John, Definition of Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xiv">xiv-xvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Old South Church, Boston, iii, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>; - Ministers of, in Witchcraft Times, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> - -<li>Oliver, alias Bishop.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Bishop">Bishop, Bridget</a></span>.</li> - -<li>Orton, Job, on W. Perkins, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_38">38</a>.</li> - -<li>Osborn, Sarah, accused, iii, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>; - Iron Chains prepared for, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>; - accused by Tituba, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>.</li> - -<li>Osgood, Mary, Recantation of, iii, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">PACY, Deborah, afflicted, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Pacy, Elizabeth, afflicted, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_142">142</a>.</li> - -<li>Paganism, Popery, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_52">52</a>.</li> - -<li>Palmer, John, his Book on N. England, iii, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>.</li> - -<li>Paracelsus, [Auroleus,] I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxviii">xxxviii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_68">68</a>.</li> - -<li>Parker, Alice, a Witch, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_208">208</a>; - Sentence to die, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> - -<li>Parker, Mary, condemned and executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li>Parris, Elizabeth, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> - -<li>Parris, Noyes, iii, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Parris, Samuel, Protest against, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_141">141-3</a>; - long and humble Acknowledgment, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143-8</a>; - Ministers and Elders of the Churches recommend his Acknowledgment be accepted, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_149">149-51</a>; - further Protest against, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_152">152-3</a>; - the Elders' Plea for, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_155">155-6</a>; - accused of swearing falsely, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_158">158</a>; - his Account of the Beginning of the Troubles, iii, <a href="#Page_3">3-4</a>; - swears against Rebecca Nurse, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - preaches, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>; - appointed Scribe at the Examinations, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>; - Examinations at his House, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>; - swears against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>; - Scribe at How's Trial, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>; - at other Times, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>; - at Cory's Examination, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>; - Account of, <a href="#Page_198">198-222</a>; - Family of, <a href="#Page_203">203-4</a>, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>; - not an Enemy to Mr. Burroughs, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>; - not a swift Witness, <i>ib.</i>; - how his Name comes to be frequent in the Trials, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>; - cleared by a Council, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>; - but dismissed, <a href="#Page_218">218</a>; - Epitaph on his Wife, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>; - his Death, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Parris, Samuel, Deacon, iii, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Parris, Thomas, iii, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>.</li> - -<li>Payne, Robert, Juror, iii, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> - -<li>Payson, Edward, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>; - pleads for Mrs. How, iii, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> - -<li>Peabody, John, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Peach, Bernard, a Witness against -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">239</a></span> -Mrs. Martin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_178">178-9</a>; - bites a Witch, iii, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> - -<li>Peasley, Joseph, Constable, iii, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> - -<li>Pemberton, Ebenezer, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_15">15</a>.</li> - -<li>Pennington, Thomas, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_ix">ix</a>.</li> - -<li>Perd, Margaret, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_51">51</a>; - smells Brimstone, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_53">53</a>.</li> - -<li>Perkins, Thomas, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Perkins, William, defines Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xiii">xiii</a>; - his Rules questioned, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxiii">xxxiii</a>; - Notice of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_37">37</a>; - his Doctrine of Witchcraft, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - Mr. Calef on, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_165">165</a>.</li> - -<li>Perley, John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_193">193-4</a>; - Fence Rails bewitched by, iii, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>; - Apology of, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>; - Samuel and Wife, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> - -<li>Perley, Timothy, Witness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_192">192</a>.</li> - -<li>Pharaoh, Old, accused of Witchcraft, iii, <a href="#Page_126">126-7</a>.</li> - -<li>Philistines of Hell, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_27">27</a>.</li> - -<li>Phillips, Edward, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xi">xi</a>; - John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>; - Samuel, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>; - Evidence for Mrs. How, iii, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> - -<li>Phips, William, arrives, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_25">25</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>; - orders Irons for the Accused, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>; - orders the Trials for Witchcraft published, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>; - called Home, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>; - how became Governor, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>; - finished his Life and Government together, <i>ib.</i>; - a Pizarro, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>; - harsh Temper, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>; - had his Fortune told, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>; - vanquishes the Devil, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>; - his Relatives accused, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>.</li> - -<li>Pike, Robert, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.</li> - -<li>Pithagoras, Doctrine of, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_118">118</a>.</li> - -<li>Pitman, Thomas, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_206">206</a>.</li> - -<li>Pizarro, Sir W. Phips compared to, iii, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>.</li> - -<li>Plagues, caused by the Devil, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_79">79</a>.</li> - -<li>Plastic Spirit of Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_204">204</a>, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_88">88</a>; - a Nonentity hooked in, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_90">90</a>; - Mischief to the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_96">96</a>.</li> - -<li>Plynyism, what it is, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Pope, Joseph, and Wife, iii, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>.</li> - -<li>Popery, revived Paganism, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_52">52</a>.</li> - -<li>Poppets, used by Spectres, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_40">40</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_82">82</a>; - some found and described, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>; - Remark upon, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> - -<li>Porter, Benjamin, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> - -<li>Post, Mary, Evidence against Mary Clark, iii, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> - -<li>Prayers, the great Artillery of Heaven, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_132">132</a>; - a Whip for the Devil's Back, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Prescot, Peter, Dr., <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_196">196</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>.</li> - -<li>Pressy, John, Witness against Martin, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_184">184</a>; - sees a great Light, iii, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>; - his Heels are struck up, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>; - Loss of Cows, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Preston, Samuel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_198">198</a>; - his Cow bewitched, iii, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>.</li> - -<li>Preston, Thomas, iii, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>.</li> - -<li>Prince, Thomas, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xc">xc</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xci">xci</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xcv">xcv</a>.</li> - -<li>Printing, not sooner discovered owing to the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_66">66</a>.</li> - -<li>Procter, Elizabeth, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>; - John, <i>ib.</i>; - Mrs., cried out on, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>; - John, executed, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>; - Barbarity to his Family, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>; - his Letter to Ministers, <a href="#Page_40">40-2</a>; - his Course to prevent Witchcraft, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Procter, William, made to confess by Torture, iii, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>.</li> - -<li>Prodigies, in N. England, not a tenth Part related, iii, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> - -<li>Pudeater, Ann, sentenced to be executed, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> - -<li>Pulsifer, David, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_13">13</a>, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_vii">vii</a>, III, <a href="#Page_169">169</a>.</li> - -<li>Putnam, Ann, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>; - Witness against Mrs. Nurse, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - against Mr. Burroughs, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>; - against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>; - against Giles Cory, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">240</a></span> - against Mary Clark, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>; - why she became an Accuser, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> - -<li>Putnam, Edward, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Putnam, John, Witness against Mrs. Nurse, iii, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - Mrs. Dastin, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>; - of Parris's Society, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> - -<li>Putnam, Joseph, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_159">159</a>.</li> - -<li>Putnam, Thomas, iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>; - swears against Mrs. Nurse, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>; - Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>; - Mrs. Daston, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">QUINCY, Josiah, on "Certain Proposals," ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_106">106</a>; - one-sided and dogmatical, iii, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>; - on I. Mather's Diary, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">RAVEN, Story of one speaking, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_33">33</a>.</li> - -<li>Rawson, Edward, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> - -<li>Rea, Joshua, iii, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> - -<li>Redd, Willmet, condemned to die, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> - -<li>Reed, Richard, iii, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> - -<li>Rice, Nicholas, iii, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</li> - -<li>Rice, Sarah, sent to Prison, iii, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</li> - -<li>Richards, John, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>; - Judge, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> - -<li>Ring, Jervis, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_185">185</a>; - suffers from Nightmare, iii, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.</li> - -<li>Ring, Joseph, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_186">186</a>; - carried about by Demons, iii, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>; - in a Snare of Devilism, <i>ib.</i>; - hurried through the Air, <i>ib.</i>; - taken to Hellish Meetings, <a href="#Page_102">102-3</a>.</li> - -<li>Ring, Robert, an Error, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_186">186</a>.</li> - -<li>Robie, William, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxi">xxi</a>.</li> - -<li>Robinson, George, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxvii">xxvii</a>.</li> - -<li>Roggers, John, Witnesses against Martha Carrier, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_197">197</a>; - of Billerica, <span class="err" title="original: iil">iii</span>, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>; - killed by Indians, <i>ib.</i></li> - -<li>Ross, Alexander, Hudibras on, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_126">126</a>.</li> - -<li>Ruck, John, Foreman of Jury, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_161">161</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72-3</a>.</li> - -<li>Russell, James, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</li> - -<li>Rule, Margaret, Story of, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_21">21</a>; - seized by evil Angels, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>; - fell into odd Fits, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_28">28</a>; - assaulted by eight cruel Spectres, <i>ib.</i>; - bring her a red Book to sign, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_29">29</a>; - her Tortures described, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_30">30</a>; - fasts nine Days, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_31">31</a>; - stuck full of Pins, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_32">32</a>; - Liquor poured down her Throat "as of scalding Brimstone," <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_33">33</a>; - her Hurts soon cured, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_34">34</a>; - taken up to the Ceiling and held there, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_35">35</a>; - her Minister interferes, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_38">38</a>; - gets the better of the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_40">40</a>; - visited by Mr. Calef, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_49">49</a>; - his Report of her Case, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_49">49-54</a>; - a Sweetheart in it, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_51">51-2</a>; - Aves's Testimony concerning, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_68">68</a>; - others, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_69">69-70</a>.</li> - -<li>Rum, used in a Case of Witchcraft, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_51">51</a>.</li> - -<li class="p2 dropcap">SABBATH, begins at Sunset, Saturday, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_223">223</a>.</li> - -<li>Sadducees, unbelievers in Witchcraft, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_32">32</a>; - Baxter on, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_45">45</a>; - Mischievous, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_46">46</a>; - Witlings, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_61">61</a>; - Atheists, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_108">108</a>; - Infidels, iii, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>.</li> - -<li>Safford, Joseph, Witness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_189">189</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108-9</a>.</li> - -<li>Salem Village, Church Difficulties, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_140">140-3</a>.</li> - -<li>Saltonstall, Nathaniel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_109">109</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>.</li> - -<li>Sanderson, Robert, Deacon, iii, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> - -<li>Sargent, Peter, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Satan.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Devil">Devil</a></span>.</li> - -<li>Sayer, Samuel, Apology of, iii, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> - -<li>Scotland, Witchcraft in, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_197">197</a>.</li> - -<li>Scott, Margaret, condemned to Death, iii, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> - -<li> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">241</a></span> -Scott, Reginald, writes against Witchcraft, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxix">xxxix</a>; - Extracts from, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xlv">xlv-vii</a>; - has taken great Pains, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lix">lix</a>.</li> - -<li>Scottow, Joshua, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>Scribonius, Note upon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_1">1</a>.</li> - -<li>Sergeant, Mr. [Peter,] iii, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.</li> - -<li>Sewall, Samuel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_209">209</a>; - subscribes to the Truth and Accuracy of Mather's <i>Wonders</i>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_211">211</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>; - Judge, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xxiv">xxiv</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_157">157</a>, -iii, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>; - Appointment of Judge, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>; - Services, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>; - in Sorrow for the Part he took those accused of Witchcraft, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>; - a Referee in Mr. Parris's Case, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Sewall, Stephen, Captain, iii, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> - -<li>Sharp, [James,] D. D., iii, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Shattock, Samuel, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_168">168</a>; - swore against Mrs. Bishop, iii, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>; - Wife Sarah, also, <i>ib.</i>, <a href="#Page_83">83-4</a>; - Remarks on his Evidence, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>.</li> - -<li>Sheldon, Susanna, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_200">200</a>; - swears against Mr. Burroughs, iii, <a href="#Page_66">66-7</a>; - against Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>; - against Mrs. Carrier, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>; - against Mary Clark, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>; - Account of, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> - -<li>Shepard, John, iii, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>; - Rev. 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G., on C. Mather, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_160">160</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_167">167</a>, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> - -<li>Wigglesworth, M., his Day of Doom, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_4">4</a>.</li> - -<li>Wild, John, iii, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>; - his Wife Sarah, <i>ib.</i>; - executed, iii, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.</li> - -<li>Wild, ——, Captain, i, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_137">137</a>.</li> - -<li>Wilds, Ephraim, Constable, iii, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> - -<li>Wilkins, John, on Margaret Rule, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_69">69</a>.</li> - -<li>Wilkins, Richard, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56</a>.</li> - -<li>Wilkins, Thomas, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_143">143</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> - -<li>Willard, John, executed, iii, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>; - Escape and Capture, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>.</li> - -<li>Willard, Samuel, Letter to, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>; - cried out of, iii, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>; - appeal to by Procter, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>; - his Agency in the Escape of Mr. English, <a href="#Page_177">177-8</a>.</li> - -<li>Willard, Simon, testifies in Mr. Burroughs's Case, iii, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> - -<li>William and Mary, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxxiv">lxxxiv</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_25">25</a>; - Death of Mary, iii, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> - -<li>Williams, Abigail, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_158">158</a>, -iii, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>; - at the Devil's Sacrament, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>; - cries out on Capt. Alden, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>; - of Mrs. Bishop, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>; - Mr. Cory, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>; - Account of, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>; - one of the Originators of the Witchcraft Delusion, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> - -<li>Williams, Daniel, on Margaret Rule, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_69">69</a>.</li> - -<li>Williams, Nathaniel, a Committee on Salem Affairs, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_151">151</a>.</li> - -<li>Williams, Thomas, opposes Mr. Parris, iii, <a href="#Page_212">212</a>.</li> - -<li>Wilson, John, of Boston, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>.</li> - -<li>Wilson, Sarah, accused, iii, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> - -<li>Winchell, David, Sergent, iii, <a href="#Page_219">219</a>.</li> - -<li>Winsor, Hannah, iii, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Winthrop, Adam, Counsellor, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>.</li> - -<li>Winthrop, Wait, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_26">26</a>, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_157">157</a>, -iii, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>; - Judge, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> - -<li>Witchcraft, Cause of its Decline, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_iv">iv</a>; - Works upon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_v">v-x</a>; - Definitions of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xi">xi-xvi</a>; - taught in the Bible, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xvi">xvi</a>; - how People's Eyes were opened, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xvii">xvii</a>; - how carried on, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxii">xxii</a>; - Practiced through Images or Pictures, <i>ib.</i>; - Laws respecting, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxiv">xxiv-v</a>; - the Bible upon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xvi">xvi</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxvii">xxvii</a>; - Ideas respecting, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxviii">xxviii</a>; - opposed only by Infidels, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxix">xxix</a>; - Origin of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxi">xxxi</a>; - the Question which stayed its Progress, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxii">xxxii</a>; - Works upon, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxiv">xxxiv-viii</a>; - Law against, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxix">xxxix</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xliii">xliii</a>; - not Spiritualism, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lx">lx</a>; - at the present Day, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxv">lxxv</a>; - came near blowing up all the Churches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_17">17</a>; - Storms of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_20">20</a>; - thorny Business, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_29">29</a>; - will not be shammed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_34">34</a>; - disposed of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_42">42</a>; -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">244</a></span> - in Lapland, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_68">68-9</a>; - flourishes where are no Churches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_130">130-1</a>; - to worship the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_243">243</a>; - a Relict of Heathen Learning, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_11">11</a>; - a principal ecclesiastical Engine, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_12">12</a>; - further defined, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_56">56-7</a>; - how Prosecutions were eventually checked, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_110">110-11</a>; - sensible and evident, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_105">105</a>; - Laws made against, iii, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>; - repealed in England, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>; - a Hobgoblin Monster, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Witchteats"></a>Witchteats, for the Devil to suck, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_100">100</a>; - a horrid Barbarity to search for, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_132">132</a>; - Excrescences, iii, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> - -<li>Witches, how made, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xv">xv</a>; - Nature of their Covenant with the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxiii">xxiii</a>; - the Devil a Slave to, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xix">xix</a>; - exist by God's Permission, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xx">xx</a>; - how to detect, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxiii">xxiii</a>; - vast Numbers executed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xv">xv</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxvii">xxvii</a>; - Punishment impossible, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxi">xxxi</a>; - good Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxvii">xxxvii</a>; - one described by Spencer, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xlix">xlix</a>; - different Kinds, l, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lii">lii</a>; - how they contract with the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_liv">liv-v</a>; - Manner of living, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lvi">lvi-viii</a>; - the Devil has made a dreadful Knot of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_18">18</a>; - prodigious Meetings of, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_19">19</a>; - commission the Devil, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_29">29</a>; - Way of discovering, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_37">37</a>; - Confessions and Practices, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_103">103</a>; - fairly executed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_107">107</a>; - Executions of, in Suffolk and Essex, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_112">112</a>; - thorny Business, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_114">114</a>; - firey Serpents, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_124">124</a>; - in Denmark, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_148">148</a>; - Witches impeach Witches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_157">157</a>; - Symptoms of Guilt, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_162">162</a>; - Conduct after the Manner of Congregational Churches, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_202">202-3</a>; - by applying the <i>Plastic Spirit</i>, render themselves and Tools invisible, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_204">204</a>; - Cause of Suicides, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_207">207</a>; - nineteen executed, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_217">217</a>; - can't say the Lord's Prayer, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_232">232</a>; - their Power to commission Devils Questioned, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_7">7</a>; - Scriptures do not describe it, <i>ib.</i>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_8">8</a>; - commission Devils? <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_76">76</a>; - drive a Trade of commissioning, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_80">80-1</a>; - let fly Demons, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_81">81</a>; - turn into Cats, Dogs, and Cattle, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_127">127</a>; - a Witch not known to Reason, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_138">138</a>; - can commission Devils, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_139">139</a>; - of Lancashire, reference to, iii, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>; - steal Liquor, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>; - some goe on a Pole to a Witch-meeting, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> - -<li><a id="Witch-Circles"></a>Witch-Circles, held by young Girls, iii, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>; - Origin of the Salem Troubles, <i>ib.</i>, <a href="#Page_209">209-10</a>.</li> - -<li>Witch-Hill, where the Execution of those accused of Witchcraft were executed, iii, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>. -</li> -<li>Wizard, a Witch, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xii">xii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_xxxviii">xxxviii</a>; - reveals the Witch by the Devil's Help, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_40">40</a>; - the Soul that goeth a whoring after, ii, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_154">154</a>.</li> - -<li>Wood, Martha, Witness, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_192">192</a>, iii, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> - -<li>Woodbury, Abigail, iii, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>.</li> - -<li>Woodward, John, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxvi">lxxvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Woodward, W. E., I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_viii">viii</a>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_x">x-xvi</a>.</li> - -<li>Wolcott.—See <span class="smcap"><a href="#Walcutt">Walcutt</a></span>.</li> - -<li>Wool, Pall of, as Snow, I, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50204/50204-h/50204-h.htm#Page_lxxiii">lxxiii</a>.</li> - -<li>Wyllys, Edward, II, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52027/52027-h/52027-h.htm#Page_xii">xii</a>.</li> -</ul> - -<p class="center"> -<i>FINIS.</i> -</p> -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="transnote"> -<h2><a id="Transcribers_Note"></a>Transcriber's Note.</h2> - -<p>Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation -inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes were renumbered -and placed at the end of each section. The entries <i>Kembell</i> and <i>Tockinosh, John, ii, -23.</i> in the index do not correspond to the text.</p> - -<h3>Corrections.</h3> - -<p>The first line indicates the original, the second the correction.</p> - -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_18_18">18</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>Remarks -upou a Scandalous Book</li> - -<li>Remarks -<span class="u">upon</span> a Scandalous Book</li> -</ul> -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_19_19">19</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>Qnincy is entirely too</li> - -<li><span class="u">Quincy</span> is entirely too</li> -</ul> -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_37_37">37</a>:</p> - - <ul><li>is fully -given in Vo.l i, 152-63</li> - - <li>is fully -given in <span class="u">Vol. i</span>, 152-63</li> -</ul> -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_90_90">90</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>Newbury to Amesbury, -having boughtPiece of</li> - -<li>Newbury to Amesbury, -having <span class="u">bought a Piece</span> of</li> -</ul> -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_96_96">96</a>:</p> - - <ul><li>does not appear -in the Reeords</li> - - <li>does not appear -in the <span class="u">Records</span></li> -</ul> -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_167_167">167</a>:</p> - -<ul> <li>and -Charter Streeet,</li> - - <li>and -Charter <span class="u">Street</span>,</li> -</ul> -<p>p. <a href="#Page_138">138</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>Achievements as either were never peformed by</li> - -<li>Achievements as either were never <span class="u">performed</span> by</li> -</ul> -<p>p. <a href="#Page_226">226</a>:</p> -<ul><li>Baxter, Richard, I, xx -</li> -<li>Baxter, Richard, I, <span class="u">xxx</span> -</li> -</ul> - -<p>p. <a href="#Page_236">236</a>:</p> - - <ul><li>his own Estimate of of his Labors</li> - - <li>his own Estimate <span class="u">of his</span> Labors</li> -</ul> -<p>p. <a href="#Page_240">240</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>Roggers, John, Witnesses against Martha Carrier, 197; - of Billerica, iil, 118;</li> - -<li>Roggers, John, Witnesses against Martha Carrier, 197; - of Billerica, <span class="u">iii,</span> 118;</li> -</ul> -<p>p. <a href="#Page_241">241</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>Stacy, William, 172, iii, 86-7, 76, 86-7.</li> - -<li>Stacy, William, 172, iii, <span class="u">86-7, 76.</span></li> -</ul> - -<h3>Errata.</h3> - -<p>The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read.</p> - -<p>p. <a href="#Page_42">42</a>:</p> - -<ul><li>you would -evdeavour to have</li> - -<li>you would -<span class="u">endeavour</span> to have</li> -</ul> -<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_144_144">144</a>:</p> -<ul> -<li>And now they fall -to Tragical Exclamattons;</li> - -<li>And now they fall -to Tragical <span class="u">Exclamations</span>;</li> -</ul> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Witchcraft Delusion in New -England: Its Rise, Progress, a, by Cotton Mather and Robert Calef - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITCHCRAFT DELUSION, VOL 3 *** - -***** This file should be named 53412-h.htm or 53412-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/4/1/53412/ - -Produced by Dianna Adair, Louise Davies, Eleni Christofaki -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of -public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital -Libraries.) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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