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A32160	More wonders of the invisible world, or, The wonders of the invisible world display'd in five parts ... : to which is added a postscript relating to a book intitled, The life of Sir William Phips / collected by Robert Calef, merchant of Boston in New England.	Calef, Robert, 1648-1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing C288; ESTC R7219	167,192	172

Gentleman gave him the Discourse in a Manuscript from whence he transcribed it 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 The Indictment of Bridget Bishop Essex ff Anno Regni Regis Regin●e Willielmi Mariae nunc Angliae c. quarto THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen present That Bridget Bishop alias Oliver the Wife of Edward Bishop in Salem in the County of Essex Sawyer the Nineteenth day of April in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady William and Mary by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and Queen Defenders of the Faith c. 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 Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid in upon and against one Mercy Lewis of Salem-Village in the County aforesaid single Woman by which said wicked Arts the said Mercy Lewis the said Nineteenth day of April in the Fourth Year abovesaid 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 Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen and against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided Endorsed Billa Vera. Witnesses Mercy Lewis Nathaniel Ingarsoll Mr. Samuel Parris Thomas Putnam Junior Mary Walcott Junior Ann Putnam Junior Elizabeth Hubbard Abigail Williams There was also a Second Indictment on the said Bishop for afflicting and practising Witchcraft on Abigail Williams Witnesses to the said Indictment were the said Abigail Williams Mr. Parris Nathaniel Ingarsoll Thomas Putnam Ann Putnam Mary Walcott Elizabeth Hubbard The Third Indictment was for afflicting Mary Walcott Witnesses to which said Indictment were Mary Walcott Mercy Lewis Mr. Samuel Parris Nathaniel Ingarsoll Thomas Putnam Ann Putnam Elizabeth Hubbard Abigail Williams The Fourth Indictment was for afflicting Elizabeth Hubbard Witnesses to which said Indictment were the said Elizabeth Hubbard Mercy Lewis Mr. Parris Nathaniel Ingarsoll Thomas Putnam Ann Putnam Mary Walcott Abigail Williams The Fifth Indictment was for afflicting Ann Putnam Witnesses to which said Indictment were the said Ann Putnam Mr. Samuel Parris Nathaniel Ingarsoll Thomas Putnam Mercy Lewis Mary Wolcott Abigail Williams Elizabeth Hubbard The Tryal of Bridget Bishop as Printed In Wonders of Invisible World June 2. 1692. P. 104 to 114. 1. SHE was Indicted for bewitching of 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 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 Bishop crying out You murdered us About the truth whereof there was in the matter of Fact but too much suspicion 2. 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 She could not be troubled to see the Afflicted thus tormented 3. There was Testimony likewise brought in that a Man striking once at the place where a bewitched person said the shape of this Bishop 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 4. One Deliverance Hobbs who had confessed her being a Witch was now tormented by the Spectres for her Confession And she now testified that this Bishop 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 Bishop was at a General-meeting of the Witches in a Field at Salem Village and there partook of a Diabolical Sacrament in Bread and Wine then administred 5. To render it further unquestionable that the Prisoner at the Bar was the Person truly charged in this Witchcraft there were produced many Evidences of other Witchcrafts by her perpetrated For instance John Cook 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 6. Samuel Gray 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 Bed-side 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 In God's name what do you come for He went to Bed and had the same Woman again assaulting him The Child in the Cradle gave a great S●tre●ch 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

Barker Sarah Wilson Hannah Tiler It may here be furth●r 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 redious 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 forced to stand so long or for want of Sleep c. 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 Devil's Book c. upon their replying yes the whole was drawn into form as their Confession 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 AS to the manner of Tryals and the Evidence taken for Convictions at Salem it is already set forth in Print by the Reverend Mr. Cotton Mather in his Wonders of the Invisible World at the Command of his Excellency Sir William Phips with not only the Recommendation but thanks of the Lieutenant Governour and with the Approbation of the Reverend Mr. I. M. in his Postscript to his Cases of Conscience which last Book was set forth by the consent of the Ministers in and near Boston Two of the Judges have also given their Sentiments in these words P. 147. 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 Vpon 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 Salem Boston October 11. 1692. William Stoughton Samuel Sewall 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. 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 Salem for the Witchcrafts whereof they stood 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 hear●y a mourne● as any Man living in the World The Lord comfort them 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 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 Honourable Rulers to detect the Abominable Witchcrafts 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 rejoyce that God is glorified and pray that no wrong steps of ours may ever sully any of his glorious works The Indictment of George Burroughs Essex ff Anno Regni Regis Reginae Willielmi Mariae nun● Angliae c. quarto THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen present That George Burroughs late of Falmouth in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in new-New-England Clerk The 9th Day of May in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady William and Mary by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and Queen Defenders of the Faith c. 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 Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid in upon and against one Mary Wolcott of Salem-Village in the County of Essex Single woman by which said wicked Arts the said Mary Wolcott the Ninth day of May 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 Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen and against the Form of the Statute in that Case made and provided Witnesses Mary Wolcott Sarah Vibber Mercy Lewis Ann Putnam Eliz. Hubbard Endorsed by the Grand-Jury Billa Vera. There was also a second Indictment for afflicting Elizabeth Hubbard the Witnesses to the said Indictment were Elizabeth Hubbard Mary Wolcott Ann Putnam The third Indictment was for afflicting Mercy Lewis the Witnesses the said Mercy Lewis Mary Wolcott Elizabeth Hubbard and Ann Putnam The fourth for acts of Witchcraft on Ann Putnam the Witnesses the said Ann Putnam Mary Wolcot Elizabeth Hubbard Mary Warren The Tryal of G. B. as Printed in Wonders of the Invisible World from P. 94. to 104. 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 Tryal to be inserted in this Book it becomes me with all obedience to submit unto the Order 1. This G. B. 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

it into your Iudicious 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 Accusers by my self cannot but judge charitably of others that are going the same way with my self if the Lord step not mightily in I was confined a whole Month on the same account that I am now condemned for and then cleared by the Afflicted persons as some of your Honours 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 th●n 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 to the utmost of your powers in the discovery and detecting of Witchcraft and Witches and would not be guilty of Inn●cent 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 your selves will see an alteration in these things They say my self and others 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 Mary Esty. After Execution Mr. Noyes turning him to the Bodies said what a sad thing it is to see Eight Firebrands of Hell hanging there In October 1692 One of Wenham complained of Mrs. Hale whose Husband the Minister of Beverly had been very forward in these Prosecut●ons but being fully satisfied of his Wives sincere Christianity caused him to alter his Judgment for it was come to a stated Controversie among the New-England Divines whether the Devil could Afflict in a good Man's 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 Affl●ct Which same reason did afterwards prevail with many others and much influenced to the succeeding change at Tryals October 7. Edward Bishop and his Wife having made their Escape out of Prison this day Mr. Co●win 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 Received this 7 th day of October 1692. of Samuel Bishop of the Town of Salem of the County of Essex in new-New-England Cordwainer in full satisfaction a valuable Summ of Money for the Goods and C●attels of Edward Bishop Senior of the Town and County aforesaid Husbandman which Goods and Chattels being seized for that the said Edward Bishop and Sarah his Wife having been committed for Witchcraft and Felony have made their Escape and their Goods and Chattles were forfeited unto their Majesties and now being in Possession of the said Samuel Bishop 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 George Corwin Sheriff But before this the said Bishops Eldest Son having Married into that Family of the Putmans 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 pretended to be burnt with the said Brand and is one of the bones thrown to the Dogmatical to pick in Wonders of the Invisible World 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 Apollo needs not herein be consulted c. Mr. Philip English and his Wife having made their Escape out of Prison Mr. Corwin the Sheriff seiz'd his Estate to the value of about Fifteen Hundred Pound which was wholly lost to him except about Three H●ndred Pound value which was afterward restored After Good wife Hoar was Condemned her Estate was seiz'd and was also bought again for Eight Pound George Iacobs Son to old Iacobs 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 When she came where the Afflicted were being asked they said they did not know her at length one said don't you know Iacobs 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 pitty took care of the Children to preserve them from perishing About this time a New Scene was begun one Ioseph Ballard of Andover whose Wife was ill and after died of a Fever sent to Salem 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 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 Ballard's sending as above more than Fifty of the People of Andover were complained of for afflicting their