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Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706

 
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A BRIEF AND TRUE NARRATIVE, BY DEODAT LAWSON, 1692
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INTRODUCTION
 
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A BRIEF AND TRUE NARRATIVE: titlepage
 
"The Bookseller to the Reader."
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Narrative
 
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Remarks of things more than ordinary about the Afflicted Persons.
 
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Remarks concerning the Accused.
 
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LETTER OF THOMAS BRATTLE, F. R. S., 1692
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INTRODUCTION
 
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LETTER OF THOMAS BRATTLE, F. R. S., 1692
 
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LETTERS OF GOVERNOR PHIPS TO THE HOME GOVERNMENT, 1692-1693
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LETTERS OF GOVERNOR PHIPS
 
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FROM “THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,” BY COTTON MATHER, 1693
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INTRODUCTION
 
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THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
 
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The Author's Defence.
 
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I. The Tryal of G. B. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692.
 
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II. The Tryal of Bridget Bishop, alias Oliver, At the Court of Oyer and Terminer Held at Salem, June, 2, 1692.
 
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III. The Tryal of Susanna Martin, At the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29, 1692.
 
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IV. The Trial of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30, 1692.
 
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V. The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692.
 
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The First Curiositie.
 
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A Second Curiositie.
 
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A Third Curiositie.
 
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A Fourth Curiositie.
 
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FROM “MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,” BY ROBERT CALEF, 1700
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MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
 
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The Epistle to the Reader, And more especially to the Noble Bereans of this Age, wherever Residing.
 
Letter
 
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ANOTHER BRAND PLUCKT OUT OF THE BURNING, OR, MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD PART I.
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Section I. The Afflictions of Margaret Rule.
 
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PART II. A Letter to Mr. C. M.
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PART V. An Impartial Account of the most Memorable Matters of Fact, touching the supposed Witchcraft in New England.
 
To their Majesties Goal-keeper in Salem.
 
To Marshal George Herrick of Salem Essex.
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An Account how John Aldin, Senior, was dealt with at Salem-Village.
 
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July 4, 1692.
 
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By the Honourable the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Assembly of his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in General Court Assembled.
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Some that had been of several Jewries, have given forth a Paper, Sign'd with their own hands in these words.
 
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A MODEST INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF WITCHCRAFT, BY JOHN HALE, 1702
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HALE'S A MODEST INQUIRY
 
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An Epistle to the Reader.
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The Preface to the Christian Reader.
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A MODEST ENQUIRY, INTO THE NATURE OF WITCHCRAFT Chapter I.
 
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Chapter II.
 
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Chapter III.
 
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Chapter IV.
 
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Chapter XVIII.
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HALE'S A MODEST INQUIRY

A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft, and How Persons Guilty of that Crime may be Convicted: And the means used for their Discovery Discussed, both Negatively and Affirmatively, according to Scripture and Experience.

By John Hale, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Beverley, Anno Domini 1697.

When they say unto you, seek unto them that have Familiar Spirits and unto Wizzards, that peep, etc., To the Law and to the Testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah VIII. 19. 20. That which I see not teach thou me, Job 34. 32.

Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green and J. Allen, for Benjamin Eliot under the Town House. 1702[356]

Any general Custom against the Law of God is void. St. Germans, Abridgment of Common Law. Lib. 1. C. 6.

Omnium legum est inanis censura nisi Divinæ legis imaginem gerat.[357] Finch, Common Law. Lib. 4. C. 3.

Where a Law is grounded upon a Presumption, if the Presumption fail the Law is not to be holden in Conscience. Abridgment of C. Law. Lib. 1. C. 19.[358]

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Title-page of original.

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“No law hath any validity unless it bear the image of divine law.”

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Reverse of title-page.

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