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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

return of the Year and then again falling into Melancholly humours she was sound strangling her self her Life being hereby prolonged she immediately accused her self 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 her self 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 She was continued for some time in Prison c. and at length was Sold to Virginia About this time the Prisoners in all the Prisons were released To omit here the mentioning of several Wenches in Boston c. who pretended to be Afflicted and accused several the Ministers often visiting them 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 convinc'd the Ministers by their vicious courses that they might err in extending too much Charity to them The conclusion of the whole in the Massachusetts Colony was Sir William Phips 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 In August 1697. The Superiour Court sat at Hartford in the Colony of Connecticut where one Mistress Benom was tried for Witchcraft she had been accused by some Children that pretended 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 Wallinsford Upon her Tryal nothing material appearing 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 New-York Government Before this the Government Issued forth the following Proclamation By the Honourable the Lieutenant Governour Council and Assembly of his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in General Court Assembled 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 Europe by a perplexing War and more especially respecting our selves in this Province in that God is pleased still to go on in diminishing our Substance cutting short our Harvest blasting our most promising undertakings more ways than one unseding of us and by his more Immediate hand snatching away many out 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 Israel 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 Wherefore it is Commanded and Appointed that Thursday the Fourteenth of Ianuary 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 Gods 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 his Instruments thro the awful Judgment of God would humble us therefore 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 American Heathen and cause them to hear and obey his Voice Given at Boston Decemb. 17. 1696 in the 8 th Year of his Majesties Reign Isaac Addington Secretary Upon the Day of the Fast in the full Assembly at the South Meeting-House in Boston one of the Honourable Judges who had sat in Judicature in Salem 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 viz. It was to desire the Prayers of God's People for him and his and that God having visited his Family c. he was apprehensive that he might have fallen into some Errors in the Matters at Salem 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 Some that had been of several Jewries have given forth a Paper Sign'd with their own hands in these words WE whose names are underwritten being in the Year 1692 called to serve as Iurors in Court at Salem on Tryal of many who were by some suspected Guilty of doing Acts of Witchcraft upon the Bodies of sundry Persons We confess that we our selves 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 our selves 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. 17.6 whereby we fear we have been instrumental with others tho Ignorantly and unwittingly to bring upon our selves and this People of the Lord the Guilt of Innocent Blood which Sin the Lord saith in Scripture he would not pardon 2 Kings 24. 4. that is we suppose in regard of his temporal Iudgments 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 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 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 our selves nor others

England 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 Peoples 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 That Clause in their Charter for this Country viz. 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 New-Englands Prosperity the Government here were very sparing of Granting Freedoms except to such as were so and so qualified Whereby the number of Non-Freemen 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 c. it rendred many of them ready to join with such as were undermining the Government not duly considering that it had ●een far more safe to have endeavoured to prevail with the Legislators for an enlargement So that it will not be wonder'd at that in the latter end of the Reign of King Charles the II. and of King Iames when most of the Charters in England were vacated that this was quo warranto'd and finally Judgment entered up against it and the Country put into such a form of Government as was most agreeable to those times viz. 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 England or those formerly of this Colony Thus rendring the Circumstances of this Country beyond comparison worse than those of any Corporation in England The People of those Corporations being acknowledged still to have a right to Magna Charta when their particular Charters were made void But here when Magna Charta has been pleaded the People have been answered that they must not expect that Magna Charta would follow them to the end of the World not only their Estates but their Lives being thereby rendred wholly precarious And Judge Palmer has set forth in Print that the King has power to grant such a Commission over this People It is not hard to imagin 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 The first that accepted this Commission was Mr. Dudley a Gentleman born in this Country who did but prepare the way for Sir Edm. Andres In whose time things being grown to such Extremities not only here but in England as render'd the succeeding Revolution absolutely necessary the Revolution here being no other than an acting according to the Precedent given by England During the time of Sir Edmonds's Government Mr. Increase Mather Teacher of the No●th Church in Boston having undergone some trouble by Fobb-Actions laid upon him c. tho with some difficulty he made his Escape and got passage for England being therein assisted by some particular Friends where being arrived he applied himself to King Iames 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 Upon the Day of the Revolution here tho for the greatest part of the People were for reassuming their Ancient Government pursuant to his Royal Highness's Proclamation yet matters were so clog'd that the People were dismist without it who did not in the least mistrust but that those who were put out of the Government by Mr. Dudley would reasume Mr. Broadstreet who had been then Governour being heard to say that Evening when returned home That had not he thought they would have reassum'd he would not have stirr'd out of his House that Day 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 It has been an Observation of long continuance that matters of State seldom prosper when managed by the Clergy Among the opposers of the reassuming few so strenuous as some of the Ministers and among the Ministers none more vehement than Mr. Cotton Mather Pastor of the North-Church in Boston who has charged them as they would answer it another day not to reassume Among his Arguments against it one was that it would be to put a ●light upon his Father who he said was in England labouring for a compleat Restoration of Charter Priviledges not doubting but they would be speedily obtain'd Any Man that knows New-England cannot but be sensible that such Discourses from such Men have always been very prevalent And hence it was that even those that would think themselves wronged if they were not numbred among the best Friends to New-England 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 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 c. 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 The next principal thing done was they chose two of their Members viz. One of the upper House the other of the lower both of them Gentlemen of known Integrity as well as ability to go to England in order to obtain their Resettlement And in regard Mr. I. Mather was already there they joined him as also a certain Gentlemen in London with these other two Those from hence being arrived in London they all united for the common Interest