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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	person_n	warrant_n	2,995	5	9.7411	5	false

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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

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 c. When these Accusers came to the House of any upon such account it was ordinary for other young People to be taken in Fits and to have the same Spectral sight Mr. Dudley Bradstreet a Justice of Peace in Andover 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 A Dog being afflicted at Salem-Village those that had the Spectral sight being sent for they accused Mr. Iohn Bradstreet Brother to the Justice that he afflicted the said Dog and now rid upon him He made his Escape into Pescattequa-Government and the Dog was put to death and was all of the Afflicted that suffered death At Andover 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 A worthy Gentleman of Boston being about this time accused by those at Andover 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 Andover generally ceased In October some of these Accusers were sent for to Glocester and occasioned four VVomen to be sent to Prison but Salem Prison being so full it could receive no more two were sent to Ipswich Prison In November they were sent for again by Lieutenant Stephens who was told that a Sister of his was bewitched in their way passing over Ipswich-Bridge they met with an old Woman and instantly fell into their Fits But by this time the validity of such Accusations being much questioned they found not that Encouragement they had done elsewhere and soon withdrew These Accusers swore that they saw three persons sitting upon Lieutenant Stephens's Sister till she died yet Bond was accepted for those Three 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 N. England 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 Oyer and Terminer comes to a period which had no other foundation than the Governours Commission and had proceeded in the manner of swearing Witnesses viz. By holding up the hand and by receiving Evidences in writing according to the Ancient Usage of this Countrey as also having their Indictments in English In the Tryals when any were Indicted for Afflicting Pining and wasting the Bodies of particular persons by Witchcraft it was usal 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 unexpected Accidents befalling after some quarrel Whether this was admitted by the Law of England 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 England 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 England 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 Here followeth what account some of those miserable Creatures give of their Confession under their own hands We whose Names are under written Inhabitants of Andover when as that horrible and tremendous Iudgment beginning at Salem Village in the Year 1692. by some call'd Witchcraft first breaking forth at Mr. Parris's 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 Joseph Ballard of Andover 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 Salem Village to Andover Which was the beginning of that dreadful Calamity that befel us in Andover And the Authority in Andover believing the said Accusations to be true sent for the said persons to come together to the Meeting-house in Andover the afflicted persons being there After Mr. Bernard 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 Iustice of the Peace and forthwith carried to Salem And by reason of that suddain surprizal we knowing our selves 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 our selves 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 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 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 Samuel Wardwell had renounced his Confession and quickly after Condemned and Executed some of us were told that we were going after Wardwell Mary Osgood Mary Tiler Deliv Dane Abigail