[66] New Haven Col. Rec., ii. 78. Lydia Gilbert, of Windsor, was indicted for witchcraft, March 24th, 1653–4, but there is no record of the issue of her trial. Stiles, Ancient Windsor, i. 449, 450.
[67] Mass. Records, iv. (1), 269.
[68] Hutchinson, i. 187, 188.
[69] Conn. Col. Rec., i. 573. Mather, Remarkable Providences, 139. Walker, Geo. Leon, D. D., History of the First Church in Hartford. Hutchinson, ii. 16, 17.
[70] Judd, History of Hadley, 233. Conn. Col. Rec., ii. 172. For her subsequent troubles in N. Y., Documentary Hist. of N.Y., iv. 87.
[71] Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World. Conn. Col. Rec., iii. p. v. and 76, 77 note.
[72] Hutchinson, ii. p. 18. “But in 1685, a very circumstantial account of all or most of the cases I have mentioned was published, and many arguments were brought to convince the country that they were no delusions nor impostures, but the effects of a familiarity between the devil and such as he found fit for his instruments.”
[73] A Tryal of Witches, London, 1682.
[74] Horneck, in Glanvil’s Saducismus Triumphatus, London, 1681.
[75] It will be remembered, that much against the will of the Puritan leaders, they had been compelled by the royal authority to allow the use of the service of the Church of England, which they and their friends in England had fancied some years before that they had destroyed. For a similar instance of combined bigotry and superstition, cf. Winthrop’s history of the mice and the Prayer Books. Hist. of New England, ii. 20.