[123] ‘Records,’ vol. ii., p. 575.
[124] The New Englander, November, 1885, p. 817.
[125] For this and much else relating to witchcraft in Massachusetts, I am indebted to that most exhaustive book, ‘Salem Witchcraft,’ etc., by Charles W. Upham (Boston, 1867).
[126] Hutchinson, ‘History of Massachusetts Bay,’ 1767, vol. i., p. 179.
[127] Hutchinson, ‘History of Massachusetts Bay,’ 1767, vol. i., p. 187.
[128] ‘Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possession,’ etc., by Cotton Mather (Boston, 1689), p. 1.
[129] Major Pearson, at the sale of whose library the British Museum acquired the ‘Roxburghe Ballads.’