Further Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts: Containing Additional Evidence of the Act of 1711, for Reversing the Attainders of the ... Oyer and Terminer of 1692; With a Heliotype P - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Further Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts: Containing Additional Evidence of the Act of 1711, for Reversing the Attainders of the Witches; Also, Affirming the Legality of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer of 1692; With a Heliotype Plate of the Act of 1711, as Printed in 1718

What debates ensued upon the introduction of this subject can only be imagined. It is to be inferred that the feeling in the Council that the attainders should be reversed, and some pecuniary reparation made to the sufferers or their represent atives, was general. Stoughton, who never repented of his connection with the trials, had been dead eight years; and the Mathers, though still professing unshaken belief in de monology, had long adopted the prevalent Opinion that the Devil could assume the shape of innocence, and they had not withstood the reaction, which had become almost universal, in favor of some, if not all, Of the accused; and their Opinions.

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