[58] Winthrop, ii. 307. Stiles, _Ancient Windsor_, i. 447. [59] Winthrop, ii. 326. Hutchinson, _Hist. of Massachusets-Bay_ (London, 1765–1768), i. 150. _Mass. Rec._, ii. 242, iii. 126, seems to refer to this case, though no names are given. [60] Mather, Cotton, _Late Memorable Providences_, pp. 62–65. _Magnalia_, Book vi. ch. 7. [61] W. S. Poole, in _Memorial History of Boston_, ii. 133 note. Hutchinson, ii. 10. [62] _Mass. Rec._, iv. (1), 47, 48. [63] _Mass. Rec._, i. (1), 96. [64] _Conn. Colonial Records_, i. 220; _cf._ _New Haven Col. Rec._, ii. 78. [65] _History of Hartford County (Conn.), Sketch of Wethersfield_, by S. Adams. [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. [76] Mather, Cotton, D. D., _Late Memorable Providences_. _Magnalia Christi_, Book vi. ch. 8. Hutchinson, ii. 20. [77] _Late Memorable Providences_, London, 1691; 2d Impression. Calef, _More Wonders of the Invisible World_, postscript. [78] Calef, _More Wonders_, p. 90. Hutchinson, ii. 11. Upham, _The Salem Witchcraft_. [79] Brattle, _Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections_, v. 62, 70, 71. The way in which Parris conducted the investigations may be seen from the following extracts from the examination of Elizabeth How, May 31st, 1692: “Mercy Lewis and Mary Walcot fell in a fit quickly after the examinant came in. Mary Walcot said that this woman the examinant had pincht her & choakt this mouth. Ann Putnam said that she had hurt her three times.