[162] James Burvile testified “That hearing the Scratchings and Noises of Cats, he went out, and saw several of them; that one of them had a Face like _Jane Wenham_; that he was present several Times when _Anne Thorn_ said she saw Cats about her Bed; and more he would have attested, but this was thought sufficient by the Court” ([F. Bragge,] A Full and Impartial Account of the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft, practis’d by Jane Wenham, London, 1712, p. 29). After the conviction of the witch, Ann was still afflicted: “_Ann Thorn_ continues to be frequently troubl’d with the Apparition either of _Jane Wenham_ in her own Shape, or that of a Cat, which speaks to her, and tempts her to destroy her self with a Knife that it brings along with it” ([Bragge,] Witchcraft Farther Display’d, 1712, Introduction). In 1711 spectral evidence was admitted at the trial of eight witches at Carrickfergus, in Ireland (A Narrative of some Strange Events that took place in Island Magee, and Neighbourhood, in 1711, by an Eye Witness, Belfast, 1822, Appendix, pp. 49-50). [163] A Tryal of Witches, as above, p. 40. [164] “The Judge and all the Court were fully satisfied with the Verdict” (A Tryal, etc., p. 58). [165] For a learned discussion of spectral evidence see J. B. Thayer, Atlantic Monthly, April, 1890, LXV, 471 ff. [166] Dr. Hutchinson, who acknowledges his indebtedness to Holt, mentions six witches as tried by the Chief Justice from 1691 to 1696, and adds, “Several others in other Places, about Eleven in all, have been tried for Witches before my Lord Chief Justice _Holt_, and have all been acquitted. The last of them was _Sarah Morduck_, accused by _Richard Hathaway_, and tried at _Guilford_ Assize, _Anno_ 1701” (Historical Essay, 2d ed., pp. 58-63). It is not clear whether the “eleven in all” includes the seven previously mentioned. On the Morduck-Hathaway case, cf. Howell, State Trials, XIV, 639 ff. [167] Drake, Annals of Witchcraft in New England, pp. 136, 138. [168] Compare Mr. Goodell’s remarks on the reversal of attainder, in his Reasons for Concluding that the Act of 1711 became a Law, 1884. I have not considered here the bearing of this reversal, or of the attempt to pay damages to the survivors or their heirs, because these things came somewhat later. It must be noted, however, that all such measures of reparation, whatever may be thought of their sufficiency, were unexampled in the history of witch trials the world over, and that they came before the last condemnation for witchcraft in England (1712). See the references appended by Mr. Goodell to the Act of 1703 in The Acts and Resolves of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, VI, 49-50. [169] See p. 17, above.