X. They were discovered no less than _three-score and ten_ Witches in One Village, ==three and twenty== of which ==freely confessing== their Crimes, were condemned to dy. The rest, (==One== pretending she was with Child) were sent to _Fahluna_, where most of them were afterwards executed. Fifteen Children, which confessed themselves engaged in this Witchery, dyed as the rest. Six and Thirty of them between _nine_ and _sixteen_ years of Age, who had been less guilty, were forced to run the Gantlet, and be lashed on their hands once a Week, for a year together; twenty more who had less inclination to these Infernal enterprises, were lashed with Rods upon their Hands for three Sundays together, at the Church door; the number of the seduced Children, was about three hundred. This course, together with ==Prayers== in all the Churches thro' the Kingdom, issued in the deliverance of the Country.[204] XI. The most Accomplished Dr. _Horneck_ inserts a most wise caution, in his preface to this Narrative, saies he, _there is no Public Calamity, but some ill people, will serve themselves of the sad providence and make use of it for their own ends; as_ Thieves _when an house or town is on Fire, will steal what they can_. And he mentions a Remarkable Story of a young Woman, at _Stockholm_, in the year 1676, Who accused her own Mother of being a Witch; and swore positively, that she had carried her away in the Night; the poor Woman was burnt upon it: professing her innocency to the last. But tho' she had been an Ill Woman, yet it afterwards prov'd that she was not _such_ an one; for her Daughter came to the Judges [51] with hideous Lamentations, Confessing, That she had wronged her Mother, out of a wicked spite against her; whereupon the Judges gave order for her Execution too. But, so much of these things; and, now, _Lord, make these Labours of thy Servant, Profitable to thy People!_ [205]_Matter Omitted in the Trials._ NINETEEN Witches have been Executed at _New-England_, one of them was a Minister, and two Ministers more are Accus'd. There is a hundred Witches more in Prison, which broke Prison, and about two Hundred more are Accus'd, some Men of great Estates in _Boston_, have been accus'd for _Witchcraft_. Those Hundred now in Prison accus'd for Witches, were Committed by fifty of themselves being _Witches_, some of _Boston_, but most about _Salem_, and the Towns Adjacent. Mr. _Increase Mather_ has published a Book[206] about _Witchcraft_, occasioned by the late Trials of Witches, which will be speedily printed in _London_ by _John Dunton_. THE DEVIL DISCOVERED. 2 Cor. II. ii. _We are not Ignorant of His_ DEVICES.