[63] This has Reference to the Favor expected at the Hands of William and Mary. The new Charter granted by them was received in Boston on the 14th of May, 1692. Sir Wm. Phipps came over at the same Time and assumed the Office of Governor. [64] William Stoughton, afterwards Governor. [65] These were to be 28 in Number. As the early Histories do not name them I copy them here from the Charter as printed in 1726: "Simon Broadstreet, John Richards, Nathanael Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, John Philips, James Russell, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Appleton, Bartholomew Gedney, John Hathorn, Elisha Hutchinson, Robert Pike, Jonathan Corwin, John Jolliffe, Adam Winthrop, Richard Middlecot, John Foster, Peter Sergeant, Joseph Lynd, Samuel Heyman, Stephen Mason, Thomas Hinkley, William Bradford, John Walley, Barnabas Lothrop, Job Alcot, Samuel Daniel, and Silvanus Davis, Esquires." Isaac Addington was appointed Secretary. Nearly all noticed in Allen's _Amer. Biog. Dict._ [66] The horrible Picture drawn in this long Paragraph has Reference especially to the still deep Current among the few who did not believe in Witchcraft, or at least who did not believe in extreme Measures against those accused of it. [67] Strange Source, indeed, whence to hear a Plea for Charity! [68] Did this Fact suggest the Idea of the _Happy Family_ to the Keepers of modern Menageries? The Freshet is not mentioned by the Chroniclers. [69] There was a Proposition, it is said, to send to England to engage one Matthew Hopkins, a professed Witch-finder, then in high repute in that Country. See _History and Antiquities of Boston_, 309. [70] It is at every Step surprising to observe how the Writer assumes to be the Judge, in this at the same Time "dark and incomprehensible Business," as it is frequently acknowledged by him to be. AN ABSTRACT OF MR. PERKINS'S[71] WAY FOR THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. I. THERE _are_ Presumptions, _which do at least probably and conjecturally note one to be a_ Witch. _These give occasion to Examine, yet they are no sufficient Causes of Conviction._ II. _If any Man or Woman be notoriously defamed for a_ Witch, _this yields a strong Suspition. Yet the Judge ought carefully to look, that the Report be made by_ Men _of Honesty and Credit._ III. _If a_ Fellow-Witch, _or_ Magician, _give Testimony of any Person to be a_ Witch; _this indeed is not sufficient for Condemnation; but it is a fit Presumption to cause a straight Examination._ IV. _If after Cursing there follow Death, or at least some mischief: for_ Witches _are wont to practise their mischievous Facts by Cursing and Banning: This also is a sufficient matter of Examination, tho' not of Conviction._ V. _If after Enmity, Quarrelling, or Threatning, a present mischief does follow; that also is a great Presumption._