Transcriber's Note. A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book. Mark-up: _italic_ ==blackletter== The Witchcraft Delusion In New England Vol. III ==Woodward's Historical Series.== No. VII. THE ==Witchcraft Delusion== IN NEW ENGLAND: ITS RISE, PROGRESS, AND TERMINATION, AS EXHIBITED BY DR. COTTON MATHER, IN _THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD_; AND BY MR. ROBERT CALEF, IN HIS _MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD_. WITH A ==Preface, Introduction, and Notes==, BY SAMUEL G. DRAKE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. _More Wonders of the Invisible World._ PRINTED FOR W. ELLIOT WOODWARD, ROXBURY, MASS. MDCCCLXVI. _No._____ Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. EDITION IN THIS SIZE 280 COPIES. MUNSELL, PRINTER. [Illustration] [90] MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD. PART V. _An Impartial Account of the most Memorable Matters of Fact, touching the supposed Witchcraft in_ New-England. [_ Matters of Fact._] MR. _Parris_[1] had been some years a Minister in _Salem-Village_, when this sad Calamity (as a deluge) overflowed them, spreading itself far and near. He was a Gentleman of Liberal Education, and not meeting with any great Encouragement, or Advantage in Merchandizing, to which for some time he apply'd himself, betook himself to the work of the Ministry; this Village being then vacant, he met with so much Encouragement, as to settle in that Capacity among them. After he had been there about two years, he obtained a Grant from a part of the Town, that the House and Land he Occupied, and which had been Alotted by the whole People to the Ministry, should be and remain to him, _&c._ as his own Estate in Fee Simple. This occasioned great _Divisions_ both between the Inhabitants themselves, and between a considerable part of them and their said Minister, which Divisions were but as a beginning or _Præludium_ to what immediately followed.