The 9th Day of _May_, in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady _William_ and _Mary_, by the Grace of God, of _England_, _Scotland_, _France_ and _Ireland_, King and Queen Defenders of the [114] Faith, _&c._ And divers other days and times, as well before as after, certain detestable Arts, called Witchcrafts, and Sorceries, Wickedly and Feloniously hath used, practised, and exercised, at and within the Township of _Salem_, in the County of _Essex_ aforesaid, in upon, and against one _Mary Wolcott_ of _Salem_-Village, in the County of _Essex_, Single-woman, by which said wicked Arts the said _Mary Wolcott_, the Ninth Day of _May_, in the fourth Year abovesaid, and divers other days and times, as well before as after, was and is Tortured, Afflicted, Pined, Consumed, Wasted and Tormented, against the Peace of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, and against the Form of the Statute in that Case made and provided. Witnesses, _Mary Wolcott, Sarah Vibber,[59] Mercy Lewis, Ann Putnam, Eliz. Hubbard_. Endorsed by the Grand Jury, _Billa Vera_. There was also a second Indictment for afflicting _Elizabeth Hubbard_, the Witnesses to the said Indictment were _Elizabeth Hubbard_, _Mary Wolcott_, and _Ann Putnam_. The third Indictment was for afflicting _Mercy Lewis_: the Witnesses, the said _Mercy Lewis_, _Mary Wolcott_, _Elizabeth Hubbard_, and _Ann Putnam_. The fourth for acts of Witchcraft on _Ann Putnam_, the Witnesses, the said _Ann Putnam_, _Mary Wolcott_, _Elizabeth Hubbard_, and _Mary Warren_.[60] _The Tryal of_ G. B. _as Printed in_ Wonders of the Invisible World, _from_ P. 94 _to_ 104. GLAD should I have been, if I had never known the name of this Man; or never had this occasion to mention so much as the first Letters of his name. But the Government requiring some Account of his trial, to be inserted in this Book, it becomes me with all obedience to submit unto the Order. 1. This _G. B._ was Indicted for Witchcrafts; and in the Prosecution of the Charge against him, he was Accused by five or six of the Bewitched, as the Author of their Miseries; he was accused by Eight of the confessing Witches, as being an head Actor at some of their Hellish Randezvouzes, and who had the promise of being a King in Satan's Kingdom, now going to be erected; he was accused by Nine persons, for extraordinary lifting, and such feats of strength as could not be done without a Diabolical Assistance. And for other such things he was accused, until about Thirty Testimonies[61] were brought in against him; nor were these judg'd the half of what might have been consider'd for his Conviction: however they were enough to fix the Character of a Witch upon him, according to the Rules of Reasoning, by the judicious _Gaule_, in that case directed.