YOU _are in Their Majesties Names hereby required to take into your care, and safe custody, the Bodies of_ William Hobs _and_ Deborah _his Wife,_ Mary Easty, _the Wife of_ Isaac Easty, _and_ Sarah Wild, _the Wife of_ John Wild, _all of_ Topsfield; _and_ Edward Bishop, _of_ Salem-Village; _Husbandman, and_ Sarah _his Wife, and_ Mary Black, _a_ negro _of Lieutenant_ Nathaniel Putmans, _of_ Salem-Village; _also_ Mary English _the Wife of_ Philip English,[17] _Merchant in_ Salem; _who stand charged with High Suspicion of Sundry Acts of Witchcraft, done or committed by them lately upon the Bodies of_ Ann Putman, Mary Lewis _and_ Abigail Williams, _of_ Salem-Village; _whereby great Hurt and Damage hath been done to the Bodies of the said Persons, according to the complaint of_ Thomas Putnam _and_ John Buxton _of_ Salem-Village, _Exhibited_. Salem, Apr 21, 1692, _appears, whom you are to secure in order to their further Examination. Fail not._ John Hathorn, } _Assistants_. Jona. Curwin, } _Dated_ Salem, April 22, 1692. _To Marshall_ George Herrick } _of Salem Essex._ } _YOU are in their Majesties Names hereby required to convey the above-named to the Goal at_ Salem. _Fail not._ John Hathorn, } _Assistants_, Jona. Curwin, } _Dated_ Salem, Apr 22, 1692. The occasion of _Bishops_ being cry'd out of, was he being at an Examination in _Salem_, when at the Inn an afflicted _Indian_ was very unruly, whom he undertook, and so managed him, that he was very orderly, after which in riding home, in company of him and other Accusers, the _Indian_ fell into a fit, and clapping hold with his Teeth on the back of the Man that rode before him, thereby held himself upon the Horse, but said, _Bishop_ striking him with his stick, the _Indian_ soon recovered, and promised he would do so no more; to which _Bishop_ replied, that he [95] doubted not, but he could cure them all, with more to the same effect; immediately after he was parted from them, he was cried out of, _&c._