THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen present, That _Elizabeth How_, Wife of _James How_ of _Ipswich_, the Thirty first Day of _May_, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady, _William_ and _Mary_, by the Grace of God, of _England_, _Scotland_, _France_, and _Ireland_, King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, _&c._ and divers other days and times, as well before as after, certain detestable Arts, called Witchcrafts and Sorceries, wickedly and Felloniously hath used, practiced, 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 aforesaid, single Woman; by which said wicked Arts, the said _Mary Wolcott_, the said Thirty first Day of _May_, in the Fourth Year as abovesaid, and divers other days and times, as well before as after, was and is Tortured, Afflicted, Pined, Consumed, Wasted and Tormented; and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcrafts, by said _Elizabeth How_; committed and done before and since that time, against the Peace of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, and against the form of the Statue, in that case made and provided. Witnesses--_Mary Wolcott_, _Ann Putnam_, _Abigail Williams_, _Samuel Pearly_, and his Wife _Ruth_, _Joseph Andrews_, and Wife _Sarah_, _John Sherrin_, _Joseph Safford_, _Francis Lane_, _Lydia Foster_, _Isaac Cummins_, Junior. There was also a second Indictment for afflicting of _Mercy Lewis_. Witnesses--_Mercy Lewis_, _Mary Wolcott_, _Abigail Williams_, _Ann Putnam_, _Samuel Pearly_ and Wife, _Joseph Andrews_ and Wife, _John Sherrin_, _Joseph Safford_, _Francis Lane_, _Lydia Foster_. [Elizabeth How's _Tryal_.] [133] The Tryal of _Elizabeth How_,[96] _June_ 30, 1692. As is Printed In _Wonders of the Invisible World_, from P. 126 to P. 132, inclusively. 1. E_LIZABETH How_, pleading, not Guilty to the Indictment of Witchcrafts, then charged upon her; the Court, according to the usual proceeding of the Courts in _England_; in such Cases, began with hearing the Deposition of several Afflicted People, who were grievously tormented by sensible and evident Witchcrafts, and all complained of the Prisoner, as the cause of their trouble. It was also found that the Suffers were not able to bear her look, as likewise, that in their greatest swoons, they distinguished her touch from other Peoples, being thereby raised out of them. And there was other Testimony of People to whom the shape of this _How_, gave trouble Nine or Ten Years ago.[97]