[106] Timothy _Perley_ and his Wife Deborah testified, June 1st, 1692, that he was about 39 Years of Age, and his Wife about 33. The Abstract above is exceedingly defective. See the _Records_, ii, 73-4. [107] Francis Lane gave his Age as about 27, and said that the Time the Witches afflicted the Rails was about "seauen" Years ago, and makes a long Story out of it; but it is of a Piece with most of the Evidence. Lane's Parentage has not been traced. [108] They affirmed that many of those wretched Souls had been Baptized at Newberry Falls; and at several other Rivers and Ponds; and as to the Manner of Administration, the Great Officer of _Hell_ took them up by the Body, and putting their Heads into the Water, said over them, _Thou art mine, and I have full Power over the_: And thereupon they engaged and covenanted to renounce GOD, CHRIST, their _sacred Baptism_, and the whole Way of _Gospel Salvation_; and to use their utmost Endeavours to oppose the Kingdom of CHRIST, and to set up and _advocate_ the Kingdom of _Satan_.--Lawson, _Second Edition_, 118. See, also, Vol. I, Page 102-3. [Martha Carryer's _Indictment_.] [136] _The Indictment of_ Martha Carryer.[109] [Essex ss.] _Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Wilielmi & Mariæ, nunc Angliæ, &c. quarto._-- THE Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, present, That _Martha Carryer_, Wife of _Thomas Carryer_ of _Andover_, in the County of _Essex_, Husbandman, 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, 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, Single Woman, in the County of _Essex_ aforesaid; by which said wicked Arts the said _Mary Wolcott_, the Thirty first Day of _May_, in the fourth Year aforesaid, and at 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 Soveraign Lord and Lady, _William_ and _Mary_, King and Queen of _England_; their Crown and Dignity, and against the Form of the Statute, in that Case made and provided. Witnesses--_Mary Wolcott, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Putnam_. There was also a Second Indictment for afflicting _Elizabeth Hubbard_, by Witchcraft. Witnesses--_Elizabeth Hubbard_, _Mary Wolcott_, _Ann Putnam_, _Mary Warrin_. [Martha Carryer's _Tryal_.] The Trial of _Martha Carryer_, August 2, 1692. As may be seen in _Wonders of the Invisible World_, from P. 132, to 138.