Thus far the Account given in _Wonders of the Invisible World_; in which setting aside such words as these, in the Tryal of _G. B._ viz. [_They_ (i. e.) _the Witnesses were enough to fix the character of a Witch upon him._] In the Tryal of _Bishop_, these words, [_but there was no need of them_] i. e. of further Testimony. In the Tryal of _How_, where it is said, [and there came in Testimony of preternatural Mischiefs, presently befalling some that had been instrumental to debar her from the Communion, whereupon she was _intruding_.] _Martin_ is call'd [one of the most impudent, scurrilous, wicked Creatures in the World.] In his Account of _Martha Carryer_, he is pleased to call her [a _Rampant Hag_,] &c. These Expressions as they manifest, that he wrote more like an Advocate than an Historian; so also that those that were his Imployers were not mistaken in their choice of him for that work, however he may have mist it in other things. As in his owning (in the Tryal of _G. B._) That the _Testimony of the bewitched, and confessors was not enough against the Accused_, for it is known that not only in _New-England_, such Evidence has been taken for sufficient, but also in _England_, as himself there owns, and will also hold true of _Scotland_, &c. they having proceeded upon such Evidence, to the taking away of the Lives of many, to assert that this is not enough, is to tell the World that such Executions were but so many Bloody Murders; which surely was not his intent to say.[122] FOOTNOTES: [109] Complaint was made against Martha Carrier on the 28th of May, by Joseph Houlton and John Wallcott, both of Salem. John Ballard, Constable, arrested her. John _Bayley_, Assistant Constable of Andover, summoned the Witnesses. See _Records S. W._ ii, 54, 55, &c. [110] Martha Carrier underwent the usual Examination, which occupies two Pages, and the Original is in the Hand of Mr. Samuel Parris. The above is but a very unsatisfactory Abridgement of it. [111] It appears from Lawson's Account that such Accusations were much heeded. He says--"Several have confessed against their own Mothers, that they were Instruments to bring them into the _Devil's Covenant_, to the undoing of their Body and Soul. And some Girls of Eight or Nine Years of Age did declare that after they were so betrayed by their Mothers, to the Power of _Satan_, they saw the _Devil_ go in their _own shapes_ to afflict others."--Page 118-19. [112] Benjamin Abbot was of Andover, and his Age was about 31. [113] Sarah Abbot gave her Age as about 32 Years. [114] Allen Toothaker was a young Man, aged about 22 Years. He may have received his Wound when the Indians attacked Andover, as mentioned in an earlier Note. [115] John _Rogers_ was of Billerica. He gave his Age as about 50. His Testimony takes up a quarto Page in the Records. Three Years later, viz., August 5th, 1695, he, with several others, was killed at Billerica by the Indians.