The tract is reprinted in _Historical Magazine_ (N.Y., vol. v. pp. 321-327), and is followed (vol. vi. p. 159) with a statement, by Rev. Lucius Alden, on the persons and localities mentioned therein. Brewster’s _Rambles about Portsmouth_, 2d series, 1869, has a chapter on the subject (pp. 343-351), with Mr. Alden’s statement; but none of these writers seem to be aware that Richard Chamberlayne was the author of _Lithobolia_. Since writing the above I find the tract under the name of Richard Chamberlain in British Museum Catalogue, 1814, and the title was so copied into Watt and Lowndes. P. [22] This was the Hortando case, a brief narrative of which, “sent in by an intelligent person,” is given in _Remarkable Providences_, pp. 116-118, and _Magnalia_, vol. ii. p. 453. “The enclosed I transcribed from Mr. Tho. Broughton, who read to me what he took from the mouth of the woman and her husband, and judge it credible; though it be not the half of what is to be gotten. I expect from him a fuller and further account before I come down to the Commencement.” (Mr. Moody to Mr. Mather, August 23, 1683. _Mather Papers_, p. 360.) The date, place and attending circumstances make it clear that this was “the narrative sent in by an intelligent person,” which Mr. Mather printed. P. [23] Gov. Hutchinson found this case reported in _Magnalia_, vol. ii. p. 454. P. [24] Increase Mather’s _Remarkable Providences_ is the work here alluded to; but the date should have been 1684 and not 1685. The book was issued in the Spring of 1684. Nathaniel Mather, in a letter to the author, dated Dec. 31, 1684, acknowledges receiving a copy on which “was written in your hand 7 ber 16.” (_Mather Papers_, p. 58.) John Bishop acknowledges the receipt of a copy, in a letter dated June 10, 1684. (_Ibid._ p. 312.) This erroneous date, and a typographical error in the _Magnalia_, vol. ii. p. 473, have led some writers to suppose that Cotton Mather wrote his first book on witchcraft in 1685. He was then twenty-two years of age. Before 1686 he published no works except _Elegy on Rev. Nath. Collins_, 1685, and _The Boston Ephemeris_, an Almanac for 1683, neither of which are in the printed list of his works. His first writing on witchcraft was issued in 1689. P. [25] This date is correct. It is singular that in his final draft the author should be in doubt, and say, “in 1687 or 1688.” P. [26] The names and ages of the children were as follows: Martha 13, John 11, Mercy 7, Benjamin 5. P. [27] Cotton Mather’s _Memorable Providences_, Boston, 1689. 2d ed. London, 1691. P.