 | 40. There is a careful and sane account of these matters in Murdock,
Increase Mather
. See Starkey,
Devil In Massachusetts
for careful assessments.
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| 41. The quotations are from
Cases of Conscience, To the Christian Reader
, written by Samuel Willard, and from the body of the text, 8, written by Increase Mather.
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| 42.
Ibid
. 12-15.
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| 43.
Ibid
. 18, 34.
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| 44. Richard Bernard,
A Guide To Grand-Jury Men
(London, 1627), Book 2, 214 (water test); Book 2, 209-10 (spectral evidence); Book 2, 111-12, 219 (sucking marks); Book 2, 240 (use of torture). Bernard used and cited Cotta, discussed below. Wil-
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| liam Perkins,
A Discourse Of The Damned Art of Witchcraft
(London, 1631), 643 (water and other tests), 643-45 (spectral and other evidence, witch marks, and torture). John Cotta,
The Triall of Witchcraft
(London, 1616), 70-78, 104, 115-22, and
passim
.
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| 45. Merci Casaubon,
A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme
, 90, and
passim
; Perkins,
A Discourse
, 644-45.
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| 46. Increase Mather,
A Disquisition Concerning Angelical Apparitions
(Boston, 1696), 17-18. Bound with this work, but with separate pagination is another by Mather which deals with some of these matters
Angelographia, Or, A Discourse Concerning The Nature and Power of the Holy Angels
(Boston, 1696). See 64-66.
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| 47. There are other references to New England in these works.
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| 48. The quotation is from Increase Mather,
A Disquisition Concerning The State of The Souls of Men
(Boston, 1707), 34; Burthogge's
Essay
was published in London in 1694.
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| 49. Increase Mather,
Disquisition Concerning . . . Souls
, 33.
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| 50. But not published in Boston until 1693.
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