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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
had been whipped with iron rods by her spectre; neighbors, who had quarrelled with her, were Hale 37 willing to lay their little ills to her charge; the poor creature had a preternatural excrescence in her flesh; she gave a look towards the great and spacious meeting-house of Salem,—it is Cotton Mather who records this,—and immediately a daemon, invisibly entering the house, tore down a part of it. She was a witch by the rules and precedents of Keeble and Sir Matthew Hale, of Perkins and Bernard, of Baxter and Cotton Mather; and, on the 10th of June, protesting her innocence, she was hanged. Of the magistrates at that time, not one held office by the suffrage of the people: the tribunal, essentially despotic in its origin, as in its character, had no sanction but an extraordinary and an illegal commission; and Stoughton, the chief judge, a partisan of Andros, had been rejected by the people of Massachusetts. The responsibility of the tragedy, far from attaching to the people of t