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Samuel Parris, his daughter, a child of nine years, and his niece, a girl of less than twelve, began to have strange caprices. He that will read Cotton Mather's Book of Memorable Providences, may Chap. XIX.} read part of what these children suffered: and Tituba, an Indian female servant, who had practised some wild Hale, 24. mcantations, being betrayed by her husband, was 1692. scourged by Parris, her master, into confessing herself a witch. The ministers of the neighborhood held, at March 11. the afflicted house, a day of fasting and prayer; and the little children became the most conspicuous personages in Salem. Of a sudden, the opportunity of fame, of which the love is not the exclusive infirmity of noble minds, was placed within the reach of persons of the coarsest mould; and the ambition of notoriety recruited the little company of the possessed. There existed no motive to hang Tituba: she was saved as a living witness to the reality of witchcraft; and Sarah Good, a poor
Jan. 5. made himself a Catholic, was appointed comptroller- Feb. 27 general; and the new minister of finance perfected the triumph of paper by a decree that no person or corporation should have on hand more than five hundred livres in specie; the rest must be exchanged for paper; and all payments, except for sums under one hundred livres, must be paid in paper. Terror and the dread of informers brought, within three weeks, forty-four millions into the bank. In March, a decree of council March 11. fixed the value of the stock at nine thousand livres for five hundred, and forbade certain corporations to invest money in any thing else; all circulation of gold Chap. XXIII.} and silver, except for change, was prohibited; all payments must be made in paper, except for sums under 1720 ten livres. He who should have attempted to convert a bill into specie, would have exposed his specie to forfeiture and himself to fines. Confidence disappeared, and in May bankruptcy was avowed by a M