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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)
ved exclusively for the Episcopalians—an injustice which was afterwards reversed in the colonial courts. Twice had Lord Cornbury dissolved the assembly. 1708. Aug. 19. The third which he convened proved how rapidly the political education of the people had advanced. Dutch, English, and New England men, were all of one spirit Tes. The magistrates refused their belief, and, confining her for trial, proceeded to hang her grandfather. These five were condemned on the third, and hanged Aug. 19. on the nineteenth of August; pregnancy reprieved Elizabeth Procter. To hang a minister as a witch was a novelty; but Burroughs denied absolutely that there was,nineteenth of August; pregnancy reprieved Elizabeth Procter. To hang a minister as a witch was a novelty; but Burroughs denied absolutely that there was, or could be, such a thing as witchcraft, in the current sense. This opinion wounded the self-love of the judges, for it made them the accusers and judicial murderers of the innocent. On the ladder, Burroughs cleared his innocence by an earnest speech, repeating the Lord's prayer composedly and exactly, and with a fervency that