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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)
d. At the trial of George Burroughs, the bewitched persons pretended to be dumb. Who hinders these witnesses, said Stoughton, from giving their testimonies?— I suppose the devil, answered Burroughs. How comes the devil, retorted the chief judge, so loath to have any testimony borne against you? and the question was effective. Besides, he had given proofs of great, if not preternatural muscular strength. Cotton Mather calls the evidence enough: the jury gave a verdict of guilty. John Procter, who foresaw his doom, and knew from July 23. whom the danger came, sent an earnest petition, not to the governor and council, but to Cotton Mather and the ministers. Among the witnesses against him were some who had made no confessions till after torture. They have already undone us in our estates, and that will not serve their turns without our innocent blood; and he begs for a trial in Boston, or, at least, Chap. XIX.} for a change of magistrates. His entreaties were vain, as als