Witchcraft in Salem village in 1692 : together with some account of other witchcraft prosecutions in New England and elsewhere (1892)
Nevins, Winfield S · Salem, Mass. : North Shore Pub. Co. · leaf 82
edings of it.^ The men who constituted this commission, orcourt, were among the ablest in the colony.None stood higher in the social scale ; none inthe colony were better qualified for the work ofthe bench. On the great question of the hour,they entertained substantially the same views asthe… … JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL. THE COURT AXD PLACES OF TRIAL. 73 possibly they did not always protect the rightsof accused persons as carefully as the Englishjudges did. Thomas Newton, a trained lawyer,was appointed special kings attorney for thetrial of the witchcraft cases, and prepared theearlier ones for…
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