Witch Hill : a history of Salem witchcraft, including illustrative sketches of persons and places . delusion. His official duties,though less responsible than those of the judges,were even more painful. The Court opened in Salem in the first week inJune. The place of meeting was now the court-house, used also as a town-house. Thomas New-ton of Boston had been commissioned to act asattorney-general. The records of this Court are not in we know of its doings is learned from earlywriters. Hutchinson is believed to have had ac-cess to the records, as he gives dates and other 196 WIT
Witch Hill : a history of Salem witchcraft, including illustrative sketches of persons and places . delusion. His official duties,though less responsible than those of the judges,were even more painful. The Court opened in Salem in the first week inJune. The place of meeting was now the court-house, used also as a town-house. Thomas New-ton of Boston had been commissioned to act asattorney-general. The records of this Court are not in we know of its doings is learned from earlywriters. Hutchinson is believed to have had ac-cess to the records, as he gives dates and other 196 WITCH HILL. details in some of the cases which he these records have been taken from the filesof court papers, where, no doubt, they once were,is not certainly known. It is natural to supposethat the immediate children of the chief actors inthe painful transactions of the Court may havefound means, in accordance with their wishes, toblot out, so far as these were concerned, theirremembrance. We are now prepared to meet again some ofthose whom we have followed to their CHAPTER XX. 81 Jratal M^^nalt, art a ipaugc. TWICE we have had Bridget Bishop before usin the shifting scenes of our story. We shalleasily recognize her now, though seen under moresolemn circumstances than before. As she is justfrom several weeks confinement in a felons cell,she must not be expected to appear in her blackcap and black hat, and red paragon bodice, bor-dered and looped with several colors. She hassomething more serious to think of than her shov-el-board. She cannot drive the circle girls fromthe Court as she drove from her premises the meanaccusing man, who came calling for a pot of cider,with a spade wielded lustily in his retreating would it have been for all concerned if shehad been intrusted with a scourge of cords, withpower to expel by it, from their dishonored places,both Court and witnesses. The first witness against her was her Pastor,Rev. Mr. Hale of B
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