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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies April 1693 April 1693 April 1. 232. Minutes … account to Mr. Blathwayt of my stopping a supposed witchcraft, which had proved fatal to many, had not a speedy … in Council of 26 January, 1693, as to prosecutions for witchcraft. ( See No. 33.) [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LXII., pp. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies December 1692 December 1692 Dec. 1. … to prevent danger from French residents read. Bill against witchcraft, etc., read. Dec. 13. Bill to secure liberty of … for an Inferior Court in Middlesex. Dec. 14. Bills against witchcraft, and to secure the liberty of the subject passed. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies December 1696 December 1696 Dec. 1. Bill for Assize of Bread read again, voted to be engrossed and sent down to the Representatives. Bill against murder of … with concurrence, and the Bill against conjuration and witchcraft also returned, with non-concurrence. Vote of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies December 1697 December 1697 Dec. 16. Agreed that the Council nominate two persons and the Representatives one to meet Lord Bellomont. Dec. 17. … Phillips for charges on account of prisoners accused of witchcraft in 1692, of 20 to Captain John Wing for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies December 1723, 110 December 1723, 110 Dec. 3. … your Lordship was in personal attendance on H.M. abroad, and I having laboured under a violent sickness for many … in the proceedings of the Council of St. Christophers and immediately made out a grant etc. Some time before I had …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies February 1693 February 1693 Feb. 16. 92. … an account of my appointing a Commission to try cases of witchcraft, while I was driving the French and Indians from … of the afflicted persons who, as soon as the suspected witches looked at them in Court, instantly fell to the ground …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies January 1693 January 1693 Jan. 1 1. Extract … his action in stopping the proceedings against the witches in New England, and directing that in all future proceedings against persons accused of witchcraft or of possession by the devil, all circumspection …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies July 1693 July 1693 July 1. 434. Office of Ordnance to Lords of Trade and Plantations. We have considered the list of stores demanded for Fort William Henry in New York, and though the list is very long considering that the place … letter of 15 April, 1693, concerning the proceedings as to witchcraft. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies July 1700 July 1700 July 1. 605. Minutes of … River in Cambridge, lately rebuilt, shall be repaired and maintained, read a second time. Bill forbidding the … at Salem, 1692, she was arraigned, tried and condemned for witchcraft, and praying that the records of the proceedings …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… America and West Indies July 1703, 1-10 July 1703, 1-10 July 1. Whitehall. 864. Journal of Council of Trade and Plantations. Mr. Penn attending, his proposals were read. … same County that lye under sentence of condemnation for witchcraft, read and sent down. Petition of Joseph Howard of …