Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-09-13

curiosity. Mr.. Bragge was very desirous to
nave some Of these cakes preserved, in order to
be produced in court, but was overruled by 9TH
ers' who, not without reason, supposing this to
be the charm would have it all burnt, in hopes
the effects of it might cease. And it is remark
able that after the burning these feathers the
maid was better, and had no more fits till the
asslzes, but still was disturbed with the noise of
scratchings and appearances of cats, till Mr..
Chauncy killed one of them which knocked at
the door, and after that the dismal cries ceased.
cannot here omit one part of the additional
information of Anne lhorne, taken before Sir
Henry Chauncy, March the lst. She says, that
IN the morning of the 26th of February, as she
Was lying in bed, she saw cat sitting in the
window, which spoke to her, and told her that
she should have more pins, and that, casting her
eyes on the sheets, she saw large crooked pin,
but would not touch it, and hid her head in the
bedclothes, and soon after that looked in the
same place, and the pin was gone, as was the
cat also. She says also, that on Friday the 29th
Of February, in the afternoon, Jane Wenham
appeared to her at the window, and called to
her, bidding her come out of the doors but she
told her she would not come, and repeated the
Lords Prayer; that then Jane Wcnham disap-
peared, but afterwards came twice to the win.
dow again, and, finding her reading went away
and troubled her no more"
Thus the interval before the trial passed, but
during these weeks what must have been the
stale Of the society OF IIertlord.hire7
When young Mr., Brasge returned to the pa
rental roof at the yicaragc of Hltchin, how must
the tea parties of that lively town have thrilled
at his story When II group of red coated
sQnircs and h0rd-rding farmers found them.
selves in sheltered nook by the side of the
cover, listening for the whimpcr of hound,
how their attention must have been distracted
by Mr., Arthur Chaancy saccount Of his slaugb-
ter OF the eat, how often the wish must have
been expressed that their horses would make no
more Of fivo-barred gates than Ammo Thornc,
anu how many ialcs must have been tolG of
cows that had suddenly refused their milk, sheep
that had met with unaccountable deaths, butter
that would not come, beer that would not work,
and dough that would not rise When Mrs
Gardiner retired with the ladies to the drawing
room, how the hoops Of thos days almost as
capacous as the crinolnes of these, must have
crowded round her, how many eager cars of
M al ,lvo MI in t,n tul Of
Anne Thornc's sltlorings Aud when the port.
wine was circulated in the dining-room at Ard
ley Bury, when Sir Henry Chauncy, with the
Rev, Mir, Strut on one side, and the Rev. Mr..
Gardiner on the other, supported by the Rev.
Mr.. Bragge and his son Mr.. Francis, expounded
the law upon witchcraft with all the combined
dignity of Welsh Judge, the Recorder of IIert-
ford and a sorieant-at law, if some young Tenn
plar, fresh from Buttons, happy in having re-
c,iycd nod from Addison, Or heard a growl
from Swift, yenturod to hint a doubt, how Sir
llonly would put him down, and how the rector
and the vicar would groan over the infdelity
and saddocoeism Of tho age
On the 4th of March l7l2, q ' fine cold frosty
morning 50 Swift veils us). the trial camc
on YGo ororJ ;rrv c,r,d +rno biII ot onco
How c,nrT'. IIortf,rdyh;r, rrnn1 ;mrr do los.
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on,;.,Ir tLan pa,.on sr.jr+ 'not I,im = SHOW,
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h;u nrn tho oronioo >, bo Saws * went tc
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