And Now a Few Words

"Margaret Perd and another said they smelt brimstone; I and others said we did not smell any; then they said they did not know what it was: This Margaret said, she wish'd she had been here when Mr. Mather was here; and another attendant said, if you had been here you might not have been permitted in, for her own mother was not suffered to be present."

"But I shall no longer detain my reader from his expected entertainment in the a brief account of the trials which have passed upon some of the malefactors lately executed at Salem, for the witchcrafts whereof they stood convicted."