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Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
yea it was found that many of the accused, but casting their Eye on the afflicted, the afflicted, though their Faces were never so much another way, would fall down and lye in a sort of a swoon, wherein they would continue, whatever Hands were laid upon them, until the Hands of the accused came to touch them, and then they would revive immediately: And it was found, that various kinds of natural Actions done by many of the accused in or to their own Bodies, as Leaning, Bending, Turning Awry, or Squeezing their Hands or the like, were presently attended with the like things preternaturally done upon the Bodies of the Afflicted, though they were so far asunder that the Afflicted could not at all observe the Accused.
yea it was found that many of the accused, but casting their Eye on the afflicted, the afflicted, though their Faces were never so much another way, would fall down and lye in a sort of a swoon, wherein they would continue, whatever Hands were laid upon them, until the Hands of the accused came to touch them, and then they would revive immediately: And it was found, that varioukinds of natural Actions done by many of the accused in or to their own Bodies, as Leaning, Bending, Turning Awry, or Squeezing their Hands or the like, were presently attended with the like things praeternaturally done upon the Bodies of the Afflicted, though they were so far asunder that the Afflicted could not at all observe the Accused.
It was also found that the Flesh of the Afflicted was often Bitten, at such a rate, that not only the Print of Teeth would be left on their Flesh, but the very Slaver of Spittle too: And there would appear just such a set of Teeth, as was in the Accused, even such as might be clearly distinguished from other Peoples. And usually the Afflicted went through a terrible deal of seeming Difficulties from the tormenting Spectres, and must be long waited on, before they could get a Breathing Space from their Torments, to give in their Testimonies.