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Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts, in a dialogue between S.…
Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts, in a dialogue between S. & B. / By P.E. and J.A.
printed by William Bradford for Hezekiah Usher, 1692
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
B. All of you are not so minded on my Knowledge: but ought there ⟨p. 3⟩not to be good grounds of suspicion, before a person (especially of honest Conversation) be brought on to the stage to be examined for such a Crime?
S. I see no danger in owning the Affirmative; I am not yet convinced that there is any Reflection in it upon us.
B. That is not my business: but do you think that every suspicion is enough to commit a man to Prison for such a Crime?
S. Why not, if the suspicion be built on just Presumptions! for this is only in order to a fair Trial, which is to pass through two Juries, where he will have the liberty to Vindicate his Innocence openly.