II. The TRIA• […] Bridget Bishop: alias, Oliver. At the COURT of Oyer and Terminer Held at Salem. June 2. 1692.II. The TRIA• 〈…〉 Bridget Bishop: alias, Oliver. At the COURT of Oyer and Terminer Held at Salem. June 2. 1692.

II. The TRIA• […] Bridget Bishop: alias, Oliver. At the COURT of Oyer and Terminer Held at Salem. June 2. 1692.

II. The TRIA• 〈…〉 Bridget Bishop: alias, Oliver. At the COURT of Oyer and Terminer Held at Salem. June 2. 1692.

I. She was Indicted for Bewitching of several persons in the Neighbourhood, the Indictment being drawn up, according to the Form in ⟨p. 105⟩such Cases Usual. And pleading, Not Guilty, there were brought in several persons, who had long undergone many kinds of Miseries, which were preternaturally Inflicted, and generally ascribed unto an horrible Witchcraft. There was little Occasion to prove the Witchcraft; it being Evident and Notorious to all Beholders. Now to fix the Witchcraft on the Prisoner at the Bar, the first thing used was, the Testimony of the Bewitched; whereof, several Testified, That the Shape of the Prisoner did oftentimes very grievously pinch them, choke them, Bite them, & Afflict them; urging them to write their Names in a Book, which the said Spectre called, Ours. One of them did further Testify, that it was the Shape of this Prisoner, with another, which one Day took her from her Wheel▪ and carrying her to the River side, threatn•• there to Drown her, if she did not Sign to the Book mentioned: which yet she refused. Others of them did also Testify, that the said Shape, did in her Threats, brag to them, that she had been the Death of sundry persons, then by her Named; that she had Ridden a man, then likewise Named. Another Testified, the Apparition of Ghosts unto the Spectre of Bishop, crying out, You Murdered us! About the Truth whereof, there was in the matter of Fact, but too much Suspicion.

I. SHe was Indicted for Bewitching of several persons in the Neighbourhood, the Indictment being drawn up, according to the Form in