Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions : a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possesed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.

  • Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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[1689]
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Printed at Boston in N. England : By R.P., 1689, sold by Joseph Brunning ..., [1689]

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10 unnumbered pages, 75, 21, 41, 14 pages

Notes

"A discourse on the power and malice of the devils" is on the 21 p. numbering.
"A discourse on witchcraft" is on the 41 p. numbering.
Appendix is on the 14 p. at the end.
Imperfect: pages are blurred, cropped, stained with print show-through, and some loss of print.
Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

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Wing M1123.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1487:38) s1999 miun s

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