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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3)

Chapter 32: Transcriber's Note.
By Robert Calef
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This work republishes a skeptical contemporary account of witchcraft prosecutions in New England, juxtaposing the original author's critiques of sensational narratives with extensive documentary materials, depositions, and polemical arguments opposing reliance on spectral evidence. The editor supplies a prefatory apparatus, annotations, corrected typography, and genealogical and publishing history to clarify textual variants and context while preserving much of the original orthography. The edition therefore combines the author's trenchant rebuttals of prevailing beliefs about invisible agents with an annotated text designed to help readers follow the evidence, reasoning, and rhetorical strategies deployed against accepted accounts of the prosecutions.

Transcriber's Note.

Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes were renumbered and placed at the end of each section. The Index was copied from the third volume. The entry Tockinosh, John, ii, 23. does not correspond to the text.

Corrections.

The first line indicates the original, the second the correction.

p. 80:

  • with a Cnmmission from some of Mankind
  • with a Commission from some of Mankind

p. 116:

  • Witchcraft, because the Emher
  • Witchcraft, because the Ember

p. 125:

  • it is to ee hoped that
  • it is to be hoped that

p. 193:

  • reckons up Withcraft among the Works
  • reckons up Witchcraft among the Works

Footnote 72:

  • about A.D. 277, and his Docrine
  • about A.D. 277, and his Doctrine

Footnote 78:

  • of the Hononrable Persons
  • of the Honorable Persons

Footnote 89:

  • The others will be noticed onward, in the Account o the Trials.
  • The others will be noticed onward, in the Account of the Trials.

Footnote 97:

  • The same Gentleman mentioned in Note 86, Page 64.
  • The same Gentleman mentioned in Note 86, Page 157.

Errata.

The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read.

p. 25:

  • threatning bittterly to kill
  • threatning bitterly to kill

p. 32:

  • which the Old Serpent made where he did his first Adddress
  • which the Old Serpent made where he did his first Address

p. 103:

  • on so flight
  • on so slight

p. 141:

  • found no redress in this matter, accountea ourselves
  • found no redress in this matter, accounted ourselves

p. 193:

  • it were very improper to place it with Drunkennness
  • it were very improper to place it with Drunkenness