. The Salem Witchcraft Papers, Volume 3 : Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 / edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
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(Indictment v. Mary Taylor)

   Province of the Massachusetts [unclear: ] Bay in New England ss

   Att a superior Court of Judicature held at Charleson Jan'ry 31'th 1692 Annoq RR's & Reginae & Gulielmi Mariae Angliae &c Quarto

   The Jurors for o'r Sov'r Lord & Lady the King & Queen
rsent -- that Mary Taylor of Reding Wife of Sebread Taylor of Reding aforsaid In or about the last Winter in the yeare 1692 at & in the Towne of Reding in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Wickedly Mallitiously & felloniously A Covenant with the Devill did make, and made hir mark upon A Burch Lyme to Confirme the Said Couvenant & promised the Devill to Serve him & trust him & to give up hir Soule & body to him, By which diabollicall Covenant made with the Devill in Maner & forme aforsaid the Said Mary Taylor is become a Detestable Witch Against the peace of o'r Sov'r Lord & Lady the King & Queen their Crowne & Dignity & the laws in that Case made & provided --

   Billa Vera

   Atest

   *Simon Stone foreman

    ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2710 Page 43 )




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