f
Witchcraft_, By Francis Bragge, A. B., ... London, 1712.

_The Impossibility of Witchcraft Further Demonstrated, Both from
Scripture and Reason ... with some Cursory Remarks on two trifling
Pamphlets in Defence of the existence of Witches_. By the Author of _The
Impossibility of Witchcraft_, 1712. In the Bodleian.

_Jane Wenham_. Broadside. The writer of this leaflet claims to have
transcribed his account from an account in "Judge Chancy's own hand".
Chauncy was the justice of the peace who with Bragge stood behind the
prosecution.

It is very hard to straighten out the authorship of these various
pamphlets. The Rev. Mr. Bragge wrote several. The Rev. Mr. Gardiner and
the Rev. Mr. Strutt, who were active in the case, may have written two
of them. The topographer Gough, writing about 1780, declared that the
late Dr. Stebbing had as a young man participated in the controversy.
Francis Hutchinson was an interested spectator, but probably did not
contribute to the literature of the subject.

A short secondary account is that of W. B. Gerish, _A Hertfordshire
Witch; or the Story of Jane Wenham, the "Wise Woman of Walkern_."

In the Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS., 3,943, there is a continuation of the
pamphlet discussion, based chiefly, however, upon Glanvill and other
writers.

Sec. 10.--Criticism of the Northampton and Huntingdon Pamphlets of 1705 and
1716 (see ch. XIII, note 10).

_An Account of The Tryals, Examination and Condemnation of Elinor Shaw
and Mary Phillips (Two notorious Witches) on Wednesday the 7th of March
1705, for Bewitching a Woman, and two children.... With an Account of
their strange Confessions._ This is signed, at the end, "Ralph Davis,
March 8, 1705." It was followed very shortly by a completer account,
written after the execution, and entitled:

_The Northamptonshire Witches, Being a true and faithful account of the
Births, Educations, Lives, and Conversations of Elinor Shaw and Mary
Phillips (The two notorious Witches) That were Executed at Northampton
on Saturday, March the 17th, 1705 ... with their full Confession to the
Minister, and last Dying Speeches at the place of Execution, the like
never before heard of.... Communicated in a Letter last Post, from Mr.
Ralph Davis of Northampton, to Mr. William Simons, Merchantt in London_,
London, 1705.

With these two pamphlets we wish to compare another, which was
apparently published in 1716 and was entitled: _The Whole Trial and
Examination o