The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700

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The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700

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It has been a great joy to be invited into the lives of so wide a variety of people, and it is a chapter of my life that I shall never forget. I have received nothing but kindness and support throughout, and I feel most fortunate to have had this opportunity to serve Her Majesty the Queen in this County. October 3: The Rev. Increase Mather, President of Harvard College and father of Cotton Mather, denounces the use of spectral evidence.

On May 28, 1692, a warrant was released for the arrest of Elizabeth Howe by John Hathorneand Jonathan Corwin. She was to be apprehended and taken to the home of Lieutenant Nathaniel Ingersolls. She stood charged with "Sundry Acts of Witch-craft done or [committed] on the [bodies] of Mary Walcott, Abigail Williams, and others of Salem Village." She was apprehended by Ephraim Wildes, constable of Tops-field, on May 29, 1692. A copy of her original warrant can be read below. This transcript was taken from The Salem Witchcraft Papers. Ann Putnam Jr: She was the most active of the afflicted girls accusing Howe. Her name appeared over 400 times, and she would go on to accuse many more people, 19 of whom would be executed.May 9: Corwin and Hathorne examine George Burroughs and Sarah Churchill; Burroughs is moved to a Boston jail. In myriad small ways she helped us to find ways to cope – so every night for years Jessica would say a prayer that was more like a phone call to God: "Dear Lord, thank you for the nice day I have had today and for looking after Lucy and Daddy and me. Can I talk to Mummy now ..." and she would then tell her mother everything she had done that day. Mary Walcott played a significant role in the Salem trials, being one of the original girls to become "afflicted". [4] Her name not only appeared on the arrest warrant served to Elizabeth Howe but appeared in one of two indictments. [2] Her cousin, Ann Putnam, Jr., was one of the most active accusers. [4] I knew I had nothing to do with Lizzie's death, but they didn't. Even though they had arrested the man who admitted to killing Lizzie, for all they knew I could have put him up to it. It was a chilling realisation. The next 45 minutes, while I "helped the police with their inquiries" was one of the worst, most frightening, episodes of my life. Because it was all done so politely, it was surreal – like the worst nightmares are surreal – but I sat there feeling that my life was collapsing around me.

Isaac Cummings, Sr, testified that eight years before, Howe had asked to borrow his horse, which he refused. The next day the horse seemed ill and wouldn’t eat. He stated his brother, Thomas Andrews, came to his house to help and decided the horse must have a stomach ache. May 18: Mary Eastey is released from prison. Following protests by her accusers, she is re-arrested. Roger Toothaker is also arrested on charges of witchcraft. January 12: Mary Post is tried and found guilty. Mary Bridges Sr., Hannah Post, Sarah Bridges, and Mary Osgood are tried and found not guilty. Thomas Farrar Sr. is cleared by proclamation. January 14: The General Court declared a Day of Contrition for the hysteria and false accusations, for which there was fasting and praying for forgiveness. [11] [12] 1700 He was formerly chief executive of Guinness and honorary treasurer of Oxfam. He graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, with a degree in chemistry. He was also a keen sportsman and gained three blues for rowing for Oxford in the University boat race between 1946 and 1948 and also rowed in the Olympic Games in 1948. He was a member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1976 to 1981 and a member of the Civil Aviation Authority from 1984 to 1990. The Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE

The Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE 

Finally, the atmosphere began to change, the accusers now became suspect and the frenzy subsided. All those accused were freed. Many years later, in 1710, legal proceedings were instituted to verify Elizabeth's innocence. The conviction was reversed and the family received compensation for the loss of her life. This, however, can have provided little real recompense for the family whose mother had been so cruelly taken from them. Like the other scapegoats for the colony's ills, Elizabeth was probably one of the more assertive and free thinking women of her time which might not have gone down well in a society then dominated by men and where women were expected to know their place. The Salem Witch trials were one of the most tragic events in early-modern American history and continue to fascinate the modern imagination. Many East Riding people have heard of the Salem witch trials but some do not realise that a locally born woman was one of the early victims of this collective frenzy. The Saturday after that my wife was taken after a raving frenzy manner expressing in a raging manner that Goody Howe must come into the church and that she was a precious saint and though she were condemned before men she was justified before God and continued in this frame for the space of three or four hours after that my wife fell into a kind of a trance for the space of two or three minutes. She then coming to herself opened her eye and said that ‘I was mistaken.’ No answer was made by the standards by and again she said ‘Ha! I was mistaken.’ Major Appleton’s wife standing by said ‘Wherein art mistaken?’‘I was mistaken,’ said she ‘For I thought Goody Howe had been a precious saint of God but now I see she is a witch for she hath bewitched me and my child and we shall never be well till there is testimony for her that she may be taken into the church’…” Waters, Thomas Franklin and Sarah Goodhue, John Wise. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Ipswich Historical Society, 1917.



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