was hid from me, which I found, covered with a rag, and my pen quite gone.  I made a new pen; and, while I was writing, one ear of corn hit me in the face, and fire, sticks, and stones throwed at me, and my pen brought to me.  While I was writing with my new pen, my inkhorn taken away:  and, not knowing how to write any more, we looked under the table, and there found him; and so I was able to write again.  Again, my wife her hat taken from her head, sitting by the fire by me, the table almost thrown down.  Again, my spectacles thrown from the table, and thrown almost into the fire by me, and my wife and the boy.  Again, my book of all my accounts thrown into the fire, and had been burnt presently, if I had not taken it up.  Again, boards taken off a tub, and set upright by themselves; and my paper, do what I could, hardly keep it while I was writing this relation, and things thrown at me while a-writing.  Presently, before I could dry my writing, a mormouth hat rubbed along it; but I held so fast that it did blot but some of it.  My wife and I, being much afraid that I should not preserve it for public use, did think best to lay it in the Bible, and it lay safe that night.  Again, the next, I would lay it there again; but, in the morning, it was not there to be found, the bag hanged down empty; but, after, was found in a box alone.  Again, while I was writing this morning, I was forced to forbear writing any more, I was so disturbed with so many things constantly thrown at me.

     “This relation brought in Dec. 8.

“I, ANTHONY MORSE, occasionally being at my brother Morse’s house, my brother showed me a piece of a brick which had several times come down the chimney.  I sitting in the corner, I took the piece of brick in my hand.  Within a little space of time, the piece of brick was gone from me, I knew not by what means.  Quickly after, the piece of brick came down the chimney.  Also, in the chimney-corner I saw a hammer on the ground:  there being no person near the hammer, it was suddenly gone, by what means I know not.  But, within a little space after, the hammer came down the chimney.  And, within a little space of time after that, came a piece of wood down the chimney, about a foot long; and, within a little after that, came down a firebrand, the fire being out.  This was about ten days ago.

“JOHN BADGER affirmeth, that, being at William Morse his house, and heard Caleb Powell say that he thought by astrology, and I think he said by astronomy too, with it, he could find out whether or no there were diabolical means used about the said Morse his trouble, and that the said Caleb said he thought to try to find it out.

“THE DEPOSITION OF MARY TUCKER, aged about twenty.—­She remembered that Caleb Powell came into her house, and said to this purpose:  That he, coming to William Morse his house, and the old man, being at prayer, he thought not fit to go in, but looked in at the window; and he said he had broken the enchantment; for he saw the boy play tricks while he was at prayer, and mentioned some, and, among the rest, that he saw him to fling the shoe at the said Morse’s head.

     “Taken on oath, March 29, 1680, before me,