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says he has all the papers in his possession touching the trial of this Cole, and will let me see them when we get back to Newbury.
There was much talk on this matter, which so disturbed my fancy that I slept but poorly.
This afternoon we go over to Newbury, where, indeed, I do greatly long to be once more.
Newbury, October 26.
Cousin Rebecca gone to Boston, and not expected home until next week.
The house seems lonely without her. R. Pike looked in upon us this morning, telling us that there was a rumor in Boston, brought by way of the New York Colony, that a great Papist Plot had been discovered in England, and that it did cause much alarm in London and thereabout.
R..Pike saith he doubts not the Papists do plot, it being the custom of their Jesuits so to do; but that, nevertheless, it would be no strange thing if it should be found that the Bishops and the Government did set this rumor a-going, for the excuse and occasion of some new persecutions of Independents and godly people. October 27.
Mr. Richardson preached yesterday, from Deuteronomy XVIII. 10th, 11th, and 12th verses.
An ingenious and solid discourse, in which he showed that, as among the heathen nations surrounding the Jews, there were sorcerers, charmers, wizards, and consulters with familiar spirits, who were an abomination to the Lord, so in our time the heathen nations of Indians had also their powahs and panisees 