Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law:

[Trials]. [Witchcraft]. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Toronto: The Carswell Co., Limited, 1916. vii, 234 pp. Reprinted 2000, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770121. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests (such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife," "The servant and his two masters"); a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale, 1664, taken down by an attendant at the proceedings; and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692.

Part I. CASES IN THE BIRMINGHAM COURT OF REQUESTS

Introduction

1

(10)

The Pleasures of Matrimony

11

(3)

The Sturdy Club

14

(3)

The Carrier

17

(4)

The Executor

21

(1)

A Judge may Quit the Line of Justice

22

(1)

Match a Knave

23

(2)

The Second-hand Wife

25

(3)

Defective Powers

28

(1)

A B C

29

(2)

The Servant and his Two Masters

31

(2)

Warning

33

(7)

The Meek Husband and the Bouncing Wife

40

(3)

The Lovers

43

(2)

Landlord and Tenant

45

(3)

Queer Aspects

48

(4)

The Privilege of a Cockade

52

(1)

The Power of Beauty

53

(3)

The Hundred-Pound Note

56

(4)

The Merchant and the Button-Maker

60

(6)

The Fee

66

(2)

The Reckoning

68

(3)

A Quarter too Late

71

(2)

The Bastard

73

(2)

``The Tempest,'' as it was acted by their Majesties Servants at the Theatre in Birmingham

75

(2)

The Female Contest

77

(3)

The Hundred-Tongue Club

80

(3)

Character

83

(3)

The Name Unknown

86

(2)

The Female Note

88

(1)

The Widowed Wife

89

(2)

The Bench Stormed

91

(3)

The Cost and many Owners

94

(2)

The Cloud of Witnesses

96

(2)

A Club Conducted without a Man

98

(2)

The Stamp

100

(2)

The Stumbling Wife

102

(5)

The Collector

107

(2)

The Hunted Jew

109

(5)

A Picture of Man from the Life

114

(2)

The Necessity of Marrying

116

(2)

The Necessity of Unmarrying

118

(4)

The Forsaken Fair

122

(5)

Betty John

127

(18)

Part II. WITCH TRIALS

Introduction

131

(8)

An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches

139

(3)

The Sum of Mr. Gaule's Judgment About the Detection of Witches

142

(1)

Bernard of Batcome's ``Guide to Grand Jurymen''

143

(2)

Trails of the New England Witches

The Trial of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in Salem, 1692

145

(8)

The Trial of Bridget Bishop, alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Salem, June 2, 1692

153

(9)

The Trial of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29, 1692

162

(10)

The Trial of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30, 1692

172

(5)

The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692

177

A Further Account of the Trials of the New England Witches

A True Narrative, collected by Dedat Lawson, relating to Sundry Persons afficted by Witchcraft at Salem Village in New England, from the 19th of March to the 5th of April, 1692

183

Remarks of Things more than Ordinary about the Afflicted Persons

193

Remarks concerning the Accused

194

A Further Account of the Trials of the New England Witches, sent in a Letter from thence to a Gentleman in London

195

A Trial of Witches Before Sir Matthew Hale At Bury St. Edmunds, 1664

199

Part III. AMUSING ACTIONS AT LAW

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