Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century

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.

CONTENTS
PART I.
CASES IN THE BIRMINGHAM COURT OF REQUESTS
Introduction
I. The Pleasures of Matrimony
II. The Sturdy Club
III. The Carrier
IV. The Executor
V. A Judge may Quit the Line of Justice
VI. Match a Knave
VII. The Second-hand Wife
VIII. Defective Powers
IX. ABC
X. The Servant and his Two Masters
XI. Warning
XII. The Meek Husband and the Bouncing Wife
XIII. The Lovers
XIV. Landlord and Tenant
XV. Queer Aspects
XVI. The Privilege of a Cockade
XVII. The Power of Beauty
XVIII. The Hundred-Pound Note
XIX. The Merchant and the Button-Maker
XX. The Fee
XXI. The Reckoning
XXII. A Quarter too Late
XXIII. The Bastard
XXIV. "TheTempest," as it was acted by their Majesties' Servants at the Theatre in Birmingham
XXV. The Female Contest
XXVI. The Hundred-Tongue Club
XXVII. Character
XXVIII. The Name Unknown
XXIX. The Female Note
XXX. The Widowed Wife
XXXI. The Bench Stormed
XXXII. The Coat and many Owners
XXXIII. The Cloud of Witnesses
XXXIV. A Club Conducted without a Man
XXXV. The Stamp
XXXVI. The Stumbling Wife
XXXVII. The Collector
XXXVIII. The Hunted Jew
XXXIX. A Picture of Man from the Life
XL. The Necessity of Marrying
XLI. The Necessity of Unmarrying
XLII. The Forsaken Fair
XLIII. Betty John
PART II. WITCH TRIALS
Introduction
An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches
The Sum of Mr. Gaule's Judgment about the Detection of Witches
Bernard of Batcomb's "Guide to Grand Jurymen"
TRIALS OF THE NEW ENGLAND WITCHES
I. The Trial of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in Salem, 1692
II. The Trial of Bridget Bishop, alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Salem, June 2, 1692
III. The Trial of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, Jane 29, 1692
IV. The Trial of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30, 1692
V. The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 162
A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRIALS OF THE NEW ENGLAND WITCHES
A True Narrative, collected by Deodat Lawson, relating to Sundry Persons afflicted by
Witchcraft at Salem Village in New England, from the 19th of March to the 5th of April,
1692
Remarks of Things more than Ordinary about the Afflicted Persons
Remarks concerning the Accused
A Further Account of the Trials of the New England Witches, sent in a Letter from thence to a
Gentleman in London
A TRIAL OF WITCHES BEFORE SIR MATTHEW HALE AT BURY ST. EDMUNDS, 1664
PART III. AMUSING ACTIONS AT LAW