Contents: Better That 100 Witches Should Live

    I     INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

   II     PURITAN-QUAKER HOSTILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
          The Origins of Puritanism -- New England
          Puritanism -- The Origins of Quakerism -- The
          English Origins of the Conflict in New England
          --Conflict in New England

  III     THOMAS MAULE: HIS ORIGINS AND SETTLEMENT IN SALEM . . 21
          English Origins -- Connection With the Panmure
          Maules -- Arrival in New England -- His Business
          -- His First Family -- His Tribulations and
          Sufferings -- His Recourse to the Courts -- His
          Salem Properties -- His Quaker Activities -- His
          Public Offices -- The Other Thomas Maule

  IV      A MOST CONTROVERSIAL BOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
          Summary -- Description -- The "First Draft"
          Theory -- Publication -- Contents -- The Dogmatic
          Chapters -- The Ritual Chapters -- The Salvation
          and Redemption Chapters -- The Teaching and
          Inspiration Chapters -- The Religious Practices
          Chapters -- The Attitudinal Chapters -- The
          Ecclesiastical Chapters -- The Judgmental Chapters
          -- The Witchcraft Chapter -- The Chapters of The
          Second Part -- Evaluation of the Writing --
          Evaluation of the Theological Content -- Evaluation
          of his Witchcraft Analysis -- Motives

   V      THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  110
          Government Reaction to Maule's Treatise -- The
          Arrest -- The Preliminary Hearing -- The Trial's
          First Stage -- The Indictment -- The Trial's Second
          Stage

  VI      THE CONTROVERSY CONTINUES . . . . . . . . . . . . .  129
          The Literary Sequel -- The Puritan Clergy Respond
          -- A Personal Response -- The Final Surviving
          Publication -- The Last Decades -- His Obituary

 VII      THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPRESSION OF EXPRESSION . . . . 145
          English Origins -- Colonial Applications --
          Pennsylvania Before 1696 -- Massachusetts Before
          1696 -- Some Developments After 1696 -- The
          Zenger Case

VIII      THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THOMAS MAULE'S TRIAL . . . . . . 167
          First Massachusetts Seditious Libel Case Involving
          Printed Works -- Maule's Convincing Trial Tactics
          -- First Acquittal In American Seditious Libel Case
          -- Jury Independence and Popular Resistance to
          Governmental Authority -- Growth of the Colonial
          Printing Industry -- Similarity to Evolving Theories
          Nurturing Individual Freedoms -- A Victory for
          Freedom of the Press -- A Significant Precursor of
          the Zenger Trial -- A Triumph for an Emerging
          Freedom of Religious Expression

  IX      PRESERVATION OF THOMAS MAULE'S LEGACIES. . . . . . . 216
          Maule's Blessing -- The Puritans' Curse

   X      CONCLUSION. . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

          AUTHOR'S EPILOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  230

          APPENDICES: INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . .  231

          APPENDIX I: Thomas Maule, Truth Held Forth and
             Maintained According to the Testimony of the Holy
             Prophets Christ and His Apostles Recorded in the
             Holy Scriptures (n.p. [New York, Wm. Bradford]
             1695). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  232

          APPENDIX II: Tho. Philathes [Thomas Maule], New-
             England Pesecutors [sic] Mauled With their own
             Weapons (n.p. [New York, Wm. Bradford] 1697). . . 499

          APPENDIX III: Thomas Maule, An Abstract of a
             Letter to Cotton Mather (n.p. [New York, Wm.
             Bradford] 1701). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  563

          APPENDIX IV: Philalethes [Thomas Maule], For the
             Service of Truth Against George Keith (n.p.
             [Philadelphia, Reynier Jansen] 1703) . . . . . .  581

          APPENDIX V: Joseph Randolph Maule, O.S.F.S.,
             Basis for the Maule Characterizations in the
             Romance, The House of the Seven Gables (July
             1954) (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of
             Detroit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  589

          BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  665

          INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  673
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