Note 175 — Chapter II
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The occasion was his tract Truth held forth, published in New York in 1695, for which he was tried at Salem in 1696. His success did not soften him, and he again assailed them in New England Persecutors mauled with their own Weapons (1697). Cf. A. C. Goodell in Essex Institute Collections, iii.; Sewall Papers, i. 414-16; Dexter’s Bibliog., nos. 2458, 2472; Maule Genealogy, Philad. 1868.