But so implacable was the haughty primate, that he raised up a new prosecution against Williams, on the strangest pretence imaginable.
* Rush.

vol.ii.p.

409, 418.
** Mather's History of New England, book i.Dugdale.

Bates Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, vol.i.p.

42.
This last quoted author puts the fact beyond controversy.
And it is a curious fact, as well with regard to the characters of the men, as of the times.