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Trials. Witchcraft Trials. 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 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-032361. ISBN 1-58477-012-0. Cloth. $65. 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.