ABSTRACT
Whatever softening of the New England regime took place in the later seventeenth century, victims of earlier rigour still found spokesmen in attacks on intolerance reissued as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century. George Bishop of Bristol had originally dramatically told the story in the 1660s of the persecution of Quakers in the immediately preceding years. Ironically, it was Cotton Mather's treatment of the issue in Magnalia Christi Americana which prompted the retelling of old tales.
