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Updated: May 27, 2025

And we find that this very term was applied to the representative centre of a consecrated family, in the "Attestation" to the Magnalia, written by John Higginson, venerable in years, as in all things else, in some Latin lines of his composure: "Venerande Mathere."

Charles Wentworth Upham - Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather: A Reply