"Exceptions not consented to by ye magistrates.
"EDWARD RAWSON, Secretary."
Mrs. Morse continued in prison until May 1681. On the fourteenth of
that month her husband petitioned for her to "the honorable gen. court
now sitting in Boston," begging "to clere up ye truth." This petition
recites a review of the testimony of seventeen persons who had testified
against Goody Morse. On the eighteenth, he petitioned "ye hon. Governor,
deputy Governor, deputies and magistrates." In answer, a new hearing was
granted. The court record says:--
"Ye Deputyes judge meet to grant ye petitioner a hearing ye next sixth
day and that warrants go forth to all persons concerned from this court,
they to appear in order to her further trial, our honored magistrates
hereto consenting.
"WM. TORREY, Clerk."