[61] Richard Bernard, 1566-1651, a famous Puritan minister at Batcomb
in Somerset. His _Guide to Grand Jury-men in cases of Witchcraft_
(London, 1627), says Increase Mather, “is a solid and wise treatise. As
for the judgment of the elders in New-England, so far as I can learn,
they do generally concur with Mr. Perkins and Mr. Bernard.” (_Cases of
Conscience_, pp. 252-3, ed. 1862.)