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The Giles Corey's Story

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It's a pretty insignificant part of the website, but the thing that intrigued me was the Giles Corey story. I knew, prior to reading the article, that he had been "pressed to death," but I wasn't aware that he was put to death because he refused to speak in a trial. While his wife, who was also accused, was put in a jail cell to rot, Corey refused to accuse anyone else of witch craft or wizardry. He plead for death, as opposed to confessing to a "crime" in which he was innocent, just to be certain that his farm that had been deeded to his two son-in-laws, wouldn't become state property after his death. Giles Corey was extremely courageous and honorable in the face of death. "In courts where ghosts appear as witnesses And swear men's lives away.

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