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  The Crushing of Giles Cory & The Last Hangings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On Monday, September 19th 80-year-old Giles Corey was led to a place adjacent to the Courthouse.
Because Giles would not enter a plea, he was ordered to undergo the ancient punishment of "peine forte et dure" (strong and hard punishment).
Giles Corey is the only recorded person in North America to have been legally pressed to death.
www.angelfire.com /mi/WitchHistoryReport/crush.html   (215 words)

  
 Peine forte et dure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem Witch Trials during the 1690s.
The most famous victim of peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.
The most famous victim in the United Kingdom was the Catholic martyr Saint Margaret Clitherow, who was pressed to death on March 25, 1586, after refusing to plead to the charge of having harboured priests in her house (in order to avoid a trial in which her own children would be obliged to give evidence).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peine_forte_et_dure   (362 words)

  
 Salem Witch Trials: Giles Corey
Giles, for reasons unknown to others, decided to testify against his wife, but eventually tried to recant his deposition, which lead to greater suspicion of his involvement in witchcraft because of the stigma surrounding perjury.
Giles' colorful past, his willingness to be tortured before compromising his own values, and his role in his wife's conviction are the factors which make him such a vibrant character.
Giles Corey did in fact testify against his wife in front of the court, and he seems to have stood mute as an act of dramatic defiance.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu /salem/people/gilescorey.html   (1210 words)

  
 123Student
Giles Cory was a well-to-do farmer in Salem.
Some reasons that are now accepted as to why Cory was accused are his ties with the Porter family (who was against the Putnam faction), and his stubborn attitude when it came to proceedings such as the Salem Witch Trials.
Giles Cory, at age 80, was executed by being pressed to death on September 19, 1692.
www.123student.com /american_history/56.shtml   (1561 words)

  
 Ken Hodkinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Giles sees a way to get her back and solve his serious financial troubles at the same time.
Giles provides the police with a motive when he tells the police that he has been having an affair with Katy, Danny's wife.
He tells the police that Cory showed up uninvited, admitted to setting the bomb, and generally acted like a crazy person before attacking Giles with a knife, claiming to be doing God's work.
www.kenhodkinson.com   (3828 words)

  
 roanoke.com High School Sports
Cory Price's TD catch gives the Indians the lead, and Blacksburg shuts down Giles in the second half.
Giles answered with an 80-yard drive that Sharp completed on the last play of the first quarter.
Carson Ward, the Spartans' fullback who rushed for more than 1,000 yards last year as Giles advanced to the Group A Division 2 semifinals, was limited to 53 yards on 13 carries.
www1.roanoke.com /sports/highschool/3202.html   (550 words)

  
 Biography of Giles Corey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Giles Corey was a prosperous farmer and full member of the church.
Ann Putnam claimed that on April 13 the specter of Giles Corey visited her and asked her to write in the Devil's book.
Later, Putnam was to claim that a ghost appeared before her to announce that it had been murdered by Corey.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_BCOR.HTM   (367 words)

  
 Salem witch trials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As the number of accusations grew, the jail populations of Salem, Boston, and surrounding areas swelled, and a new problem surfaced: without a legitimate form of government, there was no way to try these women.
Giles Cory, an eighty-year-old farmer from the southeast end of Salem, refused to enter a plea.
The law provided for an application of a form of torture called peine fort et dure, in which the victim was slowly crushed by piling stones on him; after three days of excruciating pain, Cory died without entering a plea.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/salem_witch_trials.html   (1760 words)

  
 Haunted Salem! - Haunting History
Giles initially supported the claims against his wife (was it her cooking?), offering “evidence” that his wife had been “muttering” through her chores.
It was later said that, as stones continued to be places atop the wooden door covering Giles Corey, that all he would say is “more weight.” While this is more likely the results of folklore, what is reputed by witnesses of the time to have been said is far more damning in retrospect.
The Curse of Giles Corey was not just leveled at the Sheriff but at “all of Salem.” It is said that each time Salem has undergone a major tragedy (such as the great fire that nearly destroyed the town), it was not long after a claimed sighting of the ghost of Giles Corey.
www.hauntedsalem.com /hauntinghistory/gilescorey.html   (616 words)

  
 Salem Witch Craft Trials
Cory was badgered by Hathorne, badgered by Corwin, badgered by Rev. Mr.
Giles Cory suffered this rather than to appeal to his countrymen, as he was fully convinced that he must die anyway, and he was obstinate enough to cheat the gallows.
About noon at Salem, Giles Cory was pressed to death for standing mute; much pains was used with him two days, one after another, by the court and Captain Gardner of Nantucket who had been of his acquaintance, but all in vain.
www.coryfamsoc.com /resources/articles/witch.htm   (5878 words)

  
 Salem Witch Trials: Giles Corey Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Description:Illustration of a scene in Mary Wilkins Freeman's play "Giles Corey, Yeoman." (1893) in which a fictional daughter, named Olive Corey, bids goodbye to her father before his torture by crushing stones.
Seventeen years earlier, Giles Corey had in fact been accused of murdering a man named Jacob Goodale, a servant in his house, who died suddenly.
It was Thomas Putnam, reporting his daughter Ann's vision of Goodale's ghost, who brought to the court's attention this old accusation of murder this old accusation of murder in a letter in 1692 as evidence against Corey.
www.iath.virginia.edu /salem/people/gcoreypics.html   (212 words)

  
 New Page 1
Giles Corey is perhaps the most unusual character in the Salem witch trials of 1692; he certainly is in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible.
"Giles Corey had been very ready to testify against his wife, Martha, and to speak against her out of court as well as in: he had told several people that he knew things that would 'do his wife's business.' Now he was admirably, if belatedly, protesting her innocence as well as his own.
Giles Corey had not been an altogether admirable man. He was quarrelsome, and one long-standing quarrel with John Procter had ended in the courts.
arts.bev.net /roperldavid/acting/coreyg.htm   (2236 words)

  
 CBSNews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An elderly man accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem, Mass., Cory was executed Sept. 19, 1692, by being "pressed," having rocks piled on his chest until his rib cage collapsed.
This, however, is the only known instance of "pressing" to have taken place in the New World.
According to another legend, when Cory's tongue popped out under the weight of the stones, it was pushed back into his mouth by an official's walking stick.
www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/capital/whois_cory.html   (124 words)

  
 Giles Cory
Giles Cory of The Salem Witch Trials Fame.
There is no hint in The Crucible that Giles Corey might have killed his hired hand in the past, except perhaps Rev. Hale's line to John Proctor and Giles Corey "Were there murder done perhaps, and never brought to light?" at the end of Act II.
The play flatly states that Giles stood mute to save his land for his sons, but Hansen thinks that the evidence indicates that Giles was mainly protesting the actions of the court.
coryfamsoc.com /giles   (697 words)

  
 Cory lab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In particular we and others have shown that phosphorylation of WASp and N-WASp plays a key role in regulating their function and are aiming to further elucidate the signalling networks that regulate these events.
Cory, R. Garg, R. Cramer and A. Ridley,
Cory, R. Cramer L. Blanchoin and A. Ridley,
www.bch.bris.ac.uk /staff/cory/research.html   (231 words)

  
 Salem witch craft trials of 1692
accused Giles Cory of witchcraft and said that a man who died at Cory's house also visited her as a ghost.
Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory and Mary Warren are examined.
Giles Cory was pressed to death with heavy stones after refusing to enter a plea to the charges of witchcraft against him.
msms.essortment.com /salemwitchcraf_mim.htm   (1298 words)

  
 [No title]
Giles had brought a cross out from his satchel and was brandishing it at a vampire while tossing a bottle of holy water at another one.
Cory threw the stake at the other vampire, somehow guiding the stake with that energy pulsing behind his eyes.
Cory was being left alone, presumably due to Michael’s presence, That meant that four vampires were rushing Buffy at once.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/tpfict/archive/tpfict.200008   (5097 words)

  
 A Preliminary Examination of the People of the Salem Witchcraze
During her examination by Hathorne and Corwin, the girls, sitting at the front of the room, "cried out in 'extreme agony'; when she wrung her hands they screamed that they were being pinched; when she bit her lips, they declared that they could feel teeth biting their own flesh.
Giles Cory refused to allow them to try him so he was pressed, with heavy stones in a type of torture known as peine forte et dure, to get him to agree to be tried by a jury.
Although Giles Corey suffered the most tortuous of deaths, by pressing, during the Salem Witch Trials he was no innocent.
www.bloodthirsty.com /salem.html   (8763 words)

  
 Oscar - Salem, Mass., hysteria
On September 18, 1692, Giles Cory was "pressed to death" after being accused of witchcraft.
While all the other men and women who died in the Salem Witch Trials were hanged, Cory refused a trial by jury and thus got the dreaded sentence of peine forte et dure, which calls for rocks to be piled on top of the accused until he expires under the load.
Twenty years ago, a scholar digging into Cory’s life and death would've had to trudge all over the Northeast to visit the half-dozen libraries and historical societies that house the myriad documents, maps and images related to the Salem Witch Trials.
oscar.virginia.edu /x1408.xml   (645 words)

  
 witchhunt
She was one of the few entitled to take communion and she was critical of the witch-hunt.
Cory was then accused himself and confounded the authorities by refusing to enter a plea at his trial.
Nineteen "witches" were hanged at Gallows Hill in 1692, and one defendant, Giles Cory, was tortured to death for refusing to enter a plea at his trial.
members.fortunecity.com /kesara/northernpagansofbc/witchhunt.html   (1552 words)

  
 Cory Craphound.com: The Literary Works Of Cory Doctorow, With Excerpts, Complete Texts, And Downloadab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cory, Corey, Corrie, Corry, Coray, Corie Our English cousins have discovered that GILES CORY of Salem and THOMAS CORY of Chelmsford are cousins.
Cory Doctorow explains how blogging has given direction and reward to his knowledge grazing, creating a repository that helps him connect the dots of in the flow of information around him.
Cory Environmental, a subsidiary of Exel, is one of the UK's leading recycling and waste Cory Environmental is committed to making all its products and services accessible.
www.99hosted.com /names1094.html   (431 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cory, Giles Pressed to death September 19 at 80 years old, slowly pressed to death over a period of two days by weights piled atop of him.
Penalty for standing mute was slow crushing until a plea of guilty, not guilty, or death.
Cory, Martha Hanged September 22 had an illegitimate son, whom earlier condoned the conviction of the earliest accused, only to later be accused herself.
www.odyssy.net /users/erica/wicca/salem.txt   (1433 words)

  
 WebQuest
Playing the role of either Giles Corey, Sarah Good, or Rebecca Nurse you will keep a personal diary reflecting on certain events in your life; in hopes of one day proclaiming your innocence to the world.
To understand the events of the Salem Witch Trials, it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of withcraft occurred.
Giles Cory- In September of 1692, he was pressed to death with heavy stones after fefusing to enter a plea to the charges of witchcraft against him.
eprentice.sdsu.edu /J03CW/collet/webquest.html   (991 words)

  
 Salem Witchcraft Event Timeline
accuses Giles Cory of witchcraft and alleges that a man who died at Cory's house also haunts her.
April 19, 1692: Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory and Mary Warren are examined.
September 22, 1692: Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged.
home.texoma.net /~adwignall/timeline.htm   (1320 words)

  
 The Fallen Ones
Cory rushed off, hoping that the vampire was still far enough in the alleyway not to be noticed by anyone who might drive by at that time of night.
Cory was walking out into the afternoon sunshine with about forty or so other students leaving for the day.
Giles heard something in his hand pop as his thumb was wrenched outward.
www.xmission.com /~ladyslvr/TPFICT/a-m/fallenones.htm   (13113 words)

  
 Sarah Bibber and the Salem Witch Trials
By the new year the colony was becoming exhausted with the witchcraft frenzy, and learned persons were speaking against the validity of "spectral evidence" being used in court.
It should be noted that Giles Corey was 80 years old at this time….
Accordingly, Giles Corey, who steadfastly refused to plead, was taken to the field at the corner of St. Peters and Brown Streets, opposite the jail then on Church Street and pressed to death.
www.vibertfamily.com /sarahbibber.htm   (1888 words)

  
 Richard Giles blog: Cory's DRM Speech On iPod.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Richard Giles blog: Cory's DRM Speech On iPod.
I listened to Cory Doctorow's speech on why Microsoft should abandon DRM, which is just as applicable to other corporations, on my iPod on the way home from work today.
Through the wonders of Creative Commons his written speech has been converted into an MP3 by Jason Kottke and can be found on his blog.
www.richardgiles.net /blog/archives/2004/06/i_listened_to_c.html   (202 words)

  
 Favorite Indian of All Time - Fantasy Baseball Cafe 2005
The outfield combo of Bret Butler, Joe Carter, and Cory Snyder.
Cory Snyder was part of my growing up years.
I know Giles didn't have any years with the indians like he did with the pirates, but I still follow and root for him.
www.fantasybaseballcafe.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=56018   (394 words)

  
 EOGN: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - October 28, 2002
During his trial, Cory refused to stand or to even acknowledge the proceedings in the courtroom.
On September 19, 1692, the elderly Corey was stripped naked, a board placed upon his chest (some accounts claim that it was the front door from his house), and then, while his neighbors watched, six men lifted heavy stones, placing them one by one on his stomach and chest.
Giles' wife, Martha, was hanged at Gallows Hill three days later.
www.eogn.com /archives/news0243.htm   (7582 words)

  
 The Salem Witch Trial
Among the charges against one alleged witch, Martha Cory, the girls claimed that the alleged witch could wring her own hands and thereby hurt the girls physically.
The first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem who was found guilty and was hanged on June 10.
September 19 Giles Corey was pressed to death for refusing a trial.
witches.monstrous.com /the_salem_witch_trial.htm   (2494 words)

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