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In the years after the trials, Cotton Mather remained unrepentant for his role.

Of the principal actors in the trial, whose lives are recorded after, only Cotton Mather and his ally William Stoughton never admitted any guilt.

Indeed, in the years after the trial Mather became an increasingly vehement defender of the trial.

At the request of then Lt .- Gov.

William Stoughton, Mather wrote Wonders of the Invisible World written during the trials and published in 1693.

The book contained a few of Mather ’ s sermons, the conditions of the colony and a description of witch trials in Europe.

Mather somewhat clarified the contradictory advice he had given in Return of the Several Ministers, by defending the use of spectral evidence.

Wonders of the Invisible World appeared at the same time as Increase Mather ’ s Cases of Conscience.