Dramatis Personæ

JUSTICE GILEAD MERTON.

GOODY RICKBY (“Blacksmith Bess”).

LORD RAVENSBANE (“Marquis of Oxford, Baron of Wittenberg,

Elector of Worms, and Count of Cordova”),

their hypothetical son.

DICKON, a Yankee improvisation of the Prince of Darkness.

RACHEL MERTON, niece of the Justice.

MISTRESS CYNTHIA MERTON, sister of the Justice.

RICHARD TALBOT, Esquire, betrothed to Rachel.

SIR CHARLES REDDINGTON, Lieutenant Governor.

MISTRESS REDDINGTON } his

AMELIA REDDINGTON } daughters.

CAPTAIN BUGBY, the Governor’s Secretary.

MINISTER DODGE.

MISTRESS DODGE, his wife.

REV. MASTER RAND, of Harvard College.

REV. MASTER TODD, of Harvard College.

MICAH, a servant of the Justice.

Time.—Late Seventeenth Century.

Place.—A town in Massachusetts.