“The record of [Anne Hutchinson’s] trial, if it is proper to dignify the procedure with that name,” Edmund Morgan observed, “is one of the few documents in which her words have been recorded, and it reveals a proud, brilliant woman put down by men who had judged her in advance. The purpose of the trial was doubtless to make her conviction seem to follow due process of law, but it might have been better for the reputation of her judges if they had simply banished her unheard.”
