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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	holy_a	son_n	6,458	5	6.0598	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14611	A true and iust recorde, of the information, examination and confession of all the witches, taken at S. Ofes in the countie of Essex whereof some were executed, and other some entreated according to the determination of lawe. Wherein all men may see what a pestilent people witches are, and how vnworthy to lyue in a Christian Commonwealth. Written orderly, as the cases were tryed by euidence, by W. W.	W. W., fl. 1577-1582.	1582 (1582)	STC 24922; ESTC S101821	45,339	105

about a moneth after or more shee beeing a walking in a croft neere vnto a Barne called Heywoods Barne the spirite called Suckin came and followed this examinat she spying the same as she looked backe at the sight thereof this examinat saith y t her eies wer like to start out of her head then she saith y t she did beseech God to gouerne and guide her from the euill spirites whereupon shee saith they did depart But the same euening she this examinat being set a milking of a red Cowe with a white face saith that Suckin and Lired came againe vnto her and saith that Suckin appeared at that time in the likenesse of a blacke dogge and Lired in the likenesse of a Hare the one sitting on the one side of her the other on the other side of her within lesse then two yardes And saith that the Cowe shee was then a milking of snorted and ranne away and brake her paile and spilt al her milke neither coulde she get the said Cow any more that night to stand still and saith that for the losse thereof her husband did much chide her but shee woulde not tell him what was the cause and she praying to the father the sonne the holy ghoste saith that they did depart and that shee sawe them not a quarter of a yeere after nor aboue three times since Midsommer last The said exam saith that about that time they appeared againe vnto her and saith that a little before there was a falling out betweene her and the saide Byet whereupon and for that Bye● had oftentimes misused her this examinat and her Cattell shee saith that shee caused Lyard in y e likenes of a Lion to goe to plague the saide Byets beastes vnto death and the spirite returning tolde this examinat that it had plagued two of his beastes the one a red Cow the other a blacke And saith that the spirite tolde her that hee plagued the blacke Cowe in the backe and the read Cowe in the head This Examinate saieth further that aboute Whitsontyde last past the spirit called Suckin did come againe at that tyme vnto her sayeing to this Examinate that hee had mette Byettes wife two seuerall tymes tellyng this Examynate that it mette her once in this Examinates yarde and the next day after it sayde that it met her at the style going into her grounde And saieth it tolde this Examinate it had plagued y ● said Byets wife to the death She this Examinate saying it was done by the spirite but not by the sending of this Examinate The sayde spirite sayeing I knowe that Byet and his wife haue wronged thee greatly and doone thee seuerall hurtes and beaten thy swyne and thrust a pytchforke in one of them the which the spirite sayde to haue doone to winne credit with this Examinate And this Examinate saieth further that aboute Lammas last past For that the sayde William Byet had abused her in calling her olde trot old whore and other lewde speaches shee this Examinate caused the spirite called Suckin to goe and plague the sayde Willyam Byette where that woulde The which the sayd spyrite did and at the retourne of it it tolde this Examinate that it met Byet in the barne yarde and that it had plagued him in the hippes euen vnto death And saith she gaue it a rewarde of mylke and saith that many tymes they drinke of her milke bowle And being asked how shee came by the sayde spirites she confessed and sayde that one Mother Turner did sende them vnto her to her house as shee thinketh for that she had denyed the sayde Mother Turner of mylke And when and as often as they did drinke of the mylke This Examynate saith they went into the sayd earthen pot and lay in the wooll The Examynation and Confession of Annis Glascocke wife of Iohn Glascocke sawyer taken before me Bryan Darcey Esquyre the xxiiii of February TThis Examinate beeing charged by Mychel the shoomaker that a womā sōtimes fellowe with her in the house shoulde reporte her to bee a naughtie woman and a dealer in witchcrafte denyeth that she knewe anye such woman or that any such speaches were vsed vnto her This Examinat being charged that one sparrowe being lodged in her house shoulde heare a straunge noise or rumbling since Christmas last saith that she made a noyse by remouing of boards one night for that she woulde haue him to lye in an other chamber This Examinate saith also that long sithence she dwelt by the space of one quarter or more with her brother Edward Wood and that at seueral tymes in that time certain leddē weights and great stones were cast into the house and diuers straunge noyses of rumblinges hearde the which weights stones came alwayes neerest one Arnoldes head being then a boorder in that house and saith that Arnoldes wife was accompted a witch And was suspected to cause the same stones to be cast to the intent to dryue her husband from boording there being in Ielosie of this Examinate She being at that tyme not aboue the age of xx yeares This Examinate saith that by many yeares past she was much troubled with straung aches in her bones and otherwise wherof she consumed by the space of two or three yeares And saith y t she was told that about Sudbery there dwelt one Herring named to bee a Cawker to whome she went who declared to this Examinate y t she was haūted with a witch naming Arnolds wife And that she should not escape death w tout she had some remedy wherupon this examinat saith y t she praied y e said Herring to helpe her And that hee then deliuered vnto her a little lynnen bagge of the breadth of a groate full of small thinges like seedes and willed her to put the same where her payne was most the which shee proued by sewing it vppon her garmente neare the place where her greefe was And after a while this Examinate saieth she recouered and was well This Examinate denyeth that euer she hurt the base Childe which Pages his wife kept or that there was anye falling out betweene this Examinate and her And sayeth that shee knoweth not whether the sayde Childe bee a base Childe or not This Examinate beeing charged that shee sent a spirite to plague Michell the shoomakers Childe or that shee had bewitched the said Childe denyed that shee had doone eyther of both And she being asked whether she euer fell out with one Fortune or his wife or whether shee hurt any of their children saieth that there was no falling out betweene them or that shee hurt any of his Children Annys Letherdall and Margaret Sympson women appoynted to see and view the body of this Examinate sayde and affyrme vppon their credites that vpon the left side of the thighe of this Examinate there be some spots and vpon the left shoulder likewise one or two Which spottes bee like the sucked spots that Ursley Kempe hath vppon