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A85006	A true and exact relation of the severall informations, examinations, and confessions of the late witches, arraigned and executed in the county of Essex. Who were arraigned and condemned at the late sessions, holden at Chelmesford before the Right Honorable Robert, Earle of Warwicke, and severall of his Majesties justices of peace, the 29 of July, 1645. Wherein the severall murthers, and devillish witchcrafts, committed on the bodies of men, women, and children, and divers cattell, are fully discovered. Published by authoritie.	H. F.	1645 (1645)	Wing F23; Thomason E296_35; ESTC R200218	28,902	45

thinking like the said Mary Johnson and was struck with a lamenesse in her Arms and such a stiffnesse that three or foure that came to help her were not able to bow her Arms and this Informant continued speechlosse all that day and the night following and had such a weaknesse in the rest of her limbes that she was carried into her house by some of her friends and continued by the space of a fortnight being before untill this present as she conceived in perfect health and strength And further this Informant saith that she being charged by the Constable by vertue of a Warrant to give this her Information before the said Justices against the said Mary Johnson this day this Informants husband called her up in the morning wishing her to make her ready to go before the said Justices And presently after he gave a great shrick and said the said Mary Johnson would be his death and had a great swelling risen up in his breast and now lies sweating and in great extremity And at this very instant a noise was heard in the Roome where her husband lay like an Hornet and thereupon her husband cried out It comes it comes Now good wife Johnsons Impe is come Now she hath my life And forthwith a great part of the wall in the said roome fell down And this Informant saith that she doth verily beleeve the said Mary Johnson was the cause of her childs death And that she is now the cause of her husbands extremity The Information of Ric. Carter and Heary-Cornwall of Thorp taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THese Informants say that being appointed to watch Margaret Moone after she was accused and apprehended for a Witch the said Margaret going about the Roome these Informants did see a thing drop from under her coats as they thought in the likenesse of a Rat for bignesse and shape but of a greyer colour And presently there was such an extreame offen five stink in the Roome that these Informants were scarce able to endure to stay in it And these Informants asking the said Margaret what it was that dropped from her she bids them coop it up and catch it if they could And this Informant Henry Cornwall saith that the said Margaret did confesse to him that she had twelve Impes and called them by their names of which he remembers onely these following Jesus Jockey Sandy Mris. Elizabeth and Collyn The Information of Will. Dammon Hen. Cornwall Bevis Vincent and Tho. Burles taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THese Informants say that upon the 21. day of April last past they heard Margaret Moone confesse that she was a Witch and that she had twelve Impes that she had killed a Cow of Stephen Cookers and had two Cowes more of the said Stephen in handling that she had killed a Cow and a Sow of Henry Robertsons That she was partner with the aforesaid Eliz Clark of Mannintree in killing of a Child of one Mr. Edwards of Mannintree aforesaid and spoiling of 3 Brewings of beere of the said Mr. Edwards That she the said Margaret Moon spoiled a batch of bread of one Philip Berrimans that she was the cause that one Philip Daniels horse broke his neck going down an hill in his Waggon And the said Informant saith that the said M Moone did freely and voluntarily confesse unto him without any question being asked that she was the cause of the death of Johan Cornwall this Informants daughter And this Informant saith that the said Margaret Moone before his child fell sick sent for this Informant to do some work for her and then she desired to buy an Hooke which he carried with him in his hand And they agreed she should have the said Hooke for half a peck of Apples And as this Informant went home he did eat one of the said Apples and was presently taken sick with an extreme shaking and pain in all parts of his body And his Informants wife knowing the said Margaret Moone to be a woman of a very bad fame and suspected for a Witch and had formerly been questioned at an Assize for the same she flung away the Aples And this Informant saith that he continued in great extremity for the space of twelve weeks and most part of tha time deprived of his senses And at the same time his wife was taken in the same manner and is not yet perfectly recovered And lastly this Informant saith that the next day after he had been at the said Margarets house as aforesaid that his child which the said Margaret confessed she was the death of was taken sick with strange fits and shrickings out and so continued languishing for a moneth and died The Information of Richard Caley of Thorpe taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THis Informant saith that being called into the house where Bevis Vincent and Henry Cornwall were appointed by the neighbours of Thorpe aforesaid to watch Margaret Moone the said Margaret did confesse before this Informant that she had by Witchcraft killed a Cow and a Sow of one Henry Robinsons And that one Henry Dorr being then called to write what she should confesse the said Margaret refused to make any further discovery before this Informant but fell upon other discourse saying that she had been told fourty times that this Informant thought in his conscience she was no Witch And that this Informant knew that one William Caley his brother let the said Margaret an House about twenty yeers since and afterwards warned her out of the said house and that then she went into an house that was built for her by one Thomas Turner and being also turned out of Turners house that one Rawbood and his wife gave ten shillings more for the said house then the said Margaret and came and dwelt in the said house But the said Margaret said they meaning the said Rawbood and his wife had as good they had not medled with the house for they did never thrive after And this Informant saith that after the said Rawbood had taken the said house he and his wife were alwayes lame or sick untill they died and that the wife of the said Rawbood being a very tydy and cleanly woman sitting upon a block after dinner with another Neighbour a little before it was time to go to Church and as he remembers upon an Easter day the said Rawboods wife was on the sudden so filled with Lice that they might have been swept off her cloaths with a stick And this Informant saith he did see them and that they were long and lean and not like other Lice And this Informant being asked whether the said Margaret were at this time sensible he saith that she spake very plainly and very intelligently discoursing of some things done long before her memory serving her very exactly The Information of Francis Milles taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THis Informant saith

Informant going to Rebeeca Weste and asking her how shee came first to be a Witch the said Rebecca told this Informant that about a yeare fince or thereabouts halfe an houre before Sun-set the said Anne Weste her mother carried the said Rebecca Weste towards Mannintree which is about a small mile from the place where the said Anne dwelt and the said Rebecca told this Informant that as her mother and shee walked together the said Anne told the said Rebecca shee must keepe secret whatsoever shee saw whither they were then going and the said Rebecca promised so to doe And the said Rebecca told this Informant that her mother and shee went to the house of the aforesaid Elizabeth Clarke where at their comming in they found the aforesaid Anne Leech widow Elizabeth Gooding Hellen Clarke and the house-keeper Elizabeth Clarke and that forthwith the Devill appeared to them in the shape of a dogge afterwards in the shape of two Kitlyns then in the shape of two dogges and that the said familiars did doe homage in the first place to the said Elizabeth Clarke and skipped up into her lap and kissed her and then went and kissed all that were in the roome except the said Rebecca And the said Rebecca told this Informant that immediately one of their company asked the said Anne her mother if shee had acquainted her daughter the said Rebecca with the businesse and her mother answered shee had and told them all they need not feare her the said Rebecca for revealing any thing And the said Rebecca told this Informant that forthwith the said Anne Leech pulled out a booke and swore the said Rebecca never to reveale any thing shee saw or heard and if shee should discover any thing they all told the said Rebecca shee should endure more torments on earth then could be in hell And the said Rebecca told this Informant that shee promised to keepe all their secrets And moreover they all told her that shee must never confesse any thing although the Rope were about her necke and shee ready to be hanged And that after shee had consented to all these things the Devill came into her lap and kissed her and promised to doe for her what shee could desire and that within halfe a yeare after the Devill appeared to her the said Rebecca as shee was going to bed and told her he would marry her and that shee could not deny him shee said he kissed her but was as cold as clay and married her that night in this manner He tooke her by the hand and lead her about the Chamber and promised to be her loving husband till death and to avenge her of her enemies And that then shee promised him to be his obedient wife till death and to deny God and Christ Jesus And the said Rebecca told this Informant that shee sent the Devill to kill the sonne of the said Thomas Hart which he did within one fortnight and that after that shee tooke him for her God and thought he could doe as God The Information of Susan Sparrow taken upon oath before the said Justices the 25th day of Aprill An. Dom. 1645. at Little Bentley THis Informant saith That about thirty yeares since living under the same roofe with Mary Greenleif of Alresford either of them had a Daughter of about thirteen or fourteen yeares of age and being one night in bed with their children this Informant heard the childe of the said Mary Greenleif to cry out in a fearefull manner Oh Mother now it comes it comes oh helpe mother it hurts me it hurts me Whereupon this Informant called to the said Mary and said Good-wife Greenleife Good-wife Greenleife if your childe be asleepe awaken it for if any body comes by and heare it make such moane you having an ill name already they will say You are suckling your Impes upon it Whereupon the said Mary replyed I doe so indeed and I will fee with them meaning her said Impes that they shall suck my daughter one night and thine another And this Informant saith that the very next night her childe cryed out in the same manner and clasped her armes about this Informants necke being much affrighted sweating and shrieking in a terrible manner complaining that shee was nipped and pinched on her thigh and that the next morning searching what the cause should be shee found above the right knee of her childe a black and blew spot as broad and long as her hand And this Informant saith that her childe did complaine on that leg at least a moneth after And this Informant saith that the house where this Informant and the said Mary did dwell together was haunted with a Leveret which did usually fit before the dore And this Informant knowing that one Anthony Sharlock had an excellent Greyhound that had killed many Hares and having heard that a childe of the said Anthony was much haunted and troubled and that the mother of the childe suspected the said Mary to be the cause of it This Informant went to the said Anthony Sharlock and acquainted him that a Leveret did usually come and sit before the dore where this Informant and the said Mary Greenleife lived and desired the said Anthony to bring downe his Greyhond to see if he could kill the said Leveret and the next day the said Anthony did accordingly bring his Greyhound and coursed it but whether the dog killed it this Informant knows not But being a little before coursed by Good-man Merrills dog the dog ran at it but the Leveret never stirred and just when the dog came at it he skipped over it and turned about and stood still and looked on it and shortly after that dog languished and dyed But whether this was an Impe in the shape of a Leveret or had any relation to the said Mary this Informant knows not but does confesse shee wondered very much to see a Leveret wilde by nature to come so frequently and sit openly before the dore in such a familiar way The Information of Elizabeth Hunt and Priscilla Brigs taken upon oath before the said Justices the 25th day of Aprill 1645. THese Informants say That being by the said Justices imployed to search the said Mary Greenleife upon suspect for being a Witch these Informants found that the said Mary had bigges or teates in her secret parts not like Emerods nor in those places where women use to be troubled with them and that they verily beleeve these teates are sucked by her Impes for that these Informants have been formerly imployed to search other women suspected for Witchcraft who have had the like bigges and have afterwards confessed themselves to be Witches The Examination of Mary Greenleife taken before the said Justices April 25. 1645. THis Examinant being asked how she came by those teats which were discovered in her secret parts She saith she knows not unlesse she were born with them but she neven knew she had any such untill this time they were found in

sit downe and said shee would shew this Informant and the rest some of her Impes And within halfe an houre there appeared a white thing in the likeness of a Cat but not altogether so big And being asked if she would not be afraid of her Impes the said Elizabeth answered What doe yee thinke I am afraid of my children And that shee called the name of that white Impe Hoult And this Informant further saith That presently after there appeared another white Impe with red spots as big as a small dog which shee then called Jarmara And that immediately after there appeared at the threshold of the doore another Impe about the bignesse of the first but did presently vanish away And then the said Elizabeth being asked if any more Impes would come shee answered That Vinegar Tom would come by and by And forthwith there appeared another in the likenesse of a dumb Dogge somewhat bigger then any of the former And the said Elizabeth also told this Informant That shee had three Impes from her mother which were of a browne colour and two from the old Beldam Weste And that there had five Impes appeared But shee had one more called Sack and Sugar which had been hard at worke and it would be long before it came but it should teare this Informant And a while after the said Elizabeth said That it was well for this Informant he was so quick otherwise the said Impe had soone skipped upon his face and perchance had got into his throate and then there would have been a feast of Toades in this Informants belly And the said Elizabeth further confessed to this Informant that shee had one Impe for which shee would fight up to the knees in bloud before shee would lose it And that her Impes did commonly suck on the old Beldam Weste and that the said old Beldams Impes did suck on her the said Elizabeth likewise The Information of Frances Milles Grace Norman Mary Phillips and Mary Parsley taken upon oath before the said Justices the 25th of March An. Dom. 1645. THese Informants say joyntly That watching with the said Elizabeth Clarke suspected as aforesaid about twelve of the Clock last night the said Elizabeth smacked with her mouth and beckned with her hand and instantly there appeared a white thing about the bignesse of a Cat and that these Informants saw five Impes more which the said Elizabeth named as aforesaid And that the said Elizabeth told these Informants That the old Beldam meaning the said Anne Weste did by Witchcraft kill the wife of one Robert Oakes of Lawford in the County aforesaid and was the death of a Clothiers childe of Dedham in the said County of Essex both which dyed as these Informants very well know about a weeke since And the said Elizabeth told these Informants that the said old Beldam Weste had the wife of one William Cole of Mannintree aforesaid in handling who dyed not long since of a pining and languishing disease The Information of George Turner taken upon oath the 25th day of March 1645. before the said Justices THis Informant saith That going to the said Elizabeth Clarke alias Bedingfeild after shee was apprehended and asking her whether shee had any hand in the drowning of one Thomas Turner this Informants Brother who was cast away at Sea about thirty moneths since the said Elizabeth answered That the old Beldam Weste raised that winde that sunke his Hoy And that she the said Elizabeth had no hand in that businesse The Information of John Bankes of Mannintree taken upon oath before the said Justices the 25th of March 1645. THis Informant saith That watching with the said Elizabeth he doth informe and confirme all the particulars expressed and set downe in the Information of the said Mr Sterne The Information of Edward Parsley of Mannintree taken upon oath before the said Justices the 25th of March 1645. THis Informant saith That watching with the said Elizabeth Clarke alias Bedingfeild the last night he asked the said Elizabeth if he should continue still in the roome with her And the said Elizabeth desired he should if he would fight for her with the Devills for they would come this night and that which shee called Hoult would come first and then that which shee called Jarmara which did appeare in the likenesse of a white Dogge with red spots and presently after there appeared that Impe which shee called Vinegar Tom and then that which shee called Sack and Sugar And the said Elizabeth then told this Informant that the Devill had had possession of her six or seven yeares And that he had oftentimes knocked at her dore in the night time and that shee did arise open the dore and let him in and that he went to bed to her three or foure times in a weeke and had the carnall knowledge of her as a man The Examination of the said Elizabeth Clarke alias Bedingfeild taken before the said Justices the 25th of March 1645. THis Examinant saith Executed at Chelmesford That about six moneths since shee met with the said Anne Weste widow who is now likewise apprehended in a field neere the house of the said Elizabeth where the said Elizabeth was picking up a few sticks The said Anne Weste seemed much to pitie this Examinant for her lamenesse having but one leg and her poverty And said to this Examinant That there was wayes and meanes for her to live much better then now shee did And said that shee would send to this Examinant a thing like a little Kitlyn which would fetch home some victualls for this Examinant and that it should doe her no hurt And this Examinant saith that within two or three nights after there came a white thing to her in the night and the night after a gray one which spake to this Examinant and told her they would doe her no hurt but would helpe her to an Husband who should maintaine her ever after And that these two things came into this Examinants bed every night or every other night and sucked upon the lower parts of her body The Information of Robert Tayler of Mannintree taken upon oath before the said Justices the 23th day of Aprill 1645. THis Informant saith That about nine weekes since Elizabeth the wife of Edward Gooding who is accused by the said Elizabeth Clarke to be a confederate with her came to the Shop of this Informant and desired to be trusted for half a pound of Cheese which being denyed shee went away muttering and mumbling to her self and within a few houres came again with money and bought a pound of Cheese of this Informant and the same night this Informant having an Horse standing in his stable the said Horse was taken in a strange manner sick and lame whereupon this Informant sent for four Farriers to have their best advice who could not discover the cause of the disease but the said Horse about four dayes after died And this Informant also saith that

it was observed by himself and divers others who often went to see the said Horse that still upon their coming into the stable he lay quiet and looked cheerfully but as soon as the door was shut and the Horse alone hee did violently beat himself and that the belly of the said Horse would rumble and make a noyse as a foule chimney set on fire And this Informant further saith that hee is induced to believe that the said Elizabeth Gooding was the cause of the death of his said Horse for that this Informant hath heard that Elizabeth Clark and Anne Leech widow who stand both accused for Witchcraft and have confessed themselves guilty have impeached the said Elizabeth Gooding for killing of this said Horse and that the said Elizabeth Gooding is a lewd woman and to this Informants knowledge hath kept company with the said Elizabeth Clark Anne Leech and Anne West which Anne West hath been suspected for a Witch many yeers since and suffered imprisonment for the same The Examination of Elizabeth Gooding taken before the said Justices the 11th of April 1645. THis Examinant saith Executed at Chelmesford that shee is not guilty of any one particular charged upon her in the Information of the said Robert Tailer The Information of Richard Edwards of Mannintree aforesaid taken before the said Justices the 23. day of April 1645. THis Informant saith That about twelve moneths since upon a Sabbath day after the afternoon Sermon driving his Cowes home by the house of Anne Leech of Misley widow about forty yards from her said house a black Cowe of this Informants being very well to his thinking fell down and within two dayes after died And the very next day driving his Cowes from the same pasture this Informant had a white Cowe that fell down within a Rod of the same place where the other Cowe fell being also as this Informant conceived sound and well and within a weak after dyed and hee further saith that hee caused both the said Cowes to be opened and that there could be no disease discovered which might occasion their death And this Informant likewise saith that about August last hee had a childe nursed by one Goodwife Wyles dwelling neer the houses of the said Elizabeth Clark and Elizabeth Gooding and that his said childe was taken sick and had very strange fits extending the limbs and rowling the eyes and within two dayes after dyed And this Informant doth verily believe that Anne Leech and the said Elizabeth Gooding were the death of his said child as is confessed by the said Anne Leech in her own Confession and Examination The Examination of Anne Leech of Misley in the County aforesaid widow taken before the said Justices April 14. 1645. THis Examinant saith Executed at Chelmesford That she had a grey Impesent to her and that this Examinant together with the said Elizabeth Clark and Elizabeth the wife of Edward Gooding did about a yeer since send their Imps to kill a black Cowe and a white Cowe of Mr. Edwards which was done accordingly And this Examinant saith that she sent her gray Imp Elizabeth Clark a black Imp and Elibeth Gooding a white Imp And this Examinant saith that about thirty yeeres since shee sent a gray Imp to kill two Horses of one Mr. Bragge of Misley which were killed accordingly and that the occasion of her malice was because Mistresse Bragge had told this Examinant that shee suspected her to be a naughty woman and this Examinant confesseth that she and the said Eliz. Gooding sent either of them an Imp to destroy the childe of the said Mr. Edwards this Examinants Imp being then a white one and Elizabeth Goodings a black Imp and that about thirty yeers since this Examinant had the said white Imp and two others a gray and a black Imp of one Anne the wife of Robert Pearce of Stoak in Suffolk being her brother and that these Imps went commonly from one to another and did mischief where ever they went and that when this Examinant did not send and imploy them abroad to do mischief she had not her health but when they were imployed she was healthfull and well and that these Imps did usually suck those teats which were found about the privie parts of her body and that the said Imps did often speak to this Examinant and told her she should never feele hell torments and that they spake to her in an hollow voyce which she plainly understood And this Examinant also confesseth that she sent her gray Imp to Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Kirk of Mannyntree about three yeers since to destroy her and upon the sending of the said Imp the said Elizabeth languished by the space of one whole yeer untill shee dyed and that the occasion of offence this Examinant took against her the said Elizabeth was for that she had asked a Coife of the said Elizabeth which shee refused to give to this Examinant And further this Examinant saith that long since but the exact time she cannot remember she sent her gray Imp to kill the daughter of the widow Rawlyns of Misley aforesaid and the reason was because this Examinant was put out of her Farm and the said widow Rawlyns put in where shee dwelleth at this present And moreover this Examinant confesseth that she was acquainted with the sending of an Imp by the aforesaid Elizabeth Gooding to vex and torment Mary the wife of John Tayler of Mannyntree aforesaid about three yeers since and this Examinant being asked why she did not discover it to the said Mary she sald the Devill would not suffer her and that the cause of the said Elizabeth Goodings malice against the said Mary was because the said Mary refused to give to the said Elizabeth some Beeregood And lastly this Examinant saith that about eight weeks since this Examinant the said Elizabeth Gooding and one Anne West of Lawford widow met together at the house of the said Elizabeth Clark where there was a book read wherein shee thinks there was no goodnesse The Information of Grace the wife of Richard Glascock of Mannyntree taken upon oath before the said Justices the 11th day of April 1645. THis Informant saith that there being some falling out between Mary the wife of Edward Parsley of Mannyntree and one Hellen Clark the wife of Thomas Clark which said Hellen is the daughter of the said Anne Leech whose confession doth immediately precede this Informant heard the said Hellen to say as the said Hellen passed by this Informants door in the street that Mary the daughter of the said Edward and Mary Parsley should rue for all whereupon presently the said Mary the daughter fell sick and died within six weeks after The Information of Edward Parsley of Mannyntree taken upon oath before the said Justices April 11. 1645. THis Informant saith that his said daughter sickned very suddenly as the said Grace Glascock hath before informed and died about six weeks