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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

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

that being imployed by the Neighbours of Thorpe aforesaid to search Margaret Moone who was suspected for a Witch she found three long teats or bigges in her secret parts which seemed to have been lately sucked and that they were not like Pyles for this Informant knows well what they are having been troubled with them her self And this Informant saith that she asking the said Margaret for her Impes which sucked those teats she said if she might have some bread and beere she would call her said Impes which being given unto her she put the bread into the beere and set it against an hole in the wall and made a circle round about the pot and then cried Come Christ come Christ come Mounsier come Mounsier And no Impe appearing she cried out and said she had Devillish Daughters which had carried her Impes away in a white bagge and wished they might be searched for they were naught And upon the searching of her Daughters this Informant found that two of them had biggs in their privy parts as the said Margaret their mother had The Information of Mary Philips Elizabeth Harris widow Susan Burles and Philip Tumnor taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THese Informants do all and every of them concur with Frances Milles in her said Information in that particular concerning the teats of the said Margaret Moone and her two daughters And the said Mary Philips doth also confirm and concur with that part of the Information of the said Frances Milles touching the pot the circle and the calling of the Impes by the said Margaret Moone And this Informant Mary Philips doth also say that being sent for to search the said Margaret Moone as she was coming towards Thorp aforesaid and going over a broad foot Bridge this Informant sensibly felt a great blow on her head which strook her into a ditch up to the neck And this Informant and the said Francis Mylles doe both of them say That as soon as they came into the room where the said Margaret Moon was she called these two Informants Mannintree Rogues they both dwelling at a Town so called and said Who a Devill sent for you But I hope I have met with some of you The Examination of Margaret Moon Condemned and dyed by the way to execution taken before the said Justices the 29. day of May 1645. THis Examinant being examined to all the particulars charged upon her in all the aforesaid severall informations denies every particular The Examination of Judith Moone daughter of the said Margaret Moone taken before the said Justices the 29th day of Aprill 1645. THis Examinant being a single woman and having such marks of a Witch as aforesaid saith that about a fortnight before her Mother was apprehended for a Witch the said Margaret bid this Examinant goe and fetch a bundle of wood and this Examinant told her mother shee would not fetch any wood Whereupon the said Margaret threatned this Examinant and told her shee had as good have gone for some wood And that the next night as this Examinant lay in her bed she felt something come into the bed about her legges being at that time broad awake and that shee searched to see what it should be but could not finde any thing The Information of Bridget Reynolds the wife of Edmond Reynolds of ●amsey in the said County of Essex taken upon oath before the said Justices the 〈◊〉 of May. 1645. THis Informant saith That she with some other women were 〈…〉 Sarah Hiting the wife of William H●●ing Elizabeth Harvy widow and marian Hocket widow who are all suspected for witchcraft and upon her said search being a Midwife found such Marks or Bigges in their privy parts that she never saw in other women for Sarah Hating had foure Teats or Bigges in those parts almost an inch long and as bigge as this Informants little finger That the said Elizabeth Harvy had three such Bigges and about the said scantling And that the said Marian Hocke● had no such bigges but was found in the same parts not like other honest women And this Informant further saith That the said Elizabeth Harvy said since she was found with the said suspitious marks unto this Informant That if she were a Witch she was so made by the said Marian Hocket for that the said Marian brought unto her the said Elizabeth Harrvy three things about the bignesse of Mouses and willed the said Elizabeth to make much of them for they were pretty things which the said Elizabeth received And the said Elizabeth told this Informant that ever since she received those three things which the said Marian delivered unto her ●he hath been much torn and troubled in her privy parts where the said Bigges were found And that the said three things were delivered to her the said Elizabeth about six or seven years since The Information of Elizabeth Durden the wife of Edw●●● 〈◊〉 Mary Philips taken upon oath before the said Justices the 〈◊〉 day of May 1645. THese Informants do concurre in every particular with the said Briget Reynolds in her Information touching the search of the said Sarah Haring Elizabeth Harvie and Marian Hocket And this Informant Elizabeth Durden further saith that the said Elizabeth Harvie told her that if shee were a Witch shee was so made by the said Marian Hocket The Information of Francis Stock and John Batilly taken upon oath before the said Justices May 3. 1645. THese Informants say that the said Elizabeth Harvie confessed to them with many teares that shee had three marks two before and one behinder as is already informed by Bridget Reynolds and others And that the said Marian Hocket made her have the said marks or bigs by bringing of three things to her the said Elizabeth and telling her if shee would receive them shee should never in no so long as she liveth which three things have since made the said marks in her privie parts and the said Elizabeth told these Informants that the said three things were of a reddish color and that since the said Marian and the said Elizabeth falling out she the said Elizabeth would have put away sent home the three things which the said Marian brought to her and that ever since the said things have tormented her in her bed in the places aforesaid as if they had pulled her in pieces The second Information of Francis Stock taken before the said Justices upon oath May 3. 1645. THis Informant saith that about five yeers since being one of the Constables of Ramsey aforesaid hee impressed William Hiting husband to the aforesaid Sarah Hating for a souldier whereupon the said William threatened this Informant very much and not long after this Informants wife told him shee espied a Snake lying upon a shelf in this Informants house about three yards high from the ground which falling down into the house shee endeavoured to kill with a spade and striking at it the Snake

suddenly vanished away and could no where be found And this Informant saith that presently after his said wife was taken sick with extraordinary fits pains and burnings all over her body and within one week dyed And further this Informant saith that within two or three dayes after the death of his said wife hee had a daughter taken sick after a very strange manner who in all the time of her sicknesse cryed out much on the said Sarah the wife of the said William Hating saying that the said Sarah was the cause of her death and dyed presently after and that within two or three dayes after the death of his said childe this Informant had another childe taken sick in the same manner and within a few dayes dyed also And lastly this Informant saith that about three quarters of a yeer after he had a man-servant that for some ill language given to him by John Hating one of the sons of the said William and Sarah Hating his said servant did beat the said John and the very next day hee was taken sick and so continued in a pining and languishing condition crying out often of the said Sarah that she had bewitched him and was the cause of his death which soon after ensued The Information of Francis Stock and John Felgate taken upon oath before the said Justices May 3. 1645. THis Informant John Felgate saith that speaking with one Sarah Barton the sister of the said Marian Hocket which said Sarah is now imprisoned in the Gaole at Harwich upon suspition of Witchcraft who told this Informant that the said Marian had cut off her bigs whereby she might have been the more suspected to have been a Witch and laid plaisters to those places And the said Francis and John say that the said Sarah Barton told them that the said Marian had given and delivered unto her the said Sarah three Imps and that the said Marian called them by the names of Littleman Pretty-man and Dainty The Examination of Marian Hocket Sarah Hating and Elizabeth Harvie of Ramsey within the County aforesaid taken before the said Justices May 3. 1645. THis Examinant Executed at Mannyutree Aug. 1. 1645. Marian Hocket saith that shee is not guilty of any of the particulars charged upon her touching Witchcraft notwitstanding the severall accusations against her THis Examinant Sarah Hating saith Executed at Chelmesford that shee is not guilty of any particular wherewith shee stands charged in the Information of Francis Stock and others THis Examinant Elizabeth Harvie saith Executed at Chelmesford that about halfe a yeer since the said Marian Hocket brought three things to her house two of them being smaller then Mouses and the other somewhat bigger and longer and that the said Marian told this examinant they were pretty things and would do her and this Examinant good if shee this Examinant would keep them and that afterwards shee was very much pained in those parts of her body where the said tears or bigs were discovered by the said searchers as aforesaid The Information of Robert Turner of St. Osith Carpenter taken upon oath before the said Justices May 6. 1465. THis Informant saith that about eight dayes since his servant was taken sick shaking and shricking and crying out of Rose Hallybread that shee had bewitched him And this Informant saith that sometimes his said servant since hee was taken sick as aforesaid hath crowed perfectly as a Cock sometimes barked like a Dog sometimes violently groaned beyond the ordinary course of nature and strugling with such strength being but a youth that four or five strong men were not able to hold him down in his bed and sometimes sung divers and sundry perfect tunes And that this Informant could not perceive his mouth to open or so much as his lips to stir all the time of his singing The Examination of Rose Hallybread Died in the Gaole taken before the said Justices the 6th of May 1645. THis Examinant saith that about fifteen or sixteen yeers since there was an Imp brought to her house by one Goodwise Hagtree which Imp this Examinant entertained fed it with oatmeale and suckled it on her body for the space of a yeer and a halfe or thereabouts and then lost it And this Examinant further saith that about half a yeer since one Joyce Boanes who is now also accused for Witchcraft brought to this Examinants house another Imp in the likenesse of a small Gray bird which this Examinant received and carryed it to the house of one Thomas Toakley of St. Osyth and put the said Imp into a cranny of the doore of the said Toakely's house after which time the son of the said Thomas languished and dyed crying out of this Examinant that shee was his death And this Examinant further saith that about eight dayes since Susan Cock Margaret Landish and Joyce Boands all which stand now suspected for Witchcraft brought to his Examinants house each of them an Imp in all three to which this Examinant added one of her own Imps and then the said Joyce Boanes carryed the said four Imps to the house of one Robert Turner to torment his servant because hee had refused to give unto her this Examinant the said Susan Cocks Margaret Landish and Joyce Boanes a few chips And this Examinant further saith that the said Robert Turners servant forthwith fell sick and oftentimes barked like a Dog And this Examinant saith that shee believeth that the said four Imps were the cause of his barking and sicknesse The Examination of Joyce the wife of William Boanes Executed at Chelmesford taken before the said Justices May 6. 1645. THis Examinant saith that about thirteen yeers since shee had two Imps which came into the bed to her in the likenesse of Mouses and that they sucked on this Examinants body and that afterwards this Examinant employed and sent the said Imps to a Farm house in St. Osyth called Cocket-wick where one Richard Welth then lived where the said Imps killed ten or twelve Lambs of the said Richards And this Examinant saith further that a little while after shee sent her said two Imps to the house of one Thomas Clynch where they killed a Calf a Sheep and a Lamb And this Examinant also saith that shee carried one of her said Imps called Rug to the house of the said Rose Hallybread and that her said Imp Rug with three Imps of the said Rose Hallybread Susen Cock and Margaret Landish each of them sending out were carried by this Examinant from the house of the said Rose Hallybread to the house of the said Robert Turner to kill the servant of the said Robert whereupon his said servant hath oftentimes crowed like a Cock barked like a Dogge sung tunes and groaned And this Examinant saith that her said Imp made the said servant to barke like a Dog the Imp of the said Rose Hallybread inforced him to sing sundry tunes in his great extremity of paines the Imp of

And this Examinant saith that she sent one of her said Imps to kill a child of one Thomas Woodward which her said Imp did kill within a fortnight after And this Examinant saith that shee did send her said Imp called Frog to kill two of John Cartwrights children of Much-Holland in the County of Essex aforesaid which said Imp did kill the said two children within a fortnight or three weeks after And this Examinant saith further that at another time shee sent her said Imp Frog to destroy the wife of one George Parby of Much-Holland aforesaid which did kill her within three dayes after The Examination of Anne Cate alias Maidenhead of Much-Holland in the County aforesaid taken before the said Justices the 9th day of May 1645. THis Examinant saith Executed at Chelmesford that she hath four Familiars which shee had from her mother about two and twenty yeeres since and that the names of the said Imps are James Prickeare Robyn and Sparrow and that three of these Imps are like Mouses and the fourth like a Sparrow which she called Sparrow And this Examinant saith that to whomsoever shee sent the said Imp called Sparrow it killed them presently and that first of all shee sent one of her three Imps like mouses to nip the knee of one Robert Freeman of Little-Clacton in the County of Essex aforesaid whom the said Imp did so lame that the said Robert dyed on that lamenesse within half a yeere after And this Examinant saith that she sent her said Imp Prickeare to kill the daughter of John Rawlins of Much-Holland aforesaid which died accordingly within a short time after and that shee sent her said Imp Prickeare to the house of one John Tillet which did suddenly kill the said Tillet And this Examinant saith that shee sent her said Imp Sparrow to kill the childe of one George Parby of Much-Holland aforesaid which child the said Imp did presently kill and that the offence this Examinant took against the said George Parby to kill his said childe was because the wife of the said Parby denyed to give this Examinant a pint of Milke And this Examinant further saith that shee sent her said Imp Sparrow to the house of Samuel Ray which in a very short time did kill the wife of the said Samuel and that the cause of this Examinants malice against the said woman was because shee refused to pay to this Examinant two pence which she challenged to be due to her And that afterwards her said Imp Sparrow killed the said childe of the said Samuel Ray And this Examinant confesseth that as soon as shee had received the said four Imps from her said mother the said Imps spake to this Examinant and told her shee must deny God and Christ which this Examinant did then assent unto The testimony of Sir Thomas Bowes Knight which he spake upon the Bench concerning the aforesaid Anne West shee being then at the Barre upon her tryall THat a very honest man of Mannintree One Goff of Mannintree a Glover whom he knew would not speake an untruth affirmed unto him that very early one morning as he passed by the said Anne Wests dore about foure a clock it being a moon-light night and perceiving her dore to be open so early in the morning looked into the house and presently there came three or foure little things in the shape of black rabbits leaping and skipping about him who having a good stick in his hand struck at them thinking to kill them but could not but at last caught one of them in his hand and holding it by the body of it he beat the head of it against his stick intending to beat out the braines of it but when he could not kill it that way he tooke the body of it in one hand and the head of it in another and indeavoured to wring off the head and as he wrung and stretched the neck of it it came out between his hands like a lock of wooll yet he would not give over his intended purpose but knowing of a Spring not farre off he went to drowne it but still as he went he fell downe and could not goe but downe he fell againe so that he at last crept upon his hands and knees till he came at the water and holding it fast in his hand he put his hand downe into the water up to his elbow and held it under water a good space till he conceived it was drowned and then letting goe his hand it sprung out of the water up into the aire and so vanished away and then comming backe to the said Anne Wests dore he saw her standing there in her smock and asked her why shee did set her Impes to molest and trouble him to whom shee made answer that they were not sent to trouble him but were sent out as Scouts upon another designe FINIS

those parts upon the said search And she does deny that ever she had any Impe sucked on these teats But she does confesse she hath seen a Leveret once sitting before her doore within a yard of the threshold and that she wondered much at it being about noon time as she remembreth And further saith she is not guilty of any accusation charged upon her this Examinant The Information of Elizabeth Otley of Wyvenhoe taken upon oath before the said Justices April 25. 1645. THis Informant saith that Alice Dixon who now stands committed for a suspected Witch did in the presence of Mary Johnson of the same Town charge and accuse the said Mary Johnson to be the death of his Informants child saying that the said Mary Johnson did carry an Impe in her pocket to this Informants house and put the said Impe into the house at an hole in the doore bidding it go rock the Cradle and do the businesse she sent it about and return to her again And this Informant saith that upon a Munday before Michaelmas last the said Mary Johnson came to the house of this Informant and gave her child an apple and kissed it And within a short time after the said child sickned and died And the said Alice Dixon did also affirm that the Impe which the said Mary Johnson sent to this Informants house was in shape somewhat like a Rat but without tayl and eares And this Informant saith that the said Mary Johnsons answer was that if she did it she did it she could but receive punishment for it And at the same time the said Mary Johnson said the said Alice Dixon did the mischief to this Informants child her self And this Informant further saith that after the said Alice Dixon had made this discovery she this Informant was taken with extreme pains in her body and that during the time of her extremity the said Mary Johnson did many times come to this Informants house perswading her that she was not the death of this Informants child But this Informant could not be satisfied untill she had gotten the blood of the said Mary Johnson And meeting with her after long scuffling this Informant made the said Mary Johnsons teeth to bleed and immediately after this Informants extraordinary pains left her and her stomack came to her having eat little or nothing a fortnight before and slept very well the night following having been restlesse by reason of her extreme pains all the time aforesaid And this Informant further saith that the next day after the said Mary Johnson had given this Informants child the Apple the child was taken with very violent fits and in the fits although the Child was but two yeers old yet this Informant could very hardly with all her strength hold it down in the Cradle and so continued untill it died The Examination of Mary Johnson taken before the said Justices the 25. of April 1645. THis Examinant saith that she is not guilty of any one particular charged upon her in the Information of the said Elizabeth Otley touching the killing of the child of the said Elizabeth The Information of Ioseph Long Minister of Clacton in the County of Essex taken before the said Just April 29. 1645. THis Informant saith Executed at Mannintree the 〈◊〉 of August that Anne the wife of John Cooper of Clacton aforesaid being accused for a Witch Confessed unto this Informant that she the said Anne was guilty of the sin of Witchcraft and that she hath had three black Impes suckled on the lower parts of her body called by the names of Wynowe Jeso and Panu And this Informant saith that the said Anne told him that once she cursed a Colt of one William Cottingams of Clacton aforesaid and the said Colt broke his neck presently after going out of a gate And the said Anne further confessed unto this Informant that she the said Anne offered to give unto her daughter Sarah Cooper an Impe in the likenes of a gray Kite to suck on the said Sarah which Impes name the said Anne called Tom boy and told the said Sarah there was a Cat for her And this Informant saith that the said Anne confessed unto him that she the said Anne about ten yeers fince falling out with Johan the wife of Gregory Rous of Clacton a foresaid the said Anne Cooper sent one of her Impes to kill the daughter of the said Gregory and Johan named Mary And this Informant saith that to his own knowledge about the same time the said child was strangely taken fick and languishing within a short time died The Information of Roger Hempson taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THis Informant doth confirm the Information of the said Joseph Longe and concurs in every particular The Information of Roger Hempson taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THis Informant saith that Mr. Longe telling Elizabeth Hare Condemned but reprieved that she was accused by one Mary Smith for giving of her the said Mary two Impes And that the said Elizabeth Hare praying to God with her hands upward that if she were guilty of any such thing He would shew some example upon her And this Informant saith that presently after she shaked and quivered and fell down to the ground backward and tumbled up and down upon the ground and hath continued sick ever fince The Information of Anaball the wife of George Durrant taken upon oath before the said Justices April 29. 1645. THis Informant saith that about ten moneths fince going from Wivenhoe towards Fingeringhoe in the County of Essex by the way Mary Johnson the wife of Nicholas Johnson met with this Informant whom this Informant never saw before to her knowledge And this Informant leading her Child upon her hand being about two yeers old and perfectly well the said Mary Johnson took occasion of her own accord to commend the said Child saying it was a pretty child and stroaked it upon the face and gave it a peece of bread and butter and so left this Informant And this Informants child did eat a peece of the said bread and butter and within half a quarter of an houre after her said child shricked and dried out it was lame And this Informant carried her child home and had the advice of one Mr. Dawber a Chirurgeon who could find no naturall cause of its lamenesse and so the said child continued for the space of eight dayes shricking and tearing it self and then died And further this Informant saith that immediately after the death of her child she was taken with extremepains in her body sometimes every day or at least every third day for the space of seven or eight moneths together as if she had been to be delivered of a child but was not with child And this Informant saith that setting up of broome in an out-house presently after her child was dead she had the perfect representation of a shape to her