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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	acquit_v	aforesaid_a	anne_n	18	3	12.6149	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

since and this Informant doth verily believe the said Hellen Clark was the death of his said daughter The Examination of Hellen Clark taken before the said Justices the 11th of April 1645. THis Examinant confesseth Executed at Mannyntree that about six weeks since the Devill appeared to her in her house in the likenesse of a white Dog and that she calleth that Familiar Elimanzer and that this Examinant hath often fed him with milk-pottage and that the said Familiar spake to this Examinant audibly and bade her deny Christ and shee should never want which shee did then assent unto but doth altogether deny the killing of the daughter of the said Edward Parsley The Information of Prudence Hart the wife of Thomas Hart of Lawford taken upon oath before us the 23. of Aprill 1645. THis Informant saith that about eight week since being at her Parish Church on the Sabbath day half a mile distant from her house and being about twenty weeks gone with childe and to her thinking very well and healthfull upon the sudden shee was taken with great pains and miscarried before shee could be got home and this Examinant saith that about two moneths since being in her bed in the night something fell down upon her right side but being dark she cannot tell in what shape it was And that presently shee was taken lame on that side with extraordinary pains and burning but recovered again within a few dayes after And this Informant further saith that she verily believeth that Rebecca West and Anne West her mother were the cause of her pains for that the said Rebecca hath in part of her Confession expressed that shee had much maliced this Informant because the said Rebecca West ever thought this Informant to be her greatest enemy The Information of John Edes Clerke taken upon oath before the said Justices the 28th day of Aprill 1645. THis Informant saith That Rebecca Weste confessed unto him that about seven yeares since shee began to have familiaritie with the Devill by the instigation of her mother Anne Weste who hath appeared unto the said Rebecca at severall times in diverse shapes At one time in the likenesse of a proper young man who desired of her that he might have the same familiaritie with her that others that appeared unto her before had had Promising that if shee would he would then doe for the said Rebecca what she desired and avenge her on her enemies but required further that shee would deny God and relie upon him Now there was one Thomas Hart of Lawford where the said Rebecca lived with her said mother Anne West and the said Rebecca told this Informant that shee required of him that hee would avenge her on the said Hart by killing his son who not long after was taken sick and dyed whereupon the said Rebecca told this Informant that shee conceived hee could do as God after which time shee gave entertainment to him who lay with her as a man and the said Rebecca further confessed to this Informant that whilest she lived at Rivenall in the said County of Essex the said Anne her mother came to the said Rebecca and told her the Barley corn was picked up meaning one George Frances the only son of one George Frances one of the chief Inhabitants of that town where the said Anne West dwelt and that his father thought the said George his son was bewitched to death and the said Anne then said unto the said Rebecca Be it unto him according to his faith The Confession of Rebecca West Found by the grand Jury but acquitted by the Jury of life and death taken before the said Justices at Mannyntree the 21. of March 1645. THis Examinant saith that about a moneth since the aforesaid Anne Leech Elizabeth Gooding Hellen Clark Anne West and this Examinant met all together at the house of the aforesaid Elizabeth Clark in Mannyntree where they together spent some time in praying unto their Familiars and every one in order went to prayers afterwards some of them read in a book the book being Elizabeth Clarks and this Examinant saith that forthwith their Familiars appeared and every one of them made their severall Propositions to those Familiars what every one of them desired to have effected And this Examinant saith that first of all the said Elizabeth Clark desired of her Spirit that Mr. Edwards might be met withall about the middle bridge as hee should come riding from Eastberyhoult in Suffolk that his Horse might be scared and he thrown down and never rise again And this Examinant saith that the said Elizabeth Gooding desired of her Spirit that shee might be avenged on Robert Taylers Horse for that the said Robert suspected the said Elizabeth Gooding for the killing of an Horse of the said Robert formerly And this examinant saith that the said Hellen Clark desired of her Spirit that shee might be revenged on two Hogs in Misley street being the place where the said Hellen lived one of the Hogs to die presently and the other to be taken lame and this Examinant further saith that Anne Leeeb desired of her Spirit that a Cowe might be taken lame of a mans living in Mannyntree but the name of the man this Examinant cannot remember And this examinant further saith that the said Anne West this Examinants mother This Anne West was executed at Mannyntree the first of August 1645. desired of her Spirit that shee might be freed from all her enemies and have no trouble And this Examinant saith that shee desired of her Spirit that shee might be revenged on Prudence the wife of Thomas Hart and that the said Prudence might be taken lame on her right side And lastly this Examinant saith that having thus done this Examinant and the other five did appoint the next meeting to be at the said Elizabeth Goodings house and so departed all to their owne houses The Information of Richard Edwards of Mannintree Gent. taken upon oath before the said Justices the 23th of Aprill 1645. THis Informant saith That not long since about three moneths to his best remembrance as he was coming from Eastberyholt in Suffolke halfe an houre within evening within ten score of the middle bridge according to the desire of the said Elizabeth Clarke as is declared in the confession of the said Rebecca Weste this Informants horse started with him and greatly endangered him and he heard something about his horse cry Ah ah much like the shrieke of a Polcat And this Informant saith That with much difficulty he saved himselfe from being thrown off his horse All which this Informant reported to his wife and neighbours as soone as he came home The Information of Matthew Hopkins Gent. taken upon oath before the said Justices the 18th of Aprill 1645. THis Informant saith That being lately at Colchester he went to the Castle where the said Rebecca Weste with the other five are secured untill the next Gaole delivery And this

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