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B00045 Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft.. Flower, Margaret, d. 1618. 1635 (1635) STC 11107.7; ESTC S92558 15,311 23

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Mouse put into him in his swearing and that if hee did looke upon any thing with an intent to hurt it should be hurt and that he had marke on his left arme which was cut away and that her owne Spirit did tell her all this before it went from her Further shee saith That Ioane Flower Margaret Flower and she did meet about a weeke before Ioane Flowers apprehension in Blackborrow hill and went from thence home to the said Ioane Flowers house and there shee saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owle and one of them did sucke under her right eare as she thought and the said Ioane told her that her Spirit did say she chould neither be hanged nor burnt Further she saith That the said Ioatie Flower did take up some earth and spit upon it and did worke it with her finger and put it up into her purse and said Though she could not hurt the Lord himselfe yet she had sped his sonne which is dead H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Ellen Greene of Stathorne in the County of Leicester taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity SHe saith That one Ioane Willimot of Goadby came about sixe yeares since to her in the Wowlds and perswaded this Examinate to forsake God and betake her to the Devill and she would give her two Spirits to which she gave her consent and thereupon the said Ioane Willimot called two Spirits one in the likenes of a Kitlin and the other of a Moldiwarp the first the said Willmot called Pusse the other Hiffe hiffe and they presently came to her and she departing left them with this Examinate and they lept on her shoulder and the Kitlin suckt under her right eare on her necke and the Moldiwarp on the left side in the like place After they had suckt her shee sent the Kitlin to a Baker of that Towne whose name she remembers not who had called her Witch and stricken her and bade her said Spirit goe and bewitch him to death the Moldiwarp she then bade goe to Anne Dawse of the same Towne and bewitch her to death because shee had called this Examinate Witch whore jade c. and within one fortnight after they both died And further this Examinate saith That she sent both her Spirits to Stonesby to one Willison a husband-man and Robert Williman a husbandmans sonne and bade the Kitlin goe to Willison and bewitch him to death and the Moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death which they did and within ten dayes they died These foure were bewitched while this Examinate dwelt at Waltham aforesaid About three yeares since this Examinate removed thence to Stathorne where she now dwelt upon a difference betweene the said Willimot and the wife of Iohn Patchet of the said Stathorne Yeoman she the said Willimot called her this Examinate to goe and touch the said Iohn Patchets wife and her childe which she did touching the said Iohn Patchets wife in her bed and the child in the Grace-wifes armes and then sent her said Spirits to bewitch them to death which they did and so the woman lay languishing by the space of a moneth and more for then she died the child died the next day after she touched it And shee further saith That the said Ioane Willimot had a Spirit sucking on her under the left flanke in the likenesse of a little white dogge which this Examinate saith that shee saw the same sucking in Barley-harvest last being then at the house of the said Ioane Willimot And for her selfe this Examinate further saith That she gave her soule the Deuill to have these Spirits at her command for a confirmation whereof she suffered them to sucke her alwayes as aforesaid about the Change and full of the Moone H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Philip Flower sister of Margaret Flower and daughters of Ioane Flower before Sir William Pelham and Master Butler Iustices of the Peace February 4. 1618. Which was brought in at the Assizes as evidence against her sister Margaret SHe saith That her mother and her sister maliced the Earle of Rutland his Countesse and cheir children because her sister Margaret was put out of the Ladies service of Laundry and exempted from other services about the house whereupon her said sister by the commandement of her mother brought from the Castle the right hand glove of the Lord Henry Rosse which she delivered to her mother who presently rubd it on the backe of her Spirit Rutterkin then put it into hot boyling water afterward she pricked it often and buried it in the yard wishing the Lord Rosse might never thrive and so her sister Margaret continued with her mother where she often saw the Cat Rutterkin leape on her shoulder and suck her neck Shee further confessed that she heard her mother often curse the Earle and his Lady and thereupon would boyle feathers and blood together using many Devillish speeches and strange gestures The Examination of Margaret Flower SHe saith and confesseth That about foure or five yeare since her mother sent her for the right hand glove of Henry Lord Rosse afterward that her mother bade her goe againe into the Castle of Bever and bring downe the glove or some other thing of Henry Lord Rosse and she askt what to doe Her mother replied to hurt my Lord Rosse whereupon shee brought downe a glove and delivered the same to her mother who stroked Rutterkin her Cat with it after it was dipt in hot water and so prickt it often after which Henry Lord Rosse fell sicke within a weeke and was much tormented with the same Shee further faith That finding a glove about two or three yeares since of Francis Lord Rosse on a dunghill shee delivered it to her mother who put it into hot water and after tooke it out and rubd it on Rutterkin the Cat and bad him goe upwards and after her mother buried it in the yard and said a mischiefe light on him but hee will mend againe Shee further saith That her mother and shee and her sister agreed together to bewitch the Earle and his Lady that they might have no more children and being demanded the cause of their malice and ill-will shee saith that about foure yeares since the Countesse growing into some mislike with her gave her forty shillings a bolster and an attresse and bade her lie at home and come no more to dwell at the Castle which she not onely tooke in ill-part but grudged at it exceedingly swearing in her heart to be revenged After this her mother complained to the Earle against one Peake who had offred her some wrong wherein shee conceived that the Earle tooke not her part as she expected which dislike with the rest exasperated her displeasure against him and so she watched an opportunity to bee revenged whereupon shee tooke wooll out of the said mattresse and a