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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

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

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

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

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