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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	pray_v	spirit_n	teach_v	7,711	5	6.9612	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18586	The apprehension and confession of three notorious witches. Arreigned and by iustice condemned and executed at Chelmes-forde, in the Countye of Essex, the 5. day of Iulye, last past. 1589 With the manner of their diuelish practices and keeping of thier spirits, whose fourmes are heerein truelye proportioned.		1589 (1589)	STC 5114; ESTC S119280	5,545	13

¶ The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches Arreigned and by Iustice condemned and executed at Chelmes-forde in the Countye of Essex the 5. day of Iulye last past 1589. ¶ With the manner of their diuelish practices and keeping of their spirits whose fourmes are heerein truelye proportioned To the Reader IF we would call to remembrance the manifolde mercies and innumerable benefites which the Almighty hath and daily bestoweth vpon vs in consideration therof we are bound to with-draw our filthy affections and naughty dispositions from the vse of such detestable dealinges as both are detested of God whose almighty commaundements forbiddeth them and vnto man whose lawes are constituted to punish them as odious before the sight of God wheron our earthly lawes groundeth and consisteth and therfore vsed to punish or cut of such lewde or filthye offenders as by breaking the deuine decrees of the Almightie by the lawes of man descrues to be condemned But such is the blindenes of our estate the naughtines of our affections and the desire of our diuelish appetites that neither the commaundements of God the lawes of our Realme the loue of our neighbours our owne welfare or the fall of others can or may moue vs to consider how profitable it were for vs to examine our liues and to blemish such vices in vs as both the lawes of God and man forbiddeth For what can be more odious or abhominable vnto God then the depriuation of his diuine power by yeelding our selues seruiles vnto sathan for a little worldly wealth or hatred we haue to our neighbours where we might rest the seruantes nay the Sonnes of Almighty God who sent his only Sonne to redeeme vs from the seruitude of bondage and to bring vs vnto his blisse and eternall felicitie which shall euermore remain perfect which if we would consider what christian is so blinded with ignorance or ouercome with the illusions of Sathan but he would tremble to think vpon the iudgments of the Almightie pronounced against such offenders or the lawes of the Realme which by iustice decydeth them from their deuilish practises and abhominations the glory wherof although it be secretly concealed and vsed yet can it not long continue because the Almighty will be no partaker of any such dealinges nor the hart of any faithfull Christian conceale the secrets therof which for example I haue heere published vnto you the discourse of such diuelish practises as haue beene vsed by notorious Witches whose names and actions I haue seuerally touched in the treatise following with the manner of their accusations taken and approued before both honorable and woorshipfull her Maiesties Iustices at the last Assises holden at Chelmesford in the County of Essex according to the coppies both of the offendours confession by examination and their accusations regestred The araignement and execution of Ioan Cunny of Stysted in the Countye of Essex widowe of the age of fourescore yeeres or ther-abouts who was brought before Anthony Mildemay Esquire the last day of March 1589. IN primis this examinate saith and confesseth that she hath knowledge and can doo the most detestable Arte of Witchecraft and that she learned this her knowledge in the same of one mother Humfrye of Maplested who told her that she must kneele down vpon her knees and make a Circle on the ground and pray vnto Sathan the cheefe of the Deuills the forme of which praier that she then taught her this examinate hath now forgotten and that then the Spirits would come vnto her the which she put in practise about twenty yeeres since in the Feelde of Iohn Wiseman of Stysted Gentleman called Cowfenne feelde and there making a Circle as she was taught and kneeling on her knees said the praier now forgotten and inuocating vpon Sathan Two Sprites did appeere vnto her within the said Circle in the similitude and likenes of two black Frogges and there demaunded of her what she would haue beeing readye to doo for her what she would desire so y t she would promise to giue them her soule for their trauaile for otherwise they would doo nothing for her Wher-upon she did promise them her soule and then they concluded with her so to doo for her what she would require and gaue thēselues seuerall names that is to say the one Iack and y e other Iyll by the which names she did alwaies after call them And then taking them vp she caried them home in her lap and put them in a Box and gaue them white bread and milke And within one moneth after she sent them to milke Hurrelles Beastes which they did and they would bring milke for their owne eating and not for her And further she saith that her sprites neuer changed their colour since they first came vnto her and that they would familiarly talke with her when she had any thing to say or doo with them in her owne language And likewise she confesseth that she sent her saide spirits to hurt the wife of Iohn Sparrow the elder of Stysted which they did and also that where Maister Iohn Glascock of Stysted aforesaide had a great stack of Logges in his yarde she by her said Spirits did ouerthrowe them And further faith that she hath hurt diuers persons within this sixteene or twenty yeeres but how many she now knoweth not Furthermore she confesseth that she sent her sprites vnto William Unglee of Stysted Miller and because they could not hurt him she sent them to hurt one Barnabie Griffyn his man which they did Likewise she confesseth that she sent her saide sprites to hurt Maister Kitchin Minister of the saide towne and also vnto one George Coe of the saide towne shoomaker to hurt him likewise but they could not and the cause why they could not as the saide sprites tolde her was because they had at their comming a strong faith in God and had inuocated and called vpon him that they could doo them no harme And further she saith that Margaret Cunny her Daughter did fall out with Father Hurrill and gaue him cucsed speeches and ther-vpon she thinketh she sent her spirits to her Also she dooth vtteriye denye that she sent her saide spirits to Finches wife Deuenishes wife and Renold Ferror or any of them to hurt them And beeing further examined she confesseth that although her said spirits at some time can haue no power to hurt men yet they may haue power to hurt their Cattell This Ioane Cunny liuing very lewdly hauing two lewde Daughters no better then naughty packs had two Bastard Children beeing both boyes these two Children were cheefe witnesses and gaue in great euidence against their Grandam and Mothers the eldest being about 10. or 12. yeeres of age Against this Mother Cunny the elder Boye gaue in this euideoce which she herselfe after confessed that she going to Braintye Market came to one Harry Finches house to demaund some drink his wife being busie and a brewing tolde