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set upon the bank which looketh upon the sea; and while she was sitting there, Amy Duny came to this deponent's house, to buy some herrings, but being denied, she went away discontented, and presently returned again, and was denied, and likewise the third time, and was denied as at first; and at her last going away, she went away grumbling, but what she said was not perfectly understood. But at that very same instant of time, the said child was taken with most violent fits, feeling most extreme pain in her stomach, like the prickings of pins, and shrieking out into a most dreadful manner, like unto a whelp, and not like unto a sensible creature. And in this extremity the child continued to the great grief of the parents, until the thirtieth of the same month. During this time, this deponent sent for one Doctor Feavor, a doctor of physick, to take his advice. concerning his child's distemper: the doctor being, come, he saw the child in those fits, but could not conjecture (as he then told this deponent, and afterwards affirmed in open court at this trial) what might be the cause of the child's affliction. And this deponent farther saith, That by reason of the circumstances aforesaid, and in regard to Amy Duny as a woman of an ill fame, and commonly reported to be a witch and sorceress, and for that the said child would call out in her fits of Amy Duny as the cause of her malady, and that she did affright her with apparitions of her person (as the child in the intervals of her fits related) he, this deponent, did suspect this said Amy Duny for a witch, and caused her to be set in the stocks on the twenty-eighth of the said October. And this deponent further deposeth, the said children afflicted would severally complain in their intervals, saying there stands Amy Duny, and there Rose Cullender. At other times they would fall into swooning, and upon the recovery of their speech, they would cough extremely, and bring up much phlegm, and with the same crooked pins, and one time a twopenny nail with a very broad head, which pins (amounting to forty or more) together with the twopenny

nail, were produced in court, with the affirmation of the said deponent, that he was present when the said nail was vomitted up, and also most of the pins. Commonly at the end of every fit they would cast up a pin, and sometimes they would have four or five fits in a day. In this manner the said children continued with this deponent for the space of two months, during which time of their intervals this deponent would cause them to read some chapters in the New Testament. Whereupon this deponent several times observed, that they would read until they came to the name of Lord, or Jesus, or Christ, and then before they could pronounce either of the said words, they would suddenly fall into their fits. But when they came to the name of Satan, or the devil, they would clap their fingers upon the Book, crying out, this bites, but makes me speak right well. At such time as they recovered out of their fits (occasioned, as this deponent conceives, upon their naming of Lord, or Jesus, or Christ) this deponent hath demanded of them what is the cause they cannot pronounce those words, they reply and say, that Amy Duny saith I must not use that name. And farther the said children, after their fits were past, would tell, how that Amy Duny and Rose Cullender would appear before them, hold their fists at them, threatening, That if they related either what they saw or heard, they would torment them ten times more than ever they did before.

And this deponent farther saith, That his children being thus tormented by all the space aforesaid, and finding no hopes of amendment, he sent them to his sister's house, one Margaret Arnold, who lived at Yarmouth, to make trial, whether the change of air might do them any good. Then Margaret Arnold being sworn and examined, saith that the said Elizabeth and Deborah Pacey came to her house about the thirtieth of November last, her brother acquainted her, that he thought they were bewitched, for they vomitted pins, and farther informed her

of the several passages that had occurred at his own house. This deponent said she gave no credit to that which was related to her, conceiving possibly the children might use 'some deceit in putting pins in their mouths themselves. Wherefore this deponent unpinned all their cloaths, and left not so much as one pin upon them, but sewed at the cloaths they wore instead of pinning them. But this deponent saith, that notwithstanding all this care and circumspection of her's, the children afterwards raised at least thirty pins in her presence, and had most fierce and violent fits upon them. The children would in their fits cry out against Rose Cullender and Amy Duny, affirming that they saw them, and that they threatened to torment them ten times more if they complained of them. At sometimes the children (only) would see things run up and down the house in the appearance of mice; and one of them suddenly snapt one with the tongs, and threw it into the fire, and it screeked out like a rat. At another time, the younger child being out of her fits, went out of doors to take a little fresh air, and presently a little thing like a bee, flew upon her face, and would have gone into her mouth; whereupon the child ran in all haste to the door, to get into the house again, screeking out in a most terrible manner; whereupon this deponent made haste to come to her, but before she could get to her, the child fell into her swooning fit, and at last, with much pain straining herself, she vomitted up a twopenny 'nail with a broad head, and after the child had raised up the nail, she came to her understanding, and being demanded by this deponent how she came by this nail? she answered, That the bee brought this nail, and forced it into her mouth. And at other times the elder child declared unto this deponent, that during the time of her fits, she saw flies come unto her, and bring with them in their mouths crooked pins; and after the child had declared the same, she fell into violent fits, and afterwards raised several pins. At another time, the elder child declared unto this deponent, and sitting

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by the fire, suddenly started up, and said she saw a mouse, and she crept under the table looking after it, and at length she put something in her apron, saying, she had caught it, and immediately she ran to the fire and threw it in, and there did appear upon it to this deponent, like the flashing of gunpowder, though she confessed she saw nothing in the child's hand.

As concerning Ann Durent, Edmund Durent, her father, sworn and examined, said that he lived in the town of Leystoff, and that the said Rose Cullender, about the latter end of November last, came into this deponent's house, to buy some herrings of his wife, but being denied by her, the said Rose returned in a discontented manner, and upon the first of December after, his daughter, Ann Durent, was very sorely afflicted in her stomach, and felt great pain, like the pricking of pins, and then fell into swooning fits, and after the recovery from her fits, she declared that she had seen the apparition of the said Rose, who threatened to torment her. In this manner she continued from the first of December, until this present time of trial, having likewise vomitted up divers pins (produced here in court.) This maid was present in court, but could not speak to declare her knowledge, but fell into most violent fits when she was brought before Rose Cullender.

As concerning Jane Bocking, she was so weak, she could not be brought to the assizes. Diana Bocking sworn and examined, deposed, that she lived in the same town of Leystoff, and that her said daughter, having been formerly afflicted with swooning fits, recovered well of them, and so continued for a certain time, and upon the first of February last, she was taken also with a great pain in her stomach, like the pricking of pins, and fell into swooning fits, and so continued till this deponent's coming to the assizes, having, during the said time, taken

little or no food, but daily vomiting crooked pius, and upon Sunday last, raised seven pins, and whilst her fits were upon her, she would spread forth her arms with her hands open, and use postures as if she catched at something, and would instantly close her hands again, which being immediately forced open, they found several pins, diversely crooked, but could neither see nor perceive how, or in what manner, they were conveyed thither. At another time, the said Jane being in another of her fits, talked as if she was conversing with some persons in the room (though she would give no answer, nor seem to take any notice of any person there present) and would, in like manner, cast abroad her arms, saying, I wilł not have it, I will not have it: and at last she said, Then I will have it, and so waving her arm with her hand open, she would presently close the same, which, instantly forced open, they found in it a lath-nail. In her fits, she would frequently complain of Rose Cullender and Amy Duny, saying, That now she saw Rose Cullender standing at the bed's feet, and another time at the bed's head, and so on in other places. At last she was stricken dumb, and could not speak one word, though her fits were not upon her, and so she conti nued for some days; and at last her speech came to her again, and she desired her mother to get her some meat; and being demanded the reason why she could not speak in so long time? she answered, that Amy Duny would not suffer her to speak. This lath-nail and divers of the pins were produced in court.

As concerning Susan Chandler, one of the parties sup÷ posed to be bewitched, and present in court. Mary Chandler, mother to the said Susan, sworn and examined, deposed and said, That her said daughter, (being of the age of eighteen years) was then in service in the said town of Leystoff, and rising up early the next morning to wash, this Rose Cullender appeared to her, and took her by the hand, whereat she was much affrighted, and went

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